Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and Culture

GuruNischan
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A podcast exploring the real-life stories of predatory patterns in our everyday lives. Episodes ranging from well-meaning white people to C-PTSD and High Achievers Anxiety, in a world that has a fetish for peak performance. Breaking normalized codes of silence, shame and secrecy in culture; and within our own bodies. gurunischan.substack.com

  1. 10/23/2025

    Culture, Internalized Misogyny, & the Inner Capacity to Say F*ck All the Way Off

    Please contribute to this work by making a one time or monthly contribution to this publication and spread the word! Don’t miss another episode by SUBSCRIBING to my Conversations You Can Feel Podcasts & Publishings. Stay tuned for more musings on taboo topics hiding in plain sight. Join my Inner Orbit Monthly and stay connected at GuruNischan.com. Get full access to Conversations You Can Feel at gurunischan.substack.com/subscribe

    27 min
  2. Do You Stand for Palestinian Existence?

    07/05/2024

    Do You Stand for Palestinian Existence?

    Today’s episode covers the remainder of the From the River to the Sea: A Coloring Book by Nathi Ngubani and Social Bandit Media. Coloring book reference: From the River to the Sea: A Coloring Book. To purchase, go to this link. Please Contribute to Gurunischan’s reclamation and recovery work by making a one time or monthly contribution to this publication. Don’t miss another episode by SUBSCRIBING to my Conversations You Can Feel Podcasts & Publishings. Stay tuned for more musings on provocative and taboo topics hiding in plain sight. To be a guest on the podcast, please send an email to GN@GuruNischan.com w/ Subject Line: UCP Spotify Playlist: Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business Community and Culture Join my Inner Orbit Monthly to stay connected at GuruNischan.com  Get full access to Conversations You Can Feel at gurunischan.substack.com/subscribe

    31 min
  3. Shine on Palestine Series - The Nakba

    06/27/2024

    Shine on Palestine Series - The Nakba

    Today we continue learning with the coloring book From the River to the Sea: A Coloring Book, illustrated by Nathe Ngubane and published by Social Bandit Media. We learn about the Nakba in 1948 in order to have a better context for what the ethnic cleansing we are seeing in present day Palestine. I encourage you to educate yourself by reading The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe. There are many more Jewish and Palestinian authors, academics, and historians to learn from. I have listed a few resources below. To purchase From the River to the Sea: A Coloring Book https://socialbanditmedia.co.za/ https://1804books.com/ Podcasts: The Electronic Intifada Podcast Palestine Deep Dive Podcast Let’s Talk Palestine Colonial Outcasts Podcast Empire Files by Abby Martin The Grayzone by Max Blumenthal Aaron Mate Barnaby Raine To continue your Palestinian education journey, be sure to learn from Palestinians and those people who are centering Palestinian voices on IG, X and other online platforms: @slowfactory @eye.on.palestine @middleeasteye @thetricontinental @motaz_azaiza @doubledownnews @mohamed.h.masri @mohammed_fayq Check previous episode show notes for more resources to learn from and follow. Please Contribute to Gurunischan’s reclamation and recovery work by making a one time or monthly contribution to this publication. Don’t miss another episode by SUBSCRIBING to my Conversations You Can Feel Podcasts & Publishings. Stay tuned for more musings on provocative and taboo topics hiding in plain sight. To be a guest on the podcast send an email to GN@GuruNischan.com w/ Subject Line: UCP Spotify Playlist: Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business Community and Culture   Join my Inner Orbit Monthly and stay connected at GuruNischan.com Get full access to Conversations You Can Feel at gurunischan.substack.com/subscribe

