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Step into a world of curiosity, creativity, and compelling conversations with Heath In Pursuit, the podcast where no topic is off-limits. Hosted by Dr. Heath Hollensbe—an endlessly inquisitive thinker and former pastor turned cultural explorer—the show dives deep into the stories, ideas, and forces shaping our world. With a knack for asking the right questions and a gift for meaningful dialogue, Heath brings a unique mix of wit, warmth, and wisdom to every episode. Whether he’s unpacking the mysteries of human connection, exploring wild philosophical ideas, or sharing poignant reflections on life, Heath keeps listeners hooked with his endearing personality and razor-sharp insight. Join Heath as he interviews a diverse range of guests, from artists and visionaries to misfits and antagonists, offering fresh perspectives and thought-provoking discussions that challenge the status quo. Heath In Pursuit is more than a podcast—it’s a journey into the unknown, designed to entertain, inspire, and ignite your imagination. New episodes launch weekly. Subscribe today and get ready to explore the depths of wonder, the edges of reason, and everything in between.

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Your Hunger Is Trying to Speak

2026/02/02

We’re surrounded by ways to numb desire, inflate it, monetize it, or shame it—yet longing keeps knocking. In this episode, we explore desire as information: neuroscience and dopamine, Buddhist craving and biblical psalms, consumer culture and midnight snacking, romantic projections and cosmic wonder. We’ll ask what you’re really reaching for when you reach for that—and how to listen to the deeper hunger without being ruled by it. For spiritually curious, science-respecting seekers who want their minds stretched and their egos softened, without dogma or simplistic answers.

The World Is Trying to Tell You Something

2026/01/26

We live in an age of constant talking—hot takes, explanations, branding, proving. And yet so many of us feel unheard, unseen, and strangely numb. This episode is an invitation back into the lost art of listening: to your body, to other people, to silence, to the natural world, to that quiet inner voice you keep drowning out. We’ll wander through echolocation and earbuds, the neuroscience of attention, ancient prophets and modern therapy, whales and wilderness, and the difference between noise and meaning. For the spiritually curious, science-respecting listener who wants a bigger universe and a softer ego.

The Door You Forgot Was Open

2026/01/19

Most of us don’t feel lonely because we have no one. We feel lonely because we’re not fully there when we’re with them. This episode is a walk through the difference between fitting in and belonging—through wolf packs and group chats, mirror neurons and shame, ancient exile stories and modern identity. We’ll explore why your nervous system craves a safe tribe, why performance kills intimacy, and how the bravest thing you can do might be letting yourself be known. For spiritually curious people who respect science, resist dogma, and want a life that feels wider, warmer, and more real.

The Clock Is Known For Being A Liar

2026/01/12

You can be “on time” and still miss your life. In this episode, we explore the strange ways time bends, speeds up, slows down, and tells the truth about what we actually value. We’ll wander through Einstein and airport delays, circadian rhythms and deep-time rocks, the attention economy and ancient wilderness stories. This is for the meaning-seeking generalist who loves science but refuses to let it shrink wonder.

When Two Things Are True

2026/01/05

What if the contradictions we spend our lives trying to eliminate are actually the doorway to something deeper? In this episode, we step into paradox—not as a problem to solve, but as a place to live. We explore a world where light is both wave and particle, where love heals and wounds at the same time, where suffering and joy refuse to stay on opposite sides of the room. From ancient mystics and Zen wisdom to Jesus, Lincoln, MLK, and the quiet, human moments that change us forever, we trace the strange truth that reality itself is built on both/and. This isn’t an episode about certainty. It’s about learning to hold tension without closing your heart. To live with open hands in a world that is messy, mysterious, and unbearably alive.

The Gold in the Crack

2025/12/29

We’re taught to hide what’s broken. To patch it fast. To move on. But nature doesn’t heal like that. Neither do souls. In this episode, we explore the sacred art of repair through Japanese kintsugi, the biology of wound-healing, forests that regenerate after fire, jazz musicians who turn mistakes into music, and ancient stories where reconciliation costs something—and gives something back. This is for the spiritually curious, science-respecting, meaning-seeking listener who wants a life that feels honest and resilient, not glossy and fragile. No tidy answers. Just a deeper way to mend.

The Holy Drift of Things Falling Apart

2025/12/22

Why does life feel like it’s always trying to come undone? The inbox refills. The house re-messes. The plans break. The body ages. The heart bruises. This episode is for the ones who want wonder over certainty—and meaning that can hold both science and the ache of being human. We’ll wander through physics (entropy, stars, heat death), ancient stories (creation out of chaos, manna in the desert), and the quiet interior practice of letting go without giving up. Not preachy. Not reductionist. Just spacious, honest, and strangely hopeful. For anyone who suspects that “falling apart” might be another name for becoming real.

