Mettle Brain

Steve Stilgenbauer has been buying and selling art in the Newport Beach/Costa Mesa area for forty years. He has his own shop, Coast Coin and Collectables. Join me and as we discuss his enormous surprise when he found out in his sixties that he is an artist himself. It's never too late to find new parts of yourself, or lose that which is no longer serving you.Support the show (http://www.mettlebrain.com/contact-1)

Andrew Dyer is the artist behind the exhibit, The Safe Room. The safe room is an enclosed space where you solely enter and write something you have never said out loud to anyone. Andrew shares where the desire came from to make the safe room, and what the response from the community was. Andrew opens up about his family and childhood. Andrew speaks how it is through our humanity that we will truly find connection.Support the show (http://www.mettlebrain.com/contact-1)

This short 22 minute interview is with historian and author Russell Stevenson. We discussed growing up in community, trauma, his work in Nigeria, and reckoning with our ghosts. Russell Stevenson is a gifted orator and podcaster in his own right. He shares some deep wisdom about getting over the past. This episode is full of good one liners that you can take and hold, I personally love his advice about "not drinking from the well of validation." Support the show (http://www.mettlebrain.com/contact-1)