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Stories Between Us

Dante Stewart and Hemadri Modi

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Stories Matter. Not just any story, but our stories. Stories connect us to ourselves, one another, and to the rest of the world. Stories don’t just connect us, it is these narratives that possess the power to create a more loving and just world. As we tell our stories with candor and courage, imagination, and joy, we create better stories together. And maybe one day, a better story can be told. Hosted by: Dante Stewart & Hemadri Modi Producers: Dante Sewart, Hemadri Modi, Corey Bolton Editor ...
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We all do it in some form or another. Watch a movie or show and imagine being there; the same while reading a book. Talking with people about their lives and pursuit of their dreams. We all like to live vicariously through whatever means we can. A way to escape our own reality. Even if its just for a little while. With the power of the spoken and written word, we have been living vicariously through them for centuries. In this podcast, you’ll hear stories about every sort of topic. To provid ...
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In The Area

Ghosthaus Media

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We are on a mission to collect wisdom nuggets. Our goal is to spotlight people with stories concerning honesty, courage, love, transcendence and everything in between. If we sit down with the right people, ask the right questions, we will come away with a piece of their wisdom to launch ourselves on our own hero's journey. Whether you're listening on your morning commute, or lounging on a Sunday morning, grab a cup of coffee, get comfortable, and join us in our journey to collect wisdom nuggets.
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Race and Democracy