Crown Shyness: How Trees Teach Us to Take Up Space (Without Stealing the Sky)

2025/12/15

In this episode of Heath In Pursuit, we look up into the forest canopy and discover “crown shyness” — the way tree tops grow right to the edge of each other… and then stop. We explore what this strange, quiet behavior reveals about intelligence without a brain, healthy boundaries, competition and cooperation, and how to negotiate for light in our own lives without suffocating the people around us.

The Forest That Makes Rain (And the Life That Makes You)

2025/12/08

In this episode of Heath In Pursuit, we step into a dense forest and discover something that feels almost impossible: forests can help make their own rain. Not as metaphor. As physics. As breath. As a living feedback loop—leaf to sky to cloud to return. And once you see it… you start to wonder what else you’ve been calling “weather” that is actually relationship. What you’ve been treating like fate that might be participation. What loops you’ve been breaking—quietly—through extraction, shame, control, and hurry. This is an episode about transpiration and the scent after rain. About holy ground that doesn’t need your permission. About the gospel of feedback loops—where “sin” is breaking the flow, and healing is learning to circulate again. And somewhere in the middle of it all, an invitation: Keep breathing. Keep giving. Trust return—without turning it into a deal. Press play. Step under the canopy. And ask yourself… what kind of weather are you making?

When Your Life Won’t Manifest (And You Think It’s Your Fault)

2025/12/01

You did the vision board. You scripted the future. You tried to “stay high vibe,” speak it, claim it, call it in. And still… your life looks painfully ordinary. Or painfully hard. So is it you? Are you the glitch in the cosmic algorithm? In this episode, we go after the quiet spiritual shame underneath manifestation culture and toxic positivity—the belief that if your dream life hasn’t appeared on schedule, you must be doing it wrong. We’ll talk about: “The god of the vision board” – how we turned the Universe into a vending machine and our souls into performance reviews. Prayers that sound like shopping lists – old religious scripts in new, shiny language. The violence of “good vibes only” – how positivity can gaslight your pain. Desire without demand – wanting things deeply without making your worth ride on them. This is an episode for the ones who tried to manifest their way out of grief, only to discover the grief didn’t budge. It’s not about giving up on desire. It’s about finding a more honest, more human, more compassionate way to live with it. If your life hasn’t “manifested” yet… maybe you’re not broken. Maybe you’re right on time.

When You Recognize Your Friends Are Pigs

2025/11/24

What do you do when a lifelong friend sends a breakup email in the name of “self-care” and “Jesus”? In this episode, Heath unpacks the ancient line about pearls before swine and uses it as a lens to talk about ghosting with a halo, the dark side of self-care, weaponized spirituality, over-explaining yourself, and how to stop wasting years on people who refuse to be human with you. It’s part therapy, part spiritual autopsy, part invitation to guard your pearls without hardening your heart.

When the Ladder Learns to Bow

2025/11/17

What if the ladder you’ve been climbing—career, success, even spirituality—was leaning on the wrong wall? In this episode, Heath invites us into a slower, humbler way of living. Through stories of marathon runners, broken sprinklers, and ancient dreams, he explores the quiet holiness of bowing instead of climbing. This is a meditation on ambition, surrender, and the sacred art of enough. It’s about trading the pressure to rise for the permission to kneel— and discovering that the ground you’ve been avoiding is already holy.

The Myth of Enough

2025/11/10

We are haunted by enough. It’s the ghost that follows us through promotions and prayers, through applause and the quiet after. But what if enoughness isn’t earned or found — what if it’s remembered? In this episode, we’ll wander through stories of hunger and grace, capitalism and compassion, creation and Sabbath, asking what it means to live as though we already belong. Maybe the finish line keeps moving because there isn’t one. Maybe the miracle is that we’re already home, and we just forgot.

Humming at the Edge of Things

2025/11/03

What if the forces that shape your life are the ones you can’t see? In this episode, we wander into the invisible—the social scripts we inherit, the memories our bodies carry, the resonance of belonging, the quantum strangeness of physics, and the mystery of spirit. We’ll talk wind and wires, tribes and trauma, paradox and tuning forks. Not as answers, but as invitations. This is a journey into the unseen currents beneath everything, a conversation for anyone who suspects there’s more humming at the edge of things.

Monsters at the Table

2025/10/27

Just in time for Halloween, Heath dives into the strange, sacred, and surprising world of monsters. From ancient myths to Hollywood blockbusters, from biblical beasts to the shadows we carry inside, this episode explores why monsters matter—and what they’re really trying to tell us. Expect stories, surprises, and a few chills, as we wander through caves, face dragons, and even learn how to befriend the very creatures we fear most. Because maybe the monsters aren’t here to destroy us. Maybe they’re here to teach us.

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Kate @ Curiosity & Cocktails 2025/06/21

Intellectual Fun

Heath had an amazing ability to talk about a variety of topics with humor, insight, and humanity. I appreciate how he balances complicity and deep ref...

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DRS reivew 2025/04/29

Fascinating subject matter for personal development, brand, and business. Clear and entertaining!

Interesting diverse subject matter for personal development, human interaction, and business in entertainment with spatial design considerations. Ente...

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