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KINDNESS WARRIORS
by Cassie Roma
Hello friends Kindness Warriors of the world! Welcome to the Kindness Warriors Podcast!A place where truth, ideas, stories, and connection are shared to help imagine and create a better future for us all. And, let's be real, to simply have a space to yap about things we love with people who inspire us.Kindness. Clarity. Compassion. Cool humans. Great conversations.Thank you for joining us!
Episodes
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Swinging For The Fences - The WPBL is here & I am geeking out!
This week's Kindness Warriors update is all about the SPORTS. WOMEN'S SPORTS. Specifically, the exciting and inaugural season of the WPBL (Women's Professional Baseball League). As a baseball fan since birth, and a girl raised in a time when girl's "don't play baseball" this league fills my gills...
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The Art of Re-lighting Your Own Fire (and, of nurturing connections)
Let's talk about our lights. When they shine. When they dim. And when we need a good 'ol reminder to nurture the things that nurture us. In this episode, Cassie Roma shares her stories about finding the rhythms, routines, and stories needed to shine - and, to get unstuck. Lonely happens. But,...
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What Life Feels Like Mid-Metamorphosis
There comes a moment in life when you wake up and realise the version of you that once fit… doesn’t quite anymore. In this deeply personal and quick episode, Cassie Roma explores identity, transitions, and the liminal seasons where we are no longer who we were, but not yet who we are becoming....
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Leading With Care in a World on Edge
In this episode, Cassie explores what caring leadership looks like when the stakes are high and the world feels heavy. She unpacks why care is often misunderstood in leadership, how empathy and accountability are not opposites, and why clarity is one of the most generous leadership acts available...
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The Truth About Adult Friendship: Messy Middles, Big Feelings & Honest Boundaries (Cassie Roma & Mandy Kupenga)
Friendship isn’t just brunch dates — it’s the people who hold your messy middle, your big feelings, and your bravest becoming. In this open-hearted convo, Cassie Roma and Mandy Kupenga unpack the real work of adult friendship: trust, boundaries, vulnerability, and the courage to ask for help.…
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Rebels With a Cause - How To Make Caring Cool Again
In a world obsessed with disruption, hustle, and “doing more,” we’ve forgotten one of the most radical acts of leadership...caring for those in our care. In this episode, Cassie Roma — storyteller, Kindness Warrior, and rebel with a cause — takes us inside The New Rebellion: a movement where care...
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The Power Paradox (Why We Shouldn't Tap Out)
In this episode Cass talks more about the brilliance of Brenè Brown and dives into the powerful pull of paradox and how we can all get more comfortable with the discomfort of holding two opposing truths at once. Get ready for a goodie that makes you think. Kindness Warriors -- let's go!
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Playing For The Team & The Turtle Theory (Strong Back, Soft Front - Just Keep Swimming)
What do meliorism, grit, and turtles have in common? More than you think. In this comeback episode of Kindness Warriors, we explore how to change the world one small act at a time, why slow growth is strong growth, and how playing for the team beats playing solo every time. This one’s for anyone...
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Creative Commons: Haylie Craig
This week's Creative Commons episode is full of heart, belly-laughs, gritty truths, & well-placed awkward pauses. Join creative mega-force, Haylie Craig, & me for a conversation worth sharing over & over & over again. Haylie is a creative soul down to their very last sprinkle of stardust. They're...
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PRIDE (in the name of love & other good stuff)
PRIDE was born of protest. Riots. The necessity to love & be who we are without fear of reprisal, judgement, criminality, violence, or death. In many places, PRIDE is now a celebration. A place where queer, rainbow, & LGBTQIA+ people & those who love them (go the allies!) can be seen, heard, &...
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How To Live A Life You Regret
Picture this, you're 103 years old. Sitting in a rocking chair on a wrap-around porch watching a summer storm roll in. You've got a smile on your dial & you're looking back at your life. What are your favorite memories? How many hearts did you love? Which awkward moments lead to break-throughs?...
