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Danielle De La Mare Podcasts
We are excited to announce the launch of Blackstone Chambers’ The Litigation Podcast. This podcast will examine trends and emerging areas of disputes across the full spectrum of Blackstone’s areas of expertise, including commercial, employment and public/regulatory law.
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Carolyn R. Owens and her guests bring a wealth of experience, offering strategies, business tips, and techniques from the coaching world. It's an uplifting, motivating hour offering unique perspectives on life, taking the best from the professional and sports coaching worlds to apply in your everyday life. In this podcast, we focus on topics such as: · How to start, grow, and expand your business · How to get started as a professional coach · Entrepreneurship strategies for leaders and coach ...
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30 - The Impact of AI: Are Existing Laws Enough?
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1:21:01Tune in to episode 30 of The Litigation Podcast: The Impact of AI: Are Existing Laws Enough? AI-powered automated systems are rapidly reshaping decision-making across sectors. In this episode, the panel examines whether current legal frameworks are sufficiently robust and adaptable to meet the challenges this poses. The discussion addresses two cor…
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29 - Commercial Breakfast Briefing September 2025 with Alan Maclean KC, Andrew George KC, Andrew Scott KC, Fraser Campbell KC, Tom Leary, Marlena Valles and Madelaine Clifford
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42:45The Blackstone Breakfast Briefing returns with a roller-coaster round-up of the summer’s key fraud-related judgments. In this episode, the speakers will explore sanctions, illegality and public policy (Alan MacLean KC and Tom Leary – Eurochem v Societe Generale), deep-fake AI images (Marlena Valles – Getty Images v Stability AI), and judgments obta…
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28 - Litigating War - Ukraine v Russia 2025
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48:41Welcome to episode 28 of the Blackstone Chambers Litigation Podcast: Litigating War - Ukraine v Russia 2025. This session followed the European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber judgment of 9 July 2025 in which the Grand Chamber revisited its case law on jurisdiction and held Russia responsible for “an unprecedented and flagrant attack on the fun…
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213. The gifts of the inverse academic career with Dr. Melanie Peffer
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44:59In her third appearance on the podcast over a five-year period, Dr. Melanie Peffer tells us about the gifts of the “inverse academic career trajectory” where she moved from tenure-track faculty, to lecturer, and again to adjunct. While from a traditional academic perspective, she explains, this may look like an unsuccessful career. Yet, as her busin…
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Tyler Martin shows that despite institutional demands and limitations placed on higher ed faculty, it is still possible for faculty to feel grounded in purpose, clear about personal values, and strong in their own sense of agency. He argues that as we allow ourselves to experience the tensions we all feel in relationship to our institutions as well…
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211. The Caring University with Dr. Kevin McClure
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45:11Professor of Higher Education, Kevin McClure, talks about his research and writing of the book, The Caring University: Reimagining the Higher Education Workplace after the Great Resignation. A caring university, he explains, prioritizes employees’ experiences, implements humanizing policies and practice, commits to growth and compensation, empowers…
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Happy Equinox! In this episode, as part of this seasonal celebration, I invite you to go inward and take inventory of your own attachments: how attachment to work (or anything else!) plays out in your life and the ways it may be negatively impacting you and those around you. Namely, I explore the problem of "insecure attachment to work and life" an…
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209. Supporting the neurodivergent academic with Dr. Erica McIntyre
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41:52Dr. Erica McIntyre describes her experiences as an “ADHD’er” academic, her research of Australian academics with ADHD, and neurodivergence in academia more broadly. Erica defines neurodivergence and ADHD, explains how academic institutions could better support neurodivergent academics, and shows how institutional environments more supportive of neu…
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208. Creating a new academic way with Dr. Lennart Nacke
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59:44Dr. Lennart Nacke describes his academic career as a continual journey toward creating something better: from dealing with depression in his Ph.D. program, to the exciting connections he built in his post-doc work, to the energizing and dynamic work he found on the tenure-track, and now as a full professor who is embarking on a solopreneur path for…
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207. Best practices for dissertation supervisors with Dr. Jen Harrison
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36:53Dr. Jen Harrison explains how current higher ed systems often undermine the wellbeing of both graduate students and dissertation supervisors, leaving both feeling unsupported. Jen offers suggestions to faculty supervisors about how to better support themselves and their students: -Set expectations for the what, when, how, and why of communication w…
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206. Navigating difficult life seasons with Henny Flynn
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42:11In this nourishing conversation with therapeutic coach, Henny Flynn, we discuss navigating difficult seasons in career and life, the importance of trusting one's own body, and the healing nature of movement and the natural world. Find Henny Flynn at https://hennyflynn.co.uk/ or on Instagram.
