501 episodes

A podcast about how we become who we are. Almost anything can seem normal. Are you sure you really want to know?

Ignorance Was Bliss Kate Wallinga

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.4 • 18 Ratings

A podcast about how we become who we are. Almost anything can seem normal. Are you sure you really want to know?

    498 -- Uncompromising -- a personal message and a conversation with Leela Sinha

    498 -- Uncompromising -- a personal message and a conversation with Leela Sinha

    This is a two-part episode: (1) a hard and raw update of the state of my life right now, and (2) a conversation with Leela Sinha, who persistently believes there are ways to make the world a better place event when I'm whimpering in a corner.

    Guest: Leela Sinha, https://intensivesinstitute.com/

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    Art: Laura Eccott
    Music: Jake Pierle -- https://jakepierle.bandcamp.com/

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    Ignorance Was Bliss online: https://linktr.ee/iwbpodcast

    Sponsor: Bath By Bex (code CBDkate for 25% off)
    Sponsor: Komuso Design (code bliss15 for 15% off)

    • 1 hr 34 min
    Update

    Update

    Health, and the lack thereof, have not been kind to the podcast.

    • 1 min
    497 -- Putting Together the Puzzle -- with Gary Edgington

    497 -- Putting Together the Puzzle -- with Gary Edgington

    When you have a lifetime's worth of experience in the criminal justice and military, you've accumulated some stories. Some are never to be told, due to privacy or intensity or just the inability to speak the words. Others are shifted into fiction, to give space to say what you need to say without quite as many roadblocks...

    Guest: Gary Edgington, https://garyedgingtonauthor.com/

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    Promo: OctoberPod Christmas Ghost Story (drops 25 December 2023)
    Disclaimer: Alicia
    Music: Jake Pierle -- https://jakepierle.bandcamp.com/

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    Ignorance Was Bliss online: https://linktr.ee/iwbpodcast

    Sponsor: Bath By Bex (code CBDkate for 25% off)
    Sponsor: Komuso Design (code bliss15 for 15% off)
    Sponsor: Horrific Hope Film Festival 2024 (code bliss24 for 15% off submission)

    • 1 hr 3 min
    496 -- Connection and Hibernation

    496 -- Connection and Hibernation

    Just an update on where I've been and expressing my fervent hopes that I'll be able to return to some version of normal within the foreseeable future...

    • 4 min
    495 -- Context and Connections -- with Barbara Ann Mojica

    495 -- Context and Connections -- with Barbara Ann Mojica

    Lots of us went through school thinking of history as just a series of facts to memorize for the test... but it actually matters on a greater scale, and kids are fully able to understand that.

    Guest: Barbara Ann Mojica
    Books: Amazon page

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    Promo: Madison on the Air
    Disclaimer: Kennedy Phillips
    Music: Jake Pierle -- https://jakepierle.bandcamp.com/

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    Ignorance Was Bliss online: https://linktr.ee/iwbpodcast

    Sponsor: Bath By Bex (code CBDkate for 25% off)
    Sponsor: Komuso Design (code bliss15 for 15% off)
    Sponsor: Horrific Hope Film Festival 2024 (code bliss24 for 15% off submission)

    • 54 min
    494 -- Producer -- with Reena Friedman Watts

    494 -- Producer -- with Reena Friedman Watts

    Being a producer -- one who creates, brings about, makes available -- could mean any number of things, even within the slice of life called podcasting and pop culture.

    Guest: Reena Friedman Watts, Better Call Daddy podcast

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    Promo: Blood Rose Island (novel) by Amy Koto
    Disclaimer: Bex, Tu Tía Bruja
    Art: Kim Erwin
    Music: Jake Pierle -- https://jakepierle.bandcamp.com/

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    Ignorance Was Bliss online: https://linktr.ee/iwbpodcast

    Sponsor: Bath By Bex (code CBDkate for 25% off)
    Sponsor: Komuso Design (code bliss15 for 15% off)
    Sponsor: Horrific Hope Film Festival 2024 (code bliss24 for 15% off submission)

    • 1 hr 10 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
18 Ratings

18 Ratings

bandsaw man ,

This is real

I listen to dozens of podcasts on a number of different subjects and this one is amongst the most “real” in terms of getting to explore the deeper parts of ourselves, even the parts we don’t want to visit or acknowledge even exist. If listeners are looking for light and fluffy background noise, this isn’t the podcast for that. This one will make you think and reflect. Glad I found it.

daisy-loo ,

Authenticity!

In a world of plastic feelings and false positivity and toxic self improvement there’s the antidote mrs Kate.. she is honest , authentic truthful and compassionate , being so candid she opens doors where others fear to.. she explores lives , sagas and stories unlike you have ever heard..

agent nipps ,

thank you

thank you so so so much for doing this. I’ve been waiting a life time to hear these words. The clarity, empathy, understanding, intelligence, and insight that this is providing me at this time means everything. My gratitude to you goes beyond words. I am deeply moved and altered forever by listening in on what this podcast has to say.

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