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The Finding Sessions

Natalie MacDonald

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In The Finding Sessions podcast I take you along with me on my self-discovery journey as a 50 something female, after leaving a busy professional career. I share my stories, thoughts and reflections on a range of issues, as I continue to practice becoming more present and reaching higher levels of consciousness. My desire is to put positive, healing energy into the world. I share my thoughts on topics that are important to me, and some of which I believe are important to improving our emotio ...
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Welcome to the UCL Medical Women Talking podcast series, hosted by physician and medical scholar, Professor Dame Jane Dacre. In this inspirational collection of informal interviews, Jane talks with a range of women doctors hailing from various specialties and backgrounds, each with a remarkable career in medicine. Join Jane and her guests as they explore the challenges and rewards of a medical career and consider how it's possible to strike a balance between professional aspirations and pers ...
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Welcome to The Ecommerce Insights Show, brought to you by The Good! This weekly podcast gives ecommerce leaders specific, actionable advice for accelerating the growth of their business without pulling their hair out or making sacrifices in other areas. Our team of Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) consultants has been helping global brands like Adobe, Xerox, and The Economist accelerate their growth for more than a decade – and now we’re leveraging all of those relationships and experience ...
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A gritty ride through Toronto's immigrant neighbourhoods, Christie Pits (Dirty Water Comics, 2019) tells the incredible true story of when young Jewish and Italian immigrants squared off against Nazi-inspired thugs on the streets of Toronto. This is the history of a gruff and unrecognizable Canada - one of 'swastika clubs' and public bigotry.A home…
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In Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race (Emerald Publishing, 2024), Dr. Natalie Wall takes readers on a journey through the tropes and narratives of white generosity, from the onset of the African slave trade to contemporary efforts to ridicule and undermine the “woke agenda.” She offers a theoretical framework for…
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Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas (U Nevada Press, 2024) explores the emergence, dynamics, and lasting impacts of a mining firm, the United States Company. Through its exercise of sovereign power across the borders of North America in the early twentieth century, the transnational US Company shaped the business…
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You will want to start with Part 1 of episode 135; it can be found right here. Linda Schlossberg, author of Life in Miniature, who teaches at Harvard, joins RTB to read and explore one of her favorite Alice Munro stories, "Miles City, Montana" in our new series, Recall This Story. The discussion ranges widely. This story first appeared in The New Y…
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Linda Schlossberg, author of Life in Miniature, who teaches at Harvard, joins RTB to read and explore one of her favorite Alice Munro stories, "Miles City, Montana" in our new series, Recall This Story. The discussion ranges widely. This story first appeared in The New Yorker (1/6/1985) and was reprinted in The Progress of Love (1986) one Munro's m…
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Send us a text As the summer ends, we often find our thoughts consumed by all that we must do, what is to come, with little thought about the present moment. But saying goodbye to one season and entering another gives us that perfect opportunity to take a pause, a pause between the seasons – a little time to take a breather from our busy lives and …
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Send us a text In this episode I talk about insecurities-Those little personal “flaws” that we are often led to believe we have, learned from something perhaps we were told as a child, or observing the patterns and behaviors of others in society. Things that we don't like about ourselves, and that we carry with us, seemingly without any issue. But …
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Send us a text In this episode, I share my thoughts on how damaging secrets can be, with a focus on those personal secrets we keep, hidden out of shame, embarrassment, fear of judgement. Secrets come from fear, and in hiding them, you may be suppressing or denying the event that happened. But your secrets are not you - YOU are not your secrets. It …
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Since the mid-nineteenth century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites have referred to “the labour question.” The labour question was rooted in the system of wage labour that spread throughout much of Europe and its colonies and produced contending classes as industrialization unfolded. Answers to the Labour Question explores…
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After John A. Macdonald’s death, four Tory prime ministers — each remarkable but all little known — rose to power and fell in just five years. From 1891 to 1896, between John A. Macdonald’s and Wilfrid Laurier’s tenures, four lesser-known men took on the mantle of leadership. Tory prime ministers John Abbott, John Thompson, Mackenzie Bowell, and Ch…
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Send us a text This meditation is for YOU, to give you a few minutes to take a breather, get away from any thoughts of the past and future, to give yourself a little self-love, and to embrace yourself with gratitude for all that you are. We can all benefit from taking a few minutes each day just for us, and taking some quiet time to be in your own …
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In this episode, Jane chats with Professor Wendy Burn CBE FRCPsych, a Consultant in psychiatry and President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 2017 to 2020. Wendy shares her personal journey in psychiatry, highlighting the challenges she faced, including stigma and difficulties in medical school. Jane and Wendy discuss their experiences in…
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In this episode, Jane chats with Dr Natalie Jane Macdonald. Natalie-Jane is a graduate of Glasgow University with over 30 years of experience healthcare in a variety of roles. Jane and Natalie discuss their experiences in navigating career paths in medicine, including sideways steps and unconventional paths. They emphasise the importance of effecti…
