Cele mai bune Tackling The Issues That Divide Us podcast-uri (2024)

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Episode 6: Smoke-Free Future: Tackling tobacco and vaping for the health of the public 42:15

21d ago42:15

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The World Health Organisation highlights the tobacco epidemic as one of the greatest public health crises in history, claiming over 8 million lives annually. Over 7 million of these deaths stem from direct tobacco use, while around 1.3 million are due to second-hand smoke exposure among non-smokers. The scale of the human and economic tragedy that …

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Episode 5: Flushing Out the Truth: Sewage and Public Health in the UK 35:59

28d ago35:59

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The development of wastewater systems in the 19th century was one of the greatest achievements of public health, but in recent years there has been growing concern and scrutiny of water quality and sewage pollution. The critical issue of sewage contamination in the UK's rivers and seas is having a profound impact on environmental sustainability and…

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Episode 4: The genetic revolution: implications and applications for improving the health of the public 42:39

4M ago42:39

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In this month’s episode, our experts dive into the exciting world of genetics, exploring the latest technological breakthroughs and innovations. They discuss not only the value of these advancements but also the ethical considerations surrounding them, particularly in how they can enhance the health of the public. Dr Adam Rutherford, bestselling au…

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Episode 3: Redefining the Classroom: Nurturing Mental Health Through Nature, Arts, and Understanding 39:34

6M ago39:34

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"It's not our children who are disordered, it's the environment in which we're expecting them to operate." In this month’s episode, our experts explore the pressing issue of children's mental health in the UK. With one in five young individuals facing probable mental health disorders, the urgency for effective support systems is undeniable. Joining…

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Episode 2: AI for Good - Tech and Ethics in Humanitarian Crises 39:12

7M ago39:12

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"Is technology the magic bullet for humanitarian aid, or does it come with its own set of ethical dilemmas?" In this episode, hosts Dr Xand van Tulleken and Dr Rochelle Burgess delve into the complex world of humanitarian crises and the transformative role of technology in emergency responses. With the expertise of Professor Maria Kett, an anthropo…

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Episode 1: Injecting Innovation - Creative Ways to boost vaccination rates 38:58

8M ago38:58

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Join hosts Doctor Xand van Tulleken and Dr Rochelle Burgess for Season 4, Episode 1 of Public Health Disrupted with Prof Helen Bedford and Doctor Ranj Singh. "It's about building knowledge with communities and allowing people to ask questions without negative labelling." Why are vaccination rates declining, and how can we rebuild trust? Vaccine rat…

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Episode 5. Unravelling Health Disparities: The Racial Divide 35:14

1y ago35:14

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“It’s the indirect act of racism that is leading to poorer outcomes for racialised groups.” How does racism impact people’s health? And how big is this problem? We're three years on from George Floyd's murder, which launched a wave of global protests under the banner never again. This, of course, has not been the case. We're also three years since …

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Episode 4: The change-up, demystifying the menopause 40:44

1y ago40:44

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Join hosts Doctor Xand van Tulleken and Dr Rochelle Burgess for Season 3, Episode 4 of Public Health Disrupted with Prof Joyce Harper and Rachel Lankester. “We’re more valuable to our communities post-menopause as leaders than as breeders.” How does our society value menopausal women? The lack of public awareness around this natural phase in a wome…

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Episode 3: Sex by numbers 39:15

1y ago39:15

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“A remarkable number of claims you see in newspapers and magazines about sex are essentially made up.” What does the average British person think about sex? For over 40 years the Natsal surveys have been recording sexual data, capturing striking changes in our behaviour and sexual lifestyles across the decades. They have been pivotal in the populat…

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Episode 2: Ultra-Processed People 37:53

1+ y ago37:53

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“It’s really not our fault that we struggle with our health, we have to look to the system around us and hold them accountable.” In our fast-paced world, convenience is king where food is concerned and many of us are now fuelling our bodies with an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food. In today’s episode, we’re taking a clos…

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Episode 1: Living on the edge - health inequalities and rising costs 40:52

1+ y ago40:52

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EPISODE DESCRIPTION “The way to get economic growth in a sustainable way is to improve the income of the bottom 60% of the population.” How does the cost-of-living crisis affect the health of the public? What impact does financial stress have on our physical and mental wellbeing? This episode aims to reshape the narrative and create a clearer under…

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Episode 6: Fat Chance: how the body positivity movement can be used to influence societal change 41:02

2y ago41:02

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“The ways in which we talk about our bodies, the metaphors we use to understand our bodies in the world around us radically shape our health and the way we approach health.” What is meant by the obesity crisis and where does the power lie to address the social determinants and intricacies that impact it? With a growing epidemic of chronic illness, …

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Episode 5: The power of conversation: redefining the binary around social media and young people's mental health 35:38

