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Karim Rizkallah and Valery Navarrete on Founding Community
Life Without Us - November 29, 2022 12:00 - 45 minutes“I think that going in with something imperfect and running with it is what made the following five years possible, and the following five years had so many great things.” — Karim Rizkallah Like most founders, Valery and Karim didn’t know what they didn’t know. In the last episode of Season 2 o...
Pete Bombaci on Guidelines for Human Connection
Life Without Us - November 22, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutes“In 20 years, we’re going to be much more conscious about the importance of social connection to our health and wellbeing.” — Pete Bombaci How much human connection do we need? Pete Bombaci is the Founder and Executive Director of the GenWell Project. He joins Valery to talk about why connectio...
Pete Bombaci on Guidelines for Human Connection
Life Without Us - November 22, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutes“In 20 years, we’re going to be much more conscious about the importance of social connection to our health and wellbeing.” — Pete Bombaci How much human connection do we need? Pete Bombaci is the Founder and Executive Director of the GenWell Project. He joins Valery to talk about why connectio...
Luisa Ji and Luc Lalande on Community Futures
Life Without Us - November 15, 2022 12:00 - 49 minutes"We need community now more than ever” — Luc Lalonde Luisa Ji is a multi-disciplinary creative, designer, and strategist. Luc Lalande is the Innovator-in-Residence at the Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre. They join Valery to unpack the topic of ‘Community Futures’ from unique, but co...
Indi Madar on Building BIPOC Community
Life Without Us - November 08, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes"The things that our members and participants share with us, we consider all of those things to be really sacred. So we're not going to share people's teachings and knowledge, cultural knowledge, with just anyone.” — Indi Madar As the Communications and Community Engagement Lead with Brown Girl...
Tanya Cothran on Conscious Friendship
Life Without Us - November 01, 2022 11:00 - 34 minutes"I wish people would start talking about their friendships with their friends" — Tanya Cothran Tanya Cothran is a friendship animator and writer of the newsletter, Platonic Romance. She joins Valery to talk about how to navigate the impact of major life changes on friendship, like one friend be...
Steve Fick on 25 Years of Living in Community
Life Without Us - October 25, 2022 11:00 - 35 minutes"This didn’t feel like much of a community when we moved in. And now everybody says ‘Ah, this is such a great place to live!’" — Steve Fick Steve Fick has lived at Terra Firma, one of the Ottawa-region’s only cohousing communities, for more than 25 years, and is one of its founders. From shared...
Craig Ruttan on Navigating Neighbourhood Change
Life Without Us - October 18, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes"It's not possible in this day and age with the challenges we're facing to say ‘No,’ and try to keep neighbourhoods preserved in amber." — Craig Ruttan Public policy leader and co-home owner Craig Ruttan returns to the podcast to talk about how reality is stacking up against the vision for his ...
Valery Navarrete on The Time We Have, The Time We Lost
Life Without Us - October 11, 2022 11:00 - 9 minutesA year after the conclusion of season one of the Life Without Us podcast, Valery introduces “Time” as the theme of season two while sharing a tribute to her greatest community- and connection-building influence: her mom, Sandy. In this episode: * Why so much time passed between seasons one ...
Moving Through Life Without Us
Life Without Us - October 12, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutesInspired by the stories of the Life Without Us podcast’s season one guests, host Valery mics up with a surprise special guest to reflect on what we loved, learned, and are looking forward to as we wrap up the show’s inaugural season. Episode available at lifewithoutuspod.com In this episod...
Hima Batavia on the Friendship Renaissance
Life Without Us - September 28, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour“I think part of the heartbreak is that we actually think friendships are going to last forever . . . You just think: why wouldn’t we be in each other’s lives forever?” — Hima Batavia Hima Batavia is a writer, artist, and cultural designer based in T’karonto. Her practice focuses on rewriting a...
Natalie Bay on The Magic Ingredient of Food
Life Without Us - September 21, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes“Food creates a distraction . . . When you’re just talking to somebody one-on-one it’s hard sometimes to get out your ideas and open up your heart; but, when you’re distracted by the flavours and you’re excited and it’s drawing in memories, suddenly it’s just a lot easier to have the conversatio...
Craig Ruttan on Housing Solutions
Life Without Us - September 14, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes“The box is generally a two or three story single family home and that’s about it. I think knowing that we need to get a lot more creative about how we’re living means that we need to raise that bar and enable more of that creativity. Because cities should be a little messy. ” — Craig Ruttan Cr...
Louise Bardswich on Independence Through Community
Life Without Us - April 27, 2021 13:00 - 23 minutes“Taking control a little earlier and figuring out who you want to live with, what the rules are going to be, and how you’re going to deal with things I think is just sensible planning. And maybe with the pandemic people will be thinking a bit more in terms of, ‘oh look what can happen down the r...
Karim Rizkallah on Listeners' Questions
Life Without Us - April 20, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes“You gotta be honest about your hard lines; but, also be as generous as possible, because when you live in a collective the goal can’t be getting your way and convincing everyone else you need to get your way. The goal ought to be finding something for the collective that is as good and as safe ...
Gillian Morris on How to Share Your Space
Life Without Us - April 13, 2021 04:00 - 28 minutes“We don’t have a lot of training in our culture for how to share your space with people that are [not] your family or your significant other.” — Gillian Morris Gillian Morris is the founder of Hitlist, a travel app that helps you find cheap flights, and co-editor of the Supernuclear Guide to Co...
Adil Dhalla on The Feeling of Community
Life Without Us - April 05, 2021 16:00 - 37 minutes“What has affirmed my desire to be part of community is the feeling of pleasure that comes from a sense of being one, in service to something that is beyond yourself.” — Adil Dhalla Adil Dhalla is a community organizer and the Director of Community for Reset, a social enterprise that has been m...
Trailer: Life Without Us
Life Without Us - March 17, 2021 02:00 - 2 minutesIn each 30 (ish) minute episode, Strategist, Facilitator, and Community builder (and cohouse co-founder!) Valery Navarrete shares of community and connection to inspire more of us to have more “us” in our lives. Season 1 (2021) introduced the show, profiled a number of cohousing and coliving c...
Trailer: Life Without Us
Life Without Us - March 17, 2021 02:00 - 2 minutesIn each 30 (ish) minute episode, Strategist, Facilitator, and Community builder (and cohouse co-founder!) Valery Navarrete shares of community and connection to inspire more of us to have more “us” in our lives. Season 1 (2021) introduced the show, profiled a number of cohousing and coliving c...
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