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Wendy Kipling INsight

Wendy Kipling The Virtual Mentor

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If you are like me, you lead a very busy life.... You do not have time to waste and every second you spend on your business needs to count. If you need to know something you want to find the information quick. You want to act today. INsight© has been designed with you in mind……. My aim is to provide sessions that are: Quick and easy to follow Deliver enough knowledge so that you can act today. Time focused, with sessions only lasting between 10 – 20 minutes. Allowing you to maximize your tim ...
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"The Jungle Book" is a timeless tale of adventure, friendship, and self-discovery in the wilds of the Indian jungle. Follow Mowgli, raised by wolves, as he encounters a captivating cast of characters, faces the challenges of survival, and learns profound life lessons in a world where the law of the jungle prevails. This classic is an enthralling exploration of human nature, our connection to the natural world, and the enduring power of storytelling. Visit https://krity.app/ for more books an ...
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Robin Kermode reads his favourite children's stories. All the stories are about kindness and forgiveness in some form. Robin Kermode, is an actor, best selling author, leading Communication Coach, popular keynote speaker, body language expert, media commentator, and the author of SPEAK SO YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LISTEN. His podcast, THE ART OF COMMUNICATION, has over 20,000 listeners. For more information visit: www.robinkermode.com
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Do you recall your parents saying "Wise Up?". This is the BEST way to increase your intellect, grow your vocabulary, and broaden your view of history and culture. Take the "wise up!" challenge and listen to any 5 of these narrated stories and give your brain a treat! (It works for all ages, including TV-bound seniors). Enjoy listening to well-narrated tales from writers like Jack London, Guy de Maupassant, Edith Wharton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, ...
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The Man Who Would Be King tells the story of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. It was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the “white Raja” of Sarawak in Borneo, and by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan, who claimed the title Prince of Ghor. The story was first published in The Phantom Rickshaw and other Tales (Volume Five of the Indian Railway Library, published by A H Wheeler & ...
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Pilgrimage of Poetry

Harrison Root & Joanna Emig

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Pilgrimage of Poetry is a short publishing of poetry throughout time, and by many different artists and authors. Join co-hosts Harrison and Joanna as we make our way through time and get lost in the power of poetry. Thanks for listening!
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The RoC Show

Carsten Soelund

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Complex projects - from idea to execution. A business podcast about working with complex projects ,with your host Carsten Soelund and guests. We bring guests on the show and let them tell their story about working on complex projects around the world.
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amimetobios

Amimetobios

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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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This is where I will share poetic pieces and unique, uplifting insights I gain from them. Join me, Madison Erasmus, for a regular dose of literary inspiration. Cover art photo provided by Thought Catalog on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@thoughtcatalog
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Retro Ad Review

Retro Ad Review

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Retro Ad Review is a podcast where we explore nostalgic commercials from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s. We go into the details behind your favorite commercials, from the story of their creation to their impact (or lack thereof). Coke, McDonald's, Nike...we cover them all. So, if you like watching the ads more than you like watching the Superbowl, have a listen! Don't forget to follow us on our Instagram and Facebook: @retroadreview
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A weekly podcast discussing culture and entertainment media from a Christian perspective. Books, games, movies, and music are all on the roundtable. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/polymathroundtable/support
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Extruding America

Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd

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Won't you join me, Gerard Armbruster, as every week we take a wrong turn off life's interstate, and discover the straight story about the bend in the road, where nestle the small towns with big characters, to tug on the common thread that unravels the hand-me-down sweater of our national zeitgeist, and extrudes the truths of our lives. Perennial favorite: Postcard from Battersea, with Stetson Tudd.
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A bi-weekly show that discusses and examines the chivalric virtues as they apply to our modern lives. We touch on Modern Culture, Martial Arts, Personal Style and Grooming, Movies and lots of other topics. Whatever and wherever our conversation takes us.
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Welcome, to mostly stories, I’m your host, Ben Beecher. In this series, We flip through the pages of some of my favorite books that I used to read growing up. Some of these tales have been told many times before, some you may not have ever heard of. In any case, I hope you enjoy, Mostly Stories Cover art photo provided by Susan Yin on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@syinq
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Classic Poetry Aloud

Classic Poetry Aloud

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Classic Poetry Aloud gives voice to poetry through podcast recordings of the great poems of the past. Our library of poems is intended as a resource for anyone interested in reading and listening to poetry. For us, it's all about the listening, and how hearing a poem can make it more accessible, as well as heightening its emotional impact. See more at: www.classicpoetryaloud.com
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Great Writers Inspire

Oxford University

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PLEASE NOTE: The 'Great Writers Inspire' project has its own website which features much more extensive, diverse and updated content. Please visit https://writersinspires.org From Dickens to Shakespeare, from Chaucer to Kipling and from Austen to Blake, this significant collection contains inspirational short talks freely available to the public and the education community worldwide. This series is aimed primarily at first year undergraduates but will be of interest to school students prepar ...
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I've always wondered what it takes to make our dreams come true. How do we move from having a dream to becoming the dream? I have dedicated my life to understanding how to make our dreams possible. I have learned from my mentors, studied the scriptures, read hundreds of books and attended several seminars in the quest of finding the secret sauce to making our dreams come true. I am here to share them with you in this podcast. I want to go on the journey of my commitment to personal developme ...
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Power Nap

