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Greetings and Welcome to Unabridged You, the podcast that is dedicated to celebrating the entirety of who you are. We're not focused on societal roles or job titles; instead, we explore your unique stories, experiences, life lessons, and passions that contribute to the unabridged version of you. Each week, we have the pleasure of sitting with remarkable individuals from diverse backgrounds. These guests include storytellers, artists, adventurers, environmental activists, and community builde ...
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This episode is a summary of the episodes from this season and shares a little about the podcast plans for the future. We will be back for Season Three but can't give a re-start date just yet. Remember to like, follow and share Unabridged You wherever you feel comfortable, that way you will be kept up to date with the plans. And these are the links…
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Margie Breault: Energy Medicine, the Natural Laws and Organizational Psychology
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In this episode Margie Breault shares her story which starts with a disconnect from self, limiting beliefs and self destructive behavior. Then she is introduced to energy medicine and finds a new path. Margie takes time to speak about organizational psychology, communication, meeting people where they are and the Natural Laws. This episode is full …
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Laura Rubin on Living Life By Design, Not Default
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In this episode Laura Rubin shares her story and her guidance on living a life you design and choose as opposed to floating along with the current. After years of following society’s check boxes, Laura found herself trapped in a cycle of hustle and burnout. But a pivotal midlife moment led to a profound realisation: She was merely surviving on auto…
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Vanessa McHardy: Childhood Education, Mental Health and Wellbeing
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In this episode, Vanessa, an integrative child and adolescent psychotherapist shares her story and motivation for the Life Skills for Mental Health and Wellbeing programs she has developed for primary schools. She shares science, research and practical steps to help our kids learn to manage their wellbeing from school age. This is the link to Vanes…
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Dawn Renee Bova: Creativity As a Way Through
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In this episode Dawn, nurse practitioner, creative artist, author and host of the podcast Catch Some Soulshine shares her story and how creativity can light a path to help your soul shine when life's darkest moments hit. Dawn's website with all her information including the link to her podcast and the Journal she talks about can be found through th…
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Four Pathways to becoming Unabridged and #blackoutpoetry
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This episode summarizes the common four pathways to becoming unabridged that guests have spoken on in their episodes. These pathways are Story Physical Movement Conscious Thought Creativity I also share the exercise of blackout poetry that I have been practicing for the last 99 days. If you are curious to check out the Tuesday Orange project search…
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Mason Ludlow on Becoming Diamond, Wisdom and Jung
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In this episode our guest is New Zealander Mason Ludlow, author of the recently released book called Becoming Diamond. Here we discuss the core of his book and go into detail on some of the key concepts of Wisdom, Jungian thought and dream analysis, specializing in life as compared to being a generalist and other topics designed to help the reader/…
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Hazel Katherine Larkin: The Power in Naming Expereinces
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In this episode, our guest Hazel joins us via zoom from Ireland. Hazel begins her story by reminding us of the fairytale character Rumpelstiltskin and how he teaches us what power there is in naming a thing. In this episode the named things that are addressed include acknowledging histories of trauma and experiences such as abuse, gaslighting, narc…
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Welcome back to Unabridged You. Our guest this week is Rachel Fowler who talkes about becoming Grief Literate and her journey to her understandings. She speaks of her award winning short film titles STILLNESS and her soon to be created Somewhere Very Near. In this episode with Rachel we cover a lot from grief to international travel, AI and mixed t…
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Lucinda Roberts: Being an Organ Transplant Recipient and Health as a Journey
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In this episode UK woman Lucinda Roberts shares her lived experience of receiving the diagnosis of an incurable autoimmune disease at 17. She shares the story of her health journey and it has been a journey full of ups and downs and twists and turns including the realization of her mortality, her hedonist phase, being in liver failure and her hope …
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Bill Lee-Emery: Healing Through and Thriving After Cancer
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Bill covers so much this episode. The power lies in how he speaks first hand about his lived experience of life. Everything from the recognition of how contemporary society effected his health to motivate him to leave a traditional job, to witnessing the way people were effected by the way they were spoken to and spoke to themselves, to his conscio…
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In this episode Perspective, Meaning and Truth take center stage as we consider How To Get Along With People. I share my understandings, how the episodes to date are inspiration for this episode, a story of how I came to my understandings and evidence of why the answer I offer to this question can be seen to make sense. Please like, subscribe, revi…
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Leslie Maloney on Positive Ageing and Having Moxie
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In this episode Leslie Maloney, host of the podcast Meaning And Moxie After 50, shares her story. Having been an educator for a lot of her life, helping people explore other perspectives she comments that she recognizes there is wisdom at all ages and has a current focus on positive ageing which she is promoting with her story based podcast. In thi…
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Nikki Umbers: Grief as an Alchemist and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
