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Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Meet: Nell KerndtEMT in Training #HUMANSdbp Click here to reply to @DBPardes "So do you think you'll go into the specialty of it pretty soon after you get your training and your certification? That's the goal. I think becoming a dive safety officer takes a little bit more time and experience, because usually you're working with, like, universities or, like, major organizations where you're, like, responsible for managing and organizing a group of divers."2025-07-1006 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Watching a caterpillar š transformYes, itās a crazy metaphor for life Click here to reply to @DBPardes "In the case of really being witness to what this egg becomes, you can actually take that leaf off and put it in a container that has a lot of moisture with a bunch of other leaves, leaves of the same kind, and you can watch that egg become a very small caterpillar. And then that caterpillar grows and grows over a week period, maybe 10 days maximum, and it's ready to change. And then when it changes, it hangs on this little thread an...2025-07-0704 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Is there a question that you love to answer when asked? Feel free to answer it here as well. :-)Click here to reply to @DBPardes "It's more like something that sort of sparks their personality or a part of them that they're really happy about. So I want to answer this also because there's a question I get a lot about why did I move to LA? I've been here now, gosh, I guess 15 years, and people ask me, why did you move to la? And isn't it crazy? They ask? They always followed up with, isn't it so much traffic? And blah, blah."2025-07-0701 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | In Memorium: Bill MoyersLink : https://s.swell.life/O1Upj4o0tvdEImB Click here to reply to @DBPardes "A great journalist died last week, Bill Moyers. And I wanted to just reflect on his life and what he meant to me growing up and what he meant to me as somebody who was so committed to media literacy. In fact, I'm going to share a link to an extraordinary media literacy website run by one of my mentors and heroes in media literacy, Renee Hobbs. But I wanted to specifically share this link because it's all about grandparents of media...2025-07-0104 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Scared hopeful scared hopeful š®š·š®š±šŗšøClick here to reply to @DBPardes "I am sitting in Baltimore right now waiting for my nephew and his wife to come with their kids, two little girls, my great nieces. And I've been up a lot thinking about the news of the war in Iran and the wars around the world and the funding of lots of terrorist groups around the world that have been a part of our reality ever since I can remember."2025-06-2204 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | If we all get washed by the rainTogetherā¦. Click here to reply to @DBPardes "I want you to hear something. Just listen. I'm standing outside and it's just in the middle of a big thunderstorm. But there's a break here in Baltimore, Maryland and you still hear the raindrops dancing on the leaves. But just a minute ago there was a huge clap of thunder which we never hear on the West Coast. It's just so beautiful. It makes me want to go outside and become my 3 year old self and jump in the puddles."2025-06-1903 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | RETURN IT!! getting rid of stuff that you bought that you donāt want anymoreIt feels better than you think Click here to reply to @DBPardes "We are always being manipulated by incredibly powerful ad campaigns and things that pop up on our phone. You need this. You just search for this. But you need this. You search for this, and we found it for you in 17 colors. And you go ahead and you get it, and then you're staring at it. You stare at stuff. If you stare at stuff too long, it starts looking like a monster. It's probably because it is."2025-06-1802 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | IRANIAN NUCLEAR THREAT IS DEEPLY COMPROMISED : global peace and understanding is the next phase in my imaginationClick here to reply to @DBPardes "And I have nothing brilliant to say right now other than this is where I journal my feelings, where I journal my perspectives. But I think there are certain news outlets that are really helping us see what's going on. Others are sensationalizing this and pointing fingers. But I know from the boots on the ground that I know about in Israel how important this mission is, and it has been fulfilled. There was no civilian casualties. There was just people in the military complexes that were building these bombs."2025-06-1302 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Micro adjustments in conversation, in lifeClick here to reply to @DBPardes "I imagine a bird does it too, when they're flying, like these little shifts in the wind. But to talk about it as a skill and as something we're aware of and something we could celebrate, I think is. Is particularly moving to me. And that conversation I had today really made me realize how much we do things in terms of accommodating, but not in a bad way."2025-06-1204 minEntertaining The Thought@DBPardes | NEWS / powerful letter signed against misinformation thatās causing more loss of lifeLink to Deadline article and letter : https://s.swell.life/O1Un5nyM5e8IWov Click here to reply to @DBPardes "We call on all our colleagues to reject this extremist rhetoric and the spread of misinformation so that we can all work towards a future in which all Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace and dignity. I want to make an observation here that this letter does not talk about the politics of the war itself. It does not say that, that we support the war, that the war will or will...2025-06-0306 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Hereās how we teach AI to be moral and kind and why it makes a differenceThe link : https://s.swell.life/O1Un4OKe4gtAL2c @EnviousMods Click here to reply to @DBPardes "Because we are collectively building our future together by feeding AI the information it needs to know about humanity and our goodness. I would love to hear any thoughts you have about this. Please hit reply in the episode notes. Your voice always helps me understand more deeply what I was putting out there and what I could possibly learn more."2025-06-0304 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Death, Love, and Lady BugsClick here to reply to @DBPardes "So there's a lot. There's a lot of gratitude for things that happen quickly in some ways. But this conversation, we're sort of talking about this profound cycle of life that we are always trying to navigate. In times when we're confronted with it, sometimes we don't have to talk about it because we don't think it's part of our everyday existence."2025-05-2804 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | WHY TALKING IS SO POWERFUL FOR OUR PSYCHESClick here to reply to @DBPardes "There's a level of I am breathing in air, I'm pushing out words, I'm smiling, I'm thinking as I talk, and it's a very alive state. When I write emails, I'm much more in my head. I'm not expressing