Best New Life Warsaw Podcasts (2024)

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Honored quirky sayings of elders telling stories with Steven Joseph 47:59

10h ago47:59

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Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Steven Joseph, author of Cranky Super Powers, to share the way we have communicated over decades and found joy in holding memories. Communication, how do you get your point across, do you say what you mean or mean what you say? What are all the older generational inuendoes that have been passed down in time? Are we h…

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Meditation cards to connect with birds for a deeper understanding of nature with Catherine Bastedo 47:37

5d ago47:37

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Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Catherine Bastedo, creator of Bird Vibes Meditation Cards, to share with us how to engage in nature around us. Birds are all around us and may deliver a song to call our hearts to open to love, compassion, healing and forgiveness. Do you know how to connect to their song? Can you hear something different than what yo…

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Using grandma to make people cry about climate change 51:24

6d ago51:24

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Why is it so hard to talk about climate change in a way that actually makes us... feel something? This week, our producer Katz Laszlo talks to an Icelandic writer who manages against the odds to do just that: Andri Snær Magnason, author of — among many other things — the hit memoir 'On Time And Water'. We're also talking about the German politician…

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Inner child and soul connections for healing with Ramaa Krishnan 51:20

7d ago51:20

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Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Ramaa Krishnan, author of The Yoga of Self-Love, to share her story of how to do the deep inner work that our spirit is calling us to do at this time. What is the story of our lifetime? What is your inner child all about and how do you access the deeper connections towards healing in this lifetime? Can we find self l…

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Personal account of abuse within the Catholic Church with Len Prazych 54:01

12d ago54:01

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Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Len Prazych, author of My Fathers: Letters of Healing on a Quest for the Truth, to share his experience with abuse by the hands of a Catholic Priest. Abuse within the Catholic Church is currently unfolding in the public eye as victims are coming forward to no longer hold their pain inside. The actions of priests were…

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What do the European Union and Barbie have in common? 47:22

13d ago47:22

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Are European leaders living in a Barbie-like dreamworld? This week, the idealised fantasy of the EU versus its awkward reality. Far from being a continent of grateful europhiles, a lot of people feel apathetic about the European project at best. Paweł Zerka joins us to discuss why non-white, young and Eastern Europeans feel especially left out of t…

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Recognizing that people experience differently with Sarah Lutterodt 45:56

14d ago45:56

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Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Dr. Sarah Lutterodt, author of Worlds Apart: A Memoir of Uncertain Belonging, to share her life story of human engagement over the decades. Do we take our judgements and see others through them or can we become open and allow others to show us their world while honoring their story? Sarah shares her stories from enga…

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Mussolini, testicles, and the Schengen zone 41:00

20d ago41:00

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Last week we brought you geopolitics, this week we're bringing you testicles. Why has male contraception remained such an underground idea, despite decades of research? We speak to Paul Labourie, one of a growing number of men (in the francophone world at least) who are turning to DIY contraception devices to take on more of the responsibility in t…

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How mental health, chronic disease, and PTSD affect women's life stories with R. Barbara Gitenstein 49:58

26d ago49:58

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Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes R. Barbara Gitenstein, author of Experience is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academic, to share her life story through adversity and success. How does our life story with our ancestors, change and mold us into the people we are today? Do their hardships, shame, and pain flow over into generations to come? Do they cas…

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Swedish authorities say it's fine if you listen to this podcast 56:11

27d ago56:11

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We're back from our summer break! Rym Momtaz, the new editor-in-chief of the Strategic Europe blog, is here to catch us up on the main political developments we missed over the summer, from Ukraine to France. We're also talking about Sweden's suggestions for cutting kids' screen time, and a possible crackdown on outrageous concert ticket prices. Th…

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Warsaw women surviving as immigrants with Geri Spieler 44:48

28d ago44:48

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Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Geri Spieler, author of Regina of Warsaw: Love, Loss and Liberation, to share her grandmother's story in the early 1900's. Can we look back at our ancestors stories with the eyes of the time period in which they experienced hardships beyond what we could imagine? Perhaps we are looking backwards with the eyes of toda…

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Healing mother/daughter relationships by excavating old pain and stories with Leslie and Lindsey Glass 50:17

1M ago50:17

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Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Leslie and Lindsey Glass, co authors of The Mother - Daughter Relationship Makeover: 4 Steps To Bring Back the Love, to explore what really is broken in relationships of the family. Is the word 'relationship' the real issue as it has an old connotation and perhaps needs to be updated? What would we be free to create,…

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Racism and jail time brings R.G. Shore to find his soul within 43:05

