Hey Human Podcast

E474 Cidny Bullens is a performing-songwriter, musician, playwright, author, activist, educator, and speaker. Cid is a two-time Grammy nominee and has worked with Elton John, Rod Stewart, and Bob Crewe, among others. In 1996, Cidny’s 11-year-old daughter died of cancer. Cidny’s currently relaunching an autobiographical one-person show called Somewhere Between. We discuss identity, grief, music, […]

E473 Victoria Salisbury is a retired elementary school teacher who decided she wanted some adventure and went to live in Antarctica, in service to the US Arctic Program. She called it the experience of a lifetime. It inspired her new children’s book, The Selfish Skua’s Supper, and changed her forever. For more information and links, […]

E472 Jason Prokowiew is the author of “War Boy’s: A Father and Son Memoir,” about his Belarusian father’s adoption by the Nazis, after they murdered his family. You can imagine what kind of trauma his father dealt with and how it was passed down to his own family, years later. A heartfelt conversation about resilience […]

E471 Charles Douglas is a political activist and strategist. He’s the executive director and co-creator of Common Power, a Seattle-based organization that fosters multigenerational and diverse groups of volunteers that work across differences to amplify democracy, encouraging people to interact with politics in new ways. For more information and links, please visit: HeyHumanpodcast.com

E470 Sadie Dingfelder is a journalist and author of the memoir “Do I Know You.” She was born with an extremely rare combination of fascinating neurodivergence, including Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory, Faceblindness, Aphantasia, Stereoblindness, and Topographical agnosia. For more information and links, please visit: HeyHumanpodcast.com