as deeply in email because I'm thinking so hard about every single word, even though I have a tendency to flow pretty well."2025-05-2004 minEntertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Trumpās Health: Our illness - the war on drugs is not what you thinkLink : https://s.swell.life/O1UlBV8Qn7OXkzx Click here to reply to @DBPardes "To the contrary, the very institutions that can help save our lives and the lives of ones we love are not functioning very well. Specifically the fda, which really protects us from a daily mishap. Instances of E. Coli are arising in this country because the FDA is not able to look at all the reports coming in that they need to check out, particularly in this case, the safety of lettuce. Over 58."2025-05-1404 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | I read the news while the news reads mehttps://s.swell.life/O1UjtfuNnXnYrPM Click here to reply to @DBPardes "About how you know the news is reading you while you're reading the news, and what we can do about getting out of the cycle of biased news and getting into the conversation we can have with each other about what's important to us."2025-05-0103 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Yom Hashoah Holocaust Memorial DayLink to museum : https://s.swell.life/O1UjIYyZrv2beC5 Click here to reply to @DBPardes "So when I think about using the word Jews, I think about myself as a member of a people who were systematically murdered during a time when the world watched and did nothing until it was too late. But the link that I'm sharing to the Holocaust Museum of the US Has a database and I just type in the word pardes and 240 names come up with the last name of Pardes. That's my father's father's name. And I do it...2025-04-2404 minEntertaining The Thought@DBPardes | 9100 books moved by 300 People ā¤ļøā¤ļøLink : https://s.swell.life/O1UieXl4hcR8wvd Click here to reply to @DBPardes "So there's a small town in Michigan, and it's in the news because this bookstore wanted to move 9,100 books from one bookstore to the new bookstore. And 300 people created what they're calling a book brigade, where they wrapped around from the old store to the new store. They moved 9,100 books into the new shelves, the correct shelves, where they're going to be in the new store. This would have taken a moving company a much longer time."2025-04-1701 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Ode to Redwoods - tree bathing Spring 2025Link to Mendocino County: https://s.swell.life/O1UiUTTL5mfN72h Click here to reply to @DBPardes "It's called Trees by Joyce Kilmer. I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed upon the earth's sweet flowering breast. A tree that looks at God all day and lifts her leafy arms to pray. A tree that may in summer wear a nest of robins in her hair upon whose bosom snow has lain, who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me...2025-04-1604 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Swell + Authors and Publishers Convene in LA to talk about the state of writing in 2025 - Were you there?AWP : link https://s.swell.life/O1Uh3SJAQ6kuQup Click here to reply to @DBPardes "It was really interesting to sort of walk the aisles, also be tabling to connect to people about the power of book clubs online and also the ability for organizations to use conversation to really connect and engage a large group of people, a membership group. And we're really excited about the flow we had between publishers and agents who were looking to position their authors and authors themselves who are looking to have more intimate engagement with their readers."2025-03-3104 min
Entertaining The ThoughtGenerators of empathy : jewish writers convene at AWPhttps://yetzirahpoets.org/ Click here to reply to @DBPardes "People read our poems, our stories, our novels, our memoirs, and feel connected to characters, to people unlike themselves, outside of their experience, outside of their lives. And so I think leading with empathy is a great way to lean into those challenging conversations. Yeah. One of the goals of this very small conversation is that it continues and that more people add their voices and talk about their experience in the circle we just had."2025-03-2803 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Entertaining The Thought - How long can you stay open to an idea that is rubbing you the wrong way?Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And when you think, sometimes without the fear of being wrong, the things that come out of your mouth are extraordinary. So I wanted to posit this idea of entertaining the thought of things that you know might instinctively not be something you agree with or understand, but you're entertaining it. And the buoyancy of the word entertaining has a lot more play for me than other framing. So that's kind of my approach to especially."2025-03-1803 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Do we live in a culture of sharing?Iām musing on the possibilities of sharing as an exponential additive Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And it's just crazy because it's six families and lots of kids, and it's always back and forth. And it's not like a culture of sort of borrowing. It's more of a culture of sharing. And that distinction is pretty powerful. I had a conversation with a guy on another swellcast here called Altadena, which is about the people of Altadena and how they're dealing with the fires. And this gentleman is a designer, and he helps build homes."2025-03-1204 minEntertaining The Thought@DBPardes | For the best reasons : No one can speak for you but youLink to class : https://s.swell.life/O1Ue26bbvJZEOxO Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And that's, I think, why safe relationships build our confidence. When you sort of have a buddy system with someone and you say, you know what, I'm going to try to talk more. I'm going to try to express myself more. It could be a partner, it could be a sibling, it could be a parent, it could be a child, it could be anybody who you see frequently enough to say, you know what? Get me out of my head."2025-02-2704 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Honoring a moment of sorrowHe spoke truth and I share it | https://s.swell.life/O1UdSDyY84g8P7Z Click here to reply to @DBPardes "But I just want to mourn the confusion, mourn the hatred, mourn the death and hope we can really rise up in this moment and link arms and fight for what's right."2025-02-2107 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | **My New Childrenās Book** Outer Space BalloonLink : https://s.swell.life/O1UdHkfYN2oNZFh Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And a lot of times parents get stuck in the news and stuck in the day to day. And to be able to give a kid a book like this, I hope will be sort of a passport to an adventure and also to maybe the next chapter in their lives where they're going to kind of make outer space balloons in their living rooms or in their bedrooms and get creative and imagine themselves flying out into space and to discovering all...2025-02-1902 minAuthor Q&As@DBPardes | For Author Nannette Sandy | Writing about traumaClick here to reply to @DBPardes "And it colors probably the way she trusts other people