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by Ethan C. Lewin
Join me as I confront what terrifies me—including launching this podcast—in hopes of unearthing truths that set us free and help recover personal authority to forge a path uniquely our own. This podcast exists to raise to light the stories, life experiences, and messages of people from everyday walks of life. No single topic—just a shared journey aiming upward. I invite you to come alongside me as I live out this journey. After all, there’s no better time than the now.
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- 6 days ago2h 47m
#71 - Brent Pendleton - I Thought This Was Normal
Growing up in Cairnwood, running barefoot between castles, spending summers in the Catskills, and crossing the Atlantic aboard the Queen Elizabeth with his grandfather Raymond Pitcairn to collect art in Europe, Mr Pendleton never thought there was anything particularly unusual about his childhood. As he puts it, “I thought this was normal.”And yet, surrounded by all of this, young Mr. Pendleton sometimes wished he lived on Marlin Road, where, as he remembers it, all the cool kids were.Now, at 89, Mr Pendleton takes us back to a Bryn Athyn few alive today can remember. As the eldest of Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn's 55 grandchildren, he shares firsthand memories of the family, craftspeople, and community that shaped him, before recounting his adventures beyond Bryn Athyn, his years working in Puerto Rico, meeting his wife Dina, raising a family, and building a career in business and resort development.Perhaps the most remarkable chapter of Mr. Pendleton's story is how life eventually brought him home. Having grown up in Cairnwood, he would go on to dedicate more than three decades to preserving the very house that held so many of his childhood memories, giving it new life as a place where other families could begin their own stories.And after nearly nine decades, Mr. Pendleton offers a thoughtful reminder that building a successful life and becoming a better person aren't necessarily the same undertaking. Beyond our material pursuits lies the lifelong challenge of confronting our egos, examining our values, and recognizing that we're never quite finished growing.Welcome to episode 71. Elevate the ExperienceHelp bring these episodes to life: Venmo. Thank you!I tithe 10% of all contributions—half to the All Secure Foundation (supporting soldiers’ transition home) and half to the Academy of the New Church High School (my alma mater).Stay ConnectedContact: https://ethanclewin.com/
- 2 weeks ago2h 20m
#70 - Casey McCollum & Caleb Morfit - Your Personality Is Showing
We all carry stories about who we are, where we come from, and what we're capable of (or not). But how much of what we believe about ourselves is actually true?Casey McCollum and Caleb Morfit have spent their careers exploring human behavior, from clinical psychology and social work to leadership development at some of the world's largest organizations. Along the way, they fell in love, got married, and founded Sunbird Leadership Consulting.We trace their individual paths, from Caleb's childhood struggles with social anxiety and the self-imposed rules he created for himself to navigate the world to Casey's upbringing in a family that openly confronted hardship, including her parents' decision to rebuild their marriage.Together, we explore the gap between identity and reputation, how old beliefs can hold us back, and why self-awareness alone isn't enough to change. Sometimes, endless reflection without action becomes its own form of avoidance.Ultimately, this is a conversation about the stories we tell ourselves, the courage to question them, and what it takes to write new ones.Check Out:https://www.sunbirdleadership.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-mccollum/https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebmorfit/Elevate the ExperienceHelp bring these episodes to life: Venmo. Thank you!I tithe 10% of all contributions—half to the All Secure Foundation (supporting soldiers’ transition home) and half to the Academy of the New Church High School (my alma mater).Stay ConnectedContact: https://ethanclewin.com/A Note from MeI’m inspired by the stories people carry, the power of honest feedback, and the magic that happens when creative minds connect. If you’re a brand interested in partnering, let’s talk: LinkedIn.Thanks for being part of this journey—PEACE!
