HeyJaredCultivating Connections
Cultivating Connections is created by two brothers who have come to learn that at the root of our problems is our inability or unwillingness to connect. Our tendency to disconnect from everything has led us into hopelessness and despair, into drug addiction and depression.
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4. The Courage To Be Disliked (opens the original)
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This week, with no guest in the studio, we turned the microphones on ourselves. We explore The Courage to Be Disliked through the lens of Rory’s complicated past—resentment, betrayal, and the people who doubted him when he was at his lowest. It’s an honest conversation about the paradox of building a podcast around connection while carrying unresolved wounds from the very people we’d one day hope to sit across from.
3. Cody Atwood (opens the original)
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Last week, Ry, Rors, and Cody sat down behind the microphones. What followed was less of a podcast and more of three lifelong friends picking up a conversation that could have happened around a campfire, in a driveway after work, or at a kitchen table years ago. We talked about growing up, high school culture, life after graduation, work, addiction, and the different roads we’ve all traveled. But underneath all of those topics was a question I’ve found myself thinking about more and more: How do
Archives # 16 - The Hero’s Journey with My Ex Samantha (2020) (opens the original)
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Update - Re releasing this on July 21st 2026. (Previously removed from our podcast) We interview Sam, a very close family friend, about her past drug addiction and her ayahuasca experience that ultimately helped her get clean from opiates and cocaine similar to Rory’s story. (We have since discontinued our weekly zoom calls.)
Archives # 24 - Heroism (January 2021) (opens the original)
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Update - Re releasing this on Monday July 20th 2026. (Previously removed from our podcast) We talk about what a hero means to us, how we see our fellow citizens as more heroic than most celebrities, and how we overcome the hurdles that are placed before us in our own hero's journey. We also talk about how we believe we are currently living in the age of the Hero.
2. Anshe Lotspeich (opens the original)
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Last week, Ryan and I had the honor of sitting down with our lifelong friend, Anshe Lotspeich. This conversation reminded me why we decided to bring this podcast back. The goal has never been to create perfectly polished interviews. It’s to create a space where old friends can reconnect, reflect, laugh, challenge one another, and tell the stories that helped shape who we are. Listening back, I found myself smiling at memories I hadn’t thought about in years. It reminded me that some connections
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