🧪Podcast Potion | Talking donkeys, feral women, are jobs necessary, creativity > anxiety, fear of the "other", the cycle of contempt, & exercise
Week of January 20th
Hello there! What’s happening where you are?
I’m about to round up my kiddos and head out for a bike ride! We love our little village and consider it such a treat that we can get almost anywhere we need to go by bike!
This was a such an insightful week of podcast episodes! I feel so enlightened and I’m just amazed at how smart and wise people can be.
Enjoy these conversations- I’m sure you’ll find one to pique your curiosity!
Monday// Have you heard of Theocrats?
Up First From NPR | Theocrats on the Doorstep of Power | Jan 12 2025 | 29 min
“Creation in 6 days, a gigantic floating zoo with giraffes sticking their heads out of the windows, burning bushes, talking donkeys, dragons, and unicorns, resurrection from the dead, yea, we believe all of it. We are not embarrassed by any of it.”
-Toby Sumpter, Pastor at Christ Church, Moscow, ID and Host of Crosspolitic Show
Tuesday//Be a feral woman
Death, Sex, & Money with Anna Sale | ‘Babygirl’ Director Wants Women Not To Suppress Their Beast | Jan 21 2025 | 1 hr
“Women seem to think, oh I have to be this creature, this flawless Mary Poppins kind of person that nourishes, and that puts herself in the shoes of others, that pleases, instead of just being whoever we are, which is sometimes a feral, crazy person.”
-Halina Reijn
Wednesday//A job revolution!
The Unpublished Podcast | We Don’t Want Jobs | Jan 21 2025 | 59 min
“There’s the possibility of a future world where we don’t grip so hard on 100% employment anymore. When we realize that we don’t need people to be working as much as we are working or at all and that there are other ways to spend our time that bring huge value to communities and society, but people just don’t know what that is. They think that the only way we can provide is through employment.”
-Amie McNee
Thursday// Creativity is the key to less anxiety
The Mel Robbins Podcast | How To Find Your Purpose & Design the Life You Want | Jan 22 2025 | 1 hr 35 min
“Suffering is your ally. It will tell you everything you need, if you let it speak.”
-Martha Beck
Friday// Relating to those we disagree with
The One You Feed | The Power of Dignity and Building an Inclusive World with Tim Shriver | January 24 2025 | 1 hr 4 min
“We are living in a culture that normalizes treating other people with contempt when you disagree with them. […] We create this vicious cycle of incentives to be more and more contemptuous.”
-Tim Shriver
Saturday//The “other” people
For The Wild | Earthly Reads: adrienne maree brown on Loving Corrections | Jan 24 2025 | 36 min
So my liberation is then tied up with those who I would identify as other… we all have to get free together. We all have to get as many of us to tip the scale away from causing that harm as possible because it’s the water we’re swimming in.”
-adrienne maree brown
Sunday//What we can learn from hunter-gatherers
Feel Better, Live More with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee | How To Build Lasting Strength: What Hunter-Gatherers Can Teach Us About Movement, Exercise, & Healthy Ageing with Professor Daniel Lieberman | Jan 21 2025 | 2 hr 21 min
“Weight is not health. By tying everything to everything to weight people forget what the other benefits and the important reasons of being physically active are or discount certain activites because it’s all viewed through this weight, weight, weight, weight…”
-Daniel Lieberman
Thank you for joining me on this Sunday! I always interested to know which one you will listen to first!
With joy,
Charissa
PS: I’ll be back tomorrow, Monday, with another favorite audio rec!