Shows
Drop Your BuffsSurvivor: Australia v The World Episode 6 Recap (with Caroline Courtis)Titans v Rebels finalist Caroline Courtis returns to Drop Your Buffs to unpack Episode 6 of Survivor: Australia v The World. We break down Kirby’s fast-paced gameplay and her fast and furious showmance with Parvati. We also celebrate the arrival of Janine in the edit and her power move, Cirie's influence and how loyalty factored into Parvati’s vote. We also examine Kass’ growing threat level, Lisa’s subtle positioning and what players like Luke and Shonee need to do next. Plus- a round of Star or Starless, reflections on JLP’s final season and a bonus question for everyone l...
2025-08-261h 27
The Inspired ChoiceNavigating Legal Challenges: Ross Pitcoff on Litigation, Growth, and MentorshipCaroline Biesalski welcomes Ross Pitcoff to the podcast, where they delve into his journey and specialization in business litigation. Ross shares strategies for law firm growth and outlines his upcoming goals. The conversation highlights common pitfalls in contracts and entity structuring, providing insights for minimizing legal risks. Ross emphasizes the importance of mentorship in the legal field. The episode concludes with Ross sharing his contact information and final thoughts.
(0:00) Welcome and Introduction of Ross Pitcoff
(1:29) Inspiration and Specialization in Business Litigation
(4:26) Strategies for Law Firm Growth and Upcoming Goals
(9:06) Pitfalls in Contracts and Entity Structuring
(12:43) Minimizing Legal Risks and the...
2025-07-1617 min
Forest of Thought27. LIVE: Living an embodied life and crafting the Way // CAROLINE ROSSCaroline Ross has spent decades being immersed in Daoism, art, crafting and foraging (and spent 10 years touring with her rock band). Today, her practice weaves these diverse threads together into a philosophy of life centred on embodied living, exploring the Way (in the Daoist sense of the word) and making art as if the Earth mattered. Caroline Ross is an artist, craftswoman, writer and T’ai Chi teacher. You’ll find her sharing her passion for foraging and crafting via @foundandground on IG, and she writes weekly on themes of embodied life, art and the Way a...
2025-03-211h 19Forest of Thought27. LIVE: Living an embodied life and crafting the Way // CAROLINE ROSSCaroline Ross has spent decades being immersed in Daoism, art, crafting and foraging (and spent 10 years touring with her rock band). Today, her practice weaves these diverse threads together into a philosophy of life centred on embodied living, exploring the Way (in the Daoist sense of the word) and making art as if the Earth mattered. Caroline Ross is an artist, craftswoman, writer and T’ai Chi teacher. You’ll find her sharing her passion for foraging and crafting via @foundandground on IG, and she writes weekly on themes of embodied life, art and the Way a...
2025-03-211h 19
Points, Cards and TravelConquering 121 Countries and Counting using Points, Miles & Credit Card Strategies with Caroline Lupini from Forbes Advisor(Disclaimer: Click 'more' to see add disclosure) Itinerary Boss is part of an affiliate sales network and receives compensation for sending traffic to partner sites, such as YourBestCreditCards.com. This compensation may impact how and where links appear on this site. This site does not include all financial companies or all available financial offers. Opinions expressed here are the author's alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, hotel, airline, or other entity. This content has not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of the entities included within the post. The content on...
2025-03-051h 10
Drop Your BuffsSurvivor AU: Brains V Brawn Week 2 Recap (with Caroline Courtis)This week, Sean is joined by Australian Survivor: Titans V Rebels icon (and noted Buffie) Caroline Courtis to break down all of the chaos of Week 2 of Brains V Brawn! We're touching down on Caroline's experience before, during and after her season, comparing it to the American version of the show and diving into the current season. We're talking about the challenges (Mud! Sumo at Sea!), sausage sizzles, the disbanding of the Coven, the downfall of Nash, the flameout of Ally. We're also analyzing the Safety Without Power advantage and how it all went so horribly wrong....
2025-02-272h 07
Lorraine & Ross in the Morning - Cork's 96FMThe Hodgepodge Podcast | Lorraine & Ross In The Morning #67This week on Lorraine & Ross in The Morning on Cork's 96FM, we had another winner on The 2 Grand Minute, Donie stopped by with more words of wisdom, it was Lorraine v Ross in Wheel of Four Tunes, you told us all about you stealth shopping, a very juicy What's Your Problem had us up in arms and poor old Caroline had a hard time hearing us due some house renovations.First, we're talking podcasts we'd love to start, our favourite sitcom scenes and loads more. Enjoy!Lorraine & R...
2025-02-211h 05
The ARC Creative Podcast: Educating + Inspiring Creatives to Excel as Artists, Entrepreneurs & Humans.Episode 5: Caroline Ross: Mastering the Leap from Weddings to Commercial PhotographyIn today's episode, I'm thrilled to sit down with Caroline Ross, a commercial photographer whose career has taken her from Northern Ontario to the Caribbean, and now to Vancouver, BC. Caroline's journey is nothing short of inspiring - she's mastered the art of transitioning from weddings to commercial work, built her reputation in competitive markets, and is now an educator at Linga College. We dive deep into her insights on getting published, navigating new industries, and the power of networking to grow your business. She also gives us a sneak peek into her upcoming ARC...
2024-11-1732 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 70: To End a War, Be Unafraid to FightPax CorporisYour body is not an enemy to be subdued, it is not evil and does not need transcending.1You do not need to mortify the flesh, neither is it advisable to indulge it.2 3It is not a peripheral matter that the intelligence beaming out of you at this moment, meeting my words in that ancient embrace of sense-making together, (like strangers clasping hands and forearms to make a new peace), is embodied.4Embodiment is not an accident, a trap, a curse, a trick, an inconvenience. The Great Mystery is...
2024-06-1210 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 69: The Mead of LithaMind sneaks glances from behind the door of the room where heart and hope lay sleeping in a tangle. Lists accrue in layers on the desk as chestnut pollen tints the bay window yellow and further warms the (already golden) evening sunlight to a tone not seen since Proserpina’s last return. I have three more days of the very best company before I must make my third Lenten month of the year and work and only work. So, poems, pilgrimage and images are how I can be here with you this week, in one of those occasional interludes. Di...
2024-06-0810 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 68: Three Vials of Unconforming BeautyAspirantI have long been in search of a way to write about the real1 without lapsing lazily into superlatives nor anatomising a now-lifeless corpse of the beloved. I have a duty to speak for wisdom only accessible by the body and to somehow say-into-being the unspeakable, and to not just allow, but speak up for, the flawed, the exiled, the tiny, the marginal.The untethered word is to the real what the virtual world is to lived reality: merely a representation. When words are true, they remain nestled into the fabric of being, connected...
