Podcasts about Oxford Circus

“Oxford Circus” es un poemario que reivindica las identidades queer y los saberes que han madurado en los márgenes y las disidencias afectivo sexuales y de género. Ese poemario, que ha ganado uno de los más prestigiosos premios de poesía de España, el Marpoética, tiene un autor: el poeta Gerardo Rodríguez Salas. Con él vamos a conversar. Y en este planeta, cada día más convulso, llevamos varias semanas preguntándonos si la UE está al servicio de EEUU. Si en este momento histórico, en el que la UE debería estar demostrando su papel en la Historia, y lo está desaprovechando, podemos añadir una pregunta más: ¿dónde quedan todas las políticas LGTBIQ+ en este panorama? A ver si Oscar Rodríguez, vocal de relaciones exteriores de FELGTBI+, puede respondernos a esta pregunta. Escuchar audio

A sundry talk from 2025. Strong focus on Step One. More information can be found here: https://first164.blogspot.com/

In this episode, Nadina meets Mark Cridge just off Oxford Circus, inside a quiet, plant-filled HQ that serves as the visitor centre for something radical: a city that calls itself a park. London was the first place in the world to become a National Park City—but what does that actually mean when you're standing in the middle of one of the busiest urban intersections on Earth?Mark shares the story behind the National Park City idea, from the map that rewired how London sees itself to the moment the city formally embraced a new identity as a living landscape. We talk about how over 50% of London is already green and blue space, why perception matters as much as policy, and how reframing a city can unlock entirely new conversations about health, belonging, biodiversity, and the future of urban life.At the heart of the movement are the community Rangers—ordinary people running extraordinary local projects, from tracing hidden fruit trees across neighbourhoods to turning allotments into spaces of healing, mental health support, and connection. Together, we explore how these small, human-scale interventions quietly reshape entire neighbourhoods from the ground up.We also dig into the deeper questions beneath the movement: the global collapse of human connection to nature, why teenagers so often lose that bond, what it means to raise nature-connected children in dense cities, and whether cities—rather than rainforests or remote wilderness—may now be the most important battleground for reconnection.This is an episode about maps, movements, rights to grow and swim, and what happens when a city stops treating nature as decoration and starts treating it as its backbone.

Send us a textIn this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson talks to Rob Karpenko, Director of Sales, Europe at Kavalan – the PVC-free banner brand that has become synonymous with measurable sustainability in wide format.Rob shares his journey as a long-time materials specialist and explains how Kavalan's strategy has remained consistent: reduce water and energy use, tighten manufacturing efficiency and back every claim with independently audited data. He lifts the lid on the Kavalan Eco-Calculator, showing how printers and brands use it not only for ESG reporting but also as a powerful sales and marketing tool to quantify CO2, water and resource savings for every campaign.The conversation explores how legislation and culture are reshaping substrate choice, from Tallinn's decision to mandate PVC-free external advertising from 2026 to rising demand in Asian markets. Rob is frank about where the US and parts of Europe still lag – and why printers themselves, rather than end consumers, are often the ones driving the switch.We discuss the crucial point that PVC-free no longer has to be a compromise. Rob shares case studies where Kavalan has been chosen primarily for performance – anti-curl behaviour, higher strength-to-weight ratios and better load performance – with the environmental benefits as an added bonus.You will also hear the story behind the first Kavalan Green Awards, spotlighting standout projects from Blue Rhine, Embrace and Format Graphique, including IKEA's flagship Oxford Circus installation. These projects demonstrate that large-scale, complex and highly creative campaigns can be delivered without defaulting to traditional PVC.Finally, Rob talks about new products, expanding distribution, and his personal motivation for driving change – and offers a grounded, commercially realistic view of how the industry can move from “nice to have” to sustainability as standard.If you are a wide format printer, brand, retailer or event organiser looking to cut carbon without cutting quality, this is an essential listen.Listen on:Apple PodcastGoogle PodcastSpotifyWhat is FuturePrint? FuturePrint is a digital and in person platform and community dedicated to future print technology. Over 20,000 people per month read our articles, listen to our podcasts, view our TV features, click on our e-newsletters and attend our in-person and virtual events. We hope to see you at one of our future in-person events:FuturePrint TECH: Industrial Print: 21-22 January '26, Munich, Germany

For the millions that walk Oxford Street or Regent Street each year, Oxford Circus is known as thaat junction of the two - but there is so much more to that intersection! Join us to learn more.....

La calle Oxford, una de las zonas de tiendas de Londres, va a cerrar

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Two men stabbed at Oxford Circus tube station within 24 hours Stranded on Honeymoon Island The BBCs answer to Love Island China and India pledge to be partners not rivals at security summit Driving tests Learner driver abuse left me shaking but Im not giving up on lessons Tories pledge to get all our oil and gas out of the North Sea Baby dies of whooping cough after mother not vaccinated while pregnant Britain is getting hotter but are air conditioners the answer Bayeux Tapestry French voice fears over artworks move to London Dogs and drones join forest battle against eight toothed beetle First week critical to avoid children missing school later, parents told

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Bayeux Tapestry French voice fears over artworks move to London Driving tests Learner driver abuse left me shaking but Im not giving up on lessons China and India pledge to be partners not rivals at security summit Stranded on Honeymoon Island The BBCs answer to Love Island Tories pledge to get all our oil and gas out of the North Sea First week critical to avoid children missing school later, parents told Baby dies of whooping cough after mother not vaccinated while pregnant Britain is getting hotter but are air conditioners the answer Dogs and drones join forest battle against eight toothed beetle Two men stabbed at Oxford Circus tube station within 24 hours

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Baby dies of whooping cough after mother not vaccinated while pregnant Tories pledge to get all our oil and gas out of the North Sea Stranded on Honeymoon Island The BBCs answer to Love Island Britain is getting hotter but are air conditioners the answer Dogs and drones join forest battle against eight toothed beetle Bayeux Tapestry French voice fears over artworks move to London Two men stabbed at Oxford Circus tube station within 24 hours Driving tests Learner driver abuse left me shaking but Im not giving up on lessons China and India pledge to be partners not rivals at security summit First week critical to avoid children missing school later, parents told

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Tories pledge to get all our oil and gas out of the North Sea Baby dies of whooping cough after mother not vaccinated while pregnant Dogs and drones join forest battle against eight toothed beetle Britain is getting hotter but are air conditioners the answer Two men stabbed at Oxford Circus tube station within 24 hours Bayeux Tapestry French voice fears over artworks move to London Stranded on Honeymoon Island The BBCs answer to Love Island Driving tests Learner driver abuse left me shaking but Im not giving up on lessons China and India pledge to be partners not rivals at security summit First week critical to avoid children missing school later, parents told

Knife crime has soared by 86% in London in a decade, according to a report from the Policy Exchange think tank. Just 20 streets around Oxford Circus and Regent Street accounted for one in every 15 knife attacks across the capital, it found. Former Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector David Spencer shares the findings and explains what needs to happen to tackle the capital's crime epidemic. And in part two, The Standard's Commissioning Editor and Culture Writer Vicky Jessop shares her thoughts on the Channel 4 documentary about adult content creator and controversial figure Bonnie Blue - 1,000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, London obsessives and armchair adventurers! I'm Sascha, your certified London geek, and guess what? Season 2 of London Asked & Answered is stomping down the cobblestones straight into your ears—only on See you in London!Think you know London? We're about to flip that notion upside-down, shake out the souvenir keychains, and refill the world-class tea. We're delving deep through subterranean graffiti tunnels at Waterloo We're scaling secret Shoreditch rooftops for skyline selfies that'll make your followers green with envy. We're sneaking into late-night Tate Modern raves -- just try not to spill your Pimm's on the Picasso.Forget the usual tourist checklist. Season 2 is your VIP pass to hidden pop up food carnivals in Trafalgar Square—think dumplings doing the tango with tacos — and smoke-and-mirror speakeasies so undercover even your GPS throws up its hands. We'll teach you the Oyster Card ninja flick: one swift tap and you're through the turnstile before Mum's the word. And when that 3 a.m. snack craving hits? We'll point you to the best late-night street-food stalls and kebab joints that never close—because midnight munchies should never go unsatisfied. Every episode is packed with cheeky tips and untold tales. We'll wander the cold, echoing corridors of Whitehall's secret bunkers, and chase spectral whispers beneath Tower Bridge . Art fans, prepare for off-the-grid masterpieces: century-old Shoreditch murals that have more stories than your uncle's holiday slideshow.Seasons change, and so do we. Catch spring's cherry blossom rain in Hyde Park, summer's kaleidoscopic Notting Hill Carnival, autumn's Borough Market spice-dusted leaves, and winter's Winter Wonderland—warts-and-all Christmas magic without that freezing queue for a mulled wine.You'll hear bite-sized segments like Hidden Gems and Curious Finds your weekly compass to cloak and dagger courtyards and clandestine bookshops — and “Events & Excitement”, your insider's ticket to everything from midnight films in abandoned tube tunnels to secret salsa nights behind neon locked doors.Don't worry, we still tip our bowler hats to the icons: we'll salute Buckingham Palace in all its glory, strut across Tower Bridge, and decode Westminster Abbey's coolest stained glass. But we'll also reveal the hush hush garden gates at Buckingham and the engineers' secret tea route under the bridge, history with a wink!Season 2 is for everyone: the whirlwind weekender, penny-pinching backpacker, and the bona fide London lifer who swears “I've seen it all” (spoiler: you haven't). We're dishing out mini-series like “London on a Shoestring” (budget thrills guaranteed) and “Luxury London” (when your bank account is feeling *fancy*).So, what are you waiting for? Jab that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Then dash over to Seeyouin.London and sign up for our newsletter—it comes with bonus walking tour maps, weather-proof packing lists, and a lot more. Bookmark this show—Season 2 explodes onto the airwaves faster than a double-decker hurtling through Oxford Circus. London never sleeps, and neither do we. Grab your headphones, lace up those trainers, and prepare to rediscover the city in all its glorious madness. Adventure—and a bit of mischief—awaits… are you in? Then lets'go - See you in London!Website: seeyouin.london Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This talk is a sundry talk from 2024. It is pitched to someone in the room who was at their first meeting. More materials here: https://first164.blogspot.com/

Susanna Rustin discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Susanna Rustin is a leader writer on social affairs at The Guardian, where she has worked for more than 20 years. Before that, she worked at the Financial Times. Sexed is her first book. The "Reform Firm" - the group of women's rights campaigners with Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon at the centre of it, in the middle of 19th century. They organised the first big suffrage petition presented in the House of Commons, ran a magazine for women from Langham Place (just off Oxford Circus), campaigned for jobs and education - Bodichon co-founded Girton college with Emily Davies and she was George Eliot's dear friend. But apart from feminist historians and biographers, hardly anyone knows about them. Victorians are deeply unfashionable for some very good reasons but there is lots to admire about them as well. Feminist evolutionary biology - feminists going all the way back to George Eliot were deeply and justifiably suspicious of his theory of natural and sexual selection, which they realised would be used as an argument for the naturalness of male dominance and authority, and female passivity and inferiority. But there is the most wonderful tradition of research by female evolutionary biologists and anthropologists - many of them American but some important Brits too - who from the 1970s onwards published research that presented a radical, alternative view of female primate and human behaviour, and countered the masculinist bias in evolutionary science up to that point. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's book Mother Nature first published in 1999, 25 years old this year, is a beautiful and deeply illuminating book. I think people educated in social sciences/ humanities need to take off their blinkers when it comes to the ways in which humans have - like every other life form! - been shaped by evolutionary forces. Winifred Holtby - wonderful novelist and essayist; overlooked feminist thinker. She died aged 37: her posthumously published South Riding is a wonderful, sweeping, romantic novel about local government in Yorkshire. a writer for an era of devolution and the return of deep poverty. The law that enables people to set up parish councils (also called town councils and community councils), in the area they live in - and collect taxes locally - known as a precept - to spend on neighbourhood improvements and services. The gender gap in higher education - girls now significantly outnumber boys at UK universities and this isn't discussed enough. The history of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Britain This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

EI's Alastair Benn sits down with Ian Leslie, author of Conflicted: Why Arguments Are Tearing Us Apart and How They Can Bring Us Together, to discuss how the counterculture went mainstream. Image: An advert on the Nike store at Oxford Circus. Credit: Matthew Chattle / Alamy Stock Photo 

We don't half love an Operation here at the Ladies Who London podcast! This, however, is no military operation, although it is no less audacious or finnickity. How do you build huge infrastructure when the place you need to build is one of the busiest spots in London? Well, that is the question. Operation Umbrella was the answer to this exact question. While needing to use the space but also redevelop the space, an ingenious plan took over Oxford Circus, which would require planning engineering before the real engineering took place. And yes, it was very painstaking. Come and find out all about this impressive project on this week's episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gracias al galgo es viernes de canto rodado, de feria en la calle Guaraní y otras calles de adoquines. Desde la casa del galgo on air. Los del canto rodado, el libro de Stephen Davis "Los viejos dioses nunca mueren", los Rolling Stones. Like a Rolling Stone rueda el canto rodado por calles de adoquines. "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus". Un Wildset extravagante, de trajes azules y anaranjados, toldos rayados, un conjunto de músicos radioactivos. A las 2 de la mañana un Jagger con traje de circo rojo, una corbata de moño y un sombrero alto, da la bienvenida. "¡Has oído hablar de Oxford Circus!" dice. “¡Has oído hablar de Piccadilly Circus! Y este es el circo de rock and roll de los Rolling Stones... y tenemos sonidos, imágenes y maravillas para deleitar tus ojos y oídos”. Comienza con la entrada de Robert Frossett's Circus, Jethro Tull, The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, The Dirty Mac, y Yoko Ono, entre otros rodadores. “El rock n'roll circus se rodó en tres días, del 10 al 11 de diciembre en los estudios Intertel. Los suplicantes telegramas dirigidos Allen Klein a fin de que enviara dinero para la producción quedaron sin respuesta. Así que Mick Jagger tuvo que poner 10 mil libras para conseguir el estudio. En el primer ensayo el reparto ensayó en una carpa de circo cortada por la mitad, con una pista de aserrín en el centro. El director de pista Jagger presidía un arco con banderas y focos de colores, y un estudio móvil de cuatro pistas aparcado en el exterior. El circo ambulante, Robert Fossett, los payasos, e incluso un tigre. John Lennon, Eric Clapton y Mick, improvisaron sobre “Peggy Sue”. Lennon insistió en que su super grupo se llamaría dirty mac, una broma sobre el nuevo conjunto de blues del guitarrista Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac, que rezaba en Londres con su fiel recreación. La grabación principal del circo comenzó a media noche del miércoles 11 de diciembre y duraría 18 horas. Al público, formado por fans que les habían enviado cupones del New Musical Express, se les dieron ponchos llamativos y sombreros de paja, y se les centró alrededor de la pista del circo. Probablemente técnicos con las cámaras y los focos estuvieron interrumpiendo el curso del acontecimiento, con muchas demoras y tomas repetidas para cada actuante (...)”. Viva la radio. Quiénes cantaron: -Song for Jeffrey - (The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, 1968 Live) - Jethro Tull -Ain't That a Lot of Love - Taj Mahal (The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, 1968 Live) -Mick Jagger & John Lennon - The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, 1968 Live. -Yer Blues - (The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, 1968 Live) - The Dirty Mac (John Lennon, Clapton, Keith Richards & Mitch Mitchell) - A Quick One (While He´s Away) - (The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, 1968 Live) - The Who -John Lennon's Introduction - (The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, 1968 Live) - The Rolling Stones -Sympathy For The Devil - (The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, 1968 Live)- The Rolling Stones

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Join TV Presenter and Broadcaster Rylan on the ultimate Christmas commute! Tim Dunn gets special permission to take Rylan on a ride in the driver's cab on a Central line Train, all the way from Oxford Circus to Epping. You may not know, but Rylan is a self-confessed Tube obsessive, and cannot hold back his excitement. He tells Tim about how he fell in love with the Tube in his childhood, the Tube station he's built in his garage, what the London Underground means to him and how it's shaped his life. Rylan and Tim get an incredible view of the tunnels and secrets you normally don't get to see from the driver's cab at the back of the train - and try not to push any buttons. The festive adventure, and Rylan's dream trip, continues when the pair board a vintage Routemaster bus, which takes them to a magical railway - and a very special Christmas steam train. Thanks to the TfL staff, plus staff & volunteers of the Epping Ongar Railway - who helped us make this episode. Follow presenter Tim Dunn Mind The Gap is an official podcast from Transport for London (TfL). An 18Sixty production. The producer is Marnie Woodmeade. Additional writing by Tim Dunn. The executive producer is Adrian Hieatt.

