Best David Morin Podcasts (2024)

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A2H #19 | From Grief to Abundance: Chris Siders' Journey through Loss and Transformation 2:16:34

7M ago2:16:34

2:16:34

In this deeply moving episode, we hear from Chris Siders, an LA-based poet, music producer, and activist. Chris shares his experience about dealing with loss, grief, struggles with his health, and how these experiences have been the fuel to produce multiple albums in such a short amount of time. From his near-death experience and battles with menta…

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A2H #18 | The Only in the Room with Anika Aftab 1:20:20

11M ago1:20:20

1:20:20

Have you ever felt like you were an only in the room? Like no matter how many people you’re surrounded by, you feel like you can’t quite relate to anyone? It’s hard to put a specific word to what this feels like. Our guest today, Anika Aftab, has searched far and wide in many languages and cultures for the perfect word. She ultimately describes it …

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A2H #17 | Following Butterflies and Chasing Your Dreams with Rachel Livinal 1:11:40

12M ago1:11:40

1:11:40

Rachel Livinal is a recent graduate at Cal State Long Beach with a BA in Journalism. She just started her position as a higher education radio reporter for KVPR (Valley Public Radio) at the end of this month. Rachel has also been a poet since she was 16, and she is 21 now. It started with sonnets, but quickly developed into this odd freeverse that …

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A2H #16 | Finding Your Roots with Holly Pelletiere 1:21:13

1y ago1:21:13

1:21:13

Welcome to the Art 2 Heart podcast. My name is David Morin. I'm a former corporate sales guy turned poet. And this is where we explore how finding your voice can help your path and your purpose find you. Whether you're currently in a career transition or can't wait to be in one, we learn how leaning into creative expression can be the missing key t…

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A2H #15 | Meeting Your Magic with Adam Avenus 1:20:00

1y ago1:20:00

1:20:00

Have you ever read a book that changed your life? A book that ties together all of the threads that you’ve been chasing, and suddenly your life feels like there’s some hope? What if you had a chance to meet the author of that book? And what if that author hosted a meeting so that like minded people can get together and begin to create community? An…

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A2H #14 | Writing Our Lessons with Amber Jeanseau 1:25:48

1+ y ago1:25:48

1:25:48

Has there ever been a time in your life where you got so tired of ruminating on the same thing? Maybe there was a nagging idea or thought in the back of your mind that just never quite allowed you to experience more gratidude instead of criticism. To feel more acknowledgement towards yourself instead of blame, or more love instead of distrust. Have…

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S1 Wrap Up with Narvar’s David Morin 29:20

1+ y ago29:20

29:20

DeliveryX editor Katie Searles is joined in the studio by David Morin, head of customer & retail strategy at Narvar, to look back over the first series of Beyond the Buy Button. With clips from Selfridges, Pandora, Wolverine Worldwide and Yodel, the panel will review topics including sustainability, packaging, supply chain transparency, technology …

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S1 The omnichannel store 29:51

1+ y ago29:51

29:51

Stores can become mini warehouses, with stock located close to consumers. RFID technology gives retailers an accurate view of store stock optimising stock replenishment and enabling staff and customers to see exactly what’s in store. This episode looks at the complications when picking stock from store, the future of click & collect and how rapid d…

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A2H #13 | Immigrants, Grief, and Bukowski with Christian Lozada 1:11:47

1+ y ago1:11:47

1:11:47

Accomplishment and emptiness. Gratitude and sadness. Love and grief. Filipino and White. Two things can be true at the same time. Today’s guest is an insanely talented poet and educator who is an expert at holding two things in tension together. Christian Hanz Lozada (he/him/they) is the son of an immigrant Filipino and a descendant of the Confeder…

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S1 Supply chain transparency 35:48

1+ y ago35:48

35:48

In the main, scope 3 emissions make up the largest part of a retailer’s carbon emissions, so a brand or retailer is not just measuring their own impact on the planet – and the people that produce the products they sell – but those emitted by everyone throughout the supply chain and every part that makes up the final product. Jessi Baker, founder of…

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A2H #12 | Finding Your Authentic Way of Learning with Tanin Kayvan 1:13:01

1+ y ago1:13:01

1:13:01

Have you ever been afraid of going out and traveling around the world? Does leaving the comfort, safety, and the familiarity of home cause you anxiety to travel? Do you believe widespread media when it tells you that traveling anywhere outside of North America is automatically dangerous? Tanin Kayvan is someone who used to have major anxiety about …

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A2H #11 | The Other Side of Disability with Elisa Ramos 1:09:06

1+ y ago1:09:06

1:09:06

Imagine you’re a 12 year old living your best life. You’re in cheerleading, you’re super social and you love making friends, but suddenly something feels off. You begin feeling weaker and you literally lose the ability to smile. You can’t open your eyes. You have trouble chewing, swallowing, and out of nowhere, you helplessly fall to the floor when…

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A2H #10 | Sexually Abused Since 5 to NASA Engineer at 18 with Eliszabeth Van 1:14:01

1+ y ago1:14:01

1:14:01

Today’s guest is a freaking rockstar. Eliszabeth Van was born in Vietnam and moved to America at the age of 3, where she would grow up to survive an abusive childhood, be unhoused twice, and witness her father be incarcerated. During middle school, she walked in the Texas summer heat going door-to-door with her mom, filling out job applications bec…

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A2H #9 | Peace Corps, Scuba Diving, & Living Outside Your Comfort Zone with Kayla Noble 1:05:12

1+ y ago1:05:12

1:05:12

Peace Corps. SCUBA Diving. Long distance relationship during COVID. What do these three things have in common? They’re all really damn hard. But doing hard things is nothing new to today’s guest, Kayla Noble, who has always had a natural inclination go outside of her comfort zone. It hasn’t always been easy, but damn it if it hasn’t been rewarding …

