Biracial co-hosts Sara & Misasha - two wickedly smart, funny, compassionate best friends - have very mixed-race children between them, and are personally invested in helping to uproot systemic racism. Weekly episodes include interviews of people whose stories you might not often listen to; deep dives into history, psychology, and current events to explain why we are where we are as a country; and actions that you take right now to make change in your spheres. We're not perfect, but we're rea ...
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Join author, Ryan M. Oliver as he hosts, The "Mighty Books” Podcast, where he chats with mighty authors about their books’ message, writing successes, struggles, and other relevant authorship topics. Stay mighty! Keep reading!
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In 2017 Ashley Brooke James (a black woman) and Elizabeth Moore (a white woman) met during their yoga teacher training. The following year they joined forces to create their company: TRILUNA. In the Wellness, Community, Magic podcast they settle in, get cozy, and talk hard truths about the wellness world with the many friends they have met and made along the way. They have a pro donut, anti-racist, Glenda-the-good-witch agenda, and they are here to take on diet culture, racism, and elitism b ...
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Ant Pruitt hosts Hands-On Photography showing how to create awesome photos with your camera. Hands-On Photography will help the beginner photographer or enthusiast get the most out of their camera. Even if it's a smartphone. Ant will share tips, tricks, and also challenges to encourage creative growth in your photography. Photography is more than mere megapixels. It's about the story, the community and the fun you have creating great images. Although Hands-On Photography is no longer in prod ...
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Ant Pruitt hosts Hands-On Photography showing how to create awesome photos with your camera. Hands-On Photography will help the beginner photographer or enthusiast get the most out of their camera. Even if it's a smartphone. Ant will share tips, tricks, and also challenges to encourage creative growth in your photography. Photography is more than mere megapixels. It's about the story, the community and the fun you have creating great images. Although Hands-On Photography is no longer in prod ...
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#88 Oodles of Zoodles with Cranky Author, Steven Joseph
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Steven Joseph is a first-generation American, the son of a Holocaust survivor, a masterful attornet, seasoned negotiator, engaging speaker, award-winning author, and a long-distance runner who has completed 57 marathons, including five Boston and 19 New York City Marathons. With a sharp sense of humor that has kept him schuckling back and forth at …
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255: Representation Matters, with Mona Das
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You know how we both feel about the phrase “oh, stop being so political” for the simple reason that politics IS personal. Political choices impact most things you do on the daily, and often involve the things you care about the most for your community. That’s why, today, we wanted to speak to someone who may not look like who you think of when you …
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#87 All That Really Matters with Author, David Weill
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David Weill is the former Director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program at Stanford University Medical Center. He is currently the Principal of the Weill Consulting Group which focuses on improving the delivery of pulmonary, ICU, and transplant care. David's writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journ…
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#86 The Queen of Sarcasm, Author Susie Black, Brought Jellybeans!
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Named Best US Author of the Year by N.N. Lights Book Heaven, award-winning cozy mystery author Susie Black was born in the Big Apple but now calls sunny Southern California home. Like the protagonist in her Holly Swimsuit Mystery Series, Susie is a successful apparel sales executive. Susie began telling stories as soon as she learned to talk. Now s…
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254: How to Get Involved in the 2024 Election, with Sam Chavez
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This episode is for all of you who may think: “My vote doesn’t matter.” “I don’t vote.” “I would get involved but I don’t know how or where to volunteer.” “I don’t have any special election-related skills.” Or anything along those lines. You may have even said this out loud, or you may have heard friends or family say this. Either way, this is for …
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#85 My Youngest Author Yet! My Son, Jackson
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My 8-year-old son, Jackson, is a creative boy who loves to draw and write his own comic books. I was happy to interview him about those projects. This interview was to encourage him to keep working on what he loves to do.
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253: The Resilience Myth, with Soraya Chemaly
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What comes to your mind when you picture someone who’s resilient? Usually, we hear that it’s one person who’s faced a setback, and they remain hopeful and willing to work through the challenges to return to some sort of life they had before. Maybe you’ve heard the phrase “pick themselves up by their bootstraps” to describe this type of person. We k…
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252: Unlearning Silence, with Elaine Lin Hering
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Most of us say we’d speak up and do the right thing - that we’d not conform to horrible societal standards. We hear that, for example, when people speak about what happened during World War II in Europe. Would you have been part of the Resistance, knowing that the risk included not only social shunning but indeed death? But we also hear that so man…
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251: Susie Clark: The Bravest Girl You’ve Ever Seen (And Probably Never Knew About)
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We’re going to be sharing this episode today, which if you’re listening in real-time, is shortly after President Biden stepped aside, not accepting the Democratic nomination and instead, getting behind his VP Kamala Harris - our country’s first female VP, and first Asian and Black VP as well. Today’s episode is focused on acknowledging the contribu…
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250: Practical Optimism with Dr. Sue Varma
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So we’ve spoken inspirationally and aspirationally about wellbeing, the power of the pause, about spirituality. But what if my brain is still going, but I can’t wrap my head around this all – I need some more structure, some more tools, some more intellectual perspective!? We’ve got a book for you! And if you’ve been a longtime listener to the podc…
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In the five-plus years of the podcast, I’d say that we have spent a LOT of time on various “hot button” issues - I mean, we live quite squarely in the ones that surround race and identity, wouldn’t you say? - but one of the facets of identity that we don’t often explore is that of religion. Not because we don’t want to talk about it, but a lot of t…
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#84 Closed Campus, A Horror Story with Author, Charlie Rott
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Charlie Rott is an American author whose novels blend elements of reality with fictional narratives. Through various combinations of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy she explores themes ranging from mental health and addiction to prejudice and despotism. Rott aims to provide her readers with compelling stories and memorable characters while also taking …
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Ryan rables about words that begin wiht the letter "I" which ar relevant to writing and being an author.
