Podcasts about manlistening

In this fresh Dharma Talk, Jack reveals how listening from the heart can empower you to transform yourself and the world.This episode is brought to you by Betterhelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/heartwisdom and get on your way to being your best self.“Difficult times call on our best spirit.” – Jack KornfieldIn this fresh episode, Jack mindfully explores:Navigating life skillfully through difficult timesHow we can change ourselves and the world through true listeningThe two dimensions of mindfulness: Sati (mindful presence) and Sampajanna (mindful response)How deep listening leads to compassionate responseUsing our difficulties as doorways of opportunity to help us awakenReflecting on how we respond to the troubles of the worldThe art of listening and how it brings us into the present momentHow taking a “sacred pause” leads to more possibilitiesThe childlike playfulness and joy between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond TutuJack tells a transformational and moving story of Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, the miraculous Tibetan physician.How all the problems and conflicts of the world are symptoms, and the solution is in the human heartActivism, service, and helping with an open heartListening deeply to sense the universal truths of realityThe powerful prayer of Black Elk, the mystical Lakota medicine manListening inwardly, tending the heart, and honing your intuition“The very difficulties you have are the place that truly awakens the heart.” – Jack Kornfield“Quiet the mind, take time, tend the heart, listen inwardly, listen to one another, listen to the earth—and you will know what to do.” – Jack KornfieldThis Dharma Talk originally took place for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation on 4/15/24. To join his next livestream, please check out Jack's events calendar.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Kim and Stuart have an informative and humorous conversation about Stuart's life, trauma, and recovery. Stuart shares openly about how his abandonment may have resulted in his dismissive nature towards women. Today he is intentional about listening to women, including having a podcast dedicated to him being a listener! -Trauma & Beauty of Adoption -Sobriety & Recovery -God as Big Mama -Stuart gets free therapy from Kim -Cults & Churches -Loving everyone, including ourselves Stuart's Bio Stuart Watson is the Founder of VoiceLocket - custom-made films saving the life stories of precious family…while there's still time. In a television career spanning four decades, Stuart interviewed more than 7,000 people on camera, winning 10 Emmys, three Peabody awards, and a fellowship in journalism at Harvard. He's written two books, a memoir, and a children's book, SOFIA LOVES TORTILLAS, and produced 135 continuous weekly episodes for his podcast IN HER WORDS, listening to the stories of strong women who bounce back. Stuart was placed in the foster care system at birth and adopted as an infant. As an investigative reporter, he discovered his biological father died of acute alcoholism. He has 29 years of continuous recovery thanks to a loving God and a host of friends who choose to remain anonymous. Connect with Stuart You can connect with Stuart on FB, IG, and Twitter @ManListening and his website https://manlistening.com/ (ManListening.com) You can also check out his fantastic podcast called: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-her-words/id1491086574 (In Her Words)

Stuart Watson is a retired investigative reporter news anchor who used sobriety as a catalyst to begin his healing and spiritual journey.  The conversation is filled with wisdom, inspiration, and some of Stuart's personal challenges. Stuart is the host of the Manlistening podcast based around being present and really listening to woman.

Beth Troutman wanted to change the way women appeared in media. So she began working in media - specifically by packing a U-Haul and moving straight from UNC-Chapel Hill to Los Angeles to join the staff of THE WEST WING - the hit NBC TV show. She came home to North Carolina to run for Congress in real life - a losing battle against an old pol later convicted of corruption. We talk about why she still works diligently for peace, justice and a better world.

Ohavia Phillips is a force. A presence. She shows up big time. Impossible to ignore, she brings love and light with her. Stuart is particularly fragile between funerals and Ohavia steps up to support a new friend she had never met.

Demetria Kalodimos won many awards for her investigative reporting. The corporate news managers fired her. She sued. Now she's looking with hope towards new and brave forms of journalism, specifically by resurrecting The Nashville Banner as a nonprofit digital news brand. Godspeed Demetria!

Sasha Gombar visited Rwanda to study genocide prevention. Then she went to work in the problematic American justice system. Now after graduation from Vanderbilt Law School, she's clerking for a Federal judge. She's a walking, talking testimonial to hope and a better future. We talk about her Dad's escape from the communist Czechoslovakia and how her summers in Prague profoundly influenced her.

