In this Best Of episode, we’re listening back to excerpts from past guests who bravely shared their stories of experiences with traumatic events in their lives—and, how different forms of therapy have supported their ongoing healing journeys.

Michael Baldwin and Dr. Deborah L. Korn are co-authors of Every Memory Deserves Respect, a book about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which tells Michael’s story as a trauma survivor alongside Deborah’s extensive expertise as a researcher and clinician who has studied and implemented EMDR therapy to help people like Michael recover from the effects of trauma. Listen to our full 2023 interview with Michael and Debbie here.

Christine Macdonald is a Los Angeles-based author and former exotic dancer whose memoir, Face Value: From Working The Pole To Baring My Soul, tells the story of how the trauma she endured in her young life led her to the underground world of adult entertainment where she spent nearly a decade trying to find her self-worth. Listen to the full 2023 interview with Christine here. 

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These issues were on the minds of Americans in 1880, just as they do in 2023.

(Maybe the political division that defines the present age is not as unique as we think!)

To discuss the similarities — and stark differences — between the United States of America in 1880 and 2023, we're joined by C.W. Goodyear. C.W. (Charlie) is a writer, author, presidential historian, and biographer whose book is President Garfield: From Radical To Unifier. The presidential biography tells the story of a forgotten, misunderstood President, James A. Garfield, whose assassination just 200 days into his first term overshadowed the fascinating life, accomplishments, and failures of the man who became the 20th American president.

The presidential biography is also a portrait of an America in flux, where cronyism, nepotism, and bribery dominated national concerns, and a country was attempting (and failing) to navigate the Reconstruction of the South and remedy the recent legacy of chattel slavery in the United States.

In this interview, Charlie and Dave explore the life and death of President Garfield, including...

• The legacy of another "complicated" White man who was, at once, a fervent abolitionist but held "almost genocidal" views of America's indigenous population
• If James A. Garfield was indeed the "single greatest intellect" ever to be elected U.S. President
• How Garfield's assassination resulted from political rhetoric, and what happened to political discourse, after

C.W. Goodyear is a graduate of Yale University with a degree in Global Affairs. He currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

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And yet, one of the unseen struggles of those whose work blends into their self-identity is, "If 'what you do' is 'who you are,' then happens your sense of self changes?"

Shauna VanBogart is an entrepreneur, mentor, and speaker who helps entrepreneurs navigate the complexities of evolving self-identity, especially in the modern Internet and social media era. A former image consultant, today, Shauna specializes in helping entrepreneurs and small business owners, especially women, build sustainable service-based businesses that align with their authentic senses of self—fostering financial freedom, fulfillment, and impact along the way. 

With a background in Communications and Leadership Studies and certification in clinical hypnotherapy, Shauna VanBogart has been featured in Huffington Post, Mint.com, MSN, and CareerBuilder.com. She is a 40 Under 40 award-winner and honored as one of Charleston, South Carolina’s Most Influential Women in Business.

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• The untold challenges of being a self-employed entrepreneur in the online space today—and why it's harder than ever
• What signs, symptoms, and signals to look out for that say you have "outgrown your work"
• The difference between experiencing symptoms of burnout and needing to make a change in your life or work
• How avoiding making a big decision in your business (or personal life) can hold you back from a necessary evolution in work

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That is the big question asked in the debut novel of Ben Purkert called The Men Can’t Be Saved. Following a junior copywriter in New York City whose latest tagline went viral, the novel is a witty, comedic exploration of what it means to be a man in a modern context, unpacking both overt and subtle expressions of toxic masculinity and examining themes like work, religion, sex, drugs, and our selves, in between.

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• Why it was so difficult to make the switch from poetry writing to long-form fiction storytelling
• Ben's relationship to his identity as a man and masculinity, especially as a long-time poet
• The author's aspirations for his first novel—and why HBO's Succession is his gold standard for dramatic comedy

Ben Purkert is a poet and novelist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Slate, and beyond. He is the founder of Back Draft, a Guernica interview series focused on revision and the creative process. He holds degrees from Harvard and NYU and currently teaches creative writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

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Yseult Polfliet Mukantabana and Hannah Summerhill are the hosts of the award-winning podcast, Kinswomen, which was named Best Podcast of 2020 by Elle, Cosmopolitan, and Marie Claire. After meeting at an event about race in January 2019 in New York City, Yseult and Hannah decided to take their passion for constructive cross-racial dialogues to a broader audience.

They are the authors of the book, Real Friends Talk About Race: Bridging the Gaps Through Uncomfortable Conversations.

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• The emotional labor—and potential retraumatization—when writing about race and racism as a person from a marginalized identity
• Specific techniques to becoming a better friend and human in relationship to others’ identities of historical marginalization
• How Yseult and Hannah keep finding the energy and passion to teach healthy, cross-racial dialogues—even though the attention of “allies” may be moving on

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Alli Frank and Asha Youmans are multi-published authors, novelists, and former educators who use humor, joy, and compassion to write stories that encourage candid conversations about issues such as race, religion, culture, class, privilege, parenting, and education. Alli and Asha found "literary soulmates" in each other after working together as a teacher and a school administrator in Seattle, Washington. That’s when they discovered their shared mission as educators and as authors.

Alli, who is white and Jewish, and Asha, who is Black and Baptist, bring their very different cultural backgrounds and perspectives together to write in one seamless, cohesive voice, united in their belief that humor and fiction can inspire empathy and learning, and that exposure to diverse experiences can only enrich one’s life. 

Their latest novel, The Better Half, was named an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of Summer, and an AARP Hot Summer Read in 2023. It is published by comedian, actor, and producer Mindy Kaling's publishing imprint under Amazon, Mindy’s Book Studio.

• How Mindy Kaling fell in love with Alli's and Asha's women-centered stories
• The importance of telling peoples' stories through more than their suffering and struggles
• How joy, wit, and humor can open people up to being more receptive to unfamiliar cultural experiences or identities

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But why is today's so-called "woke backlash" happening?

Behavioral science — and a look back at history — help us understand why.

N. Chloé Nwangwu is a behavioral strategist, brand visibility expert, and former international conflict mediator known as “the Brand Scientist.” Today as the director of NobiWorks, a brand visibility consultancy, Chloé leverages science and strategic branding to help under-recognized brands become impossible to ignore. She’s advised everyone from small businesses to small island nations, and even the first refugee delegation to the United Nations.

In this ranging interview, Dave and N. Chloé cover:

• How "underrecognized" is a better, more accurate term than "underrepresented" when discussing people of marginalized identities
• The historical precedent of "woke backlash" and why the group phenomenon of "reactance" occurs
• The advertising advantage of homogenous audiences — and why companies want to make their audiences and customers more "the same"

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While the challenges of living with a disability can range from mobility to cognition, independent living, hearing, vision, and self-care, those who experience disabilities also have so much to offer to those without.

