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This is Letzcast – a podcast about Luxembourg. The plan is for each season to focus on a different theme relating to the Grand Duchy. For the first season, we will focus on the lives of the 275,000 or so foreign nationals who have made Luxembourg their home. Luxembourg is quite unique in that nearly half (46,7% according to official government data from 2016) of the population is made up of non-nationals. To put this into perspective, foreign nationals only make up 8.9% of the UK population, ...
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My name is Martin Lindeskog and I am a blogger, an “indie biz” (independent business) philosopher, a moderator, a social media evangelist, a speaker, a podcaster, and a tea enthusiast. I am writing on an “octalogy” with the working title, Tea Book Sketches – Ideas And Notions About The Second Most Popular Beverage In The World.
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The Drunkalogues is a podcast about addiction and recovery in which each guest shares their version of how it was, what happened and how it is now.
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Reposting this as it again proves sadly timely in my community, and Clancy Martin's book is an invaluable resource for suicide prevention. Clancy Martin is the author of the recently published, highly acclaimed memoire - HOW NOT TO KILL YOURSELF - which is also an enlightened and practical guide to suicide prevention. Clancy speaks from experience …
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John Machado struggled wiht addictoin for years before a doctor's visit necessseitate a meeting with an addiction specilist who helped get him into rehab to begin a long process to recovery.. They say relapse is a part of the process of recovery but this convesation made me think that maybe the road to recovery is paved with all kinds of experience…
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John Giordano grew up in the Bronx, a child of organized crime and despite joining his first gang at the age of ten managed to save himself from that fate thru his dedication to the discipline of competitive martial arts. But when his recreational drug use spiraled out of control in his twenties, he suddenly found himself on the receiving end of an…
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Keep seeing Eric in my social media feed, and he is always just so frikken funny, innovative and original. Impecable delivery. Check him out! He talks here a lot here about what it was like to grow up as a gay man in the mid-west! Eric Hahn is a stand up comedian who grew up in a steel town in Ohio where he started drinking at age 12. He narrowly e…
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I first met David when he was an agent at CAA repping the likes of Oliver Stone and other high profile filmmakers and writers. He was part of a powerful club I only got glimpses of and boy did it look fun. But it was also addictive, and he shares here the journey to a more measured form of contententmen.…
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Nick Jonsson grew up in Sweden where drinking beer was kind of a way of life. His drinking escalated when he moved to Australia for college and then got out of control when he started working in advertising and PR in Southeast Asia where the ex-pat community thrived in a lively and inexpensive bar scene. His life was turned upside down after a coup…
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This episode is largely about addiction to pornography as Powerful Eric struggled for years to overcome his own pornography addiction. Ultimately, he stumbled on a shift in perspective that helped him get well, and he has built on that shift to create a program for other addicts that shares some of the tools I employ as well. While this podcast is …
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I came across Tom Vaughan on twitter and started following him for his helpful screenwriting tips, and then one day he tweeted something about his sobriety and I reached out to see if we would be interested in coming on the pod. He graciously agreed, and I imagined some sort of quasi-scholarly discussion about story structure and sobriety. Little d…
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Rerun - Episode 64 - Nena Woolworth
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I interviewed Nena about two years ago...tho it feels like a lifetime. We were just coming out of covid and it was one of the first times I'd been back in the room with a guest. I would say that in the interim, interest in hallucingens has only grown as mushrooms seem to have quickly become both the medicine of choice and the party drug of choice..…
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Sometimes I do a podcast and by the end of the conversation my guest and I are friends for lise. Such was the case with Jenny Aurthur! Original notes: Jenny Aurthur grew up in a somewhat nomadic family - traveling in a large bus to organize neighborhoods for the Communist Labor Party, and while her parents never married, they maintained a strong fa…
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Ryan King moved to Los Angeles as a toddler when his father, Commodores co-founder William King, moved here for work. He was a pretty straight arrow through high school earning himself a coveted spot in the highly competive baseball program at Long Beach State. But booze became his way of belonging and soon his undoing as his alcoholo habit compoun…
