Best Chris Padgett Podcasts (2025)

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T-25-009 : Sera Evcimen - Mechanical Engineer to Host of The Builder Circle™ Podcast 59:44

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On this episode, we sat down with Sera Evcimen, mechanical engineer, hardware startup strategist, and host of The Builder Circle™ Podcast where she interviews hardware founders, investors and other professionals in the hardware startup ecosystem to provide practical takeaways for anyone building hardware. Sera shares her journey from watching "How …

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73: Everest 50 - Commercial Expeditions Kit List with Di Gilbert 47:02

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Get in touch! The fifth of an extra special 5 part series celebrating 50 years since Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to stand on the summit of Everest, Cathy & Wayne are joined by Scarpa sponsored athlete Di Gilbert. The first British woman to lead an expedition to the top of Mount Everest from the North side, Di has climbed a…

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72: Everest 50 - Fast & Light with Tom Livingstone 48:01

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Get in touch! The fourth of an extra special 5 part series celebrating 50 years since Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to stand on the summit of Everest, Cathy & Wayne are joined by Mountain Equipment sponsored athlete Tom Livingstone. Tom is known for his trad, winter and alpine climbing - the bigger and badder, the better! Hi…

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Time Lapse Apocalypse 1:43:36

3M ago1:43:36

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An unofficial motto of ours here at HAG is: things get worse before they get worse. And now we have evidence to support that immutable truth in the form of the time lapse apocalypse, i.e. the demonstrative enshitification of things since our last broadcast in the spring of this year. Through careful analysis of the pictures now and then, it appears…

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71: Everest 50 - Remote Expeditions with Mick Fowler 41:04

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Get in touch! The third of an extra special 5 part series celebrating 50 years since Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to stand on the summit of Everest, Cathy & Wayne are joined by special guest Mick Fowler. Voted the Mountaineer’s Mountaineer by a poll of his peers in 1989, Mick is a three times Piolet D’or winner who is the m…

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70: Everest 50 - Gear Innovation with Mike Parsons 45:51

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Get in touch! The second of an extra special 5 part series celebrating 50 years since Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to stand on the summit of Everest, Cathy & Wayne are joined by Mike Parsons, the original owner of Karrimor and OMM. Running the family business Karrimor, Mike was one of the key equipment sponsors for the grou…

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69: Everest 50 - 1975 Expedition with Sir Chris Bonington and Paul 'Tut' Braithwaite 48:19

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Get in touch! The first of an extra special 5 part series, Cathy & Wayne are joined by two members of the 1975 Everest South West Face expedition which saw Doug Scott and Dougal Haston endure the highest bivvy ever survived to become the first two Britons to stand on the summit of the worlds highest mountain. Expedition leader, Sir Chris Bonington …

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T-25-008 : Justin McAfee - Mechanical Engineer to Hardware as a Service CEO 59:23

4M ago59:23

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In this episode of TRADEOFFS, we sit down with Justin McAfee, mechanical engineer turned hardware entrepreneur who's fostering a manufacturing renaissance in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Justin shares his unconventional journey from getting burned on a grenade launcher for firefighters at age 23 to developing advanced electric propulsion systems at Wri…

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68: Sports Watches - Time For Tech with Suunto 53:26

5M ago53:26

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Get in touch! Venture into the world of sports watches and wearable tech with Cathy and Wayne as they chat with Suunto UK Marketing Manager Dan Southam. Wayne is a tech geek, Cathy is most definitely not so this is an ideal listen for anyone who already embraces their wrist computer to anyone thinking about using a back up to their trusted map and …

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67: Joe Brown and Kangchenjunga 1955 53:52

6M ago53:52

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Get in touch! In this special anniversary podcast Cathy and Wayne celebrate 70 years since Joe Brown and George Band stood just below the summit of the world's third highest peak, making them the highest climbing Britons until Doug Scott and Dougal Haston summited Everest in 1975. Joined by climber, author and film maker John Porter, this is a fasc…