- 4 weeks ago32 min
#69 - ANC Class of 2021 - Our 5 Year Reunion Time Capsule
Every year, friends, families, and alumni from near and far return to Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, for Charter Day—an annual celebration commemorating the founding of the Academy of the New Church, its rich history, and the community it has brought together across generations.This year, as classes gathered for their milestone reunions, my Class of 2021 decided to do something a little different for our fifth: create a time capsule.With microphones rolling, I invited classmates, friends, and a few honorary members of our class to reflect on what they've come to appreciate about ANC five years after graduation—and to leave a message for themselves to hear at our ten-year reunion in 2031.What unfolded was a whole lot of laughter, nostalgia, and gratitude. Five years apart, yet somehow we picked up right where we left off, without missing a beat.I'm profoundly grateful to the Academy of the New Church Secondary Schools (ANCSS) and Bryn Athyn Church School (BACS) for the foundation, friendships, and moral compass they helped instill in us. It's why half of my annual tithe from podcast donations goes back to ANC. They gave me something I could never put a price on: friends who have become family, and a community I hope to share life with for many, many years to come.Here's to the Class of 2021. See you in 2031!Elevate the ExperienceHelp bring these episodes to life: Venmo. Thank you!I tithe 10% of all contributions—half to the All Secure Foundation (supporting soldiers’ transition home) and half to the Academy of the New Church High School (my alma mater).Stay ConnectedContact: https://ethanclewin.com/
- Oct 9, 20262h 2m
#68 - Mark Swiski - Moving the Needle
As Mark Swiski was packing up his home and preparing to leave the community he once prayed to find, we sat down to unpack his life.A thread running through Mark’s life is his desire to give others what he wished he’d received growing up: as a father, giving his daughter the hugs he longed for as a kid; as a former professional baseball player, creating opportunities for the athletes he coached; and as an executive coach, bringing greater humanity into the corporate world.What Mark’s story reminds us is that progress isn’t always about breaking the cycle completely. It’s about doing the work to move it forward. Making mistakes, confronting your own ego and shortcomings, asking for help, making amends, and continuing to try even when your intentions and impact don’t perfectly align.Sometimes progress is simply moving the needle and leaving the next generation with a better place to start.Welcome to episode 68.Elevate the ExperienceHelp bring these episodes to life: Venmo. Thank you!I tithe 10% of all contributions—half to the All Secure Foundation (supporting soldiers’ transition home) and half to the Academy of the New Church High School (my alma mater high school). Stay ConnectedContact: https://ethanclewin.com/
- Sep 25, 20262h 51m
#67 – Dr. Saul Fisher – Follow Your Loves & See Where They Take You
Saul Fisher has spent much of his life trying to understand why we are the way we are—and how paying closer attention might help us better understand and love both ourselves and one another.Born into a close-knit Jewish family and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Saul grew up sensitive, curious, and painfully aware that he was different. He struggled considerably in school, with reading, memory, math, and conventional ways of learning. But he could move.His father, a talented dancer, entertainer, and entrepreneur, gave Saul and his younger brother David the gifts of movement, rhythm, creativity, perseverance—and the tap shoes that would change their lives. Before long, the two Jewish boys from Newark were professional entertainers, performing Latin dance in hotels and nightclubs, traveling through the Catskills and Miami, and growing up in an adult world of musicians, dancers, and show business.More of that remarkable chapter can be read in Saul’s book, Tap Shoes & Mambo Rhythms, linked below.But Saul’s father was also a wound. His volatility and reactivity left Saul trying to understand not only his father, but himself—the ways people respond, the patterns families fall into, and how changing our own behavior can change a relationship. That curiosity eventually led him to psychology and a career spent helping children and families, including roughly 35 years working in the Bryn Athyn community. Now living with Parkinson’s, Saul has had to surrender some of the great loves that once defined his life, including tap dancing and birding. Yet he continues to pay attention to what is still here, and his philosophy remains consistent: follow your loves and see where they take you. Welcome to episode 67. Check Out:Shoes & Mambo Rhythms: Two Jewish Boys from Newark Find Themselves on a Latin Stage - Saul FisherDiscipline In the Context of Love – Scott Daum & Saul Fisher.mp4Elevate the ExperienceHelp bring better audio, video, and filmed episodes to life: Venmo. I tithe 10% of all contributions—half to the All Secure Foundation (supporting soldiers’ transition home) and half to the Academy of the New Church High School.Stay ConnectedContact: https://ethanclewin.com/A Note from MeI’m inspired by the stories people carry, the power of honest feedback, and the magic that happens when creative minds connect. If you’re a brand interested in partnering, let’s talk: LinkedIn.Thanks for being part of this journey—PEACE!
- Sep 18, 20263h 25m
#66 - Christopher Augustus Barber - Taste & See for Yourself
Chris Barber is an ordained New Church priest, religion teacher at the Academy of the New Church, and President of the Swedenborg Foundation. He has dedicated much of his life to studying Emanuel Swedenborg—not just his theology, but the man behind it.Chris helps bring consciousness to the remarkably human story of the man whose writings inspired the New Church—from an ambitious scientist wrestling with ego to a life increasingly oriented toward humility and the spiritual. In many ways, Swedenborg’s story is our story: the lifelong movement from the natural toward the spiritual.Those same ideas run through Chris’s own story. Once an atheist who thought religious people were deluded, he now wonders what his younger self would make of the priest he became: “Would you hate to see the man you’ve become?” We explore his deliberate effort to fairly represent and hold progressive thought and doctrinal faith in conversation with one another—and wrestle honestly with both, the importance of meeting people where they are, as they are, and