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You Can't Make Anyone Love You and Some More Partial Truths with Jan Worth-Nelson and Ted Nelson (and Sheldon Kopp) Apr 30, 2024

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Jan Worth Nelson and Ted Nelson are writers and editors from Flint, MI.

An Eschatological Laundry List: By Sheldon Kopp (1974)

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Stop Stressing Out About Tomorrow By Doing This Today with Timm Chiusano Apr 25, 2024

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Timm Chiusano makes charming and intimate daily films on social media. Check out his stuff!!!!

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Act Like You Don't Know What's Going On with Amiel Handelsman Apr 23, 2024

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Amiel Handelsman is the host of the new podcast How My View Grew in which he interviews nuanced thinkers about the origin stories of their big ideas. Each story offers a window into one of humanity’s greatest challenges like climate change, democracy, the culture wars, the wealth gap, Ukraine, and Israel. In weeks between interviews, Amiel offers tips for training your mind to navigate complex topics and difficult conversations.

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Facing the Truth Leads You Somewhere with Tamara Lindeman from The Weather Station Apr 18, 2024

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Tamara Lindeman is a musician from the band, The Weather Station. Their latest album is HOW IS IT THAT I SHOULD LOOK AT THE STARS.

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The Generative Benefits of Investigating Your Shame with Heather Radke

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Everyone Needs to Cry with Courtney Daniels Apr 16, 2024

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Courtney Daniels is a writer-director. Her films are about marriage and the struggles of creative people. Her new series is about actors looking for love and work in LA called This F*%king Town. She was last on this show talking about taping your mouth shut.

The Meaning of Truth by Nichole J. Sachs

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Share a Deep, Dark Secret with adrienne maree brown Apr 11, 2024

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adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her music and her podcasts. Informed by 25 years of movement facilitation, somatics, Octavia E Butler scholarship and her work as a doula, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas and practices for transformation. She is the author/editor of several published texts, cogenerator of a tarot deck and co-host of How To Survive the End of the World.

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Find a Constellation in your Backyard with Amanda LeClaire Apr 09, 2024

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Amanda LeClaire is an award-winning host and producer at 101.9 WDET-FM Detroit’s NPR station. She’s a founding producer of WDET’s flagship news talk show Detroit Today, a former Morning Edition host at WDET, and a former host, audio and video producer, and reporter for Arizona Public Media.
She’s reported on stories as diverse as the decriminalization and therapeutic research of psychedelic substances, how Motown mourned the sudden death of musician Michael Jackson, the economic and environmental impact of mineral mining in Wyoming, how anomalous phenomena and research into UAPs has affected the lives of some people in the Southwest, and the impact of President Barack Obama’s historic 2008 election night in Detroit.
Amanda is also a creative writer, artist, certified intuitive and energy healer, and professional tarot reader. Amanda was raised in a mythical Great Lakes forest by Bryan Ferry and a prehistoric wolf, on a strict diet of gummy bears and early electronic music.

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How To Build Speed Bumps Into Your Day with Leticia Britos Cavagnaro Apr 04, 2024

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Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Ph.D., is a scientist turned designer who has created and facilitated a wide range of learning experiences in design, creativity, and innovation at the Stanford d.school and beyond. Her creative methods include the use of emerging technologies to help people grow as self-directed, action-oriented, reflective, and responsible shapers of the future. She co-directs the University Innovation Fellows Program and is an adjunct professor at the Stanford d.school. She is the author of the d.school guide Experiments in Reflection: How to See the Present, Reconsider the Past, and Shape the Future, published by Ten Speed Press in November 2023. Leticia has a PhD in developmental biology from Stanford University and is a former member of the Research in Education & Design Lab.

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What Would You Do If You Were 10 Times Bolder? with Bobby Dorigo Jones Apr 02, 2024

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Bobby Dorigo Jones called the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST

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Analyzing Envy with Gretchen Rubin

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Stop Bringing Your Phone To the Bathroom with Zoë Komarin Mar 28, 2024

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Zoë Komarin is a chef, food curator, writer, artist and mom living in LA. Subscribe to her essential newsletter here. Peep her vast advice archive below!

Turning on a Dime with Zoë and Udi

Spoon Feeding with Zoë

Edit Your Condiment Drawer with Zoë

You've Been Peeling Your Veggie Wrong with Zoë

Repurposing Food with Zoë

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