How to Be Alive

How To Be Alive explores how creativity can help us alchemize our experiences so we can be more available to ourselves, each other, and all that matters. Host Carter Umhau--a therapist, artist, and writer--sits down to interview some of her favorite artists and out-of-the-box creative thinkers about how their creative practice has helped them become themselves. This podcast is founded on the belief that creativity is inherently therapeutic and is an inroad toward embodied transformation. How to Be Alive wonders out loud about how to navigate being human, by exploring the particularity of our experiences as a way to understand ourselves as a collective. carterumhau.substack.com

How to Be Alive is a arts podcast hosted by Carter Umhau, with 11 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Carter Umhau hosts How to Be Alive, a arts show with 11 episodes published.

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  Episode #10

  Ep.10: Imagination as the Great Alchemizer of Grief w/ Fariha Róisín

  Apr 24, 20261 hourS1

  <p>Imagine a world where your creativity has the power to heal your past, build bridges of connection, deepen your spirituality, and dismantle systems of oppression. Fariha Róisín—-a Muslim, queer, Bangladeshi multidisciplinary artist and writer—has used their writing to do just that. Today on the podcast, they’re joining Carter to cast a vision of the true alchemical power of writing toward healing both the personal and the political. Fariha wonders at the impulse they had to write a book as a twelve year-old, the ripple effect of vulnerability and sharing your work, and why we should b...

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  Ep.09: Living the Questions + Answering the Call w/ Nneka Julia

  Apr 9, 20261h 13mS1

  <p>Filmmaker and writer Nneka Julia makes work that asks just as many questions as it answers, and that’s the hope. Nneka’s multidisciplinary work circles questions of identity and belonging, how to care for one’s inner child, and the emotional gauntlet that can be the creative process itself. In this conversational interview, Nneka tells the story of how she moved past the expectations she felt as the eldest daughter of immigrant parents, and what finally sent her out of her comfort zone and toward the calling to be the artist she’d always sensed she was. We get into...

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  Ep08: Creativity is a Place You Go w/ Shira Erlichman

  Apr 2, 20261h 9mS1

  <p>What would be different about your relationship to yourself if you thought of creativity as a place you can go, rather than simply what you make? In this spiritually-imbued conversation, author, artist, and musician Shira Erlichman offers gem after gem of creative wisdom and inspiration, talking with host, therapist, and fellow artist Carter Umhau about what the creative process has to teach us about being human. Shira also shares how writing poetry became a vehicle through which to befriend the medication she takes for Bipolar Disorder, and how it has taught her to engage past and future versions of...

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  Episode #7

  Ep.07: The Sacred and Mundane Across Life Stages w/ Megan Brady Moon

  Mar 18, 202647 minS1

  <p>From the scooped out center of a cantaloupe to a bubblegum pink stack of hay in an Icelandic field, film photographer Megan Brady Moon’s work seeks out the sacred within the mundane. Through this exploratory conversation, Megan—who is based in Seattle— finds words for the ways in which photography was initially a place to mirror the intimate, solitary, and sometimes lonely experience of being single throughout her twenties and early thirties. Now married and a mother, Megan wonders at the ways in which her creative process is forever changed. Graciously, Megan however does NOT join in on the ch...

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  Ep.06: Creating a Sense of Home Through Pie w/ Stacey Mei Yan Fong

  Mar 11, 20261h 5mS1

  <p>For author and baker Stacey Mei Yan Fong, pie is more than delicious dessert: it’s a vehicle of storytelling, a place to process emotion, a study guide of the US, and a way to formulate a sense of home. In this conversation, Stacey and I explore the creative process behind her book, 50 Pies, 50 States: An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the United States Through Pie. Stacey shares how baking has been a practice ground for building resilience, exploring her identity, and quieting the noise around her. In this podcast all about how creativity can show us how to be h...

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