#positive change podcast

[cairos-wing]

Genuinely shout out to JRWI. Like I sometimes feel like the JRWI guys underestimate just how much they bring to people’s lives. I work as a housekeeper in a shitty motel where the customers leave huge messes, and this weekend I have had 13 rooms on both Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday I finished my shift after six and a half hours, today I’ve finished 7 rooms in two hours.

The only difference? I’ve been listening to Wonderlust today. Yesterday I was listening to music.

When I felt awful one summer, I spent my whole time listening to the Riptide Campaign, and recently I decided to rewatch AGAIN whenever I run out of Wonderlust episodes. I’ve also been debating subbing so I can get access to PD, BITB and MB.

Thank you to the JRWI guys, the campaigns genuinely make such a difference in my life and make it so much easier to stay positive and I know so many others also feel that difference.

[mrs-gauche]

I got the latest issue of the "GameStar" magazine (the article itself was already published online two months ago apparently, but the hard copy came out three weeks ago), which had a few pages about Veilguard (and a review of the whole series), and while it didn't include any new information, I thought the final "personal opinion" piece by the author was really sweet, so I wanted to share it on here, too. (The author is this magazine's editor-in-chief, who was one of the journalists who got to see the full one-hour presentation of Veilguard at Summer Game Fest. I tried to translate it as best as I could. :3)

"Dragon Age means the world to a lot of my colleagues. To my co-worker Alex Schneider, the artbooks are pretty much part of his office equipment, Heiko's boss Rae can basically quote the prequel novels from memory — backwards —, and my co-worker Steffi rushes through the hallways like a vacuum cleaner every time there is the tiniest new piece of rumor about Dragon Age to "absorb". I am more lukewarm about it. Yes, I've played Dragon Age Origins multiple times and enjoyed it very much, but Thedas was always too theatrical and not believable enough of a world for me to really get immersed in it. So the fact that even I walked out after the one-hour presentation thinking: "Damn, when is my flight back home, I need to (re)play the whole trilogy again!" - that's saying something. Again: The Veilguard still has a lot to prove. That it knows how to fill its world in a meaningful way, that its mechanics offer enough depth and most of all: That it tells a good story. But during my conversation with Corinne, every second felt like I was talking with people that understand exactly what made Dragon Age so good. The kick-off to Veilguard is as brilliant as it is intense, sparks curiosity for its world and amidst all the action, it doesn't forget to show a bit of heart. Whatever comes out of it after its release: For years Bioware hasn't looked as promising as it does now."

I also got the "PC Games" magazine, but that one had even less information than GameStar, even though they put it on the cover? :/ (Had to buy it anyway of course, because it has Dragon Age on it 🤡❤️)

[quadrantadvisor]

I have a bunch of notes for Malevolent fanfic ideas and

Love this dumbass shit so much. Podcast that has you inventing new little intimacies. Podcast that makes you yearn fr fr

[the-voldsoy]

Listened to the Ethics Town finale yesterday and oh my god!! Artemis!! Everyone becomes mayor because they think they can do better, but they never can, because it's not the person in charge that's the problem, it's the system itself!! It's a violent cycle, what's seen as old and outdated and wrong is pushed out and replaced by what is seen as new and positive and right!!! But without a drastic change to the fundamentals of the system, nothing can change in any way that matters!!!! It's an ouroboros of politics and morality and ethics!!!!! You've got to bite off your own tail to make things better!!!!!! Oh my god they can't hear me, they're all just characters in a story and they know it!!!!!!

[smallsies]

Podcast Book Club!

alright, everyone, here's the invite link for the podcast book club discord: https://discord.gg/kYPBtaGYgc

looking forward to listening with you all!

[gideonisms]

And it's also like. if you have no internal sense of your own gender, and you're just gnc sometimes because traditionally feminine stuff is simply harder to do. At what point do you just flip to a different gender in the minds of everyone around you and then if you've basically outsourced your gender to everyone else does it just change? if I started acting feminine would it change back? is it different on different days? how is a person supposed to form a coherent identity in this world

[ghosty-schnibibit]

me finishing the new graphic novel like on the one hand yes the art is gorgeous as always yes the chalice scenes were handled well yes the lunar interludes got included in a cool way but on the other hand me looking at ren (and also a bit at taako by proxy) like

[hardware-sparks]

Some silly doodles + a cropping of one because I think it's actually good.