Bafta-winning chef and TV personality Big Zuu shows editor Joe the hustle-y, bustle-y world of Oxford Circus's backstreets. On the way he discusses the perfect mac and cheese, the genius of ‘Rocket League', memories of the Trocadero and why he can only cry at certain genres of music. Don't fail to check out the new series of ‘Big Zuu's Big Eats' on Dave from September 25.Follow Zuu on Twitter. Or on Instagram. Like the podcast? Stay on top of all things London with Time Out's truly excellent newsletter, Out Here.Production, editing and sound design by David Clack at Perfect Loop Productions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caroline Donaghue and Priya Rawal welcome one of the best chefs of our generation, being the youngest British chef to hold two Michelin stars, owner of a chain of restaurants Muse, Tom's Kitchen, The Pawn, Pots, Pans & Boards and ambassador of Only a Pavement Away charity, Tom Aikens.Born into a foodie family in Norfolk, Tom grew up in a house that had a respect for fresh, seasonal ingredients and at age 11, Tom decided that he wanted to become a chef. After working in several kitchens working with the likes of Pierre Koffmann at La Tante Claire, Philip Britten at The Capital, Richard Neat at Pied à Terre to name afew, he was finally offered the role of Head Chef and Co-Owner of Pied à Terre. Under his leadership, he landed the restaurant another Michellin star making him the youngest chef to earn Michellin star status at only 26 years old. Pivoting to private chef, Tom worked for the Lord Andrew Lloyd Weber, Anushka Hepo and Carole Bamford. He later helped Carole with the opening of Daylesford Organic, developing a large range of organic products for Daylesford Farm Organic Shop and Wootton Organic.Tom later took the leap to open his own restaurants both in the UK and globally, starting with Tom Aikens Restaurant in 2003 (which received a Michelin Star in its first year of opening in 2004 and the ‘Rising-Two-Star' status and 5 AA Rosettes in 2008), Tom's Kitchen in 2006, The Pawn in Hong Kong, Pots, Pans & Boards in Dubai and recently, The Muse in London which pays homage to all the inspirations different people, places, time and travels Tom has experienced.Tom has also written multiple cook books, the most notable of which was the Charity Cookbook which was launched with charity Only a Pavement Away as a response to help the increased homelessness caused by the 2020 pandemic. What started as the #FiveMinuteFeast cookery competition social media, has now given a huge amount of people a second start in life.Sponsored by V1 Architectural Visualisation & 28°-50° Oxford Circus (2850oxfordcircus.co.uk). Follow Caroline @caroline.donaghue and Priya @priya.rawal.london and the podcast page @therealrendezvous on Instagram and LinkedIn. Produced by BBE Podcast Agency. #therealrendezvous #tomaikens #michelinstar #private #restauranteer #luxurydining #themuse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caroline Donaghue and Priya Rawal welcome real estate titan Maria Morris, the founder & CEO of Maria Morris Real Estate and the start of the 'Selling Dubai' HGTV series.Born and raised in Norfolk, Maria's career progressed quickly through the industry. Seeking a new challenge, Maria made the move to Dubai after a highly successful career in the UK working for key global brands as Head of Residential in the Middle East and Global Residential Board Director for Knight Frank.Maria set out to start her own business, 'Maria Morris Real Estate' after lockdown which has become a leading real estate company for high net worth clientele across the UAE, UK, Europe and USA. She is also the star of HGTV's new reality tv show, Selling Dubai which documents her journey of creating her thriving real estate business in Dubai. Maria Morris Real Estate is redefining luxury living in Dubai and the show goes behind the scenes, to show how Maria has created an empire.Sponsored by V1 Architectural Visualisation & 28°-50° Oxford Circus (2850oxfordcircus.co.uk). Follow Caroline @caroline.donaghue and Priya @priya.rawal.london and the podcast page @therealrendezvous on Instagram and LinkedIn. Produced by BBE Podcast Agency. #therealrendezvous #mariamorris #realestate #sellingdubai #internationalrealestate #superprime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Come see the first Single Sounds live show on Wednesday 28th June in Oxford Circus! For Tickets CLICK HERE This guest actually made Katie cry with laughter - the first time that has happened in a recording! He is cruising through life, with his tiny feet, looking for new friendships and possibly a chess partner but definitely doesn't want an invite to your mate's wedding.  His bestie reveals his true shoe size and explains why you could be jet setting if you date this mystery race engineer. To get off on the ‘right foot' with this guy make sure you don't wear platform shoes on your first date! KEY TAKEAWAYS  I'm fully addicted to playing chess and am in the top 5% of chess players in the world, I've played 21,000 games since the start of lockdown  He's very outgoing and likes to be out eating good food when there's an opportunity His very cool job is as a race engineer, so  you can find him trackside at motor sport events around the world  He's a family man spending time with his Mum watching West End shows and catching up with Bargain Hunt with his Nan  He's built a really strong character from the many years of disappointment and hurt as a supporter of arsenal  If you've got tiny feet you have to just roll with the punches and cruise through life with those tiny feet  BEST MOMENTS‘If you are going to a wedding accept the invite alone and put a big ‘X' in that plus one box, RSVP ‘yes' plus zero and crack on with it'‘I'm a genuine 6ft tall, not a 5'11 calling myself 6ft, I'm definitely 6ft' VALUABLE RESOURCESTo date, this character contact the podcast on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/singlesounds/Katie McNamara: https://www.instagram.com/katiee.mcnamara/ ABOUT THE HOSTKatie McNamara - London.I started Single Sounds to create a new fun method of dating as I felt that there is now little variety with how to meet people. I absolutely love podcasts and believe in the strong sense of self you can get from them so I thought it was perfect for a dating medium.As I like to say this podcast is for people who have too much personality for a dating app. CONTACT METHOD -Linktree - https://linktr.ee/singlesounds Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singlesounds/ singlesoundspodcast@gmail.com Katie McNamara: https://www.instagram.com/katiee.mcnamara/ This show was brought to you by Progressive Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Come see the first Single Sounds live show on Wednesday 28th June in Oxford Circus! For Tickets CLICK HERE This character is a kiwi who has recently moved from Auckland to London and she is mostly interested in women but could be swayed if the right man came along.  She love public transport, is very entertaining at karaoke and is a great listener, and as someone new to the city she's open to trying new things and meeting new people but not after midnight so take her on a daytime date.  KEY TAKEAWAYS I'm ready for a serious relationship I'll always go home early, I'll leave a party at 11pm, when I'm tired, I'm tired and I need to go home and sleep, so if you want to take me on a date take me on a daytime date I usually find that the people I get to know are the people I end up being interested in She's funny, silly, intelligent, kind, a great gift giver and the best listener She loves to talk about public transport and her one true love, her e-bike She likes the finer things in life, is very down to earth and loves an adventure but she's terrible at karaoke ‘Anything could do it for me but not everything' BEST MOMENTS ‘Now I'm in London I need to reassert myself as the person who goes home early' ‘The public transport here does it for me, in the meantime' ‘As she's only 5 foot zero something she makes a great stool to lean on when you are walking around town' VALUABLE RESOURCES To date, this character contact the podcast on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/singlesounds/ Katie McNamara: https://www.instagram.com/katiee.mcnamara/ ABOUT THE HOST Katie Mc - London. I started Single Sounds to create a new fun method of dating as I felt that there is now little variety with how to meet people. I absolutely love podcasts and believe in the strong sense of self you can get from them so I thought it was perfect for a dating medium. As I like to say this podcast is for people who have too much personality for a dating app. CONTACT METHOD - Linktree - https://linktr.ee/singlesounds  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singlesounds/  singlesoundspodcast@gmail.com             Katie McNamara: https://www.instagram.com/katiee.mcnamara/ This show was brought to you by Progressive Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, Caroline Donaghue and Priya Rawal welcome Chef Michel Roux Jr, the owner of Chez Roux and Chef Patron at the Michellin star and multi-award winning French cuisine restaurant, Le Gavroche.The son of acclaimed restauranteur Albert Roux, Michel was destined to lead luxury restaurants as he has been in kitchens since the day he was born – literally. Surrounded by both his uncle and father who were both well respected private chefs and restauranteurs, it is no wonder that Michel has gone on to become one of the most popular and well respected chefs in Britain. Starting his career as an apprentice in France, he later took over the iconic Le Gavroche in 1991, leading the luxury restaurant to earning not one, but two Michelin stars. We hear first hand how the 2020 global lockdown affected Michel's operations.A true master of classical French cooking, he is also considered a celebrity chef with multiple TV appearances over the years under his belt from the likes of MasterChef: The Professionals, Saturday Kitchen and Food & Drink. This episode is an incredible insight into the Roux family, a dynasty which has made its mark on the UK's food scene.Sponsored by V1 & 2850 Oxford Circus https://2850oxfordcircus.co.uk/. Follow Caroline @caroline.donaghue and Priya @priya.rawal.london and the podcast page @therealrendezvous on Instagram and LinkedIn. Produced by BBE Podcast Agency. #therealrendezvous #michelrouxjr #hospitalitynews #luxurylifestyle #legavroche #chezroux #frenchcuisine #luxurydining Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Come see the first Single Sounds live show on Wednesday 28th June in Oxford Circus! For Tickets CLICK HERE In this episode I hear about a character who is chilled out but nerdy, outgoing and always ready to push himself to his limits. He has many hobbies and is passionate about how they have changed his life for the better and brought new friends into his life.  Described by his bestie as the complete package both on and off the football field if you are looking for a long term relationship where you get to feel like a queen then he could be the one for you!  KEY TAKEAWAYS  I'm one thousand percent looking for a long term relationship Joining the uni American football team changed my life, it's an easy and good way to meet people  I don't like it when people haven't done anything to adapt to the country they are in You need to get out there and learn about the world and yourself  This is a guy with the complete package, the strength and skill to dominate on the football field and the heart and humour to win you over off of it  He will make you feel like the most important person in the room He's kind and genuine and you can count on him to keep things interesting  BEST MOMENTS ‘I don't like to be average I'm up for the adventure'‘When he's not tackling down 350lb line men and quarterbacks in a muddy field or cracking sh*t jokes at the pub he loves to travel and see new places'‘I've been told I give off very relaxed vibes'  VALUABLE RESOURCESTo date, this character contact the podcast on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/singlesounds/Katie McNamara: https://www.instagram.com/katiee.mcnamara/ ABOUT THE HOSTKatie Mc - London.I started Single Sounds to create a new fun method of dating as I felt that there is now little variety with how to meet people. I absolutely love podcasts and believe in the strong sense of self you can get from them so I thought it was perfect for a dating medium.As I like to say this podcast is for people who have too much personality for a dating app. CONTACT METHODLinktree - https://linktr.ee/singlesounds Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singlesounds/ singlesoundspodcast@gmail.com Katie McNamara: https://www.instagram.com/katiee.mcnamara/ This show was brought to you by Progressive Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Come see the first Single Sounds live show on Wednesday 28th June in Oxford Circus! For Tickets CLICK HERE In this episode hear about a character who host Katie Mc describes as the classiest most well put together woman she has ever laid eyes on.  With adventure at the heart of who she is, this character has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and loves a rollercoaster but it's worth noting that it's a total red flag if you don't order dessert when out with this adventurous daredevil.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  A meal is never finished until you have had dessert, it's so important I never back out, even if I'm the only one having a dessert  My toxic trait is that I never forget, I remember everything forever but I'm working on it  My biggest ick is people who lie - I don't understand it and I don't like it  Hygiene and especially dental hygiene are very important  She's adventurous, has lived in many different countries around the world and speaks four languages  She's a quintessential French woman, always classy and well dressed She will always tell you exactly what she thinks, she's loyal, honest and very open minded BEST MOMENTS ‘Whatever you are thinking of doing she's probably already done it, she is very inspirational, always wants to learn new things and has done loads of crazy stuff' ‘I can be easily persuaded with a dessert ‘ ‘I hate planes and I'm scared of heights so I'm looking to do a sky dive'  VALUABLE RESOURCES To date, this character contact the podcast on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/singlesounds/ Katie McNamara: https://www.instagram.com/katiee.mcnamara/ ABOUT THE HOST Katie Mc - London. I started Single Sounds to create a new fun method of dating as I felt that there is now little variety with how to meet people. I absolutely love podcasts and believe in the strong sense of self you can get from them so I thought it was perfect for a dating medium. As I like to say this podcast is for people who have too much personality for a dating app. CONTACT METHOD - Linktree - https://linktr.ee/singlesounds  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singlesounds/  singlesoundspodcast@gmail.com                         Katie McNamara: https://www.instagram.com/katiee.mcnamara/ This show was brought to you by Progressive Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Come see the first Single Sounds live show on Wednesday 28th June in Oxford Circus! For Tickets CLICK HERE This character is a bit of a celebrity in the daytime TV show world and has been talked about as possibly the best contestant ever so he can not only teach you about getting on a quiz show but also how to win it.  He is attracted to powerful women and claims to have never experienced a hangover. So if you are looking for a kind, clever witty guy who will win your heart and you want a pub quiz partner he could be the one for you.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  My toxic trait isn't toxic for me it's a superpower, I never get hangovers and I love it, but my friends all hate it  Solo cinema is the best thing to do by yourself, you don't have talk to anyone I really like short haired women in power like Nicola Sturgeon and Angela Merkel  He's the perfect mix between your eighty year old grandma after a Baileys and a six year old child who's just discovered SunnyD He's a winner of the coveted Tipping Point jackpot and has been hailed in the press as possibly the best contestant ever  He has sweat patches that make you wish HD TV hadn't been invented  He'll wow you with his encyclopaedic knowledge of films and he's proud to call himself the human IMDb If you are looking for a man to light up your life then look no further he's the offer of the century  BEST MOMENTS  ‘He doesn't know how to swim and only recently learnt how to ride a bike, what he lacks in basic human life skills he makes up for with caring and emotional intelligence' ‘He prides himself on his fashion sense and won best dressed in Year 13'  ‘He is one of those people who goes to the gym at 6am and claims to love it'  VALUABLE RESOURCES To date, this character contact the podcast on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/singlesounds/ Katie McNamara: https://www.instagram.com/katiee.mcnamara/ ABOUT THE HOST Katie Mc - London. I started Single Sounds to create a new fun method of dating as I felt that there is now little variety with how to meet people. I absolutely love podcasts and believe in the strong sense of self you can get from them so I thought it was perfect for a dating medium. As I like to say this podcast is for people who have too much personality for a dating app. CONTACT METHOD - Linktree - https://linktr.ee/singlesounds  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singlesounds/  singlesoundspodcast@gmail.com Katie McNamara: https://www.instagram.com/katiee.mcnamara/ This show was brought to you by Progressive Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Come see the first Single Sounds live show on Wednesday 28th June in Oxford Circus! For Tickets CLICK HERE This character is always on the hunt for a good story and she won't be disappointed if it leads to a relationship.  She can't promise she won't finish your sentences for you or be late for a date but she will entertain you with amazing stories and make sure your social media is locked down for any potential future employers.  She's vivacious, animated, always up for a laugh and will make sure there are no awkward silences. She has a great, yet mortifying story about a kilner jar that if she's 4/5 drinks in she may share.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Everyone would say my most toxic trait is always thinking I'll be on time when there isn't any possibility it will happen My toxic trait is finishing other people's sentences  I'm very passionate about spreading the word to others to check your social media is locked down before you apply for a job If your hobby was designed for a 5 year old and you are in your thirties get in the bin She's kind, funny, full of entertainment and you'll never be bored of being around her Her favourite food is sushi top points if there is an unlimited option and the more raw the better! (or is it a hard pass?) She loves a dance so be sure to take her to a salsa bar so she can show off her hard earned moves from her salsa classes and as they say, those hips don't lie Check the lunar cycle because if it's a full moon she'll be charging up her crystals BEST MOMENTS ‘I'd forgotten that I had twitter but the internet never forgets' ‘If they have a speakers as well that's worse, go home and think about what you've done' ‘I was a hot mess for the whole of the first salsa class' VALUABLE RESOURCES To date, this character contact the podcast on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/singlesounds/ Katie McNamara: https://www.instagram.com/katiee.mcnamara/ ABOUT THE HOST  Katie Mc - London. I started Single Sounds to create a new fun method of dating as I felt that there is now little variety with how to meet people. I absolutely love podcasts and believe in the strong sense of self you can get from them so I thought it was perfect for a dating medium. As I like to say this podcast is for people who have too much personality for a dating app. CONTACT METHOD - Linktree - https://linktr.ee/singlesounds  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singlesounds/  singlesoundspodcast@gmail.com                           Katie McNamara: https://www.instagram.com/katiee.mcnamara/ This show was brought to you by Progressive Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THE BEATLES – REVOLVER (Giles Martin/Sam Okell 2022 remix) with special guest Heath Common. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. That a new mix exists at all is a testament to contemporary technology; Giles Martin describes the task of "de-mixing" the original tapes to isolate the individual elements.  Despite that herculean effort, Martin admits "there's nothing too extreme" in his and Okell's stereo remix.  Instead, it brings newfound clarity and punch to what was already on the tapes and familiar to longtime listeners. Everything sparkles on this iteration of Revolver while remaining largely faithful to the elder Martin's 1966 blueprint. HEATH COMMON is - amongst many other things - a journalist, a songwriter and a broadcaster. In the past he has written many articles on The Beatles for Melody Maker, The Guardian and a variety of other publications. In addition, he has recorded on several occasions at (Beatles producer) George Martin's Air studios on Oxford Circus in London where his songs were produced respectively by CAT Club stalwart John Williams and also by the  legendary music business figure the late, great Charlie Gillett. Heath Common has broadcast several radio programmes devoted to the recordings and the cultural impact of The Beatles and he considers ‘Revolver' to be their finest hour. In the interviewer's chair was JASON BARNARD. This event took place on 15th December 2022 in the Pigeon Loft at The Robin Hood, Pontefract, West Yorkshire. To find out more about the CAT Club please visit: www.thecatclub.co.uk This podcast has been edited for content and for copyright reasons. Happy Trails.

