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Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastThe Darkness of YouthSometimes events in the public eye are so personally gripping that you mull them and turn them over and over, attemptingto make sense of them. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-06-0409 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastWhen Should You RetireIf your work brings you joy, why should you ever quit doing it? All the people I spoke to in this piece are enjoying what they do, as do I. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-05-0714 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastOn the BeachJust because you take a mindless vacay, doesn’t mean your brain isn’t processing the lassitude around you and coming up with theories about virtually everything. Or is that just me? Let’s go to Mexico and find out. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-05-0210 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastHow They Met - Part 6I would love to hear a story about a significant meeting in your life. Message me for the deets! Standing by for more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-04-0909 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastMy First Time in AuschwitzThere are lots of scary things in the world right now, which I won’t bother enumerating because you all know what they are. One new bogeyman, whose head has recently crested my horizon, is all too familiar. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-04-0205 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastOne Universal Truth to Save Your SanityIt is probably universally true that almost everyone on the planet can honestly say, Today I received a text from a friend. Those lucky billions! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-03-2608 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastLive, on StageWherever you are in your life, it’s within one of three acts. Each one different, with its own joys and challenges and sometimes the balance just isn’t quite fair. that’s something you learn in the second act: life isn’t fair. Who told you it would be? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-03-2308 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastHumanity Can't be DoomedIt may well be that creativity is the one secret weapon we have against the onslaught of idiocy, and the incursions of AI into every aspect of life. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-03-2104 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastNorth of 60 at Minus 40This is my love letter to the North, including endless sunshine and warm chocolate chip cookies. You should go, especially this year of Canadian staycations. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-03-2109 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastA Case of YouCanada geese refusing to fly south for the winter. #ResistanceisrealFriends from overseas are asking me to explain “elbows up”, to discuss how Canadians feel about being threatened by the great orange virus, and what we’re doing to safeguard our independence. Much ink has been spilled on all the manifestations of a newly revitalized Canadian pride so here are just a few items that caught my attention.Driving through the BC interior this past weekend we passed a large delivery truck painted with a slogan I have not seen before. It read: 2025-03-1909 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastA Case of YouI’ve been thinking a lot about Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Stan Rogers and all those other fantastic Canadians who sing so passionately about this country. From skating on the river to fishing off the Grand Banks, from driving a hammer in the bright blazing sun to waxing lyrical about hockey, there’s an embarrassment of riches in our musical love affair with this country.I wish I was a DJ and I could play on! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonu...2025-03-1809 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastGrammar Queens UniteThose of us who insist on grammatical rectitude and faint at the sight of a flying apostrophe aren’t always popular, but at least we have each other! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-03-1803 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastYoga PosesIf there was ever a time to have strong community around you, this is it. When we have people who have our backs, we can muster the strength to do what must be done, to endure what must be endured, to fight back if necessary.This is the audio version of an older post. I hope you like it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-03-1408 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastHow They Met - Part 5As you know by now, this is a much-loved sub-series which brings together interesting people, talking about other interesting people who have inspired, impacted or joined their lives.I definitely want to hear yours!This one comes from Toronto by way of Calgary, as we do. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-03-1207 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastHow They Met - Part 1This is the first in what I hope will be a long series, collecting the stories people tell about significant first meetings in their lives.Two of the three are NOT what you may immediately think of. