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Sidewalk Talk
by Traci Ruble
In 2015 one woman decided to sit on a sidewalk to listen to strangers to understand what was making us sick, lonely, and divided. Today over 8000 people join Traci Ruble in their endeavor to cultivate their own heart-centered listening in a world that values talking at, fixing, advice giving, and therapizing. Listen in as Traci talks to all different kinds of people and practice listening with heart and you hear the podcast.To join, you can visit www.sidewalk-talk.org
Episodes
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Why Getting Along With People You Don’t Like Is the Key to Social Change | Adam Kahane on Radical Collaboration
Episode Summary: What if learning to collaborate with people you don’t trust—or even like—wasn’t revolutionary, but just healthy adulting? In this episode of The Sidewalk Talk Podcast, Traci Ruble sits down with renowned facilitator and author Adam Kahane, known for guiding some of the world’s…
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Offering Hope & Skills to Meet Each Other Again with John Sarrouf from Essential Partners
In this heartfelt conversation, Traci Ruble, founder of Sidewalk Talk, sits down with John Sarrouf, co-executive director of Essential Partners, to explore the deeper threads of human connection and the transformative power of dialogue across our differences. Together, they delve into what it…
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Cultivating Presence (with a Dash of Mischief): A Conversation with Mitch Davidowitz
Cultivating Presence (with a Dash of Mischief): A Conversation with Mitch Davidowitz In this episode, Traci Ruble, founder of Sidewalk Talk, sits down with longtime therapist and Vipassana practitioner Mitch Davidowitz to explore something that feels harder than ever: being present. Together…
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How We Participate In Letting Work Turn Us Into Machines - with Dr. Carol Xu
In this episode of the Sidewalk Talk podcast, host and founder Traci Ruble speaks with Dr. Carol Xu, who holds a PhD in management science and engineering from Stanford University, about the intricacies of human connection. They explore Carol’s expertise in cross-cultural communication and...
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Ancestral Healing Through Systemic Constellations: Cultivating Unity in Diversity with Zita Tulyahikayo
Ancestral Healing Through Systemic Constellations: Cultivating Unity in Diversity with Zita Tulyahikayo In this episode of the Sidewalk Talk Podcast, host Traci Ruble interviews Zita Tulyahikayo, a clinical hypnotherapist, and systemic coach, about the profound impact of systemic family...
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Redefining Friendship and True Curiosity (Mixed With A Lot of Laughter) with Dr. Todd Kashdan
Redefining Friendship and True Curiosity (Mixed With A Lot of Laughter) with Dr. Todd Kashdan In this most laugh-filled episode of all time, Traci sits down with Dr. Todd Kashdan, author of The Art of Insubordination and one of the world’s leading voices in well-being, curiosity, and…
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Power, Rank, and Privilege in Relationships
Come hang out with us for an honest and heartfelt conversation about power, rank, and privilege in human relationships. Eight incredible panelists—psychotherapists, community and culture healers, and facilitators from around the world—share personal stories, deep reflections, and real-life…
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Listening and Cultural Repair with Lana Jelenev
Listening and Cultural Repair Lana Jelenjev is a community alchemist and cultural repair expert who is aware of the importance of creating courageous spaces for deep human connection. Lana shares her journey from the Philippines to the Netherlands and how her cultural background shapes her work....
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How to set boundaries that stick and the brain stuff behind boundaries with Juliane Taylor Shore
How to set boundaries that stick and the brain stuff behind boundaries with Juliane Taylor Shore As always please consider following the Sidewalk Talk podcast and leaving a review. It helps more folks find the work of Sidewalk Talk and the amazing guests we host on the podcast. Juliane Taylor...
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What does empathy have to do with design thinking and pipe cleaner hats?
What does empathy have to do with design thinking and pipe cleaner hats? Lee is a design thinker, an engineer, and a community builder. She founded a community innovation lab, Design Dream Lab, where anyone with a giving heart can make an impact and dream of a better future. Lee loves building…
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Exploring Male Sexuality, Consent, and Tender Heartedness with Dr. Eric Fitzmedrud
In this enlightening episode of The Sidewalk Talk podcast, your host Traci Ruble engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Dr. Eric Fitzmedrud, a prominent couple's therapist specializing in male sexuality. Their discussion delves into the complex world of male sexuality, consent, and the...
