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Progressive conversations about books, publishing and writing.
Corporate capes? Working class heroes? It's a podcast about radical politics...told through some not so radical comic books.
Conversations with the biggest names in horror fiction. A podcast for horror readers who want to know where their favourite stories came from . . . and what frightens the people who wrote them.
The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds, people possessed by a sound, a vision, a mission. The episodes tell deeply layered stories, lush with interviews, field recordings and music. From powerhouse NPR producers The Kitchen Sisters (The Keepers, Hidden Kitchens, The Hidden World of Girls, The Sonic Memorial Project, Lost & Found Sound, and Fugitive Waves). "The Kitchen Sisters have done some of best radio stories ever broadcast" —Ira G ...
So Excited that you dropped by, because the timing couldn’t be better 🖤 This is your TIME to be seen as the leader you are, land the promotion you deserve & get paid your worth! It’s time to get Elevated! I am your host Rebecca, Leadership Coach, Career Queen, Twin Mom & Wife. From one career woman to another who navigated the challenges of being a black woman in a profession that lacked diversity with no rule book to help me figure out the keys to climbing the corporate ladder, I am on a mi ...
It is the next book of an author of apocalyptic books. It may be said that this book is an adapted version of “Book of Rescue from the Doomsday 2012-2013” for the World of Unicellular. Moreover, it is a span-new book. Are you still waiting for Armageddon? Doomsday has already come… You needn’t waiting for it neither in 2012, nor in some other year. People should be deleted. Critique: It is about the connection of Anunaki and the Earth for the first time. By the way, by this fact “The World o ...
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210-Ray Eames—Industrial Designer & Artist: Beauty in the Everyday
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Many know Ray Eames as the small, dirndled woman behind her more famous husband, Charles Eames. But Ray was the industrial designer bending plywood in the spare bedroom, a talented artist who saw the world full of color, the visionary who treated folk art, cigarette wrappers, flowers, and toys as equally valuable and inspiring. Ray brought the spar…
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The difference between a $10k and a $100k career
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Are you stuck in a $10k career, wondering how to break through to the next level? In this episode, we explore the difference between a $10k and a $100k career and the mindset shift required to make the leap. 4 years ago, I had no idea that making $100k was possible - and not just possible, but something that I could do and help other women achieve!…
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134 – Margaret Atwood & Hope in the Dystopia
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There is no cool and collected way to introduce this week’s episode. Our guest is Margaret Atwood. Yes, that Margaret Atwood. The author of The Handmaid’s Tale. One of the few writer’s who genuinely deserves to be called an icon (though she may be tired of the term). She published her first novel in 1969 and now as she enters her seventh decade of …
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How to step into your cultural power as a black woman at work
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Do you see your culture as a liability or an asset when it comes to climbing the corporate ladder? It takes courage to embrace your cultural identity, especially in workplaces where you can't see people in leadership who look like you. I only recently started to say my full name out loud in meetings for fear of the immediate biases it would trigger…
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133 – Jacqueline Holland & At Last! Vampires!
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Vampires, finally! After years of recording a horror podcast, I’ve finally recorded a conversation about the first thing you all probably think of if I said “horror monster.” Actually, at this very moment, maybe you’d name a Floridian politician but you get my drift… I’m delighted to be joined by Jacqueline Holland, to talk about her new novel of b…
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209 - Black Reconstruction in America - W.E.B. Du Bois' 1935 Groundbreaking / Myth-Busting Book
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In 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois, scholar, public intellectual, and social and political activist, published his magnum opus: Black Reconstruction in America. In it, he tackled the subject of the American Civil War and, especially, the decade or so that followed, a period known as Reconstruction. During Reconstruction it seemed, for a time, that the South…
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From Someday to Now: Closing the gap between your thoughts, feelings and actions
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If you are a frequent listener, by now you have been inspired to start thinking and dreaming big. But those big goals can often create gaps - gaps that you didn't even know existed. In this episode, which is straight out of a Monday Mindset Session from the Elevate Collective, we discuss the importance of aligning your mindset with the feelings you…
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132 – Matt Ruff & A Hostile Universe Here on Earth
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This week I take a road trip with Matt Ruff, into the more monstrous corners of the universe. Sure, some of them are alien planets… but some are here on earth, with the racists! Matt is best known as the author of 2016’s Lovecraft Country. He never planned to write a sequel, yet here it is. The Destroyer of Worlds picks up several years later, when…
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How To Write About War 2: Battleground Bollywood
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India is home to the world’s largest film industry that instrumentalizes soft power to generate all kinds of imperial fantasies and aspirations. It has historically been plagued by a pernicious nationalism wherein the othering, vilification and downright humiliation of religions, races, ethnicities and castes is normalized. A recent spate of blockb…
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How To Write About War 1: Reporting on Ukraine
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Are you shocked and distressed about the way in which war and displacement is being represented, reported and talked about right now with the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Writers, journalists, activists, scholars, Bhakti Shringarpure, Nadifa Mohamed, Suchitra Vijayan and Billy Kahora think through this difficult topic. Recorded on March 25, 2022, t…
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3 Ways To Powerfully Lean Into Your Introvert Strengths As A Leader At Work
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When you’re an introvert navigating the corporate world, it can be easy to feel as though your introversion is a weakness. People constantly say that to be seen as a leader, you need to start speaking up more. You need to take charge. But when you’re an introvert, these things simply don’t come easily to you…and it can quickly begin to feel like le…
