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MSNBC’s Ali Velshi brings you “Velshi Banned Book Club,” an act of resistance against the book banning and censorship epidemic sweeping the nation. In each episode, a different author joins Ali to discuss why their work is being targeted and what is so crucial about the literature itself. “Velshi Banned Book Club” is a series rooted in literary and cultural analysis, in the notion that reading is resistance. Read along with Ali. Velshi Banned Book Club Season Two Reading List: "Small Acts of ...
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The Shakespeare and Company Interview

Shakespeare and Company

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Discover your next favourite book, or take a deep dive into the mind of an author you love, with The Shakespeare and Company Interview podcast. Long-form interviews with internationally acclaimed authors, recorded from our bookshop in the heart of Paris. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director, Adam Biles. Discover all our upcoming events here. If you enjoy these conversations, you can order The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews here. Past guests include: Ottessa Moshfegh, Ian McEwan, Ali ...
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Making the Rounds

American Medical Association

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Making the Rounds, a podcast from the American Medical Association, features advice, interviews and discussions on the most important topics impacting the lives and careers of medical students. Find all AMA podcasts at ama-assn.org/podcasts.
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TABOOBS

Meg

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TABOOBS is breaking silence on taboo women topics. Discussing the raw, out loud. Any one can connect with this podcast regardless of religious or political beliefs. We are connecting human to human about the daily things we face as women, moms, daughters, sisters, and/or wives. Join us weekly on our journey to destigmatize these kinds of conversations and be sure and add to the conversation! We want to know what you want to hear more about so submit a topic on the discussion form on www.tabo ...
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The Courageous Life