Two minutes before the testing of the emergency alert system. photo: Oxford Circus tube station building, London by Eluveitie

Pour ce premier épisode, je vous emmène à Londres. Marthe est partie y vivre il y a 2 ans. Quelle ville, un bouillon de culture, d'humanité, de diversité et de dynamisme. Incollable sur la capitale anglaise, elle nous donne son itinéraire idéal pour un week-end à Londres. L'itinéraire d'un week-end à Londres : Vendredi soir : Foodcourt Mercato Mayfair ou Metropolitano Samedi : Portobello Road Market à Notting Hill, Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace , Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, China Town, Soho, Covent Garden, Westminster et Tower Bridge en longeant la Tamise. Samedi soir : Soho Dimanche : Camden Town, Little Venice, Regent's Park, Primrose Hill Restaurants : - Bondi Green à Paddington pour un brunch - Din Thai Fung à Covent Garden pour des bons plats asiatiques  - Le Bar Remo à Piccadilly Circus pour de la cuisine italienne - Un Sunday Roast pour un plat anglais typique Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur la destination et, pourquoi pas, préparer votre prochaine escapade londonienne, n'hésitez pas à faire appel à nos experts. Pour être au courant de la sortie des prochains épisodes, abonnez-vous à notre chaîne ! Et pour être inspirés au quotidien, vous pouvez nous suivre sur nos réseaux sociaux :  Instagram @Selectour, Facebook @Selectour, TikTok @Selectour, Twitter @Selectour et LinkedIn @Selectour.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

E137 - We catch up over Christmas break while Joelle's in Idaho & Julianne's in San Diego editing our documentary. Hear about snowy plans, Poway bandits, Red Riders & Home Alone. We made this year's https://www.AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com calendar, talk crappy kids in photos & Mouse finally gives her London recap. See tourist recommendations from a Brit Pod Scene podcast below & hear Number One Rerun's deep thoughts on Harry Potter. We discuss when to scrub social media for work, & then get right into Weens' viral banana video & Hairy Pants song! Speaking of clickable, listen to Julianne's stories about the real personalities of Jack Black, Michael Shannon & Keanu Reeves. Do they have Brad Pitt's face blindness? Do you forget how you know people like Mouse does? We jump into the gutter for a while to discuss monorchidism & the female body part that rhymes with Horace, chorus & taurus. And finally we discuss Elon Musk's comedy career, finding out what politics, the Rachel Maddow Ultra & BagMan podcasts, & cat-sitting have to do with each other. We bring around the episode talking boobs, mammograms, & gallows humor. Then Weens redefines social work, throws out some gross words & ends questioning her solitude and dislike of crowds these days. Who relates? Write in! mouseandweens@gmail.com or DM any socials @mouseandweens https://facebook.com/mouseandweens is a good spot too! Watch this episode on youtube.com/channel/UCgeuFSExQ2EaHYSG-s4sgZw ►Thank you to our patrons - our family! Join the fun, get free swag & bonus content - like deleted scenes from this ep! https://www.patreon.com/mouseandweens ►Credits: "Mouse and Weens" theme song, "Hairy Pants", "Love of My Friends" by Julianne Eggold https://www.julianneeggold.com Voice actor: Matt Thompson ►Our network: Podfix https://podfixnetwork.com ►Sponsor: Dream Dinners! Quickly make homemade meals stress-free. More QT for you & your family! Dream Dinners is nationwide. If within 25 mi of Poway or San Marcos MOUSEANDWEENS99 for $99 off 1st order! Link on https://www.mouseandweens.com ►Please follow, subscribe, talk: Socials @mouseandweens | https://linktr.ee/mouseandweens | mouseandweens@gmail.com | 858-319-1089 ►Number One Rerun Podcast: https://NumberOneRerun.podbean.com and their London tourist guide based on Joelle's teenagers: "We reckon places they may like to visit: Junkyard Golf, Flight Club (go to Shoreditch one as Junkyard Golf is there too), London Eye, Sky Garden, Tower Bridge (walk over glass floor). If you want to get the tube to North Greenwich you can see the O2 - has outlet shopping, restaurants, etc & Toca Social (a virtual football/soccer place). Cable cars there too so nice views & if you want to be mega adventurous you can walk up the O2 as well. Shopping: start at Marble Arch & walk up to Oxford Circus & turn off into Carnaby Street (you can come back out & head past Tottenham Court Road towards Leicester Square (also cool & near Piccadilly Circus) to see Denmark Street on the way if into music (though not hip hop!) For restaurants/cool shopping - Covent Garden or Borough Market (you can see the Shard near there too). Good coffee chains Oree/Joe & The Juice/Ole & Steen/Peyton & Byrne). There's Harry bloody Potter things everywhere so you won't miss that little sod. Plus obviously for you see Buckingham Palace, go on a London bus, etc - lovely." Links Mentioned: ►Buy an Awkward Family Photo daily desk calendar - https://www.amazon.com/Awkward-Family-Photos-2023-Calendar/dp/1524873586 ►Michael Shannon doing comedy - https://youtu.be/IdeFYWX5nuk ►Face Blindness - https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/brad-pitt-interview-2022 ►Salon's "The Onion" article - https://www.salon.com/2013/10/22/were_the_onions_anti_semitic_slurs_fair_game ►Rachel Maddow's podcasts: https://msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra and https://msnbc.com/bagman

In this episode, I interviewed Jean Phillipe Courtois, one of Microsoft's first employees outside of the US. He joined the company in 1984 and now reports directly to CEO Satya Nadella. We discussed his personal journey, the foundation he created to inspire young entrepreneurs, and the work being done to develop tech careers in the UK. This episode was filmed in partnership with Microsoft, above their flagship store in Oxford Circus. It was a great experience and an even better episode.In this episode we discuss: - What is your role at Microsoft - As the only person on the leadership team who is not from the US, what does your role involve? - What was your first role at MicrosoftWhen you started, how did you explain what software was to somebody that hadn't come across computers? - Did you sell computers from the back of your car with Bill Gates? - In 38 years, what are some of the different roles that you've held at different points?  - What kind of changes have you seen along the way? - If you were 22 in 2022, where would you be starting your career? - How do you keep entrepreneurship alive within a company the size of Microsoft?  - How has France changed as a startup nation and why? - Does France have a word for an entrepreneur? - Your advice to people that are starting their career at Microsoft  - What is Microsoft's responsibility in promoting inclusivity? - Do you think you can teach entrepreneurship? - Tell us about your foundation - How do you deal with tough times and stay strong? - How have you found it transitioning to a public-facing role at Microsoft? - What is your favorite episode of your own podcast? - What are your thoughts on the recent trend of large companies laying off staff and the impact on those who have been laid off? - Where do you see the future of games in entertainment going? - Where do you see the metaverse going? - How can someone build a strong brand on LinkedIn and maximize its potential for their career? - What's your favorite book or one that's inspired you on your journey?Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can up to Jimmy's substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsAlso make sure you subscribe to The Shift- you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Once again thank you to our series partner Octopus Group, a collection of 8 entrepreneurially minded businesses that look to back the people, ideas, and industries that will change the world.

Alfie on his resentments built up from working in Top Shop's flagship store in Oxford Circus in his formative years, and his fears for the property market as a home-renting family man.Tiff and Alfie then delve into the historic beef between Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds, before they get angry on a listener's behalf on their experience with estate agents.Produced by Ped Hunter and Chris Skinner.Want Tiff to get angry on your behalf in a future episode? Send your gripes to @tiffstevenson on Twitter using the #AngryAunt hashtag.TEAM BUGLE PODCASTS