and just always carries with her that sense of, why didn't I not believe me? They were my parents. Why did they not believe me? Can you talk a little bit about Kyla's experience being misunderstood? And I know there's probably many, many transformations she goes through in this book, but can you talk about that experience as an author? Because we all look. We look for a hook, right?"2025-02-1901 minAuthor Q&As@DBPardes | For Author Nannette Sandy | Novel vs ScreenplayClick here to reply to @DBPardes "Hey Nanette, it's Deborah. Thank you for being on Swell and for giving us some of your attention so we could talk to you about your debut novel, Bad Intentions. Pretty significant title. It caught me immediately and I'm going to link the link you provided for me so people could check out the description of your book and be able to buy it at Bookbaby. My first question is your writing trajectory because it mentions in your bio that you are a short screenplay writer."2025-02-1901 minAuthor Q&As@DBPardes | ERIN LOUIS | representing the misrepresentedClick here to reply to @DBPardes "Aaron, when you think about your advocacy work, I wanted to ask you about the role you play as a writer to help misrepresented people feel seen and feel advocated for, and maybe even giving them a platform that they don't feel like they have. But based on your exposure to all of that misrepresentation, you're inviting them to be a part of this world and talk with their own voice."2025-02-1201 minAuthor Q&As@DBPardes | ERIN LOUIS | fiction versus non-fictionClick here to reply to @DBPardes "I'm just wondering if you could talk about your relationship to fiction and nonfiction, both as a writer of your own work, because you have a ton of it, and also as a reader. Like, what do you love to do more?"2025-02-1201 minAuthor Q&As@DBPardes | ERIN LOUIS | Your start as a writerClick here to reply to @DBPardes "Like, what happened? Just drop us in there. So there's a context. For me, I always love to understand sort of transition points in a person's career, person's life that really helped them pivot. So I'm psyched about hearing your voice here. Thanks."2025-02-1200 min
Entertaining The ThoughtSFWC -how to plan a podcast#SFWC OK #Podcasting Click here to reply to @DBPardes "So, yeah, I do a lot of interviews. I also do solo podcast episodes. And what I will say is that having a mixture of the two can make it sustainable. But here's why interviews can be so helpful. You have probably heard over the course of your time here that being a good literary citizen is important. When you are interviewing someone else, you are lifting up their voice. And, you know, that can actually be a form of politics in a way."2025-02-0905 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | San Francisco writers conference ā the presenters!#Authors #Publishers #Writers #SFWritersConference Click here to reply to @DBPardes "So the San Francisco Writers Conference is happening right now and I'm here and I'm at an event where we're going to meet a lot of people who are presenting at this conference. The conference is focusing on writers and publishers and distributors and bookstores, all the people that love the idea of continuing this beautiful literary community. And it's a challenge. You need to have a lot of tenacity to be a writer. You need to a lot of focus to be able to know who...2025-02-0800 min
Entertaining The ThoughtMy conversation with Ruby Cooper!#SFWritersConference #theMoth Click here to reply to @DBPardes "Well, stories that I've turned into children's stories during COVID That's it. Well, I am so excited about you being here. I'm going to follow you, and I'm going to email this to you. Actually, I'm going to text this to you so you can reply to me when you're laying down in your hostel tonight. And I hope to hear your voice. This is so exciting for us to be a part of your world. Thank you so much."2025-02-0701 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | THE POWER OF YOUR NAME ( and correcting those who say it wrong )#Pride #Identity link: https://youtu.be/Gq6F3uMAKKY @mommyconfession Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And then it might be other things that are way more complicated, like your sexuality or your gender or the goals you have or who you want to be and do you want to have kids and do you want to get married? Step into the space for first with knowing your name and where it comes from and who you are and the roots it gives you, I'm really, really moved by the conversations I've been listening to from people...2025-02-0503 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Crush Boredom #LonelinessKills#Loneliness #Community Link: https://s.swell.life/O1UbD6tt7doaBke Click here to reply to @DBPardes "So it could be just a simple putting together of some APIs from other platforms and then making this Frankenstein fabulous interface that enables people to crush their boredom and boredom and be less lonely and really develop incredible communities. I do have a mission statement that I'm going to read to you right now if it's of interest to anybody. So I'm going to pull that up and then just put a pause here for a second. Okay? Here's...2025-01-2805 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | A Reverend asks for Mercy; A President SneersRev. Mariann Edgar Budde pleas for humility #Inauguration #Faith #MLK link to speech: https://youtu.be/31ylIPemGlE Click here to reply to @DBPardes "I'm going to show a link to both her entire speech and also a snapshot of what he said in response to her speech. I know this community on Swell is so full of reflection and faith. I've been here for five years, and I am so proud to be a member of this community. And I wanted to just share my sadness with everybody here because I wish that her words fell upon...2025-01-2204 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Praying for a cease fire and the fires to cease#Hope #War #Fires #LosAngeles #MiddleEast Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And then I hope we can quell all this heat metaphorically and literally, and that the fires will just smolder and new life can grow. And that's my wish, that's my hope, and I wanted to share it with everybody here today. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this or just your prayers. Thanks."2025-01-1601 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Is your expertise relevant in times of natural disaster? Hint: Yes!#Expertise #Volunteerism #Community Click here to reply to @DBPardes "It's more like if you have been in a natural disaster and had to show up, what parts of you were able to be helpful? What surprised you about your behavior if something were to happen now, do you think watching the disasters that have happened so far with the hurricanes in this country, the tornadoes, the fires, are you starting to build a profile of yourself that you think might match those environments when they happen?"2025-01-1504 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | #LAFire | One Story - Sochi & Levi#LAfire #Survivors #Volunteers #Hope Click here to reply to @DBPardes "It's very heartwarming to know that everyone was able to just get up the next day and lend a hand to us, be able to help us carry on through our lives. Because we still have work, we still have children, we still have a life that needs to proceed even though the devastation is still ongoing. And it just doesn't stop life. So it's really tough. But it's really great to know so many helping hands that we have here in our own hometown."2025-01-1304 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | #LAFire| clothing distribution ā how this works.