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Making the Museum
Mission: Collaboration, with Barbara Miller and Danae Colomer

Making the Museum

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2025 57:24


What are the (top) secrets of better collaboration?Is collaboration like a game of ping pong? Or more like ballroom dancing? Is there a better way to disagree? Does having constraints make design ... better? How is an exhibition like a film? And what happens when your project feels — in this case, even literally — like “Mission: Impossible”?Barbara Miller (Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, Museum of the Moving Image) and Danae Colomer (Director of Exhibition Management and Design, Museum of the Moving Image) discuss “Mission: Collaboration” with host Jonathan Alger (Managing Partner, C&G Partners | The Exhibition and Experience Design Studio).Along the way: zombies, skateboards, and messages that self-destruct.Talking Points:1. A Moving Experience2. What is Collaboration? 3. Is It Ping Pong ... or Ballroom Dancing? 4. Constraints Make a Stronger Design 5. Sometimes It's Mission: Impossible How to Listen:Listen on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-the-museum/id1674901311  Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6oP4QJR7yxv7Rs7VqIpI1G  Listen at Making the Museum, the Website:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/podcast  Links to Every Podcast Service, via Transistor:https://makingthemuseum.transistor.fm/ Guest Bios:Barbara Miller is Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at Museum of the Moving Image in New York, where she organizes exhibitions and directs the content of the Museum's permanent collection of material culture related to film, television and digital media. Major projects at MoMI include The Jim Henson Exhibition; Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen; and Born Digital: Pathways Towards Preservation, an Andrew W. Mellon-funded initiative to institute sustainable collection and exhibition practices related to digital media. Prior to joining MoMI in 2009, Miller's wide-ranging research and storytelling projects included work on the nationally broadcast PBS documentary American Roots Music, for which she earned an Emmy nomination. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from New York University.Danae Colomer is an architect and exhibition designer with over 15 years of experience across museum, architecture, and film design. She is passionate about the power of storytelling and how it can be translated into physical space to create meaningful, immersive experiences. Originally from Spain, Danae discovered her passion for exhibition design at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Since relocating to New York in 2009, she worked at Ralph Appelbaum Associates on award-winning museums worldwide. In 2021, she joined the Museum of the Moving Image as Director of Exhibition Management and Design. She holds a Master's in Architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid and a Master's in Exhibition Design from FIT in New York. When she's not designing exhibitions, Danae explores the world through the curious eyes of her children — which currently means mastering the rules of soccer and decoding the unique language of skateboarding.About Making the Museum:Making the Museum is hosted (podcast) and written (newsletter) by Jonathan Alger. MtM is a project of C&G Partners | The Exhibition and Experience Design Studio.Learn more about the creative work of C&G Partners:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Links for This Episode:Barbara by Email:bmiller@movingimage.org Barbara on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-miller-8b788b13b/ Danae by Email:dcolomer@movingimage.org Danae on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/danaecolomer/ Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI):https://movingimage.org/ “Mission: Impossible — Story and Spectacle” (Exhibition at MoMI):https://movingimage.org/event/mission-impossible-story-and-spectacle/ Links for Making the Museum, the Podcast:Contact Making the Museum:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/contact Host Jonathan Alger, Managing Partner of C&G Partners, on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanalger Email Jonathan Alger:alger@cgpartnersllc.com C&G Partners | The Exhibition and Experience Design Studio:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Making the Museum, the Newsletter:Like the show? You might enjoy the newsletter. Making the Museum is also a free weekly professional development email for exhibition practitioners, museum leaders, and visitor experience professionals. (And newsletter subscribers are the first to hear about new episodes of this podcast.)Join hundreds of your peers with a one-minute read, three times a week. Invest in your career with a diverse, regular feed of planning and design insights, practical tips, and tested strategies — including thought-provoking approaches to technology, experience design, audience, budgeting, content, and project management.Subscribe to the newsletter:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/ 

Making the Museum
The Art of Choosing a Museum Architect, with Susanna Sirefman

Making the Museum

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 56:47


How do you choose the right architect for your museum?Is architecture about more than a building? Is architect selection about more than architecture? What is a design “brief”? Why are museum projects on “elephant time”? Are anonymous open design competitions a good thing? What comes after “good design is good business”?Susanna Sirefman (President, Dovetail Design Strategists) discusses “The Art of Choosing a Museum Architect” with host Jonathan Alger (Managing Partner, C&G Partners | The Exhibition and Experience Design Studio).Along the way: cello studies, Winston Churchill, and two lions named Patience and Fortitude. Talking Points:1. Design excellence is a basic human right2. Architecture is about more than a building3. Architect selection is about more than architecture4. Selecting the right architect is vital5. Ask the right questions and you'll get the right answers6. Moving beyond “Good design is good business”How to Listen:Listen on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-the-museum/id1674901311  Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6oP4QJR7yxv7Rs7VqIpI1G  Listen at Making the Museum, the Website:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/podcast  Links to Every Podcast Service, via Transistor:https://makingthemuseum.transistor.fm/ Guest Bio:Susanna Sirefman, President and Founder of Dovetail Design Strategists, draws from extensive knowledge of the latest design and building trends, providing her clients with unmatched access to both emerging and acclaimed talent in architecture. Trained as an architect at the renowned Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, England, Susanna's deep knowledge of the field informs her ability to advise on design, synthesize architectural concepts, making architecture accessible to the public.About Making the Museum:Making the Museum is hosted (podcast) and written (newsletter) by Jonathan Alger. MtM is a project of C&G Partners | The Exhibition and Experience Design Studio.Learn more about the creative work of C&G Partners:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Links for This Episode:Susanna on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanna-sirefman-17b8a813/ Susanna by email:info@dovetailstrategists.com Dovetail Design Strategists:https://www.dovetailstrategists.com Links for Making the Museum, the Podcast:Contact Making the Museum:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/contact Host Jonathan Alger, Managing Partner of C&G Partners, on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanalger Email Jonathan Alger:alger@cgpartnersllc.com C&G Partners | The Exhibition and Experience Design Studio:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Making the Museum, the Newsletter:Like the show? You might enjoy the newsletter. Making the Museum is also a free weekly professional development email for exhibition practitioners, museum leaders, and visitor experience professionals. (And newsletter subscribers are the first to hear about new episodes of this podcast.)Join hundreds of your peers with a one-minute read, three times a week. Invest in your career with a diverse, regular feed of planning and design insights, practical tips, and tested strategies — including thought-provoking approaches to technology, experience design, audience, budgeting, content, and project management.Subscribe to the newsletter:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/

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Making the Museum
Think Like a Children's Museum, with Edwin Link

Making the Museum

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 70:48


What if every museum were more like ... a children's museum?Why is play “agnostic”? Can you design an entire museum for every generation, all at the same time? How are children's museums like (and not like) other museums? How did they get that way? Wait, could we make an entire exhibition out of nothing but cardboard boxes? What is “co-learning”? And why don't more museum people visit … other people's museums?Along the way: teaching artists, art teachers, and what we really mean by “caregiver.”Talking Points:1. Children's museums, then and now2. See the word “museum” differently3. Play is agnostic4. Designing for multiple generations5. Caregivers as co-learners6. Why professionals should visit other museumsHow to Listen:Listen on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-the-museum/id1674901311  Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6oP4QJR7yxv7Rs7VqIpI1G  Listen at Making the Museum, the Website:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/podcast  Links to Every Podcast Service, via Transistor:https://makingthemuseum.transistor.fm/ Guest Bio:Edwin Link, M.Ed., serves as the Executive Director of Children's Museum of Atlanta, where he applies his 18 years of experience in the nonprofit, arts, education, children museums, and youth development sectors.  His experience includes developing and executing national initiatives focused on serving families in under-resourced communities, building community responsive experiences that create joy and wonder, building strategic partnerships, driving revenue to support strategic objectives, and identifying and implementing change management processes for operational efficiency.About Making the Museum:Making the Museum is hosted (podcast) and written (newsletter) by Jonathan Alger. MtM is a project of C&G Partners | The Exhibition and Experience Design Studio.Learn more about the creative work of C&G Partners:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Links for This Episode:Edwin Link on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwinlink/ The Children's Museum of Atlanta:https://childrensmuseumatlanta.org/ Links for Making the Museum, the Podcast:Contact Making the Museum:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/contact Host Jonathan Alger, Managing Partner of C&G Partners, on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanalger  Email Jonathan Alger:alger@cgpartnersllc.com  C&G Partners | The Exhibition and Experience Design Studio:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Making the Museum, the Newsletter:Like the show? You might enjoy the newsletter. Making the Museum is also a free weekly professional development email for exhibition practitioners, museum leaders, and visitor experience professionals. (And newsletter subscribers are the first to hear about new episodes of this podcast.)Join hundreds of your peers with a one-minute read, three times a week. Invest in your career with a diverse, regular feed of planning and design insights, practical tips, and tested strategies — including thought-provoking approaches to technology, experience design, audience, budgeting, content, and project management.Subscribe to the newsletter:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/

Making the Museum
A Museum Transformed with AI, with Kimberly Beaudin & Geoff Thatcher

Making the Museum

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 66:56


What can we learn from one of the most complex AI projects in any museum today?  What is the history of AI in museums? Can we add AI to our experiences without a complete renovation? How do you teach an AI about 775 different football teams? How can AI put visitors literally into a story? Is AI accurate enough for a museum? What about bias? Doesn't AI take away jobs? And how do you specify exactly what shade of college football orange you want to an AI — if you can only use words? Kimberly Beaudin (CEO, College Football Hall of Fame) and Geoff Thatcher (Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Creative Principals) discuss “A Museum Transformed with AI” with host Jonathan Alger (Managing Partner, C&G Partners | The Exhibition and Experience Design Studio). Along the way: Hypercinema, Salvador Dalí, and net promoter scores. Talking Points: 1. A College Football Museum Transformed with AI2. History of AI in Museums3. Adding, Not Redesigning4. Putting Visitors in the Story: Cheerleader, Coach, Player5. Accuracy, Inclusivity and Jobs6. What We Learned7. What Visitors Are SayingHow to Listen: Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-the-museum/id1674901311 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oP4QJR7yxv7Rs7VqIpI1G Listen at Making the Museum, the Website: https://www.makingthemuseum.com/podcast Links to Every Podcast Service, via Transistor: https://makingthemuseum.transistor.fm/Guest Bios: Kimberly Beaudin is the Chief Executive Officer for the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame, one of Atlanta's top attractions, and college football's mecca. Beaudin joined the College Football Hall of Fame in June 2015 as the Vice President of Marketing and Communications. With over 20 years of experience in leading brand development and marketing strategy, she was later promoted to oversee the sales operations of the business in March 2016. In April 2020, Beaudin was appointed CEO of the Hall of Fame, making her the first female leader of the storied attraction. In her role as CEO, Beaudin focuses on strategic marketing initiatives, community and public relations, group sales and event sales as well as philanthropic development and partnership sales and activation. Geoff Thatcher is an experienced creative director who excels at leading projects from concept to reality. These projects are most often about creating world-class experiences in corporate visitor centers, executive briefing centers, museums, theme parks and live events.Great experiences are distinguished by great story telling. Whether it's interviewing executives about the future of health care in America, walking the Fort Worth assembly line of the F-35 Lightning II or listening to a seventh-generation Hawaiian play ukulele in her living room, it all begins with finding the story and translating it into memorable experiences. Geoff's passion and experience in leadership development is ultimately about creating an environment where great work can get done together.About Making the Museum: Making the Museum is hosted (podcast) and written (newsletter) by Jonathan Alger. MtM is a project of C&G Partners | The Exhibition and Experience Design Studio. Learn more about the creative work of C&G Partners:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Links for This Episode: Kimberly on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-hartley-beaudin-a547933/ Kimberly by email:kbeaudin@cfbhall.com College Football Hall of Fame:https://www.cfbhall.com/Geoff on Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffthatcher/ Geoff by email:gthatcher@creativeprincipals.com Creative Principals:https://www.creativeprincipals.com/Links for Making the Museum, the Podcast: Contact Making the Museum:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/contact Host Jonathan Alger, Managing Partner of C&G Partners, on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanalger Email Jonathan Alger:alger@cgpartnersllc.com C&G Partners | The Exhibition and Experience Design Studio:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Making the Museum, the Newsletter: Like the show? You might enjoy the newsletter. Making the Museum is also a free weekly professional development email for exhibition practitioners, museum leaders, and visitor experience professionals. (And newsletter subscribers are the first to hear about new episodes of this podcast.) Join hundreds of your peers with a one-minute read, three times a week. Invest in your career with a diverse, regular feed of planning and design insights, practical tips, and tested strategies — including thought-provoking approaches to technology, experience design, audience, budgeting, content, and project management. Subscribe to the newsletter:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/

