The UNcivilized Podcast with Traver Boehm

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EP 435 Speak Kindly to Yourself — A Solo From Costa Rica | Traver Boehm

July 27, 2026

I left my suitcase on an airplane, sprinted through a Houston terminal, and blew out both calves in the process. That was day one of seven weeks in Costa Rica — and it was just the beginning of the jungle trying to teach me something.In this solo episode, I'm sharing three lessons I brought back from Costa Rica — through injuries, a viral post about men's mental health, and a free diving course that scared the hell out of me.Lesson one — slow the hell down, even when everything in you...

EP 434 Love, Truth, and What We're All Afraid to Feel | Sasha Cobra

July 20, 2026

Sasha Cobra spent her twenties pouring drinks at a private cocktail bar in San Francisco — sober, vegan, healthy, and getting paid well to serve people poison. Then one Saturday morning in Golden Gate Park, she closed her eyes and saw herself doing something else entirely. She called her boss from a tea house that same afternoon and quit. She never went back.That decision started a twenty-year path that's led her to work with thousands of people around the world on sexuality, trauma, and ...

EP 433 The Path of Poetry | Laurita Gorman

July 13, 2026

Laurita Gorman almost never got called up to read her poem in front of the audience.She signed up for her first poetry slam and spent the whole night waiting to hear her name — the host had forgotten to add her to the list. She got up anyway. And wouldn’t you know it, placed second. That accident put her in the finals, and by the end of that year she was reading a poem about a woman named Laken Riley to a room that went completely silent.Laurita is a Canadian-born poet and therapist living in...