Beyond the basement
By Chris Kenworthy
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Join Chris for unscripted reflections on the wild, tender and playful experience of being human. Each episode is like an intimate voice-note to you, with lively insight from the edge of discovery. People say you’ll recognise yourself in these adventures and encounters. And hear clarity, perspective and truth - with deep appreciation for life’s messy magic as it’s really lived through your body.
Chris Kenworthy is an improviser, facilitator and embodiment coach. Find me at chriskenworthy.co.uk or @chriskenworthy on Instagram and LinkedIn.
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The kingdom of you: boundaries, dignity and saying “no”
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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The tyranny of taking life (and yourself) too seriously
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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The Fool’s way into your inner world
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Come home to yourself: the quiet (lost) art of self-attunement & soothing
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Self, other & the space between us
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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How to tell you’re struggling
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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The inconvenient truth of who you really are(n’t)
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Attention & following what’s alive inside (not out there)
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Grief and all its friends
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Anger + sadness = a perfectionist’s traffic jam
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Hey perfectionist - what if you just enjoyed your urges and instincts?
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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How to be more playful in everyday life - reclaiming play
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Cabaret of chaos: An improviser’s guide to playing in uncertainty
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Why bother with Perfectionism?
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Your style of play
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Perfectionism’s tight grip on the steering wheel of your life
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Uncertainty: your mind’s least favourite hobby (and how to navigate it)
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Do you suffer from seriousness fatigue?
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Love, loss, limits & letting go (life after Laurie)
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Learning to trust yourself again
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Our inability to sit still, alone (and what happens when we do)
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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What do you really want? Learning to listen again
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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How do you want to spend your time on earth?
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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What improv revealed at the edge of a freezing glacial lake
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May 29, 2025 |
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Are you going with the flow or going along with it?
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May 21, 2025 |
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How I became a Perfectionist
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May 06, 2025 |
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Getting through it: feel or function?
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May 05, 2025 |
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What every human wants
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May 03, 2025 |
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How to hear your body (and what it’s YELLING)
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Half-in, half-out: the most uncomfortable place to be
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Joy Junkie, Drama Kid, or Daredevil Dreamer? Find your YES to improv
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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The hardest thing about rest (and its secret reward)
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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The art of gentle being
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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How to be happy (what do you need?)
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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You don’t have to be fast, funny or clever
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Grown-ups need play too
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Too busy for improv? Think again - 3 reasons it’s worth your time
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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The (risk +) rewards of sharing what someone can’t see in themselves - how to listen deeply
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Do you trust yourself?
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Follow your bliss at your own pace and welcome everything
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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How to survive a plane crash (+ other tricky situations)
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Why it’s hard (+ how) to make friends
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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More range (or what it is to live a good life)
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Is perfectionism in your life?
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Alone in crowd
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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God bless Perfectionism
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Hyper self-reliance (and letting care in)
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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How to be more open-hearted
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Slow down, quickly!
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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How to be more playful (and creative)
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Your reward on the other side of difficult conversations
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Own your experience
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Assume nothing
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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High expectations (+ low support)
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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By letting go, it all gets done
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Try less, lazy more
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Curious about curiosity
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Hiding in plain sight
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Do you want to feel everything all the time?
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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A very embodied adventure and direct experience of the universe
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Improv: what to expect
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Real you and improv you
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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The absence of striving
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Focus on what's good
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Why & how to feel the feels
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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What endings tell you about yourself
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Do you have enough play in life?
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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How to be playful and creative when you're feeling down
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May 29, 2024 |
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Half-in the sea, half out
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May 26, 2024 |
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The 4 elements of improv & life
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May 23, 2024 |
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How to unlock your creative potential: be selfish
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May 23, 2024 |
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How would more fiery/airy/watery/earthiness help you in life?