2024-05-2611 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 67: The Wondering GuestLoose EndsI am accustomed to being away from home, but it is a new and tricky thing travelling so far away when one’s love is 3600 miles and 5 hours east. Conversations between hosts, friends and strangers are woven together, the beloved is included. How do we stay in communion with what and whom are not physically present? How do we do this without drifting away from the present moment, from what is close at hand? Maintaining a thread between myself and family, friends or partner has been an ongoing conundrum over the many years where touring wi...
2024-05-2610 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)Taking Beauty Seriously with Caroline RossAs the fifth season of The Great Humbling came to an end, we recognised that what we’ve been doing is letting you listen in on a conversation that we would want to have anyway – and this inspired us to expand the podcast, to bring you overheard conversations with other friends, co-conspirators and people who get us thinking.We’re calling this Homeward Bound, a title that started off as the name of the first online series that Dougald Hine taught with a school called HOME in 2020. For a few series now, we’ve used homewardbound.org as the h...
2024-05-2146 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 66: Mind Regains the GreenI am in America, and inexplicably have no phone signal or data here despite paying for it, right after a couple of weeks in Italy. Here at last are deep green thoughts beneath the Georgia trees, where it is hot and humid and the shade of early evening is welcome. Good conversation and wonderful birdsong fill the air. There is due to be a ‘Biblical storm’ tonight, so people are leaving the camp, but we are trusting in our new tent and the fact that in Britain’s south west, we’ve just had the wettest winter on recor...
2024-04-2508 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 65: All This Is MuseOn the seventh, and final, celebration of the anniversary of the initiatory circle of the Incorporation of Muse. Below are some extracts of the many meetings of the participatory Beings and the Mistress of the gathering basket. Losses are recouped. A new door opens. We draw a crooked line under everything with charcoal made from our brothers’ vines, and heave a glad sigh.This week, an unknowable horizon beckons, we go to pack old hurts away and find them turned to thick black ink.This post was first published here on Substack with full transcript, ph...
2024-04-2410 min
Naturally CarolineReleasing Fear and Doubt in Pregnancy & Birth with Audrey RossAlmost HALF of all women experience birth trauma. Today, I chat with Audrey Ross of A Joyful Birth about why this might be. Why is it so hard to trust our bodies when it comes to birth? Why are we as a society so scared of birth? How do we break free from the fear and step back into our innate womanly power? Audrey is a birthkeeper, educator of physiologic birth, and a mother. She went from a breech hospital birth with her first, to a homebirth with licensed midwives with her second baby, to...
2024-04-0857 min
Oh No, Ross and CarrieRoss and Carrie Download Caroline Cory: Extraterrestrial Telepathy EditionCarrie tells Ross about a presentation she attended at Contact in the Desert 2023, a Palm Springs UFO conference. Speaker Caroline Cory has, for twenty years, been bringing “as much science as possible” to the study of paranormal topics like extraterrestrial contact, telepathy, information downloads, and mental health. Ross and Carrie analyze this claim. Plus, roving reporter Drew Spears attends a UFO videography class taught by the mysterious Mr. M.We have social media: X! Facebook!
2024-04-081h 13
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 64: Rivers of KnowingA month or so ago, David Knowles, a writer I love to read, asked me to write something about knowing, after I had written this in a short Note about an earlier piece:Somewhere between the fort-town of Facts and the river of Knowing is a meadow where I gather leaves of wild faith.I was making notes, mulling it over, as you do, when a friend died. Washed downstream into a gully of grief, several of us swam together and kept each other afloat. Now, on the banks of that peaty force, I sit...
2024-03-3116 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 63 - C.O.W.LFateIt's my fate to work with the fragmentary, the partial, detritus, the discarded and the unwanted.Matter is holographic. If the Divine is in everything, then any one thing is a holograph of the whole. Completeness can be accessed through incompleteness more easily than through the search for completeness. Searching for ‘wholeness’ is a fool’s errand.2 Attention to the unwanted, the vestigial and the marginal always yields more than expected. The devil is not in the details, the devil is in the Grand Unified Theory. The Great Mystery is in the tiny details, the un...
2024-03-1308 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 62 - The PearlThe DragonIn the Taoist Classics, dragons signify many things, depending on context, but the one I want to talk about is the sky dragon as the spirit of nature and the nature of spirit. In many Chinese artifacts and art you will see a joyful, sinuous dragon, mouth open, wide eyes, and wider smile, front legs outreaching with all its energy towards its goal - the pearl. What is this pearl? Well, talking of it with my old friend and T’ai Chi teacher Mark Raudva this weekend, he raised his eyebrows and smiled, ‘Ah, the myst...
2024-02-2810 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 61 - The Oblique HermitageI have been grinding bone ash, marble dust, chalk, oyster shell white and ochre into various binders: gum Arabic, aquafaba, linseed oil, gum tragacanth, cherry tree gum, oat gruel… My cunning plan, to one day wean people off plastic marker pens when they see how great metal marks made on prepared grounds can look: bold, permanent, soft, shiny, grey, black, brown, golden… And so I mull things over on the slab while listening to this and this. The work is long and full of haptic richness, smashing, grinding, milling, then long strokes of the brush as I lay the grou...
2024-02-2107 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 60 - A Meadow YearTalking with friends is like spring water to me, which also means I sometimes neglect it in favour of another cup of strong tea when I should return to the source… Some years, it can seem like our energy is scattered and broadcast in all directions. It can feel like all the work we are doing, the research, the admin, the writing, the organising, doesn’t seem to add up to anything, let alone something grand. Talking with Dougald Hine last month, the image of a meadow came to mind, and set my heart at rest. Perhaps you...
2024-02-1209 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 59 - Render unto CaesarThis week I am grieving my dear aunt, and cannot write.We’re on an in-between-essays week, so here are four things for you, sent with care, sadness and bursts of feral joy, all mixed up, as befits such violent times. There’s a somewhat ranting letter to a friend from 2022, plus three poems against tyranny and empire, inner and outer. Here, Boudica stands for a correct, noble, defence of lifeways, kin and land, even if doomed. I see echoes of St Wite.See you next week, and thank you for all the calls, comments and...
