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The Listen Podcast
by The Listen Podcast
The Power of Letting Others Tell Their Story
Episodes
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David Jetmore on the Environment & Nature
Our relationship with nature shapes not only the world around us, but the way we understand our own place in it. In this thoughtful conversation, David reflects on a lifetime of observing, working with, and learning from the natural world.
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David Jetmore on Death
Death is a subject many of us avoid, yet it quietly shapes the way we live every day. In this thoughtful conversation, David reflects on mortality through the lenses of science, faith, philosophy, and lived experience.
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David Jetmore on Ethics
In this month’s episode, David reflects on the values and principles that shape ethical behavior, from lessons learned in childhood to the difficult decisions we face later in life.
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David Jetmore on Work & Purpose
In this conversation, David reflects on work and purpose across a lifetime, from childhood chores on a farm to decades as a surgeon and an active retirement.
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David Jetmore on Education
In this third conversation, David reflects on education—not only as schooling, but as a lifelong process shaped by opportunity, inequality, discipline, and curiosity.
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David Jetmore on Relationships
In this second conversation, David looks back on the relationships that shaped him—from the quiet confidence instilled by his mother to teachers, mentors, colleagues, and even the animals who helped forge his path.
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David Jetmore on Health
In this first conversation, David reflects on a lifetime in medicine, from his early ideals as a young doctor to the realities of practicing healthcare.
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Listening in on a Real Coaching Session
Are you curious about what coaching is, and how it can help you to open new possibilities in your life?
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Emilio Arsuaga on Coaching and Perspective
A young man pursues the career he thinks he wants, but begins to feel farther and farther from his center.
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Fiona Tucker on Coaching and Conversation
Following stage 4 cancer, an executive decides to revamp her life, get to know herself and discover how she can contribute to the greater good.
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Yolanda Castellón on Transforming the Pain of Loss
After experiencing the loss of her first son, just eight days after his birth, a young mother learns to grow around her grief – first by bringing her second son into the world, and then by becoming a life and loss coach, dedicated to helping others transform the pain of loss into strength.
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Jessica Lorion on Learning to be a Mother
When a young newlywed is diagnosed with an auto-immune disease and her journey to motherhood is put on hold, she decides to look at the challenge as an opportunity to learn all about pregnancy and postpartum, and launches a new podcast in the process.
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Carrie Frais on Embracing Motherhood
A British journalist living and raising her children in Barcelona embraces the unknowns of motherhood by founding MumAbroad, one of Europe's leading online resources for international families.
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Sacha Jones on the Conversation around Menopause
A holistic health counselor opens up about menopause, the importance of educating the men in our lives, and removing the taboos around this key transitional moment.
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Marjorie Speirs on Natural Piety
After casting aside the limits imposed by her Scottish immigrant parents and practicing law for decades, a woman embraces the joy she feels while working in the garden and decides to go back to school for a Masters in Applied Theology at age 62.
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Diane Charney on the Wisdom of Letters
A lifetime of letter-writing inspires a retired French professor to compile her unsent correspondence to her favorite authors in the book Letters to Men of Letters.
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Ian Urbina on The Outlaw Ocean
A journalist collaborates with artists of all types to get the word out about a wide variety of crimes taking place on the world’s oceans.
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Arwa Damon on the Power of Kindness
A war correspondent overwhelmed with the pain and suffering surrounding her on assignment in the Middle East takes action by founding INARA - an NGO providing medical care to child victims of war.
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Environmental Activist Athena Lambrinidou on Simple Solutions
After falling in love with the internationalism and common humanity of Greenpeace, a young woman returns to her native Greece to advise the government on environmental issues, and then founds an online magazine and podcast.
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British Luthier David Milward on Breaking Boundaries
After spending his childhood and young adulthood working with wood, a craftsman is ready for a challenge.
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Kelly Shepard on his Barbershop Beginnings
A boy in rural Indiana discovers the joy of singing in a barbershop quartet, and is launched into a life of music.
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Band Director Brian White on Musical Friendships
As a university student, a young trumpet major is told that if he wants to be a great band director, first he’ll have to become a great musician.
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Onkoba Ongeri Draws on Nature
It was his grandmother who told him to observe nature carefully. Then she named him after his grandfather, who owned his own livestock in Kenya.
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Animator Elizabeth Ito on the problem with perfection
After her animated short for Cartoon Network receives overwhelming acclaim and over 5.5 million views on YouTube, Elizabeth Ito is asked to bring her talents to the new animation division at Netflix.
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Illustrator Lance Tooks on Risking your Comfort
Growing up in a home bursting with creativity – music, literature, theatre and more – a young boy begins to draw and discovers that it is the source of his own joy.
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Barbara Boyd on being a book coach in Italy
She began as a reader on the bookmobile in her small New Jersey town. Her next chapter was as a writer, but these days she lives on an olive farm in Italy, and she’s back to reading in her role as a coach, guiding authors through the process of writing their own books.
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Noah Charney on the life of a writer in Slovenia
As a young man, author Noah Charney dreamed of living in Europe. Anywhere in Europe. In fact, he tried out life in some six different countries before landing in Slovenia, the country that would steal his heart.
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Abbie Hibler on founding Little Readers
A mother based in Spain is offered a monthly book subscription from her children’s grandmother in the US. Offput by the shipping charges and red tape, she decides to start a company that offers the same benefits for kids in Europe. Amazingly, she launches the business while on lockdown in the…
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Kelly Rusch on serving in the Peace Corps in El Salvador
She’s thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail. She’s trekked in Nepal with a 3- and 5-yr-old. She’s taught all over the world. But the groundwork for these adventures was laid when she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Central America.