1M ago43:05

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Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes R.G. Shore, author of The Ocean Inside Me, to share his story of findinding himself through life experiences. R. G. let go of all the pain, struggles, labels, and defining stories of who he was being told he was, to finding out his soul was a gift waiting to be found. He shares his experiences with racism while in ja…

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Be a Scribe of your life with history as the roots with Michael Hoffen 30:56

1M ago30:56

30:56

Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Michael Hoffen, author of BE A SCRIBE! Working For A Better Life In Ancient Egypt to share how life has evolved with basic truths of surviving. What is the story of our life that is playing out which may have reflected back to our ancestors in their choice of beliefs, truths, wisdom and trades? Today we explore the l…

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Earth Archetypes and how to engage in a connection with Mary Reynolds Thompson 42:20

1M ago42:20

42:20

Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Mary Reynolds Thompson, author of The Way of the Wild Soul Woman: 5 Earth Archetypes to Unleash Your Full Feminine Power to engage in stories of experience in the present moment. How do you dance with the sun, moon, and stars? Can you engage with nature on a level that is our core story in the universe? We are nature…

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How are you showing up in life and is it possible to shift your perspective with Christy Whitman 56:12

2M ago56:12

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Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Christy Whitman, author of The Desire Factor, to expland on the purpose of life in this decade. How do things come about? Do we manifest, work to attain them, or push our energy to move through life? We are currently in the decade of 'journey of the seeker'. It is a time where we are looking for a different experienc…

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Is alcohol your co pilot in life? Did you know ethanol is also put in gas for your car? 51:19

2M ago51:19

51:19

Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Dustin Dunbar, author of You're Doing Great! And Other Lies Alcohol Told Me, to discuss what alcohol is and asking why you are drinking it. Ethanol, CH3CH2OH, is flammable, volitile, toxic, and in the gas in your car and you are drinking it? Why? What is the pain you are using alcohol to numb? What is the connection …

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This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: Kinga 32:24

2M ago32:24

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This week, we're re-releasing another of our all-time favourite episodes to entertain your ears during our summer break. First aired in 2022, it's a story from our long-running series, 'This Is What A Generation Sounds Like', and it takes us to Georgia. Thanks for listening! We'll be back in September. If you enjoy our podcast, we'd love it if you'…

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This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: Sara 27:12

2M ago27:12

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We're away on our summer break until September, but this week and next week we're re-releasing two of our favourite episodes from The Europeans' award-winning series, 'This Is What A Generation Sounds Like. This week, a story that spans three generations of women: Sara, her mother, and her grandmother. In their collective lifetimes, Albania entered…

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A Q&A with The Europeans 43:25

2M ago43:25

43:25

It’s our first ever Q&A episode! Katy, Dominic, Katz and Wojciech answer listeners’ questions – from how we make the show, to the episodes we’d make if we were gazillionaires. We’ve saved a couple of our answers for supporters of the podcast. If you’d like to hear them, we’d love it if you could send a few bucks our way at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/…

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Expand your life and awareness of personal power with Cortney McDermott 52:13

2M ago52:13

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Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Cortney McDermott, author of Give Yourself Permission: Be Confident, Be Happy, Be You, to allow us to jump start the next phase of our life. In this year of 2024, personal and professional growlth is shattering all ceilings of days gone by. No longer are there limits to our consciousness awareness of rules or regulat…

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What has happened to your mind and body that brought you to me with Dr. Paul Corona 56:05

3M ago56:05

56:05

Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Dr. Paul Corona, author of The Corona Protocol, to share how to bring the mind body connection together for wellness. What has happened to you in your life is the matrix in which your mind and body functions on a daily basis. When you experience trauma, life challenges, difficulty navigating, or your safety is at ris…

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'Luca' 39:18

3M ago39:18

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One Hungarian family. One piece of land. Two very different visions. This is the final episode in our long-running series This Is What A Generation Sounds Like, made in cooperation with the Allianz Foundation. You can find the other episodes in the series here. Thanks, as ever, to the listeners who support this podcast so that we can keep making it…

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What happens after France's surprise swing to the left? 54:01

3M ago54:01

54:01

A surprise left-wing election win? In Europe? In 2024? This week, we turn to our resident Parisian journalist to try to get our heads around what just happened in France, as well as what might happen next. We’re also looking at the other big left-wing winners of the week: the UK Labour Party. What might their new government mean for Britain’s relat…

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Why is European cinema so different from Hollywood? 52:45

3M ago52:45

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Fewer expensive car chases, more moody shots and ambiguous endings: movies made in Europe are often very different from those made in the US. But Europe's more arty film output isn't just a product of our culture — it has a lot to do with how the industry is financed. This week, we're asking: why is European cinema the way it is, and should we be t…