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In this episode Nikki shares her story which was sparked by grief. Nikki speaks of her Dad passing and how this deeply affected and effects her, how it lead to her being broken down and busted open. An experience she can now look at with gratitude as it prompted her to explore her beliefs, stories and energies. All of this lead to Nikki to begin to…
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LAPIZ on Street ART, His Story and ART as Discussion
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In this episode LAPIZ shares his story. He explains he has travelled and lived in a few places in the world, that art was a hobby that became his full time. As a scientist, his PhD helped him learn a way to think that he now applies to art. The experience allowed him to learn a lot about resilience and his experience living in different places adds…
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Mini Episode: Why we were taught the way we were at secondary school
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In this episode I have taken time to focus on a theme that has come up in some of the episodes when considering the unabridged self and the way that we learn or were taught at secondary school. I share my experience of learning through the discipline of Anthropology once I went to university. I compare this type of cross curricular learning to the …
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Bart Verboven: Crystals, Covid and being an Entrepreneur
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In this episode Bart shares his story of crystals, covid and being an entrepreneur. We hear how Bart had a childhood interest that was resparked when he was in Romania and wanted to buy a meteorite from the states. Being the thinking person that he is he realized if he brought a couple more smaller meteorites he could sell them online and make back…
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In this episode Stuart Packer shares his journey of how he came to story. How he can see the thread of story in all he has done, from civil engineering through to acting and facilitating communication skills. He shares details about the experience of acting and what he learns from the characters he plays. He also shares the idea of unlearning. In m…
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This mini episode informs of two important points: 1. Episode 8 was the final episode of season one of Unabridged You 2. The next episode of Unabridged You will be published on the Tuesday 13 February 2024 Until then you can follow along with Unabridged You here: Our new Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/UnabridgedYou Instagram: https://www.i…
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Jan Leendert Van Der Mooren on Socratic Discussion, Losing Religion and Making Meaning
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In this episode Dutchman and philosopher Jan Leendert Van Der Mooren shares his story of losing his religion and later finding Socratic Discussion as a way to make meaning in the world. He explains Socratic Discussion and demonstrates to us how the meaning we give a concept can change, or evolve based on a person’s experiences of the world. Jan Lee…
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Sebastian Gerlach: Your Internal Value Compass and Consciously Living
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In this episode Sebastian he shared his philosophies on living an unabridged life and his top life value of respect. He spoke of his internal value compass which he checks in with regularly and how this compass helps him by aligning his values, beliefs, needs and expectations. Sebastian posed two questions to help when wanting to live consciously t…
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Amber Harris on Solo Travel, Hoodoo and Destination Cheating
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The guest on episode 6 of Unabridged You is New Zealander Amber Harris. Amber is the owner and crafter of the hoodoo botanica store Roomie and Wilde and the dynamic host of the podcast Wilde. She has been a radio host and is an internationally published tourism and indigenous rights journalist. Among other talents she is an Iridologist, conjure and…
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Karen Golden on Storytelling, Life Long Learning and Being Authentic
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In this episode with Karen she shares her motivation for becoming a storyteller, the logistics of the trade and stories and adventures she has had while storytelling. I do not think that I will ever forget that Redwood seeds need fire to germinate and I will always be curious about the special thing that is invisible in the box! Karen also shares t…
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Michael Botur on The War of Art, Fighting for Creativity and Choosing Horror Fiction
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In this episode Mike shares his unabridged story of fighting for creativity. He speaks of the experience of being a novelist, creative writer and screenwriter in the far north of New Zealand. With seasoned expertise, he unveils the secrets of crafting unforgettable characters and demonstrates the myriad ways in which a person could choose 1000 word…
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Laura Westerberg on Upcycling Clothing and Living with Life's Ebb and Flow
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In this episode with Laura, mastermind behind Is Olde Upcycle we explore: 1. The World of Upcycled Fashion Laura shares her journey into the world of upcycled clothing and how her business promotes sustainability. How shopping at opportunity shops and thrift stores can be beneficial to the environment, your bank account and can help with self expre…
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In this episode we hear from Mark Samson, graphic designer, photographer, videographer, multisport and conservation enthusiast, traveler and ultrarunner. In Mark, the convergence of trail running, photography, conservation, and travel creates a narrative of adventure, discovery and a deep connection with the great outdoors. Join us as we delve into…
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How Storytelling can help with Personal Growth and Social Impact
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This episode begins by sharing the motivation and inspiration for beginning the podcast then we hear from our first guest Ronni Gurwicz. Ronni is a published narrative coach and ecosystem analyst. He is also in the process of drinking 1000 cups of coffee with a thousand strangers. Specific to Episode 1, Ronni is Co-author of a book called ‘The Worl…
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**Episodes 1 and 2 are coming on November 27 2023. After that, you can expect a new episode every Tuesday** Greetings and welcome to Unabridged You, the podcast dedicated to celebrating the entirety of who you are. We’re not focused on societal roles or job titles; instead, we explore your unique stories, experiences, life lessons, and passions tha…
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