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66: Kit Lists - Alpine Climbing with BMG Tom Ripley 45:02

6M ago45:02

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Get in touch! Cathy is joined by British Mountain Guide Tom Ripley to chat about the kit you need for self sufficient Alpine Climbing. In addition to what to carry in your pack Tom gives some great tips on classic routes, how to use alpine huts on a budget, top snacks for scary routes and describes what happened when he once managed to forget his h…

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65: Kit Lists - Lake District Sky Trails with Charlie Sproson 57:34

6M ago57:34

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Get in touch! Cathy and Wayne are joined by Lake District Sky Trails creator and Race Director Charlie Sproson. Listen in to learn about the evolution of Sky Running, what courses and events entail, the kit and skills required and why comfy shoes are a necessity. Charlie gives a fantastic insight into all aspects of the sport as well as drilling do…

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64: Kit Lists - Cape Wrath Trail 31:36

7M ago31:36

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Get in touch! Wayne chats with Cathy about her wander along the UK's most remote long distance path; The Cape Wrath Trail. After a 15 year search for two friends willing to trek 220 miles through Scotlands wilderness, Cathy chats about their fantastic 12 day trip involving camps, bivvies, bothies, hostels, river crossings and a LOT of bellowing sta…

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We Are[n't] the World 59:47

7M ago59:47

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Chris and Josh discuss living in an age of pandemic, play a game of Love/Hate, and Josh explains the need to decolonize world history. Contact us at [email protected] Website: Historyagainstthegrain.com References in this Episode: Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction, An Unnatural History, https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062…

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T-25-007 : Valentina Ratner - Mechanical Engineer to SaaS for Hardware CEO 58:55

7M ago58:55

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Nate and Chris chat with Valentina Ratner, co-founder and CEO of Allspice.io, a collaboration and automation platform that brings software development workflows to hardware engineering. Valentina started her career as a mechanical engineer at Amazon before founding Allspice to transform how electronics teams design PCBs. The three discuss the chall…

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Shifting Sovereignties 1:58:45

8M ago1:58:45

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Welcome to the age of discourse dumping, are you dizzy? Do you study emoji eyes to find your facial recognition? Does the world look like a Cubist painting? Is the phrase ‘rubber baby buggy bumper’ starting to make sense? Not to worry. We are here to reassure you that the White Knight is, in fact, talking backwards and the inmates are indeed runnin…

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Myths and Nations 1:43:08

8M ago1:43:08

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Is the strange truer than fiction, and are nations weirder than their staid mythologies? This episode we put that question to the test by considering some of the mind-bendingly strange truths of the more distant past, as well as the nutty history happening in real time right outside our windows. So who you calling strange anyway? You better take a …

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T-25-006 : Yohan Jacob - Consumer Electronics Buyer to Retail Channel Product Launcher 55:52

10M ago55:52

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In this episode of TRADEOFFS we connect with Yohan Jacob, Founder and President at Retail Bound, the largest retail channel management consultancy in North America. Yohan and his team help brands launch and scale their products into the top retailers across the continent. Drawing from over thirty years of experience, Yohan shares his insights about…

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62: Community Action Nepal @ KMF 2024 9:59

10M ago9:59

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Get in touch! Part 13 of our Kendal Mountain Festival 2024 Season. Recorded live out and about at the festival, Cathy and Wayne are joined by Kerry Page from Community Action Nepal. Founded by mountaineer, the late Doug Scott as a means of giving back to the communities that had given him so much, CAN works with local people and the Government to b…

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63: 10k & New 50k Ultra @ KMF 2024 10:16

10M ago10:16

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Get in touch! Part 14 and the final podlet of our Kendal Mountain Festival 2024 Season. Recorded live out and about at the festival, Cathy is joined by Ourea Event Director Shane Ohly. Shane is the man leading the team behind the legendary KMF Terrex 10k and the new KMF The North Face 50k Ultra and gives a peek of what goes on behind the scenes at …