This Disability Pride Month, we're revisiting our 2023 conversation with Brooke Ellison, Ph.D., associate professor of health policy and medical ethics at Stony Brook University and author of the memoir, Look Both Ways. After an accident at age 11, Brooke was left paralyzed from the neck down and ventilator-dependent. As a policy and ethics expert in stem cell research, Brooke now lectures in the very location where medical professionals saved her life over 31 years ago.

In this interview, Brooke advocates how society, as a whole, has so much to gain from a world in which those with disabilities are integrated into decision-making processes, public policy, and how physical spaces are designed. Listen to our full 2023 interview with Brooke Ellison here.

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But who built the White House? Who designed it? And why do so few of us know the true history of the White House?

Stewart D. McLaurin is the President of the White House Historical Association, a private nonprofit, nonpartisan educational Association founded in 1961 to enhance the understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of the Executive Mansion, otherwise known as the White House. Over 35+ years, Stewart has held leadership roles with national nonprofit and higher education organizations including the American Red Cross, Georgetown University, Peace Corps, and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.

Stewart is the author of the 2023 children’s picture book, The White House: Designed by James Hoban, Built by Many Hands, which teaches children the true history of the White House, including the forced labor of around 200 enslaved workers of African descent, and how Irish immigrant, James Hoban, was selected to design the iconic structure.

In this interview, Stewart and Dave discuss...

• How the WHHA functions as a non-government agency, and what partnerships it maintains to furnish the White House and protect its historical artifacts
• How First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy helped to modernize the White House and found the WHHA
• What is the legacy of the White House in 2023, and what should this symbol represent to future generations?

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But what is resilience, really? And, what isn't resilience?

Dr. Kate Lund is a licensed clinical psychologist of nearly 20 years, a peak performance coach, a best-selling author, and a TEDx speaker.

Dr. Kate's specialized training in pediatric medical psychology has spanned world-renowned Shriners Hospital for Children; Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, all of which are affiliated with Harvard Medical School. She uses a strengths-based approach to help her clients improve their confidence in school, sports, and life while helping them to become more resilient and reach their full potential at all levels. 

In this interview with host Dave Ursillo, Dr. Kate explains:

• How resilience is a practiced mindset that reflects one's baseline stress and ability to regulate stress over time
• How her diagnosis of hydrocephalus at age four gave Kate a hard-earned, life-long lesson in resilience
• What we can do to help our kids develop resilience, including through modeling and finding age-appropriate tools and practices to help kids self-regulate

Dr. Kate is also the host of The Optimized Mind, a podcast that explores how we can define our own unique context, build resilience and maximize potential through engaging with today’s top thought leaders in the business and personal development space.

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Doesn’t it make sense to introduce young people to the idea of privilege to help them understand the complex realities that exist in our shared world?

Susan Justice is a children’s legal advocate, attorney, and co-founder of South Asians Against Childhood Abuse, a nonprofit organization based in British Columbia, Canada, that fights childhood abuse in the South Asian community through education, destigmatization, and advocacy projects. Her experience as a legal advocate and a practicing attorney span more than a decade.

Susan is the author of Children Who Dance in the Rain, a children's picture book that introduces kids to the idea of privilege, especially in developed countries like Canada and the US, and teaches kids about the disadvantages that many of the world’s youth, especially those living in poverty in the Global South, struggle with on a daily basis, such as food insecurity, clean water access, and education.

Children Who Dance in the Rain has already won 9 awards, including the 2023 Children’s Book of the Year, from the “Human Relations” Indie Book Awards.

In this interview, Susan and Dave discuss...

• How Susan's personal story and family history inspired the tale told in her children's book, decades later
• The notable lack of children's books on the subject of privilege—and how this new book fills the void
• The work of destigmatizing childhood abuse and shattering historical silence about childhood abuse in the South Asian community
• The complex dilemmas in children's book bans, including rightfully protecting children but empowering their autonomy and exposure to a diversity of ideas

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Before you think that you can't relate to her life, think again: Christine's story is one of survival, struggling with feeling "less-than," craving acceptance and fighting to fit in. 

She says you have a lot to learn from a story like hers.

Christine Macdonald is the author of Face Value: From Working the Pole to Bearing My Soul (2022), a memoir that, with characteristic humor and biting truths, chronicles her life working as an exotic dancer—and the childhood and teenage traumas she was running from. Christine was diagnosed with a rare, severe skin disease called acne congloblata at age 13, which left over 80% of her face scarred. The trauma she endured in her young life led her to the underground world of adult entertainment where Christine spent nearly a decade trying to find her self-worth.

Her work has appeared in Salon, The Good Men Project, and Anaheim Examiner, among other publications.

In this interview, Dave and Christine explore:

• How the initial "vanity project" that was telling her story evolved into an opportunity for real healing
• Why stage work appealed to someone who was overcoming traumas and chronic feelings of powerlessness and rejection
• The power of personal therapy to guide her healing journey, which allowed Christine to finally tell her story

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Eduardo Placer is a story doula, coach, former performer, and the CEO and Founder of Fearless Communicators, a dynamic speaking and communications coaching business. He coaches people on becoming effective communicators by providing them with the tools to lead and deliver their message to an audience. Listen to our full 2022 interview with Eduardo here.

Wade Rouse is the USA TODAY, Publishers Weekly, and internationally best-selling author of 13 books, including four memoirs and nine novels. He joined us in 2022 to discuss his memoir, *Magic Season: A Son’s Story*, which chronicles his upbringing as a self-described “queer kid” in rural Missouri in the 1970s and how baseball gave him and his abusive father a chance to reconcile and heal later in life. Listen to the full interview with Wade here. 

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Gary Ware is a Strategic Play Consultant, corporate facilitator, keynote speaker, certified coach, and author who helps individuals and teams integrate play into their daily business. He was featured as one of the Top 100 HR influencers of 2021 by the Engagedly HR software platform, and is the author of the book, Playful Rebellion: Maximize Workplace Success Through The Power of Play.

After 14 years in the corporate world, Gary’s experience with burnout led him to discover that his life, and his work, were missing play. With benefits ranging from improved mood, increased creativity, more self-confidence, and psychological trust, today, Gary uses the power of applied improvisation and other playful methods to help teams and organizations discover the benefits of play.