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Xander Boger: Creative Commons
Dr Xander Boger is one heckuva good-energy human. You might know them from their coaching work that incorporates physical therapy, growth mindset, & emotional balance. Or, you might recognize them as one of the flirtiest faces on TV (Xander was a standout fan-fave on last 2023's 'Ultimatum: Queer...
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Creative Commons: Janis Vogel
Janis Vogel is a creative coach and film editor who helps creatives craft sustainable and successful lives via ease and authenticity. Janis is a queer, feminist, unrelenting powerB of the first degree—an editor of award-winning documentaries, narrative films, music videos and oh so very much…
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No Risk, No Story
What’s your story? Are you reading the same paragraphs over & over again hoping for a different ending? Are you fearful of filling the blank pages yet to come? Whether you spend your time looking back or trying to capture your current paragraph perfectly, it's never too late to turn a page, end a...
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Creative Commons: Regan Warner
Regan Warner is an executive creative director, designer, yoga influencer and mum that takes care and listens to those in her charge rather than just being in charge. She's a teller of meaningful stories. A creator of art. A student of life. And a true Midwestern Londoner Kindness Warrior. In…
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Creative Commons: Emily Scott Robinson
Emily Scott Robinson is one of my favorite people on the planet. Hands down. She's a storyteller's storyteller. A deep heart. A witchy woman. And, a giver. With a quarter million miles under her belt and counting, she travels the dusty highways of America's wild country, capturing the stories of...
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Cruises, Muses, & Talking Walls
This week's episode is a dive into finding creativity after seasons of change, Disney Cruises at 42yrs old, & pondering on what the walls of my small studio apartment would say to me if they could talk.
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The Honeymoon of Healing: ugly crying, happy dances, broken hearts, broken promises & grief
In this week's episode I tackle talking through the grittiest part of "healing" that I've ever walked through in my entire life. I like to call this season the "Honeymoon of Healing" because, after the darkest days there truly come sunnier ones. And these are reminders of love yet to be. Like all...
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Creative Commons: Beauty & The Geek's Lachie Mansell
This episode of KINDNESS WARRIORS: Creative Commons hoons around like a F1 car on a slick Vegas Strip. Aussie Reality TV Star Lachie Mansell sits down to talk about his life journey from car racing enthusiast to reality TV star to radio host. I love stories like Lachie's & think you will, too....
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Creative Commons: Madeline Finn
Take one part beating heart, one part creative mind, one part poet's soul, & add another part of deep compassion & you're getting close to the things that make up Madeline Finn. In this episode of KINDNESS WARRIORS: Creative Commons we dig into Madeline's healing journey, their music, & the...
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Creative Commons: Wadooah Wali
Wadooah Wali is a thinking woman's crumpet. No, really. Hear me out here. Not only is she a wildly creative & talented next-gen storyteller, she's also strategic minded digital-innovator of the purest sort with a background in both client & agency side roles. Beyond her awards & recognition…
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How To Say "I Love You" to Yourself
Valentine's Day is coming up &, if you're like me, you may think that a made-up-day of consumerism is a weak link in a lifetime of loving daily. I love love. All kinds of love. Giving love is like breathing... except I sometimes skimp on loving myself as well as I love others. As such, this…
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Creative Commons: Autumn Nicholas
Autumn Nicholas is one of those artists who cuts deep. They make you think. They make you feel. They make you get up and dance. They make you stay in a moment - with them at the helm. Autumn's musical career is a winding road of discovery, art, heart, & adventure. In this episode of Creative...
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Creative Commons: Brodie Kane
Brodie Kane is a Wonder Woman, a thinking person's crumpet, a shot of human tequila, & sunshine in feminine form. A storyteller's storyteller, there's literally nothing Brodie cannot do. From media hard-hitter to podcast producer to TV host & beyond, this gal is one fiiiiiiire! What a pleasure it...
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Creative Commons: Tami Neilson
Tami Neilson is one part firecracker, one part soothsayer, & many parts deep creative soul. She is also one of the most authentic, kind, & driven humans I've ever met. This week we talk about music, equity, staying power when the powers that be might not want you to stay, & (of course) dill...
