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In this epsiode I interviewed Michael Holden, an exceptional writer who started his career at Loaded magazine in 1994. He ended up in a psychiatric hospital during that time, which we discuss. After that he wrote for The Guardian Guide before becoming a Hollywood writer. Then he ended up back living with his elderly parents, caring for them.The result was a book called The Reluctant Carer, which was published in 2022. What is peculiar about it is he published it anonymously. We talk about the pros and cons of that, and why he has decided to finally put his name to it.You can buy Michael's book here at Bookshop. His original article from The Guardian in 2019, which we discuss, is here. He recommended Going Mad in Hollywood by David Sherwin, which is at Waterstones. And you can buy my books here at Bookshop. Thank you for listening.
Simple steps to retain your energy own in a healing session with a client - using life force energy in a session, as the Hollow Bone. These basic steps will allow you to feel less drained, depleted or tired in or after a session with a client (giving your energy away). And will prevent you from taking on the clients energy as your own (feeling sick, hot, strange, ill & more). https://u3t0fhglhol.typeform.com/to/PlTQZL64 to fill out the survey to win a spot in our upcoming online course for Reiki Practitioners, worth nearly £300. www.instagram.com/fireheartedlife is where you'll find Jayne most.
I focus on the need to ground as a practitioner & grounding your clients. Both key elements in a safe & powerful healing session. It's impossible to talk about that without mentioning Shamanic Guardian Guide & hollow bone. In daily life, your Shamanic Guardian Guide won't stop you from experiencing all of the many varied things that you need to as a human. But it will filter out any energetic 'stuff' that does not belong to you, or that is not meant for you as you navigate your day. As a Practitioner, a Guardian Guide will help you to retain your own energy & not lose any to your work session. You might have heard the Shamanic term, hollow bone. This means a practitioner steps out of the healing space (completely) when working with a client & lets Universal Life Force Energy flow through. With a practitioner as a hollow bone, there is no scope for them to be left feeling drained, depleted & tired. If a practitioner is left feeling this way, it is likely they are using their own energy in the session rather than being the hollow bone, where Universal Life Force Energy is being used. I chat on this & more with great tips & talks you through how to connect with your Shamanic Guardian Guide as the weekly activity at the end of the podcast. @shamanicreikiuk www.fireheartedlife.co.uk.
Kathryn Bromwich is one of the best music journalists plying their trade in Britain today. She's a writer and commissioning editor on the Observer New Review, but I first encountered her when she was working as the acting deputy editor of the forever missed Guardian Guide. Before that her words on pop culture appeared regularly in Dazed, Vice, Time Out and The Independent, and astute and entertaining words they were too, but I think some of her best ever work has been the revelatory articles she's written for her paymasters about her experience with long Covid. That's a theme that has informed her debut novel, At the Edge of the Woods – in shops now - which we principally talk about on this episode. It is a excellent opening salvo for a side hustle that I hope will produce many more original stories. But first. A woman. In the woods. With secrets. And pain. And the arrival of a face from her past... Twitter - @jamesjammcmahon Substack - https://spoook.substack.com YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Vf_1E1Sza2GUyFNn2zFMA Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesmcmahonmusicpod/
Bow Anderson joins Ewan Petrie for this weeks episode of "The Tracks That Take Us Back". Bow is undeniably one of the most exciting talents to emerge from Scotland in the last few years. Signed to music giants Universal, Bow released her debut single "Sweater" in March 2020 and it has since amassed over 4 million streams online. Born and bred in Edinburgh, Bow attended Portobello High School before moving to London to study at the BIMM Institute, the music school that has seen the likes of George Ezra and James Bay pass through its doors. Since graduating Bow has begun putting her stamp on the music scene and she has gained an army of loyal fans including Cyndi Lauper and Elton John. Described by the Guardian Guide as "tear stained soul" and by Notion as "powerful vocals astride feisty pop melodies", it's only a matter of time before Bow becomes a household name. From learning dance routines at one of Edinburgh's most famous locations to belting out a "Scottish classic" at house parties, listen as Bow takes us back to some of her favourite childhood memories on "The Tracks That Take Us Back".
Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and guest host Russell Balkind for Episode 19 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, (produced by Russell too). This week's guests are writer/comedian Andrea Hubert and comedy writer/producer Howard Cohen .Follow them on social media, follow US on social media and don't forget to let us know what you think about the show.Facebook: @JewTalkinTwitter: @JewTalkinInstagram: @JewTalkinLots more fantastic episodes are waiting to be released every Friday morning, so don't forget to subscribe and leave us a 5* review - it really helps other people find the show. Go on… it's what your mother would want!--------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrea Hubert: Twitter @ShutUpAndreahttps://www.andreahubert.comAndrea describes herself as a comedian, writer and amateur taxidermist. She claims to have only ever stuffed one mouse (Alan) but still likes to think of it as a hobby, albeit a rarely practiced one. She has performed stand up comedy all over the UK. Andrea performed her debut Edinburgh show 'Week' at the Edinburgh Festival in 2016, and received lovely reviews, her second show 'Holes of Joy' at the Edinburgh Festival in 2018 also went pretty well. She's currently writing her 3rd hour, which will probably revolve around her Jewishness, and how to avoid talking about the middle east at dinner parties. Andrea does film writing for The Guardian Guide, and comedy for TV. She contributed sketches for BBC's Walk on the Wildside, and E4's Mad on Chelsea. In 2013, she and her writing partner Ryan Cull won the BAFTA Rocliffe New Comedy Writing Forum. They sold their first sitcom to the BBC, and are currently finishing their first feature length script. Howard Cohen: Twitter @TheHowardCohen Insta @TheHowardCohenHoward Cohen is creative director at Rogo Productions. He is a Bafta-winning producer who has developed shows for companies including Warner Bros, Disney, Fulwell 73, Expectation Entertainment and Lion Television. Commissioned projects include Sky's animal game-show Play Your Pets Right, BBC's Impractical Jokers, Stacey Dooley Investigates for BBC3, Unrighteous for Dave, and two episodes of Sky's scripted Urban Myths series. He also co-hosts the podcast Dane Baptiste Questions Everything. As a short film maker his work has been nominated for awards around the world including The London Short Film Festival, The Los Angeles Independent Film Festival & The Houston Comedy Film Festival. His film “Something For The Wickend” won the people's choice award at The London Short Film Showcase, and 2015's “The Milkman” won Best Film at The KinoDot International Film Festival. --------------------------------------------------------------------- *This episode was recorded under lockdown conditions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
I’ve been fielding a lot of questions recently about Spiritual protection and space clearing. There so much information out there about what’s ‘right’ and wrong’ It’s no wonder everyone gets confused about protection, smudging, space clearing etc. So I’m going to share what I do and why I do it. And why there’s NO RIGHT OR WRONG WAY with this work. Then I’m going to discuss how you can develop your own sense of how to work with protection and clearing. Using only clear, mindful intentional action. These are techniques I’ve developed a relationship with over many years and they work because I intend them to work. So, if you want to dance around naked, singing Kylie songs and waving a feather duster to clear your space…. Go ahead…. It will work! It’s ALL ABOUT INTENTIONAL ACTION. And when we talk about Spiritual Protection, our old friend FEAR comes out to play! We imagine all sorts of nasties in the night! But here’s the thing, we wear a seatbelt because we MIGHT crash. We don’t crash every time we get in a car… and many of us never crash. Spiritual Protection is the same. We learn how to work our spiritual seatbelt on the rare occasion we MIGHT crash… not because there are ‘bad spirits’ waiting to pounce at every corner! Activities & Journeys This project will help you to develop ways to protect and clear your space from unwanted energy. Part A Go on a Journey with your Guides and ask to be shown a technique to use to protect your home. Put the technique into practice Spend some time noticing how different your home feels (this can also work with offices, hotel rooms etc.) Part B Go on a journey with your Guardian Guide (who we met in Episode 46) and ask to be shown what techniques you can use to clear your body at the end of each day. Put the technique into practice for a few days 3. Keep a note of how you feel and how this changes for you. Don’t know how to Journey? No worries. I got you. You can sign up for my free monthly live online introduction to Shamanism training here.
