The podcast where I talk to guests about the moments in their lives that moved them forward. The moments where they stepped through the Evolving Door.
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E42 Body Builder to Holistic Healer with Sheian aka Lazo Freeman
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At four year’s old, young Sheain escaped the regime of Saddam Hussein with his family, travelling on a donkey whilst under attack in a war zone. Settling in Britain, Sheain changed his name to Lazo, and went on to become an award winning body builder and transformational coach for the highly driven, rich and famous. Lazo has spent a large part of h…
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E41 Creating Your Life By Design with Daniel Hill
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Daniel Hill is a hugely successful property developer and investor with an 8 figure portfolio, ready to retire at 35 years old. He is also the best selling author of Karma Credits, The Universal Law of Wealth, Health and Happiness as well as the host of the Blueprint podcast and proponent of creating your ‘life by design.’ A hugely driven and talen…
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E40 Celebrate More Than Winning - Thought For The Day 4
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These short thoughts for the day are shared with you in the spirit of our shared evolution and learning. Hope they spark some insights or contemplation.
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E39 Don't Let Society Decide Your Worth - Thought For The Day 3
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These short thoughts for the day are shared with you in the spirit of our shared evolution and learning. Hope they spark some insights or contemplation. Warning: Sexual slur word reference
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E38 Become Someone You Can Love - Thought For The Day 2
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These short thoughts for the day are shared with you in the spirit of our shared evolution and learning. Hope they spark some insights or contemplation.
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E37 Not Needing To Know - Thought For The Day 1
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These short thoughts for the day are shared with you in the spirit of our shared evolution and learning. Hope they spark some insights or contemplation.
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E36 Why I Needed to Be Rich and Hard with David Thomson
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The incredibly successful, wise and brave entrepreneur David Thomson, founder of Suada, speaks candidly about the reasons behind his drive to be "rich and hard." This is an especially useful discussion, packed with lots of practical advice on life, learning, business and sales, which is David's main area of expertise. We discuss David's upbringing …
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E35 Peeling Back the Layers of Identity with Shamita Kumar
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Growing up in London during the eighties, with hardworking, busy but loving parents, Shamita learnt stories from both her grandmothers about her family's magical, adventurous past yet she was always told - be good, don't rock the boat, do well. Her curious, inqusitive nature led her to be confused by these messages. Internally conflicted, she went …
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E34 How Ayahuasca Changed My Life with Ansuya Devi
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A deeply personal and profound conversation detailing the journey of Ansuya Devi, attorney, holistic coach and founder of Modern Ancients Sanctuary. From humble beginnings in Hackney, growing up in a large Hindu family of Mauritian Indian immigrants, Ansuya and her siblings desperately strived for balance between Eastern and Western cultures. Her m…
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E33 Eclective Selectives 4 - Stability & Inspiration / Ungrateful Change-makers / Why Entertaining Rejecting Your Faith May Be a Good Thing
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Welcome back to the Evolving Door podcast, this episode is solo episode number 4 where I share 3 things I have been thinking about recently. 1: Stability and inspiration The best thing I can do for my family is provide stability and inspiration. So first I need stability and inspiration in my own life. 2. Ungrateful change-makers Change-makers in t…
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E32 Leaving Home at 7 To Escape The Taliban with Wali Khan
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This week's guest Wali Khan had to leave home at 7 years old to escape the Taliban. He relocated to the UK with his mum and brother. A few years later he found himself at a hospital in Birmingham meeting two boys his age from back home in Swat Valley, Pakistan. Their sister Malala had been shot in the head by the Taliban and was being treated at th…
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E31 Eclective Selectives 3 - Declarative Language / Autistic Spiderman / Suzanne
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This week's Eclective Selectives solo episode explores three topics from the last few weeks. The first is about Declarative Language The second is about Autistic Spiderman The third is about my friend Suzanne who recently passed away Hope you like it.
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E30 Finally Having The Courage To Explore Outside The Lines with Hetal Baman
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Welcome back to the Evolving Door podcast everybody this the podcast for ambitious thoughtful people who want to succeed internally just as much as they do out in the world. I have a very exciting guest for you today, Hetal Baman, she's a social impact podcaster she has a podcast called Global Health pursuit. She's an engineer by background, grew u…
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E29 Eclective Selectives 2 - Design Or Chance / Dignity / Poison
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This week's Eclective Selectives episode explores three topics that came to me when away on holiday this August. The first is about Design or Chance The second is about Respect and Dignity The third is about Not Letting Beautiful Things Turn To Poison Hope you like it.
