Unknowing

How does love soften our edges into a sweet unfurling of who we really are? In this episode, Brie uses her song "Bloom" as the basis for a rich, mystical conversation with Andreas Weber about ecological interdependence, love as enlivenment, and seeing through the eye of the heart. Andreas Weber teaches at the University of the Arts, Berlin, and he lives in Berlin and Italy.  His latest books include "Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene" and the book most discussed in this conversation, "Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology."   **Brie will be performing at SXSW next week, so production will hold for one week. Are you near the Austin area?  Come on out to see her play! Check her website www.briestoner.com for show times and dates. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Wanna leave Brie a voice memo that could wind up on the show? Send her a 30 second message on what you're metabolizing with Unknowing Podcast on her  Instagram.        

Brie continues to unpack themes from her upcoming album, Me Veo, with Gideon Heugh.  On this episode Brie shares a sneak peak of the song as well as the story behind it, and together with Gideon explores how solitude (Soledad) is the artist's invitation to presence and to pay attention to what really matters. Gideon Heugh is a poet and environmentalist who lives in Berkshire, England.  His latest collection of poetry, "Naming God," is out now. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Wanna leave Brie a voice memo that could wind up on the show? Send her a 30 second message on what you're metabolizing with Unknowing Podcast on her  Instagram.

Brie Stoner kicks off Season 4 of Unknowing Podcast, a season dedicated to exploring the themes of her upcoming record ME VEO (I see myself), out May 3rd, 2024.   On today's episode she discusses the topic of romantic and institutional gaslighting via her song "Loved Me Like a Weapon", and how we can make something new out of the shattered pieces of our hearts with guest, Lora Mathis. Lora Mathis is a poet, essayist, and artist who grew up in between Southern California and Québec...and has written three books of poetry, including the most recent, The Snakes Came Back from Metatron Press. Lora regularly performs poetry, often alongside sound collaborators like Matty Terrones. Mathis makes visual artwork in video, photography, sculpture, graphic design, and printmaking.  You can learn more about Lora's work here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Wanna leave Brie a voice memo that could wind up on the show? Send her a 30 second message on what you're metabolizing with Unknowing Podcast on her  Instagram.  

Brie Stoner continues season 4 of Unknowing Podcast, a season dedicated to exploring the themes of her upcoming record ME VEO (I see myself), out May 3rd, 2024. In this episode, Brie discusses the themes from her song "Honey" with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, as sweet and sticky invitation to move beyond binaries and absolutes.  Bayo Akomolafe, Ph.D, is a widely celebrated international speaker, teacher, public intellectual, essayist and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak.  To learn more about Bayo's work, online courses and more, visit his website here.  If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Wanna leave Brie a voice memo that could wind up on the show? Send her a 30 second message on what you're metabolizing with Unknowing Podcast on her  Instagram.  

In this season finale, Brie invites on biologist, philosopher and author,  Dr.Andreas Weber, to discuss his premise of an erotic ecology in his book "Matter and Desire."  Together they explore how enlivenment is a shared reciprocity of becoming as a shift from any domination paradigm inherited from empire-christianity, and how we might compost platonic ideas of incompleteness for the sake of a plenitude-driven-creativity as a catalyst for, and outcome of, that enlivenment. Andreas Weber teaches at the University of the Arts, Berlin, and he lives in Berlin and Italy.  His latest books include "Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene" and the book most discussed in this conversation, "Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology."   If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Wanna leave Brie a voice memo that could wind up on the show? Send her a 30 second message on what you're metabolizing with Unknowing Podcast on her  Instagram.      

In this second to last episode of Season 3, Brie invites process theologian and author Catherine Keller to help explain how process might invite a more compatible paradigm to the efforts of composting Christianity, and a to a more relational and ecological worldview.   Catherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology at the Theological School of Drew University. In her teaching, lecturing and writing, she develops the relational potential of a theology of becoming. Her books reconfigure ancient symbols of divinity for the sake of a planetary conviviality—a life together, across vast webs of difference. Thriving in the interplay of ecological and gender politics, of process cosmology, poststructuralist philosophy and religious pluralism, her work is both deconstructive and constructive in strategy. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Wanna leave Brie a voice memo that could wind up on the show? Send her a 30 second message on what you're metabolizing with Unknowing Podcast on her  Instagram.    