Empaths are highly sensitive individuals, who have a keen ability to sense what people around them are thinking and feeling. Psychologists may use the term empath to describe a person that experiences a great deal of empathy, often to the point of taking on the pain of others at their own expense. Here are some key pointers to Empathic Ability: Closeness and intimacy can overwhelm you You have good intuition You don’t do well in crowded places You have a hard time not caring People tend to tell you their problems You don’t like conflict You often feel like you don’t fit in You tend to isolate You have a hard time setting boundaries You sometimes find it tough to cope with sensory and emotional overload If these describe you then you are what I call an Enslaved Empath. You currently don’t understand your gifts or how to use them appropriately. They control your life and often make it difficult to function well in your world. Some people are deeply defined by their label of Empath and also use it to absolve responsibility for their own health and well-being… I’m an empath so I can x or y… Here are some steps you can take to become an Empowered Empath! Believe you can make changes & protect yourself. You need to choose the path of empowerment & not be defined by the apparent weakness of empathic gifts. Use visualisation techniques like light or bubbles to surround your energetic field. If you need something stronger imagine a blast of light pushing energy that’s not yours away. Work with the Guardian Guide from last weeks episode. I’ll include the journey to meet this guide again this week. Sort out your boundaries and learn to say no. Work with a therapist or practitioner to support you with the mindset you need to make the shift from enslaved to empowered. Remember that walking around feeling others emotions is not ethical or appropriate. Set the intention in your life that you only feel or hear or know things that will DIRECTLY affect you. That way you will develop your intuition properly knowing you are only hearing or feeling energy that’s relevant to you. It’s also way more ethical. No guilt here! When you know better you do better! Don’t play the victim. Empaths often lack self-worth. After a while, your need to be loved can turn into a victim mentality. This is commonly seen in spiritual relationships where the guru ends up with all of the resources and the devotees are drained of self-esteem, money and more. The benefits of being an Empowered Empath You have way more energy. Your intuition is clearer, ethical and pointed at the right things for you, not for others. Your sense of inner personal power and confidence will grow. If you work or want to work in the healing field you will be a way more effective holder of space. You empower yourself to move towards your destiny in this life as your energy is held in your centre and not scattered to the four winds. You empower others. Activities & Journeys A) Do the Guardian Guide Journey from last week Click here to listen. If you have not met this guide yet go ahead and do the Journey from last week. When you’ve met your Guardian Guide, move on to part B below. B) This is what I used to call the Body Protector Guide. If you have a relationship with this Guide already then go on a Journey and ask to be shown how this guide can help and support you through an empathic transformation. If any of the list above or a combination of them describe you then here is a mantra that I would like you to use for 7 days. ‘I am an Empowered Empath’ For at least 60 seconds as often as you can remember throughout the day. Min 3 times Working with water to transmute negative energy. Run yourself a bath, take a long shower, swim in a river or ocean – find water that you can immerse in. Take your time to connect with the water, feel it all around your body. Then ask the water to take from your
Sonia Poulton is a Writer, Broadcaster and Social Commentator. She began broadcasting for TV and Radio in 1991 and from 1987 - 1997 She was a music journalist contributing to titles including Q Magazine, Muzik, The Guardian Guide and The London Evening Standard. Her assignments included a tour of the War Child Exhibition with David Bowie and touring America and Europe with multi-million selling bands. She was one of the last journalists to tour with rap artist, The Notorious B.I.G. before his murder in 1997. From 1997 onwards, Sonia's creative horizons expanded and she now comments on a variety of human interest issues for national and international press. She has investigated youth culture and knife crime (The Independent); Pushy Parents (Daily Mirror) Bad Manners (Daily Express); Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Daily Mail); The Sexualisation of Young Girls (The Sun); Home Education (The Times) and A Multi-cultural Society (Daily Telegraph) among many others. Sonia is infamous for her outspoken views on State and parental neglect, global inequalities and a culture where people are famous for being famous. She has lamented the sexualisation of young girls, the feminisation of young boys and the dangers of raising children in a 'fatherless society'. Related Links: http://soniapoulton.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/sonia.poulton https://twitter.com/SoniaPoulton
It’s the final run in our marathon training series
We’re five weeks into our marathon training programme - are you in race shape yet?
