FRANK WORDS is a podcast exploring what it means to be a whole person, claiming every part of yourself. Frank Dunn honors all aspects of the human person—body, mind, soul, spirit—with the goal of empowering you to embrace your entirety: your emotions, your affections, your intellect, your hopes, your passion.. Realize your amazing potential through knowing you are already whole.
Frank Gasque Dunn explores how to foster civil discourse and unity in a polarized society, emphasizing the importance of listening, conflict management, and shared human dignity.
1 Oct 2026
Sudden Death in the Global South: Why a Glacial Meltdown is a Moral Matter
August's catastrophic glacial meltdown and resulting floods in Nepal raise deep moral questions. The issue of climate change has clearly moved beyond debates over whether it is real or how to ameliorate it and is now a matter of how the world, especially developed nations, responds to the human and ecological results of climate change. Vulnerable, relatively poor populations are often on the firing line of climate disasters caused largely by the emissions of wealthy nations in the Global North.
We're all in this together. Everyone is affected. Frank explores in this episode how we can move towards greater solidarity with those most vulnerable.
17 Sept 2026
9/11 Legacy: The Next Quarter Century
There is no end in sight because there is no end. There’s only the need for a new beginning.
If 9/11 is to have a legacy other than continuous war and military reprisals, only the American electorate can raise the required level of pressure to make a course correction possible. That would be indeed the needed new beginning.
5 Sept 2026
The Great Divorce Proposal
Current talk about a "soft divorce" of "blue States" or "red States" from the United States poses serious spiritual issues apart from a plethora of political and practical ones.
26 Aug 2026
The Gospel According to Ted
Ted Lasso shows us both the worth and the price of believing.
25 Oct 2025
Frank Words: Handling Shame and Guilt
The Very Rev. Jim Kowalski joins Frank in the episode discussing shame and guilt, what they are, how they differ, and how to handle these universal and difficult imposters.
5 Sept 2025
Your Story: Finding Your Center
Living a whole life, living wholeheartedly, is living from the center of our being. Called by different names—the Self, the soul, our quintessential Nature—our center is the organizing faculty for our whole being. What are we living for, hoping for, caring deeply about? Our answers indicate what our lives center on and center in.
24 Jul 2025
Your Story: How You Create
In most of our minds "creativity" is something that we imagine the artistic and inventive to own. This episode, with California artisit Richard Fox, delves into how creativity is something that all humans have evolved to do and to share. Our conversation takes a fresh look at how we can find, incorporate, and practice the principles of creativity in all parts of our lives.
11 Jul 2025
Your Story: Mentors and Teachers
Who are the people in your life who have taught you, counseled you, guided you? What are the secrets of being a good mentor, qualities that we can practice as we guide our children, our friends, and others?
14 Jun 2025
Your Story. Derailments: When Things Go Wrong
We cannot always stop the things that interrupt our lives, pulling us off track, interrupting our plans and impeding us from reaching out goals. We do have choices as to how we respond to such derailments. Listen and find out ways to refigure and respond to some of your greatest challenges.
26 May 2025
Your Story: Your Audience —Whose Approval Do We Want?
In this, the fourth episode of the series "Your Story,," we examine some of the persons in our lives, both past and present, both negative and positive influences, who comprise the "audience" of the play we are performing that is called "My Life.."
Sections of the track include:
Who is the audience we are performing for?
Pleasing the internalized will of the audience
Sometimes we show the audience we're unlike them!
What are we getting out of our performances?
Healthy people live in positive relationships
Reeling back to ourselves our projections
Learning how to live our own unique lives
You have the Creator's stamp in your very being
The joy of living is discovering our gifts
16 May 2025
Your Story: The Enneagram: Useful Tool for Self-understanding
In the course of his video, the following resources are mentioned:
https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/ (https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/)
https://www.thehumanpotentialists.com/ (https://www.thehumanpotentialists.com/)
(book) The Wisdom of the Enneagruam (https://www.thehumanpotentialists.com/)
8 May 2025
Frank Words. Your Story Episode 2 Stories Big and Small
From earliest memories to the most recent events, our personal stories are wrapped up with the stories of all human beings. Some are quite intimate and personal to us. Others are macro-stories and meta-narratives that include everyone in our species. This is the second in a series exploring how our stories hold the keys to our discovery and appropriation of all parts of ourselves in a self-consistent whole.
This is the second is a series exploring our stories from many angles.
SECTIONS
Macro-stories and Metanarratives
The Story Field
Choosing a Story
Stories are Key to Spirituality
Becoming Conscious of Our Stories
Stories that Survive and Revive
8 May 2025
Your Story, Episode 2 Stories Big and Small
From earliest memories to the most recent events, our personal stories are wrapped up with the stories of all human beings. Some are quite intimate and personal to us. Others are macro-stories and meta-narratives that include everyone in our species. This is the second in a series exploring how our stories hold the keys to our discovery and appropriation of all parts of ourselves in a self-consistent whole.
SECTIONS
Macro-stories and Metanarratives
The Story Field
Choosing a Story
Stories are Key to Spirituality
Becoming Conscious of Our Stories
Stories that Survive and Revive
27 Apr 2025
Your Story:: How Our Origins Shape Our Stories
The easiest way to get a grip on claiming our own wholeness is to begin with our stories. Our origins shape us. But the shape into which they mold us is not impervious to change. We get to decide what we want to hold on to and what we want to let go of as we move forward into living freer, happier, more rewarding lives.
19 Apr 2025
Welcome to Frank Words
An introduction to Frank's philosophy: what does it mean to be a whole person, claiming every part of oneself?
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