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Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
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Episodes
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S54E1 Inspiration and inhalation
Walking my local streets and enjoying the breaths of fresh air that I’m now able to enjoy after my recent treatment. Series 54 is all about inspiration. Why…
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S53E10 Stillness: the donut, not the hole
Walking in Old St in north London this lunchtime, tempting you away from your desk for the last time this series. Plus a creative reminder from recently…
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S53E9 Stillness round up
Considering everything we’ve explored this series on our stillness theme, plus a short story from Nick in Worcester.
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S53E8 Mental stillness
Walking my local streets this lunchtime, keeping an eye out for my neighbour’s cat.
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S53E7 Stillness: go placidly
The glorious Desiderata by Max Ehrmann (1927) accompanies us on our walk around the park, this lunchtime.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S53E6 Stillness and sleep paralysis
Walking around the park thinking about stillness and sleep paralysis this lunchtime. Plus a voicenote from Cindy in Nebraska.
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S53E5 Stillness: the hammer and the anvil
Walking in the woods this lunchtime thinking about Ryan Holiday’s book, Stillness is the Key and the question of whether we should be a hammer or an anvil.
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S53E4 Stillness: taking a long view
Thinking about taking the long view this lunchtime whilst walking behind the hospital, into the park and around the corner to Tooting Leisure Centre.
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S53E3 Stillness: limit your inputs
Walking in the woods this lunchtime, enjoying the naked tree trunks displaying fungus and holes bored by woodpeckers.
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S53E2 Stillness: being enough
Enjoying Ryan Holiday’s ‘Enough’ chapter from his brilliant book: Stillness is the key this lunchtime whilst dodging a leaf blower around the park.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S53E1 Stillness is the key
Hello and welcome to a brand new series of Walk the Pod! In this episode, William Gladstone’s tree cutting habit, finding green space, and how stillness can be…
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S52E10 Awe: thank you for listening
Walking around my local streets, excited to be wrapping up Series 52 on awe, but sad to say toodle pip for 2024! I’ll be back in 2025 with a brand new series…
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S52E9 Awe, significance, and insignificance
Walking around my local streets this lunchtime rounding up the episodes from series 52 so far, plus a voice note from Sam 💞
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S52E8 Awe and the mysteries of the earth
Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and contemplating a quite from Rachel Carson: “Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of…
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S52E7 Awe and the Overview effect
Walking my local streets and considering the overview effect: how seeing the Earth from space makes us feel.
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S52E6 Awe: the vanishing self
Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and considering the vanishing self. Plus, a voicenote from Cindy in Nebraska.
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S52E5 Awe could be forever
Walking around the park behind the hospital rounding off the walking week with our fifth Awe episode!
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S52E4 What is awe trying to tell us?
Walking around the park behind the hospital thinking about awe and what it’s trying to tell us.
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S52E3 Awe: power, wonder, and fear
Walking around an autumnal Northampton Square this lunchtime, wondering whether awe can be conceptualised as a trinary of power, wonder, and fear.
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S52E2 The Science of Awe
Walking my local streets and bringing you a landmark paper on awe by Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt.
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S52E1 Quick boil vs slow simmer awe
Thinking about awe as I’m walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime.
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S51E10 Friendship round up
Your final episode of Series 51 is here as we wrap up our friendship discussion on Walk the Pod. Take care of your beautiful mind, and I’ll be back with Series…
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S51E9 Friendship and active listening
Walking my local streets thinking about the skill of active listening this lunchtime.
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S51E8 Friendship and boundaries
Walking around Northampton Square in North London this lunchtime, through piles of crispy leaves.
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S51E7 Friendship, the key to a long and happy life
Walking my local streets, thinking about Anna Machin’s work on friendship, and the benefits of a large (150 according to Dunbar) social network.
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S51E6 Friendship: Keeping in touch
Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime with a radical prompt to keep in touch with your friends.
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S51E5 Friendship week 1 round up
Walking around the park behind the hospital thinking about everything we’ve learned in this first week of friendship themed podcasts. Thank you for walking…
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S51E4 Different types of friendship
Walking around the park behind the hospital, thinking about the different types of friendship that make a full and happy life.
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S51E3 Friendship: a ‘behavioural vaccine’?
Walking my local streets this lunchtime, considering whether friendship could be a ‘behavioural vaccine’.
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S51E2 Friendship: a ‘critical social institution’
Reflecting on the words of Andrew Sullivan, this lunchtime, that friendship is a critical social institution but one which gets overlooked in favour of the…
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S51E1 Friendship vs the nuclear family
Walking around the park behind the hospital in the rain this lunchtime thinking about friends vs nuclear family.