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131 – Johnny Compton & A Pyroclastic Flow of Negative Energy
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I like my ghosts like I like my podcasts – weird and slightly furious. Thankfully, this week delivers on both counts – with Johnny Compton’s The Spite House delivering more ghosts than you think you could fit into 250-pages … and none of them are anything less than fuming! Johnny talks us through the odd, off-kilter history of spite houses, we trac…
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208 - Never a Man Spake Like This Man: The Black Preacher As Performing Artist
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In the early 1980s, Black students and the African American community at American University had been demonstrating for more access and inclusion in the university’s community services. One of the demands was for four hours of time every Saturday on Radio station WAMU, the campus station. This demand was met and suddenly Black students and the comm…
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5 Powerful Ways to Shamelessly Self-Promote at Work
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I had a big misconception about shameless self-promotion when I was first beginning my career. And today I'm sharing what I learned, how to use self-promotion to advance your own career, and what that actually looks like in the workplace. I'm excited to be sharing a recording from my Elevate Live Wednesday show. I go live and interact and talk abou…
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130 – Mariana Enriquez & This Cruelty is Justified
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It’s a Valentine’s day episode and what better to celebrate today than a conversation about cruelty, brutal folklore, political terror and black magic? Don’t tell me I don’t understand my audience. I’m beyond delighted to welcome Mariana Enriquez to the show to talk about her massive novel, Our Share of Night. It features all of the above ingredien…
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Vol.2 #6 - The Push and Pull of Power: How Capital and Empire Shape Relationship to Oppression
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CW: Discussions of assaultBetween commodifying relationships and driving the need for imperial expansion, capitalism sure has done a number on this world. While all workers are victims of it, there are those upon whom the blows fall more heavily. Concurrently, there are those who, by the very nature of capitalist occlusion (and exclusion), are eith…
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Becoming The Designer of Your Financial Future
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I am thrilled to welcome a new guest onto the podcast this week–please welcome Tsitsi Mutiti, a Wealth Coach, award-winning Investment Manager, and Insuring Women’s Futures Ambassador, as well as the host of The Wealth Conversation Podcast. If you’re anything like me and Tsitsi, you might not have had in-depth financial conversations with your pare…
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129 – Stephen Graham Jones & Slashers Can Save the World
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Are you ready for another bloody confrontation? Same rules, different setting (actually still my attic bedroom) and more gore? Stephen Graham Jones AKA Professor Slasher, returns to Talking Scared to discuss Don’t Fear the Reaper, the sequel to his zeitgeist-blasting slasher-ode, My Heart is a Chainsaw. Reaper takes us back to Proofrock, Idaho for …
Criticisms of fast food often focus on the industrialized system that produces the burgers, buns and fries, or the food’s negative health impacts. Some criticisms have noted the deep ties between McDonald’s and the Black community, blaming communities of color for bad choices, sometimes blaming the fast food industry for being predatory with its ad…
When we grow up, we have a bad habit of setting aside ALL childish things…even the things that would serve us in our careers. As children, we set goals without concern for reason, limitation, or achievability. When we set goals, we set them without worrying about the “odds” of us being able to complete them. As adults, we tend to lose that ability …
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128 – C.J. Tudor & Locked Rooms at the End of the World
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It’s not even the end of January and we’re already dealing with the second apocalypse of the year. This one is written by CJ Tudor, whose new novel, The Drift, moves her out of the crime chillers she is best-known for, into a whole other world of horror. It’s a series of locked room mysteries, occurring in the hideous aftermath of global pandemic. …
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Contents of a Package Found at the Last Known Location of [REDACTED]
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Found on 1/25/23Is this a message? A warning? Who left this for us?If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of the subject of the recording, please email collectiveactioncomics@gmail.com.Solidarity.By Collective Action Comics
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Setting Goals With Intention: A Discussion Between Career Coaches
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A couple weeks ago, in Episode 72 of elevateHER, I talked about setting good goals for the year. This week, I’ve invited a guest on the podcast to talk a little more about how to set goals with intention as you’re going through a transitionary period. Please welcome Audrey Kusambiza Bolo, who works with clients navigating change and transition, nee…
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127 – Grady Hendrix and the Radical Puppet Collective
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When it comes to stress, they say selling a house is up there with divorce and death. Now imagine that house is haunted… by demonic puppets. Yeah – that’s the premise of Grady Hendrix’s brand-new horror novel, How to Sell a Haunted House. It combines Grady’s trademark humour, genre-knowledge and playfulness, with a genuinely frightening story about…
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A Sneak Peek Behind the Elevate Collective Curriculum
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When you sit through eight meetings in one day and realize… Only one meeting included any other women besides yourself, and That only one of THOSE women spoke up during that meeting… You know that something needs to change. I created The Elevate Collective because of one thing: We need more black women in leadership, period. And while many companie…
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126 – Stephen Markley & A Guided Tour To Our Future Hell
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…AAAND WE’RE BACK! I hope you’re slipping into 2023 like it’s a warm bath, but either way this week’s episode will be a cold, sharp system shock. The guest is Stephen Markley; the book is The Deluge – a 900-page beast of ecological and societal disintegration, and the best book I have read in decades. Imagine The Stand was based on rigorous scienti…
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206 - Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll - The Stock Market Wizard of San Quentin is Released!
