The Quest For Wisdom
Conor Monaghan
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Greetings and welcome to The Quest for Wisdom Podcast where we search for nuggets of wisdom from the lives of some truly amazing people
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#7 - A Pansexual, Polyamorous, Permaculture Psychologist with sophia saggezza
sophia saggezza is a forensic psychologist by training, a spoken word poet by choice, and an olive farmer for fun.
She has always been fascinated in understanding the human mind and specialised on the topic of aggression prevention during her studies and prior work.
She left her job in academic teaching to delve deeper into her passion for creative writing and performing as well as community-living.
Now her work is especially informed by humanistic and holistic psychology as well as mindfulness and compassion practices.
As she identifies as pansexual and polyamorous, much of her work also relates to aspects of queerness, sexuality, and love.
sophia was born and raised in Germany but lived abroad in the Netherlands, UK, Italy, Australia and currently calls her ‘home’ to be Catalonia, Spain.
You can follow Sophia on Instagram @so4.poetry
www.instagram.com/so4.poetry
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Mar 7, 2023
#6 - A Psychologists Toolkit for Creating a Healthy and Successful Career with Rosana Corbacho
Rosana Corbacho is a clinical and humanistic psychologist who specialises in mental health support for the music industry. She tours with DJ´s and Musicians to offer Psychological support. Her passion for this led her to found M.I. Therapy.
Her practice focuses on treating addiction, anxiety, depression and other disorders as well as personal development for both music creatives and other people in the music industry.
Rosana has been invited to talk and hold workshops at Berklee University, Primavera Sound, Mutek, ADE, and BIME to name a few. She leads group therapy sessions for Spotify Equal and collaborates with high tier UK and US Tour Managers at The Back Lounge Music Touring and Events Group.
She has received the Keychange Inspiration Award by Amazon Music at Bime Bilbao 2022.
Rosana is a human radiating with compassion and kindness.
I hope you enjoy our conversation
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HOW TO FIND ROSANA CORBACHO
www.instagram.com/rosanachdez
www.instagram.com/m.i.therapy
https://linktr.ee/rosanamit
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Mar 4, 2023
#5 - Sexuality, Gender, and Drag Queen Shenanigans with Bonnie Oui Laddie
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Today we delve in to the weird and wonderful life of a drag queen with our guest Bonnie Oui Laddie, also known as Jon Gerrard.
Bonnie Oui Laddie is Barcelona’s only Scottish, Saxophone tooting, Porno Fratenising, Cabaret star Drag Queen and MILF.
Bonnie Oui Laddie has hosted the Grabby´s – known as the Oscars of Gay Porn, Spain´s Mr Rubber event, as well as hosting and performing at Kit Kat club in Berlin and many other high profile events.
Today we discuss sexuality, gender, crossdressing and many other fascinating topics.
Bonnie Oui Laddie is an inspirational human full of vitality and wit. I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did.
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HOW TO FIND BONNIE OUI LADDIE
@bonnie.oui.laddie
www.instagram.com/bonnie.oui.laddie
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Feb 26, 2023
#4 - Martial Arts, Discipline, Delayed Gratification and Living Rough in Paris with Daniel Clegg
Todays guest is Daniel Clegg. Daniel is a Martial Arts practitioner with black belts in both Judo and Tae Kwondo and now he is working up the belts in Jiu Jitsu as well.
Daniel left his life in the UK with a yearning to escape mundanity and search for new opportunities. On a very limited budget, he cycled to Greece for the Olympics and became used to sleeping outdoors.
He then spent 4 years living on the streets in Paris where he pursued artistic dreams and hustled for survival.
He has recently started an Instagram page @tkd.flow where he teaches and showcases Tae Kwondo skills
Today we talk about discipline, comradery, delayed gratification and much more.
Daniel is straight talking and highly disciplined human being. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
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HOW TO FIND DANIEL
@tkd.flow
www.danielclegg.org.uk
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Feb 8, 2023
#3 - Hare Krishna, Consciousness, God, the Demigods, and Enlightenment with Florian Casajuana
Florian Casajuana is London born comedian and performer who has studied theatre since the age of 8 and loves being the center of attention.