Sometimes you meet a person and know they have a story that should be shared. And that's what happened with me and Dan MacQueen. I hesitated to put resiliency in the title because the word has been almost ruined due to the hyperbolic nature of our click-bait world. Organizations preach “resiliency,” but it's more of a “barrel forward” rather than a “be strong and bounce back” type of resiliency. Dan has real resilience. We THINK we work hard. We THINK we have problems. We THINK our challenges are insurmountable and frustrating. But sometimes, when we hear a story like Dan's, we recognize that we have things pretty good. Dan's got gems. From his commentary on accountability to “post-traumatic growth;” from constructive optimism to screaming, “Can't you see I'm learning here!?” – there is much to think about and translate to your world after hearing his story. This is more than just a change in mindset. I'd say it's a change in being. Hopefully, the lessons you can pull from this episode can make change without having to go through trauma like Dan's. More from Dan MacQueen Web www.macqueendan.com Instagram @macqueendan Twitter  @macqueedan LinkedIn Daniel MacQueen Your Title Goes Here Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings. You can also style every aspect of this content in the module Design settings and even apply custom CSS to this text in the module Advanced settings. Click here for an unedited transcript of the podcast. I'm Jim Frawley, and this is Bellwether. Welcome to Bellwether. Thank you for joining us this week. This week we have a guest and I like to bring on guests. And I think if you look at all the guests that I have, they're always extremely valuable guests because I vet them out for you. I know that they have something valuable to give to you, and this week is certainly no different. As we get into the holiday seasons, as we get into all of the, the craziness of the world and everyone's very stressed and, and we hear about all the things we're supposed to be at work, we hear about all of the things like resiliency and all these buzzwords. 1:00 Um, they bother me because I don't feel like they have the proper context and, um, they don't really hit the mark in the way that they should. And so this week's guest is going to teach us in a very real way what resiliency is. And I think it's gonna be a fantastic level of perspective and a lot to learn. I've had a, a couple quick conversations with him. I've learned a lot already. 1:24 I'm very happy to have here today, Dan McQueen. Dan, welcome to the Bellwether Hub Podcast. Thank you so much for having me. So I want, Dan's got a story, which is unlike stories you've heard before. So Dan, I want you to cue everything up. We're gonna start with the story, share your story so that we can then pepper you with questions afterward. But we need that context because it's, uh, it's pretty wild ride. 1:49 So I'm gonna turn it over to you. Please tell your story. Thanks Jim. So, hello everyone. My name's Dan McQueen. Uh, until recently I was living in London, Jolly old. I moved back in September, but the story kind of takes place in 2014. I was having these headaches that got worse over a few weeks. I went to Annie twice. For those of you don't know, Annie is accident emergency in the uk. 2:13 You know, thinking these headaches were kind of serious. I should get them checked out. And I was told, Oh, no, no, they seem like they're vertigo. We've gotten some tests, they don't seem that serious. We'll send you home. They gave me some pills and they sent me home for that. But they told me on the way out if my headaches continued to get them checked at an optometrist, she's like, Okay, sure, whatever. 2:34 So the headaches persisted. They were getting real bad and I decided, You know what, I'm gonna get my eyes checked at an optometrist. Midway through the exam, he stopped it, which is not a casual move. He gave me a sealed envelope, also not a casual move, and told me to go directly to Morfield Hospital, which I did. Sort of, I stopped at home first to grab a book, Jack Richard book, actually by Lee Child. 3:00 Uh, my phone charger, some food I want somebody to eat and some supplies. But I was determinated to the bottom of what was happening with us. So Morefield Hospital turned into tear. Cross turned into, I was having brain surgery the next day because I had a non-cancerous cyst in my brain that needed to be operated on. So zero to 60 in, in a matter of hours, I'm deciding that I'm having brain tomorrow. 3:28 You know, I, I call my manager, message your friends, like, Hey, I'm having this tomorrow. Guess I won't be in Monday. Messaged my mom and she just retired. So she was able to come to London. So on June 21st, 2014, I was on the operating table. My mom was in the air flying to London, Something went wrong and had a massive bleeding. The brain of brain hemorrhage. I think the cyst burst when they operated. 3:53 So my mom lands and finds them in critical condition. I was in a coma for four weeks. What was in and outta consciousness for months after that, when all was said and done, I was learning how to walk, talk, and smile again. So, needless to say, this kind of rocked my world and rocked my family's world. Um, I remember waking up in the hospital with my brother, mom and dad around me, and, and I go, I can't talk. 4:20 Cause I had a breathing tube removed and I couldn't talk. And I go, Gimme a pen and paper. I write down, I point at my brother, I go, You point down. And I write down the pen and paper. I go, Get me out of here to my brother because I didn't think I had any insurance for this stuff. And I was thinking, you know, he'll bust me outta here. Let's get outta here. 4:43 So needless to say he didn't, and thank goodness he didn't. Cause I was in the hospital for months after that. But that's how things all kicked off for me, Jim, which is, so I could take this in many different directions. Um, one is the perspective on, obviously you didn't plan for this and obviously this kind of jacked up whatever plans you had eight years ago, and that's one, right? We never know when something like this could potentially happen. 5:16 But two is the recovery, right? I mean, uh, a bleeding in the brain, learning to walk, learning to talk, learning to smile again, and being able to then build a business, get back with your family, build a life, do all of these things after. I wanna talk about both of those. Um, where do you want , where do you wanna start? Talk to me first about the recovery, because if you're sitting in the hospital for months, um, obviously this is a, so you're in a coma for a month in and outta consciousness for months. 5:50 Recovery has to be intense. Talk to me a little bit about that. Yeah, for sure. So, you know, I was, my leg frozen at an angle in the icu, the intensive carry unit. So my left leg was essentially jacked up and I couldn't use it. I couldn't go ahead and walk. I was in a wheelchair, right? So getting in from the bed to the wheelchair took 30 minutes, then 25, then 20 and 15, then then 10, then seven and six and eight, then 10, then five. 6:20 Everything was difficult. Everything was hard. Earned wins. And it took forever to end that bloody wheelchair. But you keep chipping away at this. And then I was transferable to the Wilson Rehab Center. I remember telling my dad when this happened, you know, I made a few thoughts in my head, like strategies to how I'm gonna recover. And the first one was speed. And that was one that I identified earlier is like, this is crucial. 6:41 I need to go fast if I'm gonna go far. I told my dad, you know, you have to apply for these rehab centers. I go, Hey dad, make this happen. Thinking like, I don't know, he's gonna like grease the wheels. I make something happen. Like, get me in this rehab center asap. Cause I want to get after this rehab as clearly as I can. Now, I don't think you did, but I got into Wilson Rehab Center, which is great. 7:05 Uh, but when I first got to Wilson Rehab Center, I couldn't walk right? I know to walk in. So they were doing this experimental, I dunno if it's experimental, but they were doing this, this rehab where they inject your, your muscle with Botox, like the stuff you put in your lips and face for women, it kinda relaxes the muscle and allow to stretch it back to normal. So they use this needle. 7:26 It was probably about, well it's probably about this big to be honest, but it felt like it was a sword going in the back of your leg. And then they would give you this, um, I word this splint every night. Splint was like a cast, and now it was horrifically painful and I never whinged about anything in the hospital, but the splint, I would be like, Oh, this, this fucking splint. Um, I hated the splint because it was so bloody painful. 7:48 And I always say it's painful. And everyone goes, Okay, sure dad. I'm like, No, no, no. You have no idea how painful this was. I'll share a story with you now. Jim kind of talks about how painful the splint was. So the first time I wore the splint all the way through night, no issue, no stress, this will be easy. I thought this will be easy. I'm looking forward to, this will be great. 8:07 I'm stretching in the day and the nighttime, and then rehab during the day. The second night after 20 minutes, it was painful. After 30, it was dreadful. After 40 was unbearable, we took the splint off. But we decided to do one hour a night with the splint, because I wanted to walk, I wanted to get back to walking. And how I get back to walking was stretching the leg. So the third night they wrapped splint up, They gimme the clicker. 8:32 We set the time on the phone for one hour. Now the, the ward of the Wilson's in L shape, so small on this side, long on this side, okay? And after 10 minutes, it's painful. After 20, it's dreadful. After 30, it's unbearable. And I'm thinking, we're doing this for an hour. This is insanity. What was I thinking? An hour. This is ridiculous. I start passing the clicker back and forth to distract myself from the pain. 8:58 Now I have double vision, which means I can't see anything. I'm feeling this and I miss one of my tosses and it crashes on the floor. Shit. I look over the edge of the bed, I see the clicker on the floor, the solution to my problems on the floor. The only problem is I'm splinted up. I can't move. And the floor is about three and a half feet on the ground. Help help by yell. 9:22 Wilson Rehab Centers, this and L Shape, they're on the far side of the ward. They can't hear me. No one's coming. We're 30 minutes on the board, which means they're gonna come back and maybe, well, maybe 30, but maybe 40, maybe 50. They might have gone to heating for all I know, Jim, they might have gone forever. I don't know where they're gone. The solution to my problem's right there. The only problem is it's three and a half feet on the ground on the Oleum. 9:42 If I drop down under the bed, I, I, I did some quick mass in my mind, not my strong suit. I'll be honest with you, Jim and I decided that it's about a 50 50 chance, me breaking my arm, a 50 50 shot. So, but if I break my arm at least can click the clicker, get the splint off, and then they can fix my arm. If I don't go for the clicker, I'm stuck here waiting for them to come back and hoping kinda like a metaphor for this whole thing. 10:08 You can't wait for someone to come save you. So I decide to risk it and grab the clicker. I crash down in the heap, I flip the coin and the arm holds. I hammer the clicker click, expect them to come burst into the room to come to my rescue. Nay, they kind of strolled in five minutes later. What are you doing on the floor, Dan? Well, let's not worry about that right now. 10:29 Let's get the leg off, bleed the split off my leg and get me sorted out there. But I learned some lessons from this. Uh, the first being don't pass the clicker back and forth with double vision. That's a bad idea. That's a good lesson, That's a great lesson. Uh, I really recommend that. The second being do the splint up at the hip, not at the ankle so I could undo it. Should this happen again? 10:50 Luckily it never did. But like things like that, that you're always kind of learning and iterating on this, just as in life, like you, you realize like, I failed at this process. Let's do it better next time, better than yesterday is one thing that I always try to exhume or like to try and portray and like demonstrate. And this was a prime example of let's, you know, let's not make the same mistake twice or at least not three times, maybe twice sometimes. 11:18 But that's to show you how painful display was. I was willing to risk breaking my arm, flipping a coin for the arm 50 50, shot a break of my arm to get the splint off my leg because it was so painful. But it was, it was very much a grueling rehab process. Like I moved from the splint to walking on the Zimmer frame, which is a four post thing that you kind of lurch forward on. 11:40 And every step you take, Jim, it reminds you you're alive. I'll tell you that much. I had a grim on my face. There's a great photo I've got. I can pass it to your team afterwards. I've got this, like this, this scowl on my face where I'm just walking and trotting on. I moved up to the Ferrari, which is, um, a four wheeled walker that you kind of walk fast on, you can kind of waddle quickly on this. 12:04 And I moved up to Naked Walks. Now Naked Walk was walking without support, raids, just notice like gamification here. Like I'm kind of having fun while I'm doing this. And I kind of progressed the walking space, right? Like it was quite a, quite a progression there. But that should give us something to chat about there. Jim, is there anything that catches your eye? Well, yeah, it's, so one, people forget about how long an hour is right. 12:30 An hour takes forever when you're in an excruciating pain. And you know, I get annoyed when I have to sit and watch the kid for 10 minutes and they're yelling. But this is, you know, this is kind of a different element. But what's what I take away from that is, um, what you said, you can't wait for someone else to help you, right? When you calculate, you have to know what you have to do there. 12:51 There's a little bit about knowing what it's gonna take to get what you need, but there is an efficacy and accountability aspect in terms of, you know, I'm ultimately responsible for my comfort or helping myself in this moment. I'm ultimately responsible for this and this is my current situation. And, and now it's up to me to do this. Um, talk to me about how you're almost going for, you know, it goes beyond that. 13:16 It goes beyond falling outta the bed. It goes into now up to the Ferrari kinda walker, and it goes into the naked walks. Ultimately, this is you and you had to gamify and come with it in your mind. Talk to me about your mind process a little bit. Yeah. So it's not your fault, but it's your responsibility. It's not your fault, but it's your responsibility. So it's like, well, the drop from the record was probably my fault to be honest, but either way it's my responsibility to fix the solution. 13:44 Like, I gotta kind of resolve this. And the mindset was so key because your mindset's everything, right? Like, I'll share another story with you, Jim, that I think you're kind of, you're, you're teaming me up for. Here is something I call constructive optimism. And this is learning to walk and tune Broadway. This kinda goes to showcase the mindset that I've adopted this process soon to walk in tune Broadway, from the naked walks to the Zimmer frame, to the, to the naked walks, to walk in tune Broadway. 14:11 Now tuning Broadway, for those of you that don't know is in South London who they call up and coming, which means it's on the verge of like sketchiness. What kind of like sexing up that like developers can call it up and coming, which means like, like 10 years time will be popping, but it's been up and coming for 10 years. So you never know. But needless to say, it's a bit of a difficult place to learn to walk again. 14:34 I'm walking with a cane, I'm walking with an eye patch. I'm a unit out there while I'm Bambi Ice, to be honest, I turn the corner on Broadway the first time and get bumped and by someone pretty hard, stagger back and okay, cut off by someone else or someone bleeding on the sidewalk beside me. I'm like, this is wild place to how to walk. People kept bumping into me, crashing past me. 14:55 This is the worst place to learn to walk in the world. Can't you see? I'm trying to learn here. Can you see, I'm trying to walk here like, gimme a freaking slack, man. I was so frustrated and dejected by this because I'm trying real hard here and you guys aren't giving me any slack. But I was like, and I was like, this was days that I was dejecting, like,Oh, I gotta walk Broadway. 15:15 This place sucks. This is the worst place I'm gonna walk in the world. And then one day my perspective shifted. This isn't the worst place to learn how to walk in the world. This is the best place. Because if I can walk here, I can walk anywhere, bumping me, crash past me, bring it on, I look forward to my walks, I look forward to that contact because that's teaching me in the best place to how to walk in the world. 15:37 Now, tune Broadway didn't change, right? It's still tune Broadway, but it went from the worst to the best in my head. And my mood reflected that I began looking forward to my walks bumping into me, crash fasting, bringing on this is all I want. That's like an example of like how my mindset adapted to this process. Like if I'm, if I think about it differently, the outcome will be different. And I knew that, like, I think how I came up with this mindset shift was how am I gonna think through this problem? 16:09 I'm frustrated by walking into Broadway. How can I make it less crap in my mind, this is the worst place started to walk in the world. I'm like, well, why is the worst? Cause it's the most difficult. People bump into you, crash past you. Like, well, couldn't that also be the best? Because that way you're stress testing isn't the best place to walk in the world. I was like, well, maybe it is. 16:28 And then I started bringing out that mindset. And when I did that, my whole world changed. Like I, I began looking forward to those walks and, and when you look forward to what you're doing, it makes all the bloody difference. And I think that's through this whole process, I began shifting my perspective on like, well is this the worst or is this the best? And like, don't get me wrong, I'm not in delusions of this is like a good experience, but it's the experience you're in right now. 16:54 And like I said, it's not your fault, but it's your responsibility. So like I have the responsibility of learning to walk in and I can choose it for it to be the worst, or I can choose for it be the best, but I choose that and I want to choose it the best because then I can adapt this and take it on board. Hope that answers your question, Jim. Well it does. 17:13 Yeah. And it's, you know, it goes back to the responsibility, right? It's not your fault that you're learning to walk there, but it's your responsibility to do it. And you, I would say your mindset is part of that responsibility. We often talk about responsibility and accountability in terms of getting things done, but the way that we approach getting things done is also our responsibility as well. And you said something nice in there and you know, nobody would cut you slack. 17:38 And I also love where you say, Hey, I'm learning here, right? So if you were to take this out of the context and put it in anybody else's context in terms of learning a new role or learning something new, it's a vulnerable moment. It's a difficult moment and say, Hey, I'm learning here. Nobody's gonna cut you slack regardless. But it's still your responsibility to learn. It's still your responsibility to change that kind of mindset. 17:59 Do you have any, I mean, that sounds good. We hear people about positive mindset all the time and you just have to change the way you think. Um, any tips on what, you know, what made it easier for you to do that? Right? I like to give people the tangibles. Is it, you know, knowing that it's gonna get easier or knowing that this is the hardest and you're gonna find cooler places to go? 18:21 Or how do you find the way to enjoy something that you absolutely didn't look forward to? Well, thank you Jim. That's a great question. I think like I'm, I wouldn't say I'm an like an academic at all, but like I do think about things quite a lot and quite in my own mind. And I thought about this like as I mentioned, like this is the worst. Well, why is it the worst? 18:44 Break it down for me. Why is this the worst place? And I mention those reasons, like, well, people bump into you, they crash past you, it's crowded, it's dirty, it's busy, it's hectic. I'm like, well, if you're learning to walk again, wouldn't you wanna learn to walk in the, in that kind of environment? Because that's stress testing you in this difficult situation. You wanna be fed, spoon fed this stuff, You wanna be stress testing this in the worst environment in the world. 19:06 So in fact, it's not the worst, it's the best. I really made a conscious effort of thinking through this process and I knew that like, look, there's been a number of peaks and valleys in this process, Jim. And, and I knew that like my mindset was gonna be so key for all this, the way I thought about it is so huge. Like, there's a great quote from epics that I use quite a lot a through line in my talk. 19:26 As a matter of fact, it's not what happens to you, but how you react to it in the matters. It's not what happens to you, but how you react with the matters. And with the brain hemorrhage, that's like a, a big blow. It's like, okay, but it's not a death blow. And how can you react? How can you learn from this? How can you like stress test yourself to like pick the stuff on board? 19:48 Um, I guess to answer your question, like how would you reframe this? Like when you're lying in the hospital bed for hour than end and you got lots of time to think and I just thought about how can I beat this? How can I gamify this and make it more fun to, to accomplish these goals and walk? And like you mentioned, the Ferrari, the naked walks, like, I'm having fun here. Um, which is a big part of this process. 20:09 Like how can I make this fun to do? And I kind of reveling, like, I think like my friend introduced me to this, this concept of posttraumatic growth. I don't mean to jump ahead here, but I'll mention this briefly. And that's like, you know, this posttraumatic stress, which is like when you are, let's say you're in Afghanistan or something, like a night like a bomb goes off and you're, you carry that with you for years and, and it haunts you for years. 20:38 Posttraumatic growth kind when something bad happens, but you kind of raise up to the challenge and beyond that, so like now every time something bad happens, I raise up to it. So for instance, this past summer I got let go from my job at Hootsuite, which I was at for nine years. I got nothing but love for sweet, don't get me wrong, but losing your job is never a good vibe. Right now the stages of grieving are like five stages. 21:04 I've managed to kind of condense this down to like feeling shitty acceptance. Went for a booie lunch that afternoon. I went to the Apple store, I got a new computer cuz the next day I was hammering the speaking gig. What a great opportunity is for me to get my speaking career, going to speak organizations and companies about my perspective and mindset, how you can use this to be better than yesterday. I gave myself a lunch to feel bad and down. 21:31 And then I was like, you know what? We're getting afters tomorrow. We're getting s today. Like I went to the Apple store that day and the stages agreed have been kind of been condensed to like feeling bad and acceptance is at the bottom. And I kind just fast forward to acceptance because you can wish something didn't happen, but at the end of the day, it doesn't move you forward. You can wish all you want, but wishings not gonna do anything. 