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What it might do

Help me feel less alone

Does anyone else experience the world this way?

Message Received: how authentic communication helps us find our voice and share our story - Kendra Fee-McNulty | S4E4

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Message Received: how authentic communication helps us find our voice and share our story - Kendra Fee-McNulty | S4E4

Kendra is the founder of empathy-driven marketing consultancy Raveloe+Co, which helps mission-driven organisations to find their voice and share their story authentically. We discuss empathy, effective storytelling, and balancing creativity with commercial interests without compromising your values.

Danu Poyner, Kendra Fee-McNulty · 6 min

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🎭 The Longest-Serving Understudy in Theatre History

A conversation with Clive Marlowe, who spent 15 years covering the same roles in The Mousetrap. He reflects on the strange psychology of always waiting in the wings — living with uncertainty, stepping suddenly into the spotlight, letting go once the moment passes — opening into candid terr

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🪫 Effort Without Improvement

Kristie De Garis writes from two decades of trying to get better — cutting foods, changing habits, tightening routines — while the body doesn't follow the expected arc. She describes the work of staying level in a body that requires constant effort just to stay the same, inside a culture t

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🐙 Learning to Leave the Shell

An anxious little octopus watches the colourful world from the safety of her shell. She wants to explore, but fear holds her back — and it's only through small moments of safety and spark that she finds the courage to step into the current. For anyone who hesitates to fully swim, a gentle

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🐛 A Worm Who Dreams of Becoming a Butterfly

A stop-motion short about a worm stuck in a soulless remote job — equal parts funny and uncomfortably accurate about corporate claustrophobia. Pairs well with The Cat Empire's Wild Animals, a musical antidote whose chorus ('Don't let them kill the wild animals inside of you') picks up wher

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🌍 Revisiting Collapse, a Year Later

'We are going to have to live here with one another.' Rosie Spinks revisits her essay on becoming 'collapse aware' — the slow, grief-tinged reckoning that the way things are might not just be broken but ending. Rather than fear or fatalism, she offers collapse awareness as a portal: into g

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🎸 Hi Ren

What we repress doesn't disappear; it waits for a stage. Hi Ren is a nine-minute tour de force of performance art that lays bare the inner negotiations of identity and mental health — a dance between breakdown and breakthrough, less about triumph over darkness than intimacy with it. Ren de

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