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Heath In Pursuit

Heath Hollensbe

Step into a world of curiosity, creativity, and compelling conversations with Heath In Pursuit, the podcast where no topic is off-limits. Hosted by Dr. Heath Hollensbe—an endlessly inquisitive thinker and former pastor turned cultural explorer—the show dives deep into the stories, ideas, and forces shaping our world. With a knack for asking the right questions and a gift for meaningful dialogue, Heath brings a unique mix of wit, warmth, and wisdom to every episode. Whether he’s unpacking the

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14:00

The Life You Keep Missing

Heath In Pursuit ·

2026/04/06

You know that strange feeling when a day ends and you’re not quite sure you were ever in it?This episode is for anyone who senses that life is happening fast, loud, and full… and yet somehow slipping through their hands. We explore presence, distraction, memory, and what it means to actually be here in your own life. Through stories, questions, and unexpected connections, we circle around a quiet but urgent question: What if the life you’re longing for is already happening… and you’re just not

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10:51

Is This A Tiger?

Heath In Pursuit ·

2026/03/30

What if laughter isn’t escapism, but strength? What if humor is one of the most powerful ways to metabolize pain without letting it define you? In this episode, we explore how rolling with the punches, laughing at the absurdity, and refusing to hand over your inner life can become a quiet form of resistance. For thoughtful seekers who want to stay tender without becoming fragile, strong without becoming hardened, and free without becoming bitter.

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20:14

It's Pressure That Makes Cathedrals

Heath In Pursuit ·

2026/03/23

Fossils don’t hustle. Rocks don’t panic. And yet they become archives of wonder. In this episode, we go looking for wisdom in stone: the slow choreography of sediment and strain, the quiet artistry of time underground, the way pressure can shape something luminous instead of breaking it. Along the way, we weave in an ancient rhythm from scripture, seed and time and harvest, and ask why we keep trying to skip the middle.

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16:39

The Tyranny Of Tiny Numbers

Heath In Pursuit ·

2026/03/16

We live in a world that measures everything. Followers. Salaries. Steps. Likes. Productivity. And slowly, almost invisibly, those tiny numbers begin to measure us. In this episode, we explore the quiet tyranny of comparison and what it does to the soul. Drawing from neuroscience, ancient wisdom, personal story, and the strange poetry of the cosmos, this conversation is for anyone who has ever felt both hyper-connected and strangely not enough. If you’ve sensed that your worth has been reduced to

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18:39

The Magnet in Your Chest

Heath In Pursuit ·

2026/03/09

We’re going to talk about gratitude, not as a polite mood, but as a way of seeing. You’re on a spinning rock, fueled by ancient starlight, and your chest is doing this strange electric percussion all day long. So why does the mind keep scrolling for what’s wrong? Let’s walk through a few angles and learn how to keep seeking the grateful, even when the world is loud.

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18:20

The Stories Your Nervous System Writes

Heath In Pursuit ·

2026/03/02

Your life isn’t just what happens to you. It’s what you say about what happens to you. In this episode, we explore the invisible stories that shape your reality—how your brain fills gaps, how anxiety becomes a narrator, how trauma makes certain plots feel inevitable, and how spiritual practice can widen the storyline without denying pain. We’ll weave neuroscience with parables, memory with mercy, and the everyday with the sacred.

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28:03

The Same Sun, Different Shadows

Heath In Pursuit ·

2026/02/23

Two people can witness the same moment and leave with different worlds. That isn’t always dishonesty—it’s perception. In this episode, we explore why our brains construct reality, how memory edits the past, how identity shapes what we notice, and how humility can become a spiritual practice in a polarized age. We’ll wander through optical illusions and courtroom testimony, echo chambers and ancient parables, neuroscience and compassion, and the art of staying curious when your nervous system wants

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27:47

You Are a Coastline with a Name

Heath In Pursuit ·

2026/02/16

Your blood tastes like the sea for a reason. You are not separate from nature—you are nature, walking around with a calendar. In this episode, we dive into the ocean inside you: evolution’s saltwater inheritance, the tidal rhythms of breath and sleep, the vagus nerve as a wandering messenger of calm, and why awe sometimes feels like standing on a shore you’ve known forever. We’ll braid physiology with poetry, ancient seas with modern anxiety, and a few old stories about water, wilderness, and

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32:39

How To Properly Release The Stone

Heath In Pursuit ·

2026/02/09

Forgiveness has been used to silence people, rush healing, and keep the peace at any cost. So let’s rescue it. In this episode, we explore forgiveness as liberation: what the brain does when it rehearses injury, how resentment shapes the body, why boundaries and forgiveness aren’t enemies, and what it means to forgive without excusing harm. We’ll wander through trauma science and courtroom stories, deserts and debt, a teacher who drew in the dirt, and the strange freedom of not carrying the stone

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28:41

Your Hunger Is Trying to Speak

Heath In Pursuit ·

2026/02/02

We’re surrounded by ways to numb desire, inflate it, monetize it, or shame it—yet longing keeps knocking. In this episode, we explore desire as information: neuroscience and dopamine, Buddhist craving and biblical psalms, consumer culture and midnight snacking, romantic projections and cosmic wonder. We’ll ask what you’re really reaching for when you reach for that—and how to listen to the deeper hunger without being ruled by it. For spiritually curious, science-respecting seekers who want their

