First of all, Humanitou and We Are Chaffee: Looking Upstream are essentially the same podcast. Different names, same me leading them. Same humanness and vulnerability and awesomeness of the show guests. A short explanation of why I started out as Humanitou, for podcasting and various creating under that name, almost Read more…
Overview: After an 18-month hiatus, Adam Williams is back with new episodes on the Humanitou podcast. In this short solo episode (Ep. 122), he talks about what was going on during that time and about the lifeline that drew him back to the podcast, and all his creative work. (Released Read more…
TRANSCRIPT of the New Humanitou Podcast Trailer Welcome to the Humanitou Podcast. I’m Adam Williams. I’m a writer, artist, poet, photographer and podcaster, among other things. Humanitou has been my podcast and my space online for exploring creativity and humanness within myself and in conversations with others, some really thoughtful, Read more…
Overview: In this short solo episode on the Humanitou podcast, Adam Williams shares a couple poetic examples of his awareness practices while on a trail hike. (Released on podcast on Jan. 21, 2023) Also on Apple, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, YouTube, Google and other players. EP 125 SHOW NOTES, LINKS & TRANSCRIPT Connect with Adam Williams Humanitou on Read more…
Overview: Ruben Rojas is a muralist, designer, poet and activist who was on a path to becoming an orthopedic surgeon, then left it behind for big money in the real estate game — and then lost everything. In this conversation, we talk about that hero’s journey, the ups and downs, Read more…
TRANSCRIPT Hey! Welcome to the Humanitou Podcast. I’m Adam Williams, a visual artist, a writer, and the creator and host of this podcast, among other things, like … … being a super-curious introvert who really isn’t a superstar at small talk but loves great, energizing in-depth conversations with incredible human Read more…
Overview: Amanda E.K. is a writer and filmmaker, the editor-in-chief and publisher of Suspect Press, a memoirist about purity culture and an exvangelical. In this conversation, Amanda talks about her fundamentalist evangelical upbringing, purity culture, rapture anxiety and religious trauma syndrome. We also talk about when she started to question the faith, Read more…
Overview: Adam Williams, creator of Humanitou, gets into a topic that he’s really not comfortable talking about: love. In this solo episode, he starts with an odd little story that finally got him to speak on this issue he’s got with love. He explores why he’s not comfortable having this talk with you today, Read more…
Overview: Lewis Lee struggled to stay out of prison when he was a young man, and then to find life purpose once he did. Now, he’s a community leader, facilitator and mentor, a voice for social justice, and the Milwaukee-based curator of the Shared Studios Portal in the neighborhood where Read more…
Overview: Adam Williams, creator and host of Humanitou, digs into his own “humanness and creativity,” going into those corners he so often asks his guests to vulnerably explore on the podcast. He talks about how his immense curiosity led him into the U.S. Army, and now guides Humanitou. He talks Read more…
Overview: Elliana Grace grew up in a circus family and in the circus life. From infancy. Like, from being a baby being breastfed while sitting atop an elephant kind of infancy. She and her two younger brothers, who also are globe-traveling professional circus performers, spent more time at their fantastically strange Read more…
Overview: In this episode, Adam Williams, creator and host of Humanitou, which typically features guests in “conversations of humanness and creativity,” is riding solo and launching something new. Starting with this episode, Adam is committing to a series of five solo episodes mixed in with the coming months’ conversations. In Read more…
Overview: Sara Meghdari, an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY., is Iranian and American. She comes from a family that honors two religions, two languages and two cultures. We talked as protests grew across the United States after police officers in Minneapolis killed George Floyd. This, on top of months of Read more…
Overview: Lucas Krump is CEO and co-founder of Evryman, a social enterprise that is cultivating a global men’s community, and is helping men to connect and to hone their emotional skills together. We get into Lucas’ personal journey. From growing up in Kansas and learning largely to support himself at a Read more…
Overview: Inaiah Lujan is a multifaceted and prolific creator. Music is at the heart of his work. In fact, he might be most widely known for his time with a folk band he co-founded, The Haunted Windchimes. Inaiah recently wrapped his first season of a web series called “Hanging Out Read more…
Overview: Laura Elizabeth Pohl is a humanitarian photographer and documentary filmmaker living in Cape Town, South Africa. Laura has traveled the world extensively, and spent many years living and working in developing countries, advocating for the dignity and humanity of the people she features in her visual storytelling. She has documented Read more…
Overview: Dáreece Walker talks with Humanitou about his artwork, which combines race, identity and religion into socio-political responses. We talk about his work that speaks against police brutality, and his series that celebrates black fathers and addresses the lack of positive imagery of black men in society. We navigate creative Read more…
Overview: In this episode of the Humanitou Podcast, Jessica Patterson shares some intensely shaping experiences in her life and where her feral spirit comes from. We talk about yoga as a homonym, how the word, while it looks and sounds the same in its uses, conjures different meanings for different Read more…
Overview: In this conversation, I talk with singer-songwriter and musician Joe Johnson, a storyteller that learned at the sides of homegrown orators on the porches of Southern Mississippi. The most common themes of his music — death, loss and isolation — have been with him his entire life. He’ll share Read more…
Overview: Sister Ayya Dhammadhira is a Bhikkhuni, a fully ordained Buddhist nun, who has lived, worked and practiced in Buddhist monasteries around the world — and now does so independently — these past 20 or so years. We talk about Ayya’s upbringing in a Catholic family and the family tragedy Read more…