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Shelter for the Weary Traveler

EncouragHER - March 18, 2024 16:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Reach out! I’d love to hear from you! As we close the curtain on the Weary Traveler series, we will uncover the profound peace that comes from God's promise to be our shelter, our protector, and our guide through every twist and turn. The warmth of spiritual companionship and the power of enco...

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September 11, A Week Later –

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - March 14, 2024 15:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
This post, written the week after September 11, 2011, is dedicated to Frank De Martini and Pablo Ortiz. Starting at the 88th floor on the North Tower, they went from floor to floor calling out to people who crouched in debris and darkness, without a clue as to what to do or where to go. “Is anyb...

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Taking Time Off Work: Slowing Down To Speed Up

Wild Flow with Charlotte Pointeaux - March 12, 2024 22:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
I took summer off running my business and guess what, my business didn’t break. In fact I had a huge money month whilst doing the minimum because of the way I’ve set up my business to operate seasonally, cyclically, and without me being ON all the time.  In business taking time off feels scary ...

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The GPS for the Weary Traveler

EncouragHER - March 11, 2024 17:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Reach out! I’d love to hear from you! Feeling a bit lost in life's journey, weighed down by weariness? Today, I hope to walk you through the less-traveled roads of our souls, where faith is the map and God's Word is the compass. This episode is a heartfelt exploration of my personal experience ...

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Success in San Francisco

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - March 07, 2024 19:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The trip wasn’t exactly a willing one on my part because my spouse had talked me into giving a paper at the conference where he was to chair a panel and present his own paper. I hadn’t given any philosophical papers since taking early retirement at Brooklyn College. I’d forgotten how to breathe ...

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Illuminating the Journey: The Spiritual Significance of Light

EncouragHER - March 04, 2024 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Reach out! I’d love to hear from you! Discover the radiance that awaits you in life's dimmest moments as we explore the spiritual significance of light in our latest Encourage Her Community podcast episode. I'm your host, Jo, and together we'll unwrap the divine luminescence that scripture prom...

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Léo

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - February 29, 2024 16:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Léo was Laurin’s philosophy of art teacher at Brandeis University. He was also my father’s closest friend and a sort of godfather to me, from my earliest days and continuing into adult life. As we talked in a Brazilian café on sixth avenue, way downtown, Laurin shared a story about Léo. I have ...

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Quenching the Soul's Thirst: Spiritual Nourishment for the Weary Traveler

EncouragHER - February 26, 2024 18:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Reach out! I’d love to hear from you! Have you ever felt a thirst in your soul that no drink can quench? Join us on the Weary Traveler series! In our quest for life's essentials, we often neglect the vital nourishment of our innermost being. This episode is a call to all those who've felt the p...

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Zeitgeist

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - February 22, 2024 15:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
What is it about the Zeitgeist?  It’s never quite feasible to pretend it’s not real or to dodge it completely – unless you’ve managed to carve out an existence on an uninhabited Pacific island or a solitary mountain peak.  It’s hard to define it and harder to explain it satisfactorily, but you k...

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Bread of Life: A Spiritual Sustenance for the Weary Traveler

EncouragHER - February 19, 2024 16:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Reach out! I’d love to hear from you! Today, we continue our weary traveler series. Listen in as I chat about a few layers of bread's symbolism in the Bible, an essential sustenance for both the body and soul. This episode attempts to knead together the rich narrative of bread cited 492 times i...

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Hidradenitis Suppurativa

For Vaginas Only - February 18, 2024 23:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratings
Hidradenitis Suppurativa Ever heard of it?  If you are someone that suffers from persistent inflammation, bumps and boils on the Vulva then this episode is for you! Ps. This can occur on other areas of the body too. 🫣 Let’s chat about what HS is and how you can beat it in this latest episode ...

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Apologies to Kierkegaard

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - February 15, 2024 16:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In a previous post or two of “Dear Abbie,” I found myself sharply critical – denunciatory even – of Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). He is the Danish philosopher/theologian who is still studied by serious people today, both inside and outside classrooms. I denounced him for having used his conside...

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Weary Traveler

EncouragHER - February 12, 2024 05:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Reach out! I’d love to hear from you! Welcome back encouragHERS! This weary traveler is so happy to be back. We were never meant walk this road alone, so I am so glad you are here to listen and be encouraged. Weary traveler, restless soul You were never meant to walk this road alone It'll all...

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Frustrations and Epiphanies

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - February 08, 2024 16:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Our quiet town, with its Victorian houses (many of them kept in good repair by the law firms that have taken them over), its charming signs of civic care and pride, has for some years also been the scene of a performance that I for one find deeply frustrating and troubling. Every Tuesday, betwe...

