Episodes
May 11, 2021
Blockchain - How Tech Can Empower and Change Human Beings - Blockchain: Utopia or Dystopia with Mostafa Purmehdi
How Tech Can Empower and Change Human Beings - Blockchain: Utopia or Dystopia with Mostafa Purmehdi
This begins a block series of our talks about tech. If you are a techie like Matt, this is for you. If you’re not a techie like Fawn, this is for you also, because we are talking about the future a…
May 9, 2021
Laughter is Medicine with Maz Jobrani, Tehran, and Mostafa Purmehdi
Two brilliant comics and a wise professor join our talk. Comics (and fellow hanvatans) Maz Jobrani and Tehran help us to explore the healing that happens in our society when we have levity.
The principle function of laughter is the creation and the deepening of our social bonds. Laughter is a soci…
May 5, 2021
CONNECTED - Roundtable #2 - Greetings From Around the World - How we connect and see each other
This Roundtable we discuss all the beautiful and the variety of greetings from around the world. We ask the questions we normally ask in our culture like “How are you” and go deep into the answers we tend to get like “Fine”, which in some circles actually means Freaked-out Insecure Neurotic and Emo…
May 2, 2021
Conflict Resolution with our friend Rock (Rockwell Felder of SquadCast)
Our friend Rock is here!!!!!!!! We met recently and it feels like a family reunion!
This week on Our Friendly World with Fawn and Matt, we veer away from what most people in the podcast world normally talk to Rock (Rockwell Felder) about. Rock is not only the co-founder and CFO of SquadCast, co-ho…
April 28, 2021
CONNECTED - Roundtable #1 - A Kind World
Sometimes the world can seem unbearable. Today, beyond introducing you to new friends, I want to focus on one thing we have witnessed on earth, to hopefully give light and encouragement for all of us to look towards the beauty and magic out there.
This is our first roundtable with great friends to…
April 25, 2021
Thank Goodness We Saw It Coming, Visualization with special Guest Beth Hewitt
This week we talk about our dreams, our deepest hopes, visualizing them and having the faith that we will succeed (through all the ups and downs of life). We not only discuss holding these dreams for ourselves, but how to hold dreams for others.
We are joined by our friend Beth Hewitt who is shar…
April 19, 2021
Breaking the Sound Barrier with Michael Holy
Breaking the Sound Barrier with Michael Joly
On this episode we explore sound and how it changes and connects us; how to hear, listen and distinguish the truth in our hearts and souls. We also have a three minute Tone Therapy session with the use of Michael’s invention: the N.O.W. sound device whi…
April 12, 2021
The Imprint - We Are Creating Each Other
This episode is about leadership. Matt explains the concept of servant/leader.
We discuss true leadership and what that truly is.
We discuss tantrums.
In all aspects of life and culture, we are here to take care of each other. We are creating each other. Creativity - creative energies are brewin…
April 5, 2021
A Kind World with special guest Barry Lane
This episode, we are visiting with our lovely and talented friend who travels around the country teaching kindness to school children (and people of all ages, really). He is a phenomenally kind, beautiful human being, writer, publisher, musician, husband, father, great friend, Barry Lane!
This epi…
March 29, 2021
Sit Still!
Episode Sit Still!
Nugget of wisdom from Santa Monica: Petite Sensei (Francoise Petite)– make yourself at home in the uncomfortableness.
We talk about being comfortable in the many forms being comfortable and uncomfortableness exists. Fawn brings up her friend Eowyn and the subject of being comf…
March 22, 2021
Capacity - moving to expansiveness – neuroscience, neurobiology and the social engagement system
Show notes Episode 33 “Capacity - moving to expansiveness – neuroscience, neurobiology and the social engagement system” with our guest Pamela Stokes
There is a connection far beyond our bodies.
There is a part of the neuroscience and the neurobiology that is called the social engagement system. An…
March 15, 2021
Capacity
We talk about rituals in life from big rituals to small rituals.
