Best Codi Ann Smith Podcasts (2024)

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Keywords in Play Episode 31 - Brendan Keogh 46:31

1y ago46:31

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This episode we speak with Dr Brendan Keogh, discussing his new book The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/the-videogame-industry-does-not-exist/). It is the final part of a special 6-episode Season of Keywords in Play, exploring intersections and exchang…

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Keywords in Play Episode 30 - Xavier Ho 37:35

1y ago37:35

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This episode we speak with Dr. Xavier Ho, discussing his data visualisation and design research, as well as the curation process of the thoughtful queer indie games exhibition ‘Pride at Play’ (https://prideatplay.org/). It is part 5 of a special 6-episode Season of Keywords in Play, exploring intersections and exchanges between Chinese and Australi…

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Keywords in Play Episode 29 - Stephanie Harkin 28:09

1y ago28:09

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This episode we speak with Dr. Stephanie Harkin, discussing the concept of “techno-femininity” from her award winning PhD Thesis (2022) Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity, and Coming of Age in Videogames. You can read her PhD here: https://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/file/86788440-fcec-420a-8df1-b7c35f976066/1/stephanie_harkin_thesis.pdf, follow he…

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Keywords in Play Episode 28 - Felania Liu 33:56

1y ago33:56

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This episode we speak with Dr. Felania Liu. The episode is part 3 of a special 6-episode Season of Keywords in Play, exploring intersections and exchanges between Chinese and Australian game studies scholarship. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Dr Felania …

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Keywords in Play Episode 27 - Tingting Liu 21:02

1+ y ago21:02

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This episode we speak with Dr. Tingting Liu, discussing her research as a cultural anthropologist examining digital intimacies, gender, platforms and gaming in China. It is part 2 of a special 6-episode Season of Keywords in Play, exploring intersections and exchanges between Chinese and Australian game studies scholarship. This project has been as…

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Keywords in Play Episode 26 - Gejun Huang 23:13

1+ y ago23:13

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This episode marks the beginning of a special 6-episode Season of Keywords in Play, exploring intersections and exchanges between Chinese and Australian game studies scholarship. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. This episode we speak with Dr. Gejun Huang. …

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Keywords in Play Episode 25: Florence Smith-Nicholls 30:30

2y ago30:30

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This epsiode we speak with Florence Smith-Nicholls about the paper "The Dark Souls of Archaeology: Recording Elden Ring" https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10949. Florence is a game AI PhD researcher based in London. They also work as a Story Tech, a member of the writers' room at the indie studio Die Gute Fabrik. Building on their background as an archaeo…

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Keywords in Play Episode 24: Mahli-Ann Butt, Amanda Cote, Emil Lunedal Hammar and Cody Mejeur 29:46

2y ago29:46

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This episode we are doing something a little bit different - interviewing a group of scholars about their Call for Papers on "The Post-Gamer Turn", which can be found here: https://postgamerturn.wordpress.com/ . Abstract submissions of 500-800 words are due on November 30th 2022. We discuss with Mahli-Ann Butt, Amanda Cote, Emil Lunedal Hammar and …

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Keywords in Play Ep. 23: Everest Pipkin 42:38

2y ago42:38

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Everest Pipkin is a writer, game developer and software artist from Central Texas whose work follows themes of ecology, information theory, and system collapse. As an artist and as a theorist, they fundamentally believe in the liberatory capacity of care; care not as an abstract emotion but rather as a powerful force that motivates collective work …

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Keywords in Play Ep. 22: Alesha Serada 30:59

2y ago30:59

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Alesha Serada is a PhD student and a researcher at the University of Vaasa, Finland. Their dissertation, supported by the Nissi Foundation, discusses construction of value in games and art on blockchain. Inspired by their Belarusian origin, their research interests revolve around exploitation, violence, horror, deception and other banal and non-ban…

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Keywords in Play Ep. 21: Gregory Whistance-Smith 34:06

2+ y ago34:06

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In this episode we talk with Gregory Whistance-Smith, an independent scholar based in Edmonton, Canada. The discussion focuses on the book "Expressive Space: Embodying Meaning in Video Game Environments" https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110723731/html?lang=en Video game spaces have vastly expanded the built environment, offering n…

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Keywords in Play Episode 20 - Jaroslav Švelch 25:24

2+ y ago25:24

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Jaroslav Švelch is an assistant professor at Charles University, Prague. He is the author of the recent monograph Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games (MIT Press, 2018). He has published work on history and theory of computer games, on humor in games and social media, a…

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Keywords in Play Episode 19 - Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans - Paratexts 34:15

