imperfected

By: Dave Kang TJ Berden Sam Buti
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  • For centuries, Japanese artisans have repaired cracked vessels with pure gold, revealing a new beauty through the imperfection. It’s a metaphor we can’t unsee. Imperfected is a podcast that looks through the cracks and flaws to find more vivid and personal ways of experiencing life. Join us for conversations with creators and thinkers, artists and founders as we discover unexpected ways of seeing the world and our place in it. There’s beauty to be found in imperfection. Hosted by filmmakers T.J. Berden & Dave Kang Produced by Sam Buti
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Episodes
  • The Art of the Table: Bringing Milwaukee Together Through Food with Vin Noth

    The Art of the Table: Bringing Milwaukee Together Through Food with Vin Noth
    Feb 24 2022
    What if food holds the power to dissolve the barriers that divide us?    Meet Vin Noth, the Executive Director of Milwaukee’s Riverwest Food Pantry. Like all cities, Milwaukee has its cracks such as segregation, isolation, and systemic poverty. The Riverwest Food Pantry is finding gold in these cracks - bringing people of all backgrounds together into radical kinship, friendship, and mentoring, all through the power of food.  When you visit this place, you can’t tell who’s a shopper or who’s a volunteer. You’ll be surprised by the gift you have to give and the gift you’re meant to receive. And it’ll wreck you in the most beautiful way.   We talk to Vin about finding gold in the cracks of the city and his life, particularly in his background in the arts and acting. It turns out that the greatest gifts we have to give often rhyme with our deepest pain. When you find gold in the cracks, it takes the same shape as the crack.

    Hosted by Dave Kang and T.J. Berden.
    Produced by Sam Buti.
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    55 mins
  • The Beauty When We Go with Jeremy Bryan

    The Beauty When We Go with Jeremy Bryan
    Feb 17 2022

    How do we prepare for the ultimate journey - passing over from this life to the next?

    Today we meet hospice chaplain, recording artist, and spiritual director, Jeremy Bryan, to talk about the ultimate liminal space. In Jeremy’s experience walking with people and their families as they pass over, he’s seen some things. Certain things that seem to mysteriously “want to happen'' when we’re standing at the veil between this life and the next. Along the way, we talk about the difference between funeral virtues and resume virtues and how witnessing death can free us from our perfectionisms. Jeremy has helped many people reconcile with their loved ones, themselves, and their God and the Universe. At this threshold, everything comes mysteriously into focus. And we’re seldom more alive than when we’re dying.

    Hosted by Dave Kang. Produced by Sam Buti.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Solving Stigma through Story with Ariana Alejandra Gibson

    Solving Stigma through Story with Ariana Alejandra Gibson
    Feb 10 2022

    Imagine a world where your mental health challenges become someone else's hope.

    Ariana Gibson is the creator of an app that’s designed to end the stigmas around mental health, through the power of story and community. In today’s conversation, we learn about Ariana’s project to use technology to “crowdsource hope.” She shares with us the personal inspirations for creation of the Stigma app - from the mental illness and trauma experienced by her loved ones, to her epiphanies as a storyteller, and her vulnerability as a superpower. Ariana shows us how by sharing stories from the cracks in our lives, we can discover new hope with others.

    Hosted by filmmakers T.J. Berden & Dave Kang. Produced by Sam Buti.

    More about Ariana Gibson and Stigma

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    • Stigma App
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    1 hr and 9 mins

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