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Belonging in the Age of Loneliness: Ten Ways to Remember Your Humanity - E256

All That We Are

Release Date: 12/04/2025

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All That We Are

How do we weave more beauty, purpose, and belonging into our days? This question sits at the heart of this closing episode of this series. A gentle inquiry for anyone feeling the speed of modern life, the subtle ache of disconnection, or simply the desire to live more fully.  Through personal stories from India and home, grounded research on longevity and connection, and ancient Indian wisdom from Yoga and Ayurveda, she explores what truly sustains us, the simple human threads we’ve carried for thousands of years. Together we look at what actually helps us thrive: relationships as the...

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TIMELESS // 'How to Keep Your Imagination Alive' with Jason Bayani - E255 show art TIMELESS // 'How to Keep Your Imagination Alive' with Jason Bayani - E255

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What happens to our imagination when life feels fast, noisy, or overwhelming? In this TIMELESS edition, poet and artist Jason Bayani offers a powerful reminder that imagination is not a luxury but an essential part of how we stay human. He speaks about disappearing as a form of self-respect, the war against silence, and what it means to protect the inner spaces where ideas and intuition are born. This episode is for anyone feeling overstimulated, tired of performing, or longing to reconnect with your creativity. Listen if you want to explore: - how to stay creative when everything feels fast -...

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This TIMELESS turns everything on it’s head. What if the most educated amongst us are the most disconnected?  Here we lovingly dismantle factory schooling, recall village intelligence, and discuss a practical path into gift culture. Manish Jain (co-founder of the UnSchooling movement) who walked out of Wall Street and Harvard, invites us to trade credentials for conscience, exams for experience, and scarcity for an experiment in trust. We discuss education as being, not just knowing, starting with head, heart, hands, home. Manish speaks on gift culture, giving us the advice that when...

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TIMELESS // How to Find the Leader Within You with Mac Macartney - E251 show art TIMELESS // How to Find the Leader Within You with Mac Macartney - E251

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Our world doesn’t need more leaders chasing power - it needs people rooted in what they love. This TIMELESS with Mac Macartney calls us back to integrity, to humility, to the sacred responsibility of shaping a future that serves all life. Mac Macartney brings us into a fresh understanding of leadership - one that is relational and begins with listening across differences. True leadership, as he conveys, is the quiet confidence that comes from following what matters most, not from needing to be followed. It is not something to postpone until we are fully formed; it is the art of showing...

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Each Life Sacred // The Power of Art, Music, and Hope with Anouska Beckwith, Charlotte Mabon and friends - E250 (feat. Ayla Schafer, Johnny Flynn, Olivia Fern and more) show art Each Life Sacred // The Power of Art, Music, and Hope with Anouska Beckwith, Charlotte Mabon and friends - E250 (feat. Ayla Schafer, Johnny Flynn, Olivia Fern and more)

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If your heart has been broken open by what’s unfolding in Gaza, you are not alone. This episode is a place to bring that ache; a collective tapestry of grief, courage and the power of art to keep our humanity alive. Each Life Sacred was born from the choice of not looking away, from witnessing the unimaginable suffering of children in Palestine and feeling the weight of helplessness that so many of us have carried. Out of that grief, something luminous emerged - a call to create, to gather, to weave art and action into one.  Holding the creative vision of this offering are artist...

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TIMELESS // 'How to Remember Your Voice and Sing Freely' with Almunis Alejandra Ortiz - E249 show art TIMELESS // 'How to Remember Your Voice and Sing Freely' with Almunis Alejandra Ortiz - E249

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We often carry the story “I can’t sing” or “That’s not my voice”, a belief rooted in comparison, in safety, in self-protection. We excuse our expression by saying it’s for others: “If I sing well, they’ll love me.”  In this week’s TIMELESS, Alumnus Alejandra Ortis speaks of the voice as a channel - a conduit for the vibrant force that already dances through us. In this episode, we are invited to shift the gaze: the voice is not you pushing forth, but life moving through you. In  How to Remember Your Voice and Sing Freely, we disentangle from the hidden contracts...

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Teresa Machado and Nat Skoczylas on Activism, Solidarity and Redistribution // Reclaiming Radicalism - E248 show art Teresa Machado and Nat Skoczylas on Activism, Solidarity and Redistribution // Reclaiming Radicalism - E248

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In this episode, Amisha sits together with two dedicated activists, Nat Skoczylas and Teresa Machado. Teresa is a project caretaker, events curator, and editor of The Radicals, shaping radical world-building experiments and working with the feminisation of politics collective. Nat is a community organiser, activist and artist building trans/queer/eco-feminist futures, anarchist spaces, and networks of solidarity and mutual aid. Together they share their visions for the future, reflecting on the power of community and the need to reclaim the narrative around radicalism. This episode highlights...

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TIMELESS // ‘How to Work With Dreams as a Daily Language’ with Toko-pa Turner - E247 show art TIMELESS // ‘How to Work With Dreams as a Daily Language’ with Toko-pa Turner - E247

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What if our dreams were not just fragments of the night, but guiding voices for our lives and communities? Toko-pa Turner, Canadian author and internationally celebrated dreamworker, is the award-winning author of Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home and The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams.  In this TIMELESS, she reminds us that dreaming is a language of the soul, one that reconnects us to belonging, to the earth and to each other. In How to Work With Dreams as a Daily Language, we explore how exile and belonging are intertwined, how grief holds essential medicine, and how...

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How do we weave more beauty, purpose, and belonging into our days?

This question sits at the heart of this closing episode of this series. A gentle inquiry for anyone feeling the speed of modern life, the subtle ache of disconnection, or simply the desire to live more fully. 

Through personal stories from India and home, grounded research on longevity and connection, and ancient Indian wisdom from Yoga and Ayurveda, she explores what truly sustains us, the simple human threads we’ve carried for thousands of years.

Together we look at what actually helps us thrive:

  • relationships as the strongest predictor of health and happiness

  • the deep physical impact of isolation (Harvard + Holt-Lunstad’s research)

  • the shared traits of long-living communities across the world

  • the way nature lowers stress and restores vitality

  • how meditating together synchronises our physiology

  • the role of purpose in extending life

  • and the ancient languages of rhythm, breath, presence, and intention

Amisha weaves these with teachings on Prana (life force), Dinacharya (daily rhythm), the five elements, and the deeper meaning of Dharma, offering ten simple, human principles for living a beautiful and connected life.

This episode is a reminder. 
A way of returning to what we already know.
A soft invitation to belong again. 

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