HeyJaredCampfire Conversations
Before microphones and media, we gathered around fire to share real stories. Campfire Conversations returns to that spirit. These aren't interviews.
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- Aug 12, 2026
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Grief Needs a Witness: A Campfire Conversation with Rob Reider (opens the original)
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The night before Rob Reider lost his daughter, he had a dream. He rarely remembers his dreams. But he remembered this one. “In that dream, I was cradling my arms like this, and there was a newborn baby. And I was trying to hold the baby, adjusting my body, but the baby was floating and I couldn’t get the baby into my arms. And I believe in retrospect, and in that moment, that was when Lila died.” The pregnancy had been normal, zero red flags. Then one Wednesday morning at 38 weeks, there was no
People Always See the Butterfly: A Campfire Conversation with Carlos Walker (opens the original)
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I first wrote about Carlos Walker last September after the Returning Citizens Luncheon in Virginia. We’d met the year before when something about his art pulled me in. Since then, we’ve built a friendship through weekly texts, phone calls, and the kind of check-ins that start with “love you, bra.” Carlos spent 13 years in prison. He’s an artist, an author, and someone who has given away 3,500 books to kids. He’s sold over 14,000 copies of his book, What If? , hand to hand, standing in front of t
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