2024-02-0807 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 58 - Keeping Faith With UnknowingAs I walked out today, the great tits were already singing their spring songs: ‘I am here! See how fit and healthy I am! I wish to mate!’1 I had woken up with far too much love and nowhere to stow it. So, with a prayer and a wry smile, I laid my bundle at the door of The Great Mystery.And then He said, ‘Tell them about that time I fixed your back.’I spent a long time forgetting this, thereby resisting some kind of initiation. Now it’s time to stop running.First pu...
2024-02-0823 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 57 - Make Us Good WolvesMany thanks to Peco who last week wrote to me with an interesting question regarding the Taoist view on evil. Peco’s writing was some of the first I discovered on here, and, as I have written before, it often moves and educates me in equal measure, as does the writing of his wife Ruth. In answer, I cannot write for all Taoists, and especially not for ‘Taoism’. These thoughts below are personal and partial, and based on practice of T’ai Chi and meditation as much as anything else.But Tao is dear to me, as I...
2024-02-0820 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 56 - Tend the Heart WellFrom the beginning in November 2022, this Substack has included many letters and excerpts from letters which I have sent to my dear ongoing correspondents. I only give names or initials when I have received permission to do so. Sometimes it is correct to anonymise them. I write best by communicating with friends, the land of my home here in Wessex, with certain trees, or materials which call to me, such as ochre and chalk. I am never really thinking on my own. Who is? We are always in conversation with other writing, our culture, the past, the natural world...
2024-02-0812 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 55 - Softening around hard thingsIt is a fact that no matter how well you try to live your life, there will be people who don’t like you. This is as natural and unavoidable as weather, and occasionally as unpleasant. Before the internet, and especially before mobile phones, kids could get away from bullies after school, workplace difficulties could be left behind for the evening, and the private sphere was actually still pretty much private, for ordinary people. Royalty, politicians and celebrities have received public commentary on their lives for longer, and perhaps in some ways, rightly so.In the age of...
2024-02-0712 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 54 - Silex ScintillansFragments from a sandstone cliff face in early winter light.1: I note the present impossibility of loving smoothly. The heart’s Archimedean screw, continually turning to bring up the flow. It must always be spiralling if you want there to be fresh water.As though the heart’s turning is caused by some attachment to the gyring cosmos making it so.Blessings never accrue enough to stop the need for them refilling.I want the blackberries, so accept the thorns. They can be pulled out, replacing their amethyst juice with warm garn...
2024-02-0707 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 53 - InterludeFor the first time in a year there is no Substack post due on a Monday morning. I have been cooking venison in many different ways all weekend for a group of 15 while my friend teaches her ‘using the whole animal’ course. Around me as I type, people nibble jerky, carve gorge-hooks for fishing from leg bones and paint designs on buckskin using a surprisingly excellent paint made from ochres and vitreous humour, aka deer eyeball juice. Before my first planned post on the new fortnightly rhythm, here is a poetry interlude. Included are two from 2018 that feel...
2024-02-0703 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 52 - A Year and a DayA year and a dayIn old tales we often hear the phrase ‘a year and a day’ to denote a magical, significant period of time, or a poetic way of saying that a year has passed by. Thirteen lunar months of twenty-eight days (13 x 28 = 364), plus one extra day is 365 days, a regular solar year. That is how long I will have been writing publicly here on Substack by Tuesday 21st November 2023. It feels far more magical to me than the bare figures signify, as over this year, my first book was published, I’ve earned over half m...
2024-02-0716 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 51 - UncertaintyWith my head in a fog, unable to sharpen my wits to finish the new essays, I offer instead two pieces from the last half decade of letters to friends around the loose theme of uncertainty, which cajoled my handful of functioning brain cells to put them together. When I publish emails here, I edit them only very lightly. Some pieces were originally off-the-cuff, others were serious replies in months-long back and forth conversations, yet others were plain outlandish, and words ran away with each other in little gangs. Occasionally I laugh when I reread them, or wince, or...
2024-02-0711 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 50 - Writing a ChaliceThis week I offer thoughts on how words can be written during wartime, (carefully, sincerely, mainly). I send warm greetings to those who read my dispatches, I appreciate all your emails and comments, thank you for joining me here. Also, many thanks again to the friends with whom I remain in many-years-long communion by email and other ways of connecting, in conversation with whom many of the thoughts I share here in my writing take shape, including this week’s. You all know who you are. I send you my love.Philia is a wellspring of great jo...
2024-02-0608 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 49 - No heroThere will no brave solo hero like in films. Pervasive awareness and sustained attention are hardly telegenic. What must be borne, transformed, returned or achieved will be done by some ordinary people together and not by a maverick lone man or teenage girl who is gonna - godammit - save the day. It'll most likely be small groups, large groups, not necessarily even exclusively by humans. These people will be what we currently call friends. This friendship can include family, it can embrace the inanimate. Kindness will be appropriate. There will be stops for meals and tea. There will be back...
2024-02-0611 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 48 - InterludeThe DoorThere is a holy place where an impossible feeling resides. I used to name it euphoria, but it is not that, in the way moderns use it. It is the natural joy of many organisms, and now I see that it is not only human, but is everywhere. The cat turning over in the dusty sun, the swan hooting and puffing, the moment when the chords resolve only to suddenly suspend again, as in late Bach or early Björk. It is when the spirit descends, or when the guest arrives unbidden and stands stubbornly h...
2024-02-0609 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 47 - Mending our nets before the stormThis week I want to gather a few things that stem from ordinary moments of neighbourliness, abundance, or lack, as well as the deeper storing, mending and testing that are appropriate for me in these times. I was due to post on this topic last week, but a little late is fine. Plus, I feel that the basket of foraged thoughts this week will be a little less sorted and tidied than usual, as reflects a woman with two cases at the door, full of coloured stones, oak galls and feathers.First published here with full transcript...
2024-02-0617 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 46 - An even keel is not the only wayThere is a pervasive contemporary opinion that feeling or expressing joy somehow makes you a ‘less serious person’. This is patently nonsense, akin to dismissing someone’s ideas because of their accent or dialect, which still happens widely in my country, (especially with people from the Midlands or the West Country being seen as coming across as somehow less intelligent). As a large, widely distributed species, much of humans’ strength and adaptability comes from the huge variety of ways we have historically moved about, communicated, procured food, or organised ourselves into groups. The almost infinite variation in local customs should b...