LISTEN NEWS
4/18 イベント振り返りとLISTENの今後with工業高校農業部ウシワカさん

LISTEN NEWS

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 74:44 Transcription Available


ポッドキャストシンポジウムの振り返り!シンポジウム公式ホームページ急遽工業高校農業部のウシワカさんに来ていただき、先週末に梅田にて行われたポッドキャストシンポジウムの振り返りを行いました!▼シンポジウム登壇番組(敬称略)研究者レン(サイエントーク)山本康平(よるののうか)伊藤貴章(よるののうか)りょーやん(よるののうか)すぎべ(ママが自分を取り戻すラジオ)しぶちょー(ものづくりnoラジオ)ウシワカ(工業高校農業部)ますぼう(工業高校農業部) 機能追加のお知らせエピソード作成フォームで、プログレスバーが表示されやすくなりました!これまでよりもプログレスバーが表示されやすくなっています。また、こちらも一部の環境で、エピソードの再生位置が保存されず、最初から音声が再生されてしまう不具合を修正しました。 編集後記こんにちは、普段音声編集を担当している鳥原です。今回はすぎべさん卒業されたので概要欄も担当させていただきました!ウシワカさんと近藤さんのLISTENニュースの回、なかなか編集していて面白かったですすぎべさんや山本さんとはまた違う笑いや掛け合いがあり、自然と最後まで聞いてしまうこと間違いないでしょう。次回は誰が出演するかまだわかりませんが来週も楽しく編集させていただこうと思います。(鳥原) LISTENで開く

LISTEN NEWS
4/4 jkondoとninjinkunの開発秘話

LISTEN NEWS

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2025 50:27 Transcription Available


ninjunkunの開発スタイルとは?今回は東京にてjkondoとninjinkunが2人でエンジニアトークを繰り広げています。夏が来る頃には、ついにアプリが使えるかも!?開発裏側の秘話をお楽しみください。新機能追加のお知らせイベントのチケット購入者に一斉メールを送信できる機能を追加しましたLISTENのイベント機能で、チケットを購入された方々に、一斉にメールを送信できるようになりました。例えば、イベントへの参加方法の案内や、連絡事項などがある場合、これまでは別で連絡手段を設ける必要がありましたが、LISTENのイベント機能を使うことで、参加者のメールアドレス等を確認する必要がなく、直接それぞれの参加者にメールが送信できます。限定公開ポッドキャストがフォロー中のタイムラインに表示されるようになりました限定公開ポッドキャストを、アクセスコードを入力して表示し、フォローしても、これまではタイムラインに表示されませんでした。これを、一度アクセスコードを入力してフォローすれば、トップページやタイムラインに表示されるようにしました。(フォローにはユーザー登録とログインが必要です)チーム内の限定公開ポッドキャストを共有している場合などに、なかなか限定公開ポッドキャストにたどり着けない、という問題がありましたが、トップページなどからより簡単にアクセスできるようになりました。どうぞご活用ください。前回のカウントダウンパロディエピソード3/23 LISTEN開発チームに仲間が増えました!開発スタイル関連情報ChatGPTClineCursorVibe Codingバイブコーディング LISTENで開く

Point of View Radio Talk Show
Point of View April 3, 2025 – Hour 2 : Listen Listen Speak

Point of View Radio Talk Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 44:36


Thursday, April 3, 2025 In the second hour, his guest is Author and Pastor Jay Kim. Jay has a new book to share. It's Listen Listen Speak. Amidst the multitude of voices speaking in our lives, cultivating our ability to hear God's voice, it's a guidebook for Christians living in our culture today. Connect with us […]

Making the Museum
Creating Effective Museum Experiences, with Lynda Roscoe Hartigan

Making the Museum

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2025 64:24


What if the secret to better museums was … neuroscience? How can museums inspire human creativity? How much media should be in a gallery — or should there be any? How soon should you get feedback on your exhibition ideas? Can museums help us all “escape the algorithm”? What does knitting have to do with visitor satisfaction? In this episode, we'll learn some unexpected tricks of the trade from a renowned museum leader. Lynda Roscoe Hartigan (The Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Executive Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum) discusses “Creating Effective Museum Experiences” with host Jonathan Alger (Managing Partner, C&G Partners | The Exhibition and Experience Design Studio). Along the way: standup comedy, Iris Apfel, and moon chairs.  Talking Points: 1. Embrace Human Creativity2. Design is Critical — Use Media Wisely3. Knit Experiences4. Escape the Algorithm5. Know Your Audience — Get Feedback Early6. Consider the NeuroscienceHow to Listen: Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-the-museum/id1674901311 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oP4QJR7yxv7Rs7VqIpI1G Listen at Making the Museum, the Website: https://www.makingthemuseum.com/podcast Links to Every Podcast Service, via Transistor: https://makingthemuseum.transistor.fm/ Guest Bio: Lynda Roscoe Hartigan is The Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Executive Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum. As a curator, scholar and museum executive, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to PEM. During her time as Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, she led an internationally recognized acquisition initiative to build collections of works by Black, self-taught and modern and contemporary artists. In 2003, Lynda was appointed as PEM's first Chief Curator and in 2016 became Deputy Director. Overseeing the interpretation and installation of PEM's new wing, she was integral to developing and advancing the museum's innovative exhibition program, collection stewardship, fundraising, education, publishing, digital and global leadership initiatives. Most recently, she was Deputy Director for Collections and Research and Chief Innovation Officer at the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada's largest museum dedicated to art, culture and the sciences. Lynda has returned to PEM to become the museum's first woman director and to boldly lead the nation's oldest continually operating and ever-evolving museum forward.About Making the Museum: Making the Museum is hosted (podcast) and written (newsletter) by Jonathan Alger. MtM is a project of C&G Partners | The Exhibition and Experience Design Studio. Learn more about the creative work of C&G Partners:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Links for This Episode: Lynda's Email:lynda_hartigan@pem.org Lynda on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynda-hartigan-762b475/ Lynda's Thesis:"Grandma Moses and the Implications of Memory,' in Grandma Moses in the 21st Century, Jane Kallir, ed., Art Services International, Alexandria, VA, 2001, pp. 64-79.https://www.amazon.com/Grandma-Moses-Century-Jane-Kallir/dp/0300089279Calder exhibition: https://www.pem.org/exhibitions/calder-and-abstraction-from-avant-garde-to-iconic Ansel Adams exhibition: https://www.pem.org/exhibitions/ansel-adams-at-the-waters-edge Escape the Algorithm, PEM's latest ad campaign:https://www.pem.org/blog/turning-heads-pems-chief-marketing-officer-gives-the-scoop-on-the-museums-new-brand-campaign Neuroscience initiative: https://www.pem.org/about-pem/pem-initiatives/neuroscience-initiative Art Pharmacy from Mass Cultural Council:https://www.artpharmacy.co/ FutureMuseum (PEM will be hosting museum leaders for this event on May 28 and 29, 2025):https://www.museumbooster.com/future-museum Links for Making the Museum, the Podcast: Contact Making the Museum:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/contact Host Jonathan Alger, Managing Partner of C&G Partners, on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanalger Email Jonathan Alger:alger@cgpartnersllc.com C&G Partners | The Exhibition and Experience Design Studio:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Making the Museum, the Newsletter: Like the show? You might enjoy the newsletter. Making the Museum is also a free weekly professional development email for exhibition practitioners, museum leaders, and visitor experience professionals. (And newsletter subscribers are the first to hear about new episodes of this podcast.) Join hundreds of your peers with a one-minute read, three times a week. Invest in your career with a diverse, regular feed of planning and design insights, practical tips, and tested strategies — including thought-provoking approaches to technology, experience design, audience, budgeting, content, and project management. Subscribe to the newsletter:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/

Making the Museum
Museum as Lab, with Ann Neumann

Making the Museum

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2025 58:27


What if a museum were more like a laboratory? What if our exhibits were experiments? What if our galleries were more about questions, rather than answers? What if we didn't fear failure as much? What if scientists, artists, and technologists all created exhibitions together? What happens when you edit an exhibit about editing DNA? Should every project have a post-opening contingency — in addition to the normal kind? Ann Neumann (Director of Galleries and Exhibitions, MIT Museum) joins host Jonathan Alger (Managing Partner, C&G Partners) to discuss “Museum as Lab.” Along the way: circadian rhythms, robots, maritime paintings, and a huge spiderweb you can play like a musical instrument.Talking Points:1. The MIT Museum2. Scientists, Artists, and Technologists3. Editing the Genetics Gallery4. Spiderweb Concert5. Circadian Biology: Lighten Up6. Moving 1,500,000 ObjectsHow to Listen:Listen on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-the-museum/id1674901311  Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6oP4QJR7yxv7Rs7VqIpI1G  Listen at Making the Museum, the Website:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/podcast  Links to Every Podcast Service, via Transistor:https://makingthemuseum.transistor.fm/ Guest Bio:Ann Neumann, Director of Galleries and Exhibitions at the MIT Museum, leads conceptual planning of museum exhibitions presenting MIT's research, collections, and innovation in science, art, design and technology in the heart of the biotech corridor. Her focus is on the museum as an experimental test bed for ideas, conversations and experiences that reflect the critical issues of culture and society. She's the recipient of numerous awards for her work and named a Blooloop Museum Influencer in 2024. Her experience developing museums and science centers in the US and internationally reflect a commitment to expanding the human experience and science understanding through interdisciplinary collaborations, visual communication and the built environment.  About Making the Museum:Making the Museum is hosted (podcast) and written (newsletter) by Jonathan Alger. MtM is a project of C&G Partners, the exhibition and experience design studio.Learn more about the creative work of C&G Partners:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Links for This Episode:Ann by Email:neumanna@mit.edu Ann on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-neumann MIT Museum:https://mitmuseum.mit.edu Links for Making the Museum, the Podcast:Contact Making the Museum:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/contactHost Jonathan Alger, Managing Partner of C&G Partners, on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanalger Email Jonathan Alger:alger@cgpartnersllc.comC&G Partners | Design for Culture:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/Making the Museum, the Newsletter:Liked the show? You might enjoy the newsletter. Making the Museum is also a free weekly professional development email for exhibition practitioners, museum leaders, and visitor experience professionals. (And newsletter subscribers are the first to hear about new episodes of this podcast.)Join hundreds of your peers with a one-minute read, three times a week. Invest in your career with a diverse, regular feed of planning and design insights, practical tips and tested strategies — including thought-provoking approaches to technology, experience design, audience, budgeting, content, and project management.Subscribe to the newsletter:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/

CANCELLED
A Brutally Honest Review Of Apple Cider Vinegar

CANCELLED

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2025 37:46 Transcription Available


On today's show, we're diving deep into Netflix's gripping new Australian series Apple Cider Vinegar, which tells the infamous story of wellness scammer Belle Gibson. From Kaitlyn Dever's eerily perfect Australian accent to the fascinating creative liberties taken with the real story, there are so many layers to unpack in this six-part drama that has everyone talking. We've broken down how the show manages to turn this well-known Australian scandal into a compelling commentary on the early days of Instagram and the dark side of the wellness industry. Plus, we need to discuss the controversial portrayal of wellness warrior Jess Ainscough through the fictional character of Milla Blake. THE END BITSThe Spill podcast is on Instagram here.Listen:Listen to Extraordinary stories' deep-dive: Belle Gibson: From Teen Mum To Master ManipulatorRead:Belle Gibson and Jess Ainscough's story played out in Apple Cider Vinegar, but their real relationship was more complicated. Jess Ainscough inspired Apple Cider Vinegar's Milla. Her ex says it couldn't be further from the truthEm Vernem is co-hosting a new Mamamia podcast. BIZ is rewriting the rules of work with no zero generic advice - just real strategies from women who've actually been there. Listen here.Subscribe to The Spill Newsletter by clicking here. Subscribe to Mamamia GET IN TOUCH:Do you have feedback or a topic you want us to discuss on The Spill? Send us a voice message, or send us an email thespill@mamamia.com.au and we'll come back to you ASAP! WANT MORE?If you’re looking for something else to listen to why not check out our hilarious and seriously unhelpful podcast The Baby Bubble hosted by Clare and Jessie Stephens.Or click here to listen to the hosts of Mamamia Out Loud open up about creativity and how they stay inspired. Read all the latest entertainment news on Mamamia... here. CREDITS Hosts: Laura Brodnik & Em VernemExecutive Producer: Kimberley Braddish Audio Producer: Scott Stronach Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Spill
A Brutally Honest Review Of Apple Cider Vinegar