Wesley Paine led the way to preserving Nashville's full scale replica of the Parthenon. She managed the Parthenon for more than 40 years and on her watch the number of visitors more than doubled. Wesley talks about how her mom and dad taught her the value of the Arts for herself and the city she loves.

Judge Shirley Fulton was the first Black woman to be a Superior Court Judge in NC. She's retired from the bench, but not the law. She talks about the SC low country, Gullah-Geechee culture, what it was like to pick cotton as a girl, her decision to attend an HBCU, then Duke Law, why some people need jail time, Juneteenth, Black Lives Matter, and her legacy. It's a whole lot, y'all.

Kathy Izard shows compassion for people who live on the streets - and teaches kindness by example. We talk El Paso, bipolar disorder, Hopeway, a kegger where she met her husband, Moore Place, Charlotte as community, panhandling and what Jesus would really do.

Mary-Ann was touring clubs in Europe singing the blues. Producers kept asking, “What's HER story?” It was almost like, “Who IS this skinny white girl and what right does she have to sing the blues?” She never told them what you're about to hear.

Leah Weinberg got straight A's till law school. Then she got a B. She cried. But Leah is overcoming her perfectionist tendencies. When she found that practicing law made her kind of miserable, she quit. She started a business doing something she LOVES: planning weddings. She's almost perfect at it. ;-)

Katie Brett put harvest season in her wedding vows. As in “I promise to love you and support you EVEN during harvest season.” We sit on her front porch and talk about raising prize hogs and how the loss of a child brought her closer to her faith and her husband. Oh - and she's pregnant again! A hope-filled journey.

An All-American and a trailblazer on the basketball court, Marsha Lake is the first woman to have her jersey hung from the rafters at Chapel Hill. Now her daughter Shea has left Connecticut and the Huskies to join my alma mater as a head coach. Marsha drops some major facts of women in athletics and tells how the late great Dean Smith at LEAST got the women a locker room!      

Nedra Glover Tawwab is a veteran therapist with a fresh take on the old wisdom “Good fences make good neighbors.” She's written a new book SET BOUNDARIES, FIND PEACE. Stuart wants to know why some women keep going back to bad men. Nedra has answers.

If Kathy Delaney-Smith were a man, she’d practically be a household name. She is the winningest coach in the history of the Ivy League in any sport, any gender, ever. She’s been the head basketball coach for Harvard women for four decades, yet she never really played the modern game. She became a head coach at the collegiate level without ever being even an assistant. Her take: that sports are the best class in any school at any time because they are the best way to teach relationships and leadership. Listen up. She’s a master.

Laura Barnard knows better than anyone that brands have to stand up to stand out. She is brilliant (Harvard, U Chicago). She is strong (NCAA athlete). She is courageous (married her love after a “civil union” and the marriage produced three daughters). We talk brands and values from Chik-Fil-A to Patagonia.

Jane Gould is writing a book called M F@#$%ing S. Only she spells it out. This is real. She’s dying of MS. And she is resigned to it. But guess what? She’s not going to kill herself. And she’s still on speaking terms with God. We start with stories of her growing up in the land of Shakespeare and her move to the US because of a boyfriend and Star Wars. WARNING: BLUNT TALK OF ANOREXIA, SUICIDAL IDEATION, AND RAW LANGUAGE. NOT FIT FOR SMALL CHILDREN. ALSO, LOTS OF TALK ABOUT GOD.

Corlis Hayes had to kiss her professor - on stage! It was right there in the script. Evidently he did not like her performance. Calling her to his office he said simply, “You don’t know what the hell you’re doing.” Wait till you hear how he told her to prepare for the role! Corlis is just a delight and a treasure to the theater and to our town.

Yvonne Simons reported on schools at places like WRAL-TV in Raleigh. But before that, she was a school teacher herself. Now she schools Stuart on what it’s like to be a black woman running a mostly white newsroom in a city that exploded last year - Portland, Oregon.