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May 20, 2024 |
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Three insights on being your true self
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May 16, 2024 |
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How to get what you want from life if you're a perfectionist
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May 15, 2024 |
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Unlock your creative potential: live at TNM Leeds 07/05
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May 15, 2024 |
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Lead with love & humility: how to bring a thing into the world and put yourself out there
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May 09, 2024 |
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How to unlock creative potential: bringing out your inner child through play
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May 06, 2024 |
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Given time, stuff changes
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May 03, 2024 |
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Allowing for the possibility of imperfection
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May 03, 2024 |
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Choose nonviolence, fun & mischief on Mondays
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Why all that matters is you, me, in the here-and-now - Improv Dairies
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Your needs and getting them met
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Authentic Relating lands in Leeds. But what is it?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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What happens when you actually unplug from the day-to-day rush
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Why I stopped giving advice (and you should too)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Welcome everything, reveal your experience
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Undefended discoveries
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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How would life be with a bit more mischief?
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Ever noticed this sneaky perfectionism?
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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How to cope with being antagonised
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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When you care just enough to stay unhappy
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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What to expect from 'Undefended Improv' workshop this April
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Unlocking happiness summit 2024
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Feel the fear and do it anyway = BS
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Expression isn't indulgent, it's a necessity
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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3 levels of listening
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Get out the way of the universe
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Trance, breathwork and trusting your body
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Spooky WW2 bunker
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Reveal your experience, even when it's angry and big
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Curiosity: the antidote to fear
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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You're allowed to enjoy this: lessons I'm doomed to learn over and over again
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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How you walk says everything about who you are
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Determined to defend
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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3 games to play in nature
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Irreverent & defended
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Absolutely perfect
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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What is love?
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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What if grief's an everyday thing?
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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F*** goals | choose hope
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Threats, safety and fun
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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How often do you hold eye contact?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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How to escape the 9-to-5
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Pain and what it can tell us
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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When I'm lonely I make things
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Improv diaries: mischief, inspiration and possibility
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Anger and 5 ways to process it
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Abundance of silliness
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Undefended improv (for newcomers)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Contact improv
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Judgement and the inner critic
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Anger gets a rebrand
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Tender connection
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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What my dog taught me about being human
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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When a day is a good day
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Social ectoplasm and psychogeography
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Are you stuck up in your head?
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Feel safe, synched and at your best: Improv diaries
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Your curious inner observer
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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The most dangerous thing you ever tell yourself
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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A swim at dawn
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Soothe not solve
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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The vulnerability hangover
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Black/white thinking & polarities
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Last night's foray into being-in-the moment improv
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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F*ck invention, choose discovery
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Oi! Who are all these new voices on the podcast, Chris?
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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That time I died (and lived) on-stage
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Feel safe, feel authentic
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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When the body won't stop
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Will you be my guinea pig?
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Do something, anything
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Everything non-weather
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Rest and reflection - a frivolous luxury?
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Pushing & trying harder won't get us there any faster
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Euphoric reckoning
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Full permission to get ANGRY
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Superfun Lovebath 2
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Let's talk about sex
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Something for when you're shaken: humility and dignity
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Into your body, out of your head
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Why can't I worry less and enjoy the here and now more?
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Expert beginner
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Grief, death and dying
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Who's turned up to your inner parts party today?
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Is constant doing an addiction?
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Follow the fun
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Recipe for a deeply unfulfilling day
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Please can we talk about the inner critic?
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Cave Mondays
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Knowing when to quit
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Relentlessness & 'experiential fatigue'
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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What the world needs more of
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Procrastination Vs your instincts
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Why can't I enjoy the here and now?
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Ever abandoned yourself?
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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When something's a LOT of effort so you avoid doing it
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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What to do when you don't know what to do and EVERYONE is watching
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Ending gracefully (or not)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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When a bad thing happens, what's the story you tell yourself?
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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What if you don't need to learn anything? Only UNlearn what’s in the way.
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Improv dairies: truth and honesty
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Your ever expanding sphere of influence
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Feeling sluggish and unmotivated?
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Something to help when you're overwhelmed or need motivation
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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The cost of doing
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Are you overburdened?
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Fake it 'til you make it
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Mistakes and failing in improv
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May 25, 2023 |
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Where do you float between masculine and feminine?
