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Antifragile You
by Antifragile You
AntiFragile You is about people who are building lives that strengthen under pressure.The show looks past the public result and into the private cost: the failure, burnout, risk, craft, health, identity shifts, and reinvention that shaped them.Beyond generic inspiration. Pressure-tested stories from people who learned the hard way that mistakes are meant to be celebrated.
Episodes
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How Two Uni Students Built a 1,500-Person Club Night
Toby and his business partner were students DJing a Thursday night in a struggling Bristol bar. It was really quiet. A few years later, they packed 1,500 people into one night. Toby co-founded Lost Track Of Time, a Bristol disco and house events brand, and Utopia, a Monday night for students. We...
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What Do Sounds Look Like? A Jazz Musician Who Sees Colours.
Ayane hears sound as colour. A complex song comes with many, many colours, and sounds have shapes too. Ayane is a Tokyo jazz musician, saxophonist, teacher and composer from a family of musicians, and lives with synesthesia, where one sense sets off another. We talk about what music looks like…
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When Should You NOT Take Psychedelics? Cambridge Psych Society VP.
Psychedelics strip away every distraction and leave you face to face with yourself. Not everyone is ready for that. George is vice president of the Cambridge Psychedelics Society, and was doing a maths PhD at Cambridge when we recorded. We talk about who shouldn't take psychedelics, why "one tab"...
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Don't Quit Social Media Until You've Tried This. Cambridge Student Reveals.
Quitting social media isn't the only way to take back control. He kept the apps and made them harder to open. Nichita is from Romania. When we recorded, he was doing a master's in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge and running an AI ethics society there. We talk about how he blocks...
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Tokyo Is Never Boring. Musician Calum X on What That Costs.
Tokyo is never boring. There's always a show, a party, a friend out somewhere. Calum had lived there ten years when we recorded, and he explains what that quietly costs.Calum X is a Tokyo-based musician and producer with over a decade-long journey in Japan's music scene. Starting in a Japanese...
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What's the Point of Writing? She Chose the Scarier Path.
Writing felt more important to her than embroidery or design. It also felt a lot scarier. Lucy studies liberal arts at Bristol University, majoring in literature, and was on a study exchange in Japan when we recorded. She has been writing since she was 14 or 15 and recently made it her main…
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Can anyone make a film? From VFX to Tokyo Film Director.
Cheap cameras let one person with a backpack do a film crew's job. Artem says AI is doing the same thing now. Artem Skiy is a film director in Tokyo, mostly making commercials when we recorded in November 2024. He moved from Russia to Canada at 16, and painted forklifts, sold insurance and worked...
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Do We Need Altered States to Find Peace? A Cambridge Medic's Answer.
Do we need a break from our own minds to feel at peace? We asked someone who studies the brain and ran a psychedelics society. When we recorded, Suley was in his fifth year of medicine at Cambridge, with a degree in psychology and neuroscience, and president of the university's psychedelics...
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How Do You Speak Without Words? An Artist From Kazakhstan.
She had to be careful with her words. So she learned to say things without them. Aidira is an artist from Kazakhstan who came to England on a scholarship, and was studying art at a college in Oxford when we recorded. We talk about why art can say what words can't, how you even grade art, why so...
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Why Is It So Hard to Connect in Tokyo? An Artist's Answer
Tokyo is packed with people, so why is it so hard to really connect?Yoko is a printmaking artist who paints onto an acrylic plate and prints onto Japanese washi paper. She was born in Shanghai and has lived in Tokyo since she was six, so she sees the city from the inside and the outside. We talk...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
AntiFragile You is about people who are building lives that strengthen under pressure.The show looks past the public result and into the private cost: the failure, burnout, risk, craft, health, identity shifts, and reinvention that shaped them.Beyond generic inspiration. Pressure-tested stories from people who learned the hard way that mistakes are meant to be celebrated.
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AntiFragile You is about people who are building lives that strengthen under pressure.The show looks past the public result and into the private cost: the failure, burnout, risk, craft, health, identity shifts, and reinvention that shaped them.Beyond generic inspiration. Pressure-tested stories...
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