#Volunteer #ShopQuirkLA #Resources #LAFireHelp as many people as possible Click here to reply to @DBPardes "My company is called Couture Zen and I do a lot of personal development and volunteer work. I volunteered with the City of Los Angeles for four years as a volunteer elected official for downtown LA Neighborhood Council. And I learned a lot about how bureaucracy works. And I was on my couch with my marketing manager, web designer, graphic designer, who is based in the Philippines, and we were coming up with our media strategy. We have a weekly meeting every...2025-01-1204 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | The Fires of Los Angeles : Winds of Disaster and the fear that it whips up#LAFires #NaturalDisasters #Community #PodcastRSS photo by Larry Hirshowitz Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And that mixes in with the wind and the heat and the strange barometer readings that keep everything sort of swirling around in this. In this soup of disaster. And we think about what this all means for the future, and everyone's saying it's going to get worse. And what disturbs me most right now is our leadership, the pointing of fingers, which is so childish. I just saw Elon Musk do a post berating Gavin Newsom on some decisions he had made...2025-01-0804 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | LIZ CHENEY : Her TAKE DOWN and the message it may send about STANDING UP#Leadership #Fearlessness #womeninpolitics #Democracy #PodcastRSS Click here to reply to @DBPardes "You have time to think about it and then you act. I'm bringing this up in light of what happened this week with Liz Cheney. She received the Presidential Citizens Medal for what she did on the January 6th committee, specifically. So in some ways, you could say she saw something and she said something, she did something."2025-01-0603 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | 2025 : WISHING FOR AN UPSIDE DOWN NEW YEAR š#NewYear #2025 #Perspective #PodcastRSS Click here to reply to @DBPardes "Remember in Dead Poets Society, a film that Robin Williams starred in as a teacher, and he asked his students to stand on a chair or a table to look down on the room to see it in a new way. They've only seen it in one way, sitting from the chair. How about popping up and looking at it from a different perspective? And what. That gives you a great metaphor, obviously."2024-12-3103 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | In Memoriam : President Jimmy Carter#Obituary #Inmemoriam #PodcastRSS #President #JimmyCarter https://s.swell.life/O1UYPBYLoxhNUtz Click here to reply to @DBPardes "But he had such a beautiful marriage, first of all. And to see a man in the context of love is, for me, like a baseline of understanding who he is, what his character is. 77 years of marriage to Rosalind, it's just extraordinary. And he has seen so much change. And I think a lot of it has been very painful, especially thinking about the Middle east and how he tried so hard to make that place a place of...2024-12-3002 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | FINISHED / NOT FINISHED | a conversation about the perpetual art project and itās lease on life#Creativity #Hobbies #Art #PodcastRSS Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And I'm doing a note to myself here publicly to see if this relates to any of your challenges around projects that are not necessarily necessarily to fix things or to build something that's useful, but rather projects that kind of engage our whole selves and that might be a perpetual relationship to a piece of art, or a project that just feels like it constantly shifts and changes for what it was to what it can be."2024-12-2703 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Get in the Sandbox and play with the sandā¦#creativity #art #justdoit #selfsabotage #podcastRSS Click here to reply to @DBPardes "But today is a day like that where I open up my home studio and I need to record something. And I found myself in a really happy place. Not in a place where I was judging what I couldn't do, but rather in a place where I could say, what can I play with next? What sounds gonna come up? What experiment can I do with music and sound and rhythm? And I realized I had it all wrong."2024-12-2303 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | When humility doesnāt serve you#Self-awareness #success #PodcastRSS Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And I'm really sensitive because lately I've been speaking to a lot of people about personal podcasting, and some of the first things they say have to do with their lack of confidence that doesn't actually make sense to the resume of their life. So I'm curious about it, and if you have any thoughts, please hit reply in the description and let me know what you're thinking when you hear a conversation about humility. Thanks so much."2024-12-1703 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Mental Health Twisted by Pain and Leading to Murder : an invitation to "Where The Light Gets In" community podcastLink : https://s.swell.life/O1UWZDpgVrk8a6U #PodcastRSS Click here to reply to @DBPardes "But this is a general invitation to anybody who is triggered by Luigi's story because it talks about an extraordinary life that twisted into a tragic ending and his physical pain, the screws in his back, his lack of care, these are all things that are so consuming of a person that in my mind I understand what might have happened."2024-12-1003 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | THIS PEPPER IS FROM WHERE? tracing the rainbow peppercorns of Trader Joeās#Food #Ecosystem #TraderJoeās #PodcastRSS Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And I don't know what makes this fantastic, but it basically combines Brazilian pink, Indian green, and Malaysian white, and also Indian black peppercorns. And that's a good thing, I guess. But it begs a question. Is it a good thing? How many trains, planes and automobiles were involved in making my peppercorn bottle? These are the things that I try to be conscious of."2024-12-0401 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Choose the Sky : perspectives from the ground#PodcastRSS #Meditation #Perspective #Universe Click here to reply to @DBPardes "It's that time of year again when people get sucked into what's loudest and what's brightest, which is usually controlled by the commercialization of holidays. And I've been thinking a lot about my control over what I pay attention to. And this weekend, a lot of us had time off because of Thanksgiving, and I went out to the desert. And there's something that's magnificent about the desert at all seasons, but particularly in the winter season, because the sky is so dramatic."2024-12-0202 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | The 6 MILLION DOLLAR Banana : When art eats youā¦#PodcastRSS #Food #Art #Wealth #Comedy Click here to reply to @DBPardes "It's created by an Italian artist named Maurizio Catalan. The art is actually a live banana, okay? It's taped on the wall. Duct tape, to be specific. And a lot of people wanted to own it, but Justin won the Sotheby's auction. And what he gets is a certificate saying that he bought this. And he gets a roll of duct tape and a manual explaining how he needs to install a new banana every couple days."2024-11-2202 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | CONVERSATION : Director James Kicklighter : THE AMERICAN QUESTION@taqfilm #Documentary #Politics #Hope #PodcastRSS LINK : https://s.swell.life/O1UUiAMAZjDSJux Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And specifically, what I mean by that is a lot of people think documentaries are not for them. This particular documentary, which is really speaking to the heart of a divided nation, I want everybody to see this film. It's going to provoke feelings and ideas. I personally strategically have not seen this film because I want to be like you."2024-11-2104 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Doing something for the sake of mystery - the Yes factor#Events #Community #Mystery #Networking #PodcastRSS Click here to reply to @DBPardes "I know some people that are going to be there are in an area that I'm interested in in terms of work, but it's a schlep and it's in the middle of my week and there's a lot of mystery around it. But that's exactly why I'm doing Episode today. I really wanted to talk out loud because I think one of the best things about personal podcasting is you could talk about anything and you could riff."2024-11-1803 min
Where The Light Gets In | A Swell Community Podcast@DBPardes | Society says we are invisible in midlife. What if we are actually more visible to the people who need to see us the most? Thoughts?Click here to reply to @DBPardes "Or if we watch someone in our life who is older than us, who can, by example, show us what we want to become and what we want to be and do in our lives. Really a great question. And I imagine a world that's way more open to this kind of flow back and forth."2024-11-1302 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | STAND UP COMEDY SET - sit down for this ā¦#Comedy #BehindTheJoke @BehindTheJoke @jgold777 @DanaWeddle #PodcastRSS LINK https://youtu.be/FJXuhTVUuqs Click here to reply to @DBPardes "When you put a set together and you stand up in front of people and the obvious vibe is you want to get a laugh. There's a lot at stake there. You're putting yourself out in front of people and you're just hoping you connect. And 12 years later, I did it again this weekend and it was an extraordinary experience, actually, because I wanted to see personal growth. I wanted to see that I still got the mojo and I...2024-11-1202 minBehind the Joke | A Swell Community Podcast@DBPardes | Feeling sad post election and still trying to be funny - what even is comedy this week?Click here to reply to @DBPardes "It's a response that so many people have brought to bear over the past, you know, hundred years of us kind of marking what culture does in times of stress and of debilitating depression. And we see people rising up with great acts of beauty. So I feel like comics really do that. We create moments that lift spirits. And when you lift a spirit and that spirit moves away from you and goes to the next moment, you don't know what spirits they're going to lift."2024-11-0802 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | VIOLENCE IN AMSTERDAM : What are we seeing ?#soccer #Violence #Jew #Israel #Palestine #War #PodcastRSS Click here to reply to @DBPardes "There was antisemitic speech, there was vandalism, there was violence. This has been going on, obviously, since people have been protesting about the war in Gaza. And it's really spread throughout Europe. It's spread throughout the United States. A lot of people are not on the same feeds I am, probably. So I've been seeing a lot of violence around the country, specifically on campuses."2024-11-0803 minWhere The Light Gets In | A Swell Community Podcast@DBPardes | Post election grief : WHERE THE LIGHT GETS IN : honoring the power of truth, time and perspectiveClick here to reply to @DBPardes "But the grief, a lot of us feel is real, and I'm feeling it. And I sat with friends last night just feeling our collective dismay that something is afoot that feels divisive and dark and sometimes too big to handle. So it's okay to be small and to feel small, but in that gestation period, remember the cocoon, remember the butterfly, and let's keep our heads up."2024-11-0604 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Do You eat that VEGEMITE Sandwich#vegemite #food #australia #menatwork #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "Okay. I wanted to ask you a question about Vegemite. I just need you to hear a little bit of the chew of my toast that has Vegemite on it. Normally, I wouldn't do a podcast about Vegemite or food unless I was talking to, like, the inventor of Vegemite, but it's a fascinating paste that people put on their bread, and it's. It's kind of famous. It was made famous by men at work in that crazy wonderful song called Business As Usual."2024-11-0402 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | An Homage to us on the eve of the election#Elections #Politics #Vote #PodcastRSS link : https://s.swell.life/O1UT6qSr79ENetr Click here to reply to @DBPardes "Like, what do we do in the face of true adversity, where a circumstance requires us to do an act that might go against someone we love? And voting is just that sometimes we don't agree with the person we love and we have to go the other direction. But more personal to me is this idea of keeping the conversation alive before, during, and after this election our ability to not be numbed by a particular feeling."2024-11-0404 minWhere The Light Gets In | A Swell Community Podcast@DBPardes | They say deep, abiding love is found in the midst of friendship. My story about a time when a friendship felt like home...Click here to reply to @DBPardes "It's such a beautiful sentiment to think about friendship as feeling like home with the idea that home is a place of safety, comfort, unconditional love, warmth. And even for people who might not have had a traditional experience of home like that, they can rebuild what home is by having friendships that are so beautiful. And I feel sort of rich right now thinking about the handful of people I have in my life that feel like home when I call them, when I spend time with them."2024-11-0101 min
Behind the Joke | A Swell Community Podcast@DBPardes | INTERVIEW: Dana + Julie : Hosts of Behind The JokeClick here to reply to @DBPardes "And I'm doing it today because I want to ask so many questions to Julie golden and Dana Weddle, who are the geniuses behind the joke, which is a community they're building of comedians so that we can get to know them more and understand the craft and kind of get behind their strategies and into their souls, and I don't know, know who they are. I never have taken comedians for granted."2024-10-3101 min