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61: Montane Ambassador Jenny Tough @ KMF 2024 14:21

10M ago14:21

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Get in touch! Part 12 of our Kendal Mountain Festival 2024 Season. Recorded live out and about at the festival, Cathy and Wayne are joined by Adventure Athlete and Montane Ambassador Jenny Tough. If you have ever wondered about how kit is tested - take a listen to Jenny describing how she took her Montane Trailblazer pack and ran mountain chains in…

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60: Deuter Athlete Tamara Lunger @ KMF 2024 15:46

10M ago15:46

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Get in touch! Part 11 of our Kendal Mountain Festival 2024 Season. Recorded live out and about at the festival, Cathy and Wayne are joined by Mountaineer and Deuter Athlete Tamara Lunger. After summitting her first 8000m peak at the age of 23, Tamara went on to become the second Italian woman to summit K2 without oxygen. Tamara's passion for the mo…

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59: La Sportiva Athlete Billy Ridal @ KMF 2024 15:29

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Get in touch! Part 10 of our Kendal Mountain Festival 2024 Season. Recorded live out and about at the festival, Cathy and Wayne are joined by Billy Ridal, La Sportiva Sponsored Athlete. Listen in awe as Billy describes how he retired from indoor competition climbing and took a trip out to Yosemite with his friend and climbing partner Alex Waterhous…

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58: Grangers Proofings and Aftercare @ KMF 2024 13:22

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Get in touch! Part 9 of our Kendal Mountain Festival 2024 Season. Recorded live out and about at the festival, Cathy and Wayne are joined by Tim Francis, Regional Trainer and Account Manager for Grangers International. We chat about the new changes in waterproof fabrics, why and how we need to look after them differently - including why you may wis…

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57: Osprey Packs @ KMF 2024 10:34

11M ago10:34

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Get in touch! Part 8 of our Kendal Mountain Festival 2024 Season. Recorded live out and about at the festival, Cathy and Wayne are joined by Matt Haigh, Key Account Manager for Osprey. Osprey celebrate their 50th Anniversary this year and in this episode we chat about the history of a company that specialises in Rucsacks and load carrying systems. …

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56: Terrex and Primaloft @ KMF 2024 14:42

11M ago14:42

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Get in touch! Part 7 of our Kendal Mountain Festival 2024 Season. Recorded live out and about at the festival, Cathy and Wayne are joined by Lucy Speakman, Director of Addidas, Terrex and 5:10 and Andrea Paulson, Senior Vice President of Innovation and Technology at Primaloft. Primaloft is an industry leader in synthetic insulation and in this epis…

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T-24-005 : Kaleen Canevari - Mechanical Engineer to Connected Fitness CEO 59:50

11M ago59:50

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In this episode of TradeOffs, we sit down with Kaleen Canevari, founder and CEO of Flexia, a Techstars backed connected fitness company building the world's first smart Pilates reformer. With a background in mechanical engineering and Pilates instruction, Kaleen shares her journey of launching a hardware startup during the pandemic, navigating manu…

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55: Berghaus Adapts @ KMF 2024 13:38

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Get in touch! Part 6 of our Kendal Mountain Festival 2024 Season. Recorded live out and about at the festival, Cathy and Wayne are joined by Alice Sainsbury, Product Designer for Berghaus Adapts. This is a fascinating insight into Berghaus' drive to create adaptive outdoor clothing for adventurers with additional needs where we discuss garments adj…

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54: Glenmore Lodge @ KMF 2024 11:07

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Get in touch! Part 5 of our Kendal Mountain Festival 2024 Season. Recorded live out and about at the festival, Cathy and Wayne are joined by Isla McCay, Communications Officer for Glenmore Lodge, the National Outdoor Training Centre. Glenmore Lodge has consistently delivered world class training in a wealth of outdoor activities for 70 years from i…

