Best Sharon Hurley Hall Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 32 Featuring: Sharon Hurley-Hall - An International Weirdo 38:55

2+ y ago38:55

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Sharon was born in England to parents who were from Trinidad and Barbados. She grew up in the Caribbeans where the majority of the people looked like her but were still treated as lesser. She has traveled to and lived in Europe where she initially worked in, and later taught journalism. Currently, she lives in Barbados and is an activist in the fie…

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Episode 31 Featuring: Simone Angel - From Show Biz to Jungle 40:02

2+ y ago40:02

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Simone was born in The Netherlands and brought up by a single mother. As a child, she had a dream to be in show biz that she never gave up on. As a teenager, she would take a ferry from Holland to England and work to become a singer. One thing led to another and she became the youngest VJ in MTV's history. At the peak of her showbiz career, she gav…

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Episode 30 Featuring: Mitchell Allen - The Geeky Geek 46:45

2+ y ago46:45

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Mitchell was influenced by his dad, who created a game of his own when Mitchell was young. He grew up playing board games and solving puzzles and enjoyed the challenge. His dad's creative influence led him to experiment with playing games as an only child in the house. Mitchell also had a hearing impediment which made life interesting and challengi…

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Episode 29 Featuring: Nicki Ojeda - Excavating the Unconscious 41:19

2+ y ago41:19

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Nicki, aka Tatiara, was introduced to what may be termed as "New Age woo woo" at a very early age. She was reading Carl Jung and mystical psychology when she was just ten years old. At 15, she started working at, what she called, a "witchy herb shop" and felt right at home. She became an apprentice in Tarot & energetic readings and essential oils. …

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Episode 28 Featuring: Aaron Whitfield - Spotting Greatness in Children 39:47

2+ y ago39:47

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Aaron Whitfield is an educator a t a major university where he is developing a curriculum to help students focus on their potential. He is also a creator in the field of music and fashion. By bridging the cultural and social gap between children from various backgrounds, he believes we can unleash the potential greatness in the leaders of tomorrow.…

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Episode 27 Featuring: Nicole Lomangino - Born to be a Weirdo 44:48

2+ y ago44:48

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Nicole claims that she was born a weirdo. While in elementary school she was asking herself, "How do I get out of this place?" At seventeen she had her chance as an exchange student and moved from New York to San Palo, Brazil. She met the indigenous people of the Lower Amazon valley and was immersed in art and spirituality. Upon returning to the St…

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Episode 26 Featuring: David Chametzky - also known as Uncle Dave 26:51

2+ y ago26:51

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Uncle Dave was born in San Antonio, Texas, and before he could say "howdy y'all" his parents moved to Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in Brooklyn in typical New York way loving baseball and all things Brooklyn. he has a podcast called Peace, Love, and Bring a Bat, but it's not about violence. It's about taking a stand. You can find Uncle Dave on soc…

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Episode 25 Featuring: Holly Jahangiri - A High School drop out with a Law Degree 42:15

2+ y ago42:15

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Holly Jahangiri took a couple of college courses during the summer when she was 12. At 15, she dropped out of High School to pursue college full-time. She went on to get a Doctorate degree in Law but never pursued it professionally because she was already earning more as a technical writer than she would have as an entry-level attorney. She is pass…

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Episode 24 Featuring: Alvin-San Whaley - A Jersey kid of Sixties and Seventies 44:51

2+ y ago44:51

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"Anything that a highly intelligent, free, nutty, skinny Brown kid in Jersey in the Sixties and Seventies can run into, we ran into; both the good and the bad." That's how he describes his childhood. Alvin is a multi-faceted, intelligent, and deep thinker. He ponders the realities of life with an innate curiosity of a child and a somber responsibil…

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Episode 23 Featuring: Chris Sommer - Rescued by a dog 35:02

2+ y ago35:02

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She was born to multi-ethnic parents and as a child lived in a region that was foreign to her and both her parents. This was fertile grounds for being an outcast and becoming reclusive. Upon graduating from college she had no idea of what to do with her life, but Life knew what to do with her. A dog that she thought she was saving ended up saving h…

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Episode 22 Featuring: Javier Florez - Bouncing Between Culttures 29:06

2+ y ago29:06

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Moving around between South and North America, and from one coast to the other, Javier developed an interest in diverse people and cultures, the perfect breeding ground for weirdos.He sees his attraction to architecture and coaching as the same thing; they are different aspects of creativity.Based in Houston, Texas, Javier is a professional speaker…

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Episode 21 Featuring: Tammy Remington - Enraptured by the Big Apple 40:01