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Pigeon murders, the nature restoration law, and Scandinavian family therapy 47:13

3M ago47:13

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Enough politics: we’ve got a nature-themed episode for you this week. Producer Katz Laszlo joins Katy to explain how Austria’s environment minister went rogue to save the EU’s hugely important nature restoration law; we’re also talking about the German town that just voted to kill all its pigeons. And in the human world: the podcast that brings Sca…

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The most confusing elections of all time? 45:55

4M ago45:55

45:55

The far-right surged but the centre held; somehow the two are true at once. Nearly 100 members of the new European Parliament have yet to tell us which political family they’ll be joining. And as for who’s actually going to be running the EU’s institutions for the next five years – right now, it’s anyone’s guess. How can we make sense of these Euro…

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Why give a damn about the European elections? 36:04

4M ago36:04

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They’re the second biggest elections on Earth. For the next four days, 373 million people are eligible to take part in the vote for the European Parliament. And yet in most EU countries, the prevailing mood is… ‘meh’. This week, we take on the challenge of convincing you that these elections are anything but meh, with the help of one of our favouri…

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The Big-Agri Bully Boys 46:58

4M ago46:58

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Protests by angry farmers have swept across Europe this year. But from country to country, powerful groups have taken these protests over and changed their agenda. Who are these people, and what are they up to? This is a special episode produced in collaboration with investigative journalists from Lighthouse Reports and media partners across Europe…

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What's more endangered: wolves or Eurovision? 51:33

5M ago51:33

51:33

This week, the high drama of both European wolf policy and the Eurovision Song Contest. Wolves have made a huge comeback in Europe in recent years. How can we coexist peacefully with these hungry carnivores? We speak to the social scientist Hanna Pettersson about how humans are living alongside predators in Spain and Sweden. Plus, all the controver…

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Can food labels make us healthier? 45:35

5M ago45:35

45:35

Across a fair chunk of Europe, we've grown used to seeing little traffic light symbols on our food packets that supposedly rate the healthiness of our food. But why might Dominic's chamomile tea get a Nutri-Score rating of C, when a diet cola gets an A? And does Giorgia Meloni have a point in claiming that the ratings are biased against Italians? T…

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The regime that ended with a song 45:25

6M ago45:25

45:25

It’s the only revolution in world history (that we know of) that began with a Eurovision song. This week, Portugal marks 50 years since the Carnation Revolution ended decades of dictatorship. We speak to Alex Fernandes, author of a new accessible history of the revolution, about the day that changed everything. We’re also talking about the UK’s mis…

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Why the Swiss women’s climate victory is such a big deal 44:14

6M ago44:14

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A group of Swiss women, all aged 64 and over, made history last week by winning the first ever climate case heard by the European Court of Human Rights. But what does their victory mean for climate policy across Europe? We ring up international courts reporter Molly Quell to find out. We're also talking about an artistic sense-of-humour failure, a …

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The biggest climate case that ever was 49:27

6M ago49:27

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We are re-airing one of our all time favourite episodes following this week's landmark verdict on the biggest climate case that ever was: KlimaSeniorinnen vs. Switzerland. We reported on the case in depth last year, shortly after the hearing. And now, the court rules: KlimaSeniorinnen win!We usually see young people as the face of climate activism.…

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Nepo great-great-great-grand-babies 45:41

6M ago45:41

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We all know this continent has major issues with social mobility. But having a rich ancestor from *six centuries ago* shouldn't make it more likely that you're rich today... should it? This week we speak to Guglielmo Barone, one of the economists behind some fascinating research into this question in Florence. We're also talking about Ursula von de…

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Less Beyoncé, more bouzouki 43:38

6M ago43:38

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This week, music and politics collide. We're talking about Greece's plan to enforce quotas for Greek-language lyrics on the radio, and the racist backlash against Aya Nakamura's rumoured booking for the Paris Olympics. Plus, a great interview with Politico's senior climate reporter Zia Weise about the EU's once-trumpeted nature restoration law. Can…

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Small Ex-Soviet Satellite State My Ass 43:23

7M ago43:23

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This week, we're heading to a small country with a big bold foreign policy. Czechia, aka the Czech Republic, has won international praise by negotiating a desperately-needed ammunition deal for Ukraine. Why did it succeed where others have failed? And why is its government so much less scared of China than most others in Europe? We ring up Jakub Ja…

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The Portuguese Constitution Is Delicious 44:33

7M ago44:33

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Scandal-hit Socialists, a surging far-right, and winners that no one can get excited about — Portugal has just delivered some of this year's trickiest European election results. This week, we ring Politico reporter Aitor Hernández-Morales to untangle the situation. We're also talking about how ChatGPT could speed up Albania's EU membership bid, and…