2+ y ago34:15

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In this episode we speak with Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans on paratexts and their forthcoming collaboration "Not in the Game: History, Paratext and Games", soon to be published with De Gruyter. Regina Seiwald is highly interested in the relationship between literary theory and narratology across the languages. Her focus thereby lies with the Anglo…

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Keywords in Play Episode 18 - Esther Wright on Rockstar and History 39:11

2+ y ago39:11

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Esther Wright is Lecturer in Digital History at Cardiff University. Her work is situated within the field of Historical Game Studies, critically examining how digital representations of the past found in popular visual media have the potential to shape public understandings of history. Her PhD, awarded by the University of Warwick in August 2019, i…

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Keywords in Play Episode 17 - April Tyack on Ordinary Player Experience 20:59

2+ y ago20:59

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April Tyack is a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University and vice-president of DiGRA Australia. April researches player experience and how games facilitate different types of experiences. In this episode, April discusses the paper Off-Peak: An Examination of Ordinary Player Experience (2021), published with Elisa D. Mekler. The paper critiques …

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Keywords in Play Episode 16 - Felan Parker on Cutural Intermediaries 33:03

3y ago33:03

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This episode we speak with Felan Parker about his work on cultural intermediaries and indie games. Felan is Assistant Professor of Book & Media Studies at St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, and a scholar of media industries and cultures specializing in games, digital media, and film. His ongoing research, supported from 2016-2019 b…

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Keywords in Play Episode 15 - Leon Xiao 26:38

3y ago26:38

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This episode we speak with Leon Xiao about the paper "What are the odds? Lower compliance with Western loot box probability disclosure industry self-regulation than Chinese legal regulation", co-authored with Laura Henderson and Philip Newall. This empirical study of loot boxes and probability disclosure is (as of this interview) a preprint and hen…

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Keywords in Play Episode 14 - Adrienne Shaw 29:47

3y ago29:47

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This episode we speak with Adrienne Shaw about the paper "Encoding and decoding affordances: Stuart Hall and interactive media technologies". This paper brings Stuart Hall's concepts of encoding and decoding into proximity with ideas of affordance and technology. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0163443717692741 Adrienne Shaw is an Asso…

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Episode 13 - Alenda Y. Chang 29:09

3+ y ago29:09

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This episode we speak with Alenda Y. Chang about games, ecology, literature, and environmental relations. Alenda is an Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. With a multidisciplinary background in biology, literature, and film, she specializes in merging ecocritical theory with the analysis of contemporary media. Her wri…

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Keywords in Play Episode 12 - Aaron Trammell 35:31

3+ y ago35:31

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This episode we talk with Aaron Trammell about challenging canonical thinkers, race, torture and TTRPGs, with special reference to his open-access piece "Torture, Play and the Black Experience" https://www.gamejournal.it/torture-play/. Aaron is Assistant Professor of Informatics and Core Faculty in Visual Studies at UC Irvine. He writes about how D…

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Keywords in Play Episode 11 - Victor Navarro-Remesal and Thiago Falcão 34:56

3+ y ago34:56

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Víctor Navarro-Remesal is a media scholar specialized in games. He teaches History of Videogames and Interactive Narrative at Tecnocampus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Game Design at UOC. He’s the author of ‘Libertad dirigida: Una gramática del análisis y diseño de videojuegos’ (Shangrila, 2016) and ‘Cine Ludens: 50 diálogos entre el juego y el ci…

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Keywords in Play Episode 10 - Thi Nguyen 27:49

3+ y ago27:49

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C. Thi Nguyen is a former food writer, now a philosophy professor at University of Utah. He writes about trust, art, games, and communities, and is interested in the ways that our social structures and technologies shape how we think and what we value. His first book is Games: Agency as Art. It’s about how games are the art form that work in the me…

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#116 Master the energy of these 9 areas of your life. (With bonus assessment) 24:18

3+ y ago24:18

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When we are out of balance in one area of life it throws off the balance of every other area as well. This can lead to feelings of sadness, frustration, and overall dissatisfaction with our lives. When you feel like something is “missing” in life, that is your intuition speaking to you, asking you to take inventory of all areas of life. Where are y…

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#115 Need help relaxing? Stimulate your vagus nerve. 24:25

3+ y ago24:25

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Part of living an extraordinary life comes from learning how to relax. When we’re in stress, it throws our lives and energy out of balance. The good news is that there is this little secret that many people are unaware of called the vagus nerve stimulation. The vagus nerve is connected to many different organs in your body, it’s also responsible fo…

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#114 Recognizing New Age + Religious Deception 18:55

3+ y ago18:55

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I keep seeing this topic pop up in my newsfeed so I thought I’d share my views on it. The thing is...deception is all around us. It’s in New Age Manifestation, it’s also in religion. Anytime that you are tricked into thinking that you have to give your power to something “out there”, you have been fooled. THE DIVINE LIVES WITHIN. That’s where it’s …