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30:24

The World Is Trying to Tell You Something

Heath In Pursuit ·

2026/01/26

We live in an age of constant talking—hot takes, explanations, branding, proving. And yet so many of us feel unheard, unseen, and strangely numb. This episode is an invitation back into the lost art of listening: to your body, to other people, to silence, to the natural world, to that quiet inner voice you keep drowning out. We’ll wander through echolocation and earbuds, the neuroscience of attention, ancient prophets and modern therapy, whales and wilderness, and the difference between noise and

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28:03

The Door You Forgot Was Open

Heath In Pursuit ·

2026/01/19

Most of us don’t feel lonely because we have no one. We feel lonely because we’re not fully there when we’re with them. This episode is a walk through the difference between fitting in and belonging—through wolf packs and group chats, mirror neurons and shame, ancient exile stories and modern identity. We’ll explore why your nervous system craves a safe tribe, why performance kills intimacy, and how the bravest thing you can do might be letting yourself be known. For spiritually curious people who

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32:39

The Clock Is Known For Being A Liar

Heath In Pursuit ·

2026/01/12

You can be “on time” and still miss your life. In this episode, we explore the strange ways time bends, speeds up, slows down, and tells the truth about what we actually value. We’ll wander through Einstein and airport delays, circadian rhythms and deep-time rocks, the attention economy and ancient wilderness stories. This is for the meaning-seeking generalist who loves science but refuses to let it shrink wonder.

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23:52

When Two Things Are True

Heath In Pursuit ·

2026/01/05

What if the contradictions we spend our lives trying to eliminate are actually the doorway to something deeper?In this episode, we step into paradox—not as a problem to solve, but as a place to live. We explore a world where light is both wave and particle, where love heals and wounds at the same time, where suffering and joy refuse to stay on opposite sides of the room. From ancient mystics and Zen wisdom to Jesus, Lincoln, MLK, and the quiet, human moments that change us forever, we trace the

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29:42

The Gold in the Crack

Heath In Pursuit ·

2025/12/29

We’re taught to hide what’s broken. To patch it fast. To move on. But nature doesn’t heal like that. Neither do souls. In this episode, we explore the sacred art of repair through Japanese kintsugi, the biology of wound-healing, forests that regenerate after fire, jazz musicians who turn mistakes into music, and ancient stories where reconciliation costs something—and gives something back. This is for the spiritually curious, science-respecting, meaning-seeking listener who wants a life that feels

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27:50

The Holy Drift of Things Falling Apart

Heath In Pursuit ·

2025/12/22

Why does life feel like it’s always trying to come undone? The inbox refills. The house re-messes. The plans break. The body ages. The heart bruises. This episode is for the ones who want wonder over certainty—and meaning that can hold both science and the ache of being human. We’ll wander through physics (entropy, stars, heat death), ancient stories (creation out of chaos, manna in the desert), and the quiet interior practice of letting go without giving up. Not preachy. Not reductionist. Just

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23:32

Crown Shyness: How Trees Teach Us to Take Up Space...

Heath In Pursuit ·

2025/12/15

In this episode of Heath In Pursuit, we look up into the forest canopy and discover “crown shyness” — the way tree tops grow right to the edge of each other… and then stop. We explore what this strange, quiet behavior reveals about intelligence without a brain, healthy boundaries, competition and cooperation, and how to negotiate for light in our own lives without suffocating the people around us.

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25:47

The Forest That Makes Rain (And the Life That Makes You)

Heath In Pursuit ·

2025/12/08

In this episode of Heath In Pursuit, we step into a dense forest and discover something that feels almost impossible: forests can help make their own rain.Not as metaphor. As physics. As breath. As a living feedback loop—leaf to sky to cloud to return. And once you see it… you start to wonder what else you’ve been calling “weather” that is actually relationship. What you’ve been treating like fate that might be participation. What loops you’ve been breaking—quietly—through extraction, shame,

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25:39

When Your Life Won’t Manifest (And You Think It’s...

Heath In Pursuit ·

2025/12/01

You did the vision board.You scripted the future. You tried to “stay high vibe,” speak it, claim it, call it in. And still… your life looks painfully ordinary. Or painfully hard. So is it you? Are you the glitch in the cosmic algorithm? In this episode, we go after the quiet spiritual shame underneath manifestation culture and toxic positivity—the belief that if your dream life hasn’t appeared on schedule, you must be doing it wrong. We’ll talk about: “The god of the vision board” – how we turned

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28:00

When You Recognize Your Friends Are Pigs

Heath In Pursuit ·

2025/11/24

What do you do when a lifelong friend sends a breakup email in the name of “self-care” and “Jesus”? In this episode, Heath unpacks the ancient line about pearls before swine and uses it as a lens to talk about ghosting with a halo, the dark side of self-care, weaponized spirituality, over-explaining yourself, and how to stop wasting years on people who refuse to be human with you.It’s part therapy, part spiritual autopsy, part invitation to guard your pearls without hardening your heart.

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