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UN/ROOTED is a podcast about home... the places we find ourselves living in and moving through, literally and figuratively, expected and unexpected, temporarily and long term. We touch on belonging, homesickness, gentrification, borders, the history of the places we love, and a lot more. In season one we go on a cross country move, explore homesickness, embrace a new city, weather unexpected surprises, and become comfortable with uncertainty and new transitions. We have conversations about h ...
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A master-class in personal and professional development, The Release is a series of conversations with fascinating people (thought leaders, explorers, authors, healers and world record holders to name a few) hosted by author and speaker Poonam Sharma, who asks the simple, loaded questions, unveiling the perspectives that make these people unique, demonstrating the delicate ways in which they give themselves grace as they grow...and encouraging listeners to share in an emotional release. http ...
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Carlos Andres Gomez, Author of MAN UP, Student of Modern Masculinity
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What is the correct way to do modern masculinity…and how can we teach our sons to get it right?CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ is the author of the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood. On today’s episode we talk about why the phrase toxic masculinity is so triggering, how to guide our sons towards healthy masculinity without overcorrecting…and how loneli…
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Julia Hotz, Author of THE CONNECTION CURE: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging
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Julia Hotz, Author of THE CONNECTION CURE: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and BelongingHow over-medicated are we? How much of what ails us could be healed by going back to the ways we evolved to live?Julia Hotz is the author of a book looking to answer questions like these. "The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of …
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Mark Bowden, Voted The World’s #1 Body Language Expert, on The Presidential Election
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How many repetitions of a targeted new body language gesture does it take to win over a swing voter?Mark Bowden has been voted the #1 Body Language Professional in the world. Born in England and building off an early career as an actor on screen and stage, Mark pioneered nonverbal analysis of human behaviors intended to persuade. His techniques are…
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Pete Earley, Pulitzer Finalist and Author of NO HUMAN CONTACT: Based on personal access to Terrible Tom Silverstein (the most isolated prisoner in US ...
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Pete Earley is a Pulitzer-finalist, a mental health advocate, a Washington Post journalist turned bestselling author of 15 books including Family of Spies (inside the John walker spy ring), The Hot House (Life inside Leavenworth prison), and Crazy (A father’s search through americas mental health madness). Earley also wrote a series of novels inclu…
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Mark Bowden, Voted The World’s #1 Body Language Expert, on Relationships
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How does the world's #1 body language expert use what he knows in his own marriage?Mark Bowden has been voted the #1 Body Language Professional in the world. Born in England and building off an early career as an actor on screen and stage, Mark pioneered nonverbal analysis of human behaviors intended to persuade. His techniques are trusted by busin…
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Robert MacCoun, Stanford Law Professor, Social Psychologist & Coauthor: THIRD MILLENNIUM THINKING
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How can we stop fooling ourselves into seeing only what we want to see?Robert MacCoun is a Stanford Law Professor, a Social Psychologist and the Coauthor of THIRD MILLENNIUM THINKING: CREATING SENSE IN A WORLD OF NONSENSE.Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, the book explores how to use scientists’ tricks of the trade to make the best deci…
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Robin Hanson, Professor & Author of ”The Elephant In The Brain: Hidden Motives In Everyday Life”
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Why are we all such liars ,and what does it say about us as a species that we are able to lie to ourselves so well? Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and the coauthor along with Kevin Simler of THE ELEPHANT IN THE BRAIN: HIDDEN MOTIVES IN EVERYDAY LIFE.He’s a former research associate at the Future of Hu…
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Craig Hatkoff, Real Estate Pioneer, Innovation Expert & CoFounder Of The Tribeca Film Festival
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Craig Hatkoff is a real estate investor who pioneered the concept of asset securitization back in the 1990s at Chemical Bank, and then became Vice Chairman of Capital Trust which he cofounded alongside the legendary billionaire Sam Zell. He is also a board member for more than 15 private and public companies as varied as Colony Capital, SL Green, t…
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Julie Menanno, Renowned Marriage Therapist and Bestselling Author of SECURE LOVE (Part 2)
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Julie Menanno is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a leading voice on attachment styles with over 1.2 million instagram followers and the bestselling author of "SECURE LOVE: Create a relationship that lasts a lifetime." She earned her Master’s degree in Psychology from Phillips Graduate Institute in LA, and has a clinical therapy practice i…
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Julie Menanno, Renowned Marriage Therapist and Bestselling Author of SECURE LOVE (Part 1)
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Julie Menanno is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a leading voice on attachment styles with over 1.2 million instagram followers and the bestselling author of "SECURE LOVE: Create a relationship that lasts a lifetime." She earned her Master’s degree in Psychology from Phillips Graduate Institute in LA, and has a clinical therapy practice i…
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Mike Amoia, Entrepreneur, Angel Investor & The World’s Most Insect-Tattooed Man
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There’s more to Mike Amoia than the insect tattoos covering most of his body, or the scorpion tattoos covering most of his neck and the back of his skull before stretching out over his right eye socket. Mike is an entrepreneur, angel investor, Emmy award-winning producer, and he also holds the Guinness Book World Record for the most insect tattoos …
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Bret Lockett, NFL Player Turned Love Coach
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Bret Lockett is an ex-NFL player who found his second calling as a transformational love coach and he's on a mission. A spiritual guide and an alchemist, he's now an internationally recognized speaker and relationship expert focused on balancing the yin and yang energies in romantic relationships. He grew up in California, went to UCLA and then pla…
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Anna Morgenstern, NYC Matchmaker & Dating Coach
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Matchmaking is an industry worth an estimated $1.2 to $1.5 billion globally, with nearly 40% of that market located in the United States. And it’s growing, while reaching a wider audience, both in age and price range. Anna Morgenstern is a high-end matchmaker and dating coach based in New York City. She happened on this career almost by accident, w…
