The Changed Podcast with Aden Nepom
Society & Culture
You may have heard of Wade McCollum. As an American film actor, stage actor, composer, and musician, Wade is best known for his roles as Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Ernest Shackleton in Ernest Shackleton loves me for which he won the Norton Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Lortel Award in the same category.
These days, he can be found buried in his neuroscience textbooks as a student at the University of Pennsylvania.
Wade is truly remarkable and multi-talented, so it may be no surprise that like previous guests Maraya Brown and Lou Radja, Wade is also an alum of Ashland High School. Like many of the programs at Ashland High School, The drama program at AHS is one of the best (thanks to the brilliant thinking of Betsy Bishop marrying the program to the prestigious Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which continually attracts some of the world's top talent).
All of that is to say that any time I get to sit down and talk with Wade McCollum, it carries simultaneously that sweet feeling of the relief I associate with what is most familiar, AND the excitement of what's new because both of our lives are filled with shifts, changes, and curiosity. There is just so very much to talk about!
This may just be my favorite interview of the season!
What's in this episode?"I'm up there thinking, you know what, there's 3000 people watching the show right now... they're having that fulcrum experience where they may never be the same. And I'm literally at my office job. The juxtaposition of that is so incredible"
"When you're born into something, the assumption is that's life. That's life, and there's no other, you know, there's no other way to do it, because that's the way it's done."
"They said, 'We're the, we're the different ones. Most people live in a house. And they stay there. And most people don't move around like we do and go from town to town.' Everything just went boom, and suddenly I was the anomaly. And it was so fundamental, I could feel my brain change."
"Humans as a species are like story eaters. Rather than, throw the story up, this is a gross analogy, our tendency is to digest it. And in that...
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Marilet Martinez on How Arts and Activism are Both a Celebration and a Rebellion – Episode 34
Why we should have more women in leadership – Luann Abrams, Episode 33
How a panic attack actually helped Marybel Martin, episode 32
Happier at Work – Episode 31, Aoife O’Brien
“Say it With Me!” – Episode 30, Nancy Torres
Birthing Women – Episode 29, Maraya Brown
Marsha Shandur Helps You Tell Great Stories – Episode 28
Why having a BIG PICTURE view matters – Episode 27, Jay Jordan
How do you balance pursuing your dreams with living real life? Episode 26, Amy Gentry
What is The Changed Podcast with Aden Nepom all about?
Season One Closer!
Chris O'Connell Chooses to Live
Estevan J Zarate (Chuy) and the diagnosis that changed everything
Kevin Miller Tells Us Ghost Stories
The Rad Cafe with Mike Shethar
Jen Ables and the Difference Between Success and Happiness
Reshanda Yates Shares Her Journey with (no longer) Binge Eating
Andrew Williams, Leadership Enthusiast, Coach, Author and EXPERIMENTER
Mimi Bishop and Jackie Ghedine, from the Make Your Life Magnificent Podcast
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