[harmony-and-peace]

Hejka 👋🏻

Chciałabym się dzisiaj z Wami podzielić pewnym wartościowym podcastem, który wczoraj otrzymałam do obejrzenia od mojej mentorki. Sama bardzo dużo słucham podcastów, jak tylko mam wolną chwilę lub podczas robienie makeup'u, sprzątania, gotowania… To naprawdę wzbogaca, pozwala szybciej zmienić mindset na bardziej pozytywny i przede wszystkim poprawić wiarę siebie. Jest też zdecydowanie lepsze od bezsensownego scrollowania tiktoka.

Jeśli zdecydujecie się go przesłuchać i jesteście mniej cierpliwymi ludźmi to polecam zacząć od 5 minuty 😉

Pragnę też podzielić się paroma wnioskami, do których doszłam po przesłuchaniu podcastu i później zamierzam je zapisać w swoim journalu, a wstawiam je poniżej ⬇️

• Sukces odnosi tylko ta osoba co wytrwale realizuje wartościowy cel. Ustala, że będzie pracować, by być taką, a nie inną osobą i wytrwale dąży do tego więżąc, że jej się uda.

• Nie podążaj ślepo za tłumem. Nie popadaj w konformizm. (Jest to zmiana zachowania pod wpływem innych ludzi).

• Dzisiaj tak naprawdę nie ma konkurencji, z wyjątkiem tej, którą sami sobie stworzymy. Zamiast konkurować z innymi, powinniśmy zacząć kreować siebie, swoje, życie i swoją przyszłość.

• Szczęście można przyciągać. A mianowicie stajemy się tym, o czym myślimy. Musimy tylko z pełną premedytacją myśleć, tak jakby nasz cel był już osiągnięty i zachowywać się jak osoba, która już go osiągnęła.

• ✨Działaj tak, jakby porażka była niemożliwa - moje nowe motto #1✨💎

• ✨Zachowuj się jak osoba, którą chcesz być, a staniesz się nią - moje motto #2✨

[the-void-has-questions]

OH HORROR PODCAST WERE REALLY IN IT NOW

[dargonpoop]

loving all this strike action while pluto is stuck in retrograde at the anaretic degree of capricorn sometimes it really is too uncanny

[rlewisphilly]

Sad about the end of Summer?

Well maybe it’s not you, but maybe it’s your brain.  You SAD about the change?  SAD:  Seasonal Affective Disorder.  Enjoy a few minutes on just what the doctor orders to cheer you up.  And an over abundance of bad dad jokes to make you sad again. Street Curb Curiosity – The Podcast  CLICK HERE to smile about it all on Apple Podcasts

[goodoldbandit]

F.E.A.R. – Forget Everything and Ride: Embrace the Journey

https://gob.stayingalive.in/unleashing-the-thrills-of/fear–forget-everything-and.html Discover the empowering message behind “F.E.A.R. – Forget Everything and Ride” and transform your mindset to embrace life’s adventures. #Inspiration #LifeJourney The Power of F.E.A.R. Transforming Fear into Fuel We often encounter fear that holds us back. But what if we could channel that fear into something…

[maaarine]

'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine (Megan Twohey and Mike McIntire and Julie Tate, The New York Times, Dec 21 2024)

"Last summer, as the release of “It Ends With Us” approached, Justin Baldoni, the director and a star of the film, and Jamey Heath, the lead producer, hired a crisis public relations expert.

During shooting, Blake Lively, the co-star, had complained that the men had repeatedly violated physical boundaries and made sexual and other inappropriate comments to her.

Their studio, Wayfarer, agreed to provide a full-time intimacy coordinator, bring in an outside producer and put other safeguards on set.

In a side letter to Ms. Lively’s contract, signed by Mr. Heath, the studio also agreed not to retaliate against the actress.

But by August, the two men, who had positioned themselves as feminist allies in the #MeToo era, expressed fears that her allegations would become public and taint them, according to a legal complaint that she filed Friday.