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53: Gore-Tex Brand @ KMF 2024 14:09

11M ago14:09

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Get in touch! Part 4 of our Kendal Mountain festival 2024 Season. Recorded live out and about at the festival, Cathy and Wayne are joined by Catriona Shearer, UK Account Marketing Manager and PR Specialist for W.L.Gore Ltd. We chat about fabrics, testing and how Gore-Tex is changing to reduce it's impact on the environment. Listen ,learn, laugh and…

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52: Gloves with Mountain Equipment @ KMF 2024 13:32

11M ago13:32

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Get in touch! Part 3 of our Kendal Mountain festival 2024 Season. Recorded live out and about at the festival, Cathy and Wayne are joined by Malcolm Rudge, Product Design Manager at Mountain Equipment. If you have ever wondered how a glove is made, how many pieces are in a glove, how they are waterproof and why certain gloves work with a smart phon…

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51: Motherhood, Mountains and Careers @ KMF 2024 57:42

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Get in touch! Part 2 of our Kendal Mountain Festival 2024 season Recorded in front of a live audience at Kendal Mountain Festival, Cathy chats with KMF CEO Jacqui Scott about their unique journeys into and through the Outdoor industry, how they have balanced motherhood through their careers and how they are helping those just starting out. Fair war…

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50: Balance with Rab @ KMF 2024 48:02

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Get in touch! Part 1 of our Kendal Mountain Festival 2024 season Cathy talks with Jon Frederick, Group Marketing Director for Equip (Global) about their key brand Rab. Recorded in front of a live Audience this fascinating episode gives a real insight into how your favourite outdoor garments journey from concept to reality. This years festival theme…

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T-24-004 : Tom George - Hardware Startup Engineer to Google Product Lead 48:17

12M ago48:17

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In this episode of TradeOffs we connect with Tom George, former Head of Pebble at Sidewalk Labs, and now a Product Team Lead at Google focusing on Sustainable Cities. We’ll hear about Tom’s journey from working on speech compression technology for BlackBerry accessories to developing satellite communication systems for ships, and eventually leading…

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Episode 9: Part II - At the Risk of Being Vulnerable 31:48

12M ago31:48

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In this shorter 2nd half of the conversation with Chris Padgett, Martin and Chris discuss the bravery that is a part of making music and putting it out there for others to see. Chris encourages musicians to create recklessly, reminding us that making music is valuable in and of itself as an experience but also as a learning opportunity.…

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Episode 9: Part I - Chris Padgett's Journey 34:48

1y ago34:48

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In the first half of this episode, Martin invites comedien, musician and speaker Chris Padgett to reflect on his musical journey and share insights on the power that music has had in his spiritual walk. The episode ends with a teaser from "The Chris & Linda Show", a podcast the Padgetts host about marriage.…

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A Story Told 1:47:20

1y ago1:47:20

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Like rock climbers scaling a big wall, Josh and Chris take on the towering crag of higher education. Josh finds perspective on this adventure in tackling a monumental read, Peter Heather’s Christendom, a story of how paradise was lost in the orthodoxies and power drive of the hulking monolith known as the Roman Catholic Church. Wary of such heights…

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T-24-003 : Christina Perla - Industrial Designer to On Demand Manufacturing 58:57

1y ago58:57

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In this episode of TradeOffs we connect with Christina Perla, co-founder and CEO of Makelab, an on-demand 3D printing service. Christina discusses her journey from working in corporate design at Converse to co-founding Makelab, emphasizing the challenges and successes of running a hardware startup. She highlights Makelab's growth strategy, includin…

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Episode 8: Part II - Freedom and Laughter 23:28

1y ago23:28

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In this second part of the Bob Rice interview, Bob shares a little bit about his story, how he entered into comedy, and later the way that God transformed his life from one of sadness into joy. Martin and Bob also reminisce about events they performed at together, and comment on ways in which creating comedy is analogous to creating music.…