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If you are feeling blah in your work, this episode is for you! As we welcome the new season, I invite you to pause so that you can actually FEEL yourself and your relationship to the people and things around you. I build on the concept of a “pausing practice,” which I introduced in Episode 200, where I define pausing as “intentionally doing nothing…
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204. Better at work with Dr. Jennifer Costanza
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49:45Dr. Jennifer Costanza shares her journey from perfectionism, imposter syndrome, intense stress, and difficulty healing to feeling an overall sense of mental and physical well-being. She explains the importance of knowing your body’s stress response and emphasizes how making time to focus on your physical and mental health—finding ways to feel groun…
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203. Whole people, whole communities with Dr. LuElla D'Amico
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42:23Dr. LuElla D’Amico describes how her own suffering during the tenure process opened up a whole new joyful adventure where she now shows up more fully for her family, her faith, her teaching, her university, her scholarship, her communities, and her own well-being. She offers inspiration, encouragement, and advice for academics who also aspire to be…
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202. Your own best boss with Dr. Vikki Wright
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44:25Dr. Victoria Wright shares her own story about leaving academia as a full professor. She now finds herself running the Ph.D. Life Coach Podcast and membership experience, helping PhD students and academics overcome overwhelm and procrastination. This work, as she explains, represents the culmination of having weaved together her research, skills sh…
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201. The Highly Sensitive Person with Dr. Geneviève Taylor
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38:05This episode is not an interview, but a chat about the experiences of the Highly Sensitive Person, a designation perhaps overrepresented in academia. Drs. Geneviève Taylor and Danielle De La Mare discuss what it looks and feels like to process everything deeply, get overstimulated easily, feel emotions intensely, and notice the subtler parts of lif…
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Our pausing practice is perhaps the most important part of creating more career wellness in our work, yet we don't have a social structure that supports pausing. In this episode, I discuss ways you might begin to think about pausing, how to structure an ongoing pausing practice, and the benefits of pausing for career wellness. During this seasonal …
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27 - Commercial Breakfast Briefing February 2025 with Tim Otty KC, Tom de la Mare KC, Andrew George KC, Andrew Scott KC, Peter Head, Gayatri Sarathy and Drishti Suri
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42:11Blackstone Chambers’ Breakfast Briefing is back and thrilled to start 2025 by celebrating Blackstone Chambers’ recent sponsorship of the Conflicts of Laws Prize on the University of Oxford’s prestigious BCL course. Andrew Scott KC surveys recent events with our keynote conflicts address before Blackstone’s barristers run through a series of their r…
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26 - Using the law to fight slavery in the UK - a podcast with legal charity Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit
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34:35In this episode, ATLEU’s Jamila Duncan-Bosu talks with Blackstone’s Charlotte Kilroy KC about ground-breaking litigation brought by Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit (ATLEU), on behalf of a young Indonesian man on a seasonal worker visa who was left homeless and in serious debt following exploitation on a UK fruit farm. The case argues …
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Five Daily Habits That Can Transform Your Life with Eric Cogorno - Episode 260
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1:07:20Send us a text Eric Cogorno is a well-respected Performance Golf Coach and a hugely successful online businessman. In less than five years, he took his business from $80K a year to $1.5 million in revenue a year, and he has grown from an audience of zero to 500K+ followers. This audience is not just following him but actually watching, liking, and …
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Self-Compassion and Career Wellness with Danielle De La Mare
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48:21Send us a text Many of us are experiencing being overwhelmed and burnt out in our careers. Depending on your industry, you may feel isolated and alone. You don’t really have anyone who gets it, and if you bring the frustration home, it can only cause issues with your family and friends. Anxiety, depression, and fatigue can develop, and if you’re no…
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Send us a text She disappeared again. In 2024, she started the year motivated and strong. She dropped episodes with great content until June, and then—BOOM! It's like she ghosted you. But what the heck happened? Tune in to learn: What happened to the host of Let's Coach with Carolyn, Why consistency is essential, Why you need to put yourself first …
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199. Paving a new path with the Enneagram and Primal Questions with Kelly Miller
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37:29Kelly Miller tells the story about how her identity was deeply entangled with her work, the toxic work environment she found herself in, the suffering that ensued when she left the work, and the breakthrough that happened next. Kelly explains that her faith as well as her work with both the Enneagram and Primal Questions built a foundation for her …
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198. Space for authenticity and truth with Paul Weigel
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27:05Paul Weigel talks about what it means to be authentic, true, and connected in both work and personal life. We explore what it looks like to make space for ourselves as well as others in the classroom and in other spaces. We also talk about the courage it takes to show up authentically, be present to deeper meaning in each moment, and hold work/life…
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197. Writing, healing, and faith in your career journey with Dr. Mary Mirvis
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37:46Dr. Mary Mirvis discusses how her unconventional academic career is taking shape and her faith in the journey. First, we talk about writing: the huge role writing has played in her life since childhood, how she used writing to heal from burnout, and how journal-type writing has strengthened the relationship she has to her research. Second, we talk …
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196. Project management for researchers with Dr. Shiri Noy