21:53 Wishing the brain hemorrhage didn't happen is not gonna do anything. Wishing the setback didn't happen is not gonna do anything. Wishing the job loss isn't gonna happen, isn't gonna do anything. I could be wishing this for like a year and then at end of that year I'll still be well at square one when I could have been taking steps to progress myself if you accept it and move forward, like everything's, everything's on me. 22:12 Everything's my fault, or at least my responsibilities. I mentioned like, it's not, my father lost my job, but it's my responsibility to do something about it now and now I get to pursue my speaking career that afternoon. So it's like the mindset's so key for this because if you believe it in yourself and you believe it in your soul, like your body will follow. And I'm not saying this as like lip service of like, you should do this and you should have this positive mindset of great vibes. 22:42 Like no, it's not, it's not woo-hoo on you. It's like this is how I live my life. This is how I progressed and navigated these situations. And they weren't easy, but it was simple to kind of navigate it because once you made that mind up, it's like, oh no, I'm not going right here. I'm going right around the corner. It's right around the bend. You kinda understand the road, you can kind of see the map and showcase where you want to go. 23:08 That's a rant and a half there, Jim. But I hope that gives you some context what I'm thinking about. No, it does and I love posttraumatic growth. It's, um, and it almost goes hand in hand where it's for anything, right? Whether it's a new venture, whether it's a job you hate, whether it's going to a networking event, it's how do I make this fun? How can I actually enjoy myself today? Because we've got to judge a mindset going into these things of misery and difficulty. 23:31 And, but logically it's, you know, you are an individual that was before, now you are an individual that had a brain hemorrhage, so it doesn't change anything. Um, but I almost feel like, you know, post-traumatic growth is almost like tolerance. The more you meet it, the more you're able to handle and the more you do it, the more you're able to, It's part of growing and learning after it. Would you agree with something like that? 23:57 A hundred percent. And also it's important to know the hardest thing you've ever been through is the hardest thing you've ever been through. So when I do my talk and it's like, well, I'm not gonna have a brain hemorrhage, so like I don't need to know your talk because that's not it. It's like, well sure, like a job loss and a brain hemorrhage is not the same thing, but the mindset you use to adapt to a brain hemorrhage can be used on someone who loses a job or loses a loved one or gets a diagnosis. 24:21 The adversity and resilience you need to fostering yourself to navigate this is the same, same steps. Like to understand what it is and to get that acceptance piece. Because the faster you can get to acceptance, the faster you can progress. Acceptance doesn't mean it's fair, doesn't mean it's even, doesn't mean it is justified, but it means it is what it is. Don't worry about what you can't control. Control the controllables. It's something that I always say. 24:45 And if you worry about stuff you can't control, you're not gonna get anywhere. You can just spin your tires forever and ever and ever. I just punt that if I can't control it, I punt it. I give zero zero f's about it. Like, I'm not worried about stuff I can't control. Can I influence it? Yes. No. If no, zero zero f's with that, if yes, then I worry about this and I and I take on more would I can do, um, I've lost track of your question now, Jim would hopefully that offers some perspective. 25:11 No, it does. Yeah. And it's, you know, as, as we think about the responsibility you have, we've talked before this about, you know, feeling sorry for yourself, right? And I feel like that's a step in between of situation happens. And then you've got the acceptance in between. There's the feeling. Sorry. Do you eliminate that or how do you overcome that? I mean, it's, it's one thing to say, Oh, we'll just have fun so I won't feel sorry for myself, but people deal with, you know, traumatic events, which shouldn't be skipped over. 25:41 I mean, what happened to you was a traumatic event and yet you're not feeling sorry for yourself, right? You're, you're flipping this into an opportunity, so how do you, and that, that's difficult. I guess everybody does it differently, but talk about feeling sorry for yourself I think would be something very relevant and you'd almost get the agency to do that where people would say, Yeah, I get it. Talk to me about, you know, feeling sorry for yourself. 26:03 Do you ever, and and how do you change that mindset? Well, I'll give you like the example of the lowest I've ever been in my life, Jim, which is, so the setback happened, I got back to walk and got back to work, um, for two months and then I had a second setback that happened. I was found unconscious in my flap by my mom. The sh that's in my brain had blocked leading to hydrocephalus or water on the brain. 26:30 It resulted in an ambulance ride, another bad haircut and a new medical alert bracelet. So I had traumatic brain surgery because the shunt blocked. And I woke up in the hospital for the second time here in the beeping of the, the, the heart rate monitors. Not the respirator this time, but the heart rate monitors is what, what happened? What happened? Like, well, Dan, you had a second setback, you need emergency brain surgeon. 26:53 Like what do you mean? He's like, Well, you're back in the hospital. This happened two days ago. You're working on getting back to normal. Like, so this happened again. Yeah, it's very rare. It happens less than 10% of case. And like, okay, and na was I low like all my progress, I just got back to work. And you're telling me that's ripped away from you. Like,like overnight I was, oh, talk about a pity party, man. 27:22 I was woes me for a couple days, couple of days of straw. Like, well this isn't fair, this isn't fair at all. Like, it's not fair. You're right. And where's that thinking gonna get you? Like I could be woes me poopy pants the whole time or I could just, you know what, I know how to build back better. I know how to do this. I've done this once before, this time I can walk so I'm not in the same position I would before I can get back to work and progressively build back towards whatever I'm doing. 27:51 I already been through rehab, so I wasn't entitled to go through rehab again, which is a big knock. I use all my own at home through like phone conferences or like in person meets at my home flat. Like that was tremendously low. And I gave myself a few days to feel bad and low, but I knew that at the end of the day, like I said, it's not my fault, but it's my responsibility. 28:13 No one, no one's coming to save you. Like if you want to get outta this hole, you're gonna have to chop wood carry water is what I say, which means like, get to work, like progressively get to work, chop wood, carry water, put the work in and get your perspective right to like build back up. Like it's not, And that was like, that was pretty low, Jim, I'm not gonna lie to you. 28:36 That was like, everyone's against me. Why is this, why is this happened to me? This isn't fair. And that's wrong, it's not fair, but at the end of the day, it's not gonna get you anywhere. I can say it's not fair to the home. Right. Bless you. Doesn't change anything. How about this, talk to me about, I didn't know you before this, obviously. Yeah. Um, how has this entire experience, cha, I mean, we know it changed you, okay, Yes, obviously, but how does it change your belief system? 29:12 Has it solidified one in, in your mind? Do you feel like you have a new perspective on responsibility? I'm sure you do, but you know, would you say that you're capable almost of more now than you were before based on mindset? Talk to me a little bit about your belief system and, and what's changed over the last eight years now? Thanks Jim. That's a good question. I think before this happened, I was really happy to go lucky guy. 29:38 I still am, but everything came easy to me, or at least I made it seem like it did. I kind of figured out a way to work things like with, with life, with work with girls. Like everything just kind of came easy to me. And then this brain hammer happenss and everything's stripped away and nothing's easy. You know, getting into a wheelchair takes 30 minutes and 25, then 20, then 15. Like, it's like every ounce of me is going into this. 30:06 And like, I really made effort not to show that I was trying before this happened. And after it happened, I want show that I'm trying because I am trying, I'm trying my damage to make this happen. My perspective's changed dramatically, Jim, it's like everything on me now. I, I've read this book, um, Extreme Ownership by Jaco Will, I'm not sure if you've read that one. Essentially it goes everything on me. Everything's my responsibility. 30:30 Everything's my fault. Everything's in my power to control and improve. And I'm kind of a self-help junkie. I, I love improving myself and, and finding little hacks to make things better and easier. So I've got a great morning routine. So I'll, I'll wake up early, go for exercise workout, go for a meditation, go for cold shower, like have these habits that I put in place to kind of make myself be better than yesterday. 31:00 So my perspective's changed tremendously, Jim, and it's been because of this experience, because I've had to navigate this, I've had to navigate this. If I didn't, I would wouldn't be here. I believe that I'm, I am where I am today because of the habits I put in place and I am where I am today because of the mindset I put in place to allow me those habits. Talk to me about your hacks. 31:21 Um, you talked a little bit about constructive optimism I think is probably a hack. You've got your morning routine and the habits, which is setting yourself up for success. Do you have any favorite hacks that you could share with people that you'd wanna, you know, is one of those your best or, or what would you wanna, what would you wanna share on that? I got one that I'll share with you, Jim, and one that I mentioned earlier, I think, uh, is called ice icebreakers, icebreakers. 31:48 So when you're walking with double vision and you're like, fatigue is a big thing with me and I'm seeing two, like I see two of you right now, right? So my brain's processing two and the mind the wheels are spinning. It's a lot of bandwidth and energy to like do this. Any chance I can say bandwidth, I do that because it allows me to be better for longer. I say that like I'm walking around at 75% battery and I wake up every minute. 32:14 I wake up is like 74, 73, 72. When I get below 50, I'm a less pleasant. Below 30, I'm a bit of a prick. I need to meditate to recharge and refresh that. But icebreaker is one thing that I use to like walking in a busy city. So you're from New York. I used to live in London. So the circuses in London are just out of bloody circus. Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus, Chaos. It's madness. 32:41 I founded this hack called an icebreaker. So what you wanna do is find the fellow pedestrian walk in your direction and walk behind them in their slip stream. And they're wake in their, in their ice break wake. If you would let them face the oncoming traffic and you walk behind them and that saves bandwidth because you're not dealing with the frontal abrasive walking through, you're getting the wake of their walking like an icebreaker would. 33:03 So like you just followed behind the icebreaker and this seems like a stupid hack and it is stupid, but like, it, it saves little bits of bandwidth and allows me to be better for longer. Because if I don't do this, if I'm the guy breaking the ice, it just drains your battery more. And that battery's so important to me now that I wanna protect it at all costs. And it's a fun way of me to identify these when I'm walking through the surfaces in London, like a, um, a stroller or a pram, a great icebreaker because it takes a lot of space, like a couple walking root iceberg. 33:36 Think about space, you walk behind them and let them take the frontal impact. I've also got another one, Jim, that I'll share with you is, um, timer on the phone. So, or alarm on the phone. Let's say if you remember something you wanted to do, you set the alarm on your phone, let's say, I don't know, it's 10 30 my time in Vancouver. So I set it for like three o'clock and writing on my phone saying, emailed Jim speaking assets. 34:01 That's alarm three 30. And then I, when the alarm goes off at three 30, I check my phone to know that, oh, I gotta email Jim the speaking assets and I would've forgotten that otherwise, or timer on my phone if I'm, you know, scrolling Instagram or, or uh, YouTube at nighttime before bed. I'll send my time for 10 minutes for 15 minutes when the timer goes off time to bed. Like I use the phone to help me be better and to remind me to keep on track. 34:31 So it's a way that I've kind of hacked my life because I need those hacks now because things aren't as easy as they used to be for me. A lot of work to keep this on the, on the tracks, right? And if I don't do those things, things slip and I don't wanna be slip. I'm trying to, trying to keep myself looking a certain way, presented a certain way, being a certain way. 34:52 Yeah, and it sounds, I mean if you were to take that metaphorically, it's almost your icebreaker could be your social network, your, um, use of technology in a way to keep you focused rather than distract your focus. Um, and it's just being intentional with all of the actions because right, we, everyone's got a drain battery. Um, and it's important to keep that focus and, and, and keep it at its max. What's, um, so you said before speaking assets. 35:19 Talk to me a little bit about what's next for you, How anything anyone could do to support you. I know you're, you're big on the speaking circuit now. Talk to me a little bit about that. Yeah, thanks Jim. Uh, I'm going into speaking full bo like I'm, I'm trying to make a difference and share my perspective and change your team's perspective. Like I've got like a whole treasure tro full of assets and hacks and mindsets and perspective that I can impart on your team to help 'em shift their perspective and, and shift how they view things. 35:52 I've identified a few problems that I can really help address regards to retention, helping your team understand, you know, what they've got, their perspective where they're at and help save you retention. Also culture. Uh, I really think I can impart someone into culture and understand what they've got and just how do they view things differently. That perspective of like the worst to the best help you impart that. In the last one, I think it really pairs the sales training. 36:18 Uh, we've spent a lot of money on sales training these days. See these big booms after the sales training, but after, after a few months, it reverts back to medium and it dips down. What's missing is the perspective and the mindset. You wire the house properly. Let me show you how to turn on the switch. If I can give your team the tools, the assets, the perspective needed to be better than yesterday, maybe that stays higher, longer, above the median. 36:42 But my passion speaking, Jim and I really wanna share the lessons learned because it would be a shame to leave these lessons learned on the sidelines of life. I paid for these in blood, sweat, and tears and I've fallen down seven times to get up eight and I'm busting my ass to make this happen. And I've, I've paid for these price, I've paid steep price for these and I paid them by touching the stove Nova Hot. 37:05 And sometimes I forget that it's hot and I touched it. Again. Let me tell your team that, uh, I want to, you know, I'm really driven to do this because I wanna make a difference and I wanna make, impart the lessons I've learned with your team. I think that's something I'd love for your audience, you know, feel, please feel free to reach out to me as a speaker. I've done a lot of online and in person speaking opportunities. 37:32 Uh, as I mentioned, the job loss this summer was a knock but not a death blow and a good opportunity for me to get the speaking going on, on as a full-time gig now. So that's the best way I can imagine Reju and that's, you know, best done over LinkedIn or websites can be uphold the next week. And that's queen dan.com. Perfect. Very good. So McQueen dan.com, find 'em on LinkedIn. We, we usually wrap these up, Dan, with book recommendations. 38:02 Uh, I got two for you man, and I got two questions for you afterwards, if you don't mind. Of course, you can ask away. I know you told me that before we started recording and I'm very nervous about what your questions are going to be. So I had two books for you. One fiction, one non-fiction. The first is a nonfiction. You heard of this one No Spark. So it's like a Myers Briggs test, but it's like a more modified version. 38:25 Help you identify what lights you up in work. So for instance, my work sparko type is the sage or the advisors, the my type and the sage is my shadow. And the essentialist is my anti type, which means like I get drained by doing like admins, but I get, I get really fired up by offering advice or, or listening and offering some perspective on both elements of that. So that's my nonfiction, which is good that you're getting into speaking now, by the way. 38:55 Very good. Exactly. Yep, exactly. It's a good fit, right? Yep. And my fiction is actually a book my dad wrote. Oh, nice. Called Hero Haters. This came out recently. It's a, it's a, it's a thrill book based on, um, a gripping tale of uh, an author who gets, you know, part of the hero medals. They start disappearing. There's a big mystery around, this is his first book. He was a journalist for his whole career and his first publish book. 39:27 He is getting a lot of good reviews on this. You can buy this on Amazon or Good Reads or Indigo in Canada, but it's called Hero Haters. And I really recommend this. I haven't finished it myself. I'm working my way through it, but it's a great book. I will read it. That's perfect. Uh, Jim, can I ask you a few questions? Do it. You ready for this? You've been ready. Um, so question one, if you could go back in time, you go back in time and ask your younger self or tell your younger self some hacks or truths about podcasting before you started this, what would they be? 40:07 From what you know now, um, truths about podcasting you've learned about podcasting With what I've learned about one, number one is just get started because nobody's gonna listen to it at the beginning. So you can always make your practice ones that if you don't like it, you can delete it. But as long as you take the effort to put it in and you get the practice down, eventually you'll put it out. 40:33 That's one too. When you do put it out and people do listen to it, nobody's gonna give you the negative feedback you thought you were gonna get. Right. And people are incredibly supportive and that's great. Um, and so I guess if I were to wrap that up is do it. Take that risk and don't worry what other people are doing because it's not a race. Build your own. That would be my advice. 40:57 That's a good question. See a pretty easy question. Pretty easy question. Second one. Yeah. Um, you've spoken to a wide variety of guests around a wide variety of subject matters. What are some lessons you've learned yourself from these interviews that you like hold dear to your heart and you kind of take on board with your, in your everyday life? Um, everyone on the planet has something interesting to share and it's, um,you know, if you look at my guests, the majority of my guests, uh, are normal people in extraordinary circumstances or with really good just things that we don't really focus on, right? 41:45 All the way back to my first episode on, uh, a guy who does lean, he's a good friend of mine in a bank, how he implemented lean processes into his house to keep the family organized. I thought it was super awesome. Um, friends who are public speaking coaches giving their advice, people like you who have had incredible things happen to them and how they're resilient in a real resiliency way and have come back and could share their wisdom. 42:09 Um, everybody on the planet has something excellent to share would be my my one thing to say to that. Um, and that's probably what I take away from all my guests. Jim, that's fantastic. I hope I answered them okay. No, those was a very good question. Thank you. Very good answers. Thank you. I think they're really good to know because you've had the experience of speaking with so many people. I was really curious to see what Latin with you and what was a big takeaway. 42:34 That's good to know. Everyone's got something interested to say. I like their laugh. They do. Yeah. It's, you know, they just don't know to say it. Um, or they don't necessarily have the opportunity. But Dan, you had the opportunity today and I appreciate it. This is, um, this is, you know, it's an incredible story and it's an amazing lesson. And as things go so quickly, if anything it'll make someone hear this reevaluate what's important, reevaluate their own particular situation, get some good perspective on, you know, the difficulties that, that we could be facing and everything else. 43:10 If I made Jim, Yeah, life happens for you, not to you. Mm-hmm.. And I believe that with all my heart. Like, I get up every day and I'm like, I get to do this. And you know, stuff can happen to you that kind of sets you back and it's like, you know what, You get to do this, you get to navigate through this difficult time. And now I feel not invincible cause that's the wrong word, but like, what are you gonna come at me with, man? 43:38 Like, what, what is the world gonna throw me that's gonna be so shocking and, and perplexing for me not to navigate? It's like, well, I'm losing my job this summer. Like, well that was a, that was a blow for sure. That's a heart blow. But like, compared to what I've been through, that's like a very minor blip on my radar. And like when you start addressing this difficult stuff, you start dealing able to realize that you can navigate this in a better way. 44:02 One hack, one more hack I wanna share with your team here. Jim, is cold showering? Yes. Sounds off putting. Sounds gross. I know I was a bit of an apprehensive guy myself back in the day. Now I shower and I had cold every day for two to three minutes and I had hyperventilate and I forced myself to go into a stressful state. And I get outta that shower and you're still warm from the shower, but you get little, little sleeve of cold on and you just feel invigorated and, and take on the day. 44:34 But you're making yourself go into that hardship every day on purpose. That one you face in real life. You can navigate this in a much more pragmatic and thoughtful way. I'm telling you this, try the cold shower, Jim, have you tried this cold shower before? I I do a cold shower every morning. Absolutely. You start I started it during the pandemic, I start warm and then at the end I turn it to cold.