My very dear friend Anne Heffron coached me in writing my memoir. No way it gets done without her. It took more than two years - almost three. During that time we got to know each other way, way, WAY too well. No, we weren’t lovers. That’s actually kinda funny to think about. We’re both adoptees. And Anne led me in a class with her friend Pam Cordano (who needs to be on this podcast). Anne and I have both gone through a lot of fits and rages and tantrums. We’re much better now, thank you very much. See what you think!

The car flipped three times end over end. Jo bounced around the back seat like a t-shirt in a tumbler dryer. Then she was thrown from the car. She woke up face down in the dark and cold. She didn't know where her friends were. She survived. She lived. She thrived. Then…she became a mom. Times five.    

Kiana Williams was depressed. Her best friend turned out not to be the best friend. Her boyfriend turned out not to be the best boyfriend. She wanted to drop out of college - her senior year. She was SO close. What happened next really defines her as a resilient leader who gets things done. Inspirational! 

When I asked Helen Gardiner Parks to sit down and chat with me, she straight-up asked me, “What have I ever done?” Is she friggin’ KIDDING me? She graduated from Wellsley, home-schooled three kids, and runs her own nutritional business. I’m a fan. Take a listen. I think you will be too.

Vanessa Faura and I would disagree profoundly about politics. Yet we remain friends. This conversation is illuminating because we stick with her experience and steer clear of her beliefs - yet they come through loud and clear. If you’re looking for a quiet alternative to the national shout fest and a reason for hope in a productive national conversation, this episode is for you. Her story is at once unique and universal. Enjoy!

The murder Karen witnessed scarred her for the rest of her life. She’s done remarkable work to demonstrate her own powerful resilience and to heal from the trauma. Her life lesson: hope. There is always hope for healing. NOTE: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE AND REFERENCES TO VIOLENCE. NOT SUITABLE FOR SMALL CHILDREN.

Everything changed with Stuart Watson stopped talking and started listening.  He now hosts a podcast called ManListening fand a new book, What She Said, What I Heard: How One Man Shut Up and Started Listening.

Sarrah Rose is a sex coach. I had no idea what “sex coach” meant. So we sat poolside near Phoenix and I learned a lot. It’s not all sex. We first talk about her youth as a child of two preachers, her escape to NYC and her evolving understanding of sexuality and her own identity. WARNING: THIS PODCAST IS A FRANK DISCUSSION OF SEX AND CONTAINS SEVERAL EXPLICIT SEXUAL REFERENCES AND IS NOT SUITABLE FOR SMALL CHILDREN.

The first time I met Susan Andersen I gave her $1,000. A year later I gave her another $1,000. The reason? I really believe in what she is doing! And I put my money where my mouth is. Susan founded ANSWER Scholarships which changes lives for the better by sending working moms back to school to finish their degrees. The sense of pride at finishing is a game changer. It can be a life changer! Just listen.

Henna Pryor talks to Stuart from outside Philly where she is an executive coach with her own Pryority Group working in the corporate world. She has tons of practical advice for the workplace in this pivotal time, as the conversation winds its way from her immigrant parents to arranged marriages to Islam to “bro culture” in the workplace. Plus she schools Stuart on how she knows when she’s being listened to! Lots of gold nuggets throughout!

Joanna Lima grew up as a kind of motherless child, knowing little of her Filipino roots. So when she was asked to conjure up the image of an ancestor, she kind of lost it. Joanna is studying to be a therapist who can apply her own life experiences to the people she helps to heal. She speaks vulnerably about her evolving experience as a woman of color and a transracial adoptee. This episode was recorded outdoors, masked, at a safe distance at the University of San Diego.

Marina Zenovich films documentaries in a way that celebrates the full complexity and nuance and humanity of superstars we thought we knew. Lance Armstrong, Roman Polanski, Robin Williams. Stuart drives to Santa Monica to meet the two-time Emmy winner. She starts by pointing to a scar on her neck. Just listen.

Kenya Templeton performs! We sat masked in Adirondack chairs on her front walkway and she’d occasionally break into song. She talked about meeting her idol Al Jarreau and bursting into tears. Then I asked her what song she would sing for her own funeral and the hairs on my arms stood up. Wow. What a moment.

