Names Are Hard Collective Podcast

Dante Hernandez made a name for himself as one of the most popular bartenders in Boystown, Chicago. He is an intentional father, a generous brother, and a man who is always on the search for what lies behind the curtain of the mysteries of the universe.   Here are some of the things we talk about: Dante’s experience growing up His experience with fear How he started his new life as a bartender in Boystown His experience being famous in the gay community His life changing experience with DMT

David Huzieran is one of the founders of Strange Loop, a video production in West Town, Chicago.  His current new endeavor is building a music licensing website, Deep Sounds, which is pushing to create a more fair platform for artists to license out their music for content creators.  In this interview, we talk about the spike in price of camera equipment during the latter half of the pandemic how his video production business struggled though the COVID pandemic how he still did his best year financially in 2021 the changing landscape for video production companies because of social media how certain music licensing websites take advantage of artists  

Nick Wallace is a farmer, entrepreneur, and a man with a vision for transforming agriculture in the US.  He oversees all day-to-day operations at Wallace Farms and has been delivering high quality organic meat to the Chicagoland area since 2004.  Check out his new venture called 99 COUNTIES which is working towards changing agriculture in the Midwest by creating more farms that practice regenerative farming and supporting small farmers get their carefully nurtured meat to the people of the Midwest.

Dr. Jim Claussen is a holistic chiropractic doctor who started the company The Health Doctors LTD. His chiropractic approach isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach, but one that opens up the communication network in the body to turn on the body’s natural ability to heal and regenerate according to each individual’s needs. We talked about his strategy on building his business and what he learned through that process.  To learn more about his practice, go to: https://www.thehealthdocs.com/

On January 19, 2019, Lextrifecta and Guboogee get together in the Birchwood House Basement to make music and talk about the ayahuasca dieta and the struggles they were going through in their spiritual journey.  Lextrifecta was carrying A Course in Miracles with him and started reading random pages from the book.  Guboogee picked out A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda and started reading a few sections from it.

On February 19 2019, Jimmy Kurz with Clark St Collective, Vertego, Lextrifecta, Cole Lab, and Guboogee got together to make some music and talk about family, tv and video game addictions, fear of death, Vertego's shroom trip, and our ancestors.