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#113 Slowing down to speed up your manifestations. 18:02

3+ y ago18:02

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Perhaps the greatest paradox in the world of co-creation is that in order to receive something faster, we must learn how to slow down first. When we can’t slow down our energy becomes “frantic” and that’s when we end up manifesting haphazardly; either things show up at a very slow pace or we manifest something that we didn’t quite want. Either way,…

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#112 This is why new years resolutions never work + what to do instead 19:37

4y ago19:37

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New year's resolutions are false promises (most of the time). I know because I used to tell myself that I was going to change my life every new year and then it only stuck for a tiny bit. The problem is, New Year's Resolutions are far too surface level for real change. It takes depth to experience a new life and it requires you to take a long hard …

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#111 Conscious Parenting Amidst Covid. 24:50

4y ago24:50

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This year has been quite a challenge for many people, no doubt about it...and especially for the youth. Many children have had remote learning, forced to wear masks at school, stay 6 feet away from their friends, and have even been told that socialization is not for school but for social media. Kids are more isolated than ever before, receiving mos…

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#110 How to work with your dharma to release suffering and enjoy life’s gifts. 21:01

4y ago21:01

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If overcoming a 15-year addiction taught me anything it was that if we resist our dharma it will create suffering and perpetuate a life cyle that’s anything but enjoyable. So often we are running from the very things that will help us become free. When we incarnarted into this life, we made soul contracted agreements that we would learn and experie…

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#109 Q&A "Codi, how do you stay positive all the time?" 19:03

4y ago19:03

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The other day someone asked me how is it that I am always so positive. First, I am not ALWAYS positive, this is humanly impossible. But what I can say is that I know I get to determine the way I want to perceive the world around me. My attitude is my responsibility only and part of becoming a sovereign being requires me to embody this truth. There’…

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Keywords in Play Episode 9: Sonia Fizek 20:47

4y ago20:47

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This episode's guest is Sonia Fizek, to discuss a forthcoming book on 'delegated' and 'interpassive' play. Sonia is a digital wanderer and a ludic thinker. On a more formal note, a professor at Cologne Game Lab in media and game studies and a co-editor in chief of the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds. Previously a lecturer at Abertay University…

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#108 Propaganda proof your life, find your truth and write your own narrative. 17:12

4y ago17:12

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Your higher purpose lies within your truth. But lately many have reported that they don’t even know what to believe anymore. There’s been some confusion on what truth really is… Truth is a knowing. Whereas a belief comes from a conclusion that was made from a world view or perception. Beliefs can be tainted while truth cannot. As you can tell, ther…

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#107 The Connection Between Your Emotions & Habits. 18:29

4y ago18:29

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This week's episode came from a question that was asked on Facebook (thank you by the way) ;) So how do our emotions affect our habits and how do we “detach” from the emotion that is driving these habits in the first place? We first need to understand what emotions are behind the habits so that we know what to look for. When we can change our respo…

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#106 We are in spiritual warfare...so how do we transmute this darkness? 18:34

4y ago18:34

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For the eyes who can see and for the ears who can hear...there is a very important message in this episode for you. I am well aware that not everyone will agree with what I have to say here. That’s okay. I am not here to appeal to everyone. What I am sharing here is what I perceive to be happening right before our very eyes. We are in the middle of…

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#105 How to find your voice so you can be of service (with practical tips) 18:39

4y ago18:39

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Finding your voice could be one of the most important things you can right now. More than ever before people are searching for like-minded people (aka their soul family, YOU!). Not being able to properly communicate what you stand for, who you are, and what you’re about will only delay the process. That pressure you feel to get your message out to …

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Keywords in Play Episode 8 - Lindsay Grace 37:14

4y ago37:14

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This episode we speak with Lindsay Grace about love and affection in games. Lindsay is Knight Chair in Interactive Media and an associate professor at the University of Miami School of Communication. He is Vice President for the Higher Education Video Game Alliance and the 2019 recipient of the Games for Change Vanguard award. Lindsay's book, Doing…

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#104 The importance of your sovereign quantum mind in creating the New Earth. 20:13

4y ago20:13

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The dark forces want to harness the power of your mind by keeping you distracted. There's been a real battle for your focused attention (have you noticed?). The ancients knew about the power of the mind, while we are just waking up to this. This information isn't new, but it has been hidden. The more distracted you are (loss of sovereignty) the mor…

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#103 This is the number 1 skill you'll need for the rest of 2020 17:59

