🎧 2025 Week 18 Audio Journal
No practice has inspired me to try more things, be more attentive, and practice listening more than keeping notes on my day.
Welcome to my audio journal—a daily space where I reflect on what I’ve been hearing and learning through podcasts, audiobooks, and music. I pay attention to the ideas, emotions, and voices that stick with me, capturing them in the moment before they fade. This is more than a habit—it’s how I move through the world as an audionaut.
Being an audionaut means treating listening as an active, meaningful practice. Journaling helps me slow down, track what’s shaping me, and stay curious. These aren’t reviews—they’re reflections, insights, and sometimes just little echoes I don’t want to lose.
If this kind of intentional listening speaks to you, you’ll probably enjoy my podcast, Two Steps with Stephen Henning, where I think out loud about the stuff that matters. And maybe this will invite you to become an audionaut too—to really listen to the sounds that move you, and respond with something honest.
Monday - May 5, 2025
Podcasts
Faith For Normal People - Janet Williams: What We Can (and Can't) Say About God
My Brother, My Brother & Me - My Other Dad is a Helicopter
BirdNote - Boblinks: Birds of Grasslands
Before Breakfast - Reduce your toggling tax
NPRs UpFirst - 5 May 2025
Strangers On A Bench - Living on Borrowed Time
Tuesday - May 6, 2025
Podcasts
BirdNote - A Sailor Finds Companionship with Birds II
Before Breakfast - Consolidate your meetings
NPRs UpFirst - 6 May 2025
6 Figure Creative - He Had 20,000 Website Visitors and A Broken Sales Process
Hello from the Magic Tavern - S5E54 Prison Snake Princess (w/ Sayjal Joshi)
Listening To America - A New Look at Edward Abbey
Sound School Podcast - Writing Makes All The Difference, Part 1
World's Beyond Number - Outtake Theater! for ep 47
Two Steps with Stephen Henning - Audionaut Series: Thirsty Pups
The Ringer NFL Fantasy Football - Top 200 Fantasy Rankings: Who Is A First-Rounder in 2025?
dharmapunxnyc - The Dharma of the Absurd: The Nature of Awakening in an Indifferent Universe
Audiobooks
The Return Of The King Book 5 by J.R.R. Tolkien, narrated by Andy Serkis - Chapter 1: Minas Tirith
Love: The Revelation of Our Shared Being by Rupert Spira
Wednesday - May 7, 2025
Podcasts
BirdNote - Ruffed Grouse: Splendid Drummer
NPRs UpFirst - 7 May 2025
You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes - Michael Kosta
Hey Riddle Riddle - Hart of Riddixie w/ Matt Oberg
Birdnotes - The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Wonderful! - Another Group of Guys to Disappoint Me
Are We There Yet? - Proposed NASA funding cuts and tracking hurricanes from space
Music
TDWP Setlist playlist
Audiobooks
The Return Of The King Book 5 by J.R.R. Tolkien, narrated by Andy Serkis - Chapter 2: The Passing of the Grey Company
The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki - Chapter 1
Thursday - May 8, 2025
Podcasts
BirdNote - Bringing Condor Home
Birdnotes - Bird Anting
Birdnotes - The Darkling Thrush
Before Breakfast - Consider me a friend
NPRs UpFirst - 8 May 2025
Learning How To See - Seeing Grace-fully with Rev. Nadia Bolz Weber
Hello from the Magic Tavern - Fooniverse-Stargazing
Jordan Jesse Go! - Live at Sleeping Village in Chicago, with Peter Sagal and Sam Riegel!
The Tim Ferriss Show - Terry Real
Worlds Beyond Number - Fireside Chat for WWW ep47
On Being - Jason Reynolds and Kessley Janier-On Being Young In America
Music
JAMS playlist
Sky playlist
TDWP Setlist playlist
Friday - May 9, 2025
Podcasts
BirdNote - Searching for Trogons in the Sycamore Trees
MTPR - To fill teacher shortages, rural schools often rely on emergency licenses
Before Breakfast - Chase rainbows
NPRs UpFirst - 9 May 2025
Hey Riddle Riddle - Midland General Hospital (Patreon)
CBS Fantasy Baseball Today Express - Week 8 Sleepers & Two-Start Pitchers
Radiolab - The First Known Earthly Voice
Audiobooks
The Return Of The King Book 5 by J.R.R. Tolkien, narrated by Andy Serkis - Chapter 3: The Muster of Rohan
The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki - Chapter 2-9
Skinbags and Spacesuits. Notes on the unbearableness of it all. by Rob Bell - Part 1: A Clip and a Song
Saturday - May 10, 2025
Podcasts
BirdNote - The Crafty American Crow
NPRs UpFirst - 10 May 2025
You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes - We Made It Weird 217
Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts - Fox Cubs' Feast, Galls' Hidden Guests
Music
Sky playlist
Sunday - May 11, 2025
Podcasts
BirdNote - Mother Birds
Star Trails - A Crown, a Ghost Planet, and a Star That Ate Another Star
Music
JAMS playlist
Audiobooks
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel by Lisa Cron, Chapter 11-End
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown
The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown - Chapter 1-33