Race and Democracy

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"Race and Democracy" features Dr. Peniel Joseph and expert guests to discuss the most important questions of our time about race, democracy, social justice, culture, and moral and ethical issues. Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcas ...
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Hello podcast nation and welcome back to another episode of the Trauma that Binds Series, a segment of Living Vicariously. Today we have the privilege and honour to speak with Heidi Johnson. Heidi is a Columbine survivor, has an MBA and master’s degree in Developmental Practice, and is the executive director of Angel Covers. An organization dedicat…
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Hello podcast nation and welcome back to another episode of the Trauma that Binds Series, a segment of Living Vicariously. Today we have the privilege of having Valerie Rubin with us. With a BA in psychology and licensed Rapid Transformational Therapist, Valerie has helped dozens overcome their traumas. " We are all human and struggle with so many …
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Hello podcast nation and welcome back to another episode of Living Vicariously and the Trauma that Binds Series. Today we have the pleasure to have Brandy Marie with us. Brandy is a Tarot card reader and Medium. Brandy uses her experience in trauma, mental health, and health coaching to aid her clients during and after an emotional session. Brandy …
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Jocelyn has been working with people for over 25 years. With a holistic approach she really gets down deep to the root of your entire life and can help provide a path to truly understanding one self. Jocelyn unfortunately went through a domestically violent relationship at a young age and had lost both her parents through the COVID pandemic. In thi…
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Mike Jarrell is a life a coach and mentor. However, he wasn't always that way. Coming from an extremely abusive home, Mike found comfort in hard-core drugs such as meth and heroin. He got clean and joined the army to get away from his abusive home. Coming home from Bosnia was hard on Mike and he eventually turned back to drugs to forget about his e…
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Maria had a simple life growing up in the family restaurant. That was until a fate filled day sent the FBI knocking on her door. Maria Palmer is Best Selling author of On the Rocks: The Primadonna Story and daughter of the famous restaurateur Joe Costanzo Jr. Moreover, Maria is a very lovely and remarkable woman and I am grateful and happy to know …
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Firstly, Dan apologies for the vulgarness of his birds. They're very opinionated and try to cut into the conversation. They have been chirped out as best as possible. Now, let me introduce Dan Gindlesperger, author of the Demon Secret. Dan is a huge horror fan following in the footsteps of Clive Baker. To which Dan thinks is the best horror writer …
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Allow me the pleasure of introducing the one, the only, the man, the myth, the Hollywood legend and my personal friend Dante Rusciolelli! Dante has been a comedian for over 37 years and has worked with all the best such as Richard Pryor. He has appeared on over 40 TV shows including but not limited to: BET's ComicView, NBC's Last Comic Standing, an…
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Let me introduce to you the one and only Scott Stewart! We've had a couple of reschedules but finally going to get at it! Scott was raised in a household with neither the tools nor the support to overcome hardship positioned Scott for early failure.Despite the poor start, he not only overcame the hand he was dealt, but through years of hard work, h…
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"Theirs was an unlikely life together. Sheila gave birth to Josephine on 11th May 1993 and for twenty-three years they co-existed in a loving mother-daughter relationship, but one with a difference. Josephine suffered catastrophic brain injury at birth, never spoke to Sheila, rarely smiled and was barely able to see the faces of the people who love…
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Hello folks and welcome back for part 3 of the Trauma that Binds Series: Overcoming the Frontlines. A segment of Living Vicariously. Today we have Iraq War Veteran Tim Palmer. A survivor of war trauma, PTSD, and domestic violence. Sober and on a path of healing and self development, Tim hopes that by sharing his story, he is able to help others who…
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Hello folks and welcome back to another episode of the Trauma That Binds Series, a segment of Living Vicariously. Today we have the pleasure of speaking with Aleesha Anaya. She is the proprietor of Creative Mayhem in Stratford ON. She just so happens to be the person who makes our T-Shirts and Sweaters. She also is the mastermind behind Red Script …
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P. Gabrielle Foreman, PhD, is an award-winning professor of English, African American Studies, and History. A leader in the field of Black digital and public history, Dr. Foreman has been recognized for co-creating projects that build community and institutions while addressing pipeline and equity issues. As a teacher, scholar, and mentor, Dr. Fore…
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Hello folks and welcome back to Living Vicariously. Today’s episode is the first part of the Trauma that Binds series. Here we give a voice to those wishing to speak out against all forms of trauma and advocate for those in similar situations. I will warn that this series will contain mature subject matter and maybe triggering for some individuals.…
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Join me as I discuss a personal story of loss and how it as affected me and my life. As well as a story written by Remington James and T. Douglas. If you or someone you know is experiencing grief and thoughts of suicide, please reach out to your friends and family or your local mental health association for materials and resources to aid you in you…
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Dr. Garcia-Rios was born and raised in Durango, México, but considers El Paso, Texas, his second home. His research investigates the formation and transformation of Latino identities as well as the political implications of these transformations. He also examines voter turnout, political participation and public opinion, especially among Latino imm…
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Ross Gay is a New York Times bestselling author of essays and poetry. His latest book is ‘Inciting Joy,’ which argues that “joy is something like what we feel like when we help each other carry our sorrows, what we feel like when we sort of realize we're practicing our entanglement, our belonging to one another.” Transcript at our website, fireside…
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Meghan O'Rourke is a citizen of what she calls the invisible kingdom. Anyone can become a citizen. Even you. All you need is a debilitating chronic illness that doctors can't easily understand or treat—autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic Lyme, fibromyalgia, and a bunch of other conditions at the blurry edges of medical knowledge.…
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When she was born, Susan Stryker’s parents thought they were welcoming a baby boy. She knew they were wrong by the time she was five years old, but it took decades to let them know who she really was. Being trans raised a lot of questions for Susan—practical questions of course, but also theological, philosophical, and historical questions. So she …
