 Adding Value to Our Time How a double lung transplant makes you rethink life. On this episode, Matt sits down with the resilient Rueben Samuels to talk about life with a chronic illness (Cystic Fibrosis), adding value to our time and life after a double lung transplant. This is a conversation about life and death and how to make room and meaning for both. instagram: @reubenshighlights

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Episode #82 Adding Value to Our Time w/ Reuben Samuels

 Virginia Cumberbatch is Director at Community Engagement Center & Social Justice Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. She works within the city of Austin to help make UT a community anchor opposed to an ivory tower. She sat down with us to talk about the importance of not only cultural identity but also the importance of place and it’s history. We use Austin as an example that can better help you think more critically and lovingly about your own life and city. twitter: @vacumberbatchinsta: @vacumberbatch

Living Intentionally: People, Places and Equity with Virginia Cumberbatch

 Austin Psychotherapist Jeremy Ezell sits down with Inefficiency host Matt Inman to talk about how emotional intelligence plays into the quality of our relationships. 

Emotional Intelligence & Quality Relationships

 Sorry, I ghosted you. On this shorter episode, Matt talks about ghosting the podcast for way too long in order to create the first issue of Inefficiency Magazine. We all are trying to juggle life and sometimes we drop certain aspects. But there is something we gain in the dropping and picking back up that is helpful for us in the long run. 

Episode #79 Sorry I Ghosted You

 Friends and fellow psychotherapists Matt Inman and Jeremy Ezell sit down to have a conversation about wisdom and faithfulness. Jeremy was asked to write a letter to his 14 year old nephew on the two topics and rather than writing a letter decided it would be better to talk it out. 

Episode #78 Two Therapists Talking About Wisdom

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Episode #77 Mapping the Terrain of the Heart

 yoga + therapy Abi Robins brings talks about being present in our bodies long enough to work through pain and get down to the root issues. 

Episode #76 Abi Robins Making Decisions That Don't Suck

 Matt explores his process of expanding Inefficiency with conversations from friends and family. Inefficiency Magazine is a quarterly publication tailored for the therapeutic space made by helpers and artists. If you have listened to Inefficiency for awhile or are trying to hold the tensions of caring for your career convictions and also caring for your family, you will want to check this episode out.

Episode #75 The Genesis Of Inefficiency Magazine

 Micah Bournes is a spoken word poet, rapper and blues musician. Born and raised in Long Beach, California, Micah grew up heavily influenced by hip hop. He is a brave artist who wrestles with important topics such as racism, sexism and faith. His courage extends to the modes of art itself, unafraid to try new paths in the hopes of finding something new and beautiful.He sat down to talk with Matt about the massive influence the book Art and Fear has had on his life. Micah talks about how quantity is better than quality in some aspects and the necessity of making bad art. Enjoy!http://micahbournes.com    @micahbournes

Episode #74 Micah Bournes Art and Fear

 Huberta Jackson-Lowman is a psychologist and psychology professor at Florida A&M University. She has degrees from Wichita State University and the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently the President of the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi). As she works alongside clients and students, she also forms groups called Emotional Emancipation Circles, groups that exist to help "black people, work together to overcome, heal from, and overturn lies of white superiority and black inferiority: the root cause of devaluing black lives." She joins a rich line of ABPsi presidents and has a great deal of insight and wisdom in a world overwhelmed with noise. 

Episode #73 Huberta Jackson-Lowman Ethnocentrism

 Joe Pug is originally from Maryland and came to Austin, Texas years ago to be in and around the storied Texas songwriting tradition. He has two studio EP’s, most notable being Nation of Heat in 2009. He also has three albums, Messenger in 2010, The Great Despiser in 2012 and Windfall in 2015. Paste Magazine said this of Pug, "In lesser hands, songs of this nature could take on the tone of self-help books, maxims of dubious value. But Pug's honesty and wordplay combine to levitate the songs over those empty, cliched realms."He credits not only musicians like Dillon, Beck and M. Ward as his influences but also literary giants like Fredrick Beekner and Walt Whitman.

Episode #72 Re-release Joe Pug Songwriting and Health

 For the 3rd in a row, Inefficiency is providing a set of thoughtful questions to help you look back at the previous year. But for the rest of us, setting aside some inefficient time to be thoughtful can really give some clarity and motivation for your coming year.  Enjoy! 

Episode #71 Review & Revise

 Nikki McClure is an artist who specializes in paper cutting. Her art has a simple but very challenging frame, to sketch an image on a black piece of paper, cut it with an X-Acto knife and make sure it all connects. Each image you see of her work is one single pice of paper! Her artwork invites us to feel something personal and communal. She makes a yearly calendar and children's books. She resides with her family in Olympia, Washington.  www.nikkimcclure.com

Episode #70 Nikki McClure Art As Invitation

 On this episode, Matt talks about contentment as he travels back to Kansas City, Mo to see family. This shortened episode has a bit of everything, from ideas around contentment to mama guilt to good jokes and even better karaoke.  Matt Inman is the host of the Inefficiency Podcast and a psychotherapist in private practice.  He and his family reside in Austin, Texas. 

Episode #69 Contentment & Going Home

 Andre Henry is a musician, theologian and activist who has pursued music and education in New York City and Los Angeles.  His music is electronic anthems with reggae and rock influences and have the overarching message "it doesn't have to be this way."Andre moved into activism after feeling moved by the many police shootings, wanting to get his body more into the struggle against racism.  His own deep conviction is to be be a part of some type of truth and reconciliation commission in America so that we can be entirely done with our traditions of racial injustice and live into the beauty and equality of this experiment of a society. 

Episode #67 Andre Henry Being A Rebel Is A Good Thing

Making space for all the wonder of life that doesn't fit into the standards of efficiency.

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