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Show notes, free downloads and more at: https://scotandemily.com/podcast | No AI-generated content, ever. | I'm Scot and she's Emily. We're the dating coaches you know and love over at X & Y Communications. Join us for the most heartfelt and action-packed dating podcast on planet Earth. We hit the ground running every show with solid dating and relationship tips from the unique (and often hilarious) perspective of BOTH genders. Less fluff = good stuff. And get this...we never resort to getti ...
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Professional dating coaches Scot and Emily McKay from X & Y Communications have experienced wildly successful dating lives, eventually meeting each other and forming the "Dynamic Duo of Dating Dilemmas". Now, they bring you hard-hitting yet lightning-fast dating tips that you can start using RIGHT NOW to supercharge your own dating success. Fast downloads and rapid-fire content...every time. Be sure to get in on the weekly newsletter at "www.dating-advice.us". Your reviews on iTunes and vote ...
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Poet Major Jackson is your guide on the pathways to feel and understand our common journey – through poetry. In sharing poems, we take a moment to pause and acknowledge the world’s magnitude, and how poets illuminate that mystery. Join The Slowdown for a poem and a moment of reflection in one short episode, every weekday. Produced by APM Studios in partnership with The Poetry Foundation and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. Ma ...
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Wing-It Worldwide | Travel + Adventure = Freedom | Digital Nomads, Worldschoolers
Scot and Emily McKay | Location Independent Travelling Family
Discover all the show notes, funny stories, pretty pictures and shiny toys at: www.wingitworldwide.com/podcast | Scot and Emily McKay are well-known dating coaches who've been helping men and women all over the world find love for over a decade. Get their unique, location-independent view into the wild, unpredictable, nutrageous, often hilarious but always adventurous side of traveling the world...usually with their four kids. | Please subscribe to the show to get updates automatically, and ...
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Scot and Emily here, at your service. You might know us already from the X & Y On The Fly--Dating Podcast or The Chick Whisperer Podcast. But even if you don't, we're glad you're here. We're the dating coaches at X & Y Communications and spend a good bit of our time helping people just like you sort out their online profiles so that they can meet someone great. We met on Match.com ourselves (go figure) so what more fun could two human beings have than to do a show where we select a REAL onli ...
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The Empowered to Connect Podcast a place where we come together to discuss an attachment rich, healing centered approach to engagement and well being for ourselves, our families and our communities.
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1185: Fragment 31 by Sappho, translated by Christopher Childers
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Today’s poem is Fragment 31 by Sappho, translated by Christopher Childers. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “If you listen close enough to a poem, especially to the very best of them, you can hear on their surface, the poet’s breathing and silences shaped by the pace and noise of their age. You can hear a voi…
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In this episode Emily and I address the sticky topic of dealbreakers in a relationship. Is having too many dealbreakers--or focusing on them--a dealbreaker in and of itself? You know, the 'don't bother' chick, for example? Is being 'high maintenance' a dealbreaker? And if so, what does that even mean? On the other hand, should not having any dealbr…
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1184: End of December by Ashjan Hendi, translated by Moneera Al-Ghadeer
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Today’s poem is End of December by Ashjan Hendi, translated by Moneera Al-Ghadeer. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Tests to long-term commitments are bound to happen. Expending too much affection can lead to exhaustion and the bruise of eventual disappointment. As today’s poem suggests, one of the secrets t…
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1183: maggie and milly and molly and may by E.E. Cummings, with special guest Eric Whitacre
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Today’s poem is maggie and milly and molly and may by E.E. Cummings, with special guest Eric Whitacre. Whitacre is a Grammy Award-winning composer, conductor, and speaker. A graduate of The Juilliard School, his works are programmed worldwide, and his ground-breaking Virtual Choirs have united well over 100,000 singers from more than 145 countries.…
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1182: from “Take Me Back, Burden Hill” by L. Lamar Wilson
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Today’s poem is from “Take Me Back, Burden Hill” by L. Lamar Wilson. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Humans, it seems, are bound to feel adrift. So many times in my life, I have worked to muster a belief that all of it matters. I have made great efforts to not be lulled into amnesia nor medicate myself blin…
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Today’s poem is Enlightenment by Vijay Seshadri. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem points to how people’s sense of desolation and lack of meaning sometimes fuel a desire to save the world, work they go about with patronizing superiority and condescension.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift…
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1180: The Gardener 85 by Rabindranath Tagore
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Today’s poem is The Gardener 85 by Rabindranath Tagore. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Poetry has a way of collapsing time, and by working the senses, having us experience an era. In the blues rhythms of Langston Hughes’ poetry, I hear early twentieth century New York, and going back, I hear the plurality …
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Today’s poem is Nude by James Kelly Quigley. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “I long to write poems of a mystical nature, where the wisdom of the ages is carried forth in new forms and phrases. Today’s brief poem, in its associative leaps, could be the seed to a new way of seeing, if we just let its words wo…
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1178: America by Claude McKay, with special guest Tonya Mosley
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Today’s poem is America by Claude McKay, with special guest Tonya Mosley. Tonya is the host and creator of Truth Be Told and founder of TMI Productions. She is also a co-host of Fresh Air, and a correspondent and former host of Here & Now, the midday radio show co-produced by NPR and WBUR. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, …
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Today’s poem is Machete: Look by Jasminne Mendez. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem reminds us of the tools that break the bonds of human connection and life, how we must go against rhetoric that strips us of our power to feel empathy and exercise grace.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift …
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Today’s poem is Fowl at Large by Sarah Giragosian. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Courage is at the heart of writing, and as today’s poem suggests, a wildness of being, that fires away from timidity and into realms of the self as glamorous and unpredictable, as if you had the whole world shook.” Celebrate …
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Today’s poem is Hunger by Kelli Russell Agodon. This spring, we asked our community to submit poems that have helped you slow down in your lives. Thank you to the nearly 300 of you who sent us poems to read and enjoy. This week we’re featuring the team’s selections. Today’s selection was submitted by Jeannine from Washington. In this episode, Major…
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Today’s poem is Separation Wall by Naomi Shihab Nye. This spring, we asked our community to submit poems that have helped you slow down in your lives. Thank you to the nearly 300 of you who sent us poems to read and enjoy. This week we’re featuring the team’s selections. Today’s selection was submitted by Meital from Washington, D.C. In this episod…
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Today’s poem is Sono by Suji Kwock Kim. This spring, we asked our community to submit poems that have helped you slow down in your lives. Thank you to the nearly 300 of you who sent us poems to read and enjoy. This week we’re featuring the team’s selections. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem coordinates a masterful flow of language, simu…
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Today’s poem is From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee. This spring, we asked our community to submit poems that have helped you slow down in your lives. Thank you to the nearly 300 of you who sent us poems to read and enjoy. Today’s selection was submitted by Candace from North Carolina. This week we’re featuring the team’s selections. In this episode, Maj…
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Today’s poem is One Art by Elizabeth Bishop. This spring, we asked our community to submit poems that have helped you slow down in your lives. Thank you to the nearly 300 of you who sent us poems to read and enjoy. This week we’re featuring the team’s selections. Today’s selection was submitted by Doug from Minnesota. In this episode, Major writes……
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Today’s poem is The Way by Cynthia Cruz. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “This past spring like every spring many of my students graduated into the uncertainty of their futures. Their lives can take so many directions. I am curious as to what ultimately launches us as human beings with a purpose, or not. If …
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1169: from "American Analects" by Gary Young
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Today’s poem is from "American Analects" by Gary Young. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “I find that poems emerge out of dialogues that I have either with myself, other works of art, or my friends. In this way, my poems are a collaboration of silences.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdow…
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