These chats about repair (our stuff, ourselves and our communities) range from mending textiles to the repair of broken bones, from up-cycling in the pandemic to community conflict in Bangladesh, from home made Punk Clothes to celebrating scars. Growing out of a Community project in Lewisham, South East London the podcasts give more space for longer conversations, and you'll be able to hear Rose Sinclair, textile specialist, Raj Bhari, Peacebuilder, talking with Clare MacDonald, artist and U ...
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The Doctor’s Life podcast features lively and candid discussions with fellow doctors and scientists on how to achieve success in clinical medicine and non-clinical careers while staying healthy in mind, body and spirit and living a rich, purposeful life. Your host, Dianne Ansari-Winn, MD, MPH is a Board Certified Anesthesiologist and nationally recognized author, speaker, and coach. Dr. Dianne is known for her powerful and practical coaching, which she shares with her exclusive one-on-one ph ...
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Ros is Reader in Fine Art, Critical Studies and Programme Director of the MA Art & Ecology. Her research and teaching often involves collaborations with artists, scientists and activists, addressing ecological emergency with an emphasis on climate justice. In her spare time, she likes to mend and grow things. In 2023 she founded the Darn It! darnin…
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Series 5, Episode 8: Matilya Njau, Horticulturalist
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I’m a gardener by trade and have spent most of my waking moments in the last 8 years, tending to and communing with plants. At the heart of my practice is helping people reconnect with their immediate surroundings, creating green spaces in difficult places and using gardening as a vessel to connect with self, ancestors and other human and non-human…
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Dr Georgia Bowers is a leading Creative Ageing practitioner, academic and pro-ageing activist. Her work explores how theatre making with older adults can tackle ageism and takes place in care homes, hospitals, sheltered housing accommodation, day centres and via online video platforms. Georgia has worked for arts organisations such as Royal Opera H…
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In my role of Arts Manager for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust I am responsible for delivering an arts programme to support the health and wellbeing of our patients, staff and visitors. Our projects encompass all art forms, using music, dance, creative drawing, and arts and crafts to provide individuals with the means for creative expression and t…
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Gaynor Tutani (Art Adlib) is a curator, producer and writer who merges her various arts, culture, community and educational passions to produce exhibitions, events and commentaries on art and curating. Her speciality is in Public Programming – of which she extends as part of her practice as the Creative Programing Officer at Museum of the Home. She…
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Following a Masters in Applied Theatre at Goldsmiths, Megan completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Limerick in 2023 and received an Irish Research Council scholarship for her research: "Community Solidarity Initiatives as Spaces for Connection, Resistance and Change". This project investigated how people living in Direct Provision and…
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Arji Manuelpillai is a poet, performer and creative facilitator based in London. He was the Jerwood/Arvon Mentee mentored by Hannah Lowe. Arji’s debut pamphlet ‘Mutton Rolls' was published with Out-Spoken Press in 2020 and his newest book ‘Improvised Explosive Device’ was released in the Autumn of 2022 with Penned in the Margins. This highly acclai…
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Merel works as a freelance accompanist and vocal coach besides teaching singing and piano. She is choir leader of the Long Covid Choir and the Long Covid Kids Choir. Merel also works as a Supporting Artist for feature tv/film, such as The Crown. In her free time she takes Art Classes with Lucy Freud. Merel fell ill with Covid in 2021 and has been l…
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Amie is a writer, theatre maker, musical theatre teacher and the Director for Fun Palaces. A Fun Palace is a free event made by local people for their own community. At Fun Palaces people come together to share their skills, passions and interests, and to show the world just how brilliant and packed full of genius their community is. Anyone can mak…
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Series 4, Episode 8: Camille Dawson and Cristina Ottonello
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Camille Dawson is a critically acclaimed comedy writer, performer and director. She is founder and Artistic Director of Frisky Arts. Camille has a multi art, anarchic and comedic style. The War Inside is inspired by her experience of struggling with autoimmune disease. The show shines a light on invisible illness, and takes the audience on a wild r…
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Maria Amidu is a visual artist and PhD Candidate in the School of Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art. Her artistic concerns are influenced by the complexities of the relational – between people and between people and place. Through writing as artistic practice she tries to substantiate what might be going on in collective situations, pay…
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Lee is the founder of Positive Carrickfergus and co-founder of Repair Cafe Belfast and Carrick Greengrocers. She has lived in Carrickfergus for most of her life apart from a few years in England and Italy like so many of her generation brought up in Northern Ireland. Lee has worked in the voluntary and community sector for around 25 years mostly in…