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T-24-002 : Kevin Lavelle - Performance Fabric to Pediatric Telemedicine 58:15

1y ago58:15

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In this episode of TradeOffs, we sit down with Kevin Lavelle, founder of Mizzen and Main and Harbor, to discuss the challenges of building and scaling two very different companies—one in apparel and the other in pediatric telemedicine. Lavelle shares candid insights on navigating U.S. manufacturing hurdles, the importance of strategic networking, a…

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Episode 8: Part I: The Joy of Music 25:04

1y ago25:04

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In this episode, Martin and Bob Rice reminisce and reflect on years of leading music for spiritual events such as Steubenville East and other conferences, as well as discuss the innate joy that comes from performing music.

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49: New Waterproof Fabrics - What You Need To Know Part 3 38:43

1y ago38:43

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Get in touch! There are big changes happening in the world of waterproofs . They're a long time coming and are great news for the environment BUT we will all need to learn how to use and maintain the new technologies. In this final part of three "waterproof special" podcasts, Cathy and Wayne are joined by Tim Francis Regional Trainer and Account Ma…

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48: New Waterproof Fabrics - What You Need To Know Part 2 38:14

1y ago38:14

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Get in touch! There are big changes happening in the world of waterproofs . They're a long time coming and are great news for the environment BUT we will all need to learn how to use and maintain the new technologies. In this second of three special podcasts, Cathy and Wayne are joined by Laura Howe, Fabric Technologist at Mountain Equipment, to di…

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47: New Waterproof Fabrics - What You Need To Know Part 1 41:08

1y ago41:08

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Get in touch! There are big changes happening in the world of waterproofs . They're a long time coming and are great news for the environment BUT we will all need to learn how to use and maintain the new technologies. In this first of three special podcasts, Cathy and Wayne are joined by Debbie Read, Head of Corporate Communications and CSR at Equi…

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Episode 7: Part II - Harmony and Splendor 22:40

1y ago22:40

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In this, the 2nd half of our interview with Dr. Michael Waldstein, we reflect on the intimate nature of beauty, delve into the treasures of classical music, and Dr. Waldstein describes the effect that music has had on him personally in different periods of his life. Finally, Michael shares stories about his encounters with Pope John Paul II, now a …

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Episode 7: Part I: The Wonder of Music 31:02

1y ago31:02

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In this episode, theologian, philospher, and music lover Dr. Michael Waldstein discusses the mysterious beauty that music possesses. Reflecting on his scholarly work on the Theology of the Body, Dr. Waldstein unpacks the phenomenon of expression and how the person is revealed in a mysterious way when they make music. This 1st half ends with a refle…

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Episode 6: Music As a Journey Towards Our True Purpose 23:00

1y ago23:00

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In this episode, Martin Doman explains how the natural structure of music mimics our life's journey, sharing an ancient story through one of his favorite songs. Life has meaning and purpose, and music can draw us back to our story and helps us to recognize God's work in our life.

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Episode 5b: Songs of A Servant - Part II 33:30

1y ago33:30

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In the second half of this episode, Bob Filoramo fan boy, otherwise known as Martin Doman, asks Bob more about the origins of his favorite songs, his process of writing, and the vulnerability of expressing deep emotion through music and how that relates to worship.

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Episode 5a: Songs of A Servant - Part I 37:39

1y ago37:39

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In this first of a 2-part episode, Martin welcomes his first guest, Bob Filoramo, the musician who inspired him to lead music. This is a change of gears from the plan, as Martin explains in his intro, but the change turns out great as Bob shares his musical journey and inspires with meaningful stories about his life making music.…

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Episode 4: On Repeat 11:42

1+ y ago11:42

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We tend to listen to the same songs over an over again, especially if we really like the artist. This repetition becomes layered as we listen to different parts of the song, and we hear more and more. And sometimes a song or album will completely change our world. After discussing this, Martin introduces the first guest to the pod!…