Brace yourself for the fourth run in of our six-week marathon training series
It’s the third session in our marathon training series
It’s the second week of our marathon training series
Welcome to our new marathon training series!
These 6 podcasts - designed by an experienced running coach, and intended for advanced runners - will help in your wider preparations for marathon training. Launches Monday February 15 2016
It's been an exciting week and we have lots of Shake It Off news! Taylor's new single has been tearing up the charts and shattering pop records! We recap all of the milestones that it's reached so far. Make sure you keep gifting Shake It Off to your friends on iTunes (smarturl.it/TS1989) and watching the music video on YouTube! #SwiftieProblems: When you're singing Shake It Off in perfect timing then you breathe at the wrong time and everything is ruined.-via @MyGirlTSwizzle Taylor gave a great interview recently for Guardian Guide magazine where she talks about feminism, the message behind Shake It Off, defining the 1989 era and much more! We discuss several great quotes from this article, as well as another recent article from the Tennesseean about Taylor's shift from country to pop. For more discussion on feminism, listen to Episode 51 - Why Do Feminists Hate Taylor Swift? If you haven't listened yet, we released a special mini episode earlier this week recapping everything from the MTV VMAs, including Taylor's debut performance of Shake It Off. Go listen! Do you want to win an iTunes download of Shake It Off? Enter our giveaway TODAY ONLY (August 27th) by following us at twitter.com/swiftcast13, retweeting our giveaway tweet, SUBSCRIBING to us here on iTunes, and sending a screenshot showing you're subscribed.
The first of our advanced running guides is a threshold run. Download the entire series via iTunes
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Welcome to our new running guide series: the hard work starts here! Download the entire series via iTunes
It's another mix of running and walking as we continue the training programme. Download the entire series via iTunes
It's the final run of this training proramme – 30 minutes with no breaks. Download the entire series via iTunes
This week, it's a 25-minute run with no recovery walks. Download the entire series via iTunes
This week's challenge is to run for 20 minutes, non-stop. Download the entire series via iTunes
You'll be running for longer and taking fewer recovery breaks in this fifth week of the training programme. Download the entire series via iTunes
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It's a mix of 90 second runs and two-minute recovery walks this week. Download the entire series via iTunes
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I had a week off recently and whilst digging around for tunes online I rediscovered a chunk of early remixes by Terry Farley and Pete Heller of Junior Boys Own fame. In the early 90s I was a big fan of their work under the Fire Island and Roach Motel monicas. This session pulls together some of my favourite FI/RM looped bassline grooves and brass stabs.We open in 1992 with Sunsreem’s classic Perfect Motion, slide through dubs of Juliet Roberts and Monie Love (two records I foggily recall mixing back-to-back continuously one morning after Flesh at the Hacienda), In Your Bones reminds me of dancing downstairs at Paradise Factory with Selina, and as one of the finest house tunes ever produced, Movin’ On has to be one of my Desert Island Discs.Transatlantic was a tune Ted used to play at post-Strangeways chill outs, and we close with a blissful Balearic take on New Order’s Regret - not a