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Join Kari and her guests to explore all the ways we exist in relationship. Whether they’re talking about how we relate to our bodies and food, music and art, family, our stuff, our thoughts, and more, you’ll be sure to find something relatable in these dynamic conversations. Kari draws on her expertise as a published author, parenting coach, and grief and rage educator to investigate how these connections influence us as we move through the world every day.
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Check out the news on any given day and you'll see evidence of all the ways we "other" people, shame them, alienate them, and cause harm to them - passively and actively. In this conversation, Vanessa Faloye and I dig deep in to the things that separate us and cause us to lose touch with our humanity. We explore what it even means to be in touch with it, and why it's so easy sometimes to "other" people. We also talk about the important practice of continually bringing ourselves back to a place of reverence and care for each other and ourselves. You won't want to miss this one!
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In this short episode, Kari revisits her conversation with Jason Sole, who has applied for a pardon for his crimes in the state of Minnesota and discovered just how opaque and unequal the system is.
Georgia Fort's conversation with Jason
Petition to Pardon Jason by Juneteenth
Jason Sole's Linked In profile
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Kari talks to Jess Graham about their new book, Being (Sick) Enough, and what it means to build a relationship to pain - both chronic illness and emotional trauma. The conversation touches on autism, addiction, chronic pain, trauma, healing, spirituality, and the power of keeping the spark of hope
Websites:
Jessica Graham
You Wild Awakening
Links to Buy Books: Being (Sick) Enough
Link to Buy Good Sex
Social Media:
Instagram
[YouTube]
TikTok
Substack
Facebook
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Kari talks with Faith Scott, a writer, therapist, TEDx speaker, and all-around amazing human about what "place" means to her. Drawing on inspiration from bell hooks and Nicholas Galanin, Kari and Faith explore ideas of generational migration, belovedness, and what it means to find "home."
Faith's Substack: https://faithscott.substack.com/
Poetry Anthology, Shaking off the Ashes: https://inkedelephantpublishing.com/product/shaking-off-the-ashes/
bell hooks book, Belonging; a Culture of Place: https://www.routledge.com/Belonging-A-Culture-of-Place/hooks/p/book/9780415968164
Faith's TEDx Talk (coming soon): https://www.tedxojai.com/watch
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This short episode features Kari thinking out loud about where we can find solace amidst chaos. She invites listeners to think about how to identify solid ground when everything feels scary and tenuous. It is so easy to get caught up in the overwhelm of the news cycle and lose sight of the things that are there for us when we need them.
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Eleanor Vincent is an author whose latest book is called Disconnected: Portrait of a Neurodiverse Marriage. In this memoir, she recounts her experience of courtship and marriage to a man on the autism spectrum and paints a picture of what it was like to build up hope, fall in love late in life, and fight to connect with her husband when their brains were wired in fundamentally different ways. Kari and Eleanor talk about relationship dynamics that start in childhood, romantic love, and grief.
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Kari and Aggeliki talk about writing, how it relates to life, and Aggeliki's new novel, Unlucky Mel. Exploring themes of caregiving, workplace politics, and humor, the book is tremendously entertaining and relatable.
Aggeliki's work can be found here- LinkTree
Preorder Unlucky Mel here www.cornellpress.com
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In this episode, Kari and Nina McCollum talk about what it's like to be a caregiver to kids and parents simultaneously. In the last couple of decades, the emergence of the so-called Sandwich Generation has put an enormous strain on families (mostly women) to navigate the pressures of raising kids and caring for elders within systems that weren't designed to support them.
Nina's website: www.NinaWriteNow.com
Link to the private Facebook Group for The Sandwich Generation
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Garrett Bucks is a writer and organizer dedicated to creating spaces where White folks can have conversations about what it means to really create communities where we all thrive and talk honestly about racism and the way it affects us. Come listen as he explains why the movie ET is a perfect metaphor for how he thinks about whiteness.
Garrett Bucks' website https://www.garrettbucks.com/
Kari's memoir about growing up with a Filipino brother and a Vietnamese sister https://www.cavankerrypress.org/product/truth-has-a-different-shape/
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Dr. Paul Zeitz, a physician, activist, and author, joins Kari to talk about his new book, Revolutionary Optimism. They explore ideas of overwhelm and grief and share tips for how to stay focused on love in challenging times, and use that love to fuel our activism.
Dr. Paul Zeitz website: https://drpaulzeitz.org/
Sign up sheet for the next Grief and Rage Workshop that begins June 24: Sign up here
Kari's website: www.kariodriscollwriter.com
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Join Kari and Jason Sole to talk about what it means to be in community with each other in ways that heal and repair rifts, and why abolition is a key part of this. Jason's experiences as a Black man in the United States, holding healing circles, and his lived experience with violence and incarceration give him a strong perspective on what it means to find "justice," and where we can't find it. This timely conversation can help us frame the police response to student encampments at colleges and universities all over the US and the world right now.
www.kariodriscollwriter.com
Jason Marque Sole on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-marque-sole-68340114/
Humanize My Hoodie: https://www.humanizemyhoodie.com/
A Case for Love documentary: https://www.fathomevents.com/news/documentary-inspired-by-presiding-bishops-teachings-on-love-due-for-nationwide-theatrical-premiere-jan-23/
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Kari talks with Judy Ryan Hall about how her tongue cancer and the subsequent treatment radically changed her relationship to her body and to food. The treatment not only resulted in serious complications that kept her hospitalized for an extended period of time, but it left her unable to taste most food. As someone who has always loved food and being in a human body, the last few years have been a practice of reinventing these connections.