4y ago17:59

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This madness isn't going to be over for a while. In fact, it's likely going to increase as time goes on. I say this out of honesty not out of fear. That's exactly why we must continue to develop ourselves and use these challenges to raise our consciousness and heal our hearts. Moving forward you will need to add another important skill to your tool…

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#102 This is how Covid is the greatest gift to humanity... 21:12

4y ago21:12

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Whew. I got a little passionate in this one but the message is clear. Covid is one of the greatest gifts to humanity. Sure there have been some challenging times, sure we continue to be pushed to our limits at times. But there have been so many incredible connections made that were non-existent until now. I am watching people bind together to stand…

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#101 How to open your heart to lead a prosperous life. 24:16

4y ago24:16

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Prosperity always follows an open heart... In life, we all want some very basic things. We want to feel like we are truly LIVING our lives and feeling FULFILLED in doing so. We want to experience love, connection, freedom, and celebration. Yet sometimes, we equally can feel as though it’s not possible. Usually, this feeling is very unconscious. We …

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Keywords in Play Episode 7 - Malath Abbas 29:17

4y ago29:17

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This episode we speak with Mal Abbas, an independent game designer, artist and producer working on experimental and meaningful games. Malath established Scotland's first game collective and co-working space Biome Collective, a diverse, inclusive melting pot of technology, art and culture for people who want to create, collaborate and explore games,…

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#100 Comfortably uncomfortable...breaking through the barriers of self sabotage. 19:20

4y ago19:20

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Do you KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that there's more for you in this lifetime? Maybe it's more love, freedom, connection, purpose, etc. Despite the fact that you'd like to experience more of this it's almost as if some invisible glass barrier is preventing you from doing so. Well, my friend, you are not alone. Welcome to the world of comfortab…

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#99 The morning routine you didn't know you needed. ;) 17:17

4y ago17:17

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Be honest...how committed have you been to your morning routine? Do you have one? I personally have found my morning routine to be one of the most important aspects to my spiritual hygiene and if I miss a day, I definitely notice a difference! When you spend your time fueling your soul and setting your intentions for the day through your mindset an…

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#98 My biggest lessons of 2020 19:25

4y ago19:25

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What has 2020 taught you so far? How have you been handling the start of the greatest awakening of the globe? There have definitely been some ups and downs but one thing’s for sure...2020 has opened up our eyes both figuratively and literally which means there’s been a lot of lessons! In today’s episode, I would like to share a few lessons that wer…

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#97 Will your initiation into your higher calling be your breakdown or breakthrough? 20:20

4y ago20:20

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Which one will it be for you? Life is full of initiations and most of the time they feel challenging but they offer us the keys to step into a new identity. In order to have a breakthrough, you will be required to step into a new version of yourself that’s the whole point. Sometimes they are subtle shifts and other times they are very radical but t…

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#96 What does it really take to heal the soul? Find out in this episode! 21:41

4y ago21:41

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Not many people talk about or understand what it takes to heal the soul. Soul wounds cannot be placed in a box, they are more than mindset wounds, and eating a healthy diet isn’t going to do it either. SOUL healing is a holistic form of healing that pinpoints our deepest wounding patterns. Some of these patterns are individual but sometimes they ar…

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Keywords in Play Episode 6:Jamie Woodcock 23:22

4y ago23:22

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This episode we speak with Dr Jamie Woodcock. Jamie is a researcher based in London. He is the author of The Gig Economy (Polity, 2019), Marx at the Arcade (Haymarket, 2019), and Working The Phones (Pluto, 2017). His research is inspired by the workers' inquiry. His research focuses on labour, work, the gig economy, platforms, resistance, organisin…

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#95 Have you ever felt like giving up on your vision or dreams? Listen to this. :) 20:20

4y ago20:20

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Feeling burnt out on what was once your passion or dream? Wondering if you should focus your attention and energy one something else but afraid to allow yourself to take that leap? Sometimes this feeling comes from your inner guidance telling you that it’s time for a total change of direction. Other times it could mean that you just simply need to …

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#94 "Who do you think you are"?... The voice of imposter syndrome 20:30

4y ago20:30

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How many times have you done something incredible only to tell yourself that it was a fluke, not the “real you” or that it was luck? Or worse yet, have you ever told yourself that you can’t do something your passionate about because you don’t feel “good enough” yet? Imposter syndrome is something most of us go through at one point or another. Hell,…

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#93 Let's get personal, health + Life 30:40

4y ago30:40

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Hello, soul fam! For those of you who have followed me for a while, you know I’ve had a lot of healing to do after answering my calling back in 2016. My health was a mess! I had severe adrenal fatigue (even more severe than I thought) as well as a whole host of other health ailments that I had to heal through. Well, I thought it would be fun to tak…

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