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E28 Our Boys Will Be What We Teach Them To Be with Ben Hurst
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Positive News described this week's guest Ben Hurst as a youth leader helping to rewrite the script of masculinity. I met him after his TEDxLondonWomen talk where he said 'Boys won't be boys, boys will be what we teach them to be.' He is an activist, advocate, public speaker, facilitator, model, and podcaster who is helping men and boys navigate th…
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E27 Eclective Selectives Solo Episode 1 - Weeds / Trans / Property
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This is my first solo episode where I talk about 3 random things that have struck me in the last few weeks sharing some thoughts and reflections from my perspective. There is a follow on link from the last episode with Glen Hansard as he inspired the section on weeds with something he said to me a while back. I am planning to do more of these if yo…
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E26 Allowing Magic Into Your Life with Glen Hansard
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I was at Glen Hansard's band The Frames first gig at the Clifton Country Blues Festival in the west of Ireland in 1990. Shortly afterwards we became friends and it has been a wonder to witness the incredible adventure he has been on since, always with music and poetry and an eagerness to better understand himself and life at the heart of it. From h…
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E25 Find What You Love and Learn Through It with Daniel Alexander
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Daniel Alexander is a former youth worker, award winning film maker, a great champion of young people and a proud dad to twin girls. The trailer for his latest film, a horror adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, has been shared millions of times by fans worldwide as they get excited about the release of the short film with a feature film planned thereaf…
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E24 The Story That Will Change Your Life Is The One You Share with Mark Leruste
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Mark Leruste is a former 7-figure award-winning fundraiser turned best-selling author of Glow in the Dark He’s a proud dyslexic thinker and founder of The Unconventionalists podcast and is on a mission to help one million entrepreneurs and leaders impact the world with their story. His TEDx talk was listed as the #1 TED Talk every entrepreneur shou…
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E23 From Monk to Moviemaker with Ravinol Chambers for the OSBD podcast
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One Small Barking Dog (OSBD) linked up with multi-award-winning producer/director Ravinol Chambers from Be Inspired Films to talk about his remarkable journey from monk to filmmaker and some essentials of what he has learned along the way. This OSBD 'In The Frame' podcast is in collaboration with Be Inspired Films and Ravs' amazing Evolving Door po…
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E22 What To Do When You Are Attracted To All Of It with Samantha Moyo
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Samantha Moyo gave me a big warm hug at TEDxEastend in 2013, she had just recently sold Morning Gloryville, a sober raving movement that had grown massively over the previous year or so. I was delighted to sit down with her for this interview ten years on to discuss her life pre and post-Morning Gloryville. She was born and grew up in Zimbabwe and …
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E21 Navigating Autism, Work & Relationships with Ash Connaughton
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In the last few years, we have been learning about neuro - divergence including Autism and ADHD in our own family. I knew of Ash as an up-and-coming film maker in the Midlands and saw him post that he was neuro-divergent and that he was into Airsoft and thought I would love to interview him to learn more about his experience growing up with Autism.…
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E20 Chasing Your Hearts Calling with Raghunath Yogi
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I am very excited to share the latest episode of the Evolving Door podcast. This is a very special guest and the very first interview I recorded for the podcast, please welcome Raghunath Yogi. Raghunath is a bundle of love, of fierce wit, of hurricane-level energy and of piercing passion for personal growth, individual authenticity and spiritual pr…
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E19 How Delightful Storytelling Can Disrupt the Status Quo with Jonah Sachs
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I loved talking to Jonah Sachs. He is an author, speaker and viral marketing pioneer. His new approaches to digital media have been critical in bringing the ideals of social change — such as equity, empowerment, responsibility and transparency — to the forefront of business and popular culture. He had over 60 million views on his videos even before…
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E18 Learning To Live Authentically And Be Your Own Person with Madi Brinkmann
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This is one of my favourite episodes. Although Madi and I had a very different start in life, we both spent many years completely absorbed in the culture, philosophy, and community of the Hare Krishna movement. We also both shared similar experiences in later life that helped us make sense of our experiences and broaden our minds on many issues. At…
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E17 Growth Is Always Painful But Then Also So Beautiful with Shikha Uberoi
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Shikha Uberoi is an amazing person. She excelled at professional tennis (top 100 in the world, No.1 in India), went into TV and then Tech, and has done it all with such a great sense of purpose. She is one of five sisters and her parents (especially her father) gave them tremendous self-belief that they really could do anything, and that there was …
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E16 The Importance of Humour on the Spiritual Path with Namarasa Das