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Paul Summers grew up in Las Vegas Nevada where he had a “eureka” moment at an early age which made him realize that all he wanted to do with his life was play guitar, write music and perform for live audience, and for a while…. That’s exactly what he did. But booze and meth and oxy led him off his path, and it was only when his ex-wife disappeared …
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Clancy Martin is the author of the recently published, highly acclaimed memoire - HOW NOT TO KILL YOURSELF - which is also an enlightened and practical guide to suicide prevention. Clancy speaks from experience as he is the survivor of at least ten attempts to take his own life. And as a recovering alcoholic, he looks at suicide - at least in part …
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RERUN - Episode 23 - Lauren Morelli
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I loved this episode because I just had no idea what I was getting into, and Lauren was so raw and honest and her story is - in a lot of ways - tough. Especially as a parent! And I loved the way she created a higher power for herself and how it worked! I think about it all the time...... Here are the original notes: Lauren Morelli is a costume desi…
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I recorded this episode at Sundance right before the pandemic. I was feeling pretty blue as sometimes happens there, and I went to an AA meeting where I met Kosha Dillz, and he and I went out on a fun, funny night around Park City and recorded this episode the next day. Here are the original notes... Rami is a rapper who performs under the stage na…
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I met Jono Hart when we were both climbing the Hollywood ladder in the 90s, and we traded small talk and jokes at innumerable cocktail parties before both getting sober at about the same time. And while I have used the 12 steps as a model, he has largely followed his own heart. Weirldy, both paths share a lot of similarities. We recently re-connect…
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I love this episode b/c David is so damn articulate and wise and he recognizes patterns in his own behavior that prove insturmental in changing it. It's also a great story... Orignal notes: David G was raised in a religious cult where he learned early on to keep his family's membership secret. It was a lesson that would serve him too well as his al…
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Sean grew up in Long Beach where he was the son of a single mom and absentee dad. He discovered crack and meth at an early age, and when he graduate from high school he went off and joined the circus - Bread and Puppet - the experimental theater group based in Glover, VT. The skills he picked up at Bread and Puppet led to a very successful career i…
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Rerun - Episode 33 - Zander Schloss
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I loved recording this episode. I didn't have a clue how to record music and I was terrified that I was going to disappoint Zander with my audio and it felt like magic to listen to him play in my daughter's bedroom which seemed like it maybe had the best acoustics in the house. Original notes: This is a very special episode. Zander Schloss - the ba…
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I've fantasized about having every guest back to catch up with them and hear how they've changed and how their recovery has evolved, but it hasn't yet happened... until now! Annie appeared on an early season of the podcast to talk alcohol recovery, and now she is back - 4 and a half years later - to talk about her journey through sex and love addic…
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The daughter of Inidan immigrants, Sonia grew up in Toronto and went on with her husband of 18 years to form and expand a multi-location orthodontic practice. But when they realized their dream of selling the business, Sonia had to ask herself: what next. The first thing she did was quit drinking, but when her husband then suddenly left her she had…
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Apologies for another rerun! I've had trouble booking guests so if you have a story you'd like to share or know someone who would... hit a boy up! Dixie Perkinson is an actor who has appeared in commercials for just about everything. She is also a comedian and storyteller whose blog - Eat My Prune - focuses on the kinds of stories people are uncomf…
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Apologies for the radio silence. I got busy with work and this little side project took the back seat. Here's a taste from the vault to keep you engaged! John Lehr is an improvisational actor and comedian out of the Chicago Improv scene who has created and starred in a number of TV shows including "Quick Draw" and "10 Items or Less." Here he talks …
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Marci Hopkins grew up in an alcoholic home where she was the victim of sexual abuse at the hands of her step-father. While she managed to escape that world and chart a successful path for herself in television, she suffered from a persistent sense of victimhood that she treated with alcohol abuse. When a DUI finally forced her to re-evaluate her ch…
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I heard Adam K share the tiniest snippet of what it was like to grow up as a child of deaf adults (CODA), and I just wanted to hear more. His parents were not saints: they were all too human, and he struggled from an early age under the weight of the immense responsibility they thrust on him to care for them. Growing up in West Covina as the only j…
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