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Michael Eric Dyson is a man of many talents. As a professor, he has taught at some of the most prestigious universities in the nation, including Princeton, Brown, and Georgetown. He is currently a Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University, where he holds positions in both the College of Arts & Science and The Divinity […]…
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Race and religion have been intertwined throughout American history. Christians believed they could detect so-called “heathen” unbelief by the color of someone’s skin or the state of a foreign landscape. Over time, the word “heathen” dropped off, but historian Kathryn Gin Lum says the ideas behind it are alive and well in the United States today, e…
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Toni Jensen grew up around guns. As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her father. As an adult, she’s had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock, felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. Toni is a Métis woman, with mixed European and Indigenous ancestry. She's no stranger to the violence enacte…
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Coming up out of the waters of baptism at a new white Christian church, Danté Stewart envisioned leaving his blackness behind, washing away his boyhood Black Pentecostal baptism, and rising to a colorblind world where all lives matter. But as time passed, as he witnessed more bodies of Black Americans being killed, he felt rage growing inside. An u…
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Julia Sweig is an award-winning author of books on Cuba, Latin America, and American foreign policy. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, the Nation, the National Interest, and in Brazil’s Folha de São Paulo, among other outlets. Her book Inside […]…
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Masha Rumer immigrated to the United States from the former Soviet Union when she was thirteen. At first, her nationality made her self-conscious; she wanted to blend in with her new American peers as fast as possible. But over time, Masha discovered her love for her homeland never really went away, and she wanted to share it with her own children.…
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Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional com…
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David Livingstone Smith has studied dehumanization for decades. He's spent a lot of time researching horrific genocides, lynching, massacres, and other brutalities. Real humans pull the trigger. Real humans administer the poisonous gasses and drop the bombs. People not entirely unlike me and you, although it's a lot more comforting to imagine they'…
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When Rachel Held Evans unexpectedly died in 2019, the thirty-seven-year-old Christian writer left behind a husband and two young children, as well as an unfinished book manuscript. Rachel's husband Dan knew she would want that book out in the world, so he enlisted their good friend Jeff Chu—a writer, reporter, and editor—to put all the pieces in pl…
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It’s been said that, like the Bible, there are few women in the Book of Mormon. And that’s true, in one sense. But in another, women are everywhere there. Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming are looking for them while they work on the first complete commentary on the Book of Mormon ever written by women. Transcript available: firesidepod.org/…
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A prolific and energizing speaker on a range of diversity, equity, and inclusion topics, Shaun Harper has delivered hundreds of keynote addresses around the world, to audiences comprised of thousands. He also is founder and executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. Dr. Harper has published 12 books, and is author of more […]…
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What happens if we approach some of our favorite books with a similar kind of devotion and attentive reading religious communities bring to their scripture? Vanessa Zoltan breathes new life into our engagement with our favorite books—even the ones that don't hold up well regarding sexism, racism, and more. Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org…
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In his book Against Civility: The Hidden Racism in our Obsession with Civility, Alex Zamalin traces the history of civility from its deployment against African slaves, through Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement, all the way to today’s Black Lives Matter protests. Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org/episodes/zamalin. Buy the book an…
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Danté Stewart is a minister, essayist, and cultural critic. He is author of Shoutin’ In The Fire: An American Epistle. Named by Religion News Service as one of “Ten Up-And-Coming Faith Influencers”, his work has appeared on CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, ESPN’s The Undefeated, Sojourners, and more. He received his B.A. […]…
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Thomas A. Guglielmo is Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. He has a PhD in History from the University of Michigan. His first book, White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago (Oxford, 2003), won the Organization of American Historians’ Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Society of American…
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Anna Sale says a loss of faith in social institutions has left people seeking alternative ways of celebrating, mourning, and connecting. At a fractured and disconnected moment in time, she urges us to reconnect by having hard conversations that are too-often avoided. Anna Sale is the host of the award-winning podcast Death, Sex, and Money from WNYC…
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Estevan Daniel Delgado (he/him) is the Director for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Estevan has formal project management experience running large-scale government grants and program management experience fundraising and designing trust-based grant making opportunit…
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Rodell Razor has over 10 years of experience in launching and coaching small and mid sized businesses. He has developed valuable skills in business strategy, operations, sales, leadership, and human resources through the businesses he launched as well as through corporate roles held at various firms. In addition to being CEO and Founder of X-Factor…
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Is human gender and sexuality fixed and binary, or malleable and multi-various? Taylor Petrey discusses the fascinating twists and turns in Latter-day Saint thought on these questions. By looking at LDS beliefs as they evolve over time, we might get a clearer view of where we are now and what's up ahead. Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org/e…
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Lauren Sandler was a journalist covering homelessness in New York City when she met Camilla, a woman without a home who didn’t seem to fit the homeless stereotype at all. Sandler tells Camilla’s story in This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search For Home. It’s an up close and personal account of one woman who shares the fate of millions of Americans…
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