Brie invites theologian and author, Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, to discuss the role of Teilhardian thinking in helping to compost outdated cosmologies that perpetuate disembodiment in Christianity.   Ilia Delio is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC and American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics and neuroscience and the import of these for theology.  To learn more about her work and books, click here. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Wanna leave Brie a voice memo that could wind up on the show? Send her a 30 second message on what you're metabolizing with Unknowing Podcast on her  Instagram.  

Brie continues the inquiry of "Composting Christianity" with author Sophie Strand, exploring how re-rooting and re-wilding the gospel stories into their environment, place and time, can free Jesus' revolutionary movement to be freed from empire...and simply spore into erotic ecological reciprocity in our time now. Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is out November 28 from Inner Traditions. Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published in 2023. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Wanna leave Brie a voice memo that could wind up on the show? Send her a 30 second message on what you're metabolizing with Unknowing Podcast on her  Instagram.  

Brie continues her exploration on "Composting Christianity" --how Christianity became empire, how it influenced the foundations of the US Government and politics, and how we might metabolize domination rhetoric into a more communal and ecological worldview--with Karen Jo Torjesen, Ph.D.  Together they discuss Dr.Torjesen's book "When Women Were Priests", and the systematic erasure of women leadership in the Christian movement...and how some of these philosophical "trends" wound up becoming part of the United States constitution. Unknowing is all about letting go of what we think we know, to make room for what could be...and in this season Brie invites listeners to consider what beliefs/structures/ideas related to Christianity need to be let go of in order to make room for a more related, ecological and creative worldview. Dr. Torjesen is the Margo L. Goldsmith chair of Women's studies and Religion at Claremont Graduate School in California, and an associate of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, and is widely regarded as a leading authority on women in ancient Christianity.  To purchase her book "When Women Were Priests" click here. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Wanna leave Brie a voice memo that could wind up on the show? Send her a 30 second message on what you're metabolizing with Unknowing Podcast on her  Instagram.          

Brie Stoner kicks off season 3 of Unknowing Podcast, a themed exploration titled "Composting Christianity" with guest Brian McLaren. Together they discuss the historical context and decisions that turned a revolutionary spiritual and political movement of power-with, to a religion of empire of power-over...and its impact on the foundations of the United States, and our current political milieu.    Unknowing is all about letting go of what we think we know, to make room for what could be...and in this season Brie invites listeners to consider what beliefs/structures/ideas related to Christianity need to be let go of in order to make room for a more related, ecological and creative worldview. Click here to learn more about Brian McLaren's work, podcast, and his newest book, "Am I still Christian?"  If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Keep up with Brie's creative endeavors on the path of Unknowing by following her on Instagram.    

Host Brie Stoner introduces Season 3 of Unknowing Podcast, "Composting Christianity."   Following her own spiritual evolution, Brie will invite listeners on a historical drive-by this season of how Christianity became empire, its influence in US politics today, and how we might compost our beliefs into a more ecological (and creative) paradigm. Season 3 will begin airing November 2022. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Keep up with Brie's creative endeavors on the path of Unknowing by following her on Instagram.    

What does it take to manifest what no one has imagined yet?   Legendary iPod, iPhone, and Nest engineer, designer, entrepreneur and investor Tony Fadell joins Brie in Episode 10 of Season 2 to discuss his best selling book "Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making things Worth Making".   On the wave of the 21st anniversary of the release of the iPod, Brie explores the topics of Tony's book including the courage it takes to step outside of social belonging and be a brave builder, the constraints of creativity and how innovation only becomes useful when its focused on relationality. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Keep up with Brie's creative endeavors on the path of Unknowing by following her on Instagram.  

Brie is joined by groundbreaking choreographer and dancer Annick Schadeck in EP09 of S2, to discuss how we can learn from the medicine of movement in our creative endeavors, as perpetual discovery of unknowing in freedom in new forms of expression.   What postures do you get stuck in? What is the necessary tension between discipline (preparation) and improvisation (play)? Annick Schadeck (born 1989 in Luxembourg) is a performance artist and choreographer. Since starting her professional career in 2007, she has performed with several dance companies around the world, such as the Dresden Semper Opera Ballet company, les Ballets Jazz de Montréal or Ballet Preljocaj. Subsequently, her interest in various danceforms led her to dance in shows such as the Lido in Paris or the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin.  Nowadays, working mainly between Luxembourg, Berlin and Paris, her interest centers about collaborative, theatre and commercial work, while continuing to create and research dance and movement.   You can learn more about her on her website, or  follow her on social media here. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Keep up with Brie's creative endeavors on the path of Unknowing by following her on Instagram.