Behind the Joke | A Swell Community Podcast@DBPardes | HOLY GRAIL VEGAN DONUTS Hereās what Iām thinking about...Click here to reply to @DBPardes "That's something that I might have eaten. Wait, that's a little green. What's the pimple one? That's not a pimple. Deborah, you are ruining the donut. It's the pumpkin. But I'm gonna take a photo. We're gonna have several photos. Okay? Kombucha, squash, pumpkin spice, vanilla bean. Or if you're Deb, popped zit saffron, Snickadoodle. Snickadoodle. And then a Yuzu creamsicle, Yuzu strawberry. And I'm not."2024-10-3103 minWhere The Light Gets In | A Swell Community Podcast@DBPardes | The start of a new month can feel like a fresh beginning. Here is what I am doing to feel my best this month...Click here to reply to @DBPardes "Tomorrow is the start of a new month. And I love this prompt because it's reminding me that I can kind of switch things up a little bit. I can kind of throw out old clothes and maybe buy something new. Literally something on my body that feels fresh and alive and me more me. And shedding some stuff that's weighty and old and kind of reminding me of things that are so yesteryear. I think what I wear really helps me kind of get some mojo going."2024-10-3102 minWhere The Light Gets In | A Swell Community Podcast@DBPardes | How I give myself grace when I am having a bad day and think of myself as a positive person...Click here to reply to @DBPardes "So I think about how to be gentle with myself and say, okay, you're off balance. You know, go have some tea. Go do something that's outside of the place that is highlighting how you're not doing so great. Yeah, life's tough, so we got to be really gentle with ourselves when times are feeling yucky."2024-10-3102 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | THE GREAT EXPERIMENT#Elections #Politics #America #Hope #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "Some people call America the great experiment. And I love that it's a country that was born from the idea of independence from tyranny and an embrace of freedoms. And during this election cycle, I can't help but think about this phrase with regard to what's going on right now. Experimenting is a really great way of framing any idea. When you execute upon it right, sometimes it moves forward and you have to course correct. It's still the experiment, but you're figuring stuff out."2024-10-2802 minBehind the Joke | A Swell Community Podcast@DBPardes | My thoughts about Tony Hinchcliffe at the Trump rally...Click here to reply to @DBPardes "I'm gay, so I hear it against gay people. And I have a lot of lived experiences to know how this feels, to hear it when you're the people that are at the butt of the joke. And I think the climate in our world right now is not, no, just leave it on stage as a joke. I think we're at a time where there's no distinction between entertainment and news anymore. It's one thing, and that's why the Apprentice became president."2024-10-2803 minWhere The Light Gets In | A Swell Community Podcast@DBPardes | What if a holiday like Halloween is a trigger for you? How do you cope?Click here to reply to @DBPardes "I'm not personally triggered, but I just think it's really. It's really a lot. It's a lot to deal with. Anyway, I love celebration. I love holidays. I love all that stuff. But I don't know. I always want to know everyone's okay. So, anyway, thanks for. Thanks for being a part of this."2024-10-2302 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | The Soul Crushing Job Search - a spontaneous conversation#JobSearch #Career #Family @RLight #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "So I feel like I'm playing this game, and I'm really bad at the game. I'm changing words in my resume to reflect job descriptions. You should put a rider on that horse. Oh, you definitely need a rider on that horse. But, you know, life bumps into you all the time. Right. When you have a kid, it just, like, just. What just happened? You know, we dropped in and we."2024-10-2304 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | WHEN NATURE STOPS YOU ( in your tracks in a good way!)#Nature #Plants #Gardening #Wonder #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "Astrolokia gigantea, the brazilian Dutchman's pipe, or giant pelican flower, is an ornamental plant native to Brazil, Costa Rica and Panama. Typical of subtropical bahia and Minas gerais vegetation, it is a vigorous evergreen climber with cordant heart shaped leaves and spectacular, fragrant flowers. So they weren't flowered open yet. They were still closed as pods. But they really freaked me out. I guess it's because they looked so human. They looked like both female and male genitalia, in my opinion."2024-10-2101 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Is half this country actually mean?#Politics #Trump #Elections #Hope #podcastrss LINK: https://s.swell.life/O1URPFsul4vjjzi Click here to reply to @DBPardes "Is this a sign that half the people I live with in this country are mean people like the guys and girls I might have met at recess when I was a kid who, just because they didn't know better, they just went with some kind of animal instinct to just be mean and push the kid down or poke at the kidde or make fun of the kid or call the kid a name that's mean, and...2024-10-1703 minBehind the Joke | A Swell Community Podcast@DBPardes | Closet chaos ā as a female comic, are there unique mental hurdles you face when choosing what to wear on stage?Click here to reply to @DBPardes "I'm dying to answer this question because I have been on stage for the better half of my life, whether it's as an emcee or doing comedy or mostly doing music. But the last few years, I pepper my life with going on stage, but it's not a regular thing. And I bring that up because I think when you're really jamming and doing it a lot, you've got, like, uniforms that you just throw on and, you know, they work."2024-10-1602 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | The Bread conundrum: The oldest food, the ongoing debateā¦#Food #Diet #Bread #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And I think there's a voice in my head that's saying, bread is bad because it causes a spike in your carb intake, and then there's a problem with it converting to sugar and all that stuff happens. But the pleasure of it reminds me of this battle we have around what do we reward ourselves with? What do we eat? What don't we eat? A and I just am curious about your relationship to bread. Do you bake it? Do you buy it?"2024-10-1502 minWhere The Light Gets In | A Swell Community Podcast@DBPardes | I finally quit a bad habit - this is how I did itClick here to reply to @DBPardes "This prompt about quitting bad habits reminded me of something that just happened. A good person in my life said, you know, Deb, you use the word horrible a lot. Like, all the time. It's your go to word. This is horrible. That's horrible. Usually when something is horrible, I use the word horrible, but there's a lot of other words I could use to express something, and I just don't."2024-10-1102 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | KING COAL : a documentary thatās beautiful and provocative#Economy #Coal #Energy link to film https://s.swell.life/O1UQjblxsKxfOzT #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "Elaine McMillan Sheldon created a film that is like one long poem. It's beautiful. And you don't expect that about a film about the coal industry and what it's about. And it really hopes. It has hope because it exists as a film to show that the very nature of the resolve for this one filmmaker to break out of the sort of the dream and into the reality is very brave. Coal is not good for the...2024-10-0902 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Hey thereā¦ what are you thinking?