Be true to yourself and live your dreams.
It’s not about playing out life to please others. It’s about living your own authenticity and ambition. That’s Authbition.
A new podcast built on decades of practice. It’s been a journey. Join me.

by Andrew DiMeo

Be true to yourself and live your dreams. It’s not about playing out life to please others. It’s about living your own authenticity and ambition. That’s Authbition. A new podcast built on decades of practice. It’s been a journey. Join me.
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June 27, 2026
<p>Matthew A. Bamberg is a writer, photographer, educator, and author of Coconut Grove Chronicles, a work of autofiction rooted in his wild childhood in 1970s Miami.</p><p>In this episode of Authbition, Matthew and I talk about writing, memory, self-publishing, Medium, editors, rejection, and the courage it takes to share your work before it feels perfect.</p><p>Matthew shares how he turned stories from Coconut Grove into autofiction, found community through Medium, navigated the long and sometimes frustrating self-publishing process, and kept going until his work found its audience.</p><p>We also talk about growing up gay in Florida during the Anita Bryant era, the blurry line between truth and fiction, the power of critical feedback, and why it is never too late to become the writer you were always becoming.</p><p>If you’re a writer, artist, innovator, entrepreneur, late bloomer, or anyone trying to bring a deeply personal project into the world, this conversation is for you.</p><p>Where you can find Matthew:</p><p>https://www.matthewbamberg.com/</p>

June 1, 2026
<p>In this episode of Authbition, Andrew DiMeo talks with Tom Place, co-owner of Outbound Lighting, about building a small business without chasing growth at all costs.</p><p>The conversation begins with a simple phrase from an Outbound Lighting marketing post on Facebook that genuinely caught Andrew’s eye: don’t be a dick. From there, Andrew and Tom explore what it means to run a company with kindness, honesty, and long-term trust at the center.</p><p>Tom shares the story of his path from engineering at NC State, to working with LEDs at Cree, to helping build Outbound Lighting into a rider-focused company known for high-performance bike lights and unusually human customer support.</p><p>Together, they talk about entrepreneurship, product design, career choices, customer trust, mountain biking, and the hidden cost of treating every business decision like a spreadsheet problem.</p><p>This is a conversation about bicycles and lights, but it is also about something bigger: what business can look like when the goal is not just to grow, flip, and cash out, but to build something useful, honest, and worth standing behind.</p><p>Find Outbound Lighting Here:</p><p>https://www.outboundlighting.com/</p>

May 25, 2026
<p>In this episode of Authbition, Andrew DiMeo is joined by Dharna Ashar, a writer, yoga instructor, former flight attendant, and new Medium writer based in Dubai.</p><p>Dharna describes her life as many lives in one. She began in aviation, serving passengers at 40,000 feet, traveling the world, and learning how little we truly control. From there, her path moved through motherhood, yoga teacher training in India, teaching in Dubai and France, and eventually writing as a way to reflect on the many experiences that shaped her.</p><p>The conversation explores what yoga really teaches beyond the mat: presence, humility, patience, non-comparison, breath, service, and the practice of returning to oneself. Dharna shares stories from intense yoga training in India, where meditation was difficult, uncomfortable, hot, buggy, and anything but peaceful at first — until practice slowly changed what was possible.</p><p>Andrew and Dharna also play The Whole Mind Game on the tension between Observe and Absorb. Together, they explore what it means to care deeply without carrying everything, to witness pain without losing yourself inside it, and to stay open-hearted without becoming depleted.</p><p>This is a conversation about travel, teaching, motherhood, spirituality, writing, human connection, and the wisdom that comes from living many lives and reflecting on them honestly.</p><p>Where to find Dharna’s writing on Medium:</p><p>https://medium.com/@fromSky2Soul</p>
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Be true to yourself and live your dreams.
It’s not about playing out life to please others. It’s about living your own authenticity and ambition. That’s Authbition.
A new podcast built on decades of practice. It’s been a journey. Join me.
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