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-03-1011 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastI Was WrongAs International Women’s Day rolls around again I can’t help but think that announcing an International Men’s Day would be laughed out of the room. Do we really have to revisit gender equality over and over?Apparently, yes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-03-0803 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastHow They Met -- Part 5I can’t help myself; I must know how things got started. And I must hear it directly from you. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-03-0507 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastIn Praise of Happy EndingsWhat are friends for if not to explain the finer points of a gentleman’s massage? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2702 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastPlease Allow Me to Introduce Myself This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2703 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastFor Your Ease and Comfort: All the Audio in One Place, or Three. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2709 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastHow They Met - Part 4We’ve all had those significant encounters with strangers, some go on to become lovers, some friends, some colleagues, and some make a mark on our lives and move on. Whatever your story is, we’d love to hear it. Message me and we’ll talk. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2711 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastWhere Have All the Moderates Gone?We are drowning in an epidemic of shittiness, on which I’ve written before. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2214 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastThe Orgasmic KitchenI was peeling roasted beets this morning, as per a recipe in the delightful cookbook, Nothing Fancy, by Alison Roman. Wearing surgical gloves to prevent my hands from looking like a murderer’s, I began to slip the roasted skins off the beets and what came to mind was how very evocative! Something like the feeling of slipping off stockings. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2207 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastThere Oughta Be a Name for ThatAmusing, frustrating and challenging my friends, I have always had a burning need to find or apply terms for things. All kinds of things like a term for the moment after catharsis. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2216 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastPress hard; you're making 18 copiesIn some countries and cultures a death in the family is met with a full year of official mourning: black clothing, a dearth of celebration of birthdays, national and religious holidays, frequent visits to the gravesite and an obsessive devotion to the memory of the deceased. Candles are lit, flowers are replaced, graveside debris is swept away.Here in North America, it’s about 20 minutes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2212 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastCall Me When It's OverApologies off the top to all those incredible, funny, insightful, bold, irreverent writers whose political commentaries I have followed for the past year plus. I have to mute you for a while, and I feel tremendously bad about it, but my mental health makes it imperative. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2208 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastDeath of a FighterThere’s a moment of weightless limbo when you move from one state to another, liquid to gaseous, for example.Or from independent adult to fatherless child. That moment came for me last Wednesday at 11:35 a.m. when my father died. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2211 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastAccepting Our LimitationsChances are good you recently tried to lift something, or jump off a rock wall, or go back to a sport you used to love. Please tell me you didn’t strap on the hockey pads after marinating them in the garage for a decade… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2218 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastFlight 719The man sitting next to me is a tightly wound bundle of energy, or ADD, hard to tell. He is in his 60s, lean and wiry like a crazed marathoner, and does everything quickly and with gusto. He stuffs a laptop and a book, Michael Lewis’ Premonition, into the seatback pocket and pulls out a large plastic bag which contains, as it turns out, multiple sandwiches and some blue cheese (for which he apologizes later. We agree boiled eggs would have resulted in a seat change request.) This is a public episode. If you'd like to di...2025-02-2208 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastCan Illiterates Read Minds?My Friday morning yoga instructor announced today she was leaving and I became ridiculously sad and emotional even though I don’t know her all that well. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2207 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastTake Your Flag...Road work flag people fill me with impotent rage, simply by default. Occasionally one will warm my cold, cold heart and I will acknowledge them, regally, with a small, wrist-based wave.Why is this? Why this disproportionate anger toward strangers just out there doing the job? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2211 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastUnbearable weight, invisible scarsWhen I travelled to El Salvador some years ago I was immediately struck by the glaring disparity of how people lived. Corrugated roof shacks surrounded by brick walls and topped with razor wire because, no matter how little you have, there’s someone wanting to take it from you. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2210 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastA Time For UsShivering outside the hockey arena in the nighttime cold, the girls stamp their feet on the hard packed, icy snow, smoking Number 7s. They wear short bomber jackets that do little to cut the cold, and huddle together after the Junior B hockey game. Most of the players don’t smoke but you can immediately tell, on those breakaways, which ones do.High school. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2209 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastThe Best MedicineMy father, whom I have written about previously, had a catastrophic motor vehicle accident three weeks ago and remains in an uncertain state in hospital.This piece is not about that sad story. It’s a strangely happy story that is related. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2205 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastShape shiftersYou might remember when Adele first burst onto the music scene and how people were wowed. She was painfully young, a fabulous singer and lyricist, and she was chubby. When she lost weight and revealed her svelte self, the world went even more crazy. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2207 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastIRL Ghost Stories.It’s baffling when a person you consider a close friend ghosts you or becomes an enemy overnight and never explains. You expect it would hurt but the confusion and anger get you over that quickly when you realize that anyone who doesn’t have the courage to explain is likely not someone you can trust anyway. Good to know, right? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2210 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastEverything to Live ForRecently, two young men whose lives are within the circle of my adult children, took their own lives within a couple weeks of each other. In both cases the same description applies: they had everything to live for, careers, friends, family, children. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2214 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastMansoberI caught an interesting piece from CBC news recently, which described a new-ish trend amongst young women (and men) who have chosen to remain celibate and, in many cases, forgo dating and that whole hot mess of online match-ups. It’s called “boysober” which I thought was pretty darned clever so I’ve adapted it to suit what I hear from my own demographic. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2220 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastPersuasion Lessons from PrisonFor the better part of a decade, I taught an executive development course in Persuasion, with the inimitable David McPhillips. We searched the world for the latest research into the art and science that makes up the body of knowledge of how people make decisions, and what triggers us to say yes.And yet…. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2104 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastSmells Like ChildhoodWhen I was a kid, growing up in a small mountain town in the West Kootenays of BC, summer Sundays meant gardening and washing the concrete sidewalks. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2104 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastAddicted to the DataPeter Drucker noted that what gets measured, gets managed. Other iterations evolved to suggest what gets measured gets done.My take is that what gets measured becomes addictive and compulsive. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2105 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastStickinessInside my head there is a ball of Velcro. Every time I encounter someone, have a conversation, teach a course or facilitate a workshop, some of what I encounter sticks to the ball. There’s no rational criteria to what sticks: sometimes it’s something I know will come in handy for the next session, sometimes it’s just freaky and fun and sometimes it has depth and potential that bears examination. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscr2025-02-2105 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastStart Talking to StrangersDid your social graces suffer a massive setback during the pandemic? Are you only now finding your way back to navigating dinner parties, networking events and conversations involving more than one person at a time?It’s not a trivial trend because, as we lost our opportunities to socialize, we also lost our comfort in communing with strangers and that’s bad for them and for us. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2105 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastThe Dad You Never KnewWhen we’re children we believe our parents came into the world just as we first encountered them and, even as adults, while we can know lots about our parents, we can never know them the way we know the contemporaries we grew up with because we simply were not there. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2103 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastIllegitimus non carborundumI’m so pleased to introduce my guest substacker, Roxanne Stasysyzn, who agreed to share her mixed thoughts and emotions on the death of yet another community newspaper. This isn’t just about one slim bundle of adverts in a suburban neighbourhood; it’s the demise of an institution that, among other things, stitched together a fractious north. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2106 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastAI is ListeningI had a scheduled Zoom meeting today, and so fired up the old Zoom room in anticipation of my client joining. In the meantime, I went into the kitchen, just down the hall, to make a quick coffee. My sweetheart came up from his office/man cave and we chatted about a radio interview he had been asked to do, one that was fraught with potential pitfalls. As part of my work is media training, and I spent a dozen years as a radio and television journalist, he was seeking my advice on how heavily he could safely tread...2025-02-2105 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastWe Cannot Just Be FriendsThere’s nothing wrong with saying “we were friends” or “we used to be friends” or even “we will become friends” because each of them reflect the passive, or active, nature of those relationships. “We are friends”, however, simply cannot be. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2107 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastFor the Love of All Things EdibleI baked a beautiful cheesecake today, the traditional New York dense kind, not my recently acquired favourite, the fluffy Basque cheesecake. (Fabulous flavour but keeps wanting to separate, GROAN.) I even smashed up chocolate wafers to make a chocolate crumb crust as the Christie cookie company has discontinued its bags of crumpled up Oreos. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2109 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastRediscovering HistoryI had a vaguely alarming experience recently when two colleagues, reminiscing about our shared media past, related an incident that involved all three of us. It was one of those media events where various TV and radio personalities take part in risky, ill-advised and potentially fatal activities, such as riding race-horses and flying upside down in open airplanes. This particular event was a wind-surfing foray (it would be silly to call it a race) around English Bay. The point was to surf out to the markers, turn the corner, surf back and run up the beach to the finish...2025-02-2104 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastI Haven't Interviewed in YearsMust be something in the water. I thought that by now the dust would have settled from the Great Attrition, the Great Resignation, the Great Lateral Promotion…but nope. This week saw half a dozen conversations and coaching sessions with people looking for tips on how to navigate employment or promotional interviews because they haven’t interviewed in years! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2104 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastHow They Met, part 330 years ago Darryl was a PhD candidate in Australia, moonlighting as a nightclub bouncer. One night the boss announced he had hired a female bouncer, given the number of unruly drunk women his crew had to contend with. He assured the boyos she could look after herself. Name was Martha. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2113 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastChasing Ghosts in the FogI received the phone call the other day, the same one you probably get every couple of months/years/weeks. The one that asks, did you spend $4500 on a Turkish carpet at Carpetmania, many miles from where you live? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2128 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastIt's Not Me; it's U(niverse)What the hell is wrong with everyone? We’re surrounded by incivility, incompetence masquerading as caution, and a complete lack of ambition. It’s a pandemic of shittiness which has taken hold of the world and until we figure out what’s causing or contributing to it, we can’t take any steps to turn back the tide of awful offal. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2106 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastKnocked OutHow do you feel about blackouts? About losing time and memory? About general anaesthetic? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2106 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastAin't No Hood Like MamahoodYou can never “look back” on motherhood because, once you become a mother, you remain one forever so the looking is equal parts remembering, experiencing and anticipating. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2103 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastBuild Your Own Blue ZoneYou know when you’re flying into Palm Springs, for example, and every other yard has a pool? Think of that as mini Blue Zones all over the world. That’s the dream. For those unfamiliar with the concept, Blue Zones are places in the world where people live inordinately healthy and long lives. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2101 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastPlease allow me to introduce myselfHello and thank you for being here! If you subscribed to my enewsletter I have taken the liberty of migrating you to this Substack instead. Of course you can always opt out, unsubscribe, leave a flaming bag of dogshit at my front door. I promise to not take it personally, at least I’ll try. So happy to have you here! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2103 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastHow They Met - Part 2YES I want to hear about how you met your partner, best friend, first baby, dog or cat, or any other significant OMG it’s YOU kind of story, please and thank you!This week’s offering starts off with Sue’s account of how a truly fabulous beginning turns to shit in the longer run. It was, however, a movie-worthy start:After a long, boring summer job and before heading to graduate school I needed a week off. So I gathered up my aunt and best granny (who was in serious need of some R & R) a...2024-12-1113 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastDeath of a FighterThere’s a moment of weightless limbo when you move from one state to another, liquid to gaseous, for example. Or from independent adult to fatherless child. That moment came for me last Wednesday at 11:35 a.m. when my father died. You might be taking exception to my framing his death as my loss, my experience, but how else to understand the event except through my eyes, brain and heart? Even a recounting of the facts of his life are framed through the lens of how we understood them, how we heard about them in the first pl...2024-12-0411 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastChasing Ghosts in the FogI received the phone call the other day, the same one you probably get every couple of months/years/weeks. The one that asks, did you spend $4500 on a Turkish carpet at Carpetmania, many miles from where you live?Speaking with Cherise, the helpful credit-card rep, I realized it had been a few years since one of my cards was scammed (only paying subscribers receive my PIN number), and that time it was by someone who had purchased a MacBook Pro online and arranged to pick it up at a mall not too far from me. The...2024-11-1328 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastFlight 719The man sitting next to me is a tightly wound bundle of energy, or ADD, hard to tell. He is in his 60s, lean and wiry like a crazed marathoner, and does everything quickly and with gusto. He stuffs a laptop and a book, Michael Lewis’ Premonition into the seatback pocket and pulls out a large plastic bag which contains, as it turns out, multiple sandwiches and some blue cheese (for which he apologizes later. We agree boiled eggs would have resulted in a seat change request.)Reading on my phone, I sneak glances at hi...2024-11-0608 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastCan Illiterates Read Minds?My Friday morning yoga instructor announced today she was leaving and I became ridiculously sad and emotional even though I don’t know her all that well. I attend most of her sessions and have done for a couple years; we chat often, mostly ritual how-are-you’s but occasionally more personal. I don’t know much about her outside of the studio. I know she has a UK accent, pronounces something and anything as if they ended with the letter k, and is always smiling and welcoming. I know she struggles with being so far from family.As I l...2024-10-3007 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastUNSOLICITEDThose of us with grandchildren already know how precious time spent with them is, and how much we miss when we are apart for long stretches. Sometimes it’s illness that keeps us apart, sometimes it’s distance and travel but oftentimes it’s because, well, they just don’t want you over because your grandparent comments and behaviour make them crazy.New parents are already stressed out by the realities of bringing a baby home and being ultimately responsible for this little human, so they have thin skin when it comes to advice, observations, and suggestions. And, bec...2024-10-0200 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastFor the Love of All Things EdibleI baked a beautiful cheesecake today, the traditional New York dense kind, not my recently acquired favourite, the fluffy Basque cheesecake. (Fabulous flavour but keeps wanting to separate, GROAN.) I even smashed up chocolate wafers to make a chocolate crumb crust as the Christie cookie company has discontinued its bags of crumpled up Oreos.As I worked on it, swirling the melted chocolate into the cheesecake batter before popping it into the oven, in my mind were all the nears and dears who would be eating it in short order. I imagined presenting it to them in...2024-09-0409 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastEverything to Live ForDuring my time in junior high school, a boy in the senior grades committed suicide in the family home. This wasn’t a boy who was in trouble, skipped school and so on. He was an A student, a little quiet but popular and friendly. The overall conversation, after the initial shock, was stunned disbelief that someone with “everything to live for” could commit suicide.Recently, two young men whose lives are within the circle of my adult children, took their own lives within a couple weeks of each other. In both cases the same description applies: they h...2024-08-1414 