Jade Kurian is a rich woman. I don’t mean she’s sitting on a golden throne draped in jewels - although I can completely see her dressed as a rich goddess! Ha! That makes me kinda laugh. Jade began life anything but rich, living in a house by a river in southern India that had no indoor toilet and teamed with snakes when it flooded. Now she lives in a luxury high rise overlooking Austin, Texas. What. A. Rich. STORY!

Ethel Smith, scholar and professor of literature, schools Stuart on what it was like to go to school without textbooks, teach kids great literature with the N-word, and why she thinks her son’s students are way too pampered. This podcast drops the week the New York Times treats her son’s school pretty harshly.

“Dixie" got revenge. Her crime was brutal. But it made perfect sense. The dude beat her friend so badly she miscarried. Then he threw her out. Dixie was outraged for her. So she recruited her boyfriend to beat the man senseless. Then her boyfriend cut him. The street justice got her seven years in prison. The charges: attempted murder and armed robbery. She had just graduated high school. A story of misplaced loyalty with a surprise ending.

This week’s ManListening episode is a special sneak peek (or early free listen) to Stuart’s audiobook version of his memoir: WHAT SHE SAID & WHAT I HEARD: HOW ONE MAN SHUT UP AND STARTED LISTENING ! Can you take a wild guess who narrates? No! Not Matthew McConaughey! Audiobook available everywhere later this month (and may we say the PERFECT last minute holiday gift because it makes you look like you put a lot of thought into it )!

Sarah Faircloth started going to therapy as a girl. Now she herself is a licensed therapist. In between was a world of hurt, most of which she has rebounded from in heroic fashion. She shares so much wisdom that we just let it run longer than usual. It was just too good to leave on the cutting room floor!

Juli Ghazi was drinking - again. She was driving - again. She was drinking AND driving - again. Her daughter spoke up. Juli pulled the car over. She never drank again. Of course there’s a lot more to it than that. Just listen.

Mary Hopper has left her imprint all over Charlotte. From UNCC to the Lynx Line to Dilworth, Mary worked to make Charlotte better. But you’ve never heard her talk like this - about her cancer, an early abortion, and what happened to  the daughter she gave up for adoption. You’re gonna wanna listen to all of this.

Kathleen Johnston is a world class investigative reporter. After years in newspapers and at CNN and CBS as a producer, Kathleen now runs the Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism at her alma mater, Indiana University. While some say journalists are in the tank for democrats, Kathleen shows otherwise, offering a blunt assessment of the Obama years.

Laure Q. got good advice from Matt Lauer at the start of her career and felt terribly sad at his downfall. She went on to interview Jerry Springer and get his endorsement in her own political career. Laure Quinlivan talks TV, politics and a happy life on the other side of both in a wide ranging conversation with an old pal.

Nicole and her mom aren’t speaking. It’s a shame but understandable and no one person is to blame. Nicole’s mom was a teenager within weeks of graduation when she gave birth to her daughter. When Nicole was a teen, their relationship fell apart. Now Nicole’s daughters are approaching those mid-teen years. A moving conversation about mothers and daughters.

“They are your chance to learn about love.” That’s the way Lucy Lustig looked at the people around her in her last days on this earth. You’re about to hear the recording that started this podcast. Lucy was in hospice. She was spending her days in a hospital bed. She knew she was dying. But she was up for telling her story. Thank God she did.

E’beth was drowning. The whitewater held her under. Her gear was choking her. “I guess this is it,” she thought. Then came a voice from the back of her head. It said two distinct words: “Absolutely not.” E’beth Watson was something of a pioneer in whitewater kayaking. She took to it so well that she grew to be a world class paddler. The only woman in the gym at the time, she didn’t pause to consider that women paddlers didn’t even have a changing room. Stuart pulls amazing stories from an accomplished but self-effacing cousin.

Gloria Singleton’s voice - its rich tones born of decades of experience - is hereby preserved for posterity. For more than a quarter century she was the friendly voice that answered the telephone at a hotel switchboard (back when folk did such things) and treated guests first and last as human beings. When she retired, it was the end of an era. Gloria and her husband Leroy followed jobs with IBM from upstate NY to the South as part of a “reverse migration” of African Americans to places like Atlanta and Charlotte. It wasn’t easy.

