
Artfully Mindful
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<p>Welcome to the w3 award-winning podcast, 'Artfully Mindful', produced and hosted by D. R. (Don) Thompson. Don is a filmmaker, essayist, and playwright. He also teaches meditation because meditation has helped him understand life more deeply and be more effective as a creative. In addition to degrees in Film and Media Studies from UCLA, Don is certified to teach mindfulness meditation through UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center and Sounds True. He is also a founding partner with the Center for Mindful Business and a university professor and mentor. His website is: www.nextpixprods.com</p>
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Recent Episodes

April 5, 2026
The Trouble With Truth
This is a REPLAY of a podcast from July 2024, and it seems to me to be pretty darn relevant today in the midst of the current conflict with Iran. What if everything you believed to be true was merely an illusion? Inspired by the iconic line, "You can't handle the truth," from "A Few Good Men," we embark on a journey to unravel the complexities of truth. We explore the human craving for certainty and how it leads to conflict and war. Through the lens of Buddhism and mindfulness, we discu...

January 27, 2026
What is an Artist?
What if art’s real job is to translate life into something we can carry? Don Thompson takes us into a clear, honest exploration of what an artist is, why beauty matters, and how creative work helps us make sense of a noisy world. We follow the thread from paint to prose to film, seeing how each medium turns private perception into public form—and why that matters for anyone trying to understand their own experience. We tackle the friction that fuels art history: realism giving way to impressi...

December 21, 2025
Year-End Reflections On Teaching And Turbulence
A quiet return turns into a brisk tour through a semester of teaching, a new research chapter, and a philosophical lens for a turbulent public square. We start with the energy of the classroom in Washington, where corporate social responsibility moved from buzzword to practice: people, planet, and profit in real institutions with real constraints. That momentum carries into a fresh ABD milestone and a quantitative study on climate attitudes in the United States, designed to map how identity, ...
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- What is Artfully Mindful?
<p>Welcome to the w3 award-winning podcast, 'Artfully Mindful', produced and hosted by D. R. (Don) Thompson. Don is a filmmaker, essayist, and playwright. He also teaches meditation because meditation has helped him understand life more deeply and be more effective as a creative. In addition to degrees in Film and Media Studies from UCLA, Don is certified to teach mindfulness meditation through UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center and Sounds True. He is also a founding partner with the Center for Mindful Business and a university professor and mentor. His website is: www.nextpixprods.com</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates weekly.
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