It claims that their P.R. effort had an explicit goal: to harm Ms. Lively’s reputation instead.

Her filing includes excerpts from thousands of pages of text messages and emails that she obtained through a subpoena.

These and other documents were reviewed by The New York Times. (…)

Mr. Baldoni was best known for the CW satirical romantic dramedy “Jane the Virgin.”

Wayfarer provided the resources for bigger ambitions. It was bankrolled by the billionaire Steve Sarowitz, who is co-chair of the studio with Mr. Baldoni.

They and Mr. Heath, the chief executive, are all deeply involved with the Baha’i religious organization, which promotes unity, peace and gender equality.

Mr. Baldoni has presented himself as an ally to women, writing books, co-hosting a podcast with Mr. Heath and giving talks on toxic masculinity. (…)

She claimed Mr. Baldoni had improvised unwanted kissing and discussed his sex life, including encounters in which he said he may not have received consent.

Mr. Heath had shown her a video of his wife naked, she said, and he had watched Ms. Lively in her trailer when she was topless and having body makeup removed, despite her asking him to look away.

She said that both men repeatedly entered her makeup trailer uninvited while she was undressed, including when she was breastfeeding. (…)

As the film release neared, Ms. Lively and other cast members informed Sony and Wayfarer that they would not do any appearances alongside Mr. Baldoni.

So did Ms. Hoover, the author, who had her own dissatisfactions with him and had become more upset after he told her about Ms. Lively’s allegations, according to text messages from Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath.

By the first week of August, Wayfarer and Mr. Baldoni had retained Ms. Nathan, who had worked with high-profile clients including Mr. Depp, whose ex-wife, Amber Heard, accused him of physical abuse. (…)

Three days later, Mr. Baldoni texted Ms. Abel, flagging a social media thread that accused another celebrity of bullying behavior and had generated 19 million views. “This is what we would need,” he wrote.

Ms. Nathan soon floated proposals to hire contractors to dominate social media through “full social account take downs,” by starting “threads of theories” and generally working to “change narrative.”

“All of this will be most importantly untraceable,” she wrote. (…)

When Ms. Abel wrote to her Aug. 4 that “I’m having reckless thoughts of wanting to plant pieces this week of how horrible Blake is to work with. Just to get ahead of it,” Ms. Nathan replied that she had spoken off the record to an editor at The Daily Mail.

“She’s ready when we are,” Ms. Nathan wrote.

A flurry of articles followed the Hollywood Reporter piece. Many made it seem as if the only rift was over creative control.

Some journalists had gotten wind of complaints about Mr. Baldoni’s behavior, but none of the most serious ones were published.

“He doesn’t realise how lucky he is right now,” Ms. Nathan texted Ms. Abel. (…)

It is unclear exactly how Mr. Wallace operated.

There are references in emails to “social manipulation” and “proactive fan posting,” and text messages cite efforts to “boost” and “amplify” online content that was favorable to Mr. Baldoni or critical of Ms. Lively.

“We are crushing it on Reddit,” Mr. Wallace told Ms. Nathan, according to a text she sent Ms. Abel on Aug. 9.

The next day, one of Ms. Nathan’s employees texted, “We’ve started to see shift on social, due largely to Jed and his team’s efforts to shift the narrative.”

Ms. Nathan wrote to Ms. Abel: “And socials are really really ramping up. In his favour, she must be furious. It’s actually sad because it just shows you have people really want to hate on women.” (…)

On Aug. 16, Ms. Nathan shared the Daily Mail article headlined “Is Blake Lively set to be CANCELLED?” with references to ‘hard to watch’ videos and a ‘tone deaf’ promotional Q. and A.

“Wow. You really outdid yourself with this piece,” Ms. Abel responded.

“That’s why you hired me right?” Ms. Nathan replied. “I’m the best.”"

[toni-onone]

Unleashing the Power Within: Mastering the Art of Anger Management

Inspire Hour Podcast Introduction: In the journey of life, emotions guide us through each challenge and triumph. Among them, one powerful emotion often arises: anger. Anger is a force that can be both destructive and transformative, but it is how we handle this intense energy that truly defines our character. In this blog, we will explore the art of anger management, uncovering the wisdom and…