#Dogs #Humans #Mystery #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "Is it rude? Is it assumptive that what they're thinking belongs to me, that I'm allowed to hear it? And I'm just wondering, as I put this out here, if I asked you, what are you thinking? Would you feel, like put upon, or would you feel like I'm caring? Or would you feel like I'm a little too pushy? I know it's contextual. I know it's also based on the relationship you have with the person."2024-10-0802 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | 5784 / 2024 Whatās possible for this new year?#RoshHashanah #NewYear #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "You think about who you loved and how they loved you, and love in terms of all kinds of relationships. So I wanted to bring Ruthie's ideas forward in this swell to talk about the importance of friends and relationships in general around these times when people get very hard headed about what they think they believe."2024-10-0204 min
The Play By Play@DBPardes | Joey Chestnut beats Takeru Kobayashi and his own World Record after eating 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Does competitive eating make sense to you?Click here to reply to @DBPardes "I think, you know, we have a disproportionate amount of people that have eating problems. And I take it very seriously because sick people are a weight on society, literally and figuratively. They take up a lot of our resources, health resources, and they're not as productive at work. And I'm not talking about any kind of legitimate large sized people as being a minority to be protected."2024-09-0502 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | An encounter with an animal that left a deep impression on me...#sdp24May28 #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "I know that sometimes when you see something so foreign, like an elephant, that is not anything to do with my life here in Los Angeles, you just look at it like a picture. But I felt very moved by something very primal in me that felt like I wanted to know where they were going, I wanted to know their story. I wanted to know what they were thinking."2024-05-2801 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | A reflection on today. A reflection on October 7th. A reflection on the history of hate and the Juxtaposition of love.#Israel #Peace #Antisemitism #Misinformation #Love #History #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "Actually, the two of them flew to visit my other two sisters in Israel, and they're all there now. And of course, having family in Israel who move there for a very specific reason, gives me a very specific perspective on the need for Israel to exist and its right to exist. So as I speak into this space, this is my perspective coming out forward, not being obfuscated by anything that's trying to play both sides."2024-05-2304 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | From Adventure to Trauma to Relief to A Story fit for a Swell#Travel #Venture #JoshuaTree #podcastrss #backcountry @shalomsuz Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And it was getting darker and darker. And then we had another mishap where we were pulled out. And then the trouble really began when we took a wrong turn and we were no longer on the road. That wasn't even a road. We were on a road that was, like, in the middle of nowhere. And we had basically had to go six more miles on the 14 miles road. We were in the car a total of 6 hours."2024-04-0104 min
#LAStory@DBPardes | #LAStory | A story from the streets of Los Angeles...Click here to reply to @DBPardes "But it's become one of my favorite hikes. I don't know what to call it, but I know how to get to it. And I talk about this story as a car story because when you think about road trips, sometimes we think about them as like, pack the car and get away for five days and get ready to do this big thing across the country or up the coast."2024-03-2003 min
#LAStory@DBPardes | #LAStory | My crazy celebrity story...Click here to reply to @DBPardes "I have met a lot of celebrities in LA, but I'm gonna choose this story because it's the most embarrassing. And I figure if I'll do this and maybe some of you will feel okay about telling embarrassing stories in general because they're always really good stories. This isn't that fantastical or amazing, but I was so embarrassed. I just moved here 2009 and was meeting a friend for sous she in Santa Monica. Right on."2024-03-0701 min
#LAStory@DBPardes | #LAStory | A culinary adventure in Los Angeles...Click here to reply to @DBPardes "But what I experienced for the first time was a depth of flavor that invited the spice to come in later. But in the beginning of your bite, you're just getting a lot of other flavors that I don't think I ever tasted before. And I just was kind of in a squealing space. Like, I was so happy. And as I looked around the restaurant, I just noticed so many korean families there, which always."2024-03-0702 min
#LAStory@DBPardes | #SwellSessionsLA What have you done in LA that felt weird or risky and turned out to be fabulous?Click here to reply to @DBPardes "So I keep on playing ukulele to this day, and every once in a while I take out one of those tunes I learned that day with those weird and wonderful people."2024-02-0202 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Truly Me - feeding people!#SwellDailyPrompt #sdp17Jan24 #ugcprompt #TellYourStory #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "I just saw this prompt about something that is truly us in our lives, that really defines who we are. And I just love being true to this part of me, and it's feeding people. I have always loved where food lives inside my life and how it brings to me connection, health, joy, valuable time with valuable people. It was such an easy one when I saw this prompt. I was like, yeah, what's truly me that I really love?"2024-01-1701 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | A trip I took with my pet that I will never forget...#PetStory #spbpetst2 @gaurav1106 @taylor #TellYourStory #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And I leaned into the dog mentality, because every time I spent time with Finnegan out in the world, I was always moved by the way she would stop and sniff and smell, but always with curiosity, not with fear. And I wanted to take that energy on. And being with her on this trip was absolutely incredibly instrumental for me because it was instructional for me. I consciously decided to lean into her gestalt, the way she was, her dogness."2024-01-1503 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | The most adventurous trip in the winter that almost made me never hike a mountain again!