2024-02-0617 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 45 - Well RedThis afternoon was spent with my great friend Nick Hunt and his photogenic dog Otto. Years ago Nick stumbled upon a valley near Bath, the site of a now defunct ochre works which ran for hundreds of years. When he sent me the pictures of Otto’s red feet I could not believe the intensity of the colour, I had never seen anything like it. Within a week a parcel of uncanny weight arrived at my boat and on opening it I found the deepest red haematite powder, with mica sparkles. Imagine looking at a deep purple-red velvet cloth wi...
2024-02-0506 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 44 - Stand Your Ground Using SoftnessA series of interesting challenges has presented itself, one will be very public, others are private, and one regards health. All of them present the same conundrum at heart: how do I stand my ground using softness?This seemingly oxymoronic term is used regularly by my T’ai Chi Master Mark Raudva as an elegant way of describing what an ideal yield in pushing hands is like: we neither lean nor incline, we do not resist, we turn around our upright central axis, we allow the push to turn us. On encountering this, a pusher who keeps do...
2024-02-0513 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 43 - We Forget the EndingThis week has seen a series of unexpected events which have kept me by the sea’s edge and nowhere near this laptop. However, that now gives me an opportunity to share this letter to two friends from May 2021. There is a profound and sterile solipsism in the death-denying culture I am surrounded by, perhaps where you live, too. In a series of emails, we discussed death, life and the initiatory process, including the traditional, oracular place of childhood dreams of dismemberment and revivification, for those who would later be called to work in liminal realms.This is...
2024-02-0509 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 42 - ShoalsMuse in me is at once like a guest, a meal and a wolf; consumed and consuming. At times hunkered down like a prepper with protein bars and weaponry, sometimes loose-limbed and striding out speaking in tongues to trees. Other times he is tight as wind-knots in fishing line, the hard place that will not run smoothly through the eye of life.He likes (me) to fight, to fish, to wrestle, to draw, to write…First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, September 4th 2023. Get full access to Uncivil Sa...
2024-02-0510 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 41 - The Naked Uncivil SavantIt was twenty past ten and the spotlights were hot and bright. The raised dais and carefully draped couch were still empty, our pencils were all sharpened, there was a muttering in the life room. The tutor said, ‘Right then, who’s volunteering? One hour each, we’ll need five of you.’It was 1989, early in the first term of my two years at Shelley Park1 art college, housed in the repurposed, characterful clifftop home of Percy Shelley, son of the writer Mary Shelley. The life drawing studio was on the top floor, accessed via a wide sweeping...
2024-02-0521 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 40 - The Oxford lacunaWhen I started this Substack I regularly included pieces expanded from my ongoing practice of writing to, and thinking with, friends, which is, apart from discussions at the table with food and wine, my favourite mode of meaning-making. It’s time for another recent instalment culled from my trusty ancient Hotmail account, that tireless μεταφορά (removals, transporter, metaphor…) machine.I have removed anything personal to my correspondent, my friend Nicholas Wilkinson, added links and tidied the grammar somewhat, but as usual, I feel it is better left in its original, rather rambling, epistolary shape. Sometimes I feel like an eccentric...
2024-02-0412 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 39 - Doing something about itOne day the internet will failFirst come family and friends, the bushel of people I love most. When my world suddenly changed and I came home to roost a mile from my birthplace, I realised instinctively that rebuilding a meaningful life came from committing to love and being loved by this group of people, and that other goodness would flow from this. I had tried to please or placate, control or ignore people and things in pretty much every combination and situation an adult life could offer, and I had exhausted both myself and my options...
2024-02-0416 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 38 - Intention and invitationTime has flown and Uncivil Savant has taken its own shape. When I draw, no matter if I have very specific plans for a piece, the ink, paper and brush always conspire to make a far more interesting and lively, if sometimes unexpected, translation of the movements of my hand, (and by inference, the movements of my unconscious, as well as my so-called conscious will). Thankfully, the same happens with writing. Although I am still tapping away at a keyboard rather than writing long-hand, if I relax and get the tension of the inner strings just right, not too...
2024-02-0412 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 37 - To know the tides you need an edgeI have been thinking lots about boundaries, edges and limits, partly around the use of electronics, my engagement with ‘the machine’, and my own personal energy. There have been some good posts over the last few months from several writers I follow here about their own need for, and strategies around, such things. I have found this a fertile and timely area of reading, and have a few thoughts to add to the collective mulling-over of this somewhat gritty topic. Last week, demonstrating making paint from badger-dug chalk, local red ironstone and some liquid gum Arabic, all pulled from a ho...
2024-02-0409 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 36 - Grasp the nettleThere is a saying in the Taoist Classics: ‘The Sage is sick of being sick of sickness.’Well, I am no sage, but I have been sick. I am as well, physically, as I have ever been, but I have been experimenting with many aspects of life this year, sometimes mindfully, sometimes by accident, and both ways have taught me, and continue to teach me, a huge amount.In a living culture, we would have elders to ask about how our discoveries could enrich our community, plus we could ask advice. Instead, I have my gut...
2024-02-0419 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 35 - Restore and re-storyOnce, everywhere, the land was storied.Here is where uncle Joe met your auntie, this is where we rest the sheep during the droving, here is where we found the best cherries, on that hill is where our ancestors made a vow… My late nan told me about Bealach na Ba, the Pass of the Cattle, high above Applecross in the west of the Scottish Highlands, how she had seen other farmers drive a herd down from the heights to the village below, followed by one of the first motorcars to make it over the pass. 1...
2024-02-0312 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 34 - Remedies for Lyme disease of the SoulI have been thinking about thinking. This is nothing new. A couple of decades doing T’ai Chi with the cotton-slippered elephant in the room being my own tedious thoughts going round and round was, as you can imagine, educational. Over the years I have approached the use of words by the mind in several distinct ways, some methods were classical meditation techniques taught by my teacher or learned from books. Others were ways which evolved naturally, or which were passed on by friends. Yet others were what the woods and the water told me to do, or what Dr...
2024-02-0315 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 33 - Chalk CuttingThe bioavailability of nutrients to the body is like the mytho-availablity of earth to the soul. Without regular physical contact to the ground, stories untether and become fragmentary, denatured, even toxic. We cleave to the broken parts like children hoarding rounded flints, not knowing it’s the sharp edges that spark fire from steel. Those sharp edges that can also do the cutting. If you are going to hoard flint, then go to Grimes Graves and ask to dig a big nodule, take it home whole and turn it over for a year, looking for the fractures, the ways in...