Brie is joined in this episode by Jawad Mian, founder of Stray Reflections, an independent global macro research firm with a focus on major investment themes. Jawad is devoted to the pursuit of truth--in life and in markets, and in 2020 released a book titled "Stray Reflections," an intimate account of his search for meaning.  Together with Brie, they discuss the importance of having faith, the role of devotion and the desire for integrity in the quest to be a maker. To learn more about Jawad's work you can visit his website, or purchase his book. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Keep up with Brie's creative endeavors on the path of Unknowing by following her on Instagram.  

In Part 2 of this two part conversation, Brie is joined by black-latinx transdisciplinary artist, designer, trickster, and wakeworker, Brontë Velez.  Together they discuss how unknowing is woven in Brontë's eco-social art praxis at the intersections of black feminist placemaking & prophetic community traditions, environmental justice, and death doulaship. To learn about Brontë's work in the mischievous ministry of attending to black health/imagination, commemorative justice and hospicing systems of oppression visit Lead to Life, or to learn about their work as an educator for ancestral arts skills and nature connection you can visit Weaving Earth.  To follow their liberative path and journey, be sure to follow them on their instagram here. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Keep up with Brie's creative endeavors on the path of Unknowing by following her on Instagram.          

In Part 1 of this two part conversation, Brie is joined by black-latinx transdisciplinary artist, designer, trickster, and wakeworker, Brontë Velez.  Together they discuss how unknowing is woven in Brontë's eco-social art praxis at the intersections of black feminist placemaking & prophetic community traditions, environmental justice, and death doulaship. To learn about Brontë's work in the mischievous ministry of attending to black health/imagination, commemorative justice and hospicing systems of oppression visit Lead to Life, or to learn about their work as an educator for ancestral arts skills and nature connection you can visit Weaving Earth.  To follow their liberative path and journey, be sure to follow them on their instagram here. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Keep up with Brie's creative endeavors on the path of Unknowing by following her on Instagram.          

Dani Green, keyboardist and singer for American indie folk band, Birdtalker, joins Brie to discuss how re-membering (becoming membered to) a body-led instinct has allowed her to weave a more holistic and cyclical approach to creativity. You can catch Birdtalker on tour (check dates here), or listen to Dani's podcast Weather Womxn. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Keep up with Brie's creative endeavors on the path of Unknowing by following her on Instagram.    

Human connection specialist and founder of Create the Love, Mark Groves, joins Brie to discuss how unknowing is a practice of love in the cultivation curiosity, creativity and courage...beginning with our relationship with ourselves and extending outwardly in our romantic partnerships. Mark Groves is a speaker, writer, motivator, creator and collaborator exploring all things relational and empowering others to step into their power.  To learn more about his work or take the dating 101 course discussed on this episode (or any of his other amazing courses) you can visit Create the Love, or check out his incredibly insightful podcast. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount   Keep up with Brie's creative endeavors on the path of Unknowing by following her on Instagram.    

Jeff Schroeder--Korean-American rock musician, academic and guitar player for The Smashing Pumpkins--joins Brie in conversation about how to move through identities, the courage to become our authentic selves and how to embrace change instead of fight against it. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount   Keep up with Brie's creative endeavors on the path of Unknowing by following her on Instagram.    

Multi-lingual filmmaker and screen writer Yana Bille joins Brie to discuss the power of telling the truth and ending the lifelong habit of hiding, in her latest documentary film project, Father.   Yana Bille was born in Yaundé, Cameroon and is based in Los Angeles. To learn more about her film project Father, and how you can support it visit her website here. If you're interested in learning more about Brie's online courses or to schedule a 1:1 Insight Session with Brie, click here. Unknowing podcast is only made possible through the direct support of its listeners.  Please consider joining Brie in making Unknowing possible by becoming a patron giving a tax deductible donation in any amount Keep up with Brie's creative endeavors on the path of Unknowing by following her on Instagram.