174: Voices of Courage with Ken D. Foster - Episode 174
174: Voices of Courage with Ken D. Foster - Episode 174

UK Health Radio Podcast

Ken D. Foster talks with partners Eli Hans and Joseph Bennett about treating creativity as a courageous way of life, guided by intuition and small, consistent actions. Their stories of love, art and risk-taking highlight how personal joy and clarity can influence both inner growth and the wider community.

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44:17•27 Jun 2026

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Creativity, Courage and Saying Yes: Eli and Joseph on Living Fully Expressed

Episode Overview

Creativity thrives when you accept fear as part of stepping into the unknown, rather than waiting for fear to disappear.
Clarity about what matters allows you to say wholehearted yeses to aligned projects and honest noes to everything else.
Simple tools like daily pen-and-paper journalling and 25-minute focused sessions can unlock steady, meaningful progress.
Trusting intuition – and acting on it quickly – can lead to life-changing opportunities and relationships.
Personal joy and doing what you love can positively affect your family, community and wider environment, creating a ripple effect of change.

“Most people don't struggle with lack of ideas. They struggle with fear.”

How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? One way, this episode suggests, is by treating creativity as a lifeline rather than a hobby. Ken D. Foster hosts a lively, heartfelt conversation with long-time partners and multi-passionate entrepreneurs Eli Hans and Joseph Bennett, all about courage, intuition and saying yes to a more fully expressed life.

From the start, Ken reframes creativity as "a way of being" that lives "at the edge of the known and the unknown" and points out that most people don’t lack ideas – they get stuck in fear. Eli and Joseph share how they juggle multiple passions without burning out. Their simple formula? Get crystal clear on what matters, say a big yes to that, and a firm no to everything else.

They talk about quietening the mind, journalling for seven to ten minutes a day, and treating inspiration like something that “comes through us” rather than something they force. One of the most moving parts is their story of meeting by chance at a mass commitment ceremony, taking an impulsive vow to “support you to your highest potential” before they’d even exchanged names.

That same commitment fuels their work today, from retreats and workshops to theatre projects and an award-winning solo show. Joseph also lifts the curtain on his novel *Jeremiah*, describing how he wrote it "25 minutes at a time" using the Pomodoro technique, and how each character’s voice felt gifted rather than invented.

Both he and Eli keep returning to one theme: courage isn’t about being fearless, it’s about acting while terrified, trusting intuition, and letting joy ripple out into families and communities. If you’ve ever thought, “I’d love to, but it won’t pay the bills,” this conversation might nudge you to ask a different question: what will you think, years from now, if you never give that creative spark a real chance?

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