2024-02-0309 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 32 - The hart of the wudI am freshly returned from my favourite woods in the world, the woods near Stonehenge that I know and love best. I have my ‘forest face’ back, softer, though perhaps grimier, than my ‘town face’. I have been coming here since 2015, according to the kit packing lists file on my laptop, though it seems like longer. Here, I gather chalk dug by badgers for my art and paints, pignuts for nibbling, chicken of the woods fungi for meals, hazel for carving box lids and gourd stoppers; in fact, everything I need to be more at home in the outdoors. This wee...
2024-02-0319 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 31 - SoftnessA changeTwenty feet outside my window, the chestnut, oak and pollard lime trees sway. For over a month this coast, whose trees habitually bow their heads and turn their backs to a prevailing sou’westerly, has experienced cold, insistent winds from the east. This happened last year, too. Despite the sunshine, whitecaps rise in the sheltered bays, swimmers huddle in the surf, eyeing their expensive Dryrobes, wistfully. I am sitting at my desk, facing west, feeling something shift - inside? Outside? Probably both.First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, June 12th...
2024-02-0313 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 30 - In the company of saintsWhat sets them apart from us is twofold. Firstly, their remarkable lives or deaths. Secondly, that their lives are no longer their own. A saint’s life is for us, far more than any monarch, minister or hero, who usually have a hand in how their story is spun. In death, saints’ lives are plucked up to be placed into the common basket of goodness, to become apples of instruction. Or at least they were, until knowledge and study of the lives of saints fell away in almost every faith to make way for the inspection of the lives of t...
2024-02-0214 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 29 - She moves toward you to speakThis week, a letter between gods, from January 2018. The verbatim account of an everyday yet mythic encounter in a bank in Wimbledon in November 2017. A poem / lost song from 1999. All alongside new works from my drawing desk, this May.I am home, floating strangely between jetlag and the task of levigating deep blood red ochre for my next class. Wish me luck, as I am not yet quite here, nor still there.First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, May 29th 2023. Get full access to Uncivil Savant at carolineross...
2024-02-0207 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 28 - 6 months at seaThis weekend sees 6 months since I began to write here on Substack. You can read my first post again as to why I started, but why I’ll continue, and what I hope to cover, is the subject of this post. First I’d like to thank all of you who read this and subscribe, whether paid or free, and to all of you who post such interesting comments. I always read them all. I had no idea that I would find a readership of even 150 people, let alone 1500, so thanks again for your continued interest in my obscure Venn...
2024-02-0206 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 27 - DreamingToday I wanted to give you something really useful that took me years to develop and hone, but has been proved effective by many people who have tried it.Over fifty artists, writers and T’ai Chi colleagues have used this practice to feed into their work or to gain connection to a wellspring of unconscious creativity. I hope it is of benefit to you. Please do get in touch if it is.First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, May 15th 2023. Get full access to Uncivil Savant at ca...
2024-02-0211 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 26 - Three poemsHere are three poems that feel right for this moment. The first is a glimpse of how I write or draw and brings a recurring childhood dream and menopause together. The second gathers all my gathering into one place and queries the compulsion I have to unearth. The final one, from last autumn, is about class, and seems apt given the aristocratic shenanigans in my home country this weekend. I am 5000 miles away, and happily so.First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, May 3rd 2023. Get full access to Uncivil Savant...
2024-02-0208 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 25 - The Machine stops us movingThe embodied lifeFor me, even though I write almost every day, a hearty physical life is non-negotiable. There are thoughts I can’t have and feelings I can’t reach without access to the green. Similarly, I may be well in myself and reasonably fit, but if I spend whole days glued to the screen, I end up jittery and stiff, even if I don’t watch or read anything untoward. It is not only the timbre of what I see that affects me deeply, but the medium. Since the day before the World Trade Center attack...
2024-02-0120 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 24 - SpringThis week, while I settle into the refuge of the roads in USA, I’ll share something from my archive. This piece was originally commissioned for Dark Mountain 22 - ARK, and returns us once more to the shore. I have added photos and a map. I hope you enjoy it. See you next week with something new.First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, April 24 2023. Get full access to Uncivil Savant at carolineross.substack.com/subscribe
2024-02-0111 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 23 - Full of emptinessIt gets harder to come back from the place of no wordsWithout access to sea edge and forest there are many thoughts I can’t have and many kinds of silence, too. Sensation, movement and perception roll along without words and take on the green tinge of leaf or the glint of grey flint. Last week the cove remade me in its image - tidal thoughts, harder, durable stone ideas, softer yet more tenacious seaweed feelings. Irascible mind chatter flies past, as persistently as the gulls diving for morsels. The calling pigeon of ordinary mind alights, pe...
2024-02-0111 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 22 - PilgrimageI am typing this just after packing to go to the bay I first wrote about online at Dark Mountain in 2018, when I made rock art for the cover of issue 13. I am also gently planning a pilgrimage to walk with two friends in a year or so to St Wite’s Spring, her church and reliquary in Whitchurch Canonicorum, and to Abbotsbury, on the Fleet, the site of the world’s largest tended flock of wild swans. Easter blessings from the south coast of this archipelago. Get full access to Uncivil Savant at carolineross.substack.com...
2024-02-0109 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 21 - Jewels in your rootsHow I see what is really there, what is not there, and what it has cost me.When I was a young child I saw shapes and colours around things and on things that were not the same as the shapes and colours of things. This was not the consensus view, but no-one bothered to tell me off about it. Had they, it would have ceased immediately, as I was terrified of censure. If I was wrong, surely I was unlovable?First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, April 3rd 2023.
2024-02-0110 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 20 - Make cracks for magicBegin. Open a space with your intent, like you do when you dream. Take all the care and love and unmet desire that you have, and right now in your mind’s eye roll it up into a tight ball as though of sharp-scented herb leaves. Now compress that for 40 million years, which will take the length of 4 breaths. Then see as it turns from coal to jet to diamond under necessity’s fierce pressure. OK, now you have a sharp, rough diamond and you can make a crack in anything with it. Including the edifice of ordinary mind, the brit...
2024-01-3106 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 19 - IntentCorrect mind intent, plus physical repetition over time, equals practice.Or, ‘If it ain’t raining, it ain’t training’.1Below is something I wrote as a practice aide-memoire for myself in 2018, then adapted for my students a few years ago, and have returned to this weekend though necessity. It’s been a hard week, not only for myself, but for several of my loved ones. The way this shows up for me is blinding headaches, my organism is very straightforward and unsubtle in expressing distress these days, which I appreciate. Non-mysterious pain is always instructiv...