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In 2015 we presented this story about Curtis Carroll, the Stock Market Wizard of San Quentin. Everyone in San Quentin called him Wall Street. He was teaching his fellow prisoners about stocks and had become an informal financial adviser to fellow inmates and correctional officers. After serving 27 years of a 54 years to life sentence in prison, Cur…
When I first found out how much my husband was paying for monthly coaching, I couldn’t believe it. More than that, I never thought it was something I should ever consider–I thought of coaching as something that only directors had any business investing in. I could not have been more wrong. Now that I know what it’s like to do this work surrounded b…
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Are You Interested or Committed to Your 2023 Career Goals?
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Welcome to 2023, ladies! Today, I want to talk about goals: what makes a great goal, what makes a poor goal, how you can keep yourself invested in your goals for the year, and more. If you’re making goals from a place of EXCITEMENT, not COMMITMENT, it’s very likely that in just a handful of weeks, you’ll be back to business as usual. Therefore, it’…
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205-Silent Echoes: Sound Artist Bill Fontana —The Bells of Notre Dame
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Since the devastating 2019 fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the ringing of the cathedral’s bells has ceased. Sound artist, Bill Fontana, known for his sound sculptures of Golden Gate Bridge, temple bells in Kyoto, and trees in Sequoia National Forest, creates a new work giving voice to the silenced bells of Notre Dame. To create his new work,…
The year is almost over. What is left to do except offer you my last-minute ranking of the best books I’ve read and enjoyed in 2022. I will warn you – I am poorly and my voice sounds like ten miles of bad gravel. This sounds like the Reba McIntyre book club. I am HUSKY!! Hang around for the afterword when my voice finally gives out as I labour over…
Today we are talking all about goals and intention setting ahead of 2023. This is the best time to think about what you want to achieve and how you are going to make it happen! We're going to focus on breakthrough successes, not overnight successes. Because overnight success doesn't really exist. Overnight success can take 5-10 years... it may look…
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124 – State of the Horror Nation 2022, with Emily Hughes & Janelle Janson
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It’s that time of year again. A time to reflect, to look back over a tumultuous twelve months, and to talk about the horror books that helped us survive them. 2022 has been a helluva year for the good kind of horror. Far too much for one man to cover. So I’ve drafted in some highly qualified friends – Emily Hughes and Janelle Janson. They have thei…
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10 Effective Ways to Maintain Your Boundaries During the Holidays
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Description: Here we are, ladies: the holiday season. A time for spending quality time with your families, making memories with your kids, and enjoying your time away from work… Or not. If you’re anything like me, you’re probably familiar with the struggle of setting boundaries between work time and family time–especially around the holidays. At th…
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123 – Rachel Harrison, Josh Malerman & A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Self-Indulgence
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It’s the Christmas Special and with the obligatory requirement to do something different – we’re turning the tables. Yes, I’m the one being interviewed this week. To make that a palatable offering for listeners, the guest interviewers are none other than Rachel Harrison and Josh Malerman. Friends of the show and horror superstars who, out of the go…
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204 - Library of Congress Acquires Kitchen Sisters' Audio Collection - KQED Forum Interview
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Over 7000 hours of interviews, oral histories, songs, field recordings, along with photographs, notebooks, journals, and research material created by The Kitchen Sisters has recently been acquired by The Library of Congress where it will be preserved and made accessible to researchers, students, other producers and the general public into the futur…
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7 Career-Limiting Moves We Are Leaving Behind in 2023
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Oftentimes, we are our own biggest limiters. There are many ways that we can get in our own way while chasing growth in our careers, and oftentimes, we don’t even realize we’re doing it. It is incredibly difficult to spot the ways we’re limiting ourselves without a little outside perspective, so in this week’s episode, I’m going to give you seven t…
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122 – A History of Gothic Horror, with Professor Roger Luckhurst
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Are you ready for some learnin’? This week rather than focusing on any single book, or any single author – I thought we’d have a little look at … y’know … the entire friggin’ history of Horror and Gothic across the centuries. After all, what’s a Christmas break from podcasting if you aren’t doubling the length of your episodes and making the scope …
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Let’s Normalize Asking for What We Want in Our Careers
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When you don’t ask the question, the answer will always be no. Only you know what you want in your career. And if you keep silent, thinking your boss will somehow read your mind and give you exactly what you’re hoping for, then you’ve already assured that the answer will be no. You can’t get what you want unless you ask for it. And as scary as aski…
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121 – Craig Engler & What Makes a Shudder Movie?
