Disruption: Podcast Brunch Club Vancouver (October 2019)

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Podcast Brunch Club members in Vancouver and around the world will be listening to episodes about disruption in both the personal, work, and social change domains. The Vancouver PBC playlist contains additional episodes from podcasts that are participating in the 2019 Vancouver Podcast Festival. Podyssey is hosting a special edition of the Vancouver PBC monthly meetup during VanPodFest on Sunday, Nov 11 at 4:30pm. To register for the event, visit: https://vanpodfest2019pbc.eventbrite.ca For more information about PBC, visit: https://podcastbrunchclub.com


  • 1

    #100: Take the Right Kinds of Risks

    Disrupt Yourself Podcast with Whitney Johnson

    21:53 | Mar 5th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    To celebrate the 100th episode of the Disrupt Yourself Podcast, we're disrupting our format a bit. In Episode 80 we gave you a preview of an online course we're developing. It's been our most download...Show More

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    This was a good overview on market risk vs competitive risk for self and work. We like to take competitive risk because it's ironically less risky, but if we want to reap the rewards, we should take o...Show More

  • 2

    Spanx: Sara Blakely

    How I Built This with Guy Raz

    26:01 | Sep 12th, 2016

    3 recommendations

    At 27, Sara Blakely was selling fax machines and desperate to reinvent her life. So she came up with Spanx — hosiery that eliminates panty lines — and set to work building her business. See Privacy P...Show More

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    I just realized I have heard and read a lot about Sara Blakely and Spanx, but never from her directly. I loved the hustle she put on for Neiman's. Also incredible that she owns 100% and never had to r...Show More

  • 3

    #194: Atomic Habits, James Clear

    Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris

    1:23:34 | Jul 3rd, 2019

    5 recommendations

    An athlete as a kid, a devastating sports injury would change James Clear's life forever. While a sophomore in high school, a baseball bat struck Clear in the face, resulting in massive head trauma. ...Show More

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    Enjoyed the conversation with great practical tips on how to build good habits and break bad ones in step-by-step fashion. The start of the habit is more important than the destination (if there even ...Show More

  • 4

    How to Reinvent Live Music

    Unthinkable with Jay Acunzo

    36:13 | Sep 17th, 2019

    4 recommendations

    A story from Unthinkable producer and Marketing Showrunners staff writer, Tallie Gabriel, about a startup that's gone global with its attempts at reinventing live music, and how they manage to use sma...Show More

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    Tempted to get tickets to a Sofar Sounds concert now! But also very disappointed that they don't pay artists well :( Nevertheless, this podcast is intriguing. I will give other episodes a try.

  • 5

    S2: Shout out to Autumn Peltier

    The Secret Life of Canada

    04:28 | Aug 6th, 2019

    5 recommendations

    It's our first shout out to a living youth leader! Meet Anishnabe-kwe Autumn Peltier. Greatly influenced by her great aunt Josephine Mandamin, Autumn has been using her voice to advocate for water rig...Show More

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    Go Autumn! I can’t believe I just learned about Autumn. She’s a young warrior fighting for Indigenous water rights. ✊

  • 6

    There’s no denying that we are currently in a housing crisis. Regardless of whether you are a homeowner or a renter, the housing market is in a constant state of flux, making it difficult for people t...Show More

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    This was a thought provoking episode about what socialist architecture could be, why arguing for human rights like “housing is a human right” may not be the most fruitful for policy change and impleme...Show More

  • 7

    Drug users are the experts. We’ve survived. We know policy better than policy-makers. We know law better than lawmakers. We know pharmaceuticals better than pharmacists. We know nobody’s coming to sav...Show More

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    Really well produced podcast series by drug users about the dire and urgent situation they’re facing.

  • 8

    Max learns what drag is, and what drag means to the queer community in Vancouver. Performers from around the city share why drag is important to them.  Dragged Out is proudly sponsored by JQ Clo...Show More

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    Is drag just for men who dress up as women? Can queer and cis people also participate in drag? Drag is a way explore gender identity and owning it. This really well produced new podcast series explore...Show More

  • 9

    In this episode of Red Man Laughing we bring you to Yellowknife during the Stories From The Land National Tour to share the stories of Hovak Johnston. Hovak is a multidisciplinary artist that has crea...Show More

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    Listen to this beautiful segment about how Inuit artist Hovak Johnston is revitalizing the art of traditional Inuit tattooing as a form of healing for her women in her community, and reclaiming her he...Show More

  • 10

    Dress for Success Vancouver (est. 1999) is a registered charity and affiliate of the worldwide organization, Dress for Success. DFS Vancouver empowers women back into the workforce by providing them w...Show More

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    I’ve known about Dress For Success and YES! Vancouver for a long time but never really heard about the depth and deliberateness of the services of empowering women to get back in the workforce outside...Show More

  • 11

    Episode 1: Hacker vs. Hacker

    Hunting Warhead

    54:24 | Nov 4th, 2019

    20 recommendations

    Einar Stangvik is a white-hat hacker — an internet security expert with an expertise in cracking the most secure and disturbing parts of the web. He discovers a troubling phenomenon online and joins f...Show More

    mm recommended:

    Finally listened and the end to this first episode was 👀

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