Morgan Rich

Morgan calls himself the Beyonder, and the first thing you feel sitting across from him is that the title is earned, not performed.

We met through the podcast, and what stayed with me was how he names the thing most people never get language for — the trance of the normal world, the way chasing likes and credibility quietly pulls you into a life that isn’t yours. He’s spent years as a deeply caring, grounded man companioning other men back to their own aliveness, and he practices what he points to: every morning he re-chooses the self he knows himself to be, through poem or dance or stillness, because sleep resets us and the true self has to be re-chosen daily. In a world that finds an open heart threatening, he keeps his open anyway.

When you feel the pull to break the trance and run your own race — and you want a brother who’s walked it to companion you — Morgan is who I’d point you to.