2+ y ago40:01

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Growing up in Western New York, and then in rural Ohio, Tammy had this weird and crazy idea to move to New York City, so she did. But there is more to the story that involves drugs and alcohol, detox and rehab, being an artist, and becoming an author. Tammy's Writings Tammy's email --------------------------------------------- Support the podcast, …

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Episode 20 Featuring: Kellan Flukiger - Meeting God at the Door 1:01:40

2+ y ago1:01:40

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If you Google Kellan Fluckiger - provided you spell the name correctly, K-E-L-L-A-N (SPACE) f--L-U-C-K-I-G-E-R - You'll get thousands of hits about my guest, and a few about his son. No one else will show up. That's the power of having a weird name. lol He was a very successful executive in the corporate world who was fighting depression and was ad…

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Episode 19 Featuring: Stacie Odeneal - Mama Pirate 53:33

2+ y ago53:33

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Stacie Odeneal began her life as a weirdo in 1979 and continued as a respected but amateur weirdo for thirty years. She turned pro weirdo in 2012 when she was gifted #cosmicsprinkles, a practice of acknowledging the pile of universal reassurances that we are exactly who we need to be, and exactly are where we need to be, no matter where we are goin…

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Episode 18 Featuring: Thaddeus Lavalais - Looks Good on Paper 38:47

2+ y ago38:47

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I met Thaddeus at an event we were working at. When I told him about my podcast, he said that's my kind of podcast. I knew I had found a perfect guest for my show. He is an artist, a graphic designer, and an art teacher who is trying to do art full time. Growing up, he had Darren Stevens from the TV show Bewitched as his role model. He wanted to gr…

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Episode 17 Featuring: Nora Dunn - The Professional Hobo 37:00

2+ y ago37:00

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She calls herself a professional hobo, a successful financial planning professional turned perpetual world traveler. In 2006 Nora sold her successful business to answer the calling of her Inner Weirdo. For the next 12 years, she traveled the world with the wind till the pandemic had her stuck in her hometown of Toronto. She still managed six months…

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Episode 16 Featuring: Tamesia Garner - Leadership is Weird 31:35

2+ y ago31:35

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Tamesia (Tammy) Garner has lived a tough life. She lost her mother when she was just a baby, and then lost all three of her brothers as an adult. It taught her a lot of valuable lessons and made her who she is today. The only one of the siblings to go to college and earn an undergraduate degree. Then at age 40, prepared to go to Law School, but end…

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Episode 15 Featuring: Elly Hard - Succeeding by Mistakes 41:11

2+ y ago41:11

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She always dreamed of getting away as far as she could as a child, then, in her 30s, she was "invited" to the USA by her father who had settled here sometime earlier. Arriving in a new country, not knowing the language or the culture - something I can relate to - Elly managed to create a successful life for herself while raising her small daughter.…

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Episode 14 Featuring: Eddie Merla - A life of Synchronicity 37:41

2+ y ago37:41

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Eddie Merla received a scholarship to attend, what he jokingly calls, a place called Harvard. His dad had never heard of it and felt that it was too far from San Antonio, where they lived. So he ended up attending Texas A&M University. A natural introvert, he learned to operate in the extrovert-focused world through Public Speaking, which turned ou…

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Episode 13 Featuring: Mitch Mitchell - Being all over the Place 40:03

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As a child, he lived a nomadic life. His dad was in the military, and they moved every so often, so he was physically all over the place. As an adult, he developed many interests and now writes and talks about them. So he is intellectually all over the place. My guest Mitch Mitchell talks about what makes him weird, everything from his phobia of bu…

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Episode 12: Featuring Julia Hubbel - Defying the Expectations of Old Age 34:03

2+ y ago34:03

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To celebrate my 60th birthday, I climbed Guadalupe Peak, the highest in the State of Texas, just under nine thousand feet.To celebrate her 60th birthday, my guest climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest on the continent of Africa, over 20 thousand feet.To say that she defies the expectations of old age is an understatement. Since turning 60, she has…

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Episode 11 Featuring: Michael Davis - Doing what very few people have done 30:56

2+ y ago30:56

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Imagine driving an actual Indy 500 Racecar on the Indy 500 track. My guest Michael Davis has done it among many other things. He coaches the brave souls that have the courage to stand on the Red Dot and deliver a TED Talk. He is an author, a speaker, and an entrepreneur. Born to a French mother and a German father, he can't stand himself. Listen as…

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Episode 10: Featuring Kristena Hackett - Growing up smart in the 'Hood 30:23