2y ago35:38

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“There’s much more room for nuance in the conversation than it feels like we have now.” Social media is a huge part of our lives, but growing fears are fuelling debate that it is bad for children and young people. What should the conversation around social media be and what questions should we be asking? Exploring the binary complexities of social …

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Episode 4: Dignity, decency and dying 40:56

2y ago40:56

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“Death is something that affects us all and by not talking about it we make it harder.” Death is not infinitely deferrable, yet the successes of traditional modern Western medicine in increasing life expectancy have hugely impacted the human psyche of immortality. Where can people go to understand death, where is the narrative? Can we prioritise pu…

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Episode 3: The Elephant in the Planning Room 33:58

2+ y ago33:58

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“It is imperative that we learn to create homes that truly support and sustain us.” Interior and external environments affect our health and wellbeing in ways that we are only now beginning to truly understand: from the impact of the urban spaces that are fundamentally unhealthy due to air pollution and noise, to acknowledging the changes that colo…

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Episode 2: Singing the praises of communities 34:40

2+ y ago34:40

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Summary Grammy-award winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre joins chair of the UK’s largest COVID-19 social study and UCL professor Dr Daisy Fancourt to talk about the power of community. They explore how people bound by common experiences can improve their health through non-clinical methods, looking at how singing and music can form a part …

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Ep.1 Mission-oriented Public Health 32:49

2+ y ago32:49

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Summary Author, chair of WHO Council on economics, and UCL professor Mariana Mazzucato joins renegade economist, creator of the “Doughnut” model of social and planetary boundaries, and Oxford Senior Associate Kate Raworth to share their considerable expertise on the relationship between public health and the economy; and why taking a mission-orient…

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Episode 6: What have we learned about public health? 35:04

3+ y ago35:04

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For this final episode, we’re reflecting on what we’ve learned about public health over the past six months. Hosts Xand and Rochelle explore the episodes we’ve recorded so far that show what needs disrupting in public health, and look back at what our wonderful guests have been doing to shake up the system. Featuring clips from interviews with Prof…

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Episode 5: How can arts and creativity tackle health inequalities? 29:49

3+ y ago29:49

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The arts and culture sectors are among the hardest hit by the pandemic and lockdown but what would a post-pandemic world look like without art? Is there potential for arts and culture to be a significant part of the post-pandemic recovery? In this month’s episode, we speak to widely exhibited artist Dr Harold Offeh and UCL Professor of Biology Prof…

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Episode 4: How is law good for your health? 35:18

3+ y ago35:18

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In this month’s episode, we speak to Sir Keir Starmer - Leader of the Labour Party and former human rights lawyer – and Professor Dame Hazel Genn - Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and UCL Vice Provost Advancement & International - to explore the intersections of law and public health, and how law and legal services can help to mitigate health ineq…

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Episode 3: People and Power 33:02

3+ y ago33:02

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In public health, we often refer to 'hard to reach' groups, but are we doing enough to listen to them? This month, we speak to the co-founders of Five X More, and UCL academic Dr Carol Rivas, to explore the role of discrimination and structural disadvantage in the health inequalities experienced by different marginalised groups in the UK, and the i…

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Episode 2: Stand-up for public health: how can comedy improve our health? 34:04

3+ y ago34:04

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In this month’s episode, we speak to award-winning comedian and author Laura Lexx and London-based Scottish comedian and UCL academic Dr Matt Winning, to explore how comedy and humour can be used to improve health for all. Laughter is good for your health - a good laugh can reduce stress. It can also be used as a tool to reduce the stigma of people…

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Episode 1: What does climate change have to do with public health? 31:49

3+ y ago31:49

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Welcome to Episode 1 of Public Health Disrupted, the brand new podcast from UCL Health of the Public. This month, hosts Xand and Rochelle are joined by Dominique Palmer - dedicated climate activist, organiser within the UK Student Climate Network and one of Forbes 100 Top UK Environmentalists - and Prof Paul Ekins OBE - Professor of Resources and E…

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Public Health Disrupted - Series Trailer 8:04

4y ago8:04

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Presented by Doctor, writer and TV Presenter Xand Van Tulleken and community health psychologist, UCL lecturer and self-proclaimed hippie, Dr Rochelle Burgess. This podcast is about public health, but more importantly, it’s about the systems that need disrupting to make public health better. In each episode, we’ll be challenging the status quo of t…

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Episode 82:What I Learned from Listening (Year Two) 19:32

4+ y ago19:32

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It’s the last episode of 2019 and Colleen is sharing what she learned this year from listening to all her guests. This year provided so much food for thought as she listened and learned from a variety of people. Find out what were the most popular episodes and which ones have stuck with Colleen long after the microphone was turned off. Colleen also…

