Best Benjamin Dorman Podcasts (2024)

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Decision-making: Do You Have A Choice? 28:16

5M ago28:16

28:16

In this final episode of season 2 we conclude our exploration of the everyday challenges of leadership by discussing how to make good decisions. Making choices is Conscious Creative Leadership in action. To be empowered is to feel that you have the agency to make choices about your life, and the energy to see them through. But so many factors, both…

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Money - What Is Your Value? 42:00

5M ago42:00

42:00

“Money makes the world go round” but how do you manage this important energy as a Conscious Creative Leader in a world of scarcity? As serial entrepreneurs and creatives, money is something we’ve both struggled with in our lives. Much of our personal work has been about redefining and taking charge of our relationship with money so that it works be…

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Fear - What Lies Beyond The Comfort Zone...? 38:04

6M ago38:04

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Today we're looking at Fear - the underlying energy that informs every other episode in this season about the challenges of leadership. Whether it’s fear of failure, fear of exposing too much, or fear of not being good enough, the biggest challenge we have as Conscious Creative Leaders is to manage our fear and keep moving forward. In this wide-ran…

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Failure - What Does It Mean Anyway? 26:32

6M ago26:32

26:32

This week we zero in on Failure - an inevitability for anyone taking a leadership role! But it's one that can be challenging to navigate. We don’t really believe in failure as such, but we do recognise that things don’t always go to plan and recognise that this can have long term consequences for our reputations, resilience and self esteem. So join…

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Imposter Syndrome! What Does It Look Like? 31:39

6M ago31:39

31:39

This week we discuss Imposter Syndrome - that creeping feeling inside that whispers you’re not good enough... even when you’re beyond qualified. Various surveys from the 1970’s to the 2020’s suggest that between 30% and 70% of us experience imposter syndrome at some point in our lives, depending on our context and identity, and we know it's somethi…

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Clarifying Identity - Who Am I? 30:35

6M ago30:35

30:35

Today we 're diving into the challenges of finding clarity in our professional identity. As multi-passionates, we have both struggled with explaining to the world who we are based on what we do! We love doing lots of different things, but the challenge has been to define the connecting values within those that make sense of all our different projec…

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Season Two! What Is Public, What Is Private? 28:33

7M ago28:33

28:33

Welcome to Season Two of the Conscious Creative Leadership Podcast! In this series we’re focusing on the everyday challenges to Leadership - the things that can trip us up, derail our plans or even stop us in our tracks. Not so much the externals, but the attitudes and choices that shape the way we navigate our leadership and our lives. And of cour…

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Commitment 36:00

1+ y ago36:00

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In this final episode of Season One of the Conscious Creative Leadership Podcast we focus on Commitment. We talk about the importance of consistently showing up over the long term for yourself and for others, about risk taking and our relationship with money. Commitment is an essential part of Leadership and to round off the season we talk about wh…

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Purpose 22:40

1+ y ago22:40

22:40

This week is all about Purpose, that driving force that gives meaning to your life and gets you out of bed in the morning. A Conscious Creative Leader’s purpose is aligned with their values and is focused on how to make the world around them better for everyone. In this episode we talk about growth and how all the principles discussed so far in thi…

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Influence 17:37

1+ y ago17:37

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Today we talk about Influence. For us Influence is less about being “An Influencer” and more about walking your talk. A major part of Conscious Creative Leadership is role modelling, but not only in what you do. Influence is more effective if there is integrity with who you are being too. Join us as we talk about becoming authentic in your leadersh…

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Productivity 34:58

1+ y ago34:58

34:58

Productivity is one of the main reasons clients seek us out as coaches, but in this episode we focus less on “getting things done” and far more on getting things completed. Productivity for a Conscious Creative Leader is often about holding a vision rather than doing all the tasks to get you there. And it’s about surrounding yourself with the right…

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Courage 23:55

1+ y ago23:55

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Episode 4 focuses on Courage, the essential element necessary for growth. We discuss the relationship between Courage and Fear and how without Courage, there is no integrity. We talk about the lived experience of addiction and abuse, and the courage it takes to walk away and start a new life. If you have been affected by any of these issues here ar…

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Energy 24:26

1+ y ago24:26

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This week we talk about Energy, how to generate it, what can block it and how it affects your interactions with others. Energy is the wellspring of everything that allows you to do the things you desire in life. As a Conscious Creative Leader being mindful of your energy is the essential element that draws people to you and keeps life juicy and fun…

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Clarity 24:56

2y ago24:56

24:56

In this second episode of the Conscious Creative Leadership podcast, we begin defining a toolkit of High Performance practices that help us consistently show up in our lives as leaders. Our focus today is on the foundational principle of Clarity, our ability to define our needs, goals and boundaries and share them with other people. What are you cl…

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What is Conscious Creative Leadership? 26:11

2y ago26:11

26:11

In this first episode of the Conscious Creative Leadership podcast, we discuss what exactly we mean by Conscious Creative Leadership. Tune in for some definitions and to hear us talk about our own journeys into leadership. It’s not been a conventional journey for either of us! What has been your own journey into leadership? Drop us a line or leave …

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Interview with Peter Knecht, former editor of Asian Folklore Studies 46:54

2+ y ago46:54

46:54

Interviewer: Ben Dorman, co-editor Asian Ethnology Recorded 8 June 2017, Nagoya, Japan Peter Knecht was the editor of Asian Folklore Studies from 1980 until 2007. The journal changed its name to Asian Ethnology in 2008. In this extended interview, Peter discusses his experiences working as the editor of Asian Folklore Studies. He talks about when h…