2024-01-3117 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 18 - By the crowHere are some things for you, continuing broad themes from the last few months, in one of my semi-regular breaks from essaying. First, a poem and some avian drawings. Then a letter to a friend from a very strange week spent dog and cat sitting for rich Londoners, while trying to make ends meet, both from 2018. Lastly, I press a mixtape into your sweaty palm whilst mumbling something about ‘Brian Eno’s amazing harmony vocals on this one…’First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, March 13th 2023. Get full access to Uncivil...
2024-01-3110 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 17 - I was beside myselfWhile I begin diving into the reading needed for future essays, I have been enjoying many other writers here, as we all grapple with the Machine, and how it famously co-opts our attention. I particularly valued Pilgrims in the Machine‘s excellent recent piece. It prompted me to publish this essay I wrote in November last year, as it is not only technology which keeps us separate from our hearts and each other. The Machine certainly seems to have a will of its own now, but it was originally born from a split in the human psyche, (and from fu...
2024-01-3115 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 16 - A low slanting rayThe temperature dropped below freezing that night in the woods, and my usual late spring camping set up wasn’t enough. In the small hours, I donned every item of spare clothing I had, including my huge rain cape, and squeezed back into my sleeping bag, shivering. I finally got up just after dawn to the May-time sounds of birds, seemingly annoyed at my presence in the clearing. This was after a pre-dawn hour of a tawny owl (unironically and loudly) calling the koan, ‘Who, who?’ directly above my tent. Needless to say, I did not gain sudden enlightenment.F...
2024-01-3114 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 15 - A Thousand Million RootsMy friend Martin is a woodsman. Last year he felled lots of western hemlock, unsuited to the wood in Devon where it was planted a few decades ago. Now, misshapen trunk by slightly rotten trunk, some of these failed trees are being laid carefully into peaty land on Dartmoor, damming drainage ditches dug by ‘improvers’, so that the land may once again hold its full quota of life-giving water. The sight of heaths and moorlands burning here in England last summer was an awful one, these landscapes famous for their wetness underfoot hosting multitudes of water-loving plant species, insects, amph...
2024-01-3017 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 14 - In Conversation with Iain McGilchristI was finally able to download and edit this recording made by Dougald Hineof Iain McGilchrist and me talking at his home last week. I first wrote to Iain in December 2010 to thank him for his book ‘The Master and His Emissary’ and to relay its profound effect upon my life, understanding of T’ai Chi and the Tao, and its beneficial outward rippling effect in my and my teacher’s T’ai Chi schools.First published here with notes and more images, February 15th 2023. Get full access to Uncivil Savant at carolineross.substack.com/subscr
2024-01-3050 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 13 - To Hone Uncanny MusculatureAt 1am on 4th February, after a full 90 minute cycle of good deep sleep, I was awoken by the image of a vast bog or marsh, stretching between two conical mountains, such as found in the water-lands of Sutherland, in the far north of Scotland. But my mind was in the sphagnum moss and bog myrtle, not on the heathered high mountain sides. Over the next minutes a response flooded out of me to a question I have been asking myself for a few months now, about the predicament we find ourselves in, here in the Hubriscene Age.
2024-01-3012 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 12 - Imbolc InterludeI am taking a break from writing essays this week. Instead, here’s a poem from the autumn in France, an ochre story and a recent painting. I hope you enjoy them.First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, January 30th 2023. Get full access to Uncivil Savant at carolineross.substack.com/subscribe
2024-01-3006 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 11 - Fire and SteelToday I want to write about tempering.Years ago I went to make a knife with the skilful Devon blacksmith and experimental archaeologist Dave Budd. Two days working flint with renowned knapper Anthony Whitlock had felt approachable to my hands as it required only short, momentary percussion and careful intent to make a serviceable blade. Working with fire and steel was another matter…First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, January 23rd 2023. Get full access to Uncivil Savant at carolineross.substack.com/subscribe
2024-01-3012 min
Pretty Corrupt PodcastBravo Breakdown: Alexis Bellino’s return, Caroline Manzo’s lawsuit and what happened at the RHOBH reunionGet ready for a PCP Exclusive- it’s the Bravo Breakdown with Pretty Corrupt! This week, Jordan, Stacy and Nate are taking you inside Alexis Bellino’s return to Real Housewives of Orange County, and the fallout with Shannon Beador. They’re diving into Caroline Manzo’s lawsuit against Bravo over Brandi Glanville and RHUGT. The latest from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, including Denise Richards’ claim that Kyle Richards’ weed chef drugged her, and the Annemarie-Dorit-Crystal “Child Bride” feud in Barcelona. PLUS, what went down at the RHOBH reunion with Kathy Hilton’s surprise return! Hosted by Simplecas...
2024-01-3044 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 10 - The Land SpeaksIn October 2015 many forces came together in my life, the remaining ripples of which began to settle last year, when I turned 50. Looking back, over 7 years later, I see threads emerging that are now woven into my writing and art life, including here at Uncivil Savant.I want to share something of those beginnings with you, to allow a better understanding of how I came to be exploring this territory, and why I care so deeply about the embodied life as a gateway to wisdom, equal and complementary to paths of scholarship or faith.First...
2024-01-2919 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 09 - Talking About the WeatherSeemingly endless rain is lashing down on old England as my friends in New England write describing snowdrifts many feet deep in their ‘once in a hundred years’ storm. I am away in London for New Year, spending the evening peacefully alone by choice, reading, meditating and bringing you this piece.A year ago I wrote to my friend Dougald, having just found words for a rebellion in me against the disdain I sensed in descriptions of ordinary people, (especially ordinary women), in much contemporary political writing, with which I might otherwise have sympathy. It still stands. Disd...
2024-01-2909 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 08 - Steeped in MeaningJoin me appreciating plant kin this Yule, while I enjoy with family the flavours and scents of tannin-rich oak, cloves, raisins, mint and bay in our festive food, plus lashings of tea, of course. My gratitude to the plant kingdom has no end. When you raise your glass or cup, it likely contains blessed polyphenols… They, and we, are steeped in meaning.First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, December 26th 2022. Get full access to Uncivil Savant at carolineross.substack.com/subscribe
2024-01-2904 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 07 - A Story GiftWinter Solstice approaches and I am packing to go and see dear friends and beloved family over Solstice and Christmas, both of which I celebrate. I wanted to post something special for you, so here is one of my all-time favourite teaching stories, a Taoist parable, if you like. Make yourself a cup of tea, no matter if it’s finest jasmine, oolong, Yorkshire Tea with milk, or Barry’s Tea if you’re in Ireland, (ah, the golden elixir…) then, press play.First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, December 19th 2022. Get...
