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Real & Raw[Katie Wolfenden] Sound Therapy, Hormone Balancing, and Burnout RecoveryIn this episode, we dive into an inspiring journey of transformation—from the fast-paced corporate world to a fulfilling life in wellness. Katie shares how experiencing burnout and health challenges led her to discover sound therapy, meditation, and holistic living. We explore the transition from corporate to wellness business owner, the challenges of building a wellness business, and the powerful tools she uses to help others regulate and heal.We also touch on motherhood, the impact of sound therapy on babies, and the personal hormonal struggles that shaped her path. Whether you're navigating burnout, curious about sound th...2025-01-2353 min
Real Is Not Real EnoughBonus Ep: Acoustic Access to Knowledge (feat. Kylie Giblett)Hello again, “Real Is Not Real Enough” enthusiasts! In this special episode, we're happy to present an article titled "Acoustic Access to Knowledge." This piece is a product of the original Günther Anders podcast translation project, where we explore the profound impact of sound on our understanding of the world.
Dive into the intricate world of sound with Kylie Giblett from The University of Sydney, as she performs the audio version of an article penned by a member of the “Real Is Not Real Enough” team, Ben Nickl. This article, combined with sound editing and mixing by Jacob...2023-12-2209 minReal Is Not Real EnoughBonus Ep: Anders at the Museum (feat. Avril Alba and Alina Kozlovski)Inspired by Anders' comparisons of the Hollywood Costume Factory and museums, this bonus episode features two experts in history and museum studies who help Ben and Chris 'unpack the real'.
You can find out more about us via the links below.
Avril Alba, scholar and expert in Jewish and Holocaust museums from the University of Sydney:
https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/avril-alba.html
Alina Kozlovski, scholar and expert in Roman history and archaeology with extensive experience working in museums in the UK, USA and Australia from the Un...2023-07-271h 14
Real Is Not Real EnoughEpisode 5: Exiled in Hollywood (feat. Bernd Bösel and Claudia Sandberg)As promised, this is the second of a two-part discussion featuring Claudia Sandberg and Bernd Bösel.
In our previous episode – Romans, Hitler, Hollywood – we focused on heritage cinema and notions of truth. Here, we consider questions of authenticity, exile, shame and the connection between humour and pain.
The work of Kerstin Putz, literary scholar and curator of exhibitions at the Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library in Vienna, is mentioned. You can find out more about Kerstin’s work here: https://www.chbeck.de/autor/?authorId=441556719
You can find out more about u...2023-01-2536 min
Real Is Not Real EnoughEpisode 4: Romans, Hitler, Hollywood (feat. Bernd Bösel and Claudia Sandberg)If you’ve ever watched a historical Hollywood movie, this episode is for you. In fact, there’s so much to discuss that this is the first part of a double episode. Here, we unpack notions of truth and the distortions that the filmmaking industry thrives on.
This conversation includes several voices but features Claudia Sandberg and Bernd Bösel. You can find out more about our guests and also us (Chris, Ben and Helen) via the links below.
Claudia Sandberg, scholar and filmmaker from the University of Melbourne: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/750238-claud...2022-11-0842 min
Real Is Not Real EnoughEpisode 3: Ears and Eyes (feat. Edgar Eckert and Eric Löbbecke)This time on Unpacking The Real we unpack the sound and look of Real is not Real Enough with the people who helped us bring Günther Anders’ Hollywood diary to life.
To do that, we’re introducing you to Swiss/German actor Edgar Eckert and cartoonist, illustrator and fine artist Eric Löbbecke.
Edgar is an accomplished stage and screen actor in Germany and Switzerland and you can find out more about him here: https://www.deutschestheater.de/en/ensemble/ensemble-and-guests/edgar_eckert/
Have a look at samples of Edgar’s performance work via...2022-09-0228 min
Real Is Not Real EnoughEpisode 2: The Truths of Translation (feat. Tracey Cameron and Consuelo Martinez Reyes)In this episode of Unpacking The Real we meet Tracey Cameron and Dr Consuelo Martinez Reyes.
Tracey is a Gamilaraay person and Lecturer in Gamilaraay Language and Indigenous History at The University of Sydney: https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/tracey-cameron.html
Consuelo is a Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at Macquarie University: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/consuelo-martinez-reyes
Consuelo and Tracey each bring different perspectives to the text and audio of Real is Not Real Enough. Together in conversation, and with excerpts from the audio...2022-08-1844 minReal Is Not Real EnoughEpisode 1: Unpacking Anders (feat. Anna Pollmann)In this inaugural episode of Unpacking The Real we meet Dr Anna Pollmann. Anna is a researcher at the Research Institute for Social Cohesion at Konstanz University, where she is co-editor of the volume Key Concepts of Social Cohesion: A Critical Vocabulary. https://www.fgz-risc.de/das-forschungsinstitut/personen/details/anna-pollmann
Anna is a cultural historian of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her first book "Fragments from the End Times" is based on the work of Günther Anders and reflects her broader interest in the transformation of historical consciousness from modernity to postmodernity.