Meet the host Kari O'Driscoll
Books by Kari O'Driscoll
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Kari and Rachael talk about how they came to their parenting philosophies, examine the complexities of parenting, and look at how their ideas changed over time. Exploring ideas of discipline and attachment and how we often parent as a reaction to the way we were parented, this conversation is full of insight and laughter.
youthwell website: https://youthwell.org/
Happy, Healthy Teens book: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475863796/Happy-Healthy-Teens-Why-Focusing-on-Relationships-Works
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Kari talks with Joe Loya, a man who was convicted of robbing 30 banks and wrote about his time in prison and his life in the memoir, The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell. Joe and Kari explore the intersections of language, religion, maleness and violence and talk about how our ideas of hierarchy and gender impact the way we use and justify violence. Joe's unique history and educational background make him a compelling storyteller. Come listen to this fascinating conversation.
Order Joe's book here https://www.joeloya.ltd/
Joe's podcast, The Bank Robber Diaries, can be found here https://play.acast.com/s/thescore
Kari's website www.kariodriscollwriter.com
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Come listen as Kari and Kute Blackson talk about what it means to surrender, how it changes our perspective when we find the courage to surrender, and how it's related to faith in something larger than us and experienced in our bodies. Whether you're facing a difficult decision or grieving a huge loss or just trying to bolster yourself to make a bold move in your life, how do you think about surrender?
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kuteblacksonlovenow
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kuteblackson/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kuteblackson
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/kuteblackson09
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kute-blackson-35755519/
Life Changing event in Bali www.boundlessblissbali.com
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Kari talks to Kathy O'Driscoll, a human-resources professional who has worked in corporate and non-profit organizations, about what it means to work, how the nature of work is changing, and how we can adapt our ideas about labor, effort, and community to shift the way we work. They explore what it means to do uncompensated work like caregiving, the onset of artificial intelligence, the balance of work and play, and how we can incorporate what we know about neurodiversity into our ideas of work. You won't want to miss this one!
Check out Kathy's LinkedIn profile
Connect with Kari O'Driscoll Author, Educator, and Founder of The SELF Project
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Kari talks with Andrea Carlisle about her new book, There Was an Old Woman, and her thoughts about aging. Listen as they explore what it means to be "women of a certain age," talk about those obnoxious targeted social media advertisements for "belly fat" and what it might look like to age without shame, and see how Andrea compares aging to adolescence.
Andrea's website: https://andreacarlisle.com
Buy Andrea's book: https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/there-was-old-woman
Meet Kari O'Driscoll Author, Educator, Founder of The SELF Project
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Please join me for this short episode where I examine my own relationship to grief and invite you to think about the ways you have been taught to grieve, and how we can learn to hold each other when we're in this space.
Learn more about Grief and Rage Rituals here: https://kariodriscollwriter.com/my-work/
Reach out to me at kari@kariodriscollwriter.com with questions
Find Kari O'Driscoll in Instagram @karilodriscoll
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Tanya is the author of Leaving Tinkertown, a memoir about her father's early onset Alzheimer's. She and Kari talk about what it's like to watch our parents age and shift our relationship to them as things get harder for them to navigate on their own. They also talk about what it's like to forge fun, adult relationships with our elders and relate to them on a new level altogether. This one is packed with resources for folks who are caring for elders, so stay tuned and check out the show notes afterward for important links.
Tanya's website: www.tanyawardgoodman.com
Tanya's Instagram: @twgoodman
Tanya's favorite movie about Alzheimer's, dementia, aging, creativity. https://www.therestimakeup.com/
https://dementiaminds.org/
https://alzauthors.com/
Kari's website: www.kariodriscollwriter.com
Link to the Sandwich Generation Facebook group
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Whether you are someone who reads or writes poetry or not, you'll love this episode. Kari and Dimitri talk about playing with language, the difference between spoken word and writing, identity, and even stray into why Kari's youngest daughter sometimes calls her "the Priest." Dimitri reads some gorgeous pieces from his latest book, Papí Pichón, and talks about how he teaches writing. Please join us!
Dimitri's website: https://www.dimitrireyespoet.com
Order his latest book here- Papí Pichón
Read along with Dimitri as he reads his poem: https://www.duendeliterary.org/dimitri-reyes
Social media links: https://www.facebook.com/dimitri.reyes.507
https://www.tiktok.com/@dimitrireyesthepoet
https://www.instagram.com/dimitrireyes/
https://www.youtube.com/c/dimitrireyespoet
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