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Learning From Humanity with Simon Funk
by Simon Funk
One man's quest to learn how to live well by having open and honest conversations. The home of The Old and The Bold.Links to website and Instagram account found in episode descriptions.
Episodes
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The 14th of The Bold: Kristina Walker: An Olympic rower and podcast host who leads through curiosity.
How can we set ourselves up to perform at our best? Listening to this conversation would be a good start. In it, Kristina, who is presently training in preparation for the Olympics, shared many of the tools, techniques, and mindsets that she uses to work toward success. Thankfully, they are...
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The Ninth of The Old: Ruthi Wicks - A woman who proved with her life that"We are always freer than we think."
"We are always freer than we think we are." During our conversation, Ruthi proved this to be the case many times over, before she got around to actually saying it. Born two days before D-Day she went on to become an avid scuba diver, explore much of Europe, including many archeological sites and...
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The eighth of The Old: Trudy - A happy and adventurous person.
Trudy describes herself as an incredibly happy and adventurous person. Those are attributes that I, like many of you, want to cultivate within myself. Fortunately, Trudy shares some of the practices, value structures, and elements of life that enable her to maintain this positive state in this...
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The seventh of The Old: David Batterham - A dedicated Bahá’i and spiritual care provider who left me with much to think on.
Speaking with David left me with a whole lot to think about. How can I bring "warm curious attention" to every interaction? How can I be present while thinking about and planning for the future? How can I challenge a society that encourages us to think about everything as a transaction in order…
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The 13th of The Bold: Emma Skaug - Lessons on setting yourself up for success from a world-level para-triathlon guide.
Emma started this conversation by defining living well as setting yourself up for success and then moved on to describe how she does that in her everyday life as an internationally competitive athlete. What does she compete in? She is a guide for para-triathlon who races at the world level and…
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The 12th of The Bold: Imad Berro - Yogi, World Traveler, Educator
When Imad was three and a half years old his parents emigrated from Saudi Arabia to Quebec Canada. That was the first international journey of many for Imad who went on to travel Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America extensively. While on those travels he and a friend founded Globe Jumpers...
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The sixth of The Old: Hoyu Boulter - "Everything comes and everything goes." - Conversation about this transitory thing called life with a Zen Buddhist reverend.
There is so much to say about this conversation and I don't know where to start. Should I begin by mentioning that Hoyu is a Zen Buddhist reverend who was once a hippie? Or should I start with the main topic of the conversation, that life is transitory and "everything comes and everything goes"?...
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The 11th of The Bold: Ryan Javanmardi - A radiant optimist and devoted Bahá’i
You know those people who light up a room when they walk in? The people who leave you with a little extra bounce in your step? Ryan is one of those people. And no, he is not too good to be true, he’s just practiced being positive for quite a while. He is also a devoted Bahá’i and derives a lot of...
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The fifth of The Old: Roc Robertson - Life lessons and adventure stories from someone who makes adventure a priority.
When I initially reached out to Roc to record an interview it didn't work out. During the first half of the week where I had hoped to speak to him, he was riding his motorcycle, and during the second half, he was planning to climb a mountain. As you can probably tell by now, Roc likes his...
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The Tenth of the Bold: Lena Fellenius - A self-proclaimed dork who found her way to loving life after struggling with the dark side of mental health (Trigger Warning: suicide)
Lena is a firecracker. She is also the kind of person who sings about spaghetti sauce when she’s shopping, describes herself as a dork, and struggled with suicide for a large portion of her life. Curious about how all that can come together in a single person? Listen to our conversation to find...
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The Ninth of The Bold: Mariana Jimenez - One amazing conversation on personal growth with a fellow podcast host.
I am extra excited to share this conversation with you for a couple of reasons. The first is who I spoke to, Mariana Jimenez. Mariana is the host of the commitment to growth podcast where she shares actionable information on how to do the difficult inner work that is the prerequisite to human...
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The Eighth of The Bold: Rafael Salazar - A Philosopher at Heart
Everything from little tricks to get the most out of every day to the ultimate nature of reality made it into this conversation, and I loved it. Specifically, it reminded me of how finite our lives are and how beautiful they can be. Some topics that Rafael specifically spoke to are the positive...