#TellYourStory #SwellPrompt #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And then the wind started whipping and we put up our tents and they were no good. And I'm a New York City girl, and I was like, what is this? This is so not what I can do. And there was a point where I was like, okay, maybe I'm not built for this cold. Am I going to die? And the rest of the group was about nine of us."2023-12-2804 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | #TellYourStory | A Memorable encounter with someone I never met again#church #kindness #thanksgiving #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "But it was the most incredible experience to be held by a woman who just felt the need as a maternal human to hold this little person. I wasn't so little, but you know what I mean. And it's a beautiful memory of exchange of energy and of goodness and kind this. And it really, really set me on a good path. Bye."2023-11-0903 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | #Masterclass | How to tell a Great Story in five minutes#TellYourStory | The Helicopter #SwellSessionsLA Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And if nothing else, I hope this inspires you and sparks you to kind of create a structure through which you can tell a great story here. And of course, this Swell is open. So if you have any ideas or any questions, please leave them here. So I'm going to reply and just take you into these three areas and give you some examples. And then hopefully it'll help you. So I'm really excited about the Tellyourstory hashtag tag series on Swell."2023-10-3101 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | #TalkTo a guy who lives in two citiesHey coach! @HeyCoach Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And I think it sounds kind of maybe sexy and interesting and just exciting, but there's probably darker sides and more difficult sides to it. But I want to hear both. So I thought I'd pull in Michael Ehrenberg, who goes by Heycoach here on Swell, and ask him what it's like to live in two different cities and the tips and tricks he might have for anybody who's thinking about doing that. So here we go."2023-09-1800 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | PASSION FRUITā¦ Iām giving it some love#gardening #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "I just love the little seeds and the flavor and it's really fragrant. It's also really high in some important things. It's got vitamin C for sure, which is great for you. What else can I find out about passion fruit? Hold on. I'm looking at the benefits, the health benefits. It's good for wow. Only 17 calories. 9% of your daily value of vitamin C. That's amazing. It's got things for people who deal with what is this saying?"2023-08-2403 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | "DONāT BE SHY!" said the tree to me and I say it to you. Proclaim yourself š„#trees #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "But I do think that sometimes, especially when we're feeling a little I don't know, not beaten down, but a little pressured to sort of fall to the weight of life because it's right there weighing on us. But to sneak around that weight and to pop out like a bubble I'm kind of into that right now."2023-07-2602 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | YOU LIGHT ME UP! And other things we sayā¦#AskSwell #weekend #community #thingswesay #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "It's Friday, and I wanted to just reflect a little bit on this week. I had some really great conversations with a lot of different kinds of people, and I had an experience that I wanted to share just to see if it resonates with any of you just as a reflection. Also yesterday I came home and there was a huge box on my porch, and it was a fire pit that I ordered. It was like 120 pounds. I don't know how things guy delivered...2023-07-1503 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | DO YOU REALIZE THE POSITIVE IMPACT YOU MAKE?#AskSwell ā¦ a folk tale ā¦ #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And the woman just turned and looked back at the path and pointed and said to the old bucket, hey, look at look at all those flowers on one side of the road, the side that you're on. Thank you so much for watering those beautiful flowers. Look what you did. I love this story because it really helps illuminate what we all know is true, which is that other people see our gifts way before we do sometimes, and we just need some perspective."2023-06-2802 minEntertaining The Thought@DBPardes | HOW DO YOU MEASURE YOUR INTELLIGENCE #AskSwell?https://s.swell.life/STiIPJI3HO6Bqvq #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "But I don't want to continue on. I want to ask you, how do you measure your intelligence? And I'm going to link an article that triggered this question for me, just about a test that people take that frequently they get wrong, they approach it wrong, and it measures some kind of aspect of your IQ. But I'm not going to put any more into this because I don't want to beg the question. I want to hear your thoughts."2023-06-2602 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | #AskALocal | Los Angeles : playground for my soulCome and take it sloooooooow #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And that's why I live mid city, because I could take advantage of just popping down half an hour and my kayak's waiting for me, and I pop out onto the beautiful sea. And I also could pop downtown and see a show or go over to the Valley and see Friends or go into Hollywood and just get into some trouble."2023-05-2302 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | #GiveATalk | How to Meditate With a Metal Rooster#GiveATalk #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "If other thoughts come in, I push them away, and I just focus on the rooster. I get into that rooster really well. I imagine all angles of the rooster. I fly over it, I go under it. I imagine big, I imagine small. I'm just breathing into that. And I do this for as much time as I have to do it. It might be three minutes, it might be ten minutes."2023-02-2804 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | Why I Love Womenā¦A reminder to Myself#audiojournal #love #podcastrss Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And I've never done this in a sort of verbal, like, sort of exemporaneous way. So I'm doing it here now. It's an experiment to play with the language of why someone would love somebody else. Particularly for me, I wanted to share why I love women and why I've loved women my whole life since I was very, very young. And being gay, for me has been such an amazing journey of self discovery but also of discovering others."2023-01-2504 min
Entertaining The Thought@DBPardes | A Swell Travel Diary : Australia š±š±Here we go! #SwellTravelDiary #TravelPhoto #TravelPhotoWeek Click here to reply to @DBPardes "I've never been here before and I'm going to snap some photos and share them here and share thoughts and do what I normally would do in a diary but I'm going to do it here with my voice so I'll probably keep it as a closed conversation so I can keep it as my voice thread and then at some point I probably will open it when it done but I just wanted to include you in this experience so I hope you enjoy...2022-11-0300 min