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Episode 80: The Upsides and Pitfalls of the Enneagram with Jenn Batchelor and Anna Jordan 55:48

5y ago55:48

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In this episode we talk Enneagram, or rather the pros and cons of this ancient self-knowledge tool. Colleen chats with two friends, Jenn Batchelor and Anna Jordan (from episode 77), about why they love the Enneagram, how its current popularity has effected its use, and what can be problematic about the Enneagram. Whether you’ve been doing a deep di…

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Episode 79: A Conversation About the Role of Government with Mike Lindberg 52:21

5y ago52:21

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This week we’ve got another special conversation. Colleen sits down with her long time friend, Mike Lindberg, to discuss the role of government. Mike and Colleen have spent many an hour discussing all the things they disagree about and over time they’ve come to realize their differences of opinion may root in what they each believe about the truest…

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Episode 78: A Conversation about "Mismatching" Students to Listen Across Divides 38:51

5y ago38:51

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What happens when you use the technology of Match.com to do its opposite? Instead of connecting people in common you try to connect people across differences. And then what would happen if you took that technology into classrooms and allowed students to video conference other students from vastly different socioeconomic, regional, and cultural plac…

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Episode 77: Transracial Adoption and Parenting with Anna Jordan 52:51

5y ago52:51

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This week’s discussion deals with the topic of transracial adoption and parenting. Guest Anna Jordan is a writer and educator as well as a mom to three, including a son who came to her family through adoption. Anna and Colleen discuss Anna’s family’s story, the unique challenges that face transracial families, and how the conversation around transr…

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Episode 76: From Listening to Working Together with Graham Bodie and Pearce Godwin 42:07

5y ago42:07

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Today we have two special guests. Graham Bodie and Pearce Godwin are two colleagues who are doing good work to help our country listen across the divide. Graham Bodie is a listening scholar, educator, and consultant. Pearce Godwin is Founder & CEO of Listen First Project, Executive Director of National Conversation Project, and leader of the #Liste…

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Episode 75: A Conversation about the "Love Anyway" Film 24:53

5y ago24:53

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This week’s episode features a discussion about the new film about the organization Preemptive Love. Jeremy and Jessica started Preemptive Love Coalition during the middle of the Iraq War in in 2008. Over the past decade they have been a non-profit on the front lines, providing relief and serving and working for peace in conflict rich areas of Iraq…

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Episode 74: A Conversation about Outrage Culture with Tommy Powell 36:29

5y ago36:29

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This week’s episode is a little different. Over the next few months we will be hosting a series of dialogues with friends and listeners around topics of disagreement. In an effort to practice what we preach about engaging polarizing topics with compassion, civility and nuance, we’re going to be doing just that. This week I sat down with my husband …

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Episode 73: Polyamory with the Triad Family 51:42

5y ago51:42

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This week we the Triad family is here to discuss polyamory and their family. Katie, Luis and Raquel are a polyamorous family From Baltimore, Maryland. We discuss the backlash they received for their choice to pursue this lifestyle, what challenges do they face and why they choose each other despite those challenges. You may not agree with their unc…

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Episode 72: Listening Across Differences with Tracy Hollister 52:26

5y ago52:26

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Welcome back! Today is the International Day of Listening! We have a special episode today with Tracy Hollister. Tracy works for the organization Listening Room Conversations, an organization attempting to heal divides with a conversational model developed by dialogue experts in order to facilitate connection between people despite their difference…

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Episode 71: Is Fall the Best or the Worst with Ryann Kehoe 25:58

5y ago25:58

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This week we have a lighter contentious topic to hash out. As the children have now gone back to school and the unofficial end of summer is just around the corner it’s time to answer this most important question once and for all: Is fall the best or the worst? Colleen joins her sister Ryann to debate the merits and drawbacks to this polarizing seas…

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Episode 70: The Adversity Effect with Kenneth Cheadle 46:56

5y ago46:56

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Adversity is a common theme for everyone. No one is exempt from dealing with adversity in some form or another and yet the universe does not dole out adversity equally. Today’s guest is Kenneth Cheadle, a speaker, certified life and career coach, a millennial leader, entrepreneur, and author. Ken’s own story of success includes beating the odds and…

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Episode 69: White Supremacy and the Church with Lenny Duncan 56:09

5y ago56:09

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This week addresses the topic of white supremacy and the church. Does the church play a role in white supremacy? What is theirs to do in dismantling it? And what will the cost be if the church doesn’t take on this work? Guest Lenny Duncan helps answer these questions. Lenny is a pastor and a mission developer, a queer black man and the author of De…

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Episode 68: Free Speech and the Intellectual Dark Web with Freddy Weinberg 51:59