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Nancy Dimmock on her Peace Corps beginnings in Lesotho
Raised in the Belgian Congo, a young American signs up for the Peace Corps and is assigned to a feedlot project in Lesotho. She plans to employ her animal husbandry skills, but finds she is called by her faith to care for vulnerable children.
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Jennifer Seely on serving in the Peace Corps in Côte d’Ivoire
A young woman volunteers for the Peace Corps straight out of college. The skills she develops there – speaking French, becoming resilient, learning the local customs – will pave the way for her career as an expert in African democracy and development.
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Felice Dougherty on life in Ethiopia
A young couple flies to Lesotho to meet the little boy they’ve adopted, but all the clothes they’ve brought will have to wait until he grows into them because as it turns out, he’s only 18 months old. Just a year or two later, it’s the Democratic Republic of Congo that awaits when they make the...
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Rebecca Villarreal on the majesty of the world
Fresh out of college, a young writer accepts a job with an NGO, which takes her to Africa on several trips. The connections she makes there – with primates, with nature, with local communities – will give her a new perspective that lends her writing a sense of joy and delight.
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Karissa Denae Johnson on her coat of courage
A college senior suffers a stroke just weeks before her graduation. After four years of rehabilitation, she feels called to take a “victory lap,” visiting every continent on earth, including Africa.
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Matt & Laurel Green on seeing things for themselves
Two 20-somethings with a dream of teaching overseas hop on a plane to Spain and hope for the best. What they find is far more than they could have expected, leading them on adventures to Turkey, the UAE, Taiwan and beyond.
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Laura Kitchin on wanting to see the world
When Laura Kitchin decided to move to Barcelona, she knew she would be teaching English there. What she didn’t know was that she would be enjoying three-hour dinners, traveling to several countries each year, and getting an up-close look at the independence movement in Catalonia.
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Willie White on developing lasting relationships through teaching
Five weeks after his 1991 wedding, Willie White and his new bride were working in Saudi Arabia. Over the next 30 years, they would travel, live and work in more than 50 countries, she as an engineer, he as an English teacher...
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Dr. David Jetmore on working together to flatten the curve
Just as the second wave of coronavirus seems to be getting under way here in Spain, where I live, an alarming increase in positive cases is also taking place where I grew up in Indiana. This conversation with Wayne County Health Officer Dr. David Jetmore is an effort to get the facts out, and to…
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Artist Derick Melander on getting unstuck
Already from a very young age, Derick considered himself an artist. He used to tell everyone around him about his dreams of making it in the art world. However, as Derick got serious about his future in the arts, his relatives expressed concern, which in turn planted the seeds of doubt and made…
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Casey Mallinckrodt on the ethics of conservation
If there is one thing you should know about Casey, it’s that her feelings about art conservation run deep. She is the Objects Conservator at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT, where she oversees a highly diverse collection. She is well aware of the fact that, whenever a piece…
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Shelly De Vito on creating space
Ten years ago, Shelly and her husband James set out to create a contemporary arts center. The space they chose is a former 18th century papermill in the Loir Valley in France, where they make a constant effort to hold space so that other artists can express themselves. Their goal is to revitalize...
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UU minister Rachael Hayes on committing to the moment
When we invited Rachael to join us on The Listen Podcast, we had no idea that her interview would be recorded against the backdrop of powerful protests following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. As a self-described social justice minister, Rachael had much to share about first becoming...
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Arun Deva, on Finding Stillness
Arun’s interview is full of insights on the world we live in. As a yoga therapist and an Ayurvedic practitioner, he sees his craft as a path to discovering oneself and to understanding life. At a time when we are enduring a global pandemic that is changing the world, Arun shares his vision of the…
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Sarah Ronan, on Converting to Islam
Even though Sarah grew up in a Christian household, she drifted away from religion when she was 17 years old. After years of partying and doing her thing, she started looking for a deeper meaning at age 28. She researched multiple religions and discovered that merely picking and choosing her...
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Writer J. Edward Kruft Keeps it Brief
J. Edward Kruft, or Joey, as we prefer to call him, was an actor who became a writer who became a psychoanalyst, who is now a writer and a psychoanalyst. To date, his flash fiction pieces have appeared in over 30 online and print journals. He remembers having always written. In fact, he wrote his…
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Brooke Berman on Crossing Frontiers to Write in Different Media
Although Brooke was initially trained as an actor, she felt a voice inside telling her that acting was not her calling. Today, she has worked as a playwright, a screenwriter, a director and a memoirist. In her interview, she tells us about how classical music, journaling and her training as an...
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American Devora Rogers on Writing her Novel, The Spanish Painter
“When I was 16, I learned my mother had been lying to me all my life. It was a big and terrible lie, as lies between mothers and daughters often are.” These are the first words of Devora’s novel, The Spanish Painter, published in 2017. In our interview with Devora, she talks about the story behind…
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Americans Thom Sesma and Penny Daulton on Hiking the Camino de Santiago
Thom and Penny are two ordinary people, like you and me, who needed a break from their lives and decided to go and walk the Camino de Santiago, in Northern Spain. In a nutshell, the Camino is a network of routes across Europe that ultimately lead to Santiago de Compostela. Sound extraordinary? It...
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American Sara Turman on setting sail from France to travel the world
When Sara, an ex-pat living in Paris, falls in love with Peter, an older Brit, they discover a common dream of buying their own boat and sailing around the world. But they just kept putting it off, until they had a wake-up call. When Peter got sick, they realized they had to take this journey…
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Estonians Ats & Kätlyn on cycling across Europe and back again
These two adventurous Estonians had the courage to cycle their way around Europe. Starting from their front porch in the middle of the woods, with the goal of reaching Portugal, they packed up their bikes and started riding. They visited a total of 16 countries and spent 8 months on the road....
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