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Reinventing Masculinity Will Allow Men to Live Longer Happier Lives | Ed Frauenheim
Reinventing Masculinity Will Allow Men to Live Longer Happier Lives | Ed Frauenheim Ed Frauenheim is a consultant and co-author of four books, including A Great Place to Work For All and Reinventing Masculinity: The Liberating Power of Compassion and Connection. Ed and Traci share how old-school...
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How to Break our Addiction To Othering with Dawn Menken
Dawn Menken, PhD. has been working in the field of psychology and facilitator development for over 35 years. She is an internationally respected educator, therapist, leadership coach, and conflict resolution specialist. She co-founded the Process Work Institute, a not-for-profit graduate school...
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Normalize Loving Conflict Everywhere with Rosa Zubizaretta
Rosa supports leaders and groups around the world to work creatively with divergent perspectives. Her mission is developing our collective capacity to transform friction into useful energy and greater insight. Author of From Conflict to Creative Collaboration, a manual on Dynamic Facilitation.…
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Being A Sacredly Powerful Human with Julio Maria Muhorro
Julio Maria Muhorro is a power coach, facilitator, and speaker. He uses his 10 years of experience in management, training, and research to enable entrepreneurs, leaders, and organizations to tap into their power so that they can engage with their stakeholders from a place of deep purpose…
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What this crisis manager learned from indigenous wisdom | Thomas Lahnthaler
Thomas Lanthaler drops into hot spots of crisis all over the world and helps people make decisions to get through the chaos as peacefully as possible. He is an experienced international crisis leader, experiential facilitator, and speaker with nearly two decades of experience across 30 countries....
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Going to Work is an Important Source of Happiness Despite Its Bad Press with Dr. Tracy Brower
Dr. Tracy Brower is a PhD sociologist and vice president of workplace insights for Steelcase. She is the author of The Secrets to Happiness at Work and Bring Work to Life, as well as a contributor to Forbes.com and Fast Company. Traci and Tracy sort through information on workplace happiness and...
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Body-shame, Hunger and Redemption: Beyond Sexism and Diet Culture with David Bedrick
David Bedrick is a psychological activist - an ally to the unheard and marginalized voices inside individuals and the culture at large. Join Traci as she discusses body image, body-shame and diet culture with David, which is also the subject of David’s book: You can’t judge a Body by its Cover…
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Seeking Wonder with Andrea Scher
Andrea Scher is a writer, artist and life coach whose work is driven by her belief in the transformative power of wonder for creativity and wellbeing. For nearly two decades, through her award-winning blog Superhero Journal, her international workshops, her Creative Superheroes podcast, and...
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Why I don’t want to die anymore with Johnny Crowder
Johnny Crowder is a suicide and abuse survivor. You've probably seen him. He's tatted up, and he's been a TEDx speaker. Johnny’s a billboard charting rock musician and a certified Recovery peer specialist. But what he's most known for is as the founder and CEO of Cope Notes, which is an online...
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High Conflict (and how we get out) with Amanda Ripley
Amanda Ripley is a New York Times bestselling author, an investigative journalist, and the co-founder of Good Conflict, LLC. She writes for the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and Politico, and she spent a decade writing about human behavior for Time magazine in New York, Washington, and Paris....
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Rule Makers and Rule Breakers with Michele Gelfand
Michele Gelfand is a Professor at Stanford University, and an expert on negotiation and cross-cultural psychology. Her book Rule Makers, Rule Breakers explores how tight and loose cultures wire our world, and in doing so offers unique insights on how we might bridge today’s cultural divides....
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Sensitive Striving with Melody Wilding
Melody Wilding is an executive coach for Sensitive Strivers - smart, sensitive high-achievers who are tired of getting in their own way. Melody is a Sensitive Striver herself, a licensed social worker, professor of Human Behavior and a contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Business...
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Black Feminism and Sensuous Knowledge with Minna Salami
Hailed as a “blistering new literary voice”, Minna Salami is a Nigerian-Finnish and Swedish writer and social critic, and the founder of the multiple award-winning blog, MsAfropolitan, which connects feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centred perspective....
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Being seen, just as you are with Natalie Koussa
In this episode of the Sidewalk Talk podcast, Traci is in conversation with Natalie Koussa, a trauma-sensitive visibility coach and podcast guesting strategist who supports high-integrity entrepreneurs to bring their work into the world in a bigger way. Traci and Natalie explore how Leadership...