5y ago51:59

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This week we are tackling free speech with a conversation with Freddy Weinberg about the Intellectual Dark Web. Freddy is a thinker, a journalist and the host of the Live Learn Repeat Podcast. Freddy and I discuss what, exactly, the IDW is, and whether or not free speech is at stake in our country. Is political correctness a threat to our country o…

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Episode 67: Sugar Addiction with Michael Collins 47:42

5y ago47:42

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This week we’re talking about sugar! Is it as bad as some say? Are we going to look back 100 years and be astonished we ever fed it to children? Or is it not that big of a deal? Today’s guest, Michael Collins has been sugar free for 30 years. He is the founder of SugarAddiction.com and Chairman of the Board of the Food Addiction Institute, and …

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Episode 66: Changing Your Political Ideology with John Wood 50:09

5y ago50:09

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What happens when the political ideologies you once believed don’t hold the weight that they used to? What does it look like to shift from one political party to the other. Our guest today John Wood did just that. At one time John campaigned passionately for Barak Obama. Just a few years later he was running himself as a Republican for the Congress…

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Episode 65: The Power of Revolutionary Relationships with Rozella White 50:34

5y ago50:34

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This week we are talking about Revolutionary Relationships. Guest Rosella White is the author of the new book Love Big: The Power of Revolutionary Relationships to Heal the World which delves into this concept of revolutionary relationships as relationships that change ourselves and the world around us. Rosella shares what she’s learned about the m…

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Episode 64: The Foster Care System with Gwen Hicks 47:08

5y ago47:08

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This week we’re talking about the foster care system, the good, the bad and the ugly. Guest Gwen Hicks is an educator, advocate and champion of kids in the foster care system. As the Chief Dreamer of Amarillo Angels, a non-profit designed to support children in foster care and their foster families, she has served those on the front lines within th…

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Episode 63: Changing Our Opinions with Lyra Repplinger 43:55

5y ago43:55

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We’re back!!! This week's episodes includes a conversation with an old friend. Lyra Repplinger and Colleen discuss a few things that they’ve changed their opinions on over the years. You may remember Lyra from episode 39, a recap episode. This time Lyra and Colleen take turns sharing a few of the big and small things they’ve changed their minds abo…

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Episode 62: Polarizing Summer Opinions with Marty Finn 36:47

5+ y ago36:47

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We’ve got another special episode! Every once in a while we take a break from all of our serious conversations for something a little more lighthearted. Last weekend was Memorial Day weekend which is the unofficial start of summer and so we are going to discuss polarizing summer opinions. Our “fun” polarizing opinion episodes can be some of our mos…

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Episode 61: What We Learned Episodes 52-60 15:33

5+ y ago15:33

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This week we have a recap episode! Every eight or nine episodes we pause to think about what we’ve learned from our guests. This week it’s just Colleen behind the mic sharing what she's learned from this set of conversations. We’ll be looking at episodes 52-60. This includes Pornography Addiction with Mark Macdonald, Depolarizing Politics with Davi…

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Episode 60: Reframing the Singular Narrative with Jonathan Brooks 53:53

5+ y ago53:53

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This week’s conversation covers a multitude of topics. My guest, Jonathan Brooks and I discuss the damaging effects of a singular narrative, what happens when escaping from your neighborhood becomes the definition of success and how falling in love with the place you live is the best hope for effecting change in your community. Jonathan is a lifelo…

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Episode 59: Sexual Orientation and the Church (part 3) with David Bennett 53:49

5+ y ago53:49

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This week we are finishing our series around sexual orientation and the Church. My guest is David Bennett. David hails from Sydney, Australia, lives in Oxford, where he is reading for his PhD in theological ethics, and works as an international speaker and research fellow for the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, and RZIM. He holds postgradu…

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Episode 58: Non-Binary Gender Identity with Mason Aid 57:45

5+ y ago57:45

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This week we are tackling a topic many may be unfamiliar or uneducated about. Mason Aid is here to talk about non-binary gender identity. Mason is an LGBTQ educator and advocate who helps educators and mental health professionals know how to better support teens as they come out and/or deal with mental health issues. Mason and I discuss what it mea…

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Episode 57: The Reality of the American Dream and Upward Mobility with Lindsy Wallace 55:39

5+ y ago55:39

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This week we are talking about the American Dream. What is the American Dream? Is it accessible to everyone? My guest is Lindsy Wallace, a wife and mother who has followed Jesus to the margins of society. We talk about the concept of the American Dream as well as downward and upward mobility, the ways in which our systems are designed with some inh…

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Episode 56: Trans Identity and the Church with Ellie Dote 53:43

5+ y ago53:43

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This week the topic is the intersection of trans identity and faith. The guest, Ellie Dote, is a deeply faithful Christian who has transitioned from male to female. She is on a mission to start the conversation about how and where trans people can belong in faith communities. Ellie and Colleen chat about her story, theology and the role she sees he…

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