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Namarasa Das's parents became Hare Krishna when he was one year old. His dad got really into it and his mum was very unsure, especially since she saw it as a threat to stable family life. He grew up part of a spiritual community on weekends and a typical American high school kid Monday to Friday. He started to have doubts about his faith and needed…
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E15 Who Do We Let Win - The Monsters Or The Angels? with Jacquline Novogratz
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I so loved talking with Jacquline, it filled me with inspiration and hope and brought a few tears to my eyes. I hope it will do the same for you. We recorded this conversation a few years back and with the release of my documentary 'A Girl Can Touch The Sky' the podcast episode got delayed. I am delighted to be able to release it now in time for In…
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E14 From Pranks to Protest and Critic to Creator with Heydon Prowse
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I loved the BAFTA award-winning show The Revolution Will Be Televised so much, with its cutting satire and hilarious pranks tackling serious issues it was the perfect combination of silly and serious all in one. It was a pleasure to chat with Heydon Prowse who along with Jolyon Rubenstein (E2) were the stars of the show as well as the writers too. …
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E13 From Asylum Seekers to Asylum Speakers with Jaz O'Hara
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Jaz O'Hara is the amazing Founder of The Worldwide Tribe and Host of the Asylum Speakers podcast. Moved by the refugee crisis in the Calais Jungle, she shared a post on social media and woke up in the morning to 65,000 shares and so many messages. It started her journey to better understand the issues facing Asylum seekers and for many years now sh…
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E12 Rimi Chakraborty on Closing Big Corporate Deals to Becoming an Inspirational Spiritual Guide
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See Rimi's work at https://www.minuvida.com https://www.rootsilience.com 02.37- When Rimi was 15 her parents got divorced, and she was calling for attention in all the wrong ways 5.38 - Her mother made it her mission to make Rimi's childhood different to her own in India. Both her parents really supported her education. 7.58- Her father remarried a…
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E11 Bobby Friction on Prince Saving Him From Racism and Trauma
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Bobby Friction is a larger-than-life character, a Radio1 DJ, and a supporter of young people coming up in the creative industries. In this episode, we dive deep, buckle up, and enjoy the ride. 2.28- Bobby was doing an art degree channeling his inner rage about racism, by the time he’d gone to university he had survived an anti-Sikh genocide, and ex…
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E10 (Part Three): Zia & Khushal Yousafzai - Countries With More Equality Do Better
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In this final part of this epic conversation we dive deep into the lived experience of the family. They share what it was like when Malala was shot, to suddenly find themselves in another country and how it impacted on Khushal and his relationship with his dad. There are some wonderfully funny moments towards the end which I hope will bring some jo…
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E10 (Part Two): Zia & Khushal Yousafzai - Overcoming Small-Minded Thinking
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In part two of this epic conversation, we cover the importance of dreaming for a better future and overcoming small-minded thinking. 2.00 - The first person you have to fight with is yourself and your current way of thinking. 4.45 - I find great shelter in my wife's support and advice 6.30 - The current framework or culture sets the standard of wha…
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E10 (Part One): Zia & Khushal Yousafzai - The Challenge of Changing Culture
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Zia Yousafzai is Malala Yousafzai's father and Khushal is her brother. Malala is the amazingly brave and powerful young woman that was shot by the Taliban for speaking out for the right of girls to go to school. In this powerful conversation, Zia and Khushal share what it was like growing up in Pakistan and the cultural challenges they faced even b…
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09 (Part Two) Jon Miller on The Business Case for Purpose & Inclusion
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Jon Miller is super-intelligent and super eclectic. Maybe that is why I find him so interesting. In part two we discuss his time at various big agencies and how his work with the biggest companies in the world changed his perspective on how social impact could be developed. He realised a lot of the big issues business is dealing with are also socia…
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09 (Part One) Jon Miller on Psychedelics, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Grief and Yoga
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Jon Miller is a super intelligent guy and also super eclectic. Maybe that is why I found him so interesting. From growing up between the countryside and the city, to his interest in psychedelics and philosophy, to his dot.com boom and bust experience. Jon experienced a double bereavement which hit him hard, he began a period of intense travel and w…
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08 Shaena Jasmat on Turning Your Weakness into your Strength
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This is the first in the mini-series brought to you by the Road to Vrindavan documentary feature film which examines the importance of education for girls in India & the insight needed for tradition to be applied in ways that uplift rather than oppress. You can watch the film by checking for screenings at www.roadtovrindavan.com (UK Premiere is on …
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Celebrating the Release of Road to Vrindavan Documentary - Ravinol Chambers