2024-01-2907 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 06 - The Now-Time of the HandThis piece is a response to a recent essay by Rhyd Wildermuth and an opportunity to expand on a letter to my friend Dougald Hine . I’ll raise the case for haptic richness over the tyranny of frictionless surfaces, show how our ancestors left us plenty of medicine in unlikely places, and suggest that there is no time, or at least no linear time, in the palm of your hand. For help from Blake, my mother’s sewing kit and a German biker, plus several contrasting photos featuring my hands, press play.First published here with full tran...
2024-01-2820 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 05 - The Cook and His CleaverThe piece below for Dark Mountain Issue 8 Technê was my first essay published in a book, or indeed anywhere other than on the T'ai Chi school blog which I started in 2005. Thankfully, it was edited down by Steve Wheeler from a rambling sprawl to this short essay, where I attempt to get to some of the deeper aspects of Chuang Tzu's wonderful teaching story. I have updated it very slightly for you today. I recommend getting Thomas Cleary's Taoist Classics Volume 1 for his masterful translations, but other renditions of the story are available to read immediately online if you s...
2024-01-2809 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 04 - Wildness Is Our UndoingTrue wildness…Published here with full transcript, November 30th 2022. Get full access to Uncivil Savant at carolineross.substack.com/subscribe
2024-01-2800 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 03 - A Heron Stands FishingIf you want to quieten your mind do this: go to the river and stare at the surface, do not allow your eyes to move at all...Published here with transcript, notes and more images, November 24th 2022. Get full access to Uncivil Savant at carolineross.substack.com/subscribe
2024-01-2806 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 02 - The Whole Vast Bright TapestryThere is a line in a quatrain by Rumi often rendered as, ‘There are a thousand ways to pray’. But it literally reads, ‘There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground’.How much of life goes missing when we speak only of disembodied ideas? Replaying the words of a prayer as a voice in our heads is not the same as lowering our bodies to the earth and placing our mouths softly against it. Feeling glad that Scottish country dancing is still popular is not the same as regularly hurtling through ‘Strip the Willow’ with kids an...
2024-01-2813 min
Uncivil Savant PodcastEpisode 01 - Welcome to Uncivil SavantWelcome to the first of the podcast-hosted audios of all Uncivil Savant posts, so they can all live in one place, for easier listening. After over a year of weekly audio versions of posts, since first publishing on Substack, it seemed a good idea to use the podcast feature for those who always prefer to listen, rather than read my work. As time progresses I hope to add other audio and musical extras.For now, welcome. I hope you enjoy these posts and catch up on some you may have missed. Feel free to share...
2024-01-2810 min
Get a clu - stories of business - by CarolineThe valley of tears - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' change curveSwiss-American psychiatrist Kübler-Ross created the grief curve in 1969. It captures the five stages of loss and which types of emotions mourners experience. This framework was so potent that it's widely used as the change curve as well. Discussing the change curve and admitting one's emotions during a transformation helps everyone come to terms with the impact of a change. It's a potent tool.
2024-01-0810 min
The Authority Podcast — Expert Insights and Fresh Ideas for Education LeadersSideline Sessions: Caroline McCombs — George Washington University Women’s Basketball Head Coach, 20+ Year NCAA Division-I Coaching Veteran, and 2020 America East Coach of the Year on Success at the D-I LevelHappy holidays! We'll be publishing new episodes of The Authority in January (stay tuned for great conversations with Lacey Robinson, Michael Fullan, and Allison Rodman to start the year). Until then, we'll continue sharing more great content. This week I’m excited to share the second episode of my new show, Sideline Sessions. If you're a youth or high school sports coach, or parent of a student-athlete, make sure to subscribe to the show: https://sidelinesessions.transistor.fm/subscribe In this episode, I speak with Caroline McCombs, head women’s basketball coach at George Washington Unive...
2023-12-2835 min
Sideline SessionsCaroline McCombs — George Washington University Women’s Basketball Head Coach, 20+ Year NCAA Division-I Coaching Veteran, and 2020 America East Coach of the Year on Success at the D-I LevelThis week I’m honored to speak with Caroline McCombs, head women’s basketball coach at George Washington University. 2023-24 is Coach McCombs’ third season at GW and 10th season overall as a head coach at the NCAA Division-I level. As a head coach and assistant coach, her teams have appeared in six NCAA tournaments and made two Sweet 16 appearances, and she also made an NCAA tournament as an all-conference player at Youngstown State. We discussed Coach McCombs’ transition from playing to coaching, what young players need to know, and more...
2023-12-1035 min
The Trans Narrative PodcastRoss Cheetham : Christ, communism, and how to navigate between faith, identity, and sexualityOn this episode Caroline and Nikita Ramkissoon sit with Ross Cheetham, talking Christ, communism, and how to navigate between faith, identity, and sexualityToday the trans narrative co-hosts sit with Ross Cheetham exploring the role church played in Ross’s life, the sexual confusion brought on by capitalist, and religious oppression, and why communism is often misunderstood and used. ⭐️Ross Cheetham, welder from MD, trustee member of the Community United Methodist Church in Crofton and a queer communist. Links to socials Todays episode was developed, directed, produced and edited by Caroline Essence The Trans Narrative was created by Caroline Essence Music...
2023-10-311h 07
Overbooked PodcastEp. 24 Divine Rivals by Rebecca RossOverbooked PodcastEpisode #24 is Divine Rivals by Rebecca RossEpisode #25 is TBDMy only references for this episode were the books themselves.Instagram: @over.bookedpodcastTik Tok: @overbookedpodcastAmazon Booklist: https://www.amazon.com/shop/carolinehansen/list/1Z9AT662Q20H3?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d
2023-10-0520 min
Caroline Carey: A Neurodivergent SoulRoger Ross. Money, regenerating land and growing up, we covered a lot!This is Roger Ross, an entrepreneur from childhood, he is quite a fascinating speaker, full of wisdom and story about regenerating land, money, auctions and mens work.Let me know what you think and here are more details if you want to find out more about Rogerhttps://www.facebook.com/roger.ross.503Springham Grove on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/505382084197812Auction. lotsroad.comAnd my work is www.middleearthmedicine.com come and say hello 😊 Hosted on Acast. See...
2023-09-0457 min
What's The LessonThe Detrimental Effects of Photoshop with Caroline RossIn This Episode, We Chat About: Caroline’s experience as a photographer, and how her ability to spot photoshop has turned into multi-millions of views on TikTok! Resources + Links: Follow Caroline on Instagram | @carolineross Check out Carolines videos on TikTok | @Caroline_in_thecity Learn more about our coaching services & upcoming events: https://www.girlsmentorship.com/ Connect with us on Instagram: Girls Mentorship | @girlsmentorship Jill Petersen | @jillphxsen Mary Frances | @msmaryfran Join our...