In our conversatio...2022-08-0828 minReal Is Not Real EnoughSeason Two: Unpacking the RealUnpacking the Real is season two of Real is Not Real Enough. Here we introduce you to a range of guests who help us 'unpack' and the ideas that emerge from season one's podcast audio diary Real is Not Real Enough.
If you’re ready to wonder longer and question further, join us for Unpacking the Real.
Podcast cover design by Karen Ho
2022-05-1401 min
Real Is Not Real Enough10th of March 1941: The Imitation Game“One certainly can't learn cutting corners.”
2022-05-1404 min
Stardust MQEpisode 26: Dr. Helen WolfendenCameron and Helen have a long ambling chat about podcasts...on a podcast. It's a meta-podcast. They're breaking new ground!2022-04-1332 minReal Is Not Real EnoughComplete 1941 Hollywood Diary OmnibusListen to all the whole diary!
Remember to subscribe for Season 2 - Unpacking the Real - the Companion Podcast!
Brought to you by Chris Müller, Benjamin Nickl, Helen Wolfenden.
Performed by Edgar Eckert.
Sound design by Jacob Craig.
Visuals Eric Löbbecke.
Trailer narration by Veronica Faust.
Find out more: https://www.goethe.de/ins/au/en/kul/lok/gap.html 2021-12-0850 minReal Is Not Real Enough4th of April 1941: B“And who knows the world? You? Or them?”
2021-12-0803 minReal Is Not Real Enough26th of March 1941: New is not New Enough“The past is becoming all the rage.”
2021-12-0806 minReal Is Not Real Enough23rd of March 1941: Surviving Europe“How childish to believe that fake is fake.”
2021-12-0803 minReal Is Not Real Enough21st of March 1941: Schminkraum for Things“Sic transit gloria mundi.”
2021-12-0808 minReal Is Not Real Enough20th of March 1941: Sister Act“What poor, unfortunate items!”
2021-12-0803 minReal Is Not Real Enough17th of March 1941: Real Quality“The past must have seemed like a kingdom of make-believe.”
2021-12-0803 minReal Is Not Real Enough16th of March 1941: The Three Napoleons“In Hollywood, the Berezina snow will never melt.”
2021-12-0804 minReal Is Not Real Enough15th of March 1941: History Polish“with a patch of sewn-on snow.”
2021-12-0804 minReal Is Not Real Enough14th of March 1941: Cinema with L“It's like... like... Cheesecake!”
2021-12-0802 minReal Is Not Real Enough11th of March 1941: The Dusty Big Boys“It’s a question of prestige.”
2021-12-0802 minReal Is Not Real Enough7th of March 1941: The Boots“A strange kind of place – this Palace.”
2021-12-0804 minReal Is Not Real EnoughIntroducing: Real is not Real EnoughWelcome to Real is not Real Enough. Subscribe for an audio experience based on the remarkable Californian diary of Günther Anders, who was forced to flee Berlin in 1933, and finally arrived in Los Angeles, after many stops that he is hardly able to retrace. Join us as we spend 12 days exploring the Hollywood Costume Palace in 1941, and learn the truth about Hollywood and exile, as seen through his eyes.
Remember to subscribe!2021-11-3001 min
These Stories Are Not RealGod‘s Gift To Touch FootballYou are to division four mixed division inner city lunch time touch football what Federer is to tennis. You. Are. Beautiful.
This weird but fun (!) episode takes place on the touch football field. It's not easy staying down to earth when you're so divinely gifted.
Come back in two weeks for an episode about clouds!
Thanks as always to Helen Wolfenden and Nic Lelli (@nicsketches)for their help making the show.
Find the show on instagram (@thesestoriesarenotreal) or go to allmyeggs.substack.com for more stories from me!
2021-11-2317 min
These Stories Are Not RealRomeo and Juliet JulietBut soft, what blight through yonder breaks? This is the story of one very flawed Romeo and his battle with love, the limelight, and the passage of time.
Thanks as always to Dr Helen Wolfenden and @nicsketches for their help making this podcast what it is. We'll be back in a fortnight for God's Gift to Touch Football. Fun fun fun.
Find the show on instagram, and more stories at allmyeggs.substack.com.
2021-11-0917 min
These Stories Are Not RealMatty Kidman Waits Maybe ForeverThese Stories Are Not Real is back with this haunting semi-true story about what it was like to have job interviews, good grief.
Thanks as always to Dr Helen Wolfenden and @nicsketches for their help making this podcast what it is. We'll be back in a fortnight for Romeo and Juliet Juliet. That's not a typo. It's a teaser.