Our sixth annual ladies' night, where all stories are written and read by women, was a WOW! We had flying mums, snake-haired Gorgons, content-mill drones, horror from the loch, and an (after)life lived through fridge magnets, all performed live on Tuesday 9th August at The Phoenix, near Oxford Circus, W1. Here's the line-up. WOMEN & GIRLS RUNNING ORDER Introduction: Katy Darby (Host) - A Profile Shot of the Country by Rebecca Lee, read by Lois Tucker - Lifendelich of the Loch by Jennifer Gaboury, read by Carrie Cohen - Up Yours Gravity by Charlotte Turnbull, read by Claire Lacey INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ - Medusa Takes a Bath and Becomes a Monster by Mina Ma, read by Grace Cookey-Gam - The Keepsake by Renee Agatep, read by Orchid Ayers

We are releasing some of our classic older episodes for the next few weeks. This episode was originally released in November 2018. Roisin Conaty is a brilliant and multi-talented comedian and actress. Having won the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award 2010 for Best Newcomer, Roisin is now one of the nation's favourite comic faces on television, appearing regularly on hugely popular entertainment shows such as Have I Got News For You (BBC One), 8 Out of 10 Cats does Countdown (Channel 4), Would I Lie To You (BBC One), and the new Channel 4 edition of The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice, having been a series regular on the BBC2 series. In March 2018, she also appeared on the Stand Up to Cancer Celebrity Bake Off edition. Roisin Conaty's sitcom GameFace, which she created, writes and stars in, aired its first series on E4 in late 2017, quickly followed by a US release on Hulu. We sat down with Roisin at Nordic Bar nr Oxford Circus to chat all things BLANK. We talked at length about the different aspects of performing live stand-up and how Roisin has used meditation as a way of focusing her creativity. We also chatted about her processes when writing her brilliant Channel 4 series Gameface and how that has changed as she's been writing series 2. Giles fails to get to grips with saying season and series and Jim gets some much needed stand-up advice as he looks to try out some new material live again. Massive thanks to our Patrons: Mary Catherine Byrnes, Victoria Nielsen, Manya Kay, Alex Williams, Joel Piveteau, Richard Astill, Samantha Beaton, Claudia McKelvey, John Holland, Katherine Keen, Lynn Robinson, It's Coming Home 2022, Alice Chrystall, Maddie Lightfoot, Alex Collis, Martin Grimm, Vicki, Julianna Williams.  @blankpod @eliistender @jimdalycomedy @roisinconaty blankpodcast2018@gmail.com Our wonderful pod music is by the amazing Paul Pilot and you can hear more from him here: http://paulpilot.com

For our 99th episode, we are so excited to share this conversation with Tina's Chanel Haynes! Discovered by Quincy Jones while she was still a teenager, Chanel became a founding member of the gospel trio, Trinitee 5:7. As lead singer of the group, Chanel sold over 2.5 million albums worldwide and earned two Grammy nominations. The trio spent nearly two decades entertaining audiences around the world in arenas ranging from Madison Square Garden to Wembley Stadium. The group was managed by Matthew Knowles.Her first album went Platinum and spent 50 weeks on Billboard's top R&B albums chart, while both of her first two albums debuted at #1 on the Billboard Gospel chart.  Chanel made her theatre debut starring as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill at the Zach Theatre in Austin, Texas. For her performance, she won Best Leading Actress in a Musical at the B. Iden Payne Awards.Chanel is making her West End debut as Tina Turner in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical at the Aldwych Theatre. Chanel had an incredible journey landing the role, which led to her relocating her entire family to London. In this special episode, recorded in Oxford Circus, Chanel discusses why she was drawn to playing Tina Turner onstage, the audition process and conquering one of the most demanding roles in the West End (plus lots more!). Tina is booking at the Aldwych Theatre until Sunday 18th December 2022. Visit www.tinathemusical.com for info and tickets.Hosted by Andrew Tomlins. @AndrewTomlins32 Thanks for listening! Email: andrew@westendframe.co.uk Visit westendframe.co.uk for more info about our podcasts. 

"Love was the thing that would change the course of the AIDS epidemic."We start with the comparison of two back catalogues before introducing our guest, the CEO of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Anne Aslett tells us how she started as a volunteer with a bold idea for a new fundraising venture before spending twenty years with the organisation and becoming CEO of the Foundation which has saved the lives of over five million of the most marginalised people in the world.We talk problem-solving, imposter syndrome and two moments which had a profound impact on Anne's life. There's unconventional innovation programmes, fighting stigma and promoting testing. There's a brief comparison of to-do lists, working collaboratively and who to ask for the quickest route to Oxford Circus. There's just time for Kenneth to lament his shoe size and for James to consider his wardrobe before we discover the real Cinderella.---You can find us on www.domoregood.uk or follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Get in touch if you'd like to feature or star on the show. It goes without saying really but the episodes contains our opinions - essentially things we overheard in meetings, stole from presentations and read in magazines. Thanks for listening.

As you left the tube at Oxford Circus, there once stood TopShop - a massive store opposite the exit. But what happened to it and what is there now? Thanks to our listen Rachel Stainsby's suggestion, we go and find out...