The Spill

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2025 36:51 Transcription Available


On today's show, we're diving deep into Netflix's gripping new Australian series Apple Cider Vinegar, which tells the infamous story of wellness scammer Belle Gibson. From Kaitlyn Dever's eerily perfect Australian accent to the fascinating creative liberties taken with the real story, there are so many layers to unpack in this six-part drama that has everyone talking. We've broken down how the show manages to turn this well-known Australian scandal into a compelling commentary on the early days of Instagram and the dark side of the wellness industry. Plus, we need to discuss the controversial portrayal of wellness warrior Jess Ainscough through the fictional character of Milla Blake. THE END BITSThe Spill podcast is on Instagram here.Listen:Listen to Extraordinary stories' deep-dive: Belle Gibson: From Teen Mum To Master ManipulatorRead:Belle Gibson and Jess Ainscough's story played out in Apple Cider Vinegar, but their real relationship was more complicated. Jess Ainscough inspired Apple Cider Vinegar's Milla. Her ex says it couldn't be further from the truthEm Vernem is co-hosting a new Mamamia podcast. BIZ is rewriting the rules of work with no zero generic advice - just real strategies from women who've actually been there. Listen here.Subscribe to The Spill Newsletter by clicking here. Subscribe to Mamamia GET IN TOUCH:Do you have feedback or a topic you want us to discuss on The Spill? Send us a voice message, or send us an email thespill@mamamia.com.au and we'll come back to you ASAP! WANT MORE?If you’re looking for something else to listen to why not check out our hilarious and seriously unhelpful podcast The Baby Bubble hosted by Clare and Jessie Stephens.Or click here to listen to the hosts of Mamamia Out Loud open up about creativity and how they stay inspired. Read all the latest entertainment news on Mamamia... here. CREDITS Hosts: Laura Brodnik & Em VernemExecutive Producer: Kimberley Braddish Audio Producer: Scott Stronach Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Making the Museum
Playful Engagement, with Ed Rodley

Making the Museum

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2025 58:41


What if we combined immersion, emotion, storytelling — and games? We all want “engagement” … but what is engagement? How can our projects create it? What are the elements that go into it? Can game theory and play teach us how to make our experiences better? What is “narrative transportation”? Why are emotions key to memory creation? And what do Renaissance fairs have to do with museums? Ed Rodley (Co-Founder and Principal, The Experience Alchemists), joins MtM host Jonathan Alger (Managing Partner, C&G Partners) to discuss “Playful Engagement.” Along the way: holodecks, Sleep No More, portmanteaus, and Ed's upcoming book.Talking Points: 1. What is “Playful Engagement”?2. The Magic Circle3. Immersion 4. Emotion5. Storytelling6. Games and PlayHow to Listen:Listen on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-the-museum/id1674901311 Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6oP4QJR7yxv7Rs7VqIpI1G  Listen at Making the Museum, the Website:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/podcast Links to Every Podcast Service, via Transistor:https://makingthemuseum.transistor.fm/Guest Bio: Ed Rodley, Co-Founder & Principal, The Experience Alchemists (TEA), is an award-winning experience designer with over thirty-five years' experience in making exhibitions and experiences for cultural organizations large and small. Incorporating emerging technologies into museum practice has been a theme throughout his career. As a thought leader in the digital transformation of the cultural sector, Ed frequently speaks at events around the world like ICOM's International Symposium 2024 in Dubai and the National Digital Forum 2023 in New Zealand. He was one of Blooloop's 50 Museum Influencers for 2021. His book “Designing for Playful Engagement in Museums” is due out in Summer 2025 from Routledge. About Making the Museum:Making the Museum is hosted (podcast) and written (newsletter) by Jonathan Alger. This podcast is a project of C&G Partners | Design for Culture.Learn more about the creative work of C&G Partners:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/Links for This Episode:Ed Rodley by Email:ed@theexperiencealchemists.com The Experience Alchemists https://www.theexperiencealchemists.com “Taking the Plunge” in Museum Magazine https://www.aam-us.org/2022/11/01/taking-the-plunge/  This article discusses the current state of immersive experiences, some of the conversations around these experiences and their “authenticity” and surveys the psychological research into immersion in digital environments to explore what makes them compelling. "Thinking about Museums" Blog https://thinkingaboutmuseums.com/ Ed's personal weblog on museums, content, design, and why they matter. Museopunks: The Podcast for the Progressive Museumhttps://www.aam-us.org/programs/about-museums/museopunks/ Ed had the distinct pleasure of co-hosting with Suse Anderson her AAM-sponsored podcast which investigated the fascinating work and personalities in and around the museum sector, with a focus on emergent, boundary-pushing work and ideas. Humanizing the Digital: Unproceedings from the MCN 2018 Conferencehttps://ad-hoc-museum-collective.github.io/humanizing-the-digital/ This book explored how museums can use technology to foster human connection and dialogue, advance accessibility and inclusion, and champion inquiry and knowledge, drawn from the Museum Computer Network conference. CODE | WORDS - Technology and Theory in the Museum https://medium.com/code-words-technology-and-theory-in-the-museum Brought together leading museum thinkers and practitioners to explore emerging issues about the nature of museums in the light of the dramatic and ongoing impact of digital technologies. Links for Making the Museum, the Podcast: Contact Making the Museum:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/contact Host Jonathan Alger, Managing Partner of C&G Partners, on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanalger Email Jonathan Alger:alger@cgpartnersllc.com C&G Partners | Design for Culture:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Making the Museum, the Newsletter:Liked the show? You might enjoy the newsletter. Making the Museum is also a free weekly professional development email for exhibition practitioners, museum leaders, and visitor experience professionals. (And newsletter subscribers are the first to hear about new episodes of this podcast.)Join hundreds of your peers with a one-minute read, three times a week. Invest in your career with a diverse, regular feed of planning and design insights, practical tips and tested strategies — including thought-provoking approaches to technology, experience design, audience, budgeting, content, and project management.Subscribe to the newsletter:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/

LISTEN NEWS
2/1 おこもりっすんの変更点・問題修正

LISTEN NEWS

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2025 34:51 Transcription Available


おこもりっすん、配信枠満員御礼いよいよ1週間後に迫ってきたおこもりっすん

Making the Museum
Sculpting History, with Ivan Schwartz

Making the Museum

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2025 57:34


Can a statue change American history?How do we decide who gets a statue? What happens when you realize how many people deserve a statue but never got one? What's the difference between a “forensic sculpture” for an interpretive exhibition, and one you'd put in a fine art show? Why are some museums just not complete without a bronze statue of the main characters? Are there “statues of limitations”?Ivan Schwartz (Founder and Director of StudioEIS), joins MtM host Jonathan Alger (Managing Partner, C&G Partners) to discuss “Sculpting History.” Along the way: hagiography, phalanges, and ketchup bottles made of bronze. Talking Points:1. What is a “Forensic” Sculpture?2. Sculptor as Visual Storyteller3. How to Sculpt a President4. A Phone Call from the Archives5. Telling History Like It Is6. Statues of LImitation How to Listen:  Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-the-museum/id1674901311Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6oP4QJR7yxv7Rs7VqIpI1GListen at Making the Museum, the Website:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/podcastLinks to Every Podcast Service, via Transistor:https://makingthemuseum.transistor.fm/  Guest Bio:Ivan Schwartz is the founder and director of StudioEIS. He is a sculptor, painter, and designer, with a keen interest in American history and the use of sculpture in the development of our national symbols. With a degree in sculpture from The College of Fine Arts at Boston University, he packed up and spent a year working in Pietrasanta, Italy in the early 1970s. He was the recipient of a distinguished alumni award from Boston University in 2003, and has shown his work in New York since 1981. Ivan was a member of the Dean's Advisory Board at Boston University's College of Fine Arts until the end of 2009 and was also a founding board member of Art Omi, an international arts workshop. He was also President of Innovators in America, 2009-2011, working closely with Sir Harold Evans. The StudioEIS archive was acquired by the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas, Austin, in 2014 in association with a new area of study on American symbols.StudioEIS has created hundreds of projects in its 50-year history; most notably for: The National Constitution Center, The New York Historical Society, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Virginia Women's Monument, and The National Museums of African American History and Natural History. The studio has explored the American Presidency, Military History and Civil Rights history extensively. Current Projects include the Clara Luper Memorial that will be unveiled in May in Oklahoma City and Theodore Roosevelt & Barack Obama Presidential Libraries. Ivan has been seen recently on the CBS Sunday Morning program and at the Lyndon Johnson Library in conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin on the subject of Abraham Lincoln. His film: “Lest We Forget, Statues of Limitation,” can be seen on Vimeo.  About Making the Museum: Making the Museum is hosted (podcast) and written (newsletter) by Jonathan Alger. This podcast is a project of C&G Partners | Design for Culture. Learn more about the creative work of C&G Partners:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Links for This Episode: Ivan by Email:ivan@studioeis.com  StudioEIS Online:https://www.studioeis.com “Lest We Forget: Statues of Limitation” on Vimeo:https://vimeo.com/211595498 Links for Making the Museum, the Podcast: Contact Making the Museum:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/contact Host Jonathan Alger, Managing Partner of C&G Partners, on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanalger Email Jonathan Alger:alger@cgpartnersllc.com  C&G Partners | Design for Culture:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Making the Museum, the Newsletter: Liked the show? You might enjoy the newsletter. Making the Museum is also a free weekly professional development email for exhibition practitioners, museum leaders, and visitor experience professionals. (And newsletter subscribers are the first to hear about new episodes of this podcast.) Join hundreds of your peers with a one-minute read, three times a week. Invest in your career with a diverse, regular feed of planning and design insights, practical tips and tested strategies — including thought-provoking approaches to technology, experience design, audience, budgeting, content, and project management. Subscribe to the newsletter:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/

Making the Museum
Secrets of Museum Display Case Design, with Stéphanie Bilodeau

Making the Museum

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2025 55:50


How do you make a museum display case disappear?This episode is a masterclass in museum display case design. To the untrained eye, museum display cases look like what you'd find in a gift shop. But under the hood, they couldn't be more different — and they are 100% unique to the museum world. Secrets we'll reveal: art envelopes, non-offgassing, air exchange rates, and how glass is never, ever just glass. How can a display case be sealed, yet also designed to leak? What exactly makes a museum display case conservation grade? How do those little packets of silica gel work?Stéphanie Bilodeau, (Director, Sales and Business Development, Zone Display Cases in Québec City, Canada), joins MtM host Jonathan Alger (Managing Partner, C&G Partners) to reveal the “Secrets of Museum Display Case Design.”Along the way: reclaimed wood from Oregon, ordering a lot of insects, and falling in love with an industry.Talking Points:1. What Makes a Display Case "Conservation-Grade"? 2. The Basics: Microclimates, Art Envelopes, and Air Exchange Rates3. How to Balance Conservation, Operation, and Design4. Can a Display Case Look Antique but Be Modern? 5. Think You Know Glass?6. I Need a Display Case - Now What?How to Listen:Listen on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-the-museum/id1674901311 Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6oP4QJR7yxv7Rs7VqIpI1G Listen at Making the Museum, the Website:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/podcast Links to Every Podcast Service, via Transistor:https://makingthemuseum.transistor.fm/ Guest Bio:Born and raised in Québec City, Stéphanie has an extensive academic background in science, with multiple years of focused studies, including a specialization in entomology and a marketing certificate from Université Laval. She joined Zone Display Cases in 2011, drawn to the company's collaborative and people-centered culture. Over the years, she progressed from Internal Sales and Project Management to Director of Sales and Marketing in 2018. Known for her energy and sociability, Stéphanie is highly skilled and passionate about supporting the various trades within the museum community. Her scientific expertise offers a unique perspective on artifact preservation, helping to showcase and protect cultural and historical treasures.About Making the Museum:Making the Museum is hosted (podcast) and written (newsletter) by Jonathan Alger. This podcast is a project of C&G Partners | Design for Culture.Learn more about the creative work of C&G Partners:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Links for This Episode:Zone Display Cases:https://www.zonedisplaycases.com Email Stéphanie Bilodeau:steph@zonedisplaycases.com Stéphanie on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/st%C3%A9phanie-bilodeau-52269177/ Links for Making the Museum, the Podcast:Contact Making the Museum:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/contact Host Jonathan Alger, Managing Partner of C&G Partners, on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanalger Email Jonathan Alger:alger@cgpartnersllc.com C&G Partners | Design for Culture:https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/ Making the Museum, the Newsletter:Liked the show? You might enjoy the newsletter. Making the Museum is also a newsletter on exhibition planning and design — for museum leaders, exhibition teams, and visitor experience professionals. (And newsletter subscribers are the first to hear about new episodes of this podcast.)Join hundreds of your peers with a one-minute read, three times a week. Invest in your career with a diverse, regular feed of planning and design insights, practical tips and tested strategies — including thought-provoking approaches to technology, experience design, audience, budgeting, content, and project management.Subscribe to the newsletter:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/ 

LISTEN NEWS
12/19 もう見た?ついに「LISTENまとめ」が誕生!

