WorldWide Stew

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WorldWide Stew

Michael Davis

7 episodes

1 day ago

Beneath the surface there's always a story. WorldWide Stew tells stories that need to simmer. Stories about people, places, things, and ideas that matter. You might be surprised by how much we all share! And, why you should never buy cheap ricotta cheese.

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Episodes (7/7)

WorldWide Stew

Listening to Your Own Deep Space

Listen to a chirp from deep space—two black holes colliding over a billion years ago. It took decades of planning and listening for LIGO's scientists to detect that signal. What if you could build your own LIGO for detecting the quiet signals within you? This episode explores how gravitational wave detection teaches us to listen to our ego awareness with curiosity instead of judgment.

I hope you enjoy this episode. It's slightly over 18 minutes long.

Some people want to test themselves. I do! When you're done listening, you can go to this link to take a short quiz and see what stuck: https://forms.gle/HUqVGbgiXbp8v3RG9

Original idea by Mike Davis and developed through collaboration with Anthropic's Claude.ai.

Music licensed through AGSoundtrax.

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1 month ago

18 minutes 3 seconds

WorldWide Stew

A brief self-acceptance meditation for those who have Parkinson's Diseasee

This episode is one of potentially more episodes. It's focused on self-acceptance. Self-acceptance is hard to find when your muscles, body, and brain don't work as well as they did. As a hospice and then a hospital chaplain, I saw the complex types of pain that Parkinson's Disease (and other similar motor neuron diseases) inflict on patients. Some of them are family members whom we love. I've tried to make this episode simple, brief, and supportive. I regularly use Claude.ai to help me create content for this meditation. Self-acceptance is a core issue for Parkinson's Disease patients. There is no religious content in this meditation. I hope it helps. You can find the transcript here. I hope it helps you or someone you love.

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2 months ago

8 minutes 44 seconds

WorldWide Stew

Trauma and Pain

Cows chew chew their food multiple times (chew their cud) because grass isn't fundamentally digestible. What does this have to teach us about processing grief and trauma? Music by AGGoldstein.

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4 months ago

11 minutes 37 seconds

WorldWide Stew

Adages, aphorisms, and maxims

Not all our adages are helpful. Sometimes, they harm.

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4 months ago

20 minutes 36 seconds

WorldWide Stew

Two Minute Mindfulness Meditation

A Two-Minute Mindfulness Break: A brief reset for your mind and body. Find a comfortable position and focus on your breath and your body. Notice the sensations of breathing and experience open-awareness without trying to change anything. If your mind wanders, gently bring your attention back to your breath. In just two minutes, you can create a moment of calm in your busy day.

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1 year ago

2 minutes 6 seconds

WorldWide Stew

Travel, health, and generations with Anthony Nguyen

In this episode, Worldwide Stew serves up an interview with my friend and colleague, Anthony Nguyen, an Rn with a BSN from Midwestern State University. His specialty is preparing and recovering patients from cardiovasclar procedures at Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital in downtown Dallas. He and his colleagues are experts at bringing a easing the fears of undergoing surgery.

We talked about the following:

The rich meaning of travel (twice, in fact),
Ethics (especially with respect to the work of Jane Tronto; see this excellent Philosophize This podcast where Stepehn West introduces the Ethics of Care),
Culture and generational differences,
Healthcare,
A recent study stating that ~ 60% of nurses would not include a chaplain on a consult for acute pain
And the role and needs of nurses.

Music licensed through AGSountrax.

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1 year ago

45 minutes 2 seconds

WorldWide Stew

Supernova

Imagine you discover something before anyone else

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2 years ago

2 minutes 43 seconds