3y ago30:23

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Imagine growing up in the 'Hood as the smartest kid in the class. That is what my guest Kristena Hackett was faced with growing up. She learned to stand up for herself, tried to blend in while holding up the high standards of excellence expected from her mother. Finally, in her early thirties, she began to discover and embrace her inner weirdo. She…

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Episode 9 Featuring Deepak Morris - Life of An Artistic Misfit 34:30

3y ago34:30

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Life is Weird. You never know where it will take you.I "met" Deepak Morris in the early 2000s on a website called Ryze. It was a great social media website. Too bad Adrian, the founder, didn't have Zuck's finances. It was a much better platform.Along with many of the other 'Ryzers', a lot of us reconnected on Facebook.Deepak, while living in India,…

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Episode 8 Featuring: Akili Atkinson - Autism and Neuro Diversity 39:00

3y ago39:00

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Akili Atkinson was born black and was adopted by a white couple, or rather, a white mother, as she puts it. AS such she had a unique or weird upbringing. Skin color was not the only difference, she stood tall over the rest of her family.Her mother made sure that she got the upbringing she deserved by taking on the society that said you can't do tha…

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Episode 7 Featuring: Roamin Rich - On a Mission to Save Route 66 History 33:27

3y ago33:27

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Are you familiar with Route 66? Have you ever traveled Route 66?I walked the entire distance on Route 66 from Chicago to LA as it was mentioned in the introduction.My guest today is a well know celebrity in the Route 66 community. He is known as Roamin' Rich because he is always roaming up and down Route 66. You might say he has dedicated his life …

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Episode 6 Featuring: Kandas Rodarte - Conquering Breast Cancer 24:32

3y ago24:32

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Can you imagine growing up in the 1970s as an Asian kid? and as a girl, no worse?My guest on this episode did just that and credits her ancestors for giving her the gumption to do so. That's weird if you ask me.Well, this is a podcast with an attitude about embracing your inner weirdo, so she is a perfect guest. Kandas Rodarte is an entrepreneur an…

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Episode 5 Featuring Charles "Funn" McCool - Having "Funn" While Traveling Full-time 32:56

3y ago32:56

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If money wasn't an issue, how would you spend your time?I recently posted that question on Facebook. A vast majority of responses included travel in some form.My guest on this episode is a travel aficionado of sorts. He has been a traveler most of his life and has made a living in the travel industry. Yet, he is not your regular travel consultant. …

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Episode 4 Featuring Afzal Huda - The Unapologetic Traveler 32:32

3y ago32:32

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Imagine! You are born in Canada, and when you are 3 years old, your parents decided to go back to their home country of Pakistan. You grow up there and return to Canada as a teenager.You find yourself in a strange predicament. You find that you neither fit in among the brown or white people, and you strive to maintain you own identity.That is the s…

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Episode 3 Featuring Darren Lacroix - 17 Minutes to Your Dream 32:33

3y ago32:33

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What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?That question by Motivational Guru Brian Tracy changed Darren's life when he answered, "I'd be a comedian"What would you do if you wanted to be a comedian?You'd go talk to a comedian and learn what it takes to be one. That's exactly what Darren did and he shares what he learned along the wa…

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Episode 2 Featuring Chris Guillebeau - The Art of Non-conformity 30:01

3y ago30:01

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Do you want to dominate the world? World Domination SummitOr do you just want to earn a little side income? Side Hustle SchoolOr maybe you want to live a life of nonconformity? The Art of Non-ConformityWhatever the question, the answer is Chris Guillebeau, the man behind the blog, the podcast, and the event. I had a little chat with the Weird Geniu…

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Episode 1 Featuring Barbara Winter - Making a Living Without a Job 41:01

3y ago41:01

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What if you never have to look for a job again? What if you could be Joyfully Jobless? Good news! You can. Barbara Winter has been teaching How to Make a Living Without a Job for more than three decades and wrote the book about it. Her website JoyfullyJobless.com is a treasure trove of resources for entrepreneurs, or what she refers to as Self-Boss…

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An Introduction 6:12

3y ago6:12

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Who the heck is MisterWeirdo, and why the blipity bleep does he call himself that? He has got to be a weirdo. Duh... Find out how the name came about and why he is sticking to it, and what the podcast is all about. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rasheed-hooda/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spot…

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Writer marketing in 1 hour per week - BoW#6 7:59

6y ago7:59

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How long do you spend on marketing your writing biz? In this episode, Sharon Hurley Hall shows how you can get great results with just an hour a week.