He has followed the Hare Krishna "Cult" (as he jokingly puts it) for 5 years and has recently been initiated as a full fledged member.
He is a fun, intelligent and fanatic preacher who prays sincerely, sins extravagantly and expresses trauma transparently on stage. He is addicted to milk and looks down on those who disrespect cows.
Today we discuss: Hare Krishna, Consciousness, God and the Demigods, Celibacy and no sex before marriage, Path to Enlightenment Comedy and much more
Florian is unique human being with a quirky energy and I hope you find our conversation enlightening.
PODCAST INFO:
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HOW TO FIND FLORIAN:
@floflocomic
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Jan 30, 2023
#2 - The Rise of Creativity, Performance and World Poetry Slam Championships with Makis Moulos
Today´s guest is Makis Moulous (@Makismoulos), he is secretary of the World Poetry Slam Championship and leads several other Poetry and Performing arts organisations.
We speak about Poetry, Careers in Poetry Slam, Boycotting the World Poetry Slam Championship, Traumas, Coming Out Stories, Family Relationships, Struggles of the LGBTQI+ Community, Writing Procedure, Community Building, Living with our Past and so much more during our conversation.
It was particularly uplifting and exciting conversation and both of us were left feeling very grateful for the opportunity to speak freely with compassion and respect.
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Makis Moulos (Greece,1980), is a trilingual writer, poet and a spoken word artist. He uses his confident style to explore themes such as sexuality, stigmas and gender.
He has published 4 personal poetry anthologies and collaborated in various short stories and poetry books in Greece, Germany and the US.
Makis is the organizer and founder of English poetry slam competition in Barcelona and the Greek poetry slam. He is also the organizer of the annual festival “Duende Sessions” in Barcelona.
The last 4 years he has been experimenting with adding live music in his performances and spoken word collaborations and he has created the band "True Love W8s".
He is the secretary of the new World Poetry Slam Organization and he was one of the main organizers of the European Poetry Slam Championship 2021 and director of World Poetry Slam Championship 2022 in Brussels.
Makis is an amazing human, I hope you enjoy our conversation
How to Find Makis
@Makismoulos
www.instagram.com/makismoulos
Organizer of @poentryslam , @duendesessions in Barcelona, @poetryslamgr @digitalgirl.official @world_poetry_slam_organization
youtube.com/user/artemiosm
Poets Mentioned in the Conversation:
@Mariahbgirouard
@Beckiestew
@Ling_lux
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Jan 21, 2023
#1 - Comedy, Autism, CBT, Burnout, and Family Struggles with Jakob Kerkhove
Todays guest is Jakob Kerkhove. Jakob is a Belgian born Comedian and Entrepreneur who left home a decade ago in search of a better life.
Jakob has recently released his first solo show “Act Normal” which is a rollercoaster of emotions coming from light-hearted comedy and theatrics to darker and more traumatic life experiences. In his show Jakob attacks the stigma surrounding “abnormal” people and pulls upon his childhood diagnosis of Autism – which he wholeheartedly disagrees with.
In the episode we talk about Comedy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Autism, Burnout, Family Struggles and Jakob´s challenges whilst trying to start new businesses.
Jakob is an inspirational human who does everything he can to improve his life and keep moving forwards.
I hope you enjoy our conversation:
PODCAST INFO:
Podcast website: www.thequestforwisdom.com/podcast
Spotify: https://sptfy.com/MHFP
Amazon Music: https://amz.run/6SiY
Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0...
Player FM: https://player.fm/series/3439765
Youtube Full Podcast Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy7D7CR2Iqz7sjfki9KibGJrJe0ise1rW
Youtube Podcast Clips Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy7D7CR2Iqz7v-Zaa1MrxdpDtTH4XIHBQ
SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook: https://facebook.com/thequestforwisdom
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thequest4wisdom
Instagram: https://instagram.com/thequestforwisdom
Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/company/the-ques...
Patreon: https://thequestforwisdom.com/patreon
HOW TO FIND JAKOB
@dejakob
www.instagram.com/dejakob
www.dejakob.com
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