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Interview with John Powers 18:41

3+ y ago18:41

18:41

Interviewer: Ben Dorman In this episode, John Powers (Deakin University) discusses an interdisciplinary project involving historians, anthropologists, scientists, and folklorists concerning rivers that originate in Tibet, which play a key role in global hydrological cycles yet are in crises as a result of multiple threats.…

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Interview with Susanne Klien 43:57

3+ y ago43:57

43:57

Interviewer: Ben Dorman, co-editor Asian Ethnology Recorded 11 March 2011 In this episode, anthropologist Susanne Klien discusses her recent book Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society (SUNY Press, 2020). She touches on her motivations for doing the research, the reasons for migrants relocating to rural ar…

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Interview with Steven Fedorowicz 22:32

3+ y ago22:32

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Interviewer: Mark Bookman Recorded: Wednesday Feb 17th 2021 This episode features a discussion with Steven Fedorowicz, cultural anthropologist, visual anthropologist, and associate professor at Kansai Gaidai University. Steven will be giving a talk on “Representations of Deaf People in Japan: Inspiration, Outrage and Real Life,” as part of the “Dis…

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Interview with Frank Mondelli 25:55

3+ y ago25:55

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Interviewer: Mark Bookman Date recorded: 26 October 2020 This episode of Asian Ethnology Podcast features Frank Mondelli, a doctoral candidate at Stanford University. Frank recently returned from research in Japan and is currently working on his doctoral dissertation on the social, technical, and political history of assistive technologies for deaf…

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Interview with Mark Bookman 22:56

3+ y ago22:56

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Interviewer: Ben Dorman Date recorded: 3 November 2020 In this episode, Mark Bookman discusses a new series of lectures entitled "Disability and Japan in the Digital Age," which is run through the Anthropological Institute, Nanzan University. He talks about the significance of the series at this time. Mark will also be presenting interviews with th…

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Interview with Yoshiko Okuyama 21:36

4y ago21:36

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In this episode Yoshiko Okuyama talks about her most recent monograph, Reframing Disability in Manga (University of Hawai’i Press, 2020). Okuyama explains that her work examines representations of disabled people in manga serialized throughout the 1990s and 2000s, focusing on portrayals of deaf, blind, paraplegic, and autistic individuals, as well …

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Interview with Andreas Riessland 39:53

4y ago39:53

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In this episode anthropologist Andreas Riessland discusses his research on Japanese biker gangs (bōsōzoku) and a project involving Shugendō Buddhist and Shinto groups that ended in failure due to various struggles between the groups. He also discusses how he came to terms with the failure, and offers advice to researchers who confront “failure” in …

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Interview with David Faure and He Xi 22:47

4y ago22:47

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Interviewer: Thomas David DuBois In this episode, we speak with China historians David Faure and He Xi of the Chinese University of Hong Kong about historical anthropology. Faure discusses the university's Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society AOE, and assesses what it accomplished in its eight-year run. He Xi explains how fieldwork shaped her…

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Interview with Gopalan Ravindran 34:52

4y ago34:52

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In this episode, Gopalan Ravindran, Professor and Head of Department of Journalism and Communication at the University of Madras, talks about media literacy in India in general, his initial interest in journalism and communication, and then discusses two specific initiatives related to media literacy and journalism among marginalized communities in…

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Interview with Jin Feng 31:39

4y ago31:39

31:39

In this episode, we speak with Jin Feng, Professor of literature at Grinnell College, Iowa, and author of a new book on Chinese foodways. Jin discusses how the experience of leading a study trip to China and Russia helped shape her personal interest in food into a research program, how she expanded her circle of foodie friends into a professional n…

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Interview with Mark Bookman 32:38

4+ y ago32:38

32:38

This episode features Mark Bookman, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting researcher at the university of Tokyo. Mark is completing his doctoral dissertation on the history of disability policy and related social movements in Japan. Mark discusses his personal challenges researching while using a wheelchair, changing…

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Interview with Thomas David DuBois 32:21

4+ y ago32:21

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This episode features historian Thomas David DuBois, who is currently Professor of Humanities at Beijing Normal University. Thomas discusses his original reasons for studying China, the application of historical anthropology in his work, his interest and work in Chinese food, the effect of the death of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain had on his thi…

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Interview with McComas Taylor 10:55

4+ y ago10:55

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Interview with Roald Maliangkay 24:55

4+ y ago24:55

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Interview with Tom Bauerle 29:07

4+ y ago29:07

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By Asian Ethnology Podcast

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Interview with Guha Shankar 32:09

5y ago32:09

32:09

Interviewer: Ben Dorman, co-editor Asian Ethnology Recorded 22 March 2018, Washington D.C. This episode's guest is Guha Shankar, Folklife Specialist at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Asian Ethnology Editorial Board. Episode Summary Intro :32 Association with Frank Korom, co-editor of Asian …

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Interview with Ian Reader (part 1) 28:37

5+ y ago28:37

28:37

Intro :35 Religion in contemporary Japan since the publication of Religion in Contemporary Japan (1991) 4:15 Lack of evidence concerning “new spirituality movements”; the importance of considering decline in popularity of religion 5:45 Revisiting Agonsh? since the death of the founder; work with religious studies scholar Erica Baffelli 11:39 Transf…

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