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Less aloneUnfolding RealmSoma Isles
Brittany is a silversmith, non-traditional educator, and the creative force behind Full Desert Weirdo. Together we rethink the edges of normalcy, illuminating how our quirkiest traits not only shape an ever-changing personal identity but also hold the potential to remake the world around us.
Less aloneUnfolding Realm
For those of us who don't fit neatly into life's boxes, it can be a confusing journey as we waft around unsure how to express who we are and what we do. How can we make sense of our squiggly stories and integrate our multidimensional selves?
Less aloneUnfolding RealmWild Margin
Christopher hosts and produces the internationally-awarded "Life as A.." podcast, helping people find professional career ideas and business pathways by exploring jobs from around the world. We discuss the interplay between career and identity and the pursuit of purpose-driven work.
Less aloneUnfolding RealmEntangled Vale
Lawrence Yeo is a writer, illustrator, storyteller, and the creator of 'More To That', an illustrated long form blog that delves deeper into the things that make us who we are. We discuss the role of confidence, gratitude, uncertainty and many other practicalities of pursuing a creative life.
Less aloneEntangled Vale
This essay chronicles my experience with OCD through a philosophical lens, and examines how “Process Philosophy” may offer a means of thinking one’s way out of overthinking.
Less aloneUnfolding RealmMaker's Forge
Erich Leidums is the content creator behind That Mountain Life, where he documents his family's outdoor adventures and parenting journey in a small mountain town in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. We discuss the importance of building a fulfilling lifestyle that aligns with your values.
Less aloneUnfolding RealmWild Margin
A conversation all about what happens when a mingling of interests meets a sudden change in priorities. The moments where you change from being one kind of thing into another, how that happens and how you update your self-understanding along the way.
Less aloneUnfolding RealmWild Margin
A conversation all about doing things in a different way and order than you’re supposed to. Not doing what you’re told, leaning into life’s sudden twists and turns, feeling behind, and taking flight, all while figuring out adulting and navigating the complexity and expectations of cultural identity.
Less aloneUnfolding RealmWild Margin
Listen Now Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify About the Episode Key Topics Journey from a humanities background in libraries to technical integrations specialist for
Less aloneUnfolding RealmSoma Isles
Amanda Young is a former linguist now working on risk mitigation and problem solving. We discuss the importance of trying new things, embracing mistakes, and finding joy both inside and outside of work.
Less aloneUnfolding RealmWild Margin
Maxine is an experienced team leader, project manager, and research management professional, specialising in operations management, system development, and policies and process. We talk about having an unplanned career and what's involved in leading science teams.
Less aloneUnfolding RealmWild Margin
Eleanor is a tertiary librarian working in researcher development. We talk care, cardigans and why librarians risk becoming invisible ghosts. We also discuss how academics get lost in the system and whether curiosity has any place in the world of academic research.
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
Read the note ↗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
Read the note ↗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
Read the note ↗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
Read the note ↗'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
Read the note ↗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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