I sat down with Carlos Walker in front of a fireplace in Bethesda, Maryland. Carlos spent 13 years in prison. He’s sold over 14,000 books hand to hand. And he said something I keep coming back to: “People always see the butterfly. But you have to hear the caterpillar story.”

Briddge and Cherrie Orius are the first married couple to sit down for a Campfire Conversation. They debated, pushed back, and kept going. They showed me what love in practice looks like.

Michael Douglas grew up watching the woods disappear. It made him angry for years. Then he chose love. A Campfire Conversation about fear, fire, and what it takes to become an adult warrior.

Sam Harris spent 25 years in prison. When he came home, the first thing he noticed wasn't how much the world had changed. It was how much angrier it had gotten.

John Biewen is the host of Scene on Radio, one of the most important podcast series I've encountered. Sitting across a campfire from him was surreal. He didn't let me stay comfortable.

Kharma Amos is a UU minister who came out in 1990s Tulsa, Oklahoma. This Campfire Conversation explored queering as a verb, the fear of freedom, and why love sometimes looks like resistance.

After weeks of researching money and capitalism, I needed to talk with someone who thinks about money for a living but doesn't think about it the way most people do.

I'd written about Chris Lombard earlier after watching him work with Tally at the Common Ground Fair. This Campfire Conversation went deeper into what horses teach about trust and leadership.

Kerem Durdag came to the United States as a young immigrant. Along the way, he developed a philosophy that sounds simple but is anything but: decency is a radical choice.

Elmer Moore is my oldest friend. We've known each other for thirty years. He was the first guest on Campfire Conversations, and there's a reason for that.