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The 3 Flows of Compassion with Dr. Stan Steindl
Dr. Stan Steindl brings a fresh take to compassion in this week’s Sidewalk Talk conversation. Stan’s a clinical psychologist with over 20 years experience as a therapist, trainer and researcher, and he’s also an adjunct associate professor at the School of Psychology at the University of...
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Living and breathing the archetypal realm with Kristina Dryza
Traci and Kristina share a deep and rich conversation, in which Traci asks the kind of big questions Kristina thrives on. Questions like… what is the psyche, and what is the soul? what's the point of Greek mythology and how can it be meaningful? You’ll leave this episode with a renewed sense of...
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Getting weird and vulnerable with Aziph Mustapha | Aziph Mustapha
Aziph Mustapha is a weirdo. As the head of culture transformation and employee engagement at Malaysian telecommunications giant, Celcom, Aziph has built a career on disrupting social norms. But being weird isn’t just good business, for Aziph it’s the only authentic way to live. On this episode of...
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Anna Katharina Schaffner on the timeless truths of self-improvement | Anna Katharina Schaffner
Restless in the often too structured world of academia, Anna Katharina Schaffner carved her own path as a professor, researcher, writer, coach, and modern thinker. In her forthcoming book, The Art of Self-Improvement: Ten Timeless Truths, Anna sets out to shift the way we think about self-help…
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Street Wisdom’s David Pearl on finding magic in the everyday | David Pearl
David Pearl is a true Renaissance man. A self-title “experience engineer,” David has done it all—from writing books and starting a nonprofit to advocating for social change and even working as an opera star. Our current reality may seem anything but magical, that’s far from the truth in David’s...
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Dr. Tania Israel on making perspective-taking sexy | Dr. Tania Israel
Author and professor Dr. Tania Israel wants to make perspective-taking sexy again. Her book, Beyond Your Bubble, is all about reaching beyond our differences to find where even the most vehemently opposed, politically and otherwise, can find common ground. On this episode of The Sidewalk Talk...
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Antoinette Weibel on trust in the workplace | Antoinette Weibel
Antoinette Weibel thinks trust rocks! As a researcher and professor at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, Antoinette has devoted much of her life to the study of trust, specifically in the workplace. Traci cold-called Antoinette, and what resulted is a multifaceted and fascinating...
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Joe Koehane on the power—and magic—of strangers
Joe Keohane has been meeting strangers for decades. As an accomplished journalist and editor, Joe has made a career out of listening to people he doesn’t know and engaging with their stories. But as the world reemerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, loneliness is on the rise, and strangers feel more...
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Squish Talks’ Stuart Chittenden on the power of conversation | Stuart Chittenden
Stuart Chittenden is a highly interesting character. A lawyer by trade, he moved to Omaha, Nebraska from England after marrying his wife and grew fascinated by the inherent power of conversation. That fascination led him to start Squish Talks—the organization he has leveraged to unlock human...
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Dr. Fernando Castrillon on psychoanalysis, capitalism, and loneliness | Dr. Fernando Castrillon
Psychoanalysis has long been thought of as outdated, misogynistic, and even racist—a type of therapy for the rich and privileged. In fact, Dr. Fernando Castrillon thought as much himself when he first encountered psychoanalysis, but has since changed his mind, and is working to change the minds…
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Teaching, connection, and transforming pain in kids with Michael McKnight | Michael McKnight
Michael McKnight is an educator at heart. Although he no longer teaches in the New Jersey classroom where he got his start and now has a handful of accolades and additional titles to his name, Michael is still as passionate now as he was four decades ago about connecting with students in ways…
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Dr. Kristin Moody on how empathy can change the world | Dr. Kristin Moody
Dr. Kristin Moody started out her career as a teacher passionate about deeply connecting with her students. That connection, and her subsequent interest in the study of empathy, propelled Kristin into a career in just that—launching Empathy at Work and spending her time studying the science…
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The Art of Hosting’s Toke Paludan Moeller on learning and spiritual practice | Toke Paludan Moeller
Toke Paludan Moeller was born a few years after World War II into a lineage of learners. His Danish ancestors include a cadre of individuals who spent their lives doing things from resisting the Nazis to being educated in the folk schools that came after their native country’s bankruptcy. Toke…
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Dr. Niobe Way on solving the crisis of connection | Dr. Niobe Way
For the last century or so, we’ve been told that we—humans—are the problem, not the society in which we live. What if the opposite was actually true? Dr. Niobe Way thinks so, and she’s ready to tell you why. On this episode of The Sidewalk Talk podcast, Traci sits down for a conversation with NYU...