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• How play creates, and preserves, crucial levels of psychological safety, especially in the workplace
• The neurochemical benefits of play on productivity, mood, and building interpersonal trust
• What a society that values play could look like—and how we can each get started

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Today, Brooke's latest memoir, Look Both Ways, returns to the story of her life through the lens of personal struggle, public policy, sociology, the future of disability rights, and what it means to be human.

She shares what it has meant to be a person living with a disability for the last 31 years, and affirms that our society, as a whole, has so much to gain from a world in which those with disabilities are integrated into decision-making processes, public policy, and how physical spaces are designed.

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• The feeling of "feigned praise and condescension" when called "an inspiration," despite well-meaning intentions
• How perceiving inabilities of disabled persons result from "social construction," not reality
• What is the real, hard work of supporting those with disabilities—in a society built against them?

Brooke Ellison, Ph.D. is an associate professor of health policy and medical ethics at Stony Brook University. She is a policy and ethics expert in stem cell research and has served on the Empire State Stem Cell Board, which designed New York’s stem cell policy. She is on the Board of Directors of the NY Civil Liberties Union and the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission.

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For 14 years, Jared Fishman served as a U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor, where he led some of America’s most complex and high-profile civil rights prosecutions involving police misconduct, hate crimes, and human trafficking. 

He joins us to tell the true, behind-the-scenes story of his investigation of the murder of Henry Glover, an unarmed 31-year-old Black man, who was gunned down by a White police officer in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which he chronicles in his book, Fire On The Levee: The Murder Of Henry Glover And The Search For Justice After Hurricane Katrina.

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• Jared's years-long battle to hold the New Orleans Police Department accountable for police abuses
• The systemic failures at the root of one of the most egregious, shocking cases of police abuse in recent history
• How one case of police abuse pushed Jared to leave Federal prosecution, altogether, and try to look for new solutions
• How prosecutors, Attorneys General, and judges can help our broken justice system—without waiting for politicians to pass legislation

Jared Fishman is the founder and Executive Director of Justice Innovation Lab, an organization that designs data-informed solutions for a more equitable and effective justice system. He also serves as adjunct faculty at the George Washington University Law School and at Georgetown University.

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Katica Roy is a gender economist and the founder and CEO of Pipeline Equity, an award-winning analytical platform designed to help organizations improve their equity and inclusivity efforts, beyond the talk, and with real action. As the daughter of an immigrant and a refugee, Katica is driven by a passion to eradicate economic inequality and championing the rights of refugees, women, and children. 

In this interview, Katica explains how gender equity differs from gender equality, and illustrates how framing gender equity as an economic issue, not a moral one, makes equity and inclusivity efforts nonnegotiable. She calls gender equity "a $2 trillion economic opportunity" and strives to establish data and research-based arguments to generate bipartisan, inclusive buy-in and systemic change to address equity issues in modern America.

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• What are the implications of women being paid less, taxed more, and holding greater student loan debt?
• How does gender equity impact men's mental health and the education of boys in 2022?
• What new stories could propel gender equity public policy in the coming years, and how can we help them?

Katica is a former Global 500 global executive, programmer, data scientist, and a regular contributor to CNN, CBS, Bloomberg, Cheddar, MarketWatch, and Yahoo Finance Her advocacy and education have made her a LinkedIn Top Influencer for gender equity in 2022. She is also a member of Fast Company’s Impact Council and Bloomberg’s New Economy Forum.

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Dr. Han Ren is a licensed clinical psychologist and educator based in Austin, Texas, who joined us last October to discuss what it means to decolonize mental health. Listen to the full interview here.

Cher Hale is the founder and director of Ginkgo PR, a public relations firm that helps historically-excluded authors, entrepreneurs, and leaders take back narratives that have traditionally been told for them, not by them, in the media. She joined us in March. Listen to the full interview here.

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For most of his life, Michael Baldwin was haunted by curious phobias, recurring nightmares, interpersonal relationship issues, and sudden anxieties so distressing that he would turn to substance use for relief. One day, a therapist suggested that he was suffering from the effects of trauma. He introduced Michael to EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Everything began to change.

Michael Baldwin and Deborah L. Korn are the authors of Every Memory Deserves Respect, which tells Michael’s story as a trauma survivor and shares Deborah's clinical knowledge and expertise on what trauma is, how it affects the brain, and how EMDR therapy has been proven to help people recover from the effects of trauma with over 30 years of research and evidence.

Deborah L. Korn is a clinical psychologist and consultant, teacher, and researcher who presents and consults internationally on the treatment of adult survivors of childhood abuse and neglect. She is on the faculty of the EMDR Institute in California and the Trauma Research Foundation in Boston. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research.

In this special episode, we ask, "Could EMDR therapy become the 'new story' of trauma survivorship for the nearly 70% of the population who suffer from the effects of traumatic experiences?"

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Aaron Johnson (he/him) is a facilitator, public speaker, and touch specialist who says touch can help dismantle systems of oppression and racism. As the co-founder of Holistic Resistance and Grief to Action, two black-led organizations and movements, Aaron's work holds the trauma stories of Black people and strives to make touch a radical action to interrupt oppressive systems in modern American society. He is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts and blends teaching, singing, photography, filmmaking, minimalism, and more to create intimate experiences of creativity to transcend oppressive forces.

In this interview, Aaron shares how touch facilitates a holistic connection with nature, ourselves, and one another. He says that being creative in our healing journeys is an antidote to oppressive forces, from internalized oppression to forceful repression in modern American society.

Aaron is also the creator of the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project, an initiative to support Black men and People of the Global Majority—people of color—to access healthy, nourishing, platonic touch in a culture in the United States that denies access to touch.

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What does that cost women?

We're joined by Sasha Cagen, an author, coach, and teacher whose life work subverts some of the more restrictive, diminishing cultural expectations placed upon women, womanhood, and expressions of femininity in our time.

Once a Silicon Valley social media startup founder, Sasha has become a champion of feminist empowerment methodologies, especially for women over 40, who feel restricted or held back by social norms, cultural pressures, and expectations that are minimizing of a full and whole life experience.

She espouses counter-cultural concepts and practices like “self-marriage” while coining witty and memorable catchphrases like “quirkyalone” and even “pussywalking,” which have rightfully garnered global attention over her career from outlets like CNN, the New York Times, BBC, Vogue, and beyond.

Sasha is the author of the 2004 cult-favorite book, Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics, which espouses a philosophy of not settling in life, or in love. 

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Dave editorializes an overview of his understanding of a philosophical concept called The Three Stories of Our Time, which was created by ecologist, philosopher, and author Joanna Macy in her book Active Hope (revised): How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power (2022).

Listen back to our recent interview with Margaret Wheatley on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or at TheNewStory.Is.