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The Seventh of The Bold: Sophie Buitendyk - A national-level climber who used to be afraid of heights.
When Sophie was eight years old she was introduced to climbing and she hasn’t stopped since. She now competes at the national level. If a conversation about climbing, performance mindset, and living well interests you this is the one for you. If you’re interested in checking out some of Sophie’s...
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The Sixth of The Bold: Kate Waddell - A woman with a unique take on life that will leave you thinking.
Kate’s done some pretty cool things like biking around New Zealand and backpacking Europe but that wasn’t what made our conversation interesting. That was taken care of by Kate’s unique approach to life. A few of her thoughts that struck me are that you can always go back and try again, to live...
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The Fifth of The Bold: Rylee Zondervan - A woman who advocates for an equitable society.
Rylee was raised to be grateful for all the good things in her life. From that place of gratitude she now advocates for an equitable society with a focus on challenging and dismantling systemic injustice. She is presently doing this as the president of one student organization and a founding…
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The Fourth of The Old: Janet Morris - My Grandma, a retired nurse, and one of the most caring people I have ever met.
I have known Janet for my entire life... as my Grandma. Over the years the things that have defined her to me are her love for God, her family, and all others, in that order. As such it was no surprise to me that those were the themes that our conversation was centered on. For those of you who...
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The fourth of The Bold: Chris vanDeventer - A poet and vulnerability coach who does his very best to love and be loved.
Chris knocked my socks off. But I guess I should have expected nothing less from someone who just went all in on his dreams. What might those dreams be? Writing poetry, forming real connections, learning to love himself and others, caring for people as a vulnerability coach, and writing a book on...
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The third of The Bold: Brennen Smith - How a world-class triathlete thinks about living well along with insights into performance.
When Brennen was ten or eleven years old his dad dragged him in front of the tv to watch triathlon in the Olympics, and it changed his life. Thus far he has competed professionally for approximately six years all over the world, and continues to push himself to achieve the very best. He also…
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The Third of The Old: Helen Konrad - "Life is not fair ... but you do not know the end result yet."
"Life is not fair ... but you do not know the end result yet." Helen is a woman of faith, the Christian faith to be specific, and much of our conversation revolved around God. I was amazed by her trust in him, especially considering that she lost both her parents in a car accident at the age of...
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The second of The Old: Stefan S. - A retired plastic surgeon by trade and an adventurer at heart.
Stefan is an adventurer at heart and originally a plastic surgeon by trade. I have known him for a long time and never had any idea that he was as cool as this conversation showed him to be. Among many other things, we discussed honesty, his travels to South Africa and Nepal, and of course...
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The second of The Bold: Vitaliy Shalukhin - A man who strives to bring about the best for himself.
A taste of our conversation: Vitaliy's responses to my questions were beautifully poignant, thoughtful, and, most importantly, useful. They were so good that I thought he must have prepared them all in advance with great care for detail. That surprisingly wasn't the case; as we neared the end of...
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The first of The Old: Sara Shadbolt - A woman who lived through World War Two in England, traveled the world as a flight attendant, and oversaw the construction of a federal prison.
Talking with Sara reminded me that there is far more to people than meets the eye. I went into the conversation excited and left it amazed. Over her life, Sarah has lived through World War Two in England, moved heaven and earth to pay her way to America, traveled the world as a flight attendant,...
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The first of The Bold: Marko Zolotarov - The most socially addept person I know.
A brief introduction to Marko: Marko is a relationally driven individual who also happens to be my best friend. Ukrainian by birth, he lived his first fifteen years there before coming to Canada as an international student. Everyone in the whole school knew who he was shortly thereafter. His...
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Welcome to The Old and The Bold
This is an introduction to what the podcast will look like for the next eight months. Listening to it will make everything that comes after make far more sense so I highly recommend it. For all information related to the podcast go to learingfromhumanity.com or follow me on Instagram...
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A welcome message from Simon
This is where I let you in on the general gist of the show. For even more information related to the podcast go to learingfromhumanity.com or follow me on Instagram @learningfromhumanity. Have a great day, Simon Funk
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One man's quest to learn how to live well by having open and honest conversations. The home of The Old and The Bold.Links to website and Instagram account found in episode descriptions.
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Simon Funk
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