LISTEN NEWS

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2024 72:13 Transcription Available


アドベントカレンダー折り返し

LISTEN NEWS
12/9 ついに冬のイベントが決定!?

LISTEN NEWS

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2024 58:46 Transcription Available


Rebuild宮川さんとの収録を振り返っていたら…配信後、多くの方に聴いていただいているRebuild宮川さんのインタビュー回SNSでも沢山シェアしていただきありがとうございました!jkondoついに「推し」を認識か…!?Rebuild宮川さんとjkondoのRebuildサポーターの限定音声はこちらからアドベントカレンダーが始まっています

Making the Museum
Story-Based Design, with Alan Reed

Making the Museum

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2024 52:47


Can a building tell a story?How do you design a glass wall to be ... mist? What if architecture, landscape, and exhibitions were all thought of as one thing? What changes when you etch barbed wire into a handrail? How can the floor plan of an entire museum relate to a nautilus shell? What does “A.D.R.O.I.T.” stand for? We're going to find out, so notebooks at the ready.Alan Reed, FAIA, LEED AP (President and Design Principal of GWWO Architects), joins MtM host Jonathan Alger (Managing Partner, C&G Partners) to discuss “Story-Based Design.”Along the way: dendrites, neurons, Seminole history, and a famous mathematical sequence that goes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 …Talking Points:1. What is Story-Based Design?2. Do the Research3. Define the Essence4. One Experience: Architecture + Landscape + Exhibitions5. Intuitive Wayfinding: A.D.R.O.I.T.6. Materials Matter, Down to the DetailsHow to Listen:Listen on Apple Podcasts > Listen on Spotify > Listen at Making the Museum, the Website > Links to Every Podcast Service, via Transistor >   Guest Bio:Alan Reed, FAIA, LEED AP is President and Design Principal of GWWO Architects. Alan has focused his career on the planning and design of facilities that engage users, foster interaction, and enhance communities. Alan is a regular speaker on issues related to museum and interpretive facility design. He has spoken at numerous conferences, on many panels, and for many organization events including the National Association for Interpretation Conference, Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums Conference, Southeastern Museums Conference, and Building Museums Symposium. His work has been featured by Architectural Record and Metropolis, among other publications, and has received accolades at the national, regional, and local levels. About MtM:Making the Museum is hosted (podcast) and written (newsletter) by Jonathan Alger. This podcast is a project of C&G Partners | Design for Culture. Learn more about the creative work of C&G Partners > Links for This Episode: Email Alan ReedAlan Reed on LinkedInGWWO Architects Projects referenced:Pikes Peak Summit Visitor CenterRalph C. Wilson, Jr. Welcome Center at Niagara Falls State ParkHarriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor CenterCade Museum for Creativity & InventionGeorge Washington's Mount Vernon Ford Orientation Center and Donald W. Reynolds Museum & Education CenterLinks for Making the Museum, the Podcast:Contact Making the MuseumHost Jonathan Alger, Managing Partner of C&G Partners, on LinkedInEmail Jonathan AlgerC&G Partners | Design for Culture Making the Museum, the Newsletter:Liked the show? You might enjoy the newsletter. Making the Museum is also a free weekly professional development email for exhibition practitioners, museum leaders, and visitor experience professionals. (And newsletter subscribers are the first to hear about new episodes of this podcast.)Join hundreds of your peers with a one-minute read, three times a week. Invest in your career with a diverse, regular feed of planning and design insights, practical tips and tested strategies — including thought-provoking approaches to technology, experience design, audience, budgeting, content, and project management.Subscribe here >

LISTEN NEWS
11/18 【参加者募集】アドベントカレンダー2024開催決定!!

LISTEN NEWS

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2024 49:58 Transcription Available


配信の秋、声日記の秋言及機能やスターやコメントを使って、声がどんどん広がり繋がってる秋

All the Difference
Listen! – Listen to What the Spirit Says to the Churches Pt. 2

All the Difference

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2024 25:01


Venture Church
Mountaintops: Listen, Listen

Venture Church

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2024 34:54


All the Difference
Listen! – Listen to What the Spirit Says to the Churches Pt. 1

All the Difference

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2024 25:01


Catholic Money Mastermind - Financial Planning conversations with Catholic CFP® Practitioners

Joe Petry, a fellow member of the Catholic Financial Planners Network and founder of Mayfair Financial, shares his journey from economist to financial planner, motivated by his firsthand experience with retirement and ministry. In this episode, Joe emphasizes the importance of empathy, trust, and integrating faith into his work. From working with a refugee support initiative and the Kairos prison ministry to his time teaching economics at the university level, Joe brings a wealth of empathy and knowledge to his work. His experiences have deepened his understanding of compassion and the significance of treating others with dignity, which he applies to his role as a financial advisor, particularly in helping clients navigate the psychological and financial challenges of retirement. If you're looking to learn how ministering and financial planning go hand in hand, this is the episode for you.Key Takeaways:• How Joe went from economist to financial planner.• How Joe's experience ministering to Afghan refugees informs his work as a financial planner.• What is an ACTS Retreat?• What it's like to minister in the prison system.• How God's love can help us become better financial planners.• Joe's mantra, “Listen, listen. Love, love.”Key Timestamps:(00:00) – Joe's Background and Career Shift(05:33) – The Role of a Trusted Financial Advisor(08:52) – Joe's Ministry Work with Refugees(16:18) – Integrating Faith and Financial Planning(23:09) – Ego and God's Work(24:51) – Kairos Prison Ministry(25:41) – ACTS Retreats: A Path to Vulnerability(30:36) – Connecting Ministry to Financial Advising(34:05) – Transformative Experiences in Prison Ministry(42:55) – Listen, Listen, Love, LoveKey Topics Discussed:Catholic Money Mastermind, Catholic financial planning, Catholic financial planners, Catholic financial advisors, Ben Martinek, faith and finances, Joe Petry, prison ministry, ACTS Retreat, refugeesMentions:Website: https://www.mayfair-financial.com/ Mentions: https://www.actsmissions.org/about/ More of Catholic Money Mastermind:Catholic Money Mastermind Podcast is a personal podcast meant for educational and entertainment. It should not be taken as financial advice, and is not prescriptive of your financial situation.Are you looking to hire an advisor? Browse our members.https://catholicfinancialplanners.com/members/

Ossan.fm
295. アシュレイ・マディソン:セックスと嘘とスキャンダル

Ossan.fm

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2024 50:39


Listen Listen Podcast
Ep. 7 Jesse's Mom on Life in Egypt, Thoughts On His Career, and His Girlfriend

Listen Listen Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2024 54:58


Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts!Follow @ListenListenPodcast on InstagramFollow @JaurjiComedy on Instagram & @Jaurji on TikTokTimestamps:0:00 Welcome Jesse's Mom & Her Dream1:17 Why She Came To Canada & Life In Canada vs Egypt4:28 Jesse As A Kid8:55 Mom Is Proud10:30 Jesse is Funny?12:55 Jesse Moving Out & Calling Every Day16:08 Keeping Busy When Your Kids Grow Up16:52 What Does Mom Think About Jesse's Career? & Making Fun of Her?19:50 Dream Travel Destination & Cultural Differences21:01 Worried About Jesse's Future & Jesse Today23:15 What Does Mom Think About Jesse's Girlfriend? & Getting Married28:36 Will Jesse Be A Good Dad? & His Favourite Parent?32:29 Life Advice From Mom39:19 Mom's Questions For Jesse47:34 Jesse's Favourite Thing About His Girlfriend & Physical Attraction52:41 Final Question From Mom

Listen Listen Podcast
Tessa Conway on Staying Positive, Importance of Gratitude, and Creator's Guilt | Listen Listen Ep. 4

Listen Listen Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2024 62:39


Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts!Follow @ListenListenPodcast on InstagramFollow @JaurjiComedy on Instagram & @Jaurji on TikTokTimestamps:0:00 Welcome Tessa & Keeping It Real3:45 Building A Relationship With Your Audience5:05 Life Isn't Always Great7:01 Never Lose Your Inner Child10:10 Tessa's Positivity & Making A Choice13:20 Tessa's Content15:00 You Can Have Different Personalities!17:58 How Tessa Started on Social Media22:36 Making Content That YOU Enjoy24:21 External Validation & Getting Satisfaction26:53 Staying Positive & The Importance of Gratitude34:18 Dealing With Haters41:25 Social Media Exhaustion44:55 Creator's Guilt48:45 Travelling as a Creator & Dream Destinations59:41 Rapid Fire! 

Listen Listen Podcast
Georgia Kolev on Much Music, Best Celebrity Interviews, and the Music Industry | Listen Listen Ep. 3

Listen Listen Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2024 62:12


Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts!Follow @ListenListenPodcast on InstagramFollow @JaurjiComedy on Instagram & @Jaurji on TikTokTimestamps:0:00 Welcome Georgia Kolev!1:30 Georgia and Jesse in Sport Media3:50 What Does Georgia ACTUALLY Do and How Did She Start?7:43 The New Generation of Much Music9:50 Georgia's BEST Celebrity Interviews12:01 Boy Bands & Disney Stars14:26 Celebrity Starstruck Moment?17:47: Georgia's Dream Interview & How She Gets Interviews?21:20 TV vs Social Media24:54 Current State of Music?30:10 Nostalgia is EVERYTHING31:23 Do Movies Suck Now? & Reality TV34:35 Georgia's Oh Sh*t Moment37:30 Getting Recognized in Public41:07 Content Creator or Influencer?41:40 How Does Jesse Get Paid?43:10 Georgia's Megaviral TikTok47:20 Jesse's Start50:30 Remembering COVID Lockdown & TikTok Addictions53:25 How To Grow On Instagram?56:50 Viva Las Vegas

The Common Good Podcast
Jay Kim, lead pastor of WestGate Church, a multisite church in Silicon Valley, and author of the new book Listen, Listen Speak

The Common Good Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2024 10:58


Craft & Character
Why Every Pastor Must Learn to Listen, Listen, Speak with Jay Kim

Craft & Character

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2024 50:28


In this episode of Craft & Character, Steve Carter interviews author and pastor Jay Kim about how to hear God's voice and communicate truth in a noisy world. Jay unpacks what led him to write his new book that comes out on April 16th called Listen, Listen, Speak. He talks about how discernment, mastering the art of listening well to God and one another, and also being able to clearly speak to the times is important for every preacher. Jay is one of the wisest, most thoughtful and accessible pastoral voices of our day. His insights will help you in your time alone with God, leading one-on-one meetings with staff, congregants, elders as well as helping to best engage, respond, and speak order into the chaos. BIO Jay Y. Kim serves as lead pastor at WestGate Church in the Silicon Valley of California and is the author of Listen, Listen, Speak (Faithwords, 2024), Analog Christian (IVP, 2022), and Analog Church (IVP, 2020). Jay is also host of the Digital Examen podcast and the Making Space podcast. EPISODE LINKS Jay's new book: Listen, Listen, Speak: Hearing God and Being Heard in a Noisy World Jay's other books: Analog Church, Analog Christian Website: jaykimthinks.com @jaykimthinks @steveryancarter @craft_character Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Listen Listen Podcast
Cabbie Richards on His Relationship with Kobe Bryant, Securing Interviews in 2024, And His Proudest Moments | Listen Listen Podcast Ep. 2

Listen Listen Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2024 61:49


Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts!Follow @ListenListenPodcast on InstagramFollow @JaurjiComedy on Instagram & @Jaurji on TikTokTimestamps:0:00 Intro1:18 How We First Met3:36 How Did Jesse Blow Up?5:40 Jesse's Main Demographic6:39 Cabbie Loves (and Hates) Toronto9:40 Jesse's Girlfriend & Working Out13:59 Cabbie's Interview Style & Sport Cliches19:01 How Hard Is It To Get A Good Interview in 2024?26:20 When Did You Feel Like You Made It?29:15 What Are You Most Proud Of??34:18 Guess That Sound & Court Surfing39:58 Cabbie on The Marilyn Denis Show42:30 Parents Love Jesse44:15 Cabbie's Relationship With Kobe Bryant48:10 Kobe's Passing & Tribute52:50 If You Don't Have A Picture, Did It Really Happen?53:25 Living in Vegas56:42 Favourite Restaurants in Toronto?59:02 Lightning Round- Sports Edition 