Quiet. Please

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Power Naps have been proven to help you get the rest and energy you need and get back on track. In as little as 20 minutes, the Power Nap podcast can help get you in and out of sleep quickly - easily and (best of all) naturally. Our unique isochronic tones have been shown to help people easily enter a sleep state and bring you back to being fully awake, refreshed, and ready to take on the rest of your day. So forget the coffee and, take a power nap podcast instead. We have power naps in a va ...
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The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere “rollicking journalist,” he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people–such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells–with whom he vehemently disagreed. Chesterton had no diff ...
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You can’t sleep. Even worse? You can’t stay asleep. 7 million Americans suffer from a lack of sleep, for some, it's temporary for others it’s an ongoing problem. The Stop the Insomnia Now podcast is an effective answer to your sleep problems. Because of our experience with advanced relaxation techniques, our team has crafted these unique and exclusive isochronic enhanced audio tracks and guided meditations to help you fall asleep fast and stay asleep longer. The Stop the Insomnia Now Podcast ...
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The story was written as a sequel to “The Ice Palace,” and Clark Darrow appears in both. The omniscient narrator, who ensures that close observation is paid to Powell’s story, draws in the reader. The opening line – “Jim Powell was a Jelly-bean”- labels the protagonist immediately, and as a character he remains within the stereotype Fitzgerald indi…
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Yes- Poirot is BACK!...despite the terrible review we received a couple years ago complaining that my French sounds like its been infusd with Russian.. I was moved by that, and left for a year to study at the Sarbonne, at which time I was reminded that Poirot's character was born in lived as a child in in Portugal, and often took trips with his fat…
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Frank Stockton was best known for his humurous children's stories and later "fairy tales for adults" in which he pokes fun at our human capacity for misundesrstanding while building a very credible love story. He wrote the story in the mid 19th century and didnt live long enough to enjoy seeing it beceome a movie in 1936 starring Carole Lombard and…
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Once again we will explore Absolute Surrender to Christ using Carlo Walth's Surrendering Guide from his SHAWL series Mentoring Sacred Arts. We will touch on the HOW and the WHY today of Absolute Surrendering to Christ. If you would like to follow along and/or be more proactive in your journey to Christ the Guides can be found at MentoringSacredArts…
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Jeeves Takes Charge" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in the Saturday Evening Post in the United States in November 1916, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in April 1923. The story was also included in the 1925 collection Carry On, Jeeve…
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Tobin's Palm From O' Henry's 'The Four Million': Two young sons of Ireland , John and Daniel (Tobin) head for Coney Island Amusement Park in order that good palm John can relieve Daniel of his worries over his girlfriend's not having arrived yet from County Sligo with his money. It's been three moneths and no sign of her. He consults a fortune tell…
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Another journey in the SHAWL experience from Carlo Walth's Series Mentoring Sacred Arts. Jesus for Dummies welcomes in a fellow mentee of the SHAWL journey to Christ. Andrew Lusch has joined us to talk about his own spiritual path to the Christ and how SHAWL (Surrendering, Humbling, Abiding, Waiting and Listening) has changed his life! God bless.…
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Two similar stories by Maupassant explore the memories of older men with regard to the woman whom they just can't forget....] for music credit: Midnight in Paris Music by Jean-Paul Verpeaux from Pixabay New sponsor spot time markers: Sponsor Message intro 12:51 Show re-entry: 12:54 Visit us at www.bestof1001stories.com…
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get ready for another "Jeeves" style adventure- this time with the clueless Rollo and his excellent butler and advisor Wilson. It seems Rollo is quite caught up with a young lady but he has his own "system" for getting the final "yes" from her and doesn't need advice. Join our email list at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales podcast and browse our …
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A tourist gets lost in Mammoth Cave and runs into a very scary situation in 'The Beast In The Cave' In 'The Alchemist' a curse haunts an old family for 6 hundred years, killing each male member of the family at age 32. Check out our website at www.bestof1001stories.com by going to 1001 Classic Short Storiers and tapping on "Episodes"- then look for…
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Poirot can’t resist a case, even when holidaying in Brighton with Hastings. When a necklace goes missing, the case is a simple matter of logic for the little Belgian. This was only the second of Agatha Christie's short stories to appear in print. In the UK, it appeared in The Sketch magazine on the 14th March 1923 as The Curious Disappearance of th…
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'Ulysses and the Cyclops'-Adaped by Andrew Lang from the Greek classic 'Homer', this story places Ulysses in the hero's seat as he and his men are trapped on an island occupied by one-eyed giants called Cyclops- and they have a nasty penchant for eating sailors and roasting their remains. Ulysses is known for his "McGuyver" like abilites to find sm…
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Edgar Allan Poe wasn't just known for horror- he also had a sense of humor and a deep sense of justice for those who had been wronged. In this story, a French king who likes to play extravagent jokes on his guests decides to use his two dwarfs, which had been captured and sent to him by one of his generals, as the evenings' entertainment. The man d…
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A young man living off a rich Aunt's endowment decices to take a few weeks off with pals and head for the nearby lake looking for peace and quiet. He is soon wrapped up in trying to get his shy friend hooked up while at the same time being stuck with a fat toddler whose parents have been abandoning him to the mercies of lake vacationers due to a me…
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Two cultures collide when a group of British overseers meet for a regional planning session in India's outback, have too much to drink, and one of them defaces a statue outside a temple. The offender is almost immediately confronted by a naked leper called Silver Man who leaves a bite mark on his chest- causing a physiological change in the coming …
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