Pre-order the updated second edition of Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity (June 6, 2023)

Also mentioned in this episode: Dr. Irvin Yalom and his 2013 book, Love's Executioner.

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Today, she's preparing leaders, change agents, and activists to deal with the fall-out of eventual civilization collapse. (Yes, collapse.) Whoa.

So, what changed? And, if it's true, what can we do about it?

In this deeply philosophical conversation with host Dave Ursillo (DaveUrsillo.com), Margaret shares how her studies in Eastern spirituality and patterns of civilization collapse led her to change her life's work, how the answer to despair and dread about the state of our world is not to give up on trying, and how to escape the "hope-fear cycle" that leads so many caring people alternating between avoidance and doom spirals.

Since 1966, Margaret Wheatley has worked globally as a speaker, teacher, community worker, consultant, advisor, and formal leader. She has sat on stage with the Dalai Lama, co-led workshops with Pema Chodron, and led community-driven leadership initiatives on 6 continents. She is the best-selling author of nine books, including the classic Leadership and the New Science (1992) and Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity (2017), which will be republished as an all-new second edition in 2023.

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So what happens to our self-concept and self-esteem when we don't see ourselves represented in the media?

Cher Hale is the founder and director of Ginkgo PR, a public relations firm that helps historically-excluded authors, entrepreneurs, and leaders take back narratives that have traditionally been told for them, not by them, in the media. As a first-generation, Taiwanese-Black American woman, Cher has been on a mission to help historically-marginalized populations get the recognition they deserve for the work they’ve done quietly for years. On a bigger level, she hopes that her work in publicity, advocacy, and media relations is helping to move the needle toward equity for those who hail from historically marginalized identities.

In this interview, Dave and Cher discuss her personal experience with not seeing herself represented in the media, how her earliest PR work with homogenous clients and stories felt uninspiring, and how she eventually came to work with clients from historically marginalized identities.

Tune in to reflect on the challenges of taking a journey into visibility and belonging, and what it's like to face internalized oppression, systemic pressures, and concerns for safety at every turn.

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How do we break the cycle—and rethink what division means in 2023? Can disagreements, governed by shared values, actually save us—and democracy, itself?

Alissa Wilkinson is a senior culture reporter and critic at Vox.com, where she writes about film, TV, and culture. She is also an associate professor of English and humanities at The King’s College in New York City, where, since 2009, she has taught courses on criticism, cinema studies, literature, and cultural theory. She joins us to discuss her book, Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women, which features the biographies of nine, 20th-century figures who challenged norms and defied conventional wisdom, including Ella Baker, Alice B. Toklas, Hannah Arendt, Octavia Butler, Agnes Varda, Elizabeth David, Edna Lewis, Maya Angelou, and Laurie Colwin.

In this interview, Alissa shares how one figure in her book, Hannah Arendt, viewed friendship and disagreement as an anti-authoritarian tool that was necessary for a healthy and functioning democracy. She shares how culture has changed since 2009, and how we might challenge ourselves outside of Netflix-driven comfort zones by dining solo.

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Over 150 years later and as we all struggle with distractions from technologies that impede our precious attention spans, what can we learn about valuing personal space, our desires, our priorities, and our limited time?

Amy Landino is a YouTube influencer, a keynote speaker, and a productive lifestyle coach whose book, Good Morning, Good Life: 5 Simple Habits to Master Your Mornings and Upgrade Your Life, encourages readers to reclaim personal space — especially from the demands of social media — to get clarity on their priorities in life, their passions, and their desires.

Amy's award-winning YouTube series, AmyTV, has over 24 million views. Her work has been featured in prestigious publications such as Business Insider, Fortune, Entrepreneur, and Inc.

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Clearly, books are revered in American society. But what does it take to become one of the few people who actually do it?

Nikki Groom is a brand strategist, the host of the Movement Makers podcast, and the author of A Power of Your Own: How to Awaken Your Potential, Experiment With Purpose, And Do Work That Matters. Having worked together in a coaching capacity, Nikki and Dave go behind the scenes to recount her book's slow formulation—and, how the expectation of what it means to write a book oftentimes differs in reality.

Overcoming imposter syndrome, shame scripts, self-limiting beliefs, and a world of learned doubts from a society that tells many, especially those from historically marginalized identities, to remain small, Nikki shares how book writing was an invitation to learn, grow, and heal.

Hailed as “a force of nature” and “a rising superstar”, Nikki is on a mission to help women entrepreneurs recognize their worthiness, own their power, and amplify their impact—without checking their integrity at the door. She has been involved in dozens of projects and partnerships that focus on empowering women in business. 

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Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. is the Vann Associate Professor of Racial Justice at Davidson College and the author of Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food In the American South, a vivid portrait of African American life in today’s urban South through the lens of food, its history, and access to it.

For two weeks in 2011, 11 months in 2012, and 3 months in 2016, Joseph lived as an unhoused person, worked in a Black-owned BBQ restaurant, shadow low-income families just trying to get by, and sat at fine-dining tables with some of Jackon’s most well-off families to research people and their stories from in-depth, firsthand experience. As a cultural sociologist, Joseph says that principles of the research method called "ethnography" can help all of us navigate ethical dilemmas of storytelling, including how to tell stories more honestly, respectfully, and humbly.

He says we live in a world that needs as many stories, and as much representation, as possible.

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Alexandra Franzen is a Hawaii-based best-selling author of 6 books, a writing teacher, an entrepreneur, and the co-founder of Get It Done, a woman-owned company that helps clients create beautiful books in all genres. She joins us to discuss The Checklist Book: Set Realistic Goals, Celebrate Tiny Wins, Reduce Stress and Overwhelm, and Feel Calmer Every Day, including how checklists can help change our lives for the better, manage stress, and prioritize joy in our lives.

Alex's words and work have been seen across Newsweek, Time, Forbes, USA Today, The New York Times Small Business Blog, and The Los Angeles Times.

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While the declaration started out as good-humored—a way to jest and say, "I'm just so over it!"—today, she says, the story behind the saying now reeks of toxic individuality. In a world that needs more caring—and, in which people who care about bad outcomes are doing a lot of harm—Kat encourages us to take pride in caring, even more. But how do we care even more when it feels so hard to keep caring?

Kat Vellos is an author, speaker, facilitator, researcher, and former user experience designer who is on a mission to help people to experience greater authentic connections with each other, and healthy friendships in their personal lives. 

She is the author of two books, We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships and Connected from Afar: A Guide for Staying Close When You’re Far Away. Her words and work have been seen across TEDx, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, and dozens of other outlets.

