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Small World is a new podcast from The Useless Project and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that shares great conversations between well-known Irish voices and individuals from refugee backgrounds living in Ireland. Open, honest and entertaining stories that show that refugees are just normal people. This podcast aims to promote empathy, understanding, and solidarity with refugees in Ireland while highlighting the nation's welcoming spirit and rallying support ahead of the Global Refugee Forum 2023. Show your support for refugees by signing the global petition - https://unh.cr/654b65380

Small World is the podcast where you are the topic of discussion. Join hosts Austin Newborn, Chris Long, James Flowers, and Nathaniel Pearson as we interview different guests to learn about their lives, experiences, and insights. Small World exists to show that we are not so different from one another and that we all have something to learn from one another. Everyone's story is important to us. After all, it is a small world. This podcast is a Small World Media Production.

In HumanKind, you'll meet the mentor who changed a child's life with a single lesson in shoe tying that has had a ripple effect on thousands of lives, the six-year-old whose idea launched a global kindness movement, the band of seamstress grandmas who mend clothes for homeless people, and many other heroes. Brad also provides dozens of ways you can make a difference through the simplest words and deeds, showing how each of us has the power to change someone's world as well as our own.

A Small World is a conversational podcast exploring alternative ways of thinking about life, the universe, and everything in between. Through open discussion, curiosity, and questioning accepted narratives, we explore beliefs, conspiracy theories, the power of the mind, the paranormal and the ideas that sit just outside the mainstream - not to convince, but to consider. It’s a space for people who enjoy thinking differently, asking bigger questions, and acknowledging that the world may be smaller, stranger, and more connected than we’re often led to believe.

Have you have ever wanted to just pack your bags, store your possessions and take off for unknown lands? We have and we want to share that with you. We bring you ‘Small Worlds.’ A podcast dedicated to exploring this small globe of ours, the people we meet along the way and the stories they have. From temporary to long term travelers, backpackers, glampackers and locals alike, we explore interesting characters and learn about their journeys.We hope to entertain you with tales from the road, educate you with information about the places we go, and hopefully inspire you to take a risk, chase ...

In Miniature takes a big look at small things. It is a celebration of the obsessive, eccentric and meticulous and welcomes us into the world of collectors, modellers and fans. Simon Garfield is a master of finding delight and fascination in unlikely places, and here we discover flea circuses, 1,000 tiny Hitlers, miniature crime scenes, model villages and railways, minuscule food and a dozen more intricately examined pursuits. Each object considered plots the course of a new miniature byway and in unexpected ways lets us see our world in a whole new light.... 

This is Carroll College's student podcast. Big Sky, Small World is produced by Carroll College students and sponsored by the Carroll College Communication Center. Segments include interviews with Carroll students, faculty, staff, alumni, and sometimes future Saints! Segment hosts discuss business, music, sports, popular culture, current events, and more!Theme music is written and performed by Carroll College alum and Admissions legend Alex Coulter -- an original ditty written especially for the BSSW podcast! Alex is also a music artist. Big Sky, Small World is sponsored by the Carroll College ...

Our Small World is a podcast hosted by Konata Small and Amanda ”Butta P” Small. Known for their musical contribution to hip-hop, entrepreneurship, and more. Join them as they share some honest and fun conversations about their journey on family, faith, music, and everything else they share together.

Welcome to the Big World Made Small Adventure Travel Podcast, where we go far beyond the beaches, resort hotels, and cruises to explore the really cool places, people, and activities that adventurous travelers crave. If your idea of a great vacation is sitting on a beach at an all-inclusive resort, you’re in the wrong place. However, if you’re like me, and a beach resort vacation sounds like torture, stick around. You’ve found your tribe.My name is Jason Elkins, and as an adventure travel marketing consultant and tour operator myself, I am on a mission to impact the lives of adventure ...

Small Conversations for a Better World Podcast with hosts Gillian McCormick and Susannah Steers brings you interviews with experts, thought-leaders and influencers to answer the question "what is health?" More than the absence of disease, health is influenced by our connections and communities and a whole host of factors not always easily understood. Listen in to gain new insights into how to be healthy individuals, families and communities.

Sometimes, the smallest ideas spark the biggest changes. Tiny Revolutions is a podcast about the humble inventions, unnoticed habits, and small flashes of creativity that quietly transformed the way we live — from the paperclip to the emoji, from the safety pin to the coffee filter.Each episode reveals the story behind a seemingly simple idea: who created it, how it spread, and why it changed the world in ways no one expected. Blending history, creativity, and everyday life, this series celebrates the inventors, thinkers, and even accidents that made our daily world what it is today.

It all started when Jan Louch, assistant librarian at the Douglas County Public Library in Carson Valley, Nevada, and a coworker acquired two Scottish fold cats to keep mice away from the town's new library. Jan called the cats Baker and Taylor because the names fit the felines' mild temperaments - and because she dealt with the book distribution company on a daily basis.

In the fall of 1973, the Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, husband of President John F. Kennedy's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and arguably the richest man in the world, proposed to build an oil refinery on the New Hampshire coast, in the town of Durham. But three women vehemently opposed the project. Small Town, Big Oil is the story of how the residents of Durham, led by three women, out-organized, out-witted, and out-maneuvered the governor, media, and Onassis cartel to hand the powerful Greek billionaire the most humiliating defeat of his business career.

A new movement is afoot that promises to save the world by applying the magic of the market to the challenges of social change. Its supporters argue that using business principles to solve global problems is far more effective than more traditional approaches. What could be wrong with that? Almost everything, argues former Ford Foundation director Michael Edwards. In this hard-hitting, controversial exposé, he marshals a wealth of evidence to reveal that in reality, a market approach hurts more than it helps.

We are truly ecological beings, informed by and informing so much. By sitting in circle with each other, we can start to explore our lived experiences, ideas, beliefs, and biases through this ecological gaze. And, we can practice being in relationship with the social field, the often invisible but tangible field that arises when we sit in circle together. To be in ecological enquiry is to become intimate with ourselves and each other as ecological. generativeworlding.substack.com