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Pamela Prickett, Author of ”The Unclaimed: Abandonment And Hope In The City Of Angels”
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What do we owe one another (as family or as a society)...in death? Pamela Prickett is the coauthor (along with Stefan Timmermans) of the book The Unclaimed; Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels. An associate professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam, Pamela has studied journalism and media at Boston University and at the London Sc…
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Jennie Marie, Empathic Psychic AKA TLC’s Mama Medium
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Is psychic ability hereditary, and can meditation make it stronger? Jennie Marie is a fourth-generation psychic, an empathic medium, and was the star of TLC’s hit show, Mama Medium. Even in a family with four generations of psychics, she says these gifts were still considered somewhat taboo. It wasn’t until her late twenties, after a career as a ha…
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Dr. Gabrielle Pelicci, Author of All This Healing Is Killing Me
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“Dr. Gabby” (Gabrielle Pelicci, Ph.D.) is a TED speaker, a professor, an expert on Global Wellness & Psychedelics, and the bestselling author of the memoir, ALL THIS HEALING IS KILLING ME. With over 3000 hours of training in Yoga, Bodywork, Meditation, Mind-Body Medicine, Energy Healing, Herbalism and Health Coaching, she guides people and groups t…
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Carrie Bobb, The Survivor And Namesake Of Carrie’s Law
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Is bravery a muscle? Can fighting the system that protects your attackers, help a rape survivor to heal?Carrie Bobb is a mom, a wife, an entrepreneur, and a real estate industry leader, who also happens to be the survivor behind Carrie’s Law. She was blazing trails all along, starting with the real estate world where she handled nearly 2 billion do…
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Jodi Wellman, Author of You Only Die Once
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Is cultivating an active awareness of death the only surefire way to make the most of our lives?Poonam sits down with Jodi Wellman, a TED speaker, coach, and thought leader on well-being and living lives worth living. A former corporate executive who executed a midlife shift, Jodi earned her Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology from the Universi…
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Dr. Craig Malkin, the Author of Rethinking Narcissism
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Is it possible to narcissist-proof (and narcissism-proof) our children?Poonam sits down with Dr. Craig Malkin, a Harvard Medical School lecturer, the author of the internationally acclaimed book, ‘Rethinking Narcissism’ and co-author of the NYT bestseller ‘The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.' Dr. Malkin is a clinical psychologist with three decades…
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Dr. Amanda Hanson aka ”The Midlife Muse”
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Is there a future for modern marriage in America, and if so then how should it look?Poonam sits down with Dr. Amanda Hanson, also known as "The Midlife Muse," Amanda is an author, speaker and psychologist whose transformative approach to redefining the paradigm of womanhood has reached millions of women around the world. Her insights span across ag…
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Bonus #2: A Walk in the Desert - Choose Your Own Adventure
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The second in a series of guided walks/visualizations in order to help us find calm in the outdoors, during a time when we are collectively staying indoors more than ever due to COVID-19. This visualization takes us to the desert, the desert of your choice. Smell the sagebrush, listen to the wind, bask in the warmth, shout across the desert. Bonus …
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Similar to a guided meditation, here is a guided walk in the woods, to a high alpine lake. In response to COVID-19, most of us are confined close to our homes, in our homes, or wherever we can find a place to hang tight. This means a lot less outdoors time for a lot of us, which can be really tough mentally to be away from places that restore and g…
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Part Six: Making Your Way Home (featuring Gale Straub)
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For all the show notes, including pictures of Gale and Lora, go to the episode landing page! UN/ROOTED is back from a little hiatus, a mid season hiatus! We’re picking back up where we left off, just after I’d moved to NYC I was looking for things to make the east coast feel like home, so, when my friend Gale Straub invited me on a snowshoeing trip…
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Part Five: Homesick (featuring Vanessa Pamela Friedman)
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Most people have experienced some sort of homesickness. In this episode we talk about both short and long forms of homesickness as I arrive in NYC and settle into a full blown state of missing the west coast. We bear witness to a love story as Vanessa Pamela Friedman moves to the east coast and writes a million love letters to Portland, OR. My sist…
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Part Four: Movement (featuring Mary Ann Thomas)
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I don’t love packing or unpacking. But I love the in-between movement, the actual act of moving your body from one place to another. In this episode that touches on my drive from LA to NYC, we find a celebration of motion, movement, moving, migration, and all that comes along with it. In this episode we talk to writer, long-distance cyclist, and tr…
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Episode three of UN/ROOTED is a love letter to anyone who has ever had to pack their stuff and move, to anyone who has ever had to watch friends leave, and to all the friendships that can transcend time and space. In this episode I pack up all my stuff, get ready to move from Los Angeles to NYC, and say my goodbyes. We talk to my childhood friend B…
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Part Two: Payahuunadü (with Jolie Varela)
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In this episode I’m delving into the "home of my heart". After pinpointing this home, we talk to Jolie Varela, founder of Indigenous Women Hike. She leads us through the history and landscape of her homeland, Payahuunadü, and tells about the Nüümü people, her journey along the Nüümü Poyo, and about this special place, the place of flowing waters. W…
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As an adult, I’ve had trouble putting my finger on home, but last year really made me take a deeper look into the question of “Where is home?” The idea for this podcast was born out of struggling with the concept of home as I unexpectedly moved from Los Angeles to NYC last year. Instead of trying to sweep the discomfort of homesickness and uncertai…
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Unrooted is a podcast about home—the places we find ourselves living in and moving through, literally and figuratively, expected and unexpected, temporarily and long term. We touch on belonging, homesickness, gentrification, borders, the history of the places we love, etc. In season one host Julie Hotz will take you on her cross country move, we’ll…
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