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May 25, 2023 |
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Temporary chaos zones and stuffed kitchen drawers
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May 17, 2023 |
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No, coaches don't have it all sussed
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May 15, 2023 |
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Imperfect progress, imperfect “goals”
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May 11, 2023 |
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Play it big
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May 09, 2023 |
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A singular cause of most misery: feeling bad for feeling bad
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May 08, 2023 |
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What you want, what you need. What's the difference?
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May 02, 2023 |
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Ever been judgey?
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Follow your feet
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Women who wa*k (fooling & improv)
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Improv dairies: a weekend of fables, folk and fun
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Are humans essentially selfish?
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Let reality decide if an idea is good enough
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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What tragedy and loss taught me about emotions
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Welcome everything (for improvisers)
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Which celebrity would you want stroking your hair while you die?
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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On wintering
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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What’s under your onion skin(s)?
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Who are(n't) you?
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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How change happens (smooth and painlessly)
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Push the button
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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What's the worst thing you've ever eaten for a bet?
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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When the universe makes you an offer you can't refuse
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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An improv challenge idea for you...
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Hopes to habits
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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How to human, day 2
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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How to human, day 1
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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The perils of speaking up (or not)
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Annual reviews: f*ck 'em?
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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What's your story of doing?
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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A companion so companionable as solitude
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Are you waiting for the 'right' way or right time?
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Improv diaries: hivemind and groupthink
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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The shittiest job I ever had
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Something's coming...
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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It's probably good enough
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Holding lightly to what you've committed to
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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Improv diaries: Jesus approves
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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SLOW DOWN (you urgent so-and-so)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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What's your body up to?
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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F%#k self-love!
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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What committing really means (maybe).
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Improv diaries: day 4 at the Maydays retreat
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Improv diaries: day 3 at the Maydays retreat
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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Improv diaries: day 2 at the Maydays retreat
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Improv diaries: day 1 at the Maydays retreat
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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The universe doesn't get it wrong
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Love: you GOT IT ALL WRONG!
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Get s**t done without killing yourself
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Happy startup school summercamp - what I learned
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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What excites me about you
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Creative destruction and the liminal void
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Mummy & daddy still love you
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Be.Do.Have
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May 26, 2022 |
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When you get around to what matters
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May 09, 2022 |
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Pokes: a day of smashing ideas together on something quite exciting
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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You're not a factory. Newsflash.
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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What could have been "one of those days"
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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A taste of my own medicine: micro pokes, intuition and joylessness
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Improv chronicles: the big showcase
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Overdrawn from the emotional bank account
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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Live, high-stakes experiment in intuition and discernment
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Improv chronicles: day two of intensive for beginners
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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More improv chronicles: back to basics
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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When something's missing in life, or doesn't feel quite right.
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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S**t haircut (a story of intuition gone wrong + some accidental racism)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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When you don't trust yourself
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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The ART of being human
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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The improv-life experiment begins (or continues)
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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When you don't know what you want
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Physically shitting it, with intelligence
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Season 2 of me other podcast begins today
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Allotment mourning
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Love and chaos
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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The improv come-down (final day on retreat)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Peaking on improv (day two of retreat)
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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That's what we call it in the improv industry, darling
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Gammon Scout master and the watch
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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The top 3 times I almost died (teenage edition)
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Bees on the brain with Gaz
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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SPIBS: split personalities in business syndrome
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Putting the feelers out for improv-minded folk
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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All is well with the world. Or is it? #AudioMo day 18
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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A chance encounter by a skip #AudioMo
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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An audience with your inner critic
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Friday Fireside with Happy Start School
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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You can't be serious?
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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What it's like being an Airbnb host
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Society is antisocial? #AudioMo
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Incestuous terrapins #AudioMo
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Always a seagull without wings #AudioMo
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Stuck on how? #AudioMo
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Honk hog #AudioMo
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Lumpy porridge floor
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Qui est la? (French special in the forest)
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Thunderstorms and beheading
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Down t' pit
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Herbicidal warfare
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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The very serious incident of the subscribe form
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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The tale of Bob and Decca
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Rebuttal from Cabbage Hill
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Let's play the Phil Collins game
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Walking the Wortley Curve
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Jun 30, 2020 |