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Conversations on Healing & Growth

Author: Martin Perkins & Ben Umstead

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Martin Perkins and Ben Umstead discuss the challenges and opportunities to Heal & Grow as we navigate being our best selves.


Featuring:



  • Interviews with people moving the needle in our world

  • Deep discussion on the inner practices that help us access our own wisdom

  • Commentary on how we interact with a world in desperate need of healthy change


Learn more about Healing & Growth at martinperkins.com

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In this episode Ben and Martin discuss how to cultivate conscious change in an increasingly weird world. 
Martin and Ben dive into the nature of uncertainty, its roots, challenges, and gifts; offering a conversation on the personal nature of uncertainty, its communal expressions, as well as the practices that are needed to navigate uncertainty in healthy ways.
In this episode, Ben and Martin discuss the challenges and treasures of living a congruent life. Being in practice with being present, right now, means acknowledging and grieving a world spinning wildly on its axis. 
In this episode, Martin, Ben, and our guest, Luna, share a lively conversation around the creation of a Salt Cave and the challenges that come with a co-creative process. 
In this episode, Martin and Ben dive into the world of reading books and its ability to help us Heal & Grow ourselves and our world. 
When Things Fall Apart

When Things Fall Apart

2026-01-2712:39

As national and international systems of governance disintegrate, Martin and Ben navigate a path of conscious integration in letting go of the Ascension Myth through the inspiring wisdom of Rumi and Tibetan Buddhist monk and author Pema Chodren.  
Feeling

Feeling

2026-01-1323:37

In today's episode, Martin and Ben dive into the value of being present with our deep feelings rather than redirecting or replacing them with cognition or consumption. 
Stillness

Stillness

2025-12-3032:58

Ben and Martin wrap up 2025 by exploring what it means to embrace stillness and mystery in a soul-led life.
Ben and Martin revisit an early episode from July 2024, No Longer Riding on the Merry-Go-Round, where they provide a fresh perspective on the inner muse and creating a vibrant life in partnership with the world around us. 
A Remarkable Life

A Remarkable Life

2025-12-0212:46

In this episode we dramatically explore the inner voices that are expressed as we Heal & Grow. We encourage you, the listener, to find within yourself your version of how these three voices find union in your being. This union of sorts is how we access our own remarkable life. 
An Autumn Meditation

An Autumn Meditation

2025-11-1810:58

Blazing colors countered by the soft patter of falling leaves, the sounds of birds, crickets, squirrels. We feel the cool dry air enter our bodies... we let ourselves feel an entirely different pace of life... Yes, something begins to shift…
Kindness and Community

Kindness and Community

2025-11-0432:46

In a world of political and social division, driven by the culture of winning and losing, how do we expand the love we share with our communities through a conscious practice with ourselves? How do we bring kindness and simplicity into the conversation and actively create and nurture community?
Sacred Ground

Sacred Ground

2025-10-2124:55

In a world whirling with superficiality, Ben and Martin discuss the nature of the sacred and how we access it within ourselves and in connection with the world around us. 
In this episode, Ben interviews Zeke Perkins, a labor organizer with an extensive history over the last 15 years in the protest movement. He shares his experience tracking, recording and interacting with Commander Bovino and his 80 U.S. Border Patrol agents as they moved through Chicago as an occupying army on Sunday, September 28th, 2025. 
In Many Ways

In Many Ways

2025-09-2338:24

In this episode, we talk about about storytelling as a healing modality, and how we can embody our biggest story with authenticity.
In this episode, Ben and Martin offer a recipe for cultivating creativity in life by way of the TV show "The Bear".
Time, After Time

Time, After Time

2025-08-2620:06

In this episode, we focus on worldwide inter-connectivity and what comes when we make conscious choices in our economic caste system. 
In this episode, Ben and Martin speak with Diane Umstead about her lifelong journey advocating for children and what it means to her as she transitions into a new phase of life.
The Rise & Fall of Empathy

The Rise & Fall of Empathy

2025-07-2901:02:40

In this episode, Martin and Ben inquire into and explore a correlated journey between the rise of empathy and the technologies that have brought us to an increasingly desensitized and overwhelmed world. 
Returning to our Your Part series, Martin speaks with visionary educator Romey Pittman on resiliency, coming to terms with the dynamics of power, and the foundational importance of connection in the classroom and beyond. 
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