Knitted Heart
Knitted Heart is an interview-driven show about the inter-connectivity of everyone and everything, and our collective responsibility to heal, restore, and unify the world we share. Hosted by Ben Eisner, Knitted Heart aims to facilitate inward-looking conversations with uniquely passionate artists, actors, activists, philosophers, and scientists. Let us serve to remind, and to reinvigorate, one another to “be present” — welcome to Knitted Heart.
Episodes
22 episodes
E22 | The Making of a One-Shot Movie
In this final episode of Knitted Heart, Ben speaks with his entire cast and crew from a feature length film captured in one fluid shot in July of 2021 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Many critics said it couldn't be done.
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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1:08:57
E21 | Katharine Hayhoe | "Dismantling Zombie Arguments About Global Weirding."
Ben speaks with globally recognized atmospheric scientist, Katharine Hayhoe, PhD. "I don’t accept global warming on faith", Hayhoe asserts, "I crunch the data, I analyze the models, I help engineers and city managers and ecologists quanti...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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55:08
E20 | Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm | "Indigenous Ways of Knowing."
In this episode, Ben speaks with Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm of the self-governed Vuntut Gwitchen First Nation. Located in Old Crow, the northern-most village in the North Yukon, Canada, Chief Dana carries generations of Indigenous Wisdom gained fro...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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1:07:49
E19 | Jody Day | "The Life Unexpected."
In this episode, Ben speaks with global thought leader on women living a childless life, Jody Day. Jody is the British founder of Gateway Women, the global friendship and support network for childless women with a social reach of over 2-million...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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43:13
E18 | Dr. Steve Meress, MD | "The Doctor's Doctor."
In this episode, Ben speaks with Internist Medical Doctor, Steve Meress. Dr. Meress has gotten the reputation amidst several doctors as the Doctor’s Doctor, the physician that Physicians send their loved ones to, as well as patient’...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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37:10
E17 | Jason Vanderhoven | "How a Dream About Brewed Chocolate Changed My Life."
In this episode Ben speaks with Jason Vanderhoven, founder of the brewed Chocolate company, Choffy. At the height of his battle with chronic Lyme disease Ben's doctor told him to quit drinking coffee and start drinking Cho...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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38:53
E16 | Petter Neby @ Punkt. | "Minimalist Tech for Less Distracted Lives."
Ben speaks with Petter Neby, CEO of Switzerland-based tech company, Punkt. A big believer and dedicated user of the mobile phone by Punkt. (MP02) , Ben talks with Petter about his vision for Punkt. , and the importance of Tech servi...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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53:36
E15 | Ian Smith | "A Record Company to Pay it Forward."
In this episode Ben speaks with Ian Smith, co-founder of the record label, Last Night From Glasgow, made to pay it forward. Hear how Ian created a zero-bullshit environment for artists to record and press their albums while never being in...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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38:43
E14 | Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins | "The True Revolution Really Is Love."
Ben speaks with daughter of American icon poet Audre Lorde, Dr. Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins. Elizabeth has so much to say about the countless challenges of growing up Black in America and how herBlack lesbian revolutionary mother refused to r...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:04:26
E13 | Anthony Meindl | "The Mistake is What You Pray For."
Ben speaks with author, director, and acting teacher extraordinaire, Anthony Meindl. Tony recently released his memoir, "You Knew When You Were Two", a heartrendingly vulnerable journey of a wildly imaginative and compassionate kid who gr...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:02:24
E12 | Mark Sundeen | "How Microwave Burritos Taught Me Radical Simplicity and Soulful Activism."
Ben speaks with wilderness guide and acclaimed author of books exploring off-the-grid living, Mark Sundeen. Mark is best known for his books, "The Man Who Quit Money", "The Unsettlers", and "Car Camping". ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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53:26
E11 | Toby McLeod | "Stories from Sacred Lands."
In this episode Ben talks with filmmaker and sacred places activist Toby McLeod. Having produced and directed important films such as In the Light of Reverence and Standing on Sacred Ground, Toby has committed the las...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:11:32
E10 | Heidi Gustafson | "The Rocks, Our Ancestors."
Ben speaks with Pigment Forager, Heidi Gustafson, of Early Futures. Hold on to your butts. This conversation knocked Ben off his. Heidi’s wholehearted devotion to contemplating our past and activating our future through the fully se...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:08:36
E09 | Kim M. Williams | "The Unwritten Rules I Wish My White Friends Knew."
Ben speaks with Writer, TV Producer, and Black activist, Kim M. Williams. Kim is the author of such books as 40 hours and an Unwritten Rule, about the the double standard Black Women face in Corporate America. Kim’s first book was rece...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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37:15
E08 | Dr. Sharon Blackie | "The Mythic Feminine & The Post-Heroic Journey."
In a deeply inspiring conversation about the Mythic Feminine, Ben speaks with renowned Writer, Psychologist, and Mythologist, Dr. Sharon Blackie. For Myth lovers and storytellers of all mediums out there, Sharon so beautifully re-casts our wide...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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57:26
E07 | J. Todd Anderson | "Cinema's Jedi Master of Storyboards."
Ben speaks with his friend, J. Todd Anderson. The Coen Brothers’ storyboard artist since 1987's Raising Arizona, J. Todd’s proven track-record of making the film on paper first is what attracted Ben to adopt J. Todd's tricks-of-the-tra...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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2:01:45
E06 | Margaret Cho | "The Time is Now."
Ben speaks with taboo-trashing and nerve-jangling comedian and activist, Margaret Cho. Margaret is a social justice warrior, known to stand up for the LGBTQ and People-of-Color communities. Growing up under, what she calls, “dignified Korean et...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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50:06
E05 | Brother Paul Quenon | "Wide Open and Awake"
In this episode, Ben speaks with poet and Trappist monk, Brother Paul Quenon. At age 79, Brother Paul has lived a life of contemplative silence at Our Lady of Gethsemani monastery, deep in the knobbed woods of rural Kentucky, since he was 18 ye...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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33:06
E04 | Joan Darling | "Art is Danger!" | Part 2
This is Part 2 of Ben's discussion with Hollywood icon director and actor Joan Darling. In this episode Joan dives deep into the heavier issues of our existence, including fear of death. If you have yet to hear Part 1 of Ben's discussion with J...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:05:07
E03 | Joan Darling | "Hanging out there in the Wind."
This is PART 1 of 2 episodes where Ben speaks with Emmy award-winning writer and director, Joan Darling (M*A*S*H*, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The President's Analyst). Joan is a world-respected trailblazer; a female director in the blooming era...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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41:19
E02 | Cloth | "Tones of Magic and Cosmic Interplay from Glasgow, Scotland"
Ben speaks with twins, Rachael and Paul Swinton about their swift rise to musical notoriety in the U.K. with their debut, self-titled album "Cloth", which most assuredly rewards close scrutiny.
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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27:32
E01 | Russel Hulsey | "Art Begins with the Poetic."
Russel Hulsey is an American Contemporary Artist, Actor, and Poet, whose conceptual Art installations, paintings, poetics, and performances have been exhibited around the world. At the zenith of his notoriety as a visual artist, Russel st...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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