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Amahra Spence lives in the UK and works globally. Her practice is one of poetic pragmatism, exploring transformation and iterating change oriented towards liberation. In particular, Amahra engages this through spatial reclamation and social justice, design, performance and storytelling. In all aspects of her work, Amahra contends with Black Imagina…
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Madeline Tanoto is a designer-maker & teacher with a 20 year career in fashion & teaching across all things textiles. She is a qualified Mental Health First Aider & combines these skills with her textiles experience to explore the craft of mending within a supportive & inclusive environment. She is the founding Director of Mads do & Mend CIC whose …
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Sally Jaquet is an Edinburgh-based community musician who believes music is for everyone - a human right that helps us connect, care and cherish each other and ourselves. Her projects include vocal and songwriting teaching; choir leading; music & wellbeing workshops for school groups, businesses; and music research and arts projects evaluation. As …
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Ellen works as a consultant for Seahorse Environmental, a specialist environmental communications agency. In this role she works with a number of NGOs and businesses on campaigns including the Lost Rainforests of Britain campaign. She has a background in research and is particularly interested in the circular economy, the arts and environment and b…
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Kay Rufai is a Photographer, Poet, Filmmaker, Author, Mental Health researcher and founder of the internationally acclaimed S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys projects. He is currently the first Artist in residence for West Midlands Police Artist as part of Coventry City of Culture, using creative arts to improve relationships between police and marginalised young…
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Series 3, Episode 8: Yvonne Field & Immy Kaur
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Yvonne Field is a serial social entrepreneur and change agent who has spent more than four decades working with grassroots organisations, front line staff, senior managers and policy makers in local, national and international government and civil society organisations. Yvonne has worked across more than 20 European countries, the English-speaking …
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Sarah Pimenta is an experienced artist, illustrator and facilitator and has worked in education for over twenty three years including in over 250 primary and secondary schools nationally and two in Africa. She previously co-directed Arts Charity Cloth of Gold and is now known as Social Fabric. Sarah is highly experienced at leading, coordinating an…
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Chris Finch is an NHS Mental Health Worker. He has a passion for repair, fixing bikes from his garage, and many more things from his cellar, which is packed with tools, spare parts, and objects waiting to be mended. Chris appears in The Breaks & Joins film. "My name is Chris and I am in my mid 60s. I have many interests and enjoy using my practical…
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Jo Cook is the founder and creator of Meet and Mend and runs sessions and projects within the West Yorkshire county of England. Meet and Mend focuses on textile activities that encourage sustainable methods, such as re-purposing and recycling wherever possible. Meet and Mend ran the Cost of Living Quilt Project in January and February 2023 and is c…
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Series 3, Episode 4 Yomi Sode & Chloe Osborne
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Award - winning writer Yomi Sode, and artist/activist Chloe Osborne together run 'The Grief Lab' an opportunity to explore, playfully, riotously, experimentally, grief and loss. In this episode they discuss their approaches, the development of this work, and how to continually move the expectations of others and ourselves about how to deal with dif…
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Series 3, Episode 3: Professor Hartley Jafine
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Professor Hartley Jafine is an improviser, clown nose enthusiast, and Survivor superfan. He is on the faculty at McMaster University and University of Toronto, where he facilitates theatre and arts-based courses. As a health humanities artist-scholar his teaching and research focuses on the intersection between applied theatre, improvisation and he…
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Molly Syrett is a costume supervisor and buyer, currently training in millinery. Molly has worked with a range of theatre and dance companies on UK tours, site specific and immersive productions including for London Borough Of Culture, The National Theatre and on Harry Potter & the Cursed Child. Molly also works with Goldsmiths University of London…
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Toby is an Award-Winning theatre maker & Associate Director at interactive theatre makers, Coney, where he focuses on making work with, and for, young people & families that spark change through play. He has made pieces that live on National Trust grounds, at The National Archives and landed in schools across the UK. In 2020, he created Beyond Arts…
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Series 2, Episode 7: Devon Goodrich and Michael Breakey
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For this episode we made a site visit - a first for us. We spoke to Michael Breakey and Devon Goodrich who host and manage the Rotherhithe Shed, but also to some of the people who had popped in that afternoon to make, mend, paint and chat. Rotherhithe Shed, just south of the River Thames, was set up by Time & Talents and London Bubble Theatre Compa…
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Series 2, Episode 6: Olivia Namutebi and Rebecca Hayes Laughton