    7 min
  4. Shine on Palestine - The Land

    06/10/2024

    Shine on Palestine - The Land

    Today’s episode we continue to explore the From the River to the Sea: A Coloring Book, Illustrated by Nathi Ngubani and produced by @socialbanditmedia Please support this work by purchasing a copy @1804books (for USA purchases). Check out their social media for other locations worldwide to purchase. Page excerpts From the River to the Sea: A Coloring Book Illustrated by Nathi Ngubane Published by Social Bandit Media RESOURCES TO LEARN: Jewish Historians/Academics/Activists who speak out on Zionism: Gabor Mate Aaron Mate Ilan Pappe Norman Finkelstein Noam Chomsky Palestinian Voices, Academics, Poets to listen and learn from : Mohammed el Kurd @mohammedelkurd Mohamed Al Masri @mohamed.h.masri Remi Kanazi, poet, activist @remikanazi Basil Mohammed @doc.basil Mohammed Abo Mostafa @mohammed_fayq Edward Said, former Professor, Columbia University Mahmoud Darwish, poet Noor Hindi, Poet, author Some suggested books written by Palestinian authors: The Blue Between Sky and Water by Susan Abulhawa Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosar Abe Tora The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan Don’t Look Left: A Diary of a Genocide The Sea Cloak by Nayrouz Qarmout We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition by Reem Kassis Illustrated by Noha Eilouti Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa Sitti’s Bird: A Gaza Story by Malak Mattar Other: Share the Truth Reference to the books in this episode: by @ozuna.dillon Shlomo Sand: The Invention of the Jewish People Shlomo Sand: The Invention of Israel Gerald Horne: The Counter Revolution of 1776 Please Contribute to Gurunischan’s reclamation and recovery work by making a one time or monthly contribution to this publication. Don’t miss another episode by SUBSCRIBING to my Conversations You Can Feel Podcasts & Publishings. Stay tuned for more musings on provocative and taboo topics hiding in plain sight. To be a guest on the podcast, please send an email to GN@GuruNischan.com w/ Subject Line: UCP Playlist: Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business Community and Culture Playlist:  Join my Inner Orbit Monthly and stay connected at GuruNischan.com Get full access to Conversations You Can Feel at gurunischan.substack.com/subscribe

    19 min

  5. 06/01/2024

    BEING SILENCED on Palestine - How Are You Using Your Power?

    Kagiso Lesego Molope is an Indigenous South African, an award-winning novelist and playwright. She writes post-apartheid, feminist and resistance literature. Her work centres the history and experiences of indigenous South Africans and tackles issues of race, class, sexuality and identity and her books are read in schools across Southern Africa as well as in parts of Europe. Her published novels are Dancing in the Dust, The Mending Season, This Book Betrays My Brother and Such a Lonely, Lovely Road. Her play, Maya Angelou: Black Woman Rising has been produced and staged at Oslo’s Nordic Black Theatre. She became the first indigenous South African writer to be on the IBBY List in 2006 and to win the Patrick Fitzpatrick Award for Young Adult Literature. In 2019 she won both the Ottawa Book Award and the Inaugural Pius Adesanmi Memorial award, for her third and fourth books respectively. She has been living in Canada for the past two decades. You can follow her Intagram: @kagisosan X: @kagisokeo Conversations You Can Feel is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Please Contribute to Gurunischan’s reclamation and recovery work by making a one time or monthly contribution to this publication. Don’t miss another episode by SUBSCRIBING below to my Conversations You Can Feel Podcasts & Publishings. Stay tuned for more musings on provocative and taboo topics hiding in plain sight. To be a guest on the podcast, please send an email to GN@GuruNischan.com w/ Subject Line: UCP Spotify Playlist: Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business Community and Culture Playlist:  Join my Inner Orbit Monthly and stay connected at GuruNischan.com Get full access to Conversations You Can Feel at gurunischan.substack.com/subscribe

    50 min
  6. Listen to Palestinians - This is a Genocide

    05/30/2024

    Listen to Palestinians - This is a Genocide

    Today’s episode offers words directly from Palestinians and further resources on Palestinian people and organizations to follow directly. We begin exploring the first page of the beautiful coloring book: From the River to the Sea illustrated by Nathi Ngubane, published by Social Bandit Media; and explore the symbolic meaning behind Freedom is Coming. Resources referenced in this episode: IG post read on episode was published by @thaferdan Donate to: @watermelonrelief -Feeding children in Rafah @operationolivebranch - Helping verified individuals Organizations to learn about and get involved: Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) AMERICAN MUSLIMS FOR PALESTINE (AMP) Contact Your Reps: Use 5 Calls App or tao the link in @USPCR’s bio for call and email templates. Follow and Learn about the Boycott and Divest Movement at @bdsnationalcommittee Follow these News Outlets: @middleasteye @aljazeeraenglish @eye.on.palestine @letstalkpalestine @palestine.pixel @ajplus @mondoweiss More coming… Follow these Gazan Voices: @wizard_bisan1 @joegaza93 @amjad_al_fayoumi @mohammed_fayq @suhailnssar @drb13695 @bayanpalestine Follow Palestinians in the Diaspora: @key48return @sbeih.jpg @jenanmatari @ceolawyer @lsarsour More coming… Please Contribute to Gurunischan’s reclamation and recovery work by making a one time or monthly contribution to this publication. Give a gift subscription Don’t miss another episode by SUBSCRIBING to my Conversations You Can Feel Podcasts & Publishings. Stay tuned for more musings on provocative and taboo topics hiding in plain sight. To be a guest on the podcast, please send an email to GN@GuruNischan.com w/ Subject Line: UCPBCC Spotify Playlist: Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business Community and Culture Playlist:  Get up close and personal by joining my Inner Orbit Monthly at GuruNischan.com Get full access to Conversations You Can Feel at gurunischan.substack.com/subscribe

