Eamon Armstrong 4/2/22 Eamon Armstrong 4/2/22

Welcome Refugees with a Festival

Life is a Festival #123: Mike Zuckerman (Borders Without Borders)

Can we take Burning Man principles and apply them to refugee situations?

Eamon Armstrong 3/25/22 Eamon Armstrong 3/25/22

California Lucid Dreaming

Life is a Festival #122: Jonah Gabriel Haas (Lucidity Festival)

Lucidity Festival is a dreamy annual adventure amidst the coastal California Oaks of Santa Barbara.

Eamon Armstrong 9/17/21 Eamon Armstrong 9/17/21

Voices of the Renegade Burn

Life is a Festival #109

Reflections on the self-organized 2021 Burn from Plan B to drone artists to temple builders.

Eamon Armstrong 3/12/21 Eamon Armstrong 3/12/21

Healing New Age Narcissism Part 2 (Clubhouse Show)

Life is a Festival #97: Alex Ebert

A robust history of the dark side of New Age thought and how we can refestivalize our spiritual culture.

Eamon Armstrong 3/5/21 Eamon Armstrong 3/5/21

Healing New Age Narcissism Part 1 (Clubhouse Show)

Life is a Festival #96: Jamie Wheal

Recorded on Clubhouse, Jamie helps us understand the worrying prevalence of dark triad personality types in transformational communities.

Eamon Armstrong 2/25/21 Eamon Armstrong 2/25/21

Building Big Art with the Cape's Creator

Life is a Festival #95: Daniel Popper

Inside the creative process with the South African creator of Tulum yogis and Boom shamans.

Eamon Armstrong 12/30/20 Eamon Armstrong 12/30/20

Masters of Steam

Life is a Festival #89: Sasha Baibarin and Boris Ryabov (Steamology Institute)

Sasha and Boris are powerful steam masters bringing a traditional Russian banya all the way to Black Rock City.

Eamon Armstrong 10/22/20 Eamon Armstrong 10/22/20

Musings On Mental Health

Life is a Festival #84: Eamon Armstrong

A repod from my interview on Eric White’s show theEWpodcast where we discuss techniques for mental wellness and how to see depression as a teacher.

Eamon Armstrong 9/16/20 Eamon Armstrong 9/16/20

Live From the Infinite Playa

Life is a Festival #80: Jamie Wheal (Flow Genome Project)

Jamie stopped by Burners Without Borders in the Infinite Playa to talk about the future of Burning Man, hedonism and service, and the importance of shenanigans.

Eamon Armstrong 9/9/20 Eamon Armstrong 9/9/20

That One Time We Saved Burning Man

Life is a Festival #79: Marian Goodell (The Burning Man Project)

Marian speaks on Burning Man’s cultural course correction, how radical inclusivity must now be proactive racial inclusivity, Burning Man’s 2030 Sustainability Roadmap, and how we as a community can pitch in to keep Black Rock City alive.

Eamon Armstrong 8/30/20 Eamon Armstrong 8/30/20

Into the Burning Man Multiverse

Life is a Festival #78: Damian Madray (PRESENCE)

Today’s episode of Life is a Festival unfolds through two different audio experiences…

Eamon Armstrong 6/1/20 Eamon Armstrong 6/1/20

Visions of an Afropunk Futurist

Life is a Festival #68: Adah Parris (-ism)

Self-isolating in her flat in London, Adah Parris offers her perspective on these difficult times, from Covid-19 to racial injustice in the United States.

Eamon Armstrong 5/2/20 Eamon Armstrong 5/2/20

The Mad Scientist of House, Techno, & Love

Life is a Festival #64: Lee Reynolds (Desert Hearts)

Get your mind over what matters, fly your freak flag, forget to grow up, and get weird enough to *maybe* believe the Earth is flat with Papa Lee Reynolds!

Eamon Armstrong 4/23/20 Eamon Armstrong 4/23/20

The Way of the Metamodern Burner

Life is a Festival #63: Hanzi Freinacht (Metamoderna)

“Metamodernism is the marriage of extreme irony with a deep, unyielding sincerity.” - Hanzi Freinacht.

Eamon Armstrong 4/17/20 Eamon Armstrong 4/17/20

Financial Resilience for Creatives

Life is a Festival #62: Nick Farr, CPA (The Long Disaster)

Nick Farr, CPA, shares the immediate steps we can take for financial resilience, specifically how to get money from the government including Economic Impact Payments, unemployment benefits, and loans. We talk about how communities can support each other and what people with privilege can do. Once we have some ground under our feet, long term resiliency means switching our mindset from disaster response to birthing a new way of being.

Eamon Armstrong 4/14/20 Eamon Armstrong 4/14/20

Bonus Birthday Blast From the Past

Life is a Festival #61: Behind the Mynd with David Colón

If you’ve discovered my work through this show and you want to know more about the Life is a Festival philosophy or how I met so many fascinating friends to interview (or if you just want to hear some silly stories on my birthday) this is the podcast for you!

Eamon Armstrong 2/13/20 Eamon Armstrong 2/13/20

How to Help Someone Having a “Bad Trip"

Life is a Festival #51: Sara Gael (The Zendo Project)

The key is to keep them safe and trust their inner healer. Sounds simple right? In fact, it’s a profound art, which requires specialized training and can be incredibly personally rewarding.