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What if the qualities that make us successful can also make us smaller? American culture teaches us to move quickly. Decide confidently. Control outcomes. Measures results. These qualities are rewarded in the institutions we create. Over time, they shape the people we become. But we carry those...

Brimming “with the ebullient Bhagwati’s fierce humanism, seething humor, and change-maker righteousness,” (Shelf Awareness) a raw, unflinching memoir by a former US Marine Captain chronicling her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to radical activist fighting for historic policy...

A visionary expat learning and growing through personal adventure and critically thinking and analyzing life and all its experiences and adventures.

Unbecoming is a podcast about what I let go.I speak through the moments when my patterns fall away,when I stop holding what never belonged to me.Each episode is simple and direct.I name what happened.I name what changed.I stay with the truth as it is, without shaping it, softening it, or performing it.This podcast comes from my origin, from clarity,from presence,from what I no longer pretend.Unbecoming is the ongoing movement of coming back to myself.

Two dudes who have never actually met one another start a podcast together. John lives in the NYC area & Colin is in Iowa. From different worlds, they search for the Meaning of Life.

A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren’t attractive, well-spoken, demure, or sinless enough to receive their rightful place in history, until now, from New York Times bestselling author Therese Oneill. Slut. Shrew. Sinful. Scold. The...

This podcast analyzes the crimes committed by US military personnel - the very people who swore to protect the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, only to become the sort of monsters we fear.

How does a kid raised by atheists end up in a convent? In her forties, Celia McBride abandoned her worldly life to follow a “sense of call” and explore the idea of becoming a Catholic nun. There was only one problem: she wasn’t Catholic. Discerning the call to become something she wasn’t turned into the greatest spiritual challenge of her life, as she was forced to confront her deepest values and beliefs and make a humble decision.

An honest reckoning with the war on terror, masculinity, and the violence of American hegemony abroad, at home, and on the psyche, from a veteran whose convictions came undone When Lyle Jeremy Rubin first arrived at Marine Officer Candidates School, he was convinced that the “war on terror”...