A Queer Kenyan podcast dedicated to Queer Joy and Living. Join us as we discuss everyday queer stories and experiences in Kenya, and Hold space for human connection, discovery, failure, and vulnerability through conversation, learning, and unlearning.
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“I think you guys should start a podcast with Jake.” The podcast started with a group text from Maggie, Jake’s wife. A few months later, Holdeman and Fin sat down with Jake to find out what was behind Maggie’s text (besides her usual motivations of starting a wildly successful business that would allow us all to retire at 40). Jake shared that he just had a nagging desire to ‘do something’. Life was good, work was good, but still, something creative and generative seemed untapped within him. ...
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Week 22- Small Life Update+ May was Beautiful+ No capacity for Heartbreaks
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30:40This week on ways I broke my heart but blamed it on others, birthday shenanigans, and cracking the code on morning routines!! Always, Love and Light xx
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Valentine's is here, where's my person?!! Naah, but for real, why am I always single on valentine's? Lets dive into my thoughts on valentine's and my bad valentine dates. Wishing you all the love on this day! xx
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New plant parent+ pricey salads+ organic farmer's market + I like your style?
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20:08The last week of January was such a breeze. Join the host as she talks about pricey delicious salads, vegan cheese, organic farmer's market and tries to decode whether an encounter was gay or not
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New beginnings+ feeling hopeful+ keeping my own promises
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16:02Happy New Year, Listeners! I started maintaining audio logs or audio journaling (calling them Plogs like Podcast Log, get it?) sometime last year and ended up really liking it and enjoying the process. This year, I've decided to share some of that with you, hopefully on a weekly basis. Here's my log for the 2nd week of January and the first log of …
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Kristen Stewart, Coming out and Being Queer
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1:15:13**RE-UPLOAD** We are here and we are queer! In this episode we discuss the issue on coming out and our lived experiences as queer people in Kenya. And how hot is Kristen Stewart? Here's a link to Queerhive which is an initiative started by Sonia (one of the guests) for LBQ women and gender non conforming persons.…
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Enforcing Boundaries with Family Ft Cindy
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36:57Enforcing boundaries with family can be hard. Some take it easy but mostly it is received with pushback. In this episode, I am joined by Cindy from 3 Girls and a Mic, we discuss enforcing boundaries with siblings and other family members and how it can affect your relationship and create space for actual friendship. We also touch on the capacity of…
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09 - Humiliated at a Potbelly (and other cheerful stories of learning humility on the path to living one’s life purpose)
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1:27:39Episode Overview As a child, Segun Olagunju prayed for wisdom, which is the only thing that can explain a 20-something recognizing that if he’s going to make a difference in the world (Nigeria, in particular), he’s going to work backwards from being a 50-something changemaker in 2035. Setting out on a 30-year journey to learn business, leadership, …
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08 - An Accidental Rant on Christianity With A Kind, Patient, Open-minded Pastor Who Took it Well
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1:06:33Most of the time on the Interesting Lives of Normal People, we try to dig into the stories of our guests to find out what they’re all about, what’s been on their mind, and what they ‘just need to get out into the world.’ This podcast turned out to be a bit of the reverse. In this episode with Dr. David Burke, mentor and friend of Jake’s, and a long…
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07 - “Do What You Love, Love What You Do!” And Other Hot Life Tips From The Fashion Queen of Denver
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1:04:30If you’ve ever seen a music video from the band OK Go, that’s basically what it’s like hanging out with Brandi Shigley. Over there is the flamethrower, in this corner is a family of ferrets dressed in matching outfits, in walks a mailman with a green mohawk who is also her tattoo artist, and here you are sitting on a giant hand-shaped chair that sm…
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06 - Time is Limited For Us All But Some Are More Aware of It Than Others
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1:03:19Here’s a classic Would You Rather: “Would you rather be blind your whole life or go blind gradually?” For Lindsey Blankenship (Siegel), she didn’t get to choose, but she has a rare eye disease that is slowly making her blind. As a teenager, she skied regularly; as a 41-year old mom, she has to look carefully at her feet to make sure she doesn’t wal…
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Happy pride my Alphabet Mafia! Pride month has always been a month of celebration, commemoration, visibility and rainbows for the queer community in most places. But I wondered, what does it mean for those of us living in places where being queer is seen as a crime? What does it mean for me? This is voices from others on what pride means to them.…
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Where have I been and what have I been up to? -Its mid year and I think its a good time to take stock. My published short story Shika Vibe podcast
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05 - Take Long Walks. And Other Mindblowing Creativity Tips from Normals in the Advertising World.
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57:56Here’s something of a truth: ‘normal’ people don’t make commercials for a living. They don’t write 30-second spots featuring Muppets talking on a Facebook Portal, they don’t have their words read by Arnold Schwarzeneggar, they don’t direct actors in Romania over Zoom, and they definitely don’t have their work seen by millions of people watching Mar…
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04 - What Happens When You Examine The Life You Live vs. The Life You Want to Live
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1:01:56In the Summer of 2008, Tory Leggat took the leap to move from Seattle to NYC with no job and no real friends, but all the optimism and pluck of a 22-year old ready to live out a dream of a year in the Big Apple. But when the (financial) world crumbled within days of her arrival to NYC, Tory had to recalibrate her expectations for work, personal fin…
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03 - Life as a Fun-loving Disco Ball Inside of a Kaleidoscope
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1:08:50Stephanie LaFlora is a disco ball inside of a kaleidoscope. On one hand, she’s a mom and a wife, she’s got a house in the burbs and a 9-5pm. She’s admittedly scattered, prone to quitting when things get painful and encounters impostor syndrome. She’s even got a 401k. On the other hand, Stephanie is black female in tech who has sang with Hillsong at…
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02 - How to Use Your Amazing Brain in the Quest for Meaning
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41:59In our second episode, we talk to Dr. Jessica Stern, a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. She has spent many hours sitting with people, helping them sort through what is true in their life, and guiding them as they name what they want to be true. We asked Dr. Stern to help us discuss passion and the longing for meaningful work. In this conversation…
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01 - The Happy Journey of Listening, Learning, and Creating Something That Matters
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41:36Overview How do you start a podcast that’s about making a podcast? For us (Jake, Ryan and Fin), we ‘start’ this podcast almost a year into a what-should-we-make-a-podcast-about? journey. This “episode 1” is actually episode 14, recorded only once we found our proverbial North Star and were able to articulate--for ourselves and listeners--what this …
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Welcome to The Interesting Lives of Normal People. A podcast experiment in finding passion, self-exploration, valuing others, asking good questions, and listening. Find out what it's all about in this short trailer. “I think you guys should start a podcast with Jake.” The podcast started with a group text from Maggie, Jake’s wife. A few months late…
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Living In a Foreign Country During a Pandemic Ft FrameAmbition
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27:55**RE-UPLOAD** Today's guest is Julie Olum or popularly known as Frame Ambition. She is a writer, adventurer, traveller, blogger, Youtuber, yogi amongst other things. A wholesome person I would call her. Julie takes us through 'A day in the Life of Julie' as she was "stranded" in a foreign country when the pandemic began. She talks about her feeling…
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COVID-19 has changed so many things in the world right now and affected every single life. We never thought we would experience being under a national curfew and/or being in social isolation and quarantine. Its forced us to face so many parts of ourselves and find different ways of interacting and maintaining some sort of sanity. Most importantly i…
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