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Let's Talk About It: Whatever "It" Is Olejuru & Paula
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- Gesellschaft und Kultur
Welcome to "Let’s Talk About It", where we talk about the “its” that no one wants to talk about. Have you ever been in a situation where you have a certain set of thoughts, feelings, or questions but you think you are the only one? That can be an isolating place to be. But oh what joy when someone comes along and says something that shows they are in a similar headspace. Suddenly, you feel a little less lonely. Join hosts Paula and Olejuru as they hold space for these kinds of conversations.
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Let's Talk About It: Courageous Conversations with Yourself
Welcome to the last episode of the 2021! In this series so far, we have talked plenty about having courageous conversations with others. But what about having a courageous conversation with ourselves? As a new year approaches and we begin to reflect on the year that has passed, we find ourselves crafting new New Year resolutions and making changes in order to become the “best version of ourselves". What we may forget to ask is "do we know what version of ourselves we working on to begin...
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Let's Talk About It: Frameworks for Courageous Conversations W/ Lance Dixon
Welcome to episode two of this series: Frameworks for Courageous Conversations. We are joined by Lance Dixon - Equity Diversity Justice and Inclusion Consultant for the Calgary Catholic School District, a descendant of African American refugees who fled Jim Crow and settled in Africville, a descendant of Irish immigrants, a lover of storytelling, an educator, and so much more. Lance has spent years in equity education, teaching about and fostering courageous conversations. And thi...
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Let's Talk About It: Courageous Conversations
Welcome to our last series of the year! With the holiday season approaching and time with family and friends increases, we often have to navigate away from numerous conflict causing topics—politics, relationship status, lifestyle choices, and now healthcare, COVID-19 vaccines, and so much more. What if, rather than avoiding particular topics and pretending the undercurrent tensions in the room don't exist, we learned how to have healthy conversations about them? For the rest...
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Let's Talk About It: Are You Happy?—#Blessed.
Welcome to the last episode of our series: Are You Happy? If you been following closely, you will know that this series has been focused on trying to answer the question Are You Happy, and in trying to answer that question, we (and our guests) have tried to first define what happiness is. Today, as we lead up to our final attempt to answer the question "Are you happy?" we first start wondering what it means to be #blessed. Are we truly happy, or are trying to be happy because we appear #...
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Let's Talk About It: Are You Happy? — Happiness in Transition w/ Alex Akade
Welcome to the sixth episode of season two and the third episode of our Are You Happy? Series. For this podcast, we are joined by Alex Akade, a long time friend of both of us. Alex is currently a Computer Science major, lover of stock market trading, chess, and a good thought provoking conversation. This is why we had him on to speak with us about happiness in in the midst of transition. So far, in this series, we have spent plenty of time talking about how we define happiness, but...
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Let's Talk About It: Are You Happy?—Exploring the Happiness Definition w/ Jesam and Nini
Welcome Episode 2 of our Are You Happy series! First, we are joined by sisters Jesam and Nini Onun, who provide their unique perspectives in efforts to help us help us answer the question "as adults, have we overcomplicated the concept of happiness, or as kids was the concept of happiness oversimplified to us". Secondly, with Jesam, we explore questions around how social and cultural determinants can impact peoples' definitions of happiness. Do we have the ability to de...