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In this episode, Jane talks with Dr Navina Evans, Chief Executive of Health Education England since October 2020. She was previously Chief Executive of East London NHS Foundation Trust. Navina also held a number of positions across the Trust including Director of Operations & Deputy CEO, Director for Mental Health, Lead Clinician Newham CAMHS and C…
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In this episode, Jane chats to Dr Kate Stannard. Kate graduated from Guy’s & St Thomas Hospitals in 1995, her anaesthetic training was based in London with an 18 month period as clinical lecturer at Royal Perth Hospital & the University of Western Australia. She started her consultant career in 2005 at MTW NHS Trust and has developed an interest in…
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In this episode, Jane talks with Professor Jenny Higham, the first female Chair of the Medical Schools Council. Alongside her role as Vice-Chancellor, Professor Higham continues clinical practice as a consultant gynaecologist which influenced her research interests in reproductive medicine and medical education innovation. Jane and Jenny discuss th…
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In this episode, Jane talks with Baroness Ilora Finlay, a Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Velindre Cancer Centre and Honorary Professor of Palliative Medicine, Cardiff University. Ilora established the Marie Curie Hospice in 1987 and the Diploma/MSc in Palliative Medicine in 1989 and was lead for Palliative Care in Wales 2008-2017. In 2010 she…
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In this episode, Jane chats with Professor Farah Bhatti OBE FRCS FLSW. Farah is a British cardiac surgeon who is an honorary professor at the Swansea University Medical School. She serves as Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Women in Surgery Forum. Jane and Farah share their experiences as women in a male-dominated field, highlighti…
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In this episode, Jane talks with Dr Ananta Dave, Chief Medical Officer of the Black Country Integrated Care Board. Ananta is a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist by background and closely involved in undergraduate and post graduate medical education. Ananta was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) in J…
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Jane chats with Professor Carrie Newlands, a Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon whose primary focus is to work with her patients, finding out what is important to them. Jane and Carrie discuss their experiences as women in surgery, highlighting the challenges they faced and the importance of resilience and determination. They also discuss ba…
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In this episode, Jane talks with Dr Henrietta Hughes. Previously the NHS National Guardian, Henrietta provided leadership and support to Freedom to Speak Up Guardians across England in the NHS, Independent sector organisations, and other parts of the healthcare sector. Henrietta continues her clinical role one day a week as a GP in central London. …
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This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global media a…
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Send us a text In this episode I share my thoughts on why it is important to take time to get to know YOU - the real you. We are often so caught up in the busy-ness of our lives, that we don't take time to even think about how we FEEL about our lives, how we feel about the activities we spend much of our time doing, or the relationships that play a…
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This book puts two of the most significant Jewish Diaspora communities outside of the U.S. into conversation with one another. At times contributor-pairs directly compare unique aspects of two Jewish histories, politics, or cultures. At other times, they juxtapose. Some chapters focus on literature, poetry, theatre, or sport; others on immigration,…
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This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global media a…
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In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique social, psychological, and emotional needs challenged both the estab…
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Send us a text In this episode, through a couple of personal stories and observations, I share my views about how hugs and laughter can make our lives, and our relationships, more meaningful. I also talk about the health benefits of laughter, and the value in taking some time to pay attention when we give or receive a warm embrace with someone we c…
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The names of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse are often readily recognized among many Americans. Yet the longer, dynamic history of the Lakota - a history from which these three famous figures were created - remains largely untold. In Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (Yale, 2019), historian Pekka Hämäläinen, author of The C…
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Send us a text This meditation is to help those who may be experiencing significant pain, where there is a feeling that you cannot overcome it. If you tuned into Episode 16, released with this meditation ("On the Loneliness of Pain"), I explain how we can feel alone in our pain, and also how our thoughts can consume us in times of pain. At times wh…
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Send us a text In this episode, I share my thoughts and reflections on the experience of pain, and how isolating it can be for those who experience it on a constant basis. Sometimes our thoughts can take us to a place where we feel unlike everyone around us, who seem to be carefree and full of energy. And we can feel as if we must hold our feelings…
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Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system of industrial education that attempted to transform Black and Indigenous peoples and land. This form of teaching—what Bayley J. Marquez names plantation pedagogy—was built on the claim that slavery and land dispossession are fundamentall…
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Send us a text In this episode, I share something I recently came across that I had written about 25 years ago, during a time in my life when I felt very alone - a time of sadness, when I frequently carried feelings of grief, loss, along with a little uncertainty about my life. The poem came from a place where I took the time to reflect on how I wa…
