What a Life

About What a Life

The crossroads of Robert Frost, Eckhart Tolle, and Emily Dickinson — with a splash of J.D. Salinger. A series of "podbites" (5-10 minutes) with stories from my daily life, a touch of poetry, and reflections on the state of life as a spiritual gay man in Denver.

Publisher

Jeffrey Steen

Category

leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Feb 2024

Latest episode

2 Jan 2025

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Jan 2025

   Episode 1: Trying Times, Thought(ful) Leadership

   Send us a text 2024 was a doozy. In fact, I heard a lot of griping last year about the dire state of things. Yes, we're facing a lot of challenges. So what are we going to do about it in 2025? Where do we start? With good, old-fashioned conversation, guided by three key principles...

2. 

   15 Dec 2024

   Episode 29: Heralding Joy

   Send us a text This time of year, we spend a lot of off-key caroling on songs about joy. The savior is here, we sing! Let's celebrate! But do we know what that joy really means? I'm not sure I do. Which is why I took a trip to the Bethlehem of Jesus' birth...

3. 

   1 Dec 2024

   Episode 28: The Labyrinth

   Send us a text For C.S. Lewis, life looked a lot like a wandering path — one with twists, turns, and obstacles, but always open to the sun. I think, rather, that a labyrinth is a better metaphor. Visibility is poor, we're frequently lost, and there's little sense of what the "end" looks like. So what keeps us going?

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,245,926

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

68

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

32

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