2021-10-2613 min
These Stories Are Not RealTake The Money'And there are three voices in your head. Yes. No. And me, who is of course really just you but, you know, semantics.'Take the Money is an at-times self-involved and convoluted Season Finale, featuring a bag of money and some very external internal conflict. Always listen to the 'Yes' voice, I reckon. It's the one with the fireworks. Thanks so much for listening to any episode of the show. Thanks as always to consulting producer Helen Wolfenden and resident artist Nic Lelli (@nicsketches on instagram)I...2021-01-0517 min
These Stories Are Not RealTake The Money'And there are three voices in your head. Yes. No. And me, who is of course really just you but, you know, semantics.'
Take the Money is an at-times self-involved and convoluted Season Finale, featuring a bag of money and some very external internal conflict. Always listen to the 'Yes' voice, I reckon. It's the one with the fireworks.
Thanks so much for listening to any episode of the show. Thanks as always to consulting producer Helen Wolfenden and resident artist Nic Lelli (@nicsketches on instagram)
I hope to speak to you s...2021-01-0517 min
These Stories Are Not RealDead Man Floating'It's the airlock, thought Daniel. It's always the airlock.'Sci-fi nerd Daniel Sky floats towards an inevitable and agonising death, and the Astronaut Adrift undergoes four strange stages of being en route to his final breath. But it's much funner than it sounds. There's even a Chewbacca sound effect.Only one episodes to go in season one of These Stories Are Not Real! Be sure to participate in the Listener Reward Scheme to win all kinds of prizes—details are on Instagram and the website. And lol have a happy ne...2020-12-2917 min
These Stories Are Not RealDead Man Floating'It's the airlock, thought Daniel. It's always the airlock.'
Sci-fi nerd Daniel Sky floats towards an inevitable and agonising death, and the Astronaut Adrift undergoes four strange stages of being en route to his final breath. But it's much funner than it sounds. There's even a Chewbacca sound effect.
Only one episodes to go in season one of These Stories Are Not Real! Be sure to participate in the Listener Reward Scheme to win all kinds of prizes—details are on Instagram and the website. And lol have a happy new year.
Tha...2020-12-2917 min
These Stories Are Not RealJ.Doe_MurderofK.C._Ass1_3pmtute'But a regular brush can't beat a wand. Nothing beats a wand! Except for maybe an easel. Fired at close range. But we'll get to that.'Herein lies an occasionally depraved but largely whimsical first-person account of the gruesome murder of Kevin Cassidy. There's a homicide, an artistic showdown, and rainbow electricity. We get what we get and we don't get upset. Thanks as always to consulting producer Dr Helen Wolfenden, and @Nicsketches for the artwork.---Get in c...2020-12-0819 min
These Stories Are Not RealJ.Doe_MurderofK.C._Ass1_3pmtute'But a regular brush can't beat a wand. Nothing beats a wand! Except for maybe an easel. Fired at close range. But we'll get to that.'
Herein lies an occasionally depraved but largely whimsical first-person account of the gruesome murder of Kevin Cassidy. There's a homicide, an artistic showdown, and rainbow electricity. We get what we get and we don't get upset.
Thanks as always to consulting producer Dr Helen Wolfenden, and @Nicsketches for the artwork.
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Get in contact with the show to enter the Prize Pool as part o...2020-12-0819 min
These Stories Are Not RealElephant in the Waterslide‘There are two things you need to know from the beginning. First, Billy Everest has never, ever said a word. And second, sometimes waterslides are as dangerous as they look.’Elephant in the Waterslide is the first ever episode of These Stories Are Not Real. Written in early 2018, re-written in early 2019, totally ignored for a full calendar year, and then hurriedly revisited in October, Elephant in the Waterslide is a story about danger, punks and brain magic.A version of this story will appear on FBi radio's ‘All the Best’ anthology.2020-12-0115 min
These Stories Are Not RealElephant in the Waterslide‘There are two things you need to know from the beginning. First, Billy Everest has never, ever said a word. And second, sometimes waterslides are as dangerous as they look.’
Elephant in the Waterslide is the first ever episode of These Stories Are Not Real. Written in early 2018, re-written in early 2019, totally ignored for a full calendar year, and then hurriedly revisited in October, Elephant in the Waterslide is a story about danger, punks and brain magic.
A version of this story will appear on FBi radio's ‘All the Best’ anthology.
Thanks as always to...2020-12-0115 min
Ultimate Youth Worker PodcastPodcast 014: Youth Work EthicsIn this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast 'Youth Work Ethics' Aaron speaks with Professor Howard Sercombe about his over two decade looking at and developing Youth Work Ethics documents. Howard Sercombe is a leading youth work academic and practitioner. He has been a pioneer internationally in thinking about professional ethics for youth workers, and was involved in drafting codes of ethics for youth workers across Australia and in Scotland, England, South Africa, Zambia and New Zealand. His book, Youth Work Ethics has been widely influential. He has also published widely on the sociology of youth, includ...2018-07-0429 min