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Gemma Stone is a registered psychologist, neuroscientist, executive coach, speaker, and author based in Calgary, Canada. Gemma bridges lifestyle design concepts and practices into her clinical practice to help clients remember that they possess the power of choice, especially when they are feeling down, victimized, or like they are not living lives of their own making. 

In this interview with host Dave Ursillo, Gemma shares how her early personal experiences with trauma led her to study psychology, what overcompensating for a healing journey looks like (and what’s wrong with over-compensating), and how lifestyle design helped her to finally bring true balance to her healing and wellness journey, so she could support others in doing the same.

This interview was originally recorded in September 2020.

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Along the way, we speak to talented guests to help us better understand the collective stories and shared narratives behind record-high levels of dissatisfaction, dread, disillusionment, and cynicism throughout society.

Finally, we ask our guests, from public servants to academics and clinical mental health professionals, to share the "new" stories that may help to reshape our collective future, for the good.

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Amber Jackson is a food scientist, entrepreneur, and the Owner and Chief Operating Officer of The Black Leaf Tea and Culture Shop, an online loose-leaf tea company that uses its platform to create spaces to engage the community, encourage connection, and celebrate Black culture in New England.

In this interview with host Dave Ursillo, Amber shares how her identities and upbringing in Chicago inspired her entrepreneurship, how her love of food science was born at a young age, and some of the successes and challenges she’s faced with her 3-year-old business — through praise and public fanfare, among other high highs and low lows.

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In this interview, Dave is asked to relitigate his personal and professional journeys across 10 years, reflect on the social and cultural forces that inspired creative and career endeavors, and question "personal development" as a construct. You'll hear about...

• The counter-cultural moment of the early 2010s in light of the Great Recession
• How certain values around work-as-purpose are being corrected today
• The privilege embedded in "doing what you love for a living," and more!

A big thank you to Greg for allowing us to republish this episode! We'll be back with new interviews soon.

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In this solo podcast, your host Dave Ursillo hits pause on the last 7 months of interviewing amazing guests to share his own story with you, our dear listeners. Dave opens up to share how he stumbled into the art of storytelling as a practice of self-knowledge (and connecting with others); why poignant criticism of stories, expectations, and ideas today is so important, the ways in which the tools in our pockets are overwhelming the human species, and consider an offering on why being your story's teller feels more important than ever, today.

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As a licensed clinical psychologist, educator, and mental health influencer, Dr. Ren specializes in liberation-oriented, anti-oppressive, and culturally-informed therapy. Her advocacy and education on decolonized mental health have sparked an organic, fast-growing social media audience with hundreds of thousands of followers, in recent years. Her advocacy and education on decolonized mental health have sparked an organic, fast-growing social media audience (@dr.han.ren on Instagram, @drhanren on TikTok) with hundreds of thousands of followers, in recent years.

With a growing audience and influential voice, Dr. Ren has made her name by translating science and theory into snack-sized applications for liberated, intentional lives, and striving to make mental health accessible and applicable to one and all.

In this interview with host Dave Ursillo, Dr. Ren shares her personal immigration story and its connection to her journey into a career in mental health, how ideas like perfectionism and overachievement are rooted in historical white supremacy, and how systemic trauma can be passed on inter-generationally.

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The president and CEO of Consumer Reports—an 85+ year consumer advocacy organization with over 6 million members today—since 2014, Marta's new book comes out swinging against the exploitation of tech's so-called Big Four (Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook), a government that refuses to take action to protect consumers today, and the low standards that we have today as consumers.

Her new book is Buyer Aware: Harnessing Our Consumer Power for a Safe, Fair and Transparent Marketplace.

In this interview with host Dave Ursillo, Marta shares her family's origin story of fleeing from Communist Cuba in 1961 (and how it inspired her career in public service), the connections between a healthy democracy and a healthy consumer marketplace, and what a consumer-first economy could look like in the near future—if consumers like us harness our consumer rights as civil rights, and start to demand more action.

She tells us about what makes Consumer Reports a unique nonprofit organization, shares new initiatives by Consumer Reports to shape a fair and equitable marketplace, how discrimination runs rampant in clandestine practices and invisible algorithms across the Internet today, and what we can do about it.

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So, how might nonprofits today—who exist to affect positive change in our world—stay nimble, creative, and responsive to uncertain and rapidly changing times?

Alison Bologna is an award-winning journalist, a TV news anchor for Rhode Island’s NBC 10 News Sunrise program, and the Founder and Executive Director of Shri Studio, a yoga studio and social enterprise that, through its 501(c)(3) nonprofit arm, Shri Service Corps, funds more than 100 free classes every month to over 8,500 students from underrepresented and at-risk communities.

In this interview, Alison shares how her successful career in journalism didn’t stop her from pursuing a passion project to uplift her local community and serve those in need. She shares how Shri Service Corps bootstrapped and innovated its way over 10 years into a dynamic, hybrid organization that certifies yoga teachers, delivers trauma-informed yoga classes, produces its own snack line, and is now stewarding a $3.7 million live-workspace build-out in conjunction with the City of Pawtucket and other partners.

She tells us that relationships, communication, flexibility, understanding, trust, and reliability are the secret sauce to running a successful nonprofit—not just funding.

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But football has become a microcosm of issues throughout society, from rampant corporatization and club ownership takeovers by authoritative regimes, racism and misogyny among some fan circles and footballing institutions, and allegations of significant human rights abuses in the build-up to the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

To make sense of what's happening in the world's most popular game, Dave Ursillo is joined by Luke Aaron Moore, cohost and producer of the United Kingdom’s biggest independent football show, The Football Ramble. 

They discuss how the Russian invasion of Ukraine rippled across Europe to disrupt the Premier League's Chelsea F.C., the lack of regulation that allowed the Saudi-led takeover of Newcastle F.C., and how the women's game may be one particular bright spot in the global game.

Luke is also an author, a radio presenter, a broadcaster, and the cohost and producer of a number of shows with Stak, a London-based, award-winning independent podcast company that brings authentic conversation to life. He co-authored the 2016 book, The Football Ramble: By Four Friends Who Love the Game They Hate.

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That's what happened to USA Today and international bestselling novelist Catherine McKenzie in 2019 when she was invited to join a mysterious women's collective, which described itself as a safe haven for accomplished women professionals among seas of workplace boys' clubs. While Catherine turned the offer down, her protagonist in her latest novel, Please Join Us, accepts, and drama ensues.

What was so intriguing for Catherine, as a trial lawyer with over 20 years of experience, about the strange invitation she received and used for inspiration for her latest novel? 

And, what might that intrigue say about the state of work and what professional women are still dealing with in male-dominated companies and cultures in the 21st century?