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Dr. Dwight Turner on otherness, race, and the benefits of psychotherapy | Dr. Dwight Turner
Dr. Dwight Turner has been studying and teaching on the concepts of otherness, race, and justice in psychotherapy long before they were trending topics in culture. He recently put out his first book on just that topic, in the hopes that readers will walk away with a better understanding of their...
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Meredith Bell shares her 30+ years of knowledge on connecting more effectively | Meredith Bell
Meredith Bell has been helping individuals and teams communicate and connect more effectively for over 30 years. Since she began her career, a lot has changed in the ways we communicate (thanks, smartphones!), but a lot of the fundamentals—like building trust, how to encourage someone well, and...
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Nicola Lipscombe on bringing belonging and heart-centered connection into the workplace | Nicola Lipscombe
At some point in our lives, we’ve probably all felt like we didn’t belong. For Nicola Lipscombe, that sense of not belonging came to a head while she was working in academia and doctors discovered a cancerous tumor in her chest. Nicola knew it was time for a change, and thus began the second half...
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Artist Daren Todd talks art, love, and accountability | Daren Todd
For many, art is a language all its own. This has never been more true for Daren Todd, a Portland-based musician turned painter who discovered painting during quarantine when he lost his bartending job. On this episode of The Sidewalk Talk podcast, Traci sits down with Daren to hear his story of...
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Dr. Kelsey Crowe on empathy and listening well | Dr. Kelsey Crowe
Listening well isn’t an easy skill for most of us. We like to talk, and in a culture that values productivity and solutions above all else, simply listening can often feel like we’re not being useful. Dr. Kelsey Crowe, author of There is No Good Card for This, thinks differently. An empathy coach...
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Thomas C Knox shows us how to connect again | Thomas C Knox
Thomas C Knox is a connector like no other. The founder of multiple organizations all focused on fostering relationships and space for vulnerability between people, this guy is the real deal. On this episode of The Sidewalk Talk podcast, Traci sits down with Thomas, her good friend and part of…
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Open Bubble’s George de la Ville Bauge on combatting loneliness | George de la Ville Bauge
Loneliness is something that has probably plagued all of us at different points in our lives, but it’s a feeling that has been more prevalent this past year than any before with a global pandemic that sent us all into our homes. But what if that feeling of loneliness could be combatted safely…
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Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back author Alicia Cook tells us the stories we need to hear | Alicia Cook
Drug addiction and the loneliness and mental health struggles that often precede it are highly talked about issues facing our country right now, but that wasn’t always the case. Back in 2006, when author Alicia Cook’s cousin, Jess, died of an overdose, death from drug addiction was often swept...
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Frank Carbajal on building the Latino future | Frank Carbajal
The Latino community is one that has felt the devastating effects of COVID-19 firsthand. As essential workers and part of a people group that values family and work ethic above all else, the pandemic has wracked this already marginalized minority. But author and founder of EsTiempo: “It’s Time,”...
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Kern Beare on how to have difficult conversations | Kern Beare
Difficult conversations are something that we’ve had to have a lot of over the past four years. But just when it feels like you can’t even listen to someone who believes differently than you anymore, in walks someone like Kern Beare to help you realize maybe we aren’t so divided after all. On…
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Lambers Fisher teaches us how to empathize and heal our political divides | Lambers Fisher
Our world is more diverse than ever before, which is a good thing, but we’re also growing increasingly more divided within that diversity of thought, background, belief, and life experience. How do we become bridge-builders in a world that touts our differences as reasons to hate the other?...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
In 2015 one woman decided to sit on a sidewalk to listen to strangers to understand what was making us sick, lonely, and divided. Today over 8000 people join Traci Ruble in their endeavor to cultivate their own heart-centered listening in a world that values talking at, fixing, advice giving, and therapizing. Listen in as Traci talks to all different kinds of people and practice listening with heart and you hear the podcast.To join, you can visit www.sidewalk-talk.org
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In 2015 one woman decided to sit on a sidewalk to listen to strangers to understand what was making us sick, lonely, and divided. Today over 8000 people join Traci Ruble in their endeavor to cultivate their own heart-centered listening in a world that values talking at, fixing, advice giving, and...
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