Listen Listen Podcast
Dangers of Social Media, Losing Friends & UFC 300 | Listen Listen Podcast Ep. 1

Listen Listen Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2024 60:44


Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts!Follow @ListenListenPodcast on InstagramFollow @JaurjiComedy on Instagram & @Jaurji on TikTokTimestamps:0:00 Welcome to Listen Listen! 0:44 Our First Guest & Childhood Memories 5:57 Friend or Acquaintance? & Losing Friends 12:09 Dangers of Social Media & Technology 17:32 What Jesse Loves and Hates as a Content Creator 22:40 Are Couples That Post a lot ACTUALLY Happy? & PDA 26:20 20 Years Ago vs Now 29:27 How Has COVID Effected You? 33:20 Is Love Really Blind? 37:35 What Reality Show Could You Be On? 42:39 The Situation's Drug Addiction on Jersey Shore 45:49 Are Sports Getting TOO Nice? 47:55 Francis Ngannou Getting KO'd 51:11 UFC 300 Predictions

XCrossing
ep72 ポッドキャストツール「LISTEN」の有料版を使い始めてみて、改めて音声と文字の関係を考えてみた

XCrossing

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2024 31:42


専用ツールより性能が高いので、LISTEN有料版を文字起こしツールとして使ってみている話から、文字と音声とリアルで得られる情報の違いなどを話しました00:54 ポッドキャストサービス「LISTEN」を有料版で使用中02:15 B2B向けの会議音声文字起こしサービスよりもLISTENのほうが良いクオリティ03:04 利用ユーザーからフィードバックを得て猛烈な勢いでクオリティが良くなっているB2Cサービスのいい例04:30 文字起こし自体の精度向上、話者分離、Whisperの使いこなし07:51 日本語と英語が混ざった話になっても、英単語として文字起こしされている08:31 文字起こしの冒頭に「今回の話題は●●です、文字起こしには以下の登録済み単語を優先してください」09:40 文字起こしする段階でメタデータをしっかり入れておくことで精度を高めているのでは11:05 話されていることの内容と理屈が通っていつつ、抽象的で一般化できそうな見出しがついている13:11 目で見る・目で読むものと、耳で聞くという使い分け17:27 音で情報を取得するほうが人間にとっては自然で負担が少ないらしい20:09 言語の習得は音から入るほうがいいよという研究結果22:40 顧客インタビューでは、言いよどんだり、スピード速くなったりするときはそこに何が意味がある27:16 コミュニティとして広がるポテンシャルを持つ「LISTEN」28:22 mixi 20周年:”人がいないからいいエピソード内で取り上げた情報へのリンク: ポッドキャストサービス「LISTEN」 LISTEN開発者 近藤さんをゲストにお迎えして語り合った回(ep37) 「audiobook.jp」で実現する「聴く文化」の創造!学習にも娯楽にも活用できるオーディオブックとは 多言語の習得は「音」から 脳領域特定、文法理解早く 約7割の人は「目」より「耳」からのインプットが得意 企業の人材育成における、学習手段の「格差」の問題点テック業界で働く3人が、テクノロジーとクリエイティブに関するトピックを、視点を行き交わしながら語り合います。及川卓也 @takoratta プロダクトマネジメントとプロダクト開発組織づくりの専門家 自己紹介エピソード ep1, ep2関信浩 @NobuhiroSeki アメリカ・ニューヨークでスタートアップ投資を行う、何でも屋 自己紹介エピソード ep52上野美香 @mikamika59 マーケティング・プロダクトマネジメントを手掛けるフリーランス 自己紹介エピソード ep53@x_crossing_https://x-crossing.com

Securely Attached
177. BTS: How do I know when my child's anxiety requires a mental health intervention?

Securely Attached

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2024 21:10


Beyond the Sessions is answering YOUR parenting questions! In this episode, Dr. Rebecca Hershberg, Dr. Emily Upshur, and I talk about...     1:52 - When is it appropriate to seek help from a mental health professional to help your child manage their anxiety and fears?   4:40 - How to identify the difference between our child's natural desire for information versus a desire for us to soothe their anxiety.   8:45 - Addressing concepts like death with your child is difficult because it is a scary thing for adults to confront too, which can lead to parents to do more accommodating than is actually helpful long-term.   13:05 - Asking yourself "why now?" - Working to identify if there is anything that activated this sudden shift so you can work toward targeting the root of the problem.   14:48 - Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) is a great resource for parents:   LISTEN: Listen to my interview with the creator of SPACE, Dr. Eli Lebowitz   READ: Breaking Free of Childhood Anxiety and OCD by Dr. Eli Lebowitz   THERAPY SERVICES: If you are in NY State and would like to learn about Upshur Bren Psychology Group's SPACE individual and group therapy options, click here to learn more.   18:38 - What to Do When You Worry Too Much and What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck are workbooks we use in our practice and are helpful resources to use with your child.     ✨We want to hear from you! Go to https://drsarahbren.com/question to send us a question or a topic you want to hear us answer on Securely Attached - Beyond the Sessions! ✨

That DnD Podcast
Kindled Magic -16- Listen, listen--don't make me do the dragon thing.

That DnD Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2024


The mail delivery may actually be going better than expected, so far! Only now we're getting to the…less specific…ones. Hmmmm.Pledge/donate on Patreon: www.patreon.com/thatdndpodcastSend feedback to: ThatDnDPodcast@Gmail.comVisit our website: http://www.thatdndpodcast.comAmazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/?rw_useCurrentProtocol=1&tag=thdnpo07-20

The Mountain-Ear Podcast
1979: Nederland, Colorado gets Cable TV and a Big New Restaurant

The Mountain-Ear Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2024 8:08


LISTEN: Listen in as we tell the story of The Alpine Restaurant. This is the flagship restaurant for the now iconic location which has changed hands over the years and will soon have a new life and new owners.The Mountain-Ear podcast is a community news variety show offering stories and information about life in our unique area of Colorado. Created by The Mountain-Ear newspaper, online and in print!To find out more news and information about the Peak to Peak from Allenspark to Central City, go online to www.themtnear.com.Use the coupon code PODCAST for a special discount for ALL NEW SUBSCRIBERS of our online edition! Go to

Embracing Your Season: Raising Littles and Understanding Teens with Paige Clingenpeel
Episode 6-For Parents Only: Getting Inside the Head of Your Kid with guest Shaunti Feldhahn

Embracing Your Season: Raising Littles and Understanding Teens with Paige Clingenpeel

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2023 42:08


On this week's episode of Embracing Your Season, host Paige Clingenpeel has a great conversation with author, speaker, and ground-breaking social researcher, Shaunti Feldhahn.  As a mother herself, Shaunti understands the value and importance of connecting and understanding our children and teens. She shares about her research in co-authoring the book, For Parents Only, which encourages parents as they navigate the hard world of parenting. Paige's Takeaways:Attitudes - They are usually a sign of our kids struggling with a pain point that we get the opportunity to lean into as parents.  We can ask the question, “What is going on in the heart of my child?” What we see on the outside is a reflection of what is going on, on the inside.Boy's struggle with the pain point of, “Am I good enough?” They are involved in a lot of performance based activities which can cause this type of tension. Give them a safe place at home to communicate these tensions they are feeling.Girl's struggle with the pain point of, “Am I lovable?”  They have the desire to know if they are worth loving. We can help them by incorporating words of affirmations to help them know that they are loved and special.Listen - Listen to them and let them know that thyr are seen and known. Lean into the emotion that our kids share with us. Ignore the problem or conflict, instead lean into how the conflict is affecting them emotionally.  Listen, ask how they are feeling, ask if they need help finding a solution.  If they aren't ready to share with you, wait twelve hours for them to process and check back in with them.Love - Our kids want us to know that we are loved and they appreciate us.  They might not know how to tell you or show you but they do love you. Paige ClingenpeelQuestions About the Podcast: paigeclingenpeel@gmail.comFacebook: Paige ClingenpeelInstagram: paigeclingenpeelHomeWordShaunti FeldhahnFacebook: Shaunti FeldhahnInstagram: Shaunti FeldhahnBook - For Parents Only

Zen Parenting Radio
Listen Listen Learn Learn-Episode #733

Zen Parenting Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2023 58:09


Todd and Cathy discuss empathic listening and how to respond with curiosity and non-judgment when our kids ask difficult questions. Whether it pertains to conflicts abroad or everyday challenges, the capacity to listen to our children is something we can continuously improve over time. Additionally, our ability to understand our partner's communication style and needs can help us avoid conflicts.

Zen Parenting Radio
Listen Listen Learn Learn-Episode #733

Zen Parenting Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2023 58:09


Todd and Cathy discuss empathic listening and how to respond with curiosity and non-judgment when our kids ask difficult questions. Whether it pertains to conflicts abroad or everyday challenges, the capacity to listen to our children is something we can continuously improve over time. Additionally, our ability to understand our partner's communication style and needs can help us avoid conflicts.

Zen Parenting Radio
Listen Listen Learn Learn Episode # 733

Zen Parenting Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2023 58:09


Todd and Cathy discuss empathic listening and how to respond with curiosity and non-judgment when our kids ask difficult questions. Whether it pertains to conflicts abroad or everyday challenges, the capacity to listen to our children is something we can continuously improve over time. Additionally, our ability to understand our partner's communication style and needs can help us avoid conflicts.

Morning Meditation for Women
Meditation: Pause and Listen (Listen)

Morning Meditation for Women

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2023 11:54


Join Premium! Ready for an ad-free meditation experience? Join Premium now and get every episode from ALL of our podcasts completely ad-free now! Just a few clicks makes it easy for you to listen on your favorite podcast player.  Become a PREMIUM member today by going to --> https://WomensMeditationNetwork.com/premium Allow time to pause, listen and reflect.  PAUSE… Build into your day a space to pause. PAUSE… Find a spot in your physical surroundings, Where can create this pause.  PAUSE… Now breathe in and exhale slowly through your nose. PAUSE… Use this moment in time, To actively breathe and listen. LONG PAUSE… Observe what you hear… LONG PAUSE… Your constant, thumping heartbeat,  Warm, rhythmic breath, Stomach gurgles, Creak of toes or knees PAUSE… Then listen outwardly, Into your space you created… PAUSE… Become aware of  simple noises, All around you… LONG PAUSE… Breathe and take it all in. PAUSE… Quietly slow your mind. Gather in all the details. Reflect on what you hear. PAUSE… Allow yourself to deeply listen into your body and all around you. LONG PAUSE… To embody what we heard, see, feel, To really pause and listen,  We experience, grow, connect and reflect. To figure out who we are and who we want to become.  Namaste, Beautiful.    

