Making It

Arta
Making It Podcast

Dive into the concept of MAKING IT with Arta and guests. Talking all things business, self development, spirituality, manifestation and much more! Topics will include self-actualisation, habits we can borrow from the most successful, gaining self awareness, mindset, business case studies and the latest hot topics to help you move towards your highest potential and to help you MAKE IT, whatever that means for you. If you enjoy, subscribe, share and review

  1. Part 1 - My Vipassana Meditation Experience | A 10 Day Silent Mediation Course

    15/09/2021

    Part 1 - My Vipassana Meditation Experience | A 10 Day Silent Mediation Course

    I recently went on a Vipassana 10 day meditation course that is one of India's most ancient meditation techniques. Taught by S.N. Goenka, Vipassana means seeing things as they really are and it is a method of self-purification by self-observation. Going on this course means you are silent for 10 days, away from all electronic devices, waking up at 4am, sleeping at 9pm, meditating for 10 hours a day and truly dedicating yourself to the technique. A fundamental lesson you learn is about impermanence - everything in life is impermanent and we have feelings (anger, sadness, passion) that cause sensations in our body. We are conditioned and used to reacting in certain ways to these feelings and sensations, but these reactions cause us misery, as do attachments to things. Either we're craving for an experience, and hurt when it doesn't happen, or we're avoiding an experience, and hurt when it happens. If we can become able to let go of craving and aversion, as well as attachments, we can understand the universal truth of impermanence in life and purify ourselves. This is quite a bit promise and for that reason, I had to see for myself if I could uncover the roots of problems in my unconscious to positively impact my life.  In this episode, I explain the purpose behind Vipassana, why someone would do it and recount days 1-4, with my hardest days being described. This was not an easy, or short, experience, but one that promises a life-changing and long-lasting impact so I was intrigued.  Come back next Wednesday for part 2 where I recount days 5-10, give my advice, tell some stories and explain the impact its had on my life.  Subscribe and review the podcast and follow the Instagram@TheMakingItPodcast (Music by Wataboi: U Said It - https://soundcloud.com/wataboi/u-said-it-soundcloud)

    39 min
  2. 01/09/2021

    What I Wish I Knew Before University | What I Learnt in my First Year and My Advice

    University is a special time in someones life if they choose to go. It is 3/4 years where so much growing up and change happens - in so many facets of your life. It's often the first time you move away from family, live alone, have more independence, make new friends, choose what you want to do, how you want to spend your time, and money. In this episode I talk about some of the things I've realised from my first year of university and what I wish I knew. Like learning the importance of prioritising your mental health and understanding what triggers difficult emotions. How you can choose to let yourself feel your emotions and be present, but then resist sitting in those feelings once you have passed the peak. For example, sadness can come with intensity but once you pass the most intense moments of it, you can choose to move on, shift your environment and shake it off, rather than prolonging it with sad music and isolating yourself. Ultimately it's important to prioritise the relationship you have with yourself and look after yourself, in life and university especially. University also has the education and friendship aspects that can be amazing, but also challenging. You can use systems and routines that work for you to achieve your education goals and do well as well as meet your friends for life. University and this new independence also means taking the action to go towards things you're interested in is up to you and super important to do. So have a listen if you are heading to university and want to know what to expect and keep in mind, your timing is unique and there is a silver lining for every hardship and challenge at university as well as the amazing pros. Follow @TheMakingItPodcast on Instagram and follow the podcast on all podcast platforms!  (Music by Wataboi: U Said It - https://soundcloud.com/wataboi/u-said-it-soundcloud)

    35 min
  3. 17/08/2021

    Useful Traits of Entrepreneurs and How to Learn from Others to Get a Head-start in Your Career

    Inspired by two entrepreneurs talking about the challenges of doing business, I noticed certain traits that are present in many of the most successful people. They're super curious, wanting to know every part of a business, they can be bad employees (because they're not fond of traditional, less efficient ways and want to innovate), and they can see a long term vision. This vision isn't often shared by other people until the peaks of success are reached but still, the ability to believe in a vision and look into the future of what legacy you and your business can create, is inspiring and fuels entrepreneurs.  Also, building on the benefits of visualisation, it can apply here to help anyone looking to start their careers - with a wealth of knowledge out there meaning you can familiarise yourself and therefore prime yourself to be able to handle challenges better and get a head-start. If every budding entrepreneur knew the typical pitfalls and challenges they're likely to come across, they could make the plans to get more comfortable taking risk, hire that employee earlier, put in systems to protect their mental health.  Listen to this episode if you want to know about some key traits present in successful people, and how to get a head-start so you can strengthen, or develop, those traits and give you an advantage on your journey.  (Music by Wataboi: U Said It - https://soundcloud.com/wataboi/u-said-it-soundcloud)

    34 min
  4. 05/08/2021

    Talking Tiktok with Andreas Schellewald | Communicative Forms on Tiktok

    Today I’m joined by Andreas Schellewald to talk about Tiktok. Andreas is a doctoral researcher looking into communicative forms on Tiktok and perspectives from digital ethnography, meaning he's taking a look into the categories of content created and how the memes, audios, trends, etc become a way for people to communicate.  Tiktok has the ability to connect a large amount of people and create social ties through a shared engagement with communicative forms and Andreas takes us through his method and main takeaways from his research. This academic insight into Tiktok was super interesting and also led us to discuss the algorithm. Tiktok's impressive algorithm is important for both users and creators. Users, mostly engaging with the 'for you page', can see their content page personalised based on their interactions and engagement with certain themes. And on the flip side, content creators who can understand what users enjoy and how to optimise the algorithm can build followings and careers on the popular app.  As apps, like Instagram, move to prioritise short form video content, becoming skilled at social media is becoming increasingly beneficial, if not essential, to groups like activists who need the awareness and public support for their campaigns and so this interview was an interesting look into Tiktok from an academic perspective.  If you enjoy this episode, make sure to follow @TheMakingItPodcast instagram and leave a review on Apple Podcasts! Links to Andreas: https://andreasschellewald.com/ https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/30350/ (Music by Wataboi: U Said It - https://soundcloud.com/wataboi/u-said-it-soundcloud)

    52 min

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Dive into the concept of MAKING IT with Arta and guests. Talking all things business, self development, spirituality, manifestation and much more! Topics will include self-actualisation, habits we can borrow from the most successful, gaining self awareness, mindset, business case studies and the latest hot topics to help you move towards your highest potential and to help you MAKE IT, whatever that means for you. If you enjoy, subscribe, share and review

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