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The Version of You that Serves You Best – Episode 271

In this episode, Dara is reckoning with the allocation of care, the management of power, and the role of ego in personal agency. When life gets too out of control, what choice do we have but to yield? And does yielding result in a self we don’t care for? Is that cowardice, complicity, or merely compliance? Why do we have such a strong impulse to want to impose our will on events that are so beyond our control?

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Stop Laughing at Me, I’m a Very Important Person! – Episode 209

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In this episode, Dara is concerned about egos getting out of control, and he has two specific case studies in mind – one playing out presently in the Middle East, and one that played out a long time ago on a little Japanese island.

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Stirring the Masculinity Pot and Countering Dubious Male Voices – Episode 89

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In this episode, Dara is all stirred up as a result of the theatre production he is currently working on. The subject of the work is masculinity and the nurturing and shaping of boys into men. Dara admits that the process of examining this subject closely is leaving him exhausted but also inspired and full of almost uncontrollable thought processes and emotional impulses around what masculinity means to him

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The Hateful Power of Hipsters, or Today’s Letter is ‘H’! – Episode 72

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In this tonally-light episode, Dara weaves a thread through 4 apparently unconnected words to create (what he hopes is) meaningful content. As they like to say on Sesame Street, “today’s letter is ‘H’. What begins with ‘H’?”

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What the hell are we listening to? The pilot episode! – Episode 01

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As previously mentioned, I have been prepping a podcast off-shoot for The ClearOut, and I am delighted to present the pilot episode here for your listening pleasure. The podcast continues in the vein of the material I have presented here since 2013, but it is going to be a bit looser, a bit more informal,

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Positivity is a muscle – the more you use it, and the more you use it in a variety of ways, the more effective it gets. Do you ever think about the muscles you use? If you don’t, that could mean several things. It could mean you’re very young, and it hasn’t even occurred to

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The Version of You that Serves You Best – Episode 271

Stop Laughing at Me, I’m a Very Important Person! – Episode 209

Stirring the Masculinity Pot and Countering Dubious Male Voices – Episode 89

The Hateful Power of Hipsters, or Today’s Letter is ‘H’! – Episode 72

What the hell are we listening to? The pilot episode! – Episode 01

Flex it, baby!

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