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Coss is also the author of ConBody: The Revolutionary Bodyweight Prison Boot Camp, Born from an Extraordinary Story of Hope. Nonprofit organizations helping formerly incarcerated people: Defy Ventures, Thrive for Life, and Fortune Society. Coss's brother, Christopher Marte, who was elected to District 1's City Council in New York City in 2021.

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That's why she wrote her new book, How to Talk to Your Boss About Race: Speaking Up Without Getting Shut Down, which equips readers with a framework to think about race at work and prepares them to have frank and effective conversations with leaders.

Y-Vonne is the CEO and founder of ReadySet, one of the country’s biggest diversity, equity, and inclusion training firms that helps tech giants, political leaders, media outlets, and Fortune 500 companies speak more productively about racism, and turn talk about change into real action. 

A graduate of Harvard Law, Y-Vonne worked as an international labor and human rights lawyer for nearly a decade in places like Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and along the Thai/Burmese border in Southeast Asia, before founding her company in 2015, which was inspired by her own experiences with racism in the workforce as a Black woman.

In this interview, Y-Vonne joins us to discuss...

• The insidious ways in which racist policies, attitudes, and cultures can make BIPOC people internalize marginalization
• How a former employer tried to silence Y-Vonne's new book—by attempting to enlist her attorney to turn against her
• The overlaps between historical exploitation of labor and modern-day racism in the workplace
• Considering The Great Resignation as The Great Renegotiation (Planet Money)

Y-Vonne’s work has been featured across CNBC, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Wired Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and beyond. She has spoken at Harvard Law, Yale School of Management, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and MIT Sloan.

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Today, author Wade Rouse and story doula and public speaking coach Eduardo Placer each work in service of helping others, from all backgrounds and lived experiences, to live their own truth in the world, too.

First, we're joined by former USA Today and Publishers Weekly best-selling author, Wade Rouse, who talks about his memoir, Magic Season: A Son's Story, which documents his life as a self-described "queer kid" growing up in a rural Ozarks community in the midwest in the 1970s. Wade not only stood out as different in a culture that defined gender roles in restrictive, unforgiving ways; his contentious relationship with his emotionally abusive father challenged him to pretend to be someone he wasn't.

How did Wade find, protect, and become the truth of who he was, anyway?

Then. professional speaking coach Eduardo Placer tells us about his favorite, self-revealing joke — that he is "afflicted" by something he calls "showtune-itis" — which compels him to break out into spontaneous show tunes and songs on stage in front of audiences, across the world. He tells us that his explosions of joy are self-loving antidotes and correctives to the deep shame that he has felt from insensitive, bigoted, and homophobic cultures, which have suppressed the joy, pride, and truth of many LGBTQIA+ persons for far, far too long.

• How Eduardo learned to hide the truth of who he knew himself to be by "performing" a different role before others as a child
• The paralyzing questions that many LGBTQIA persons ask themselves when seeking safety and acceptance in a world that prefers them to be small or hidden

This ‘Best Of’ episode highlights excerpts from these two popular, recent episodes.

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A story doula, professional public speaking coach, and former professional performer, Eduardo is the founder of Fearless Communicators, a public speaking company that helps storytellers push past their fear of public speaking by embracing the courage of public sharing to make the greatest positive impact in their community. Eduardo has led workshops and spoken at places like HBO, Google, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Yale, The Juilliard School, the Wharton School of Business, the Muslim-Jewish Conference, and beyond.

In our interview, Eduardo shares his personal and professional experiences as a storyteller, including…

• The heartbreaking but honest reason why Eduardo learned to “perform” or pretend that he was someone he wasn’t, as a young person
• Understanding what brings most public speaking clients into his workshops: is it their fear, their healing, their ego, or something else?
• Why Eduardo says we ALWAYS need more, and new, stories (hint: it’s because humans are not good at learning lessons from the past)

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Wade Rouse was a self-described queer kid growing up feeling like an outsider in his rural, conservative, Ozarks community in 1970s Missouri—and, in his own family.

Wade's new book is Magic Season: A Son's Story, a memoir that details Wade’s relationship with his hardline, old fashioned, and rather unforgiving father throughout his life, including Wade’s journey to find healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation before his dad’s death. As a USA TODAY, Publishers Weekly, and international bestselling author, Wade has published 13 books, including four memoirs and nine novels, to leverage storytelling of both fiction and nonfiction varieties to help himself discover healing—while modeling what it takes for readers, too, to find healing in the stories of their own lives.

Wade's books have been selected as Must-Reads by NBC’s Today Show. His writing has appeared in Coastal Living, Time, All Things Considered, People, Good Housekeeping, Parade, Salon, Forbes, Writer’s Digest, and more.

In this interview, Wade shares…

• How baseball, a sport he was forced to play, grew on him and gave him a language to connect with his dad
• Why "remember and reconcile" may be a better path for some of us than "forgive and forget"
• The power of accessing his inner world through journaling, writing, and storytelling

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Kat's and Caroline's clever usage of the once-taboo "F- word" in their own unique ways have sparked really poignant, insightful social observations and meaningful conversations about topics like caring about outcomes (in a time that feels so exhausting that giving up feels like a relief), developing friends and community in adulthood, rejecting self-punishment culture, and the idea of radical permission to rest in an age of anxiety.

Kat Vellos is tired of hearing people on social media tell this one story: "I'm out of f**ks to give!" While the declaration started out as good-humored—a way to jest and say, "I'm just so over it!"—today, she says, the story behind the saying now reeks of toxic individuality. Kat is the author of two books, We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships and Connected from Afar: A Guide for Staying Close When You’re Far Away.

Caroline Dooner is tired as f*ck of the pressures of self-help, diet culture, and trying to fix her supposed imperfections. A humorist and storyteller, Caroline blends humor with vulnerable memoir-style storytelling to share her history as a chronic dieter, her experience with undiagnosed eating disorders since childhood, and some really blistering social observations about modern burn-out culture. Caroline is the author of two books, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy (Spanish version), and Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture.

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A humorist and storyteller, Caroline is the author of two books, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy (Spanish version), and Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture. Far from a typical "self-help" writer, Caroline blends a characteristic sense of humor with really honest and vulnerable memoir-style storytelling to share her personal history as a chronic dieter, her experience with undiagnosed eating disorders since childhood, and some really blistering social observations about modern burn-out culture. 

Tired as F*ck explores the pressures that we all feel to constantly self-improve and be hyper-productive, including how toxic it really can be to feel like we have to become the "best versions of ourselves." She offers, instead, the idea of granting oneself "radical permission to rest" starting with letting go of some of the pressures we place upon ourselves, every day.