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Creative Commons: Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith is the dopest storyteller I know. No. Really. He is. Founder of Amusement Park Entertainment (APE), he is an advertising legend who has been in the game since 1985. Jimmy got his start working on the Nike ‘Just Do It’ campaign and his career has included stints at Wieden & Kennedy,...
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Snoop Dogg's Wise Words & Life Lesson's
I didn't mean to hyper-focus & deep-dive into Snoop Dogg's life wisdom & mega quotes this week, but I did. And, I am so glad for it. Snoop is a brilliant artist, brand builder, cultural icon, & change-maker. His ability to cross generational, socio-economic, & artistic lines makes him one of my...
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Creative Commons: Alice Soper
Alice Soper is one of my favourite humans. Her heart, mind, passion for life, & her ability to create community around women's sport inspires me daily. I don't know many things for certain, but I am certain that anyone who knows Alice knows what it feels like to feel seen. In this episode we talk...
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Creative Commons: Dani & Mel
In this year's first episode of the Kindness Warriors Creative Commons series of conversations, I sit down with Dani & Mel - two American imports bringing NZ sports (women's sports, to be exact) to the fore in 2024. Not only are these two some of the most amazing humans you'll ever meet, but...
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Creative Practice, First Things, Second Thoughts
In this Kindness Warriors episode I tackle ye age olde question of "How can I get better at creativity?" My clients from creative professions & those in more strategic/ numerical/ logical roles ask this. We are all inherently creative. Creativity is what connects us. Here's my take on practicing…
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Five Frogs On A Log & Other Lessons For Navigating Courageous Change
Death & change are the only two constants in life. Not being morbid, but it's true! This week's podcast is a DEEP BREATH OUT of a conversation. Especially since it feels like this year has been a tough one for almost everyone I know. And, I'm included in that stat, too! After having a superb chat...
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Thanksgiving, Gratitude, & Grit
This week's episode of The Kindness Warriors Podcast leans waaaaaaaay deep into gratitude. I LOVE Thanksgiving for the ethos of the holiday (being thankful), for the sports (yay, the sports!), & for the reminder that without the grit - no pearl. Also featured in this episode: lesbian bars, dad...
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Circle Of Control
Out of control. Control what controls you. At the controls. No control. Ground control to Major Tom... This week we're talking about control: what you can, can't, & might be able to control in your life. I dive into the simplest way yet I've found to control what controls me... my mindset…
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Getting Through *It*
We're all going through *it*, or so it seems. Hard times, hard stops, soft starts, & open hearts yearning for something just out of reach. Recently I've been thinking a lot about the old cliche of "you have to go through it to get through it" & this week's episode of Kindness Warriors tackles the...
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Us To The Power of Different, Building A Legacy of Love
This weekend I had the abject pleasure of delivering a eulogy on behalf of the thousands of students that my soul-mate & father-figure, Pete, taught over his 30 year tenure as a small town high school photography teacher. Pete's stories, open heart, creative soul, & curious mind helped so many...
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Starting Over
Starting over is something we all do - sometimes on the daily. And, it's one of the most destabilizing times in our lives. Whether it's a new job, a new house, a new country, a new love, a new story about who we are... starting over is a BIG DEAL. In this episode I tackle the hard sh*t I've been...
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LOVE YOURSELF (PETE'S WORDS OF WISDOM)
This episode of Kindness Warriors might be one of the most special I've ever done because of the guest who joins me to open it. Pete Nelson was, is, always will be my hero. He passed away in early May 2023, but I've just started to unpack the recordings he & I made when we were together at the…
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Bells and Whistles, Titles Are For Wimps, and Being Weird
In today's episode I talk bells n whistles (and how they sometimes suck - or, rather, don't), being weird, how titles are for wimps, going with the flow, and being BIG. Thank you, as always, for joining me, KINDNESS WARRIORS! You rock!
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Goodbyes, Gratitude, and Getting Lost
In today's episode of the Kindness Warriors Podcast, I tackle loss, lessons, & learning to see each moment as a gift. Thank you for joining me, as always, I appreciate our time together. Kindness Warriors, lesssssssh go!