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248: For All Womxn, The Rested Rebel with Kibi Anderson
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This one goes out to all the busy women in our community. Whether you’re a Type-A, a Recovering Type-A, a paid working mom or a working mom in the home - we hear it over and over again: we women are feeling stretched super thin, exhausted, and overwhelmed. Enter a radical mindset shift: the power of rest. We’re excited to bring you a conversation w…
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#83 Framed For Murder with Author, Marla White
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Marla White is an award-winning novelist who prefers killing people who annoy her on paper rather than in real life. Her first full-length myster novel, "Cause for Elimination," placed in several contests including Killer Nashville, The RONE Awards, The Reader's Favorite, and finishing second in the Orange County Romance Writers for Romantic Suspen…
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Ryan rambles about words that begin with the letter 'H' that involve the writing process, being an author, and the publishing world.
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247: A More Just Future, with Dolly Chugh
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I don’t know that there’s a better book and conversation to kick off our summer author series with than this one. We’ve said for a while now that there’s a benefit to applying a psychological, human-based lens to the social justice learning we’ve been sharing on this show for the last five years. This conversation shows us why we are spending our s…
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#82 Fire Music & WW2 Hungary with Author, Connie Connally
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Connie Connally returns to discuss her new release, "Fire Music".
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Ryan rambles about words that begin with the letter 'G' that are involved with writing, being an author, and the publishing process.
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246: Why Trump Is Bad For [Y]OUR Wellbeing, Part II
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This episode is a continuation of last week’s episode, so if you haven’t already listened to that one (it should be right above this one in your podcast feed), stop and go listen now, as it will make the most sense when listened to in order. This week we pick up where we left off, with the remaining four independent dimensions of well-being: spirit…
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#81: Investigative Reporting and Mystery Novels with Author, Mark Love
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Ryan gets a chance to sit and talk with mystery novelist, Mark Love. Mark discusses his time as an investigative reporter in Michigan, and his books that are baed off various experiences.
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Ryan rambles about words that start with the letter 'F' which are associated with writing, publishing, and being an author.
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Ryan rambles on about words that are significant to writing, being an author, or the publishing process that begin with the letter 'E'.
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245: Why Trump Is Bad For [Y]OUR Well-being, Part I
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In our last episode, we went through reasons - issue by issue (not all of them, but a lot of them) - about why our freedom and democracy are at risk if you vote for Trump and he gets elected for president again in 2024. In brief, things like his stance on immigration and making America a white-supremacist-centered nation; Ukraine and what that says…
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#80: Children's Books with Valuable Lessons to Learn with Author, Ashley Irvin
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Join Ryan and children's book author, Ashley Irvin, as they chat about her new kids book. building her publishing team, and creating interactive lessons within her books.
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Ryan Rambles on about words that begin with the letter "D" that relate with writing, being an author, and publishing books.
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Ryan Rambles about words starting with the letter 'C' that relate to being an author, writing, and the publishing of books.
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244: Why We Need to Take Trump At His Word (Don't Look Away)
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You know that person you know - the one who exaggerates everything? It’s kind of like that story of the blameless “boy who cried wolf” who lives in fantasy land and never takes responsibility for anything - and this person seemingly has not only the best life anyone could ever imagine, with loads of money, tons of friends, amazing vacations, but al…
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#79: Film Noir and Joan Crawford with Author, David Meuel
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Ryan talks with author, David Meuel, a film history author of five books! They chat about classical films, film noir, and go in depth about the great Joan Crawford herself.
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Top Shelf Book Club #6: "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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Ryan and Emily talk and rate the iconic and influential short story, "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell.
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243: High Five, Friends - Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
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This week marks the FIVE-YEAR anniversary of the Dear White Women podcast! That means we’ve outlasted almost all the other podcasts out there… like ya knew we would. From those first few episodes released altogether on April 15, 2019, to now… it’s been quite the ride. This year, in order to kick off year SIX (!!!) of the podcast, we thought we’d de…
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Ryan Rambles about words that start with the letter 'B' which relate to being an author, writing, and the publishing of books.
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Ryan Rambles about words starting with 'A' that relate closely to the author, writing, and publishing world.
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#78 Aspiring Film Maker and Author, Alex Kay
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Newly minted author, Alex Kay, talks with Ryan about film school and his debut book, "Sea of Dust".
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242: How to Have Compassionate Dialogue, with Dr. Nancy Dome
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If you know us, you may know that we LOVE a good conversation - even if it’s uncomfortable or difficult. But this year, as we head into what seems to be ONLY conversations that are uncomfortable or difficult, how do we best do that? If the idea of even talking to someone now gives you pause, then this is the episode for you. The connection quality …
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Top Shelf Book Club #5: "The Greatest Beer Run Ever" by John "Chick" Donohue and J.T. Molloy
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Ryan and Emily talk, rate, and review the book, "The Greatest Beer Run Ever".
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