In this interview, Caroline shares…

• Why restrictive, calorie-deficit dieting is proven to not work, according to modern science
• How modern diet culture reflects our society's anxious urge to over-control our lives
• The ways in which our busyness culture numbs the pain of being human, in socially acceptable ways
• Why we need to practice associating within the body more through feeling, and the mind less

Thank you to Caroline Dooner for joining us on The New Story Is!

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She says that this common turn of phrase, which is typically used as a sort of signal to indicate that we’re giving up before we really try, is actually a real question that deserves answering.

Her book, Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What’s Next, turns the rhetorical question into a literal one and a personal invitation to figure out what we really want, what our stake is in trying, and how to access our desire to pursue it. The sequel, Get Your Bother On: A Guided Journal to Discover What’s Next, features 200 bite-sized exercises and unique journaling prompts to help you access your desire and explore what you want to “bother” with, deep down. 

For 30 years, Jennifer has been an author, teacher, and leading voice on self-care and creative transformation. She has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show; she’s a former columnist for Whole Living, a Martha Stewart magazine, and her work has been featured in People, USA Today, CNN, and two of author Brené Brown’s best-selling books, Daring Greatly and Dare to Lead.

With close to a million copies of her books in print in nine languages today, her 1992 book, The Women's Comfort Book, is attributed to helping begin the modern self-care movement.

We recorded our interview in February 2020.

Jen shares wisdom including...

• What it's like when, even after years of being a best-selling author, your latest book-in-progress "just isn't working"
• How Jen's lifelong fascination with understanding why people give up motivated her latest projects
• How we can summon curiosity, joy, desire, and more to help us reconnect with what we want from life

Thank you to Jen for joining us on The New Story Is!

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While the declaration started out as good-humored—a way to jest and say, "I'm just so over it!"—today, she says, the story behind the saying now reeks of toxic individuality. In a world that needs more caring—and, in which people who care about bad outcomes are doing a lot of harm—Kat encourages us to take pride in caring, even more. But how do we care even more in a time when it feels so hard to keep caring?

Kat Vellos is an author, speaker, facilitator, researcher, and former user experience designer who is on a mission to help people to experience greater authentic connections with each other, and healthy friendships in their personal lives. She is the author of two books, We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships and Connected from Afar: A Guide for Staying Close When You’re Far Away. Her words and work have been seen across TEDx, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, and dozens of other outlets.

In this interview with host Dave Ursillo, Kat shares wisdom and inspiration including...

• Why the saying, "I'm out of f**ks to give!" has come to grate her as someone who cares
• What her extensive research on the modern pandemic of loneliness reveals about the importance of relationships
• How her experience as a UX designer taught her to be outcome-focused and solution-oriented
• What we can all learn about caring, including how to care even more, in a time that needs more of us to care about outcomes

Thank you to Kat for joining us on The New Story Is!

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From news headlines to trending topics on social media to everyday conversations, stories of doubt and distrust seem to be perpetuating more of themselves:

• Where are these stories coming from?
• What is our individual and collective responsibility in telling them?
• In the face of such big narratives, how do we begin to change the tide?
• What we do want our new stories to become?

Join us for conversations with authors, entertainers, and thought leaders from all backgrounds as we explore the new stories that may change our collective future, for the good.

Check out Dave's newly reimagined and renamed business, The New Story Company, at TheNewStory.is.

Nominate a guest or potential interviewee at TheNewStory.Is/Podcast.

This trailer was mixed by Karl Cooper of Podcast Partners UK.

Our new theme song is by Yrii Semchyshyn of Coma Media.

Please rate and review The New Story Is wherever you get your pods; it helps others find our show.

Thank you for your patience, and we can't wait to share new stories with you soon!

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The old podcast is being reborn with a new vision, mission, and intention under the name of The New Story Is...

The New Story Is... is a podcast from Dave Ursillo and his business, The New Story Company (TheNewStory.is), that seeks to better understand the collective stories and shared narratives of our time—especially those that are contributing to record high levels of dissatisfaction, dread, disillusionment and cynicism throughout society. From news headlines to trending topics on social media to everyday conversations, stories of doubt and distrust seem to be perpetuating more of themselves:

• Where are these stories coming from?
• What is our individual and collective responsibility in telling them?
• In the face of such big narratives, how do we begin to change the tide?
• What we do want our new stories to become?

Join host Dave Ursillo (DaveUrsillo.com) and a range of new guest interviewees, from authors to entertainers and thought leaders from all backgrounds, as we explore the new stories that may change our world, for the good.

Check out Dave's newly reimagined and renamed business, The New Story Company, at TheNewStory.is.

Nominate a guest or potential interviewee at TheNewStory.Is/Podcast.

This teaser episode was mixed by Karl Cooper of Podcast Partners UK.

Our new theme song is by Yrii Semchyshyn of Coma Media.

Please leave a helpful review for The New Story Is wherever you get your pods; it helps others find our show.

Thank you for your patience, and we can't wait to share new stories with you soon!

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The New Story Is was originally called Written, Spoken with Dave Ursillo, a podcast in which the written word came to life as the spoken word through the voices of the writers who wrote them.

Created and hosted by writer, author, and teacher of creative self-expression Dave Ursillo (DaveUrsillo.com, TheNewStory.Is), Written, Spoken was a creative experiment that blended mixed mediums to explore a new way of connecting with audiences.

The show's first two seasons remained archived and available for your listening enjoyment.

Season 2, Episode 7 of 'Written, Spoken' discusses Paul's work on the Internet for 20 years, starting out as a web designer and helping shape brands and projects for titans of industry, sports icons, and global brands. Ten years ago, he and his wife decided to leave city living—and the fast, busy lifestyle that came with it—behind, Paul reconnected with his true goals as a business owner: staying small, and not getting sucked into the trap of thinking that more is better.

In this interview, Paul and Dave discuss the core ideas of his book and how his personal and professional journey informed his new philosophy, including:

• Why some forms of growth can actually reduce your resilience and your autonomy in business and in life
• The #1 biggest change Paul has witnessed in his 20 years of working on the Internet
• His book-writing journey and why Paul, a prolific writer, considers himself a "sell-out" when it comes to writing

Paul is a designer, podcaster, and author who makes simple and humane products. Paul has worked with professional athletes like Steve Nash and Shaquille O’Neal, corporate giants like Microsoft and Mercedes-Benz, and entrepreneurs with online empires like Danielle LaPorte and Marie Forleo.

Subscribe now to our new show, The New Story Is, to join Dave on a journey that explores the shared stories and myths that shape our perceptions of life in our world today, including interviews and analysis from special guest interviewees who are championing the new stories of our time, for the good.