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40:02Dr. Shiri Noy explains how creating systems to manage research is essential to individual researcher well-being as well as a necessary practice for maintaining the health and integrity of academic research more broadly. In short, Shiri encourages researchers to think and talk more about project management so that we can find ways to feel more confi…
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195. [Solstice 24-25] Solstice-inspired rest
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21:49Happy Solstice! In this episode, I discuss what mean by solstice-inspired rest, why you should rest over the winter break, how to rest, and what to do if you find rest difficult. Overall, rest can do magic, but takes courage, especially for academics. I have a wish that you practice trusting the process.…
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25 - The Litigation Podcast Shorts with Michael Beloff KC: Part 4
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5:57Listen in to this episode of The Litigation Podcast Shorts, as Michael Beloff KC recounts his final case: the McCloud Appeal. In this significant case, the Employment Appeal Tribunal dismissed the Lord Chancellor’s appeal against the Tribunal’s decision which found that the new judicial pension scheme unlawfully discriminated against younger judges…
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24 - The Litigation Podcast Shorts with Michael Beloff KC: Part 3
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6:15Join Michael Beloff KC, widely regarded as the ‘The Godfather of Sports Law’, in this episode of The Litigation Podcast Shorts. Michael shares fascinating insights and anecdotes from his remarkable career as a barrister specialising in sports disputes. Look out for the fourth and final instalment in Michael’s Litigation Podcast Shorts series, where…
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23 - The Litigation Podcast Shorts with Michael Beloff KC: Part 2
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6:16Welcome to this episode of The Litigation Podcast Shorts, as Michael Beloff KC discusses his experiences in defamation law. Drawing on a quintet of high-profile libel cases, Michael offers a rare perspective on this fascinating area. Join us next time, when Michael, widely regarded as the ‘Godfather of Sports Law’, delivers his unique insight into …
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22 - Commercial Breakfast Briefing October 2024 with Andrew George KC, Robert Weekes KC, Leona Powell, Luka Krsljanin, Daniel Cashman and Carmine Conte
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43:52Blackstone Chambers’ Commercial Breakfast Briefing returns with an in-depth look at Commercial Remedies, beginning with some ground-breaking recent developments in the law and practice relating to freezing injunctions. After some icebreakers from Andrew George KC in the Chair, Luka Krsljanin analyses the important guidance on showing a real-risk of…
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21 - The Litigation Podcast Shorts with Michael Beloff KC: Part 1
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5:57Join Michael Beloff KC in the first episode of The Litigation Podcast Shorts, as he delves into one of his most memorable legal experiences: the Marshall cases. Michael successfully argued before the European Court of Justice, leading to a significant ruling upholding a complaint of discrimination and sparking a secondary case. Stay tuned for the n…
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194. Supporting grad student writing with Dr. Jen Harrison
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41:17Dissertation coach, Dr. Jen Harrison, explains how certain cultural and structural issues prevent professors and institutions from fully supporting their grad students in their writing process. She names a number of issues including an "inside-outside" problem whereby academia does not want to accept help from those outside institutions. In the end…
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193. Leaning into the mess with Michelle Grosser
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37:01Michelle Grosser describes her journey toward a more regulated nervous system, explains how to communicate safety to our bodies so that we feel more whole, more alive, and more intentional in our lives, and describes simple strategies for regulation. Find Michelle Grosser at https://michellegrosser.com/.…
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192. A fuller expression of career with Dr. Martha Mitchell
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25:51After a 27-year career in academia where she had been promoted to full professor, served as chair, as well as served as Associate Dean of Research at her institution, Dr. Martha Mitchell explains that she was ready for something new. Currently working as a manager at a national laboratory for approximately one year now, she has found the new work a…
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191. Belonging to self with Dr. Azucena Verdín
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45:23In this authentic and inspiring conversation, Dr. Azucena Verdín tells us about how she once did not like the ways she moved in the world, struggled with self-compassion, and easily spiraled into rumination. For a time, she believed leaving her academic career was the answer until she realized--after identifying the role anxiety was playing in her …
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190. [Equinox 2024] Tapping into Fall Season
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18:58You're invited to feel into Fall 2024 and let the new season teach you something! In this episode, I acknowledge the heaviness of fall semester and describe how you can "tap" some of this heaviness away. As you widen your vision and see your life beyond your academic responsibilities and feel connected to something bigger, you are better able to we…
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20 - Introducing One-Drum Foundation and our new podcast music
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35:12In this special episode of the Litigation Podcast we hear from Abass Dodoo, master Ghanaian drummer and founder of One-Drum Foundation, in conversation with Ajay Ratan, Blackstone barrister and saxophonist in Abass’ band. Their wide-ranging discussion covers the creative process behind our new podcast music, the fascinating oral tradition by which …
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19 - Public Law Conference 2024: Part 3 with Ivan Hare KC, Stephanie Palmer and Isabel Buchanan
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52:13Tune in to the most recent episode of The Litigation Podcast, in which Ivan Hare KC presents recorded highlights from the 2024 Public Law Conference. The panel discussions address the latest developments in recent public law cases. Ivan Hare KC explores proportionality under the HRA: is it in the Act or on the facts? Stephanie Palmer discusses the …
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