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MDUMC
Stop - Look - Listen: Listen | Rev. Jarboe

MDUMC

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2023 29:20


MDUMC
Stop - Look - Listen: Listen | Dr. Morgan

MDUMC

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2023 25:43


XCrossing
ep37 「LISTEN」の開発者 近藤淳也さんとサービス誕生裏話や音声コンテンツの可能性、人とのつながりを語り尽くす

XCrossing

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2023 86:16


AIによるポッドキャスト音声の文字起こしを提供するなど今までにない新しいサービス「LISTEN」を開発・運営している近藤淳也さんをゲストにお迎えして、LISTENを作ったきっかけや、音声コンテンツが持つ可能性と課題、ソーシャルな人とのつながりについて話しました。01:33 初ゲスト!近藤淳也さんと4人で話す02:50 LISTEN上で、ポッドキャスト出演者の話量を示すゲージの裏話04:35 LISTENの今の運営体制:最初に近藤さんが自分で作って、徐々に仲間が集まってきている05:25 音声メディアに興味をもったのは、友人のトレイルラン選手向けに作った超カスタマイズ音声コンテンツ10:47 LISTENにつながっていく経緯11:58 XCrossingをやってみて気づいたこと:収録後にやることの多さ(自動化したい)13:00 無形の音声コンテンツに、文字が必要な理由14:19 ポッドキャストのアナリティクス問題(なぜか数字が合わない)全部まとめて見れる分析ツールがほしい21:44 XCrossingのタイトル付け、Description、タイムコードとトピックの作り方24:45 人の意思が入った要約や強調ポイントと、AIが作成した汎用的な要約の違い28:07 LISTENが目指すもの:知らないポッドキャストと出会い、聞く敷居を下げる31:08 ポッドキャストとご近所さん、人間相関図を可視化したい32:55 「NHKプロフェッショナル見ました」から、「rebuild聞きました」と言われることが増えた35:59 すでに20年前にポッドキャスト?! − はてなの社内会議や勉強会の音声記録39:34 本を”聞く”ようになったら読書量が爆上がり42:16 ”聞く”よりも”文字を読む”ほうが頭に内容が入ってくるタイプ44:30 音声コンテンツが文字にされ、一部分が切り取られることで炎上する可能性について47:00 書き起こしメディアと、映像や音声がセットになっていれば炎上リスクは減る52:19 講演会の音声記録と、おしゃべり中心のポッドキャストに感じる心理的な違い55:14 メディアの取材を受けるとき、音声の公開も合わせて依頼する01:00:05 個人としてキャラが立っていたり、短い時間で特定の内容を伝えたいときは動画、おしゃべりであれば音声01:03:24 ながら聞きと画面とポッドキャストへのリアクションがしにくい問題01:05:27 ポッドキャスト聞いているときににやけてしまうような良い反応を返せるようになるといい01:07:54 メディアヌップの佐々木さんの話:毎回のコメントより、年1回のフィードバックがあればいい01:10:11 多種多様な人の話を引き出すのがうまい、聞き上手な近藤さん01:16:36 フィラーワードをなくすための、アメリカのビジネススクールでのトレーニング01:18:13 外国人と日本人のプレゼンテーションのはじまり方がこんなにも違う01:20:54 人の感情が乗っているフィラーワードは、重要な情報が隠されていて排除しない方がいいこともある01:24:27 今後LISTENをどう進化させていくか?リンク LISTEN: https://listen.style/ LISTEN上のXCrossingのページ: https://listen.style/p/xcrossing 近藤淳也のアンノウンラジオ: https://listen.style/p/unknownradio

Making the Museum
Secrets of Complex Cultural Project Management, with Beth Van Why

Making the Museum

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2023 55:17


How do you keep a huge cultural project on track? How do you guess the future? What's a contingency — and why is it the difference between success and failure? Project manager Beth Van Why (Becker & Frondorf) joins host Jonathan Alger (C&G Partners) to reveal the Secrets of Complex Cultural Project Management.Along the way: recovering architects, Gantt charts, museum benchmarking — and a Girl Scout Gold Award.Listen and subscribe anywhere you get your podcasts.Or start here: https://makingthemuseum.transistor.fmThe List: 1. How to anticipate the unknowns2. How to understand the knowns3. How to prepare for the unforeseen4. How to document the approvals process in advance5. How to define the project parameters6. How to know your clientGuest Bio:Beth Van Why has spent most of her career managing construction and development projects for non-profit and cultural institutions. She offers an extensive background in architecture, exhibit design, collections care, construction, and owner-run program management. Beth is very familiar with the various funding sources available to non-profits and the parameters that come with them. From master planning to design and budget consultation, Beth brings a comprehensive view of the role needed in making a building project successful. A strong advocate for the importance of education, Beth also serves as an associate professor in museum design at University of the Arts.How to Listen:Listen and subscribe anywhere you get your podcasts.Or start here: https://makingthemuseum.transistor.fmSee you there!Warmly,Jonathan- - - - - - - - - - - - -About:Making the Museum is hosted (podcast) and written (newsletter) by Jonathan Alger.This podcast is a project of C&G Partners | Design for Culture. Learn about the firm's creative work at: https://www.cgpartnersllc.comShow Links:bvanwhy@beckerfrondorf.comhttps://www.beckerfrondorf.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethvanwhy/Show Contact:https://www.makingthemuseum.com/contacthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanalgeralger@cgpartnersllc.comhttps://www.cgpartnersllc.comNewsletter:Like the episode? Subscribe to the newsletter! Making the Museum is also a very short daily newsletter on exhibition planning for museum leaders, exhibition teams and visitor experience professionals. Learn more, read past editions, and subscribe here:https://www.makingthemuseum.com

Akouo Church Podcast
Anyone Can Listen | Listen to God | Humbie Cervera

Akouo Church Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2023 34:47


This week, Pastor Humbie Cervera explains how Miles Morales and Gideon from the Old Testament have a lot in common. Scripture used: Judges 6-7 If you would like to get to know more about Akouo Church visit our website www.akouo.church or jump onto our social media. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/akouochurch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/akouochurch

