Heath In Pursuit
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 mysteries of human connection, exploring wild philosophical ideas, or sharing poignant reflections on life, Heath keeps listeners hooked with his endearing personality and razor-sharp insight. Join Heath as he interviews a diverse range of guests, from artists and visionaries to misfits and antagonists, offering fresh perspectives and thought-provoking discussions that challenge the status quo. Heath In Pursuit is more than a podcast—it’s a journey into the unknown, designed to entertain, inspire, and ignite your imagination. New episodes launch weekly. Subscribe today and get ready to explore the depths of wonder, the edges of reason, and everything in between.
Episodes
Monday Aug 18, 2025
Monday Aug 18, 2025
Ideas are tricky little creatures. They don’t arrive on schedule. They don’t respond to emails. They show up unannounced—half-dressed, a little tipsy, carrying riddles instead of blueprints. And if you’re not paying attention, they slip right past you.
In this episode, we explore the art of catching ideas—the strange, zany, beautiful process of noticing the flicker, the glimmer, the quick flutter of something trying to be born. What if ideas are alive? What if they choose us as much as we choose them? And what if the best way to catch one isn’t with force, but with curiosity? Gentleness? A well-placed butterfly net made of wonder, play, and the willingness to look a little foolish?
Because the wildest ideas don’t land in spreadsheets. They land in the open palms of the ones who dare to hold out their hands.
Monday Aug 11, 2025
Monday Aug 11, 2025
Blessed are the weirdos. The square pegs. The outsiders. The ones who never quite fit the mold. The Gospel of the Misfit is about the good news that there’s nothing wrong with you for being different. In fact, your difference might be the very thing the world is starving for. In this episode, we celebrate the beautiful, messy brilliance of the misfit soul—the artists, rebels, dreamers, and edge-dwellers who refuse to color inside the lines. Could it be that the misfits are the prophets? The poets? The ones who keep reminding us that there’s another way to live, to love, to create? This is a blessing for the ones who never belonged… and a reminder that maybe they were never supposed to.
Monday Aug 04, 2025
Monday Aug 04, 2025
Trees don’t hustle. They don’t compare. They don’t grasp or strive or scroll. They just… be. And in their quiet, rooted presence, they seem to know something we’ve forgotten. In this episode, we lean into the wisdom of the trees—their patience, their stillness, their way of belonging to the earth without apology. What if enlightenment isn’t about transcending life, but sinking more deeply into it? What if spiritual maturity looks a lot less like achievement and a lot more like becoming rooted, grounded, present? Trees have been here far longer than we have. Maybe it’s time we start listening.
Monday Jul 28, 2025
Monday Jul 28, 2025
The universe is stitched together with stories. Stories about who we are, where we’re from, what matters, and what’s possible. Even the atoms tell a story—of stars that died so we could live. In this episode, we explore the idea that story is not just how we entertain ourselves—it’s how we make meaning. How we survive. How we connect. Every belief, every nation, every family, every identity is wrapped in a narrative. So what happens when we stop to question the stories we’ve been told? Or the ones we tell ourselves? What happens when we choose to write new ones? Because at the end of the day, everything is made of stories.
Monday Jul 21, 2025
Monday Jul 21, 2025
Normal is a moving target. A slippery word we use to police behavior, silence difference, and shrink ourselves to fit. But what if ‘normal’ is the problem? In this episode, we unpack the myth of normalcy—the invisible scripts that tell us who we’re supposed to be, how we’re supposed to act, and what success is supposed to look like. We ask why we so often trade our wild, glorious weirdness for the comfort of fitting in. What does it cost us to be ‘normal’? And what might it mean to step outside that box entirely? To embrace the strangeness, the softness, the spectacular one-off-ness of being fully, unapologetically human?
Monday Jul 14, 2025
Monday Jul 14, 2025
What gives a place its spirit?
Some cities hum with life.Others feel hollow.
In The Soul of a City, we explore the invisible forces that shape how places feel—the architecture, the stories, the scars, and the dreams that give a city its pulse. From memory-laden streets to towering skylines, we ask:Why do some places feel alive… and others don’t?
Through conversations with architects, artists, historians, and locals, we uncover what makes a place more than just a place—what makes it home.This is a journey into the spirit of place, where design meets memory, and where brick and mortar meet hope and heartbreak.
Because a city isn’t just buildings.It’s the soul between them.
Monday Jul 07, 2025
Monday Jul 07, 2025
In a world obsessed with certainty, productivity, and polished perfection, what happens when we make space for the ridiculous, the irrational, the weird, and the wonderfully absurd? This episode is a joyful, spirited defense of clowns, paradoxes, nonsense poems, surreal art, and divine disruption — the sacred mischief-makers who remind us that not everything needs to make sense to matter.
Because sometimes the most important truths come wrapped in riddles.Sometimes the holy shows up in a rubber chicken.Sometimes the medicine we need most wears a red nose and dances like a fool.
Join Heath as he explores why nonsense isn't just silly — it's sacred.Why weird art cracks the shell of our seriousness.And why we need more wild, disruptive, beautiful absurdity to wake us up, shake us up, and remind us how to play again.
Monday Jun 30, 2025
Monday Jun 30, 2025
We’ve been taught to fear the silence.To run from the empty spaces.To cram our calendars, fill the gaps, grab our phones the moment boredom creeps in.
But what if the void—the blank space, the pause, the quiet—isn’t something to avoid?What if it’s the birthplace of everything?The womb of creativity. The spark of insight. The edge where new worlds begin.
In this episode, we explore the paradox of emptiness.Why we resist it.Why we need it.And why the void just might be the most sacred, possibility-packed space of all.
Monday Jun 23, 2025
Monday Jun 23, 2025
Linear time? Nah. We’ve been told that time marches forward—steady, predictable, one second at a time. But what if that’s just… one story among many? In this episode, we crack open the clock and peek inside. From ancient cultures that saw time as a spiral, to trippy psychedelic journeys where minutes melt into eternities, to physicists who casually suggest that past, present, and future might all exist at once—turns out, time is a whole lot weirder than we think. And so are you. Buckle up as we explore the strange, the sacred, and the scientifically mind-bending nature of time itself. Spoiler alert: nothing is as linear as it seems.
Monday Jun 16, 2025
Monday Jun 16, 2025
We love the story of the lone genius.The isolated mastermind.The solitary artist birthing brilliance from a cabin in the woods or a cluttered garage.
But what if that story…is a myth?
In this episode, we pull back the curtain on the seductive idea of the solo genius—and explore how true innovation is rarely a one-person show. Instead, we’ll look at how community, chaos, and conversation are often the real catalysts behind great ideas. From Beethoven to Beyoncé, Einstein to the Wright brothers, history tells a different story: brilliance tends to grow best in messy rooms, shared spaces, and lively debates.
This is a conversation about how ideas are born.How creativity happens.And why we’re better together than we are alone.