great dance floor moment, but a regular on the car stereo driving to work in my Key103 days.All this seems pretty fitting as Junior Boys Own hosted their own event in London last night (according to the Guardian Guide, their first in 16 years) and much of the catalogue is now reissued through Defected, although I’ve tried to steer around some of those more obvious classics.Most of the tunes are from ’92 - ’95 so I’ll also upload this to the Classic Archive podcast. Apologies if you get duplicates. Enjoy!Perfect Motion: Roach Motel / Fire Island - mixed 3 Oct, chaptered 4 Oct.1 Sunscreem - Perfect Motion (Boys Own Mix)2 Deep Zone - It's Gonna Be Alright (Farley & Heller's Fire Island Vocal)3 Monie Love - Never Give Up (Junior Dub)4 Juliet Roberts - Caught In The Middle (Roach Motel Dub)5 Fire Island - In Your Bones6 Roach Motel - Movin’ On (Correct House Mix)7 Monie Love - The Power (Roach Motel Mix)8 Fire Island - Fire Island9 Ultra Naté - How Long (Fire Island mix)10 Roach Motel - Transatlantic (Uptown Mix)11 Roach Motel - Happy Bizznezz12 Fire Island - There But for the Grace of God (Roach Motel Dub)13 Danny Tenaglia - Music Is The Answer (Dancin' And Prancin') (Fire Island's 'La Musica Es La Respuesta')14 New Order - Regret (Fire Island Mix)146.2 MB | AAC | 256 kbps
Riazat Butt takes a journey through the Muslim musical landscape and spots some wheat among the chaff. Joining her in the studio are producer Navid Akhtar and Guardian Guide editor Malik Meer.
I had a week off recently and whilst digging around for tunes online I rediscovered a chunk of early remixes by Terry Farley and Pete Heller of Junior Boys Own fame. In the early 90s I was a big fan of their work under the Fire Island and Roach Motel monicas. This session pulls together some of my favourite FI/RM looped bassline grooves and brass stabs.We open in 1992 with Sunsreem’s classic Perfect Motion, slide through dubs of Juliet Roberts and Monie Love (two records I foggily recall mixing back-to-back continuously one morning after Flesh at the Hacienda), In Your Bones reminds me of dancing downstairs at Paradise Factory with Selina, and as one of the finest house tunes ever produced, Movin’ On has to be one of my Desert Island Discs.Transatlantic was a tune Ted used to play at post-Strangeways chill outs, and we close with a blissful Balearic take on New Order’s Regret - not a great dance floor moment, but a regular on the car stereo driving to work in my Key103 days.All this seems pretty fitting as Junior Boys Own hosted their own event in London last night (according to the Guardian Guide, their first in 16 years) and much of the catalogue is now reissued through Defected, although I’ve tried to steer around some of those more obvious classics.Most of the tunes are from ’92 - ’95 but as I only mixed this today, you’ll also find it on my Latest Mixes podcast. Apologies if you get duplicates. Enjoy!Perfect Motion: Roach Motel / Fire Island - mixed 3 Oct, chaptered 4 Oct.1 Sunscreem - Perfect Motion (Boys Own Mix)2 Deep Zone - It's Gonna Be Alright (Farley & Heller's Fire Island Vocal)3 Monie Love - Never Give Up (Junior Dub)4 Juliet Roberts - Caught In The Middle (Roach Motel Dub)5 Fire Island - In Your Bones6 Roach Motel - Movin’ On (Correct House Mix)7 Monie Love - The Power (Roach Motel Mix)8 Fire Island - Fire Island9 Ultra Naté - How Long (Fire Island mix)10 Roach Motel - Transatlantic (Uptown Mix)11 Roach Motel - Happy Bizznezz12 Fire Island - There But for the Grace of God (Roach Motel Dub)13 Danny Tenaglia - Music Is The Answer (Dancin' And Prancin') (Fire Island's 'La Musica Es La Respuesta')14 New Order - Regret (Fire Island Mix)142 MB | AAC | 320 kbps