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol - Episode 2 - Ghosts, Innocence, Redemption And The Conclusion!   Hi, I'm Christy Shriver and we're here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us.    I'm Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast.  This is our second episode discussing Charles Dickens and his classic Christmas tale, A Christmas Carol.  Last episode we began our discussion talking a little bit about Dickens' life and the early experiences in Victorian England that shaped his career and his understanding of the world in general- in particular, the year he spent at the age of 12 as an outcast on the streets of London working in a blacking factory.  We talked about the governmental report on the conditions of the over 30,000 urban poor children that inspired the tale.  Finally, we discussed the blended choice of genres in which he chose to communicate his message of social responsibility and personal redemption- a carol, in prose, as he called it, but also a ghost story- an unusual combination.  We ended where we want to start  today, talking about the man who has charmed the world with his miserly ways, Ebenezer Scrooge.      Yes, and even before we get into the fictional character of Scrooge, I'd like to start this episode getting back into the historical context of the book.  Garry, wasn't there a real historical character Dickens' knew that inspired this timeless character?    Well, interestingly enough, there was a member of parliament by the name of John Elwes who actually lived and died before Dicken's day but was famous to almost a silly degree of being a miser.  Elwes inherited a fortune, a multi-millionaire by today's standards, but was absolutely famous for being stingy-beyond anything a reasonable person would do- as was his mother,  who literally starved herself because she was too cheap to eat.  But in Elwe's case, he and his uncle, also a millionaire who would eventually leave his fortune to his nephew, would pride themselves on how little they could live off of.  They'd sit up and rail against how much other people were spending while they were making it on so much less- they would do this while splitting one glass of wine.  Elwes would go to bed when it got dark so he wouldn't have to spend money on candles, he wore clothes so raggedy, people mistook him for a beggar, he would eat putrefied food, one time he famously ate a  hen a rat had pulled out of a river so as not to waste it.  He refused to go to the doctor because he didn't want to pay them, and he would travel longer out of the way on roads that didn't have tolls on a skinny horse back and forth to parliament.  And the worst, even on the coldest nights of the year,he  would sit without a fire saying that eating was exercise enough to keep him warm- sounds a little like Scrooge with his coal in the fire safe box.     Dang, I do see the resemblance.    It was only a partial inspiration though, Ewles, unlike Scrooge, was extremely generous with others.  He was only stingy with himself.  He lost huge sums of money loaning money to people who couldn't pay him back.  He also financed the construction of some of London's famous landmarks including part of Oxford Circus and Piccadilly- so, you can see, as with all fiction, he got inspiration and then went his own way.    Indeed, and Scrooge is way more than a miser.  Stephen Prickett in his book Victorian Fantasy  said that “the strength of A Christmas Carol lies quite simply in its psychological credibility.”  And I think this starts with Scrooge.  In the pages we read last episode, we saw way more than miserliness.  He is apparently a workaholic.  He has shut himself off from his family.  He has no friends and seems to have zero concern for other people.  In one of the famous passages that actually comes back to haunt Scrooge when the ghosts repeat his own words to him later on, he callously rejects helping the poor, not just by refusing to help them, but by almost slandering them.  Let's start by reading these famous words because in some ways they reverberate for the rest of the book.    Page 7- top of 8    I'd like to speak a little bit about the historical references Scrooge makes here.  There are several and they matter.   Workhouses were not something Dickens invented.  They were real things in Victorian England.  Last week we talked about the idea that in this time period if you owed money and couldn't pay it back, your entire family was sent to debtors prison until you did.   Workhouses were notoriously miserable with awful food and harsh conditions- not very different from prison actually.  In theory they sound like a good idea.  They are free places to live and work for people who couldn't find a job or shelter on their own.  But they were terrible and founded on this false premise we see reflected on what Scrooge says here.   The general opinion of the upper and middle classes at the time was that poor people were responsible for their own poverty because they were too lazy, too sinful- like they drank too much or something like that-     Scrooge says he can't afford to make “idle people merry”.      Yes, well no one in a workhouse was in danger of that problem.  Workhouses were designed to be so bad that any normal person would do everything to get out of one, which of course was true, but getting out of poverty, as we all know takes far more than not being lazy or having good morals- although those are definitely helpful and necessary.  Moving out of poverty takes high levels of intelligence, discipline and maybe even some luck or kindness from people with means.  The natural and complex obstacles to upward mobility was not something people without those impediments understood or even saw.  Beyond that and perhaps even worse, there was a very influential man by the name of Thomas Malthus who convincingly propagated the idea that Britain was heading to famine because of overpopulation.  He termed this problem with the expression the “surplus population”. Basically his idea was, although this is a simplification, but basically he believed the more helpless in society were surplus population- and this group needed to die off or starve.  For Malthus, poverty and suffering were God's way of teaching us the value of hard work and virtuous behavior.  If we suffer it's our own fault- pretty much always.  This term, “surplus population” which Scrooge actually uses, was literally Malthus' term and almost all educated people at the time were familiar with it.     The third interesting reference Scrooge mentions are the treadmills in the prisons.  These were famous or rather infamous features of Victorian prisons.   Are you suggesting they were not peloton bikes made to help keep inmates fit and happy?     A penal treadmill was where the inmates would walk constantly, and by walking they would move a huge wheel while also holding bars.  They were basically fueling a system to generate energy to grind corn, if you can imagine how exhausting this would be.  I have read that prisoners were given 12 minutes of break between hours.    Good Lord, and I complain that 30 minutes on a treadmill is mindnumbing, nevermind physically exhausting.    Yes- they definitely were a grind- pun pun    So, being in prison obviously is horrible; living in a workhouse is terrible, and that left the group who were working in factories or lower wage jobs- the ones Scrooge references as only receiving 15 shillings a week.      Ironically, Scrooge was in full power to make this wage whatever he wants, but this is not something he seems to see at this point.  Bob Cratchet's family embodies this hardworking group of people who are neither lazy nor immoral by any definition. Bob Cratchett worked for Scrooge, but he's not the only worker.   His children are obviously working and we can only assume working in factories- we are even told that Martha comes in thirty minutes earlier this year than last year on Christmas. When we visit their Christmas celebration, they have cleaned up, are dressed as best they can, and are all pitching in to create a humane and vibrant environment.  Their poor home was way more warmth then the coldness we saw at Scrooge's.     We've talked about was the working conditions of these factories before, but it's hard to conceptualize today how massive this industry was in England at the time.  Just to put this in perspective, Britain had 1.8% of the world population but it was producing 2/3rd of the worlds output just in coal.  Britain was producing millions of pounds of iron.  They were leading the world in cloth made from cotton, and so many other consumer goods.  It's nice to have stuff made in factories, but what is the human cost, especially at this level?  This is a problem we're still talking about and have not resolved on a global scale.  Every country that emerges into the industrial age does so on on the backs of its working population and most often in factories.  But honestly this idea of building with human capital goes back to the beginning of time.   Every time Archeologists dig up civilizations that date back thousands of years and find fundamentally the same thing, a few rich graves full of treasure surround by a  graveyard full of graves with nothing but bones- the poor.  Every society confronts the issue of how it will evolve and progress.  The British were having this discussion as the first industrialized nation-state- but they are not the last to struggle with industrialization.  Every country in the world who becomes industrialized has already had the conversation as a nation, or is having it right at our current moment.        Manchester, the town Dickens visited, was the “workshop of the world”.  It was fueling so much production but was also notorious for working children like slaves.  Just to show you what I'm talking about six months after The Christmas Carol was published a law was passed that limited children between the ages of 9-13 to working only 9 hours a day and 6 days a week.  Just to know how bad things were, this was regarded as a humane reform.  The middle class was a growing group, but they were also de-sensitized to so much that was going on because they were living good lives and didn't actually see any of this stuff for themselves.  Thomas Carlyle, coined the phrase, “the condition of the England question” describing what was happening all over England.  Society was dividing between the haves and the have nots- as socieities have always done since the beginning of time- and with every other society- Britain would respond- one way or another?    Dickens illustrates not just the obvious problem, but what he views as the coldness of the evolutionary and even instinctual idea me-first first- Scrooge literally vocalizes the sentiment.  But are we only products of biology, of evolution? Dickens wanted to say that our humanity, our consciousness makes us different.  Because we are aware of ourselves, our relationship to others, and many other things, we can act against our own interest and instead act in the interest of others - I can strive to be better and kinder. Dickens believed that any people group could be seen for who they are by how they treat their children.   He also did not believe the solution was institutional- be it church, government, school, etc.  For Dickens the solution was in the character of each individual who lived in any space.  Scrooge as expressed in stave one has lost that which makes him human- that which connects him; Scrooge's problem is apathy.       Apathy is certainly a problem, but is it THE problem? I want to talk about Scrooge's mental state.  Scrooge is neurotic- in other words-  he has anxiety that is causing behaviors that are not rational.  And although apathy is there, I see it as a symptom of a deeper problem.  What is causing his apathy?  Why would you want to keep your home so miserably home?  Why would you make fun of a nephew in love?  Why would you mistreat your employee and be angry at others celebrating anything?  Some of Scrooge's behaviors we have experienced ourselves and perhaps, although I don't venture into literary criticism, may account with why he's hard to hate him and easy to pity him.   Why do we do stuff like this?    Interesting, you know, one of the things people criticize about this story, and I have read this,   in more than one place is that A Christmas Carol just isn't realistic.  It's not realistic to suggest that a mean person can become a nice person in one night.  That a person can just change- that they are capable of seeing the evil in their ways with just a few examples and then be willing to reform.  Many suggest that an apathetic person, who has spent years practicing cruelty, can easily be made sympathetic.    You know, I can see that, and, of course, that's true in real life.  It's not realistic that we change in one night, but for me the suspension of reality is something that I find myself doing easily in this story.  The story literally says, “once upon a time” which makes me think fairy tale, and then not too soon after that, the knocker in the door transforms into Marley's face- not the most realistic thing to believe in.      Indeed, I guess that's a good point.  Ghost stories are also not usually realistic.   And so, we meet dear ole' Marley.  He's definitely a ghost, but not one that's floating around a room covered in a bedsheet and slamming doors.  He's wearing his regular clothes; he's also transparent through to the bowels.  He's weighed down by a chain made by cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel, as it were- all elements of money.  Marley is fettered, and according to him, by the chains he forged in life.  He says, “I made it link by link, yard by yard, I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”      Again, he's talking about us doing things that become our chains- the example Dickens chooses is a common one- our finances-why do people hoard money- I'm not saying save money- I'm saying hoard it?  Why do some rich people accumulate way more money than they could ever spend?  Is there a responsibility with wealth to contribute personally to the general welfare of others or is that something you pay the state or another institution to do for you?  Also, Is my wealth a product of my being better than other people- in one way or another- smarter, more talented, more beautiful- all the things Malthus thinks- or is my place in this world a matter of a biological jackpot of sorts like Warren Buffet teaches?   These are tough issues. Dickens is very interested in this story in money and what it actually does and can do.      I want to say, that Dickens, like all of us, struggled with money his whole life.  He never really resolved the problems he raises. Honestly, when I read Dickens biography, there are a few ways, he modeled Scrooge after himself, if I'm just being honest.    I don't think Dickens is criticizing Scrooge for having money.    No, I don't think so either.  In fact, there's no way Fred his nephew is poor.  He's throwing a really nice party with lots of people and seems to have a pretty nice house.      Dickens isn't criticizing money, having money, or telling us how to distribute it.  He's pointing out something different.  For Marley and obviously also for Scrooge-   All that money had produced an undesired effect in Scrooge- in the words of Kierkegaard in his book about anxiety- It created- instead of freedom  which is what people want from money- it created unfreedom.  It became an obsession.    Unfreedom- that's a strange turn of phrase, but I think I understand what he means.  It's not that you're a slave- you're not- you're just un-free- chains of your own making -so says Marley.  Interestingly enough, Scrooge compliments Marley on his sense of business, but he doesn't seem all that sad that he died.  Marley was his best friend, but that doesn't mean much- their relationship to money was closer than their relationship to each other.  That seemed to be their mutual understanding.  When Scrooge basically tries to be kind and pay marley a compliment saying he was good at business,  Marley responds, “Mankind was my business.  The common welfare was my business; charity; mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.  The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”  It seems Marley, as well as the many ghosts that Scrooge saw with Marley as Marley floated out the window, were fated with a curse- now they had the empathy they didn't have in life.  These ghosts were floating out in the world, seeing and feeling the pain and suffering of living people, but were unable to help them- they could only feel their pain.  It's a very unusual perspective on the afterlife- not founded in any Sacred Text that I'm aware of- but founded on this idea of metaphysical regret- which we do see in Sacred Texts.         When we get into Stave 2, we start hearing bells- which I just gave up trying to understand.  I could not follow the sense of time in this book.      Well, as I said last week, it's a carol not a linear story- it's a cyclical one, so you are supposed to be utterly confused by the bells and by time in general.  All of the ghosts visit Scrooge at 1 am.  He goes to sleep at 2am, but then wakes up at midnight- so time obviously is resetting itself.   Then at the end, we finally get to Christmas day.     That reminds me of that movie Ground hog Day Bill Murray.     Ha!  You're right.  I guess it does, and Bill Murray is another actor that I think could play a great Scrooge.  I do think those bells create tension, they strike- that would freak me out.   But time is an important idea for Dickens.  This book is obsessed with time- the other great commodity for humans here on earth.  For one thing, we do a lot of time traveling, but notice that Scrooge from the very beginning associates money with time- he's all  bitter because he's losing an entire day of wages by giving Cratchett a single day off all year.  Dickens in some ways, is asking us to think about time- what do we do with this valuable resource? It is the only non-renewable resource we all have in equal measure independent of money…until one day, we don't.    Indeed, and so we meet the ghost of Christmas past and this unusual ghost with white hair and no wrinkles takes Scrooge to where he grew up as a child and what we are immediately struck with is the insecurity of Scrooge's early years.  His father was cruel; there is no mention of a mother which suggests to me tragedy of some sort; they get to the boarding school and everyone has left except one solitary child neglected by his friends.  And strangely enough, when Scrooge sees himself he sobs. The child is reading fantasy stories by what Dickens describes as a “feeble fire”.  He's imagining heroes- Ali Baba, larger than life ones- the kind that find princesses; he's living vicariously a life he knows he can't have because those responsible for loving him have betrayed him.  This insight offers understanding as to why Scrooge is so cold.  It's a matter of self-protection that makes him so mean and dismissive of his nephew for falling in love.  Here's he's crying as he sees the young boy because he's experiencing all that pain all over.  As an adult, he learned to shield himself- to kind of kill that part of himself so that it doesn't hurt anymore.  If you want to use Dickens language, in this way, Scrooge has already made himself “dead as a doornail”.  If you are dead you can't feel, and if you can't feel, you don't experience pain.  He references his sister, little Fan, Fred's mom, talking about how big of a heart she had, how much she loved, but then she died on him.  He was abandoned.  This is the kind of pain that makes people want to withdraw.  All very Freudian.    We see this withdrawal, for me, vividly illustrated with the scene with the fiancé.  The fiancé accuses Scrooge of replacing her for money.      Page 27    She literally says, “You fear the world too much…all your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach.”  In other words, you think that through money you can insulate yourself from the world.      And of course, don't we all.  Money can sure buy solutions to a lot of problems.      Absolutely it can.  But what we see emerging in Scrooge is the maladaptive and irrational use of money.  It's the end all be all.  It insulates him from everything.  He has purchased a way to push beyond everything- heck not even the extremities of the weather affect Scrooge- he's that cold.  He's that self-reliant but he's also that apathetic- he's cold to everyone- including himself.    Dang- I guess he is.  Which brings us to Stave 3- and the ghost of Christmas present.  So, we see that Scrooge in some sense, got what he wanted or at least what he thought he wanted.  He got what he strove for- independence- something he bought for with money…but he lost something in the process, he lost his innocence, and I don't mean that word like naivete- but innocence in a positive sense.  When we look at the comparisons we're getting to make with Fred's family and the Cratchetts' the word innocence comes to mind- innocence as in the opposite of cynicism.  Innocence in the sense of the ability to wonder at the world, to find delight in life, to find joy.  Scrooge has none of that.    Stave 3 is about seeing.  There is a lot of references to eyes.  Christianity, the faith of Dickens, teaches that we must confess or openly acknowledge what the Bible terms as “sins”- or harmful behaviors- before we can be free from them- this is the Catholic concept we see in the confessionals.  But what is confessing?  It's just this same concept of seeing- really seeing and acknowledging what you're seeing.    Confessing is the same thing as seeing really seeing.  Homer, who we are going to talk about next week as we introduce The Odyssey explores this exactly same idea when he has Odysseus go to Hades.  Many ancients of different cultures emphasized that you have to stare at your own darkness in order to get out of it.  Lots of writers have said it differently and you will notice tons of stories with this idea embedded in it- think Star Wars for an easy example.  In order to see the light, you have to stare into the darkness- the darkness around you and the darkness in you.  You can frame it in religious terms, philosophical terms or psychological terms  Dickens frames it with ghost terms- and this second ghost is Father Christmas.  Father Christmas sits among a world of plenty, he sprinkles incense from his torch on people's food, and it has the magical effect of making people not argue. Father Christmas is an enormous ghost, but he can fit into any home- Christmas can and does fit inside any home of any size or wealth, but what exactly does he want Scrooge to see?      Well, if we're just looking at the Cratchetts, we see a group of people that are obviously poor and he makes a point to emphasize they are an unattractive family.  The older children work, the youngest is going to die because of lack of medical health care, but they have dignity and grace.  The mom and the daughter Belinda wear ribbons to make themselves pretty.  No one wants to complain about the insufficiency of the food.  They have a true sense of respect and generosity.      Let's read how Dickens describes them.     paragraph on page 40 describing them    They are happy because they love each other, they strive to protect their own innocence- but life is a cruel master.  Scrooge's name is brought up, the entire family know he's partly responsible for their situation because he's the father's employer, but Bob Cratchett refuses to allow them to descend into bitterness- he fights against the cynicism.  He makes them bless Scrooge against their will- not for Scrooge's sake but for their own.  The ghost wants Scrooge to see this.  Scrooge made different choices when confronted with his own pain and hardship.   This scene is where Scrooge is clearly moved to pity, but the ghost won't let Scrooge off the hook.  He uses Scrooge's own words against him when Scrooge asks if Tiny Tim will die.  The Ghost says, “If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”  No, no, said Scrooge, “Oh no kind Spirit! Say he will be spared.”  If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race, returned the Ghost will find him here.  What then?  If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”    He uses Malthus' term that had come out of Scrooge's mouth in Stave one when the charity people asked him for a donation.    Exactly, and he's not done looking.  The ghost takes Scrooge to the moors.  He says, “See!”  He looks at another old man and woman with their children and their children's children all singing.  He goes to sea and sees men on a ship in miserable conditions but humming Christmas tunes and thinking of their family.  They are all fighting cynicism- holding on to their innocence when they could relinquish and make the choice to be like Scrooge.  He then is swept away to his own family- the family he should be a part of- his sister's son's house.  His nephew Fred has a beautiful home and even more beautiful wife, many friends, seemingly a good education- all things Scrooge has dismissed as worthless.  He hears Fred talk about him.  Fred describes how miserable of a person Scrooge is- Fred is also overly generous in his description of Scrooge.  Finally the ghosts introduces him to Ignorance and Want.  This is where Dickens takes his argument to a social dimension.  What happens to a society full of Scrooges?  These are children, but they are hideous.  They are not images that we can feel pity for.  They are foul children- totally depraved, feral, beyond redemption- there is no innocence left only darkness.  And as he looks at these two awful and horrific monsters, he again uses Scrooge's own words against him.    Page 47    And this brings us to the final ghost.  The first ghost kind of showed Scrooge how he got to the place he was at.  The second ghost wanted Scrooge to see who he was at this moment, what the world really was for those who fight cynicism and preserve innocence and those who don't.  But the third ghost is different.  The third ghost shows him the way out.     This third ghost to me seems to be the darkest of the three ghosts, and section is the most psychological.  Neurologists and those psychologists that study the science of stories, tell us that our brains are wired to understand the world through stories.  Our brains, the most powerful thing on planet earth, bar none, differ from computers in how it processes information.  Our brains process information through stories.  Stories help us navigate our future and see the different options we have before us.  They help us answer the question- what should I do?      Well, this story says, you should just die and start over.  Scrooge doesn't want to, he denies who the dead guy is, he refuses to look, but finally, he relinquishes and he goes to the grave- his grave.      Which, of course, is what no one wants to do.  We build our lives making decision, think of it as climbing a hill, we climb, we climb, we climb, the last thing we want to do is tumble to the very bottom, admit we've been climbing the wrong hill and start over- except sometimes that's the best option.  Sometimes it's the only option, but it feels like a waste of…and a here's the word that Dickens plays around with…it feels like a waste of time.      And yet, but it's also the Christmas idea of the nativity, of baby Jesus- being born again- starting over- becoming a baby.  The last ghost basically shows Scrooge everything that will happen after he's gone from this earth. It's all pretty terrible, of course.  It ends with Scrooge's death.    Page 58    And then Stave five, we get the resurrection- or the redemption-     Yes- the idea being, if you are willing to go to Hades, look in the darkness, see who you really are- it will be painful- it will be something you don't want to do, because a lot has to die- ego, negative relationships, who knows what.  You have to be willing to burn yourself to the ground, but if you do it- you get out- out of the chains you built for yourself- out of that anxiety ridden- unfreedom- back to Kierkegaard, and I know I'm quoting a philosopher, but it's what Dickens is talking about.  No matter if you have a lifetime of neglect and mistakes, anyone can, pull themselves out of their linear existence, and jump into another cycle- start over and re-invent yourself which of course is what Scrooge does.    The language of rebirth stands out, “I don't know what day of the month it is. I don't know how long I've been among the Spirits.  I don't know anything.  I'm quite a baby.  Never mind. I don't care.  I'd rather be a baby.”    And there is a sense that when you do that, you get to reclaim some sort of lost innocence.  William Wordsworth another British poet who came a little before Dickens said that “the child is father of the man” – meaning to some degree that your childhood defines your adulthood- your experiences, your habits, etc.  And of course that is true, but Dickens seems to say, yes, but you can reclaim that by dying- and being reborn like a new child.  There's another child inside of you.  The innocence can live again.  And perhaps that is the appeal of Christmas- it reminds us that life is linear, true= but it's also cyclical- we are always in the past, of course that's there more to it, we're not computers and what went in does not have to be what comes out-- we are always in the present and we are always in the future.  And what does that mean, well for Scrooge it means agency.  He clearly has regret with how he's treated the Cratchetts, so the first thing he does is buy a turkey and send it over to them.  But then he lives in the present by walking through the streets and really looking around.  He then goes to Fred's house.    Read 62    Finally, he changes his attitude to the future.  The one thing that happens to you after you die, I would imagine, since I've never died, but I would imagine that once you die, you lose your fear of death and the power death had is finally broken.    Well, and this is where, I do want to suggest, this really is a fairy tale and we must remember it's an allegory not a textbook.  What happens to Scrooge in one night- this journey from bondage to freedom, is a long difficult journey.  I want to say, and I'll speak personally for myself, I've made the journey to Hades, to use the language of the Greeks myself, and my experience was more like Odysseus' in that it took years- nothing overnight like we see here with Scrooge.  But- having said that- the truth still remains that the path out of Hades does exist, even for someone as far gone as Scrooge, but no one gets out alone- we all need Marley's ghost to show us the way.     Well, of course, the final pages kind of allude to the fact that even for Scrooge- we are only seeing day one of a much longer journey.  People talked about him, people laughed at him; others criticized him- but he was free- and he just didn't have to care.  Let's read the last page of this carol in prose.    Read page 64    And there is the song of redemption- any one of us can be made new- anyone can reclaim childlike innocence in the face of guilt or cynicism- maybe we don't need a ghost to show us the way- we have Dickens at our elbow.       Or Tiny Tim with that ALL-inclusive-  God bless us everyone.     So- from Christy and myself, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays of all sorts  to you- wherever you live in the world we share together.  We hope you have a wonderful end of year and  more than that, may you find something that is innocent, exciting and maybe even redemptive in the New Year to come.  As always, please feel free to connect with us via any social media option, visit our website howtolovelitpodcast.com, leave us a review on your podcast app.                                      