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For decades, Joni Mitchell's life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has inspired countless musicians--from peers like James Taylor, to inheritors like Prince and Brandi Carlile--and authors, who have dissected her music and her life in their writing. At the same time, Mitchell has al…
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In Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II (Cornell UP, 2023), M. Girard Dorsey uncovers just how close Britain, the United States, and Canada came to crossing the red line that restrained poison gas during World War II. Unlike in World War I, belligerents did not release poison gas regularly d…
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In this sweeping new history, esteemed University of North Carolina historian Kathleen DuVal makes the case for the ongoing, ancient, and dynamic history of Native nationhood as a critical component of global history. In Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Random House, 2024), DuVal covers a thousand years of continental history, buildin…
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Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 (Cambridge UP, 2023) explores the rise of the professional middle class across the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. With a focus on British settler colonies - Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States - Hannah Forsyth argues that the …
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Send us a text This Meditation is released along with Episode 14, "Stop Worrying About What Other People Think, and About Everything Else! My Thoughts on How LIfe Is Like a Dream". Feel free to check out that episode, where I share thoughts and tools on how meaningless our worries, are and how to stop that cycle! THIS MEDITATION: This meditation is…
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Send us a text In this episode, I share my thoughts on how to break free from the cycle of those needless worries that are often filling your mind, by learning the power of conscious or mindful living. I share thoughts on how most of our worries are about what other people will think about us, fear of judgement by others. I explore the senseless na…
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Send us a text This Meditation is being released with Episode 13 (The 3AM Club: Finding Calm and Getting Back to Sleep). In Episode 13, I share personal stories about my sleepless nights, and how I found ways to calm my mind, and accept the wakeful moments, which has helped me to drift back to sleep. I explain in that episode why I created this med…
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Send us a text In this episode, I share my sleep(less) stories, from the perspective of a 50 something female, who has learned all too well what 3 AM looks like, while all the world seems to be asleep. Having tried everything, I recently found a couple of ways to ease myself back into sleep, which I share here. I also share my experience with that …
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In 2018, Janis Thiessen, Kimberley Moore, and collaborator Kent Davies refashioned a used food truck into a mobile oral history lab. Together they embarked on a journey around Manitoba, gathering stories about the province’s food and the people who make, sell, and eat it. Along the way, they visited restaurant owners, beer brewers, grocers, farmers…
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Send us a text Often our decisions are made by listening to our thinking minds, which comes from past programming that can often be misinformed. In Episode 12, I share my thoughts on why we may want to rethink those "should do" messages coming from our thoughts, and instead start to become aware of how our heart feels. We can trust in our hearts, a…
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Send us a text In this episode, I talk about how telling ourselves that we should do something, usually means we are resisting it. If you really want to do something, you don't usually need to convince yourself that 'you should'. When we are resisting something, it may be a sign that we are doing something in opposition to our heart. I share my tho…
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Send us a text This Meditation follows my talk in Episode 11, where I share my thoughts on how we should pay attention to our emotions and reactions (whether edginess, frustration etc.) as they are here to tell us something about ourselves that we may be neglecting, or not facing. Embracing them can be a path to healing. Our inner wisdom is here to…
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The thrilling true story of Agent A12, the earliest enemy of the Nazis, and the first spy to crack Hitler's deadliest secret code: the framework of the Final Solution. In public life, Dr. Winthrop Bell was a Harvard philosophy professor and wealthy businessman. As an MI6 spy--known as secret agent A12--in Berlin in 1919, he evaded gunfire and shook…
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How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state’s capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices and settler colonial ways of seeing be refused? Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art (Fordham University Press, …
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Send us a text In this episode, I share thoughts on how we sometimes experience those not so welcome reactions or emotions (moments of impatience, frustration, edginess) and we dismiss them as feelings that just happen once in awhile, when we are too busy, too tired, or caused by something that happened or something that someone else said or did. B…
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In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular Inuit information about its fate, is partly due to the ways in which information was circulated in these imperial spaces. Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermedi…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Abi Patel. Abi is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. She graduated from University of Cambridge in 2004 and completed higher surgical training in the West Midlands, UK. Abi is a NIHR CRN Research Scholar and believes in patient centred research. S…
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In this epsisode, Jane Dacre chats with Dr Parveen Jayia. Dr Jayia has held a number of medical leadership roles both within NHS, where she practised as a surgeon, and within the pharmaceutical industry. Currently working in oncology, Parveen is keen to embrace new ways to optimise healthcare and determined that working in partnerships is the way f…
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