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I have just released the feature Documentary Road to Vrindavan after 4 years of working on it. It's set on an epic 1800km road-trip along the west coast of India in a convoy of tuk-tuks and examines the importance of education for girls and the insight needed for tradition to be applied in ways that uplift rather than oppress. I am interrupting ser…
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07 (Part Two) Jean Griesser on Overcoming Adversity To Find Balance And Meaning In Your Life
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Join Jean Griesser (spiritual name Visakha Devi Dasi) and I for part two of this conversation to discover how she overcame the discrimination she experienced as a woman and how she gradually became more and more involved in her spiritual practices through her association and loving experiences with her spiritual teacher Srila Prabhupada. She shares…
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07 (Part One) Jean Griesser on Growing Up An Outsider
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Jean Griesser (spiritual name Visakha Devi Dasi) is the first female temple president of Bhaktivedanta Manor, a beautiful period house in the Watford countryside given by George Harrison of the Beatles to the Hare Krishna people in the 70's. Join us for this wonderful conversation where we hear from jean about growing up in America in the '60s, how…
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06 (Part Two) Mat Wakeham on Beyond Breakdown Towards The Good Life
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In this second part of our conversation Mat shares how ignoring the signals and what his body was telling him led to a breakdown. What you will see when you follow Mat on Instagram @matwakeham is a man who is working through and doing well, a man who is learning from what's come before and sharing his lived experience which I have found really valu…
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06 (Part One) Mat Wakeham on How Party Life & Macho Pressure Led Me to Breaking Point
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In this episode I speak with Mat Wakeham about his life growing up in a household in flux, his passion for art, getting into TV and Film, and helping with the graphics and website for the music group 'The Gorillaz'. He shares that drugs, alcohol, and party life were constant companions throughout much of his life and how a perfectionist streak and …
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05 (Part Two) Sarah Fletcher on Finding YOUR Way To Make A Difference In The World
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Sarah shares what it was like living on a canal boat for 10 years during the time she and her husband Chris had their son Jay and developing her career in teaching. At 18 she found her voice to speak out against things she had felt were wring since the age of 6 but didn't know how to express at that age. Her expression sometimes came in the form of…
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05 (Part One) Sarah Fletcher on Creating Better Life Opportunities For Young People
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Sarah Fletcher: Sarah is a life long educator, an ex secondary school headteacher, and now oversees a group of schools. We talk about growing up in the '80s in an army town in the midst of a council estate and the violence of the era and how it shaped her. Her interest in art, literature, and surrealism has helped her consider life in a nuanced way…
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04 (Part Two) Jay Shetty on My Master Plan - Entertainment To Education To Enlightenment
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Jay really stepped into his own when he recognised what value he offered to people's lives - synthesizing science, psychology and wisdom and explaining it in a simple way so everyone can benefit from it. We briefly take a look at the structure of the book and some of the sections and Jay shares how much he has put into it so that people can make pr…
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04 (Part One) Jay Shetty on Why I Felt Like I'd Failed At Being A Monk
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Jay shares having to 'let go' to become a monk and again having to 'let go' to stop being a monk and how of the two stopping was much harder. We talk about the difficulty of re-adjusting to normal life after being a monk and how Jay realised what he had learnt as a monk was even more relevant and important to his life in the world. Jay shares some …
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03 (Part Two) Sima Gonsai on Opening Your Heart To Connection With Others
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Sima shares how her near-death experience impacted her and her work going forwards. She explains how when we open our hearts to others we can always find the connection. This is illustrated through the stories she has documented as a filmmaker from tower blocks of flats in Birmingham to the Suffragette movement to classical ballet with a troupe of …
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03 (Part One) Sima Gonsai on Embracing Being Different, It's Your Superpower!
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Sima brings us on the inside of what it was like growing up in Blackburn as one of few Indian kids, learning to integrate but also knowing you were different. Finding herself and her voice leads her to set off on a bicycle around Thailand, Vietnam and Laos without telling her parents. She finds herself on the side of a mountain with a machete in he…
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02 (Part Two) Jolyon Rubinstein on Love Is The Answer In This Age Of Doubt
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In part two Jolyon shares how Dick Cheney got away but that Sasha Baron Cohen managed to get him later. He also reveals how repressed trauma from filming in character and not being able to help people who asked for his help has shifted his efforts to talking more directly about issues including Black Lives Matter. He talks about winning the BAFTA, …
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