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Black History + Gynecology

For Vaginas Only - February 05, 2024 02:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratings
February is Black History Month and in this episode let’s chat about how black history is reflected in gynecology. I’m gonna say…it’s not all great 👀 From the mothers of gynecology who endured the unimaginable to the black innovators and pioneers in the field today. Let’s talk about where we ca...

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A Funny Thing Happened to Philosophy (on its way to the deepest depths)

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - February 01, 2024 15:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
 In the entire history of philosophy, we know of nothing like it. No betrayal on that scale of the loyalty owed by a philosopher to his teacher and his students. It’s without precedent, so far as I know. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New...

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Why Women Are Mean to Other Women

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - January 25, 2024 16:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Whew! This is a touchy subject. Almost taboo, since we are these days denominated the compassionate, caring, anti-violence sex. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Confessions of A Young Philosopher (forthcoming)...

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Freezing My Eggs

For Vaginas Only - January 24, 2024 18:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratings
Hi Guys, lets get a little personal in this episode and talk about egg freezing  - "oocyte cryopreservation" if you want to get technical ;).  I share a little about my though process on why I did it with some educational tid bits along the way if you are interested in it too! Do you have quest...

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A Stark Conversation on Imposter Syndrome (and a Feminist Jesus) with Alani Bankhead

Stark Conversations - January 19, 2024 07:11 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
In today's episode, I am talking to Alani Bankhead. Alani knows something about feminism because she has spent the last 20 years as a woman in a predominantly male profession, hunting spies, terrorists, and child sex traffickers. She was even assigned to be the senior bodyguard to a top Pentagon...

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About Confessions of a Young Philosopher

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - January 18, 2024 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Well, I am a person who, for most of her life, has carried a number of secrets. Possibly for that reason, or possibly because, temperamentally, I experience every encounter in an extra-amplified way, I try to tip toe through the world unheard and unseen. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerit...

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Wonder Woman

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - January 11, 2024 16:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
One of our back-to-back appointments here in California was cancelled, freeing the Saturday afternoon hours, so we decided to go see “Wonder Woman,” a great hero of my childhood now back in living cinematic color. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City Univers...

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Bumps Down There

For Vaginas Only - January 07, 2024 21:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratings
Happy New Year! In this podcast episode I discuss some of the common lumps and bumps on our most intimate area. I see these in my office all the time and its important to understand what you may or may not have.  Is it a.. 1. Bartholin's  gland cyst 2. Epidermal inclusion cyst 3. Ingrown hair 4...

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Memoirs, True or False?

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - January 04, 2024 16:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Does this truth-behind-the-mask change anything for the philosophical reader? I can’t speak for anybody else, but I take philosophy very seriously. I’ll tell you what it changes for me. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the ...

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The Woman on the Pedestal

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - December 28, 2023 18:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In public, many feminists repudiate the whole structure: the pedestal and the woman trying to stand on it. I don’t. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Confessions of A Young Philosopher (forthcoming), which is ...

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Is Virtue Rewarded?

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - December 21, 2023 16:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Is a woman’s virtue rewarded? And, by the way, what do we mean by woman’s virtue nowadays? Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Confessions of A Young Philosopher (forthcoming), which is a woman's "confession" in ...

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From Painful Periods to Power with Lisa de Jong

Wild Flow with Charlotte Pointeaux - December 19, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
How are painful periods linked to our traumas? Lisa de Jong is my guest on Wild Flow Podcast, reveals the wisdom of our bodies, and the tools she used to holistically heal chronic pain and tend to our nervous systems in her trauma-informed approach to menstrual cycle coaching.  As a health coac...

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From Painful Periods to Empowered with Lisa de Jong

Wild Flow with Charlotte Pointeaux - December 19, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
How are painful periods linked to our traumas? Lisa de Jong reveals the wisdom of our bodies, and the tools she used to holistically heal chronic pain and tend to our nervous systems in her trauma-informed approach to menstrual cycle coaching.  As a health coach and educator Lisa works 1:1 with...

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A Chosen People?

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - December 14, 2023 16:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
My explanation is simpler and covers all the cases. They are hated because God chose them. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Confessions of A Young Philosopher (forthcoming), which is a woman's "confession" in...

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Jews on the Brain

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast - December 07, 2023 16:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Hell, I like happy endings. Does this story contain one? Oh sure. When the messiah comes, or comes back if you prefer, we’re all gonna go to our happy place. But within the terms of our present discussion? Any happy ending here and now?  . . . Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brookl...

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Stark Conversation about Common Sense Feminism with Sarah Pallet Part 2

Stark Conversations - December 06, 2023 07:11 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Today, I am talking to the former Chair of New Zealand's Labour Women's Caucus, Sarah Pallett. Sarah reached out to me after she read an article I published in the HuffPost. When she introduced herself, I almost fell out of my chair. I had read about Sarah, I knew her name, and I knew she serve...