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Rebecca Hayes Laughton has supported the Women for Refugee Women drama groups for 7 years, hosting a space for women who are refugees and asylum seekers, where creativity, laughter, and finding words for the unspeakable come together. Part of the wider campaigning organisation, W4RW, the group regularly perform at events, conferences and celebratio…
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Tony Cealy is an Arts Development Practitioner, Consultant, Trainer & Producer Founder, Director & Producer of 492 Korna Klub the UK's only weekly improvised radio drama exploring social issues amongst the black community Artistic Agitator Fellow Brixton House - connecting strangers & beginning difficult conversations in shared spaces about Brixton…
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Parisa Wright is is the founder and CEo of Greener & Cleaner, a sustainable living charity. She left her 20 year career in law to focus fully on addressing the climate crisis by making sure that susatinable living is accessible and inclusive for all. Greer and Cleaner runs The Hub inThe Glades Shopping Centre in Bromley, running classes and worksho…
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Series 2, Episode 3: Gail Babb and Alex Evans
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Gail is an award-winning theatre maker who specialises in creating new work that centres and celebrates Black British experiences. As a dramaturg and director, she has created shows for theatres, found sites (including museums and a derelict school), as well as national and international touring. Recent credits include work with Brixton House, Fuel…
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Molly is an artist who lives and works in London. Her art work looks at negative space with a considered colour palette, and a delicate approach to the drawn line. Drawing from life as well as memory, dreams and imagination, Molly creates work around a sense of place, belonging and time. Molly is also a professional textile repairer and researcher,…
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David is a London-born storyteller, founder/director of ethical agency Good Point, and an artist who writes, makes films, and performs. Currently he's developing and touring a tragicomic one-man show about fatherhood called Pieces of a Man, along with an interactive workshop to help people reconfigure their internal relationships with their parents…
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Rachel trained as a potter in Belfast and Kilkenny and has developed a unique ceramics practice that explores concepts such as Hope, Grief and Scars. Based In Macclesfield she exhibits in galleries but also in public spaces, entering into a dialogue with those who view and pick up her work. HOME | RachelHoCeramics Explore more Breaks & Joins podcas…
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Episode 7: Sudip Chakroborthy and Ali Campbell
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Sudip Chakroborthy recently gained his PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London. he is an experienced theatre director who has worked extensively in Bangladesh, Canada and the UK. He teaches at the University of Dhaka Ali Campbell is Professor of Applied Performance at Queen Mary, University of London. A specialist in collaborative theatre making, h…
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Designer and Maker Suzi Warren is a co-founder of Twisted Twee, designing, making and upcycling clothes with a satirical twist. Suzi created 'Stitch it Don't Ditch it', initially by setting up a chair outside a fast fashion shop and sitting and mending, to start conversations. This gentle protest has now grown, with lines of menders snaking down hi…
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Episode 5: Amanda Mascarenhas and Mo Sumah
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Amanda Mascarenhas is a Theatre Designer and Visual Artist. She specialises in immersive and sensory design, and also works extensively in participatory settings. She is Associate artist with Kazzum Arts a member of the Breaks & Joins team https://www.amandamascarenhas.com/about Mo Sumah runs Mend it with Mo, a repair cafe, at the Telegraph Hill Ce…
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Liz Honeybone is in the textile department at the National Theatre. She has always sewn, making and adapting her own clothes, and she shares her expertise on dye, on making costumes speak through their colour and texture, on responding to furlough by making scrubs for the NHS and learning about natural dyes. Her infectious energy and enthusiasm mak…
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Sylvan is a neuro diverse care leaver, practitioner and researcher who has been working across the fields of applied theatre, socially engaged arts and education for the past 30 years. His practice has taken place across the UK and globally in sites in Brazil, and the USA, More recently my work has centred around developing research that allows its…
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Episode 2: Raj Bhari and Claire MacDonald
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Both Raj and Claire have broken bones, in a way that brought them to a halt . They chat about fractures, doctors, slowing down and slow mending. Raj Bhari is a facilitator and trainer in Peacebuilding, who works internationally and in the UK, managing conflict and building peaceful communities. Raj teaches on the MA Applied Theatre at Goldsmiths, a…
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We chat to Rose Sinclair, Design Lecturer at Goldsmiths, A textile specialist, she talks about all things mending, and the Dorcas Clubs, where women from the Caribbean traditionally met to sew and knit and chat together. @Dorcasstories https://www.gold.ac.uk/design/people/sinclair/ Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, o…
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How do you encourage others? Encourage X with James E. Brown, Jr.