a faith that leaves room for uncertainty.Because ultimately, Chris can’t prove Swedenborg saw what he said he saw. His answer is much simpler: “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” Try it. Live it. See what it produces.Chris's Show Notes:We covered a lot of ground in this conversation! I wanted to provide a few clarifications to a few things I said from memory, along with some titles for listeners who would like to explore the media we referenced.A Few ClarificationsRe: Swedenborg's flying machine. I described his design as unpublished. Although the original drawing remained in manuscript during his lifetime, Swedenborg did publish a written proposal in his scientific journal, Daedalus Hyperboreus, in 1716.Re: Jesper Svedberg and the Swedish Bible. I conflated some of Jesper's résumé. He was an important contributor to a Bible project in the 1690s and advocated a new translation from the original languages. The Bible I briefly referenced that was published in 1703, however, was a revision of the earlier Swedish Bible.To Learn More about Swedenborg and the New Church:Swedenborg Foundation’s Guide to the Theological Works of Emanuel Swedenborg (https://swedenborg.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/OD_NCEGuide.pdf)Scribe of Heaven, Swedenborg’s Life, Work, and Impact (edited by Rose, Shotwell, and Bertucci, 2005) (https://swedenborg.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/NCE_ScribeofHeaven.pdf)Selections of Media Referenced in this Episode:The Houseleek on the Roof: The 1874–1876 Diary of Anna Keyser Baker, a Philadelphia Swedenborgian. (transcribed, edited, annotated, and appended by me, 2026) (https://www.brooklinebooks.com/9781955041683/the-houseleek-on-the-roof/)Marguerite Beck Block’s The New Church in the New World: A Study of Swedenborgianism in America. (1932; new edition for which I contributed new introduction and epilogue, 2024) (https://bookshop.swedenborg.com/products/the-new-church-in-the-new-world-swedenborgianism/)Coleman Glenn’s A Little Light: Poems (2024) (https://www.amazon.com/Little-Light-Poems-Coleman-Glenn-ebook/dp/B0DJ1K9N42)General Church Outreach’s YouTube (@NewChurchVideo) series Big Spiritual Questions (2020, 2021, 2023)What Dreams May Come. (Film, 1998). I also recommend the book of the same name, on which the film is based, by Richard Matheson (1978)Raymond A. Moody Jr.’s Life After Life. (1975)Martha S. Rosenthal’s Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society. (2012)Grant Schnarr’s You Can Believe! An Introduction to The New Christianity. (2006)Emanuel Swedenborg’s 1743-1744 Journal of Dreams. I like the one with commentary by Wilson Van Dusen. (1986)DisclaimerChristopher Augustus Barber appears in this interview solely in his personal capacity, not as an official representative of any institution or organization with which he is affiliated. The views expressed are his own and should not be attributed to those institutions or organizations.
- Sep 13, 20263h 25m
#65 - Barbara d’Amato - What Birth Can Be
Barbara d’Amato has spent nearly 50 years welcoming babies into the world—many of them from my hometown of Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. She had already delivered roughly 6,000 babies by the time she closed her private practice in 2018, and one colleague estimates her lifetime total may now be closer to 10,000.Barbara’s path to midwifery began with a traumatic first birth—one that included a doctor telling her, “Don’t get your hopes up, we’re gonna lose him,” followed by eight hours not knowing whether her son would survive. Following that experience, Barbara left determined to make birth better for other women.Years later, after witnessing a completely undisturbed home birth, Barbara saw what birth could be and has spent nearly half a century since trying to preserve its humanity, dignity, and power while keeping mothers and babies safe. Only later in her career would she realize that, in helping other women, she had also been trying to heal from her own experience.At 75, Barbara reflects on that journey and opens a conversation about informed consent, childbirth education, and making women aware of the choices available to them in birth. Her story and experience are far too rich to summarize here—from raising five children and blending a family of eleven, to 24 grandchildren, to nearly five decades of continuing to work with women—the meaning at the heart of midwifery.This is the first of what I hope will be many conversations with Barbara. Welcome to episode 65.Elevate the ExperienceHelp bring better audio, video, and filmed episodes to life: Venmo. I tithe 10% of all contributions—half to the All Secure Foundation (supporting soldiers’ transition home) and half to the Academy of the New Church High School.Stay ConnectedContact: https://ethanclewin.com/
- Sep 4, 20261h 38m
#64 - Lori Odhner - Peel Back the Foil
Many know Lori Odhner as the voice behind the songs that shaped their childhood, filling generations of church services and bedtime routines. Underneath that is a discipline she's practiced even longer: paying attention to the person in front of her.In this conversation, Lori traces that listening thread from her father's example, through raising nine children, her marriage to John, a daily marriage column written for over a decade, and a lifetime of quilting, songwriting, and quiet caregiving.She talks candidly about growing up with a mother who struggled with bipolar disorder, and how watching that struggle, echoed years later in raising her autistic son, Ben, taught her that suffering isn't a mistake. It's often the very thing that grows compassion in us.That same conviction reshaped her marriage counseling work. She once believed it meant teaching people the formula for a good relationship: learn this, and you'll know how to do it. Instead, she found it was something else entirely: vulnerability, not judging your partner, and not trying to change them.Ultimately, Lori makes a case for a different kind of giving: we don't always need to fix someone's problem. What's always important is simply being present. It's about seeking out the sweetness hiding in almost everyone you pass, if you're willing to peel back the foil.Check Out:Marriage Moats: 101 Thoughts to Inspire and Protect Your Marriage by Lori Odhnerhttps://caringformarriage.org/blog/Elevate the ExperienceHelp bring better audio, video, and filmed episodes to life: Venmo. I tithe 10% of all contributions—half to the All Secure Foundation (supporting soldiers’ transition home) and half to the Academy of the New Church High School.
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