Interior Integration for Catholics
101 A Story about Receiving Love

Interior Integration for Catholics

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2022 64:43


Summary:  In this episode, Dr. Peter brings together what we have been learning about receiving love in the story of Susanna Lead-in:  There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.”  Catholic Novelist Flannery O'Connor Intro.   I have been doing a lot of podcast lecturing.  Dense programming, lots of information.  Like Episode 99.  Not a bad thing.  But I want you to really take in what I'm offering at a bones level.  To possess it at the felt level, to be that familiar with it.  Not just head knowledge.  Whole self knowledge.   So I am going back to another way of learning, one I haven't emphasized enough.  Stories.  Today, I am going to tell you a story.  A story about receiving different kinds of love.  Why? Here's why.  In the words of Edward Miller tells us.  “Stories are our primary tools of learning and teaching, the repositories of our lore and legends. They bring order into our confusing world." Our primary tools for teaching and learning.  And it's true.  We teach our children in their earliest years through stories and experiences.  Not through lectures.   I am Peter Malinoski, clinical psychologist, passionate Catholic, co-founder and president of Souls and Hearts and soulsandhearts.com, and I am very pleased to with you as  your host and guide in this Interior Integration for Catholics podcast, episode 101 to be your storyteller, to tell you a story.  This episode is titled A Story about Receiving Different Kinds of Love -- a story we can all related to.   Prepping for the Story  Ways to Listen Listen to the Story  Listening to yourself as you listen to the Story.   What is going on inside Listen to your own parts Can pause the audio  Reflective space  What are your noticing  What are you resonating with in the story, what is impacting you.?  What are you rejecting   Parts -- Episode 71 A new and better way of understanding myself and others.   Needs  Primary Conditions for Secure Attachment Felt sense of safety and protection -- have to go through the valley of shame, fear, anger, grief  Feeling seen, heard, known and understood -- have to tolerating being in relationship, being present.   Feeling comforted, soothed and reassured  Feeling cherished, treasured, delighted in  Feeling the other has your best interests at heart   Integrity Needs My need to exist and survive  My need to matter  My need to have agency  My need to be good  My need for mission and purpose in life   Resistance to Being Loved from IIC 99  Limited vision and lack of imagination, leading to a refusal to be transformed by God We don't understand God's love The Costs of Being Loved by God Poor God images Poor Self images -- Shame Refusal to be vulnerable, to be exposed, to be revealed to God.  Lack of courage. Anger at God -- rebellion Cautions -- could be evocative for you -- parts of you may really connect in various ways.  I want you to take care of your self and your parts as you listen to the story.  If you need a break, take a break.   The Story -- Hero's Journey outline  The Ordinary World Susanna -- 40 year old married mother of three -- Brown hair, warm brown eyes, and easy smile, she laughs at your jokes -- the kind of person that you immediately felt comfortable with.  Open and engaging with other people, was well read, and could talk about your interests.  Socially adept, she coordinated making meals for local women who had babies.  Had a sense that she had suffered in her life and understood something about suffering.  And that was true Life wasn't always easy for Susanna Grew up in Culpeper, VA, 75 miles west of Washington DC, oldest of four children, all girls.  Named Susan.   Mother -- quiet, introverted - an interior designer turned homemaker.   Father -- extroverted, warm, gregarious high school teacher - taught algebra, geometry and trigonometry at Culpeper County High School  -- great sense of humor, gratifying, and a pretty easy grader, students loved him and he really liked being a popular teacher.  Strong sense that father had favorites among the daughters, and she wasn't one of them   When Susan was age 16, her mother divorced her father -- his affairs, excessive drinking Mother devastated.  Really wanted her daughter to understand.  Susanna was cold.   Read the divorce decree "Irreconcilable differences"  And she was so angry  At an emotional level, Susan repudiated both Mom and Dad.  Not understanding, not wanting to understand.   Decided to go by "Susanna" -- three reasons Devoted to the Chronicles of Narnia -- The last book of the series, The Last Battle.  Aslan says "Susan is no longer a friend of Narnia."  Given to nylons, lipstick, and party invitations -- she didn't seem serious  any more.   Susan was her given name -- she wanted different name, but not too different  In the Bible, in Daniel chapter 13, Susanna was the beautiful, faithful wife of Joakim.  She refused to be blackmailed into adultery by two respectable men of high stature in the community, two judges, who just happened to have also be voyeurs, peeping-Toms.  Susanna preferred death by denunciation rather than compromise her moral principles, and was saved by a young boy, Daniel, whose clever cross-examination of the accusers revealed them to be liars.  Susanna was a real heroine in her eyes, someone to be emulated.   Shuttling back and forth between parents, who were drifting from the Faith. Mom pursued an annulment got it, and remarried the summer after Susanna's graduation from high school.  Susanna refused to be in the bridal party, refused to go to the wedding.  Like many teenagers in this position, Susan rebelled.  But not by using alcohol, drugs or sex.  Susan rebelled by becoming more Catholic --  Went to Christendom college, it was close, it was Catholic.  She was determined to make a new life there.  Leave the old life behind.  Came home to see her parents as little as possible, focused on her sisters when she did come home.  Very uncommunicative with Mom and Dad.   Christendom is where she met Brett, who eventually became her husband.   Mathematics major, got into computer programming.  Very introverted, not very social.  Not socially awkward, exactly, but not at all inclined to parties and large groups.   Home based -- independent contractor.   High income Fantasy Role playing Games.   Children 16 year old Savannah, her oldest -- now driving and asserting her independence.   13 year old Trevor -- athlete, mechanically talented, liked woodworking  10 year old Micah -- still really cute and cuddly with Mom, starting to play volleyball and very into play dates with her friends.   The Call to Adventure Had been a freelance writer, mostly for Catholic publications, small but dedicated following. Made a little money.   Fr. Brownlee, the pastor asks her if she would consider being the assistant for ministry outreach at their suburban mega-parish.  Part time position.   Ray de la Cruz, the director for ministry outreach needed and assistant, just 10-15 hours per week, a lot of writing and some event planning, event management.   Fr. Brownlee, the pastor, love to have you on board, consider it -- Office at the parish, near the parish grade school, close to her two youngest kids.  A fit for her charisms.   Refusing the Call to Adventure She has a comfortable life, deciding not to do it.  Likes her home.   Brett starting to have some odd heart problems.  High blood pressure for years, stress of hitting deadlines.  Not doing as well.  Strange bodily symptoms, heart racing, no biological causes found.  Sometimes off of work for a week at a time, income not so stable.   Gnawing anxiety about that -- his father and grandfather had both died young.  She wasn't confident that she could handle the family finances if he died or became incapacitated.  Pushing it out of her mind.   Conflict increasing at home, especially between Trevor and Brett.   Need for human contact, writing getting lonely.  Brett not very good company right now, irritable, sad.    Maybe she does have something to offer.  Kids are more independent now, very busy.   Meeting the Mentor Ray, the director of ministry outreach -- really dynamic guy, lots of positive energy.  Brought in six months ago to revitalize the ministry outreach and find ways to really reach people, bring them more alive in the Faith.   Lots of initiatives across the different demographics of the parish.  Just needed a little help.   Susanna didn't know him well.  But from her vantage point, she did appreciate how he motivated people, how he stayed on his message of getting people to pray, to spend time with the Lord.  The Eucharistic Adoration chapel at the parish had been pretty moribund, but now it was lively, and teenagers from the youth groups were regularly taking hours in front of the Lord, even her daughter Savannah.  Ray was direct, straight-talking and had just come from significant success as an assistant VP in a mid-size marketing firm, but now was looking for more meaning and purpose in his life.  He was 38, had a few years in diocesan seminary, discerned out, and had never married.  He was doing an amazing outreach with the Latino community in the parish as well.   In the initial interview with Ray about the position, Susanna felt uplifted and supported.  She sensed that Ray was interested in her life, her background.  He discussed how he wanted to craft the position around the person -- around her -- capitalizing on her strengths, gifts, charisms, and not trying to fit her to some procrustean bed of a rigid position description.  And he really wanted to make sure that the position, if she took it, fostered her spiritual life.  "We have a start-up spirit here, not your same old parish corporate Catholicism" he said, laughing.  He was a fan of Dynamic Catholic and Matthew Kelly, had his books handy, Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic was his favorite book, he told her.  So much in there we can learn to put in practice here.   Let me think about it.  Give me two weeks.  "OK, Susanna, you have two weeks.  Take all the time you need.  I'll be praying for you.  Just don't forget about me, OK, get in back in touch when you are ready."   If I am going to step back out in the world, I would want the position to support my spiritual life, foster my prayer life, help me toward holiness.  I would want someone in my corner, Susanna thought.  Someone who really had my back, someone that would advocate for me, some who understood me.  I need that.  If I start working outside our home again, I would need a supervisor who actually cares about me as a person not just what I can do for them.  Then with just a little twinge, a feeling she couldn't quite identify, the next thought came.  Someone like Ray.  She corrected herself.  Mr. De la Cruz.   Crossing the Threshold Ten days later she came back to the parish offices met  Ray and Fr. Brownlee in Ray's office and said, I'm in, but here's the caveat.  I want to try it for 90 days, see how it goes -- family life, how this sits with Brett, it's been a long while since I've been working in the world.   All right, Ray said, his face lighting up.  Let's do this -- and no worries, Susanna, this parish isn't the world,  You'll be working in the Church, not the world.  Fr. Brownlee shook her hand and smiled.  Have Martha onboard you with all the employment paperwork, she'll walk you through all that tedium.  I will let you and Ray figure out the details about how to work together, I trust you both, I have to go, financial reports for the Archdiocese are waiting.  You know how to reach me if you need something.  God bless.   Let's start with prayer, said Ray.  And without waiting for her to answer, he prayed out loud, thanking God for the parish, for Fr. Brownlee, for the outreach work, the work of evangelization, for the beauty of the day, and for Susanna joining the staff, bringing all her gifts and talents and her whole being to the team.  Then he made the sign of the cross.   All right, Ray said again, let's shake on the deal.  He held out his hand and she shook it, and felt a ripple of electricity surges up her arm as he gave her a quick squeeze before releasing.  She felt excited, was she really happy?  She hadn't sensed such an uplift in a long time.  I must have gotten older than my years somehow, she thought to herself.  She smiled warmly at him and he laughed again and asked "what's your schedule for today?   Test, Allies, Enemies The next six month seemed like a whirlwind to Susanna.   She absolutely embraced the parish work. Her confidence rose week by week.  Ray was able to find just the right growing edges for her, to really stretch her but not overwhelm her.  They read passages from Matthew Kelly's book "The Dream Manager" and brainstormed together about her professional development.   Susanna did most of the planning for the eighth grade retreat, and her son Trevor said that all his friends at school thought it was the best retreat ever.   Susanna connected with Martha, the parish administrative assistant and Sharon, the school principal, who also took an interest in her and appreciated her eating lunch with the students including Trevor and Micah on occasion.   And she made a lot of mistakes, there was a steep learning curve for Susanna.  Ray laughed them off with one or more of his inexhaustible supply of quotes.   For the eighth grade graduation supper, Susanna caused great commotion with a caterer -- Susanna had made several errors in placing the order and then alienated the caterer in her frantic attempts to force everything to work out.  Multiple different entrees had to be prepared in an emergency, the food quality suffered and worst of all, all Trevor's classmates knew it was Susanna's fault.  The caterer complained about Susanna to the pastor and the auxiliary bishop.   Susanna felt terrible, ashamed, and guilty.  Ray wasn't fazed by it at all. He just quoted the business magnate Richard Branson  who said "You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."   That was so refreshing for Susanna, who ever since her parents' divorce had been so focused on not making mistakes.  She began to realize that she saw her parents' divorce as a huge mistake, she never wanted to make a mistake like that, and the best way to avoid making such a huge mistake was to make no mistakes at all.  She began to feel more free, like the world was a little more spacious.   At Ray's insistence, Susanna had dispensed with calling him Mr. De la Cruz after the first meeting.  My name's Raimundo, but just call me Ray.  Everyone does." And everyone did, even the school kids and the youth of the parish.   Ray seemed to have unbounded energy and no end of creative ideas.  He also took prayer seriously -- Early in the morning, Susanna would see him in the Adoration chapel.  He invited her to pray with him before they met to discern and discuss plans.  He inquired about her prayer life -- and let her know that he was continuing to pray for her, that she be a saint.  He asked her to pray for him.  And amazing things were happening in the parish.  Ray was a dynamic motivational speaker, especially for the teenagers and the young adults, and he had a way of connecting with the men of the parish as well.  He had a remarkable ability to remember names.  Susanna found herself admiring him.   She grew more and more curious about him, and what made him tick, where did he get all the energy and enthusiasm?  He never seemed to have a bad day.  He had the full support of the pastor and a lot of autonomy.   Her daughters noticed that Mom was happier and busier.  Her husband Brett seemed to be noncommittal about her working at the parish.  But he was in his funk still, and Susanna began to wonder if he might be depressed.  It was hard to know, he was so hard to reach in so many ways.   Her own prayer life was growing -- the challenges she was facing encouraged her to pray.  And now she had two teenagers, with their trials and their hormones to deal with.  Trevor, now in high school, occasionally would ask "How's it going for you, Mom at work.?  How's Ray?"  Susanna found herself tongue-tied trying to explain what her work was like to Trevor.   Susanna experienced some confusion and a vague sense of guilt about her marriage.  She struggled with how to love Brett, who so needed space and whose love languages seemed so different from hers.   He seemed even more uncomfortable with touch than in years past, with physical affection unless he had been drinking.  She had a sense that he didn't fully approve of her working at the parish, but he would not come out and say what he thought.  He was so indirect.  Why could that man not support her in something that she found joy and purpose and meaning in?  It troubled her.   Very gradually, over time, Ray became even more casual and familiar in his conversation with Susanna.  Sometimes he would call her "Susanita" and playfully refer to Susanna as his "guiding star" when she had a particularly creative idea.  He had an amazing vocabulary in multiple languages.  Once in a while, when he was in a particularly warm mood, he would refer to her with terms of affection in other languages -- querida, cara, carino, mon chéri.  She asked him about that.  He responded with a big smile and his arms open wide, I'm from Puerto Vallarta in Jalisco, We talk like that there, they are just ways of expressing friendship and connection.  And I consider you more than just my assistant.  I think we are spiritual friends -- at least I hope we are.  Like St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal.  But hey, if it bothers you, I won't use those words,  I can just call you Susanna.  No problem."  "No, no it's ok, I kind of like it.."  Great, said Ray.  Susanna, I just want to be a Ray of sunshine in your life, and he laughed heartily at his own play on words.  But those words stayed with Susanna and echoed in her memory.   A Ray of sunshine in my life.    Three weeks later, at the end of the day.  Susanna stopped by Ray's office to drop off a file and saw him head down in his chair, shaking.  "Ray?"  "Ray, are you all right?"  He took his hands from his face, eyes streaming with silent tears. "No."  "I'm not all right."  "I'm very not right."  Susanna immediately pulled up a chair next to his, and instinctively she reached out to take his right hand in both of hers.  "Ray, it's OK.  Ray, what is it?"  Ray's breathing was labored and his body shuddered.  "I'm glad you're here, I am so glad you're here. Susanna. Just stay with me for a while.  With his free hand he wiped tears from his eyes and looked at her.  "Ray, what's wrong?"  Ray broke off eye contact, looked over her head at the wall.  "I can't tell you what's wrong, Susanna.  I can't."  "I'm so alone, I am so lonely."  He looked at her again.  "I can't tell you how lonesome I am."  He looked down at their hands joined together -- "Do you know it's been four days since anyone has touched me?"  And he sobbed silently, rocking back and forth in his chair looking so wounded, looking so broken, looking like a little lost, abandoned boy.   Susanna's heart was so full of emotion, and she was acting on impulse.  She disengaged her right hand and put her arm around his shoulders holding him with just enough pressure to slow his rocking down.   Look at me, she said to him.  He looked into her eyes.  She said -- You are my Ray of Sunshine.  Remember that."  Then fear flooded through her and she ran out to her car without her coat or purse in a cold and dark mid-December mist.  Her mind was reeling and she tried to recollect herself in the driver's seat.  What had just happened?  What was going on?  She turned the key, the car started.  I need some music she said, and turned on the radio.  Savannah had tuned in last to an 80s station, and the DJ was saying, up next, Dan Fogelberg's top 10 hit from 1981, Same Auld Lang Syne.  Met my old lover in the grocery store. The snow was falling Christmas Eve I stood behind her in the frozen foods. And I touched her on the sleeve.  And then her tears flowed.  And from deep within her, a very, very young voice was crying out over and over again "I want to go home."  "I want to go home" as Dan sang on.   Two minutes later the lyrics pierced her like a spear when Dan was singing She said she'd married her an architect, Who kept her warm and safe and dry, She would've liked to say she loved the man, But she didn't like to lie.  