Joshua Steinfeldt

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Founded by coach and teacher Joshua Steinfeldt, The Courageous Life invites you into a deep conversation about finding the courage to pursue what matters most in life, work, and love.
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Today's practice features guest teacher Amy Dong. Amy is a talented therapist, and a breath work facilitator, who specializes in helping both individuals and couples to find steady footing through life’s inevitable twists & turns. She’s also the author of a beautiful sub stack called The Softening. Which she describes as a walk through our internal…
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Our 20’s are a unique season in our lives. While often romanticized as a decade that should be a high point It’s a time often fraught with major life transitions From leaving the familiar rhythms of school Which so many of us have known since early childhood To (for many of us) entering the work force full time, for the first time To shifts in mean…
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At first glance, the two books that make-up this episode of the Velshi Banned Book Club have very little similarities. Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is a critical keystone to both the English language and the art of storytelling. Everyone knows Romeo and Juliet’s tragic love story. Dorit Rabinyan’s “All The Rivers” is a semi-autobiographic love …
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This week’s guest is Aysegul Savas, whose mesmerising third novel, The Anthropologists is about a great many things. It’s about what it means to leave one’s home. It’s about attempting to lay down roots elsewhere. It’s about the mystery, banality, and all-consuming nature of love. It’s about the dynamics of friendship, and how those are stress-test…
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This past week clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Meg Jay was back on the show. One of the big themes we explored together was uncertainty, And how we can experience more ease in the face of it. Meg offered a useful reminder that when we experience uncertainty research shows that our amygdala becomes more active. The amygdala being th…
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What is braver than sharing your own story with the world? Nothing. This episode of the Velshi Banned Book Club will examine two true stories: “Hunger” by Roxane Gay and “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls. While these two memoirs are windows into two vastly different worlds, they are both masterclasses in the age-old tradition of storytelling as…
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Our 20’s are a unique season in our lives. While often romanticized as a decade that should be a high point, they are an age marked by uncertainty and major life transitions. From leaving the familiar rhythms of school, To (for many) entering the work force full time, for the first time. To experiencing changes in meaningful relationships, friendsh…
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To fail is human. It’s built into our experience from childhood. We begin to walk and we fall. We begin a project, we work toward a goal, or we start a business and we may fail. We experience these moments - When we are engaged in learning, When we are moving toward something we care about And we come up short. And in these moments there is an oppo…
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Heralded as one of the most enduring and salient novels in American history, “The Things They Carried”, written by Tim O’Brien, is a fictionalized account of O’Brien’s very real time as an infantry soldier in the Vietnam War. While, at its core, it is a Vietnam War novel, “The Things They Carried” explores the futility of all war, the power of frie…
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For this special episode, recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Adam Biles was joined by novelists Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee for a wide-ranging discussion that takes the temperature (and the pulse!) of the book industry, from bookshops, to publishers, to prizes, to festivals... Enjoy! Buy The Shakespeare and Company Book…
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“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” -Abraham Maslow What is it that empowers people to make this choice? To be bold enough to step forward into fear as they move toward purpose, and transcendence? These questions are at the heart of today’s…
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One of the highlights of this season on the Courageous Life has been expanding the show with a new series that features inspiring stories of everyday heroes and the helpers who walk beside them. One of these helpers conversations featured Amy Dong. Amy is a talented therapist and a breathwork facilitator. During our conversation she offered a windo…
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From letters of recommendation to your CV, what does a complete residency application packet entail and where might students trip up?  In this episode, AMA senior news writer Brendan Murphy talks with Mark C. Meyer, MD, senior associate dean for student affairs at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, about mistakes to avoid and ways you can…
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The story of this country is told through the eyes of immigrants. This episode of the Velshi Banned Book Club will explore two critically acclaimed additions to the American immigration literary canon: “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents” by Julia Alvarez and “American Street” by Ibi Zoboi. Both novels examine what becomes of identity, religio…
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“If we don’t work on our stuff, our stuff will work on us. It will run our lives - and show up in our offices and relationships - until we take the reins of responsibility for our own well-being.” These words were written by today’s guest, Allison Schultz (who goes by Ali). Along with Jerry Colonna and Dan Putt, Ali co-founded Reboot, the widely ac…
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In today’s practice you’ll hear a clip from a past conversation with kindness researcher Dr. Kelli Harding. She’ll offer a beautiful reminder about just how easy it can be to make someone else’s day. How little it takes to lift others up. And that when we do, when we offer these little acts of kindness, they generate positive ripples outward. One s…
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Is residency signaling important? Why write a residency personal statement? Should I put geographic preference on ERAS? What makes a medical student CV stand out? Deborah Clements, MD, is chair of the department of family and community medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and program director for the McGaw Northwestern F…
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Good dystopian literature forces its readers to confront ideas of government, culture, community, and identity. This episode of the "Velshi Banned Book Club" will examine two of the most celebrated works of dystopian literature of all time: “The Giver” by Lois Lowry and “1984” by George Orwell. Both novels are staples in the American public educati…