Amy Geller was having trouble staying in a relationship. She’d been divorced. She’d leave. He’d leave. Nobody stuck around very long. It wasn’t working. She committed to a heavy emotional lift. She spent a lot of time looking into darkness. “It’s dark in the basement,” she says. And she really turned a corner. A conversation recorded last year in Jersey City, NJ before Amy got remarried.

Roshanda E. Pratt lights up a room. She lights up a TV. She lights up any video feed, Facebook, Instagram, you name it. She’s written a book about it! But that’s not what she talks about here. Here we talk about what matters most: family, faith and justice in a lonely, faithless, unjust world. Ro has hope. Just listen.

Marnae Costa’s daughter Torie was a poster child for pediatric cancer research, runway model beautiful. She died on Christmas day 2015. “She was an extraordinary human,” Marnae recalls, giving honor to her daughter’s life and wisdom, all of it packed into just 20 years.

Dr. Octavia Cannon kept track of her first 5,000 babies. After that she lost count. The veteran OB/GYN has delivered more than a village, more than a town and she’s up to a small city by now. But even if you don’t particularly like babies and childbirth grosses you out, it’s hard not to love her stories. Wow! Just listen.

Bernadette Joy is not Dave Ramsey - but she did wipe out $300,000 in debt in two years. Bernadette started out in the DR camp, but she’s started her own business showing millennials, women and people of color how to crush student loan debt in particular because - news flash - not everyone can relate to Dave.

Sofia is hopeful (after considering the alternative). Sofia is 20 years old. She is post-millennial. She is aware the world faces many challenges. And yet she is bubbly, engaged and overtly optimistic. She believes in making manifest her hopes, and as you’ll hear, she’s already on her way.

Stuart Watson had a problem. After three decades as a Charlotte TV investigative journalist, he found himself fired and without a job. To make matters worse, his own wife was telling him he was a terrible listener. However, after some soul searching he found a new passion in life; listening and sharing the stories of everyday women in North Carolina who have overcome adversity. It's the focus of his podcast, ManListening. In this bonus episode of Tying it Together with Tim Boyum, we talk with Stuart and one of his guests, Stacie Pompili-Towe, and talk about the importance of listening. JOIN THE CONVERSATION Do you have any thoughts or questions for Tim? Weigh in on Twitter with the hashtag #TyingItTogetherNC. Afterward, rate the podcast and leave a review to tell us what you think!

Ramona Holloway is taking care of her aging mother. That’s in addition to her full time job as half of the radio team “Matt & Ramona” on 107.9 the Link in Charlotte. So who will take care of HER when she gets older? Her nephew. Even though she has no siblings. Wait. What? How can she have a nephew with no brothers or sisters??? Interesting story….

Nayla Bitar stood up to her father. When he passed her up for a place in the family business, she left him. And she left her native Ecuador. She bought two plane tickets on the spot. Destination: USA. That’s where she made her own way.

Colleen Odegaard at NBC Charlotte was a real friend to Stuart when some former colleagues wouldn’t speak to him. And he’ll never forget it. Colleen talks racism, ethnicity, her heritage Vietnamese and Norwegian, and how faith helped her marriage.

What happens when an investigative journalist investigates the skeletons in his family's cupboard? Stuart Watson was put up for adoption by his birth mother the moment he was born after his biological father abandoned them. After four months in foster care, he was placed with adopting parents. Because it was a closed adoption, Stuart never knew that alcoholism ran in his family and that he had a full-blood brother and sister and all three siblings became alcoholics, despite being raised in different homes.Once Stuart got sober at mid life, he used his skills as an investigative journalist to track his origins, and was stunned at the story of his father and mother, who met in one of the largest mental hospitals in the world and went on to marry after his adoption. Stuart Watson is an American journalist who created the podcast ManListening - one man’s effort to better listen to women. Along the same lines he is set to publish his first book this fall: WHAT SHE SAID & WHAT I HEARD.Check him out and look for ManListening on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Stuart spent more than three decades as an investigative reporter across the southeastern U.S. His work on local television in places like music capital Nashville won major national awards and brought about reforms. He was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard University. He and his wife Lorraine have four grown children. They live in Charlotte, North Carolina.Don't miss another episode. Subscribe to this podcast. And if you want learn more about living a fantastic life after alcohol, check out my book!https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Store/b?ie=UTF8&node=133140011&nocache=1526718783253