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastMansoberI caught an interesting piece from CBC news recently, which described a new-ish trend amongst young women (and men) who have chosen to remain celibate and, in many cases, forgo dating and that whole hot mess of online match-ups. It’s called “boysober” which I thought was pretty darned clever so I’ve adapted it to suit what I hear from my own demographic, i.e. not 20s and 30s anymore. It’s more than simply celibacy; it’s about taking time away from the relationship struggle to focus on yourself and what, rather than who, makes you happy.Increas...2024-08-0720 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastPersuasion Lessons from PrisonFor the better part of a decade, I taught an executive development course in Persuasion, with the inimitable David McPhillips. We searched the world for the latest research into the art and science that makes up the body of knowledge of how people make decisions, and what triggers us to say yes.And yet….And yet knowing how it works doesn’t always prevent us from being worked! To wit this encounter outside the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts on Front Street in Toronto.A reasonably presentable, albeit casually dressed for downtown Toront...2024-07-3104 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastSmells Like ChildhoodWhen I was a kid, growing up in a small mountain town in the West Kootenays of BC, summer Sundays meant gardening and washing the concrete sidewalks. My dad was proud of the steps and sidewalks because they were the product of the combined efforts of the neighbourhood’s men, who used a hand mixer and countless wheelbarrows and spades to fill, smooth and edge the layouts. Like barn-raisings of old, this is the way things were done back then.We kids did a bit in the garden, mostly turning the soil to find the new potatoes, bu...2024-07-2404 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastAddicted to the DataPeter Drucker noted that what gets measured, gets managed. Other iterations evolved to suggest what gets measured gets done.My take is that what gets measured becomes addictive and compulsive.I received a FitBit many years ago, as a gift from a good friend, and used it slavishly for months until it stopped holding a charge. I never did replace it. I remember one summer when I was relaxing on the sundeck with my daughter. She would, every once in a while, leap from her chair and pound the 85 feet of deck from end to...2024-07-1705 min
Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load PodcastStart Talking to Strangers!Did your social graces suffer a massive setback during the pandemic? Are you only now finding your way back to navigating dinner parties, networking events and conversations involving more than one person at a time?It’s not a trivial trend because, as we lost our opportunities to socialize, we also lost our comfort in communing with strangers and that’s bad for them and for us.To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber. You DO NOT have to pay to subscribe but hey, I won’t say no....2024-06-2605 min
MauLr on RadioMauLr on Radio #653 by MauLrMauLr on Radio
Tracklist #653
Mixed by DJ MauLr
Twocolors x Ásdís - Gravity
Thomas Newson, Flachbau - Home
Meduza x Eli & Fur - Pegasus (Mark's Special)
Dante Klein – Flute Mimosa
Matisse & Sadko ft. Michel Zitron - Afterglow
Deniz Koyu & MAKJ - Feel Your Love
Maur & Evokings & Joanna Cooke - No More
Suark - Stare At The Silence
Jaison Silva & BRØWNS - Coming Home
Alex Hosking - Just For Tonight (feat. Franklin)
Riggi & Piros - Keep Rockin
Hardwell & VINNE - Balança
HAVOQ...2023-02-151h 00
The Joanna Rays selectionJoanna Rays Selection vol. 125 mixed by Greg EssiansTRACKLISTING
1. John Modena feat Vanessa Mandito - wanna touch u - club mix En
2. EDX - Roadkill (EDX's Ibiza Sunrise Remix)
3. 3LAU and Nom De Strip feat. Estelle - The Night (Original Mix)
4. Anton Wick & Joanna Rays - the one (original mix)
5. APEK feat. Linney - Voices (Original Mix)
6. Fedde Le Grand - Rhythm Of The Night (Original Mix)
7. Dj Antoine feat Akon - Holiday (Giuseppe D. vs. Silver Bluff Remix)
8. Joanna Rays - Close to me (original edit)
9. Lenny Fontana - Feel It (Original Mix)
10. Stephan Bodzin - Essential2016-08-221h 00The Joanna Rays selectionJoanna Rays Selection vol. 107 mixed by A-DryTracklisting
1- Kygo - Firestone
2- Sam Feldt - Show Me Love
3- Robin Schulz Feat. Ilsey - Headlights
4- Robin Schulz Feat. Francesco Yates - Sugar
5- Robin Schulz Feat. Francesco Yates - Sugar (Hugel Remix)
6- Yann Garett & Marc Canova - Sunshine
7- Tony Flanger & Franklin D Felice - Santa Espina 2k15
8- DJ Assad Feat. Luyanna & Jessy Matador - Venga Venga
9- Fedo Mora & Filippin - The Sun's Out
10- Alexdoparis & Elias Rojas - Putillas
11- Joanna Rays - The Moment (Alexdoparis Remix)
12...2015-09-071h 00
Claudia Re - Sonic Cloud RadioSonic Cloud Radio 020Sonic Cloud Radio Episode 20 by Claudia Re
Tracklist:
1. Nari & Milani - Patriots (Montano & Pizzitola Bootleg)2. Riggi & Piros – Taboo3. Sidney Samson feat. Alvita – Make the Club Go Like4. Bassjackers - Crackin (Martin Garrix Edit)5. Mike Hawkins – Soldiers6. Daniel Chord - Indian Hurricane7. Leink - Hadouken (Merzo Remix)
Top 3 Tracks:8. (#1) Martin Garrix - Animals (Oliver Heldens Remix)9. (#2) Mercer - Turn it up (Tchami Remix)10. (#3) René Amesz – Dextro
11. Jeremy Olander – Bandersnatc...2014-01-231h 02