    24 min
  7. Shine on Palestine - The Cult of Zionism

    05/28/2024

    Shine on Palestine - The Cult of Zionism

    Today’s episode speaks on the Cult of Zionism and why your voice matters NOW more than ever. Get educated by following Palestinian and Jewish activists, authors, organizers and voices on the frontlines of change for the 75 year ongoing struggle for the Liberation of Palestine. Your attention on the right people, at the right time, can and will, absolutely makes a difference. Start today. Start where you stand. Sources to follow: @middleeasteye @eye.on.palestine @BreakThroughNews and @ElectricIntifada for up to date, relevant news. Follow @mirna_elhelbawi to contribute financially w/ ESims, which directly support for mobile communication for people in Occupied Palestine. Follow the @bdsnationalcommittee to learn about the boycott and divest movement worldwide. Listen and follow @lsarsour on this episode of Alternative Radio. Linda Sarsour delivers straight truth, and speaks directly to how to get active, organized, and connected with an organization of your choice, wherever you may find yourself standing, in this moment in time. Follow @marclamonthill for present and past Palestinian relevant topics and readings. Follow student groups @jewishvoicesforpeace and @sjp (StudentsForJusticeInPalestine), @cunygse (CunySolidarityEncampments) and @cuapartheiddivest (Columbia University Apartheid Divest). There are many more, directly linked to each university student group on their specific campus. You can listen to their disruption and demand for their academic institutions to Disclose and Divest. It’s inspiring. Follow me on Instagram @gurunischan to get more direct sources to follow regarding truth in Palestine. Coloring book reference: From the River to the Sea: A coloring book Illustrated by Nathi Ngubane - Published by Social Bandit Media @socialbanditmedia Please Contribute to Gurunischan’s reclamation and recovery work by making a one time or monthly contribution to this publication. Don’t miss another episode by SUBSCRIBING to my Conversations You Can Feel Podcasts & Publishings. Stay tuned for more musings on provocative and taboo topics hiding in plain sight. To be a guest on the podcast, please send an email to GN@GuruNischan.com w/ Subject Line: UCP Spotify Playlist: Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business Community and Culture Join my Inner Orbit Monthly to stay connected at GuruNischan.com  Get full access to Conversations You Can Feel at gurunischan.substack.com/subscribe

    1 hr

  8. 09/11/2023

    Predatory Tactics in Business Coaching & Mentorship - Part 2

    Kalika Kanitkar is a small business owner, and cognitive scientist with a passion for mental health education. She was involved in the travel network marketing space for 7 years, and got out about a year ago.  Since then she’s begun to share her experience to raise awareness around business opportunity scams, and the predatory tactics used in sales, coaching, and recruitment. You can follow her @kalikakanitkar on all social media channels, although she’s most active on Instagram and YouTube. :) Song credit: Whatever It Takes - Imagine Dragons Thank you for reading Conversations You Can Feel . This post is public so feel free to share it. Please Contribute to Gurunischan’s reclamation and recovery work by making a one time or monthly contribution to this publication. To be a guest on the podcast, please send an email to GN@GuruNischan.com.  Listen to the Playlist: Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business Community and Culture GuruNischan is a trauma-healing activist, and consultant in personal and professional reinvention. To learn more about her reclamation and recovery work, please subscribe to GuruNischan.com and follow her media platform Conversations You Can Feel - https://gurunischan.substack.com/ Don’t miss another episode by SUBSCRIBING to my Conversations You Can Feel Podcasts & Publishings. Stay tuned for more musings on provocative and taboo topics hiding in plain sight. Join my Inner Orbit Monthly and stay connected at GuruNischan.com  Get full access to Conversations You Can Feel at gurunischan.substack.com/subscribe

    2h 40m
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A podcast exploring the real-life stories of predatory patterns in our everyday lives. Episodes ranging from well-meaning white people to C-PTSD and High Achievers Anxiety, in a world that has a fetish for peak performance. Breaking normalized codes of silence, shame and secrecy in culture; and within our own bodies. gurunischan.substack.com

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