Pam wasn’t eager to talk about race for the @ManListening #podcast— and that was nine months and a lifetime ago. But off-mic she and I talk about race all the time — and Jesus, and sex, and White (House) supremacists and the Pittsburgh Steelers. All the things we should avoid. She made it clear - she is not your “white people whisperer.” Now, she gave permission for us to air this but she says she wouldn’t do it today: “I’m a different person. As a black woman, I’m tired of talking.” I may not want to hear this, but I need it.

Jess was recommended to me as a gifted medium, teacher and intuitive healer. So I booked an appointment. It took three months just to find an opening! When I heard a little of her story, I knew I had to share it. Riveting!

Stacie Towe spent years healing from a sex assault with the help of good therapists. Now thanks to AN ANSWER Scholarship, she is going to grad school to follow a calling to heal others.  answerscholarship.org

Bethlehem is Stuart’s favorite waitress at the Original Pancake House. She’s also an Ethiopian immigrant, a proud American and an irrepressible optimist.

Stuart likes Sonja so much the first time they met he gave her $1,000. The money is for her life’s work - Gracious Hands - a shelter for single moms with small children. Sonja had a vision to start the home relying strictly on her faith to fund it. After a radio story about her, an angel showed up and bought her first home! Sonja shoots straight about making peace with her own mother after a rocky start and about becoming a mom at 16. After you hear this, you might want to help Gracious Hands, too.

Jan gave up her baby for adoption. Stuart was given up as an infant. When an adoptee and a birth mom get together to compare experience, LOOK OUT!  Powerful things happen. Stuart asks Jan about things that she’s totally willing to share…but NO ONE ever asked her! Notes:  Jan went through twelve kinds of hell before the miracle happened for her. If we listed all of them they might scare you off from listening to the whole episode. But don’t quit before you hear the miracle. Tease: Jan is reunited with the daughter she gave up. Ok, all right, and there’s a wedding. Warning: there will be trauma and there will be tears, and not just for Jan. But it’s totally worth it! A profound story of grace, healing and transformation.

Dr. Maggie is one of Stuart’s closest friends. Kind and compassionate, a genuine healer, she’s the best that medicine has to offer in difficult times.    Some of Dr. Maggie’s empathy comes from having a problematic first labor and delivery, from surviving breast cancer and from having a sister with aggressive uterine cancer.    She is gentle but direct. And she has rich perspective. She’s a calming presence in challenging times. 

Tamrah Barber is a Bronx, NY transplant who got herself elected senior class president in her mostly black Petersburg (VA) public high school. Ten years earlier Stuart, a native southerner, was student body president at his all-white private high school in Albany, GA.   So Stuart wades right in the middle of it, engaging his friend and mentor Tamrah on race, truth and what reconciliation requires.    Don’t bail on this conversation before the end! 

Amy Rupertus Peacock and Stuart share a history from before either was born. Her grandfather Bill Rupertus was the commanding general in the bloody Battle of Peleliu where Stuart’s biological father was wounded in action. Now Amy is using original letters and photos to fight for family and honor. To her, history is personal.

Sis Kaplan brought Rock N Roll and a fresh, new Big WAYS Radio to a cultural backwater called Charlotte. She faced sexism misogyny and anti-semitism at every step.  Stuart takes as much of Sis’ time as she has to spare to talk about the birth of WBBM radio on her grandmother’s rooftop in Chicago, playing softball with Edward R. Murrow, whether she prays, being called a “G=D Jew” in her own sorority, covering the Cubs and the White Sox as the first woman in the press box, her cigar chomping husband and partner Stan, and her daughter’s Bat Mitzvah in Israel. 

Stuart takes the NYC subway to 116th Street in Harlem to meet April Dinwoodie, interrupting her afternoon run in Central Park. Stuart and April are very different people except in one life-defining event: both were separated from their mothers on the day of their birth. Oh yeah. And both of their mothers were named Helen.    If you're on board with raising up the voices of strong women who bounce back, please join us as a member of ManListening!