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A2H #8 | Embracing the In-Between with Julianne Kanzaki 1:10:46

1+ y ago1:10:46

1:10:46

You know that feeling when you have a job that you’re great at? One where you’ve been training and failing and investing years of time and energy and lessons into building a career for the rest of your life? But then one day you realize that this job and life you’ve earned doesn’t actually fulfill you like you thought it would. But you’ve worked so…

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A2H #7 | What Being A Highly Sensitive Person is Like 11:12

1+ y ago11:12

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Have you ever heard of a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)? There are many of us out there, but often we don’t know the term exists, or how to conceptualize our day-to-day experiences. HSP’s are often deemed as “too sensitive.” While it is true that we are more sensitive than most, that is because our brains process life differently. We notice more tha…

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S1: Packaging is the new storefront 18:29

1+ y ago18:29

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In this episode we look at how ecommerce deliveries are now part of the customer experience, with boxes and bags as well as product packaging providing part of the brand story. For some consumers, an order being delivered is the first physical contact with the brand. Almost 1 in 5 consumers say they won’t buy from retailers who don’t use sustainabl…

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A2H #6 | How a Storyteller Finds Hope After Miscarriages with Paige Pelonis 1:23:23

1+ y ago1:23:23

1:23:23

Imagine you find the perfect partner. You fall in love, build a life together, get married and then make plans to start a family. Sounds pretty ideal, right? Except for the part where covid shuts down the world 48 hours after your wedding. Oh and the part where life decides to wreck havoc on your hormones, causing you to have 2 miscarriages in the …

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A2H #5 | Practicing the Small Deaths with Lolo Wink 1:13:39

1+ y ago1:13:39

1:13:39

Have you ever had a relationship where part of the time, everything was perfect and it was everything you ever wanted? But then there are other times when that same person completely disregards you, pretends you don’t have a connection, speaks as if you’re not in the room, and actively tries to remove any trace of you from their life? This wouldn’t…

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A2H #4 | Mistaking a Stop For The Final Destination 10:08

1+ y ago10:08

10:08

Have you ever had too many expectations for a trip or an event? Were those expectations realistic? Did you realize it in the moment that you set yourself up for failure? In today's episode, I talk about a recent traveling experience that I expected to give me all of the clarity I'd ever need, only to fall flat and have a breakdown instead. Enjoy th…

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A2H #3 | Grief Post Police with Ghada Morad 56:02

1+ y ago56:02

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Grieving is something we’re all familiar with, whether it’s a premature death or losing someone we love from natural causes. But how does the grieving process change when the death could have been avoidable, or comes at the hands of those who have sworn to protect? In this episode of Art 2 Heart, Ghada Morad shares her story of how life and grief w…

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A2H #2 | Finding Self-Love in the Small Things with Nobody Flowers 1:44:59

1+ y ago1:44:59

1:44:59

Are there parts of yourself that you dislike so much that it prevents you from having a positive relationship with yourself? Is self-care something that you have distanced yourself from because you thought it wasn’t for you? In this episode of Art 2 Heart, Nobody Flowers shares a poem called Nappy, which highlights his animosity towards his hair, a…

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A2H #1 | We Don't Own Our Trauma with Soul on Fire 1:03:19

1+ y ago1:03:19

1:03:19

When most people think about the word trauma, it is usually heavy. Trauma is often viewed as the clouds that follow us and the storms that we assume must become a part of our life forever. In this debut episode of Art 2 Heart, Soul on Fire shares a powerful poem, Something Borrowed, that fundamentally changed the way I view trauma and the relations…

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S1 - Retaining agility and flexibility in people, operations and technology through the ever changing retail cycles 24:30

1+ y ago24:30

24:30

Retail doesn’t stand still, and in this episode the panel discusses the continuous changes and the increasing pace of change. The discussion covers how the pandemic altered things again, as did/does Brexit. Flexibility and agility are required through daily trading and the year’s peaks and troughs along with scalability for future growth. A big ask…

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S1 - Addressing the skills gaps and labour shortages 23:39

1+ y ago23:39

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In this episode we discuss how as ecommerce continues to grow more people will be needed to fill logistics, warehousing and delivery posts. The panel looks at how retailers are responding to the labour gap including: - AO increasing its warehousing capacity by more than 80% over the last 18 months, creating more than 1,500 jobs across the business.…

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Art 2 Heart Teaser 6:05

1+ y ago6:05

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Teaser episode for the Art 2 Heart Podcast. Questions or comments? -> art2heart.lifeBy David Morin

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Shipping economics 27:16

2y ago27:16

27:16

In this episode we consider the business models, drivers and commercial options for delivery companies. We've seen the importance of service quality to the customer - who of course also demands extensive options and a zero cost - and so in this episode, we focus on how the carriers are adapting to, or leading, the retailer's requirements. We're joi…

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Returns, Exchanges and Refunds 40:37

2y ago40:37

40:37

For our discussion on "returns" we are joined in the studio by Ricky Wilson of Pandora, and Steven Irwin of Wolverine Worldwide (the group that counts Sweaty Better, Wolverine, Saucony and Merrell amongst its brands). With 89% of UK consumers saying that ease of returns is a top priority, we discuss: how to make returns smoothly serial returns and …

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Managing circular business models 38:29

2y ago38:29

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For our discussion on circular business models we are joined in the studio by Ricky Wilson of Pandora, and Steven Irwin of Wolverine Worldwide (the group that counts Sweaty Better, Wolverine, Saucony and Merrell amongst its brands) and Mike Hancox, CEO of Yodel. We cover: recent news on green delivery from Royal Mail, Tesco, and others Amazon's Hac…