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S50E10 Gifts - Thank you for walking with me
Walking my local streets this lunchtime in relentless rain, thinking about eeverything we’ve learned this series. I’lll be back in late October with Series 51…
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S50E9 Gifts and habits
My radical promot today, dear friends, is that most creative genius is not an act, but a habit. Walking my local streets, paying attention to what’s directly…
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S50E8 Gifts and Universal Basic Income
Walking my local streets, thinking about how society doesn’t value creative gifts enough. What hope of structures for creative folk to develop their gifts?…
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S50E7 Make your gift the centre of your life
Walking my local streets this lunchtime considering thoughts mistakenly attributed to Albert Einstein: “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its…
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S50E6 Without a gift, there is no art
Walking around the park behind the hospital, thinking about how gifts exist within both the market exonomy and the gift economy.
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S50E5 Gifts Week 1 Round Up
Walking in Clapham this morning, wrapping up Week 1, Series 50 of Walk the Pod on the topic of ‘Gifts’. What have we learned so far? Check out…
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S50E4 Gifts and storytelling
Walking in the woods near home and thinking about how all stories can be framed in terms of a person developing a gift. With a walking report from Cindy in…
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S50E3 Gifts and the artist
Walking my local streets this lunchtime thinking about gifts, art, and the artist. Do we have an obligation to develop and use our gifts? Does society have a…
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S50E2 Could gifts have a soul?
Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and considering whether there is something unique about gifts. Do they carry within them a…
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S50E1 Gifts - The story of the elves and the shoemaker
Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and recalling a folk tale from my childhood reimagined as an allegory about gifts and what we need…
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Walk the Pod Series 50 starts tomorrow!
A trailer for Series 50 of Walk the Pod on ‘Gifts’ which starts tomorrow, Monday 16 September. Each 10 minute episode tempts you away from your desk to walk in…
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S48E10 Creativity - thank you for listening
Wrapping up the series with a big thank you to members of the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club. We’ll be walking again on Monday 19 August with a subscriber…
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S48E9 Creativity week 2 round up
Walking my local streets in blazing sunshine this lunchtime and wrapping up our second week of creativity episodes. Want more from Walk the Pod? Join the club…
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S48E8 Creative exploration
Walking my local streets exploring something Keats once said about ‘negative capability.’
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S48E7 Creative vision
In today’s daily walking episode, Rob’s voicenote references Hugh McLeod and the Blue Microsoft Monster, ‘Change the world or go home.’ Temple Grandin’s brain…
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S48E6 Creativity demystified
Walking around the park behind the hospital demystifying creativity. Could creativity just be connecting things? Could our limitations be our creative…
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S48E5 Creativity week 1 roundup
Walking around the park behind the hospital, rounding up our first week of creativity episodes with voicenotes from Mum and Robin in New Zealand.
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S48E4 - Creativity and mastery
Walking my local streets thinking about creativity and mastery this lunchtime. Is subversiveness required for creative genius?
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S48E3 Creativity and imitation
Walking around the park behind the hospital considering creativity and imitation this lunchtime.
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S48E2 - Creativity and perfectionism II
Some more thoughts on creativity and perfectionism. Perhaps some perfectionism is ok. Walking around the park behind the hospital in the rain this GratiTuesday.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S48E1 Creativity and perfectionism
Walking around the park behind the hospital arguing that perfectionism is the enemy of creativity. With your host, Rachel Wheeley
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S47E10 Curiosity - thank you for listening!
Walking my local streets thanking you and members of the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club for walking with me this month. Series 48 will start on Monday 8…
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S47E9 Curiosity roundup
Walking around the park behind the hospital rounding up our series on curiosity. Plus a walking report from Mighty Marcel in Barcelona.
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S47E8 Curiosity, rigor, and questions (good ones!)
Walking around my local streets this lunchtime thinking about curiosity and how it requires rigor for creativity. Plus a voicenote from Dad in rural Norfolk.
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S47E7 Curiosity is all we’ve got!
Walking around the park behind the hospital in the rain this lunchtime considering whether curiosity might be all we have as knowledge workers and artists as…
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S47E6 Curiosity - the antidote to loneliness?
Walking around the park sharing a voicenote from Kiwi Rob on the subject of inter generational curiosity gaps, the right to tinker, and whether curiosity could…
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S47E5 Curiosity week 1 round up
A summary of topics covered in week 1 of Series 47 of Walk the Pod, recorded at the Paddock allotments in South West London.
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S47E4 Curiosity not ambition
Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and thinking about curiosity and the extent to which we should follow it. Absolutely, say artists…
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S47E3 Curious minds - Anne “Gentleman Jack” Lister
Walking around my local streets with tales of the curious life of Anne Lister, quero, scholar, and mountaineer.