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All of us wish to encourage others but most of us feel inadequate around it. What you say and do for others to encourage them carries tremendous impact--think of the people that have influenced or even discouraged you during your life and you will know that this is true. In today's episode, Dr. Dianne interviews James E. Brown, Jr. who is the found…
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5. Real Talk with a Medical Mama of Four! with Dr. Carolyn Fitzpatrick
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We have such a great episode today! Dr. Carolyn Fitzpatrick is a busy family practitioner in an academic center where she is a medical director and residency program director. She also has 4 children, the first of which she had as an intern (!?!). She is a superwoman! However, you will be captivated by her down-to-earth sharing of her experiences o…
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4. Physicians on Social Media--How To Do It Right with Sue Koch
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If you think social media is not for physicians, you are wrong! Sue Koch, a nationally recognized media consultant and I discuss why social media is a must for physicians. In our conversation, Dr. Dianne and Sue break down the myths around social media, explain its value and how it works, and give you a roadmap for starting in social media if you h…
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3. The Kids Are Gone, Now What?--The Empty Nest with Dr. Toyin Falusi
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Empty nesting isn't just a "syndrome"--it's a life changing event in so many ways! Dr. Dianne Ansari-Winn and Dr. Toyin Felusi are empty nesters and living on their own after their kids have gone to college. It is a positive time for kids, but can be a hard time for parents. There is so much in this episode--personal experiences and practical advic…
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2. Professional Fulfillment, Self-Renewal, and CME: Physician Wellness Conferences with Dr. Imelda Tija and Dr. Alicia Kowalski
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Are you interested in Physician Wellness, want to connect with like-minded physicians, go to an academic conference with national academicians and thought leaders in the field and get to know them, AND have fun and relaxation in an amazing resort in Santa Fe, New Mexico? The founders of the Burnout to Brilliance conference which is April 2-5, 2020 …
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Have you wondered what coaching is about? Have you had a goal that you wanted to reach or something that you want to change in your life but really didn't have a systematic way to do so? Today Dr. Ansari-Winn discusses what coaching is, what coaching is not, and gives you a model of coaching which you can easily use to self-coach. You can reach Dr.…
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4 Things You Need To Know Before Leaving Clinical Medicine
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What you need to know about transitioning from clinical medicine part 1 of 2. I'm Dr. Dianne and nd have a successful post-clinical career. Want to learn how I did it? Check this podcast out! Learn how to be a doctor on your terms with joy and health in mind, body and spirit.
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Entrepreneurship and Running a Coaching Practice--The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly with Katrina Ubell, MD
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In this episode of The Doctor’s Life podcast, host Dr. Dianne Ansari-Winn sits down with Dr. Katrina Ubell for a continued discussion on the topic of entrepreneurship, what it looks like to have a successful coaching practice and how to successfully transition out of full-time clinical medicine. In this continuation of their prior conversation Dr. …
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Success! in a Non-Clinical Medical Career with Dr. Katrina Ubell
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In this episode of The Doctor’s Life podcast, host Dr. Dianne Ansari-Winn sits down with Dr. Katrina Ubell for an interesting discussion on how to approach making the decision to either leave or stay in the field of clinical medicine, and the individual journeys that led to them each leaving behind their calling as traditional physicians to become …
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The Solution for Loneliness in Physicians with Aparna Iyer, MD
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In this episode of The Doctor’s Life podcast, host Dr. Dianne Ansari-Winn sits down with Dr. Aparna Iyer to talk about the issue of loneliness in physicians. Dr. Aparna is a board-certified psychiatrist and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center. Dr. Aparna specializes in physician wellness, perinatal mental…
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