Category: Podcast Episodes

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“No more plate-spinning.”

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Shannon continues this week with her “Benefits of Recovery, Part Two.” She’s so much healthier than she used to be!

Also, we have a livestream concert event THIS SATURDAY! Get details and set yourself a reminder here: https://youtu.be/sKqOGhi_ODI

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“Shannon’s recovery origin story.”

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We talk a lot on here about our recovery … but we realized that not necessarily everyone who listens to the podcast has heard the stories of how we each came to be in recovery! So we’re going to spend some episodes talking about that. First up: Shannon.

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“I’ve been driving around in a dirty car.”

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Jamie did some pretty intense personal inventory and journaling work a couple weeks ago, as a means of addressing some stuff he was working through. We thought we’d spend this episode talking about that, in hopes that it might be of some help to someone.

If you need someone to talk with about sobriety-related issues, you can message Jamie — jamie at misfitstars dot com.

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“Literally phoning it in.”

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We’re on a little break this week! We should be back next week. In the meantime, if you aren’t fully caught up on our ongoing and evolving series on the harmful and toxic effects of America’s culture of individualism, start with the June 9 episode and listen forward from there.

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“I’m not an individual; I’m an American.”

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We’re still talking about individualism; this week through the lens of a couple of related pieces we noticed in the wild.

Links:

Heather Richardson’s piece (subscribe to her newsletter!): https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-27-2021

That Bloomberg article from May: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-24/it-s-not-just-up-to-you-to-solve-climate-change

Michael Harriot’s very excellent history lesson on the Founding Fathers’ unanimous support of vaccine mandates: https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1432060194276659203

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“How do you change the wiring in your brain?”

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Apropos of a piece in Timothy Snyder’s newsletter this week, we continue our discussion on individualism — the angle this week being the intersections between individualism and racism, and how each idea has been used in service of the other over centuries to further the interests of the wealthy. 

Here’s the link to the Snyder piece, which you absolutely should read: https://snyder.substack.com/p/racial-climate

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“To be loving as well as loved.”

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Our adventure with deconstructing toxic individualism continues apace! This week we’re looking at it from the angle of “fitting in” — and what that idea implies for our understanding of and relationship to our Self.

We’re playing perhaps our only show of this year this weekend! Come join us. Tickets here: clatsopunitedway.org/shipwrecked-music-festival/