Jeff Bridge's iconic character "The Dude" asks us to simply "take it easy man." Loosely based on the tenets of The Church of the Latter-Day Dude, host Chad Bartalone sits down with people working to embody a Dudeist vibe, wondering out loud the tough questions about life, our interaction with the world and those we share it with, modernity and our responsibility as humans, and cultivating humanity itself. Through deep contemplation, asking questions that outlive any possible answers, each session seeks to shine light on topics that beg for the world to continue.
The Abiders Urban Achiever Podcast
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Jeff Bridge's iconic character "The Dude" asks us to simply "take it easy man." Loosely based on the tenets of The Church of the Latter-Day Dude, host Chad Bartalone sits down with people working to embody a Dudeist vibe, wondering out loud the tough questions about life, our interaction with the world and those we share it with, modernity and our responsibility as humans, and cultivating humanity itself. Through deep contemplation, asking questions that outlive any possible answers, each session seeks to shine light on topics that beg for the world to continue.
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February 1, 2024
The Future of Social Work with Stephen Jenkinson
<p>I have been looking forward to this conversation for a very long time. I spent time on Stephen’s farm in Ottawa a number of years back during a time in my life when very little made sense other than a trip to a faraway place only to return from whence I came. I have thought about my time at the Orphan Wisdom School a great deal and many happenings have filled the space between this interview and that experience. I no longer work for the fire department and have shifted my efforts to social work. Therapy. One of the most recurrent treatments on the ambulance was “supportive care.” In the field, this was a fancy word for “hand-holding.” These were usually the elderly nursing home patients with abnormal bloodwork or someone with an illness that required little more than a ride to the hospital. These were often my favorite calls.</p> <p>I remember an old woman telling me how the Nazis invaded her town in Holland when she was 13. She went on to talk about her brother and how he survived the camps after being sent there for smuggling Jews into England with fake passports. <em>Supportive Care</em> was likely the place where my desire to pursue talk therapy found its roots. This is where the thank you cards came from. Not from our IV skills or our medical jargon. From the warmness shared from one human being to another. <em>Heart-based cognition</em> as I believe it is called.</p> <p>So I went to the school of social work to begin my studies. As my time at university progressed, I began to notice something: many members of the faculty and social workers in the field seemed interested less in that type of heart-based cognition and more into the management of people and more specifically the customer service business of getting people back in for more therapy. Moreover, much of the material sought to normalize experiences of burnout, narcissism, greed, and ego.</p> <p>These critiques are from a perspective that is inherently subjective. I’m in the school, opening a practice, and have circled the sun enough times where my past experiences do not dictate my present, but they do inform it. This smelled like good old-fashioned bullshit. And who can afford therapy? People with money. Or a good EAP (Employee Assistance Provider). Who has those? Largely government workers. I had a great EAP with the fire department and was able to see my therapist 12 times a year. For most of the working class and poor, this is something other people do.</p> <p>Many of my concerns and critiques weren’t going anywhere. And I’m not intent on leaving social work before I have entered it. So I reached out to Stephen. Before heading up Canada’s largest palliative care unit, he was a practicing therapist, seeing clients as I will soon be. And so often in my life I can look to the experience and words of older people who have been in my life, and in my case mostly older men. I could identify with them in ways that felt as though I was being spoken to from the future, someone to help ground me in where I was in my own life.</p> <p>Stephen shared with me his own experiences in social work. He called it the redemption business. I believe that may be more fitting. I’m so grateful to him and his wife Nathalie for arranging and sitting down for this interview. It has been some time since I have released a podcast. I have written a great deal, and I hope that you’ll look in to that work as well. For now, I hope this interview with Stephen leaves you as it did me, ever curious about this life and the people we meet. Salud.</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abiders-urban-achiever/message Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abiders-urban-achiever/support" rel="payment">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abiders-urban-achiever/support</a>
August 11, 2021
Jessica Dieter: Qigong Teacher
<p>On the podcast today is Jessica Dieter. Jessica is a Qigong instructor in the greater South Bend, IN area. I met Jessica around 2013 when she was offering Qigong classes in the park here in town. After working with her, it initiated my dive into Qigong practice and eventually my curiosity into Daoism. </p> <p>Have you ever tried to sit and meditate as you see yogis do or in movies? Have you struggled to clear the mind of the "inner chatter" as it were? Qigong, also called moving meditation is a way to calm the mind by moving the body. We're so stuck in our heads that the practice of clearing the mind becomes a "heady" experience in itself. Qigong is a wonderful way to bring attention to the movements of the body whilst turning off that chatter for a bit.</p> <p>Jessica is currently hosting classes in the South Bend area during the remaining summer and fall months. She can be reached at chispirience@gmail.com or through her website at http://www.Chispirience.com</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abiders-urban-achiever/message Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abiders-urban-achiever/support" rel="payment">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abiders-urban-achiever/support</a>
May 19, 2021
Justin Rhodes: The Apron-Wearing Permaculture Chicken-Ninja Master
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/HX3UDslPsEE">Also available on Youtube!</a> (<a href="https://youtu.be/HX3UDslPsEE">https://youtu.be/HX3UDslPsEE</a>)</p> <p>This week on the podcast is permaculture farmer and YouTube Vlogger, Justin Rhodes. With over 840,000 subscribers, Justin reaches MILLIONS of viewers as he invites his fans to take a chance at a life that perhaps walks a little softer in the world... a very Dude proposition indeed. Justin details how he and his family feed and provide for themselves from the land they live on with organic gardening, livestock husbandry, and hybrid permaculture techniques. In the podcast, we will discuss: </p> <ul> <li>Composting and permaculture techniques </li> <li>Mixed crop rotations </li> <li>Trial and error homesteading </li> <li>Stereotypes towards and preconceptions against working with one's hands </li> <li>Making a shift toward land stewardship </li> <li>Aligning goals and values of spouse and kids (working for a shared vision)</li> </ul> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abiders-urban-achiever/message Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abiders-urban-achiever/support" rel="payment">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abiders-urban-achiever/support</a>
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