Remember when you were a little kid in one of the adults in your life would come to you and say hey want to go for a walk or maybe they would say something like why don't we go grab a Coke and have a chat and from the time they asked that until the time you went on that terrible are in your stomach would be in knots because you know, what they were really saying is I think we need to have a talk. If you were lucky those conversations were OK at least because you knew whatever hard stuff they had to say they were able to say it with love. So this is me saying hey, we need to talk about some hard stuff and we need to do it with love. That is what this podcast is about. Hi, I'm Doug Harrison, and we need to talk. Welcome to the heartburn. Have you ever felt that you're the only kid on the Block without your own podcast? Well, it used to be mostly just the two of us. But since you're here listening to the heartburn that pretty much brings it down to just you but fear not I have a cure for your podcast ND just do what I did and download the anchor app for iPhone or Android for free or go to Anchor dot f m for free and you'll have everything you need to both create and publish your own podcast right from your phone or your computer is super. He my personal biggest fear with this whole thing was about all the work that it was going to take just to find our host and then get Distributors and then manage update the dock and anchor does all that for you so that you can be on Spotify Apple podcast Stitcher and handfuls of other podcasters types without having to deal with each distributor separately. It helps so much. They even have these little integrated sponsorships like the one you're listening to right now that help make money from your podcast right away with no minimum amount of listeners. So let go of your fears throw off those chains that bind you join the rest of civilization clear your throat and download the free anchor app or go to Anchor dot f m for the only thing that you're going to need to launch your own sweet sweet podcast. All that's missing is your voice. I have good news everybody. I'm actually going to be giving away a t-shirt a tote bag a mug actually an item of your choice anywhere from the heartburn podcast collection or from Doug Thy Neighbor. The store on Etsy where you can go to just at c.com / shop / Doug, like neighbor all you have to review any review that you give just Puttin a little bit information. Click a star and I'm going to be choosing one randomly selected not based on your review randomly selected review each week through August and into September and you'll receive one item again, either from the heartburn podcast collection or from the Doug like neighbor's door, so Don't forget to review that's all you got to do. And then I will click on it and be in touch with you and we will send those off to the winners, but Jack have to review to do it.
Welcome to The Heart Burn with Doug Harrison   If you have ever been reading a post on social media and thought, “Actually it’s way more complex than that,” or if you found yourself disappointed with what the voices on both sides of an argument seem to be shouting, then you know at least a sliver of what brought this podcast in to being. I have become quite certain that there is a lot of stuff meant to make us angry, furious and even red in the face. I also think it seems we are even expected to channel that anger into furthering the hopes and agenda of people already in position, ...that benefit them well enough. Meanwhile what I know about us is that the stuff that makes our faces really hot is usually  entirely different than the stuff that makes our hearts really burn. Its the stuff that makes hearts burn that interests me. I don’t believe that deep down we are all the same or that somehow we  basically agree. What makes us most interesting in either our differences or our similarities is  that whatever people are passionate about they are passionate about for reasons. I also think that engaging people at the level of their passion and the reasons that go with it can serve all of us to figure out what makes our own hearts burn, and what we might be able to do to become good at being human. Maybe we just end up asking what humans are for...and what it means to be a good one. I don’t intend to try to answer that question here as much as make you want to do your best to be the best human you can imagine, and to imagine being a better human than you can right now. I promise I’ll be right alongside you on that journey- and that alone makes this whole thing more interesting than most of what one can download. In one way this is a very strange kind of reality show, about one guy doing his best to be a god human, and learning to love other humans as much as possible along the way. Don’t be afraid, and don’t miss out on this journey  ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. 