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We often see the world not as it is, but as we are. So if we’re to view the world differently, we need to learn to see ourselves differently. Join David Achata, PCC, on ”How People Grow,” a podcast dedicated to shifting your perspective.
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David Achata - Crossing the Threshold (opens the original)
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What happens when the life we expected suddenly changes? After not being accepted into a PhD program, David entered a two-day silent retreat—and in that liminal space, and had a dream of his grandfather in the Amazon of Peru. In this episode, David tells that story and how nine months later, he is preparing to travel to the very place he saw in that dream. In this episode, David explores what it means to cross a threshold, listen to what emerges in liminal spaces, and step into the unknown witho
Rev. Dr. Peter Traben Haas - Listening to Your Desire (opens the original)
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What happens when we begin paying attention to the desires that keep calling us toward something deeper? David sits down with Rev. Dr. Peter Traben Haas to explore desire, spirituality, contemplation, and the mysterious process of becoming who we are. Together they ask what our deepest longings might be trying to tell us—and whether desire can become a kind of compass for the journey. Links: Learn more about Peter at https://petertrabenhaas.substack.com/ and check his books out here. Also see ht
Dr. Elizabeth Santiago - Answering the Call to Adventure (opens the original)
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In this interview, David Achata speaks Dr. Elizabeth Santiago. She is a writer, educator, and mentor who teaches at Emerson College in Boston, where she works in literature, storytelling, and narrative. Through her work with The Untold Narratives, she has mentored emerging writers from diverse backgrounds in finding and telling the stories that matter to them. In this conversation, Elizabeth and David explore the Call to Adventure—the moment when something within us begins to stir and asks us to
Stanley Pomianowski - How Stories Work (opens the original)
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David sits down with filmmaker and storyteller Stanley Pomianowski, founder of Duck Duck Productions, to explore why the Hero’s Journey continues to show up across cultures, religions, films, and human lives. Stanley helps us see how stories mirror our own journeys of transformation—and what happens when we recognize that we may be living inside a story much larger than the one we thought we were writing. Links: Check out Stanely's book on story here. To support this podcast go to: https://subst
Season 7 Introduction - How We Become Who We Are With David Achata (opens the original)
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David Achata introduces the new season of How People Grow, Becoming Who We Are—an exploration of the inner journey of transformation. Drawing from the Hero’s Journey, Brian McLaren’s stages of faith, Richard Rohr’s Order → Disorder → Reorder, and the wisdom of writers like James Hollis and Rumi, David reflects on desire, identity, dreams, spiritual development, and the courage to listen to the life unfolding within us. This season asks a simple but profound question: What does it mean to become
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