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YOLO, Swiss pensioners 45:25

7M ago45:25

45:25

This week: two referendums and some dodgy criminal reforms. We're talking about Swiss voters' decision to treat themselves to bigger pensions, and Slovakia's battle to stop cronyism under populist prime minister Robert Fico. And ahead of Ireland's vote on International Women's Day, the historian Caitríona Beaumont joins us to ask: why, according to…

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Army Boots 14:00

8M ago14:00

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In February 2022, as Russian tanks rolled across the border, the writer and historian Olesya Khromeychuk told us the story of the boots she had bought for her brother, serving at the front in eastern Ukraine. This week, we're sharing her story again. Olesya's book, ' The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister', is available in print and as an audiob…

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Orbán’s biggest crisis? 39:29

8M ago39:29

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Hungary has seen its biggest anti-government protests in years over the past couple of weeks. But just how dangerous is this moment for Viktor Orbán? This week our favourite Hungarysplainer Viktória Serdült joins us to decipher the scandal that has shaken his government. We're also talking about the legalisation of gay marriage in Greece (finally!)…

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Two Parallel Polands 51:40

8M ago51:40

51:40

Poland's rightwing populists are finally out of power. But what happens now? This week, our producer Wojciech Oleksiak and Warsaw-based journalist Claudia Ciobanu join us to explain why restoring Polish democracy is easier said than done. We're also talking about Finland's elections and the EU's much-criticised migration plan. FULL EPISODE TRANSCRI…

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Toxic air and toxic politicians 43:01

8M ago43:01

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Last weekend, Parisians voted to triple parking fees for SUVs in a bid to remove some of the city's more polluting vehicles. It's just one of many policy ideas that are being tested out in European cities to clean up the air we breathe — but how bad is the problem really, and can we really fix it? This week we ring up Oliver Lord from the Clean Cit…

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Why are Europe’s farmers so angry? 34:41

8M ago34:41

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From France to Romania, Germany to Bulgaria, angry farmers have been blocking the roads. What's behind this wave of agricultural protests across the continent? This week we're getting to grips with the policies behind the food on Europe's plates with agriculture correspondent Sofía Sánchez Manzanaro. We're also dishing up some Polish recommendation…

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What actually happens to Europe’s recycling? 45:05

9M ago45:05

45:05

A lot of us are pretty diligent when it comes to throwing our plastic into the dedicated bin. But how much of that stuff actually gets recycled? This week we're digging into the truth behind Europe's trash with Nico Schmidt, reporter for Investigate Europe. We're also talking about Germany's massive anti-AfD protests, and Saudi sell-out Rafael Nada…

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What is our conscience all about? 40:30

9M ago40:30

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Dr. Jeanette welcomes Leonard Perlmutter, author of YOUR CONSCIENCE: The Key to Unlock Limitless Wisdom and Creativity and Solve All of Life's Challenges to explore what goes round in your head. What is our mind, our thoughts, and our conscience? Where is the information coming from that shows up as what we are about or what we should do? Who is th…

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Influencer fraud, liveable cities and the Israel taboo 47:23

9M ago47:23

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We’re kicking off the new year with a heady mix of urban policy, cake-based scandal and political controversy. Find out which European city ranks as the most ‘liveable’ in Good Week, and dive into the fraud case embroiling Italian mega-influencer Chiara Ferragni in Bad Week. And in this week’s interview, hear from historian Quinn Slobodian about th…

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Codependent tether lines can control our energy making us puppets! 43:25

9M ago43:25

43:25

Dr. Jeanette welcomes Mary Joye, author of Codependent Discovery and Recovery 2.0: A Holistic Approach to Healing and Freeing Yourself, to help us see what is controlling our lives or how we are controlling others. Where are we today and what is pulling our strings? Do you feel pulled to act or react in a certain way and just wish you had a differe…

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’Twas Christmas Eve In Dublin 10:11

10M ago10:11

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In the winter of 2020, deep into the misery of the global pandemic, Richy Craven lit up the internet with a tale about working at Christmas in a fancy department store in Dublin. His story went viral and we loved it so much that we asked our friend, the writer and podcaster Darach Ó Séaghdha, to read it for us. Producer Katz Laszlo added some audio…

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The Christmas Book Flood 42:02

10M ago42:02

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In Iceland, the night of December 24 is traditionally spent curled up with a book. Why? Because you're very likely to have been gifted one, given the huge array of literary offerings that get published in Iceland in the run-up for Christmas. In this festive last episode of the year, we're speaking to the writer Hildur Knútsdóttir about the Christma…

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