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We are starting Season 2 of the "Velshi Banned Book Club" with a very special featured book: Ali Velshi’s own “Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy.” Exploring more than a century of his family's history, the book illustrates Ali’s worldview, including his dedication to public service and his unwavering belief in…
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Rachel Kushner’s fourth novel Creation Lake is a spy novel stacked with ideas. As our fast-thinking, gun-packing protagonist wends her way down to the south of France, charged—by forces unknown—with infiltrating and sowing chaos at a commune of eco-warriors, her mission leads her into exhilarating reflections on activism, on charisma, on neandertha…
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How might we learn to better negotiate and navigate seemingly intractable issues? And what if it was possible to not only navigate these issues, but to meet all people’s needs in the process? What if it was possible to truly find win-win solutions? In today’s conversation with Rob Fersh and Mariah Levison, two leaders in the field of bridge buildin…
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Yesterday we re-released a moving Courageous Life conversation with Juliana Tafur. Juliana is a journalist, award winning documentary filmmaker, and bridge builder. She serves as the Program Director for the Greater Good Science Center’s Bridging Differences Program. During our time together she shared shared some of her story, and insights from he…
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MSNBC's Ali Velshi brings you a second season of the “Velshi Banned Book Club.” Book banning is happening more and more. Removing literature from library shelves, school syllabi, and summer reading lists isn’t just blatant censorship; it is the tip of the sword that threatens American democracy itself. Featuring critically acclaimed and culturally …
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How can we more effectively navigate conversations with people who have different values, and beliefs than we do? Neighbors, community members, co-workers, and family members who care deeply about the same issues, but who have widely different views about them. What are the conditions that would be needed in order to have productive conversations? …
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Our guest in the writer’s studio this week is Ferdia Lennon, whose debut novel Glorious Exploits depicts the ancient world in a way readers will never have experienced it before. Set in Syracuse in 412 BC, after the catastrophic attempt by Athens to invade the city, Lampo and Gelon, two out-of-work potters, have the harebrained idea of staging a pr…
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When I was first learning to be a coach we had a saying before stepping into a coaching conversation: Leave your assumptions at the door and embrace curiosity. In reality we often know SO little about someone’s experience, and about their story. And when we recognize that, what seems to make the most sense is to get curious. To ask questions, And t…
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Our guest this week is Roxy Dunn, whose debut novel As Young As This is a meticulous examination of the lives and loves of young women today. Told, strikingly, in the second person, it is structured by the the succession of first boys, then men in the protagonist Margot’s life, and populated by dysfunctional friends and a wisecracking, but deeply c…
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How can we more effectively navigate conversations with people who have different values, and beliefs than we do? Neighbors, community members, co-workers, and family members who care deeply about the same issues, but who have widely different views about them. What are the conditions that would be needed in order to have productive conversations? …
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Always do your best. When I was growing up I heard that a lot. "Just do your best." "Leave it all on the field." Or some similar version of that message. It seemed like a generally positive and empowering message. An invitation to show up fully and give it my all. I was on board. But what I didn’t realize was that this message was incomplete. It wa…
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One of the most extraordinary manifestations of human potential is: Our ability to grow and strengthen ourselves in the face of pain, trauma, and those moments where life falls apart. Today’s guest, Dr. Amrita Sen Mukherjee, has not only studied what contributes to this deeply human capacity for post-traumatic growth but has experienced it first-ha…
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School of Instructions, the latest work by Ishion Hutchinson, draws from the time he spent in the archive of the Imperial War Museum, to foreground the experience—brutal, significant, but long overlooked—of West Indian volunteers in the First World War. This book length poem is a sensorial voyage into the convoys, garrisons and trenches of the Midd…
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In yesterday’s Courageous Life episode with psychologist and author, Dr. Jill Stoddard, we took a deep dive into overcoming self doubt and imposterism. Part of which reminded me of a powerful practice for transforming stress. A practice I first learned from Dr. Alia Crum and her team at Stanford’s Mind and Body Lab. I originally created this practi…
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Today’s guest identifies as a recovered imposter. For years, she was convinced that the only reason she was accepted into a competitive grad school program was because her father knew the program director. One thing research shows is that Dr. Jill Stoddard, psychologist, and author of Imposter No More, isn't alone in this. Deep down, a majority of …
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This week’s guest is Michael Donkor whose new novel Grow Where They Fall is a meticulous and tender exploration of two formative moments in the life of one Kwame Akromah, twenty years apart. Kwame is Black, Gay, British of Ghanian descent, a dedicated teacher, a dependable friend—character traits and conditions of life that weave around each other …
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In the hero's journey, the hero or heroine is called to adventure. Often in the form of a quest, a challenge, or an adversity. And often in unexpected ways. One of the things that’s interesting about the heroes journey is that shortly after the call a helper enters the picture. A mentor, sage, guide, or a coach who helps the hero to navigate the ad…
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"It’s very important work to be calm in a storm. To be a center for the people in your life." -Elizabeth Lesser (Courageous Life Episode 112) So often when storms arise in our life they unleash a variety of feelings: Uncertainty Fear Groundlessness When these experiences arise the mind will often will enter into a cycle of trying to find ground, of…
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