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Season 4, Episode 10: Pride, Poise, Prime Ministers & Yelling Out Car Windows
This week on Kindness Warriors we talk about Pride, Poise, Prime Ministers, and yelling out of car windows. This is a pretty darn hilarious and deeply personal episode. Have tissues ready - I absolutely cried throughout. As always, THANK YOU for listening. Thank you for sharing. And thank you for...
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Season 4, Episode 9: Friendship, Social Media Shitshows, & Showing Up For Each Other
Hey there, hi there, ho there! I've missed y'all! Today we catch up on the past few weeks of travel and inspiration and creation and WERK. And, we talk about the importance of deep friendship, logging off of social media, shadowbans, and showing up for each other. As always, thank you for showing...
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Season 4, Episode 8: PRIDE
February is #PrideMonth in the Southern Hemisphere and if anyone loves a rainbow-laden-world, it's me! In this episode I touch on WHY I love PRIDE, but, more importantly how YOU can be a great ally. We are family and love wins. Happy Pride, fam. Thank you for your love and allowing others to be...
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Season 4, Episode 7: Hug Your Haters
From the moment we’re brought squealing and naked into this world we’re told stories. Lessons and parables and fairy tales and ethics and religion are handed down to us from generations before and we’re spoon-fed the hopes and dreams of others an are told that they are our hopes and dreams If…
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Season 4, Episode 6: Empty Tanks, Fomo, Jomo, & Homo
In this episode we talk a bit about FOMO, JOMO, & supporting a big 'ol HOMO agenda online. We also dive deep into empty tanks, leading with love, and how Jacinda Ardern is the embodiment of kindness in action as the now outgoing Prime Minister of New Zealand. Heartcounts over headcounts. And…
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Season 4, Episode 5: Follow The Path of Most Existence
Resolutions are made for breaking, intentions thrive in the making, and life is pure magic for the taking when you embrace these four simple (nuanced, gritty, courageous, creative, wild) ideas daily. Here's to you. Right here, right now. And, here are FOUR ways to move in the direction that truly...
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Season 4, Episode 4: An Above Ground Year
Not every year-in-review article or podcast is equal. And, this one is pretty gritty. Yes, of course I cry. Yes, of course I make mistakes. And yes, of course I am stoked that you're here and engaged and listening. Here's to all of us, the ones who made it another trip around the sun. The ones…
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Season 4, Episode 3: Hustle Easy
Howdy Kindness Warriors! How are you this week? Are you winning? Is your cup empty? We're sprinting towards the end of another wild, fast, confusing, beautiful year. And, as always, we're also running headlong into burnout. In this episode of the fourth season of Kindness Warriors I table the…
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Season 4, Episode 2: Connection, Holiday Music, and the 'No As*hole' Approach to Life
In today's episode we're talking connection, filling up our tanks, when to say "YES!" (and when not to), and taking a NO ASSHOLE approach to life and interacting with others. We also talk about just how contagious connection is (science says so!) and filling our tanks at a time of year when tanks...
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Season 4, Episode 1: Spotify Wrapped & FOMO Sh*tshows
It's been a while since the last #KindnessWarriors episode, and YEEEEEEEESH I've missed y'all. I've missed the conversations, the deep-dives, the awkward pauses, the silliness... all of it! So, why not start tip-toeing back into the land of connection and sitting together in conversation today?...
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2021, Wrapped!
It's been a HAWT MINUTE (AKA a very long time) since the last Kindness Warriors podcast & I'm so happy to have a short, sweet, & succinct look back at the year that's been as I move into a month of "tools down" here in the USA with friends & family alike. For me, the past 365 sleeps have been…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hello friends Kindness Warriors of the world! Welcome to the Kindness Warriors Podcast!A place where truth, ideas, stories, and connection are shared to help imagine and create a better future for us all. And, let's be real, to simply have a space to yap about things we love with people who inspire us.Kindness. Clarity. Compassion. Cool humans. Great conversations.Thank you for joining us!
HOSTED BY
Cassie Roma
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Hello friends Kindness Warriors of the world! Welcome to the Kindness Warriors Podcast!A place where truth, ideas, stories, and connection are shared to help imagine and create a better future for us all. And, let's be real, to simply have a space to yap about things we love with people who inspire...
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