We can develop connections with people when there's a ritual, and it can be the ritual having a cup of coffee, taking a walk, going to the farmer's market or sharing a table is a beautiful ritual. And that's one of the things I would …
March 8, 2021
Unseen Forces w/ special guest Rachel Chevalier
Episode 31 “Unseen Forces”
Perceive those things, which cannot be seen. Understand what cannot be seen by the eye.
How do we access this information undetectable to the human eye?
How do we access information beyond the five senses? That's because we have a six tenths and everybody, every human …
March 1, 2021
Behave Yourself!
2 nuggets of wisdom from Santa Monica:
Calmly and reverently carrying on, holding your center in love, no matter what is going on around you in the outside world.
It is an honor to be invited to someone’s home. Treat it as such.
We also talk about “entitlement” and what that means. What are we enti…
Feb. 22, 2021
Friends with Money with Farnoosh Torabi
Show notes #29 Friends with Money with Farnoosh Torabi
We have Farnoosh Torabi, an honored friend, American journalist, author, television personality, and personal finance expert, as our guest this week.
With Farnoosh’s wisdom, things are illuminated! As Matt, Fawn, and Farnoosh converse together,…
Feb. 15, 2021
Trifle
Fawn shares her experience on one of her photoshoots in India and explains the correlation to the beginning of moving back to Santa Monica and a very unusual message she received (a tiny little message that normally may have gone unnoticed) that was the first of many from this city that became her …
Feb. 8, 2021
I Need a Friend with special guest LOTUS (Paul Martin)
This episode features our friend Paul Martin. He songs to us and IT IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!! He IS AMAZING!
First:
Santa Monica pearl of wisdom from 5th floor quiet painter neighbor. You never truly know what someone’s life experience is until you are invited in, or you invite THEM in.Sometimes you …
Feb. 1, 2021
Prosperare (Prosperity)
Show notes #26 Prosperare
Nugget of wisdom from Santa Monica – receiving a treat through your window, just exactly when you need it.
Prosperity – PRO= towards Spera=hope
spera. sperare Verb = hope for, hope. Looking at prosperity. Pro pro means towards. Sparity Comes from Spera it's Latin, Spera …
Jan. 25, 2021
Peculiar
Show notes #25 “Peculiar”
Nugget of Wisdom: Jesus and the Bread Guy – Fawn recalls “… two things, two, if you pick two things in the neighborhood, within the community that are a constant, you never thought about together at the same time; in the neighborhood, you never thought had a connection. If…
Jan. 18, 2021
US/THEM/SYNTHESIS
Episode #24 – US/THEM/SYNTHESIS - Is it possible to have synthesis? How can we have Synthesis in society when there is so much of “us” versus “them”?
Pearl of wisdom from Santa Monica: the light within can really touch someone out there that you may not know. What you do in your own home can serio…
Jan. 11, 2021
The Frog and the Scorpion with Special Guest KJ Nasrul
Nugget of wisdom from Fawn’s neighbor in Santa Monica, upstairs Joey – the lesson of the hot stove.
Today’s episode revolves around the fable, “The Frog and the Scorpion”
“The Scorpion and the Frog”
Our super friend, psychotherapist KJ Nasrul joins us to discuss:
the changing of minds;…
Jan. 4, 2021
Emotion Motion - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Episode 22 - Emotion Motion – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Nugget of wisdom from Santa Monica: Moses and the Ten Commandments – Why hearing a crowd chant your name is important.
It is a healing. It is validation. We need that. My friend hearing his name chanted - that's a good thing. It gives you t…
Dec. 28, 2020
Being a Good Guest
Your responsibility to party – How to be a good guest
Nugget- The blind date – How to be gracious
“To Be a Good Guest”
When I was little, my immediate family quite honestly, was pretty stressed all the time and angry and kind of hateful. I was always surprised by how the relatives put up with. I …
Dec. 21, 2020
Friends, Not Friends, and Secret Friend?
Fawn and Matt break out all their dictionaries and read all the definitions of friendship and have a good laugh. Then THEY break it down for real.
Fawn feels a kinship, like a family type feeling about certain people, to which Matt says they are not friends because they don’t even know you!
Fawn sa…