2022-10-2041 min
LUEURDialogue avec Caroline RossDepuis la fin de ses études en scénographie en 1991, Caroline Ross développe des outils technologiques (recherche et développement) qui lui permettent d’étudier, d’expérimenter et d‘amener toujours plus loin le potentiel dramaturgique et scénographique de la lumière. Elle a crée en tant qu’artiste et directrice artistique, des installations et des performances: Miroir/Mirror (2008), Arbre (2008), Fragments (2006), The Sight Tower (2003) et Lumens (2000). Son travail personnel a été présenté dans plusieurs événements internationaux comme le Mois Multi de Québec, Temps d’images à l’Usine C de Montréal, le Carrefour international de thé...
2022-10-131h 02
The Dr. Leaf ShowPodcast 311: How sex and mental health are connected + what we should be talking about in sex education (with Dr. Sherry Ross, OB/GYN)Get my new book Cleaning up Your Mental Mess here: https://www.cleaningupyourmentalmess.comDownload my new and improved brain detox app here: https://neurocycle.appSign up to join my free text program and receive mental health care tips. Just text DRLEAF to 1 (833) 285 3747Get your tickets to my 2021 Mental Health Retreat: https://www.drleafconference.comSHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I interview award-winning OB-GYN, best-selling author and woman’s health expert Dr. Sherry Ross about the relationship between sexual health and mental health, the importance of healthy att...
2021-08-2650 min
No Visible BruisesInterview With Ross Rosenberg, Founder of Self-Love Recovery InstituteToday I’m sharing with you a fantastic conversation with Ross Rosenberg. Ross Rosenberg M.Ed., LCPC, CADC, is the owner of Self-Love Recovery Institute. He is a psychotherapist, educator, expert witness and author. Ross is known globally for his expertise in codependency (Self-Love Deficit Disorder), Pathological Narcissism, Narcissistic Abuse and Trauma Treatment. He is a keynote speaker who has presented in 30 States/70 cities and abroad and has been regularly featured on national TV and radio. His “The Human Magnet Syndrome” books sold over 120K copies and are translated into 10 languages. His YouTube Channel has amassed 19 million video views and mor...
2021-05-111h 05
The Biztrepreneur PodcastEP. 5 - The HR Suite - Caroline McEneryCaroline McEnery tells the story of how she set up The HR Suite, how she hit every radio tower around the country and how it’s all about PEOPLE in business! Caroline speaks of her work with Fáilte Ireland, the Local Enterprise Office and Acorns which is a community that helps women in rural Ireland to start up and grow their businesses. We speak of how COVID-19 impacted her business and her clients businesses and finally how her grandfather gave her some very good advice on how to enjoy the journey of life and business.@the...
2021-04-0743 min
Peak EnduranceCaroline Bertrand: Surviving and thriving through tough times.Welcome to the podcast! Episode 95 is an interview with Caroline Bertrand.
This is the second time Caroline has been on the podcast. She was last on in early 2020 when she won the Two Bays 56km female event. This time we caught up to talk about here second place in the 2021 edition of the race, but our chat turned into so much more than that. We discuss what it takes to get through difficult times, and how emotionally difficult times adversely affect our running. Also, how important it is to take this into consideration and to be kind to ourselves. I...
2021-03-0251 min
Make Today CountEpisode 033 - Make it happen - Successful goal setting | with Caroline GouldCaroline Gould is a straight-talking business coach helping mums in business to balance, not juggle and thrive, not struggle.Caroline launched her first business in 2009 whilst on maternity leave - looking back this timing was not great! But she did it. Since then she has launched and run 5 businesses (some successful and some not), so has a lot of experience to share. She's made mistakes along the way and is here to tell you all about them to make sure that you don’t. She will also tell you about all the things that w...
2021-02-191h 09
Proust Questionnaire PodcastProust Questionnaire 6: Ross Bleckner, ArtistRoss Bleckner is a painter who has combines gorgeous art with concrete political commitment. In the 1980s he was one of the first artists to tackle and address the AIDS crisis head-on with paintings like 'Small Count' (1980), '8,122+ As of January 1986', and 'Throbbing Heart' (1994), all mesmerizing, haunting canvases about cells and other viral matters that charter a path of activism which continues to this day.Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University where he teaches literature and photography, and writes frequently about photography, art, literature, and other subjects. He is also the host of th...
2020-06-2558 min
Peak EnduranceCaroline Gavin: female winner of the Two Bays 56km trail raceCaroline Gavin recently won the prestigious Two Bays event. Two Bays is a 56km trail race that is run across the Mornington Peninsula from Cape Schanck to Dromana and then back again. It is a scenic and challenging course that covers a range of settings and surfaces; single track, coastal trail, grassy trail, dirt road and forest canopy. Caroline explains how she juggles her training with raising her young son and working fulltime. What an achievement!
Follow this link to get to the UTMB and CCC training plans: https://www.peakendurancecoaching.com.au/utmb-and-ccc-plans.html#/
2020-01-2933 min
Not NiceEpisode 24: The One Where We Shit on Ross from FriendsThis week we’re back with a conversation between we, ourselves, and us. We talk mainly about Friends, taking extra care to shit all over Ross’ character.
We also [informally] discuss the economics behind tipping in restaurants, and how wait staff tend to think Julia is a c-word because she never smiles... among other things. Enjoy!
2017-07-181h 08
Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and FriendsCaroline Putnam of Reviveolution on Offerings, Prayer, and Partnering with Indigenous Peoples of Peru [episode 69]Caroline Putnam of Reviveolution is a Louisiana native who now lives near Cusco in Peru. Reviveolution is a collective of conscious leaders, native wisdom-keepers, and creative pioneers committed to a socially and ecologically sustainable world. Their mission is to bridge indigenous wisdom in the modern world for the benefit of individuals, communities, and Earth. In […]
2017-06-081h 19
Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and FriendsCaroline Southwell on Human Design, Faster EFT and Deep Healing through Breathwork [episode 50]Caroline Southwell is a coach who will say what no one else is brave enough to say. In this episode we get into the Human Design system, and how it can help you make clear and confident choices. Caroline also shares her experiences with Faster EFT and breathwork for clearing limiting beliefs and deep healing. […]
2017-01-271h 26