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This week I’m beginning my supposed ‘break’ from reading. There is still an episode, however, and it’s a doozy. You may be glad to hear I’ve put down the books for a short while, ‘cos my guest is a huge name from the cinematic aisle of the horror world – Craig Engler, GM of Shudder is in the house!! He joined me for a conversation back in October, …
Edmond Richardson is an audio producer for Uncuffed, a KALW podcast produced by people in prison. Recently, Edmond and his love, Avelina, got married inside San Quentin and Uncuffed produced this story. The Kitchen Sisters are great admirers of KALW’s Uncuffed podcast and are proud to share this story. KALW, San Francisco, has led rehabilitative cl…
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The 3-Part Framework To Take Your Career To The Next Level
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If you've been following me on LinkedIn or Instagram, you've probably seen me talking about my MVP framework. It’s one of my favorite tools that I’ve developed, both for myself and for my clients. This is a three-part framework that will lead to you being able to “level up” in your career, whatever that looks like for you. In this week’s episode, I…
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120 – Philip Fracassi & A Screaming Inferno of Chaos and Emotion
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Get ready to be sickened by my praise. My guest this week is Philip Fracassi. Last year his historical horror, The Boys in the Valley got the Stephen King endorsement. He’s already following up with A Child Alone With Strangers - his second novel (or is it his first, or his third – as you’ll hear it’s complicated). This book is an all-timer. It ble…
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The Benefits of Investing in Yourself: An Interview with Two Coaching Clients
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Sometimes hearing from others who have been where we are and found their way out is the best way to learn whether something is right for us or not. That’s why I’ve invited two of my wonderful clients onto the podcast this week to chat about their experiences with leadership coaching! In this week’s episode, we discussed… How do they feel now that t…
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119 – Charlotte Northedge & Houses Full of Haunted People
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Are you a city mouse or a country mouse? That’s the question at the heart of my conversation with Charlotte Northedge. Her new novel, The People Before argues that though the city may be a hassle, it’s a lot less scary than what waits out there in the fields and farmhouses of this pleasant land. Charlotte is very much a city mouse. She’s also the H…
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Radical Publishing Futures 10: Comma Press
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Episode 10 of the Radical Publishing Futures series features Meg Arenberg in conversation with Ra Page of Comma Press, based in Manchester, UK. They discuss Comma Press's exclusive focus on short story anthologies, what this kind of specialization allows the press to do, and the particular affordances of short fiction as a literary form, which Ra a…
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Your Answer to Elevating Your Career in 2023
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I have exciting news… I have a brand new offer made specifically for YOU! Over the past few months, I’ve been putting together a brand-new personalized group program, the Elevate Collective, and it is now officially open for enrollment. This week, I’ll be discussing… What you’ll get inside the Elevate Collective The inspiration behind this program …
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118 – Fiona Barnett & If You Go Down to the Woods Today
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It’s coming home, it’s coming … horror’s coming home! Alright, no one panic – this isn’t about football. We’ll avoid that particular nightmare of human corruption and talk about something much more nourishing – the delights of British Folk Horror. Our guest is Fiona Barnett, and these days it’s seems like a mini-celebration everytime I have a fello…
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202 — Harvesting Wild Rice—White Earth Ojibwe Land Recovery Project
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Each fall, the Ojibwe tribes of northern Minnesota harvest wild rice by hand. It’s a long process that begins with families in canoes venturing into the tall grasses, where rice is poled and gently brushed with knockers into the bed of the canoe. We journey to White Earth Reservation, out onto Big Rice Lake in a canoe, to see how one tribe is suppo…
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Investing in Your Career Growth for Transformational Results
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Let me tell you a secret: When you have skin in the game, you show up differently. When your company sends you to the trainings that they provide, you can come back and return to the same old day-to-day routine without anything lost. But when you invest in your OWN growth, you have something to lose…and more to gain. This week, I’ll be discussing… …
