Opening Life Podcast

The Opening Life Podcast is a conversation between jazz musician J Kyle Gregory, spoken word poet Brittany Williams, and special guests from around the world, exploring what wondrous stories, poems, songs and sights of today and yesterday say to our lives. In 2024, our new Season 3 episodes will drop on the first Friday of every month, from March to December.

Opening Life Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by Nexus, with 21 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  The Origins of Caste: Part 2

  Nov 22, 202431 minS0

  <p>Hey friends!</p> <p>Season 3 episode 5, which is part two of this conversation exploring Ava DuVernay’s film Origin, has been a long time in coming! If you already listened to part one some time ago, may we recommend that you revisit it again before exploring this concluding episode? Both parts can serve as an introduction to the film, but they will make even more sense if you see the film first. </p> <p>To provide a little additional historical context, this whole conversation was recorded prior to the election in America. All over the world, the divisions we all...

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  The Origins of Caste: Part 1

  Jun 18, 202439 minS0

  <p>Episode 4 of Opening Life Podcast is a conversation about a movie about a book. It’s also about the book’s author, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Isabel Wilkerson. The film, by director Ava DuVernay is called Origin. It’s a sensitive and powerful telling of Isabel’s journey writing the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The translucent soundtrack is by Kris Bowers, whose music-writing credits include the film Green Book, and the second season of Bridgerton. </p> <p>As is our custom in our podcast, we feature the music prominently. This conversation between our guest Michael Jordan (a great...

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  The Meaning in Metal

  May 8, 202456 minS0

  <p>Opening Life Season 3, Episode 3</p> <p><br></p> <p>The Meaning in Metal</p> <p><br></p> <p>Dear friends, we hope this conversation between Kyle, Brittany and musician Tim Yearsley opens new avenues of understanding for you. In Nexus we believe every human story expands and deepens our sense of reality. The music you’ll hear says what is has to say with enormous conviction and feeling, and we think that’s a good thing! </p> <p><br></p> <p>As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts about our conversation, and what it stirred inside of you. <...

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  Episode #2

  Pathmaking

  Apr 7, 202441 minS3

  <p>Season 3, Episode 2 - Pathmaking</p> <p><br></p> <p><br>In today’s conversation, Brittany, Kyle, and Nexus co-conspirators Craig and Mary Charnley explore what really happens in life as we search for our path forward, inspired by Spanish poet Antonio Machado’s paradigm-shifting poem, Caminante, No Hay Cammino (Pathmaker, There Is No Path).</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>The Spanish poem in it’s entirety (followed by an english translation):</p> <p><br></p> <p>Caminante, son tus huellas<br>el camino y nada más;<br>Caminante, no hay camino,<br>se hace camino al andar...

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  Body Language

  Mar 1, 202443 minS0

  <p>Welcome to Season 3, Episode 1 of Opening Life Podcast!</p> <p><br></p> <p>In today’s conversation, poet/playwright/comedian extraordinaire Phil Ginsburg joins Brittany and Kyle for a fun and (we hope, for you) profound exploration of Phil’s poem “Body Language.” </p> <p><br></p> <p>What do the various parts of our bodies have to say to one another and to us about how to be in the world? That’s our big question.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Phil’s latest collection In Pursuit of the Almost is available here:</p> <p>⁠https://www.endeavorliterary.com/ginsburg⁠...

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