Hype was founded 10 years ago this year by Bav Samani and Liam Green. Their first product was a rather rude statement cigarette lighter, followed by a T-shirt featuring a defaced Albert Einstein complete with nose ring, ear stretchers and tattoos, which sold out in hours. The pair had met while working at a graphic design and T-shirt printing company in Leicester. They decided to join forces and start a rival business in the same building with just £600 to make their first products.Swiftly following the Einstein T-shirt, other versions of the same idea featuring Marilyn Monroe and Elvis were released, and out of nowhere came a Facebook message from a buyer at Topman expressing an interest to sell their wares. Next thing they were at Topman at Oxford Circus being asked to make them a full collection, which ultimately went down a storm. Footasylum then got on board following an uninvited visit by Samani and Green to their head office armed with T-shirts and hoodies.In recent years Hype has been loved by teens and tweens alike, with its rucksacks on the backs of every other school kid on the block.  Jump forward to November 2021 and the brand has recently opened a new state-of-the-art 2,700 sq ft flagship store at 5-7 Foubert's Place, just off Carnaby Street, selling both its Hype range for younger fans and more recent Just Hype adult's collection.And this week the brand opens a new 1,195 sq ft store at Highcross shopping centre in the dynamic duo's home city of Leicester, where it all started. An in-store activation this Saturday with feature a DJ, branded cupcakes and goody bags for the first 100 people to enter the store.With over 430,000 TikTok followers, Hype is also one of the first fashion retailers to pilot the video-sharing platform's in-app purchasing software. Green and Samani tell us about it all.Get breaking news as it happens and be the first to know when our podcasts go live by following:  INSTAGRAM  ***  LINKEDIN  ***  TWITTER  ***  FACEBOOKGet breaking news, big name interviews & insights delivered to your inbox daily HERE

At the corner of Oxford Circus, Rosabel bought a bunch of violets, and that was practically the reason why she had so little tea – for a scone and a boiled egg and a cup of cocoa are not sufficient after a hard day's work in a hat shop. As she swung onto the step of the bus, grabbed her skirt with one hand and clung to the railing with the other, Rosabel thought she would have sacrificed her soul for a good dinner, something hot and strong and filling. Rosabel looked out of the windows; the street was blurred and misty, but light striking on the panes turned their dullness to opal and silver, and the jewellers' shops seen through this were fairy palaces. Her feet were horribly wet, and she knew the bottom of her skirt and petticoat would be coated with black, greasy mud. There was a sickening smell of warm humanity – it seemed to be oozing out of everybody in the bus – and everybody had the same expression, sitting so still, staring in front of them. Rosabel stirred suddenly and unfastened the two top buttons of her coat… she felt almost stifled. Through her half-closed eyes, the whole row of people on the opposite seat seemed to resolve into one meaningless, staring face. She began to think of all that had happened during the day. Would she ever forget that awful woman in the grey mackintosh, or the girl who had tried on every hat in the shop and then said she would ‘call in tomorrow and decide definitely'? Rosabel could not help smiling; the excuse was worn so thin. But there had been one other – a girl with beautiful red hair and a white skin and eyes the colour of that green ribbon shot with gold they had got from Paris last week. Rosabel had seen her carriage at the door; a man had come in with her, quite a young man, and so well dressed. ‘What is it exactly that I want, Harry?' she had said, as Rosabel took the pins out of her hat, untied her veil, and gave her a hand-mirror. ‘You must have a black hat,' he had answered, ‘a black hat with a feather that goes right round it and then round your neck and ties in a bow under your chin – and a decent-sized feather.' The girl glanced at Rosabel laughingly. ‘Have you any hats like that?' They had been very hard to please; Harry would demand the impossible, and Rosabel was almost in despair. Then she remembered the big, untouched box upstairs. ‘Oh, one moment, Madam,' she had said. ‘I think perhaps I can show you something that will please you better.' She had run up, breathlessly, cut the cords, scattered the tissue paper, and yes, there was the very hat – rather large, soft, with a great, curled feather, and a black velvet rose, nothing else. They had been charmed. The girl had put it on and then handed it to Rosabel. ‘Let me see how it looks on you,' she said. Rosabel turned to the mirror and placed it on her brown hair, then faced them. ‘Oh, Harry, isn't it adorable,' the girl cried, ‘I must have that!' She smiled again at Rosabel. ‘It suits you, beautifully.' A sudden, ridiculous feeling of anger had seized Rosabel. She longed to throw the lovely, perishable thing in the girl's face, and bent over the hat, flushing. ‘It's exquisitely finished off inside, Madam,' she said. The girl swept out to her carriage, and left Harry to pay and bring the box with him. ‘I shall go straight home and put it on before I come out to lunch with you,' Rosabel heard her say.

The British Keyboard Wizard of Acid House | AdamskiAdam was destined for a life in the arts. Influenced by the likes of Malcolm Maclaren and the DIY culture of punk. Adam was making music with his brother on cheap recorders, when others were out playing cowboys and Indians. A firm favourite of John Peel, Adam set his sights on a career in the music industry. Influenced by Acid House, Adamski was born in 1989. Everyone booked him to play at their events, the journey took him around the country. The album Live and Direct featured a series of instrumentals produced at home in his bedsit. Singles such as NRG charted and Adamski appeared on Top of the Pops. This wouldn't be his last appearance on Britain's top music show. Adamski teamed up with Seal for the Number One track Killer. Adamski was the British poster-boy of Acid House who continues to produce music to this very day. Recently recorded with Boy George, Adrian Sherwood and a host of talented recording artistes.Host: Wayne Anthony (Genesis'88 / Class of 88 Author)Guest: Adamski (Live from Austria)Watch Video: https://youtu.be/shau-J3R9r4In this Episode*   Adamski Becomes Acid House Poster Boy*   Plugging Keyboards Straight into Mixing Desk at Events*   Playing One and Half Hour Sets*   Media Reports Adamski Playing at Disneyland for £150,000*   Record Company Spin Gets Adamski in Bother with Pet Shop Boys*   Going to Andrews (Genesis'88 partner) Parents Off License*   The Great Rock n Roll Swindle*   The Music Show The Tube on Channel 4*   Wayne Meets The Cure on Route to The Tube*   Amnesia Opening Party in Ibiza 1988 | DJ Alfredo*   Major Influences are Malcolm Mclaren and DJ Alfredo*   Living in Ibiza with DJ Alfredo and Hanging with Jimi Polo*   Performing at Amnesia Opening / Closing Parties 1989*   Sending Demo to Fast Product Records*   Getting slammed by Derrick May*   Performing live at Sin, Hacienda, Heavens, World Dance, Sunrise, Amnesia*   Living with Seal and collaborating on Number One Track Killer*   Performing at Confusion on Sundays*   Boy George Offers to Write Songs for Every Track on Album*   Mick Jones from the Clash was my Roadie*   Killer was the Soundtrack Playing When the Berlin Wall Came Down 1989*   Appearing on Top of the Pops*   The Lucozade Bottle Record Cover*   Energy at Westway Film Studio 1989*   Hip Hop Years*   Working with Fire Fly*   Producing New Versions of Killer with Boy George & Adrian Sherwood*   The Man That Introduced the Smiley Face as the Symbol of a Generation*   Mutoid Waste Ground Warehouse Parties 1980s*   Playing at Extinction Rebellion in Oxford Circus*   Adamski is Still Producing New MaterialResourcesAdamski Website: https://www.adamskiofficial.com/Adamski YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmeiLg5kWAhUR_hJwqxS5KgAdamski Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/officialadamskiSupporting the PodcastWe have only recently launched the video and audio podcast, which means we really need the support of our viewers and listeners. The team will provide high quality interviews at every endeavour. Once published we kindly ask YOU to help share the message. This is accomplished in the following ways. Tell everyone that will listen about the podcast. LIKE the posts wherever you see them. Leave a REVIEW and COMMENT, let us know how we're doing. It's important that you SUBSCRIBE to our Youtube Channel. SIGN UP for our newsletter, we don't spam. FOLLOW us on Social Media and SHARE, COMMENT. If you own a website feel free to EMBED our videos. We need YOUR help to grow, do it now before you forget.THANK YOUOur NetworkWebsite: http://theeightyeightpodcast.com/
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This week I'm super excited to share my chat with the amazing Haydn Elliott, host of 'The Inspiration Space' Podcast and Co-Founder of F45 Oxford Circus. Haydn has SUCH an incredible energy and a refreshingly honest perspective on so many things, everything he was saying resonated with me so much!  We chat allllll about life and navigating your 20s, the highs, lows and how it can be a really challenging time. Haydn shares his experiences from hating Uni (!) to the challenges of getting a job you like once you graduate. He started out as a PT at PureGym before leaving to get a corporate job, never really feeling fulfilled by either choice! He was super honest about the mental health battles he experienced at this time where he just felt pretty lost. He chats about seeing a therapist and the things he did to turn his mindset around, leading to him starting his own podcast 'The Inspiration Space' where he's interviewed some incredible guests! He goes onto share some insight about his more recent venture, Co-Founder of F45 Oxford Circus, sharing some insight into how this opportunity came about, how running the studio has impacted him and why he loves what he does. I loved recording this one as I have been listening to Haydn's podcast 'The Inspiration Space' for a long time now, in fact, it helped inspire me to take action on my own entrepreneurial journey so it was great to have the opportunity to interview him directly and I'm super grateful to him for taking the time. The Inspiration Space Podcast Website Listen on: Spotify Listen on: Apple Podcasts Episode 50: My Father, Biggest Inspiration, Paul Elliott  Haydn IG @haydn.elliott F45 Oxford Circus Website F45 Oxford Circus IG @f45_oxfordcircus Book Recommendations: Mindset by Carol Dweck How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie Willpower by John Tierney and Roy Baumeister Essentialism by Greg McKeown Legacy by James W. Kerr WELL + WILD IG @well_and_wild Suzie IG @suzieclark_ Email: hi@suzieclark.com

When Extinction Rebellion took over Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge, they were doing so in the clean air of London's Ultra Low Emission Zone. And for that, they have Anna Heslop and the work of ClientEarth to thank. You see, while some take direct action in pursuit of preserving our small blue dot, others (like Anna) use the law – working with lawmakers, governments and manufacturers to help protect and improve the environment. Anna clearly loves her job, and she goes about it with a dedication and passion we should all be thankful for. You may have already seen her on TV, or heard her on the Today Programme. Now's your chance to get to know her a little better. Listen in as she talks to our Kevin about everything from Brexit, to a surprising lack of thank you letters from bison. Find out more at tr.com/TheHearing

When Extinction Rebellion took over Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge, they were doing so in the clean air of London's Ultra Low Emission Zone. And for that, they have Anna Heslop and the work of ClientEarth to thank. You see, while some take direct action in pursuit of preserving our small blue dot, others (like Anna) use the law – working with lawmakers, governments and manufacturers to help protect and improve the environment. Anna clearly loves her job, and she goes about it with a dedication and passion we should all be thankful for. You may have already seen her on TV, or heard her on the Today Programme. Now's your chance to get to know her a little better. Listen in as she talks to our Kevin about everything from Brexit, to a surprising lack of thank you letters from bison. Find out more at tr.com/TheHearing

 Quase 300 manifestantes são detidos durante protesto ecológico em Londres Movimento Extinction Rebellion pede instauração de um "estado de emergência ecológica"; durante ato nesta quarta-feira (17), manifestantes chegaram a colar a si mesmos no teto de trem de estação no centro da cidade.  Quase 300 pessoas foram detidas pela polícia britânica durante protestos que estão sendo realizados ao longo dessa semana pelo movimento Extinction Rebellion, em Londres. Segundo as autoridades, a ação dos manifestantes pede pela instauração de um “estado de emergência climática e ecológica” e deve ocorrer em 80 cidades de 30 países, até o próximo dia 22.   Cinco pontos emblemáticos da capital foram bloqueados pelos manifestantes, que tiveram início na segunda-feira (15): Marble Arch, Oxford Circus, a ponte de Waterloo, Parliament Square e Piccadilly Circus. De acordo com a polícia local, 290 ativistas foram detidos, sendo que a maior parte das prisões aconteceram na ponte de Waterloo, onde os manifestantes mostraram cartazes que diziam “não existe Planeta B” e “extinção é para sempre”. Algumas pessoas ainda se amarraram a veículos que estavam estacionados na ponte, utilizando cadeados para bicicletas. Além disso, três homens e duas mulheres teriam ocupado o escritório da empresa petrolífera Shell e quebrado uma janela do local. Apesar da intervenção policial, a fim de manter a ordem pública, nesta terça-feira (16), as ruas ainda estavam interrompidas e a ponte continuou obstruída. Enquanto isso, na manhã desta quarta-feira (17), dois protestantes subiram em cima de um trem na estação de Canary Wharf, para pedir por mudanças. Segundo as autoridades de Londres, o homem e a mulher ainda colaram a si mesmos no teto do trem, paralisando o serviço.  Ao The Guardian, Angie Zealter, de 67 anos, que foi presa durante os protestos, afirmou que “este é um momento muito importante da história – deveria ter acontecido há 50 anos, mas pelo menos está a acontecer agora. Estamos a ficar sem tempo e o Governo tem de ouvir-nos”. O Extinction Rebellion tem como objetivo causar impacto na sociedade por meio de atos de desobediência sem recorrer à violência, reivindicando a implantação de políticas para reduzir as emissões de dióxido de carbono para zero até 2025 e a criação de uma assembleia para que os cidadãos tomem decisões em relação às alterações climáticas e à perda de biodiversidade. A primeira-ministra britânica, Theresa May, chegou a receber uma carta dos manifestantes apresentando as reivindicações e advertindo que os problemas que envolvem as questões climáticas não podem ser ignoradas e precisam ser alvo de ações diretas por parte do Governo. Source: Último Segundo - IG --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/learnportugueseonline/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/learnportugueseonline/support

Tamara Driessen is a crystal healer, shamanic practitioner, reiki master and tarot advisor. She's an intuitive healer who infuses mystic wisdom into everyday life. Her first book, The Crystal Code will be published 25th October 2018 with Penguin Life. She has been an apprentice shaman in Bali, taught Supernatural Potion Making classes at Topshop's Oxford Circus flagship store and guided moonlit meditations in Croatia. www.georgelizos.com Topics will include... - How do Crystals Work? - How to Choose the Right Crystal for Every Situation - Creating Crystal Sprays and Other Potions - Best Crystals for Love, Money, and Manifestation - Getting Yes/No Answers with a Crystal Pendulum When you order my book Lightworkers Gotta Work you'll get Life Purpose Bootcamp (valued at £197) – a two-hour workshop to finding and defining your life purpose – for FREE! Get it at www.georgelizos.com/lightwork FREE GUIDES TO GET STARTED: Life Purpose Workbook: www.georgelizos.com/lifepurpose Lightworker Survival Guide: www.georgelizos.com/lightworker-survival-guide CONNECT WITH GEORGE: Instagram: www.instagram.com/georgelizos Facebook Group: www.yourspiritualtoolkit.com Website: www.georgelizos.com YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCMLcoCVR…ub_confirmation=1