Phone Calls Podcast

Phone Calls

Brendhan Garland
Ian and Brendhan are just two regular guys from the Midwest who decided to turn their phone calls into a podcast. Using mindfulness as their guide, Ian and Brendhan travel across a spectrum of topics, centered around mindfulness, ranging from the outrageous, to the political, to the spiritual and everything in between. Outside of podcasting, Ian is a Personal Trainer/Philosopher and Brendhan is a Visual Artist. These different backgrounds make for engaging conversations that, we hope, bring you insight on how to allow yourself to simply be and live more consciously.
Nudity, Sexuality, and Who Do We Think We Are? (with Randy Johnson)
In this episode we talk with Randy about being comfortable with your nudity, sexuality, sensuality and sense of self. It is a beautiful and joyous conversation on who we are, ways of being, creative actions, and explorations of self. As always we hope you enjoy. <3 
May 11, 2022
1 hr 1 min
Human Design (with Carlee Ott)
In this episode Ian and Brendhan go through their Human Design Charts with the wonderful, kind and fabulous Carlee Ott. It truly was an experience of gaining a new perspective for looking inward. If you found this podcast insightful or just want to know more about human design please check out Carlee's website at https://wlo.link/@humandesign . Carlee will also be running a 7-week online Human Design Course starting August 26th for anyone who wants to learn more! We would highly recommend giving that a try if you're interested. Enjoy!
Aug 18, 2021
1 hr 3 min
Beer, Setting Goals, and The Creative Process (with Alan Shawgo)
Wow, what an incredible reunion this has been! This episode is an extra special one as Alan Shawgo (@shawgostudios) has been a long time friend of ours for a while and even has his own podcast (To The West and Back) which you should definitely listen to as well! In this episode we catch up over discussions of where we find sacredness, making mistakes, the pros and cons of setting goals, the creative process and so much more. It was such a fun episode to do and long overdue, I hope you all enjoy. ❤️ 
Mar 24, 2021
1 hr 24 min
Improv, Meditation, Compliments, and Breath
This episode was recorded on December 19th and the audio is a little wonky. Sometimes Brendhan's answers to Ian's statements happen before Ian makes the statement (Brendhan is not a mind-reader haha), but it makes for quite a funny listen and we thought this was a good episode to include it in this season nonetheless! We talk about a wide range of topics from the similarities between improv, meditation and dance, the nuances of "cancel-culture," learning how to take criticism and compliments, breathing and the joys of farting taught to us by the 14th Dalai Lama. It is quite the episode; we laugh, examine our selves, our thoughts and why we think the way we do. We hope you enjoy!
Mar 10, 2021
1 hr 14 min
Life, Relationships and Family (with Polly Keen and Jalen Ash)
In this episode Ian and Brendhan are joined by the fantastic, inquisitive, brilliant and profoundly funny guests Polly Keen and Jalen Ash. Both Keen and Ash bring light into the world through their joy, passion for life and incredible dedication to what they do. During the episode we discuss Valentine's Day, the documentary "The Great Dance" on Youtube, Our Relationships, Coming from Big Families, Asheville, NC, and Kids. This was really an incredibly special episode for us to make and I hope you enjoy it as well! 
Mar 3, 2021
1 hr 43 min
Impermanence (feat. Joshua Solas)
In this final episode of season 3 we end with a bang: An almost 2 hour long episode with the great Joshua Solas (@solasink_)! Ian and Brendhan start out the episode chatting about how their lives are going so far and what their reflections on impermanence has taught them. Josh joins in the conversation at the 29:10 minute mark and we continue the conversation around impermanence and it's many manifestations from our personal lives to the general state of the world. Tune in!
Nov 5, 2020
1 hr 43 min
The Magic of Play and Being a Neo-Generalist (feat. Diana McCall)
In this episode Ian and Brendhan are joined by another very special guest Diana McCall. Throughout this episode they discuss why being a generalist is important to them and the different roles they play and how they inform each other. Then they get into a great discussion about play,  how to cultivate moments of play into their lives and the links between play, vulnerability and curiosity. Overall it's a beautiful conversation full of insights on life. 
Oct 22, 2020
45 min
Letting Go (feat. Erick Monrrigo)
In this episode Ian and Brendhan talk about letting go with special guest Erick Monrrigo. They discuss how letting go has manifested in their life and what letting go means to them. They discover together that letting go has a lot of iterations and discuss the ways letting go can be interpreted and (mis)interpreted. They also share some of their weaknesses and how letting go has helped them acknowledge those weaknesses and work through them, all in all it was an incredibly powerful conversation! PS. The audio gets a little funky and mixed up at the end (we’re not psychics I promise).
Oct 14, 2020
1 hr 12 min
Friendship, Self Care and Not Feeling Like Enough (feat. Rodney Jones)
In this Episode Ian, Rodney and Brendhan laugh about how they met, discuss their self care routines, ponder the idea of friendship, and then laugh some more. This episode was non stop fun for us, and is full of some great self-care tips and tricks, so I hope you find some joy in it as well. Tune in! 
Oct 8, 2020
1 hr 3 min
Teaching the Next Generations (feat. Kimberly Harlan)
In this episode we talk about how the pandemic has changed our exercise routines, how those challenges affect our brains, teaching during the pandemic and the importance of teaching respect in the classroom. 
Sep 30, 2020
58 min
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