MINDRAMP PODCAST - LIVE LONG, LIVE WELL

About MINDRAMP PODCAST - LIVE LONG, LIVE WELL

What does it mean to flourish when the systems we depend on are under strain? Flourish in Times of Struggle is a new podcast series for people who want to move beyond personal resilience and grapple with the deeper structures that shape our lives. In this opening episode, Michael C. Patterson introduces the series’ focus on systems, legitimacy, and collective action—and invites listeners to think together about how healthier, more democratic forms of governance might emerge. Earlier Flourish As You Age podcasts focused more on personal change and development to promote brain health and mental management.

Publisher

Michael C. Patterson

Category

education · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Feb 2020

Latest episode

28 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

317 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Aug 2026

   # 17. Humor As Resistance - The Giullare, Part 2

   Comments? Send me a text message. Part Two of the giullari episodes begins with a discussion of the body as political instrument and explores how the medieval street performer's tradition of physical humor has been used, again and again, as a means of resistance. Gesture, facial expression, pratfalls, even profanity and vulgarity are used to expose the vulnerable humanity that exists, even behind the masks of invincibility used by those in power. The giullare spirit has found its ...

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   10 Aug 2026

   16. Giullare Part 1 - Street Performers

   Comments? Send me a text message. Before the court jester, before commedia dell'arte, there was the giullare — the medieval Italian street performer who set up in market squares with no stage, no script, no patron, and no safety net. Be funny or starve was not a metaphor. It was the operating condition. In this episode of Flourish in Times of Struggle, I explore the giullari — agitators, satirists, and physical performers who mocked the powerful, named what everyone knew but no one was suppos...

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   22 Jun 2026

   #15 Humor As Resistance - Dwarfs As Mechanisms of Liberation

   Comments? Send me a text message. In communist Poland in the 1980s, Solidarity had been driven underground. Martial law. Leaders imprisoned. On the surface, the regime had won. Then an art history student named Waldemar Fydrych — known as Major — painted a grinning dwarf on a freshly whitewashed wall. Not a slogan. Not a demand. A dwarf. Episode 15 of Flourish in Times of Struggle explores Poland's Orange Alternative — the surrealist, carnivalesque resistance movement that embedded itself wit...

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

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Quality

91

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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