• Visit the author's online home at PJRVS.com
• Learn more about Dave at DaveUrsillo.com or follow Dave on Instagram
• Get coaching and consulting support from Dave and his company, The New Story Company
• Visit our podcast page at TheNewStory.Is/Podcast, where you can leave feedback and nominate a guest for our series
• The new theme song for The New Story Is is by Yrii Semchyshyn of Coma Media

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The New Story Is was originally called Written, Spoken with Dave Ursillo, a podcast in which the written word came to life as the spoken word through the voices of the writers who wrote them.

Created and hosted by writer, author, and teacher of creative self-expression Dave Ursillo (DaveUrsillo.com, TheNewStory.Is), Written, Spoken was a creative experiment that blended mixed mediums to explore a new way of connecting with audiences.

The show's first two seasons remained archived and available for your listening enjoyment.

Season 2, Episode 6 of 'Written, Spoken' discusses Farnoosh's journey growing up in Iran during the Iranian Revolution before immigrating with her family to the United States as a child, where she became an electrical engineer and rising leader at a Fortune 100 company. But her self-described boredom—and a challenge from her husband to attend a blogging conference in 2010—spun her life into an entirely new direction. 

Today, Farnoosh is a consultant, executive coach, author, speaker, and trainer who is on a mission to change conversations around selling to serving, which she says can be a competitive advantage not only in business and career but in life.

In this interview, Farnoosh and Dave discuss:

• Why do so many people resist and resent selling?
• The difference between being of service and being subservient to others
• How Farnoosh immigrated to the United States with her family and has gone on to train the likes of the United States Air Force in leadership crisis training

Subscribe now to our new show, The New Story Is, to join Dave on a journey that explores the shared stories and myths that shape our perceptions of life in our world today, including interviews and analysis from special guest interviewees who are championing the new stories of our time, for the good.

• Visit the author's online home at FarnooshBrock.com
• Learn more about Dave at DaveUrsillo.com or follow Dave on Instagram
• Get coaching and consulting support from Dave and his company, The New Story Company
• Visit our podcast page at TheNewStory.Is/Podcast, where you can leave feedback and nominate a guest for our series
• The new theme song for The New Story Is is by Yrii Semchyshyn of Coma Media

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Created and hosted by writer, author, and teacher of creative self-expression Dave Ursillo (DaveUrsillo.com, TheNewStory.Is), Written, Spoken was a creative experiment that blended mixed mediums to explore a new way of connecting with audiences.

The show's first two seasons remained archived and available for your listening enjoyment.

Subscribe now to our new show, The New Story Is, to join Dave on a journey that explores the shared stories and myths that shape our perceptions of life in our world today, including interviews and analysis from special guest interviewees who are championing the new stories of our time, for the good.

• Learn more about Dave at DaveUrsillo.com or follow Dave on Instagram
• Get coaching and consulting support from Dave and his company, The New Story Company
• Visit our podcast page at TheNewStory.Is/Podcast, where you can leave feedback and nominate a guest for our series
• The new theme song for The New Story Is is by Yrii Semchyshyn of Coma Media

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The New Story Is was originally called Written, Spoken with Dave Ursillo, a podcast in which the written word came to life as the spoken word through the voices of the writers who wrote them.

Created and hosted by writer, author, and teacher of creative self-expression Dave Ursillo (DaveUrsillo.com, TheNewStory.Is), Written, Spoken was a creative experiment that blended mixed mediums to explore a new way of connecting with audiences.

The show's first two seasons remained archived and available for your listening enjoyment.

Season 2, Episode 5 of 'Written, Spoken' discusses Coby's definition of yoga, which defies notions of stretchy pants, sweaty workout rooms, and downward-facing dogs. Instead, Coby introduces us to a personal philosophy for engaging with and living your life in stronger integrity to your own sense of inner wisdom. 

Coby is a speaker, life coach trainer, and contemporary yoga and meditation educator. She has appeared on the covers of Yoga Journal and Mantra Wellness Magazine and was named “one of seven yoga teachers who have changed the practice.” She is a senior faculty member and presenter at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and the Esalen Institute. She received her master’s degree in transformative leadership.

Coby and I discuss her yoga teaching career, how a life-changing injury redefined her understanding of yoga in her 20s, and much more:

• What are "crimes committed against wisdom" and how do we stop making them?
• How do we navigate matters of control and uncertainty during the age of COVID-19?
• Why did you consider omitting the word "yoga" from your book, altogether?

Subscribe now to our new show, The New Story Is, to join Dave on a journey that explores the shared stories and myths that shape our perceptions of life in our world today, including interviews and analysis from special guest interviewees who are championing the new stories of our time, for the good.

• Visit Coby's online home at CobyK.com
• Coby's online training, Quarter-Life Calling™: Creating an Extraordinary Life In Your 20’s
• Learn more about Dave at DaveUrsillo.com or follow Dave on Instagram
• Get coaching and consulting support from Dave and his company, The New Story Company
• Visit our podcast page at TheNewStory.Is/Podcast, where you can leave feedback and nominate a guest for our series
• The new theme song for The New Story Is is by Yrii Semchyshyn of Coma Media

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The New Story Is was originally called Written, Spoken with Dave Ursillo, a podcast in which the written word came to life as the spoken word through the voices of the writers who wrote them.

Created and hosted by writer, author, and teacher of creative self-expression Dave Ursillo (DaveUrsillo.com, TheNewStory.Is), Written, Spoken was a creative experiment that blended mixed mediums to explore a new way of connecting with audiences.

The show's first two seasons remained archived and available for your listening enjoyment.

Season 2, Episode 2 of 'Written, Spoken' discusses Marcello's journey and how it began as a backpacking writer without a plan before eventually becoming a multi-award-winning author who works on the front lines of major and overlooked conflict zones throughout the world to affect social change.

Marcello and I discuss the author's relationship to writing in-depth, including what it means to "make change" in a world divided by walls, and much more:

• Do you find stories when you travel, or do the stories find you?
• How much of writing is really about empathy?
• Is it unprofessional or unethical to take a political stand when telling social and political stories in your writing?

Subscribe now to our new show, The New Story Is, to join Dave on a journey that explores the shared stories and myths that shape our perceptions of life in our world today, including interviews and analysis from special guest interviewees who are championing the new stories of our time, for the good.

• Please rate and review The New Story Is wherever you get your podcasts. It helps other listeners find and enjoy our show!
• Learn more about Dave at DaveUrsillo.com or follow Dave on Instagram
• Get coaching and consulting support from Dave and his company, The New Story Company
• Visit our podcast page at TheNewStory.Is/Podcast, where you can leave feedback and nominate a guest for our series
• The new theme song for The New Story Is is by Yrii Semchyshyn of Coma Media

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