Susanna clawed the driver's door open leaned over and threw up on the asphalt.  She shut the radio off in the middle of the saxophone solo, slammed the transmission into reverse and spun her tires on the wet pavement backing out of there, away from the parish, away from Ray, away from anywhere, just to get away.   I love Brett, Susanna insisted to herself, as she drove.  I love my husband.  I do.  I am faithful to him.  I love my husband.   But another voice, low and soft, almost gentle, said, Yes, you do.  Yes you do.  But are you sure Brett is your husband?  Of course Brett is my husband.  We're married.  We were married on October 10, we made vows to each other.  "Yes, you did.  You did.  You made a vow.  And Brett said the words too.  Maybe Brett made a vow, if he was actually capable of making a vow.  Maybe.  But, Susanna, you know that Brett is on the spectrum don't you?  What's the term Functioning autistic?  He has been since he was little.  Come now, listen to me.  How often does he look at you?  How well does he understand you, really?  Or connect with you emotionally, relationally?  What about how he shrinks from your touch so often?  How he is so, so  introverted?  How he lives so much in a fantasy world in his role playing games with anonymous gamers from all over the world?  Let's be honest, Susanna, about Brett, it's about time.   And let's be honest about you, too.  Why you wanted him for a husband.  Did you want to love him out of charity -- really?  How has that been going, you loving him?  Isn't it true that what you really wanted was your own safety, security, his income?  And isn't it true that you so desperately wanted to not depend on either of your parents, but you weren't ready to stand on your own two feet?   Shut up, shut up, shut up.  Susanna, Don't you know that you actually love Ray?  Are you that blind?  You have loved Ray for months now, but you still you won't admit it.  Didn't you just prove that, holding hands with him, your arm around him?  Your Ray of Sunshine.  Shut up, shut up, shut up! I'm going crazy, Susanna thought.  I am going round the bend.  Could it be that Brett was too impaired to marry me?  Could there be any truth to that?  She remembered several Catholic friends and acquaintances who after their civil divorces had applied for declarations of nullity for their marriages from the Archdiocesan Tribunal.  All of them were granted.   That was a long evening back at home.  Susanna told the kids and Brett she wasn't feeling well, skipped supper and went to bed where she lied awake in the darkness in the chaos of her thoughts.   The next morning she was supposed to meet with Fr. Brownlee and Ray at 9:00-- she considered calling in sick, but she knew she would have to face Ray again at some point.  She arrived at the conference room exactly at 9 -- she didn't want to be late, but she didn't want to be early.  Ray was there, looking like his old self.  He told her Fr. Brownlee is running a little late.  Hey, Susanna, about yesterday -- I'm sorry about being a hot mess.  I'm not usually like that, I know I probably made you uncomfortable.  Susanna found herself saying, no, Ray, it's OK, really, I was glad to help, and taking in his smile.  Thank you, Susanita.  Thank you.  We're OK?  Yes, Ray, we're OK.  OK. I just want to thank you for all you did for me.  You can't possibly know how much you helped me.  You were a gift from God, no really, a gift.  I thank God for you.  You were so attuned to just what I needed.  Can I give you just a little hug, to thank you, my spiritual friend, my sister in Christ?  It's hard for me to express everything that's in my heart for you just in words alone.   And Susanna, speechless, gave the slightest of nods before being enfolded in Ray's arms.  Her body felt electrified as he held her, she felt his body warm and firm and strong against hers, he was smiling down at her, just for those three seconds, and then felt the ache of longing as he let her go, saying, Thank you, mon cherie. Please don't tell anyone how you found me, yesterday.  Let's keep that between us, please, I am still embarrassed by my weakness and vulnerability.   And at that moment, before she could respond Fr. Brownlee's steps sounded in the corridor, and they separately quickly as they heard his customary hearty greeting, his Pax Vobiscum preceding him from the hallway.  They sat down around the table and started with the business items of the day.   After that, their hugs became more frequent and longer.  They prayed together in the chapel.  Sometimes, they furtively held hands, with God's approval, Ray said, as God's beloved children would and siblings who loved each other, Ray said.  But they did hide it, because others wouldn't understand their relationship, as Ray said.   They were having lunch in the break room of the parish center -- instead of at the school cafeteria -- Susanna asked Ray once more what he was crying that late afternoon -- if he felt up to talking about it.  Ray said he was grieving.  Grieving what?  Grieving for himself.  For his situation.  Did you ever see the musical Man of la Mancha?  When Don Quijote sang the Impossible Dream.  She wasn't familiar with the song.  They were alone -- so in a low voice, he sang the first few lines for her.  To dream the impossible dreamTo fight the unbeatable foeTo bear with unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave dare not goTo right, the un-rightable wrongTo love pure and chaste from afar And this was why I was grieving -- I was grieving you.  That all I could do in my love for you, all I could do was to love you, pure and chaste, from afar.  We were never going to be close in the way I wanted, in the way I hoped you wanted, it was just going to be frustration and pain and sacrifice and suffering -- But you Susanna -- you showed me another way -- in that dark hour of despair, you reached out and touched me, took my hand, made it all right.  You had the presence, you were so able to find a way I could not see for us to be together, for us to love each other and it be right and good.  So now it's out there, Susanna Richards.  I, Raimundo de la Cruz, your Ray of Sunshine, I love you.  I will always love you.  Whether you love me or not, I will always love you.  Like in Wendell Berry's novel Jayber Crow -- How Jayber loved Mattie Chatham in the way he did, pure and chaste from afar, because Mattie was married to Troy. Jayber was more faithful and true to Mattie than Troy ever was.  And Ray leaned back and held his arms wide and said.  I love you this big much, mon cherie and laughed.  You don't have to say anything Susanita, it's all right.  I know this is a lot to take in. I'm OK with whatever your decide.  I've decided for me. I've sorted it out on my end, I am at peace.  I've made my commitment.  I will devote my life to you, in love, in whatever way you permit, in whatever way you allow.  I am all yours to take or to leave.  You are my Dulcinea, my querida.   And like a moth to the flame, Susanna was drawn in deeper and deeper.  At the time, the her increasing enmeshment with Ray felt inexorable but later in the clarity of retrospect, she knew it wasn't.  Eventually they had sex on a wrestling mat in storeroom by the school gym.  So much shifted in both of them after that.  For a few weeks after that, they tried to "make the relationship work".  It didn't work.  Two months after his initial conquest of her, Ray's quote eternal love end quote fizzled out.  His idealized Dulcinea image of her faded, and he moved on, decided to leave his ministry position at the parish and moved to another state.   Susanna also quit her job and entered into a deep depression, filled with shame and guilt.  Brett and the kids were worried, they had never seen her like this.  Who am I?  She kept saying to herself.  Who am I?  She was walking downtown that Saturday afternoon on her way from the parking garage to the Catholic bookstore, to find a confirmation gift for her niece as she struggled with her identity.   You know what you are, said the soft, silky voice. You know what you are.  An adulterer.  A whore.   You are Susan.  Not Susanna.  Susanna was the one who resisted seduction, was willing to die rather than enter into adultery.  Don't you remember?  You are not her.  Then hardest cut of all You are just like your father.  You should die. Death will bring you release, Susan, do you know that?  What do you have to live for now? To the be the adulterous wife of Brett who you don't love and who doesn't want you?  To be the whore mother of your children, infecting them with your vice?  Can't you be humble enough, even now, to know that they are better off without you?  End it all now, Susanna.  It would be so easy, there's nothing to it… Approach to the Inmost Cave and the Ordeal At that exact same time on Saturday afternoon, In the little coastal town of Barra Grande, halfway between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in southeastern Brazil, a 10 year old girl felt an inspiration to pray for whoever might be in most need right now, maybe a lady who was really sad, a lady who needed help.  Her prayer went up to heaven like incense and Susanna did not throw herself into the traffic on that busy street, but made it to the Catholic bookstore, looking a little disheveled.  The cashier noticed her as she came in and gave a faint smile and a halfhearted greeting-- she thought the lady did not look well, but at least she clearly was not one of the homeless people that had been so inconvenient lately.   In her numbness and distress, dwelling on Who am I?  Susanna noticed she was thirsty.  Weird, to notice that right now.  It made sense.  She hadn't had anything to eat or drink all day.  It doesn't matter.  Nothing matters anymore.  She walked up through the aisle on prayer, and a slim green volume caught her eye.  Thirsting for Prayer.  Fr. Jacques Phillipe.  She reaches, takes it off the shelf.   On page 20, she reads "Over and above our sins and failings, we discover that we are God's children. God loves us as we are, with an absolutely unconditional love and it is this love that gives us our deepest identity." Something moved within her. She flipped to page 22 and read: It is a deep aspiration of every man (and, still more, every woman!) to feel uniquely loved. Not loved in a general way, as one of a large group, but appreciated in our uniqueness. This is what the father's love brings about. Each of us can experience that in his eyes we are loved, chosen by God, in an extremely personal way. We often have the feeling that God loves us in a general way: he loves all men, I'm one of them, so he must take a bit of interest in me. But being loved in a " global" way, as one item in the collection, cannot satisfy us. And then to page 23 "Each of us is every right to say: "God loves me as he loves nobody else in the world!" God does not love two people in the same way because it is actually his love that creates her personality, a different personality for each."  And then, for the first time in many months, the sobs came, racking, heaving sobs.  This is who I am.  This is who I am!  This is who I am.  A beloved daughter of God.   The cashier heaved herself out of her chair and peered into the aisle.  Ma'am?  Are you OK? But received no answer from Susanna.  The cashier shrugged and went back to her chair to work on her Sudoku puzzle.  The store manager came over and asked the cashier in a low voice what was going on.  She replied sardonically that he had a major clean up to tend to in aisle 4.   Then Susanna was up on her feet and moving fast to the door. She stopped momentarily to ask the manager and cashier -- is there a Catholic church nearby?  Yes, there's one two blocks north, just go right, and then straight up, can't miss it, Mass is in 50 minutes.  Thank you, thank you and she hurried out -- Ah, do you want to pay for the book?  I'm so sorry, I'm a bit beside myself.  Susanna threw a $20 bill on the counter and ran out.   At St. Patrick's Parish, the new pastor Fr. Jennings was eyeing James, the volunteer guitar player and song leader for the 5:00 PM Mass. James, who he he had inherited with the parish in the reassignment two weeks ago.  James was in his mid-60s, with a grey ponytail, limited musical talent, and a overweening penchant for Marty Haugen tunes, the very ones that Fr. Jennings most despised.  What James lacked in accurate pitch he made up for with increased volume.  And James had not followed through on the music they had agreed on for last week's Mass, substituting songs that seemed to him as better to sing in the moment, ones the congregation was familiar with and loved.  Much better than the dry hymns this new pup of a pastor wanted.  Fr. Jennings told himself to remember that James was also a beloved son of God as he moved in for the confrontation.   But at that moment, a woman burst into the church.  Father, will you hear my confession?  Yes, I would be glad to.  And truth be told, Fr. Jennings appreciated a reprieve from the messy business of dealing with James.   Forgive me father, for I have sinned.  It's been six months or so since my last confession.  And then it all poured out, twelve and a half minutes of heart rending sin and sorrow as Susanna's mascara completed its journey to her chin, borne by tears of both sorrow and joy.  Her hatred for her parents, her pride, the adultery with Ray, it all came out.  And as the priest gave the absolution, the Magdalene smiled.   The Ordeal Susanna left the confessional with three things. A huge sense of relief, a strong sense of mission and a business card for a counselor in the city.  The priest strongly recommended that she see this counselor Sandra, one whom he knew and trusted.  With the suicidal crisis over for now, a whole new set of questions emerged.  How should she tell Brett about Ray?  Should she tell him at all?   The priest had stressed the point that much of her struggle was in the natural realm - in her history, in her upbringing, and that all needed to be addressed.  She needed some professional help.   Susanna looked Sandra up.  Sandra looked young, really young.  She found another one, a Dr. Waldron, a psychologist in his late 60s nearing retirement and started therapy with him.  .  It didn't go well.  She felt blamed and judged by this man who seems more interested in catechizing her than listening.  It lasted two sessions and she fired him.    She connected with Sandra and entered into deep work.  She learned that everyone has parts within them -- constellations of feelings and thoughts and desires.  Sometimes parts blend.   She was able to connect with her managers A Good Girl Part who always wants her to do the right thing and grew exhausted and hopeless when she could not prevent the affair with Ray.   An inner critic who tries to help her by riding her and cutting her down in the hope that she will be good enough to be loved  A stuff-it-down manager who represses other parts out of a deep fear that they will overwhelm her  A keep-it-safe avoiding part that steers clear of potential trouble and works to minimize the risk of being negatively evaluated by others.   And over time she was able to connect with the exiled parts within her A part that wanted to be loved by her father, who so missed her father.  She realized that this part's impulses and desires were fueling so much of her interactions with Ray, because this part saw so much of her father in Ray.  The parts believed that if she were to win Ray's love, it would fill her father needs.   Another exile that felt so much shame about not being able to keep her parents' marriage from falling apart, who felt responsible for the divorce. Her Good Girl part and her inner critic were both focused on silencing this part.  This part just wanted to be able to go home to be loved by Mom and Dad.   A part filled with rage toward her parents and who hated God for giving her those parents  She discovered parts of her that hated her husband and parts of her that were fond of him.  Both could be true.    As parts gave her space, she was able to discover her innermost self -- her innermost self was able to emerge and begin to lead and guide her system, and innermost self with beautiful qualities.   And as she became more integrated inside, her experience of herself began to make sense.  For the first time.   She realized the when she was tempted by the devil, the devil was trying to co-opt the most alienated parts of her, the one who would be most susceptible to his influence.  Then if those parts could take over and drive her bus, great harm would result.   It was painful work.  She felt in her bones what Fr. Jacques Philippe wrote on page 19 of her book:  The negative aspect has to do with her sin, our deep-seated wretchedness. We only know these things truthfully in the light of God. Face-to-face with him, there is no longer any possible room for lies; no invasion, no excuse, no mask. We are compelled to recognize who we are, with their wounds, our weaknesses, or inconsistencies, selfishness, hard-heartedness, secret complicity with evil, and all the rest. But with that work came a sense of peace and joy, of being loved by God and Mary in all her parts.  A realization that all her parts were good. A knowing that her parents did not have to love her any more than they did.  God the Father and Mary her Mother are her primary parents.   Susanna was able to get in touch with Life-Giving Wounds to work through the impact of her parents' divorce in a retreat and in a local chapter.   And she began to pray and related with God and Mary in a completely different way.  Good girl:  I don't have to give up Catholicism.  I just have to give up my flawed understanding of Catholicism.  The Rewards She feared Brett would be devastated when she told him.  He seemed more relieved.  Trevor had told Brett that he thought Mom and Ray had been having an affair.  Trevor had heard rumors and seen some interactions that made him suspicious.  That was a blow to Susanna, that the affair was not nearly so secret as she imagined.   Brett and Susanna were able to find a marital therapist to begin to work on their marriage in a more focused way.  Not easy, there were limitations.   The Road Back She hates her husband and loves him.  Lots of work with the children.  Trevor's anger.    A sense of Providence.   Resurrection / Return Two years later -- she was knocking at the door of her childhood home in Culpeper.  Her father answered, surprised to see her.  It's good to see you -- will you come in?  he asked.  She smiled at him and said:  It's good to see you too, Dad.  And for the first time in more than a quarter century, she meant it.   Take a minute.   Feedback welcome What you thought  Your own story -- send it to me -- crisis@soulsandhearts.com   IIC 102  The Last podcast, episode 100 was a great success in spite of some real technical failure.  We have a learning curve with our technology, and we know some of you were not able to join us.  We have resolved those issues.  We will be meeting on Wednesday, December 14 from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM Eastern time to record and experiential exercise on parts getting the love that they need. Need to register, here is a link, can get the link from our weekly reflections in your email inbox or in our archive at soulsandhearts.com/blog.   Imagine how Susanna's experience would have been different if she had known about parts before encountering Ray -- or before marrying Brett?  Resilient Catholic Community -- you do not have to be alone.    120 Catholics like you already on board, already on the pilgrimage Reopened December 1 -- new cohort, our St. Dymphna cohort.  Until December 31.  Check it out.  Had a great meeting on December 1 and we will posting the recording very soon if it's not up already.  Sign up soulsandhearts.com/rcc -- lots of information there I've brought together the best Get to know your own parts Get to love your own parts If interested, contact me.   Crisis@soulsandhearts.com 317.567.9594 conversation hours 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Eastern Time Every Tuesday and Thursday.  (not November 24 which is Thanksgiving).     Upcoming Sign up for the weekly reflection     

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