Inspire people. Support each others' growth. Create a meaningful life. Does this mission reflect your values? Welcome to the community! What is WHYLD about? Bringing together friends and strangers for conversations on topics that expand their horizons. Fostering the exchange of thoughts between people of diverse walks of life. Giving extraordinary people „from next door“ a voice to share their stories. Celebrating people’s authentic life choices. Why? So that YOU feel inspired to step into Y ...
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WHYLD48 - Swim, Bike, Ouch: A Triathlete’s Painful Journey to Hysterectomy - April Yoho
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Send us a text Lift heavy sh**! “It was tough playing sports, having a period and from a young age of 15, I was having a lot of problems, like endometriosis. For those of you that don't know, you get all sorts of symptoms - heavy, bleeding, painful cramps.” Episode summary: Tech, travel, triathlon – why a full-time job is no excuse not to go IRONMA…
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Send us a text How could she have survived? “I didn't have a playbook at all. Nobody told me on February 15th to go on CNN and yell at the president to do something and to take action. I just did it.” Summary of what we talk about in the episode: Who was Alyssa Alhadeff? What happened in Parkland on February 14th 2018? How does a stay-at-home mom c…
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WHYLD46 - (Latino) Men Don't Cry? From People-Pleasing to Purpose - Dr. Paul Rivera
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Send us a text Do you know who you are? “You're not white enough for the white people. You're not brown enough for the brown people, and it's our own people judging us.” Summary of what we talk about in the episode: Cultural belonging, financial pressures & mental health - what is it like being a Latino in the US? Vulnerability is strength? From “m…
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WHYLD45 - Am I Really Being Myself? Let This Exercise Guide You Towards a More Authentic Life
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Send us a text How authentic do you allow yourself to be, truly? “Given the big role working plays in our lives, it would be a big loss if we couldn’t be ourselves at work, wouldn’t it?” In short, we talk about this in the episode: How does your body let you know when you are in alignment – and when you are straying from your truth? In which situat…
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WHYLD44 - Women, Would You Pay for Sex? Pillow Talk With a Male Escort - Ben Nordmann
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Send us a text Can you imagine paying for a sexual service? “My goal is that a client is not booking me again.” In short, we talk about this in the episode: Why do women pay for sex? And is it a bad thing? How does one become a callboy… and why? Why does a sex worker say, “my aim is that no woman calls twice”? Is this even legal? Germany’s Prostitu…
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WHYLD43 - Words Divide, Words Unite? The Magical World of Lobsterbird
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Send us a text What is a Lobsterbird? “As the saying goes: A fish and a bird could fall in love. But where would they live?” In short, we talk about this in the episode: White-Asian, male-female, arts-science - what is it like to be a builder of bridges between polarities? 88 temples in 24 days – why Lobsterbird completed Japan’s Shikoku pilgrimage…
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WHYLD42 - How Deep Can I Go? The Peace & Peril of Freediving - Lily Crespy
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Send us a Text Message. How long can you hold your breath? “90% of the blackouts happen near the surface at the very end of the dive.” In short, we talk about this in the episode: How dangerous is freediving really? Step by step, what happens during a vertical freedive? What surprising reflexes help humans survive longer underwater? Who was Stephen…
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WHYLD41 - Is It Selfish Not to Have Children? - Veronica (The Childfree Connection)
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Send us a text Do I have to have kids? “Moms reach out to me all the time and share their stories and say that they just weren't aware that they had the choice.” In short, we talk about this in the episode: How can you find out if you (don’t) want to have kids? Is being childfree different for men vs. women? Should “kids, yes or no” be a topic on y…
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WHYLD40 - Is It a F*** YES? A Nomad’s Journey Home - Alexandra “Allie” Elle
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Send us a text Is “should” still part of your vocabulary? If it’s not a F*** YES, it’s a F*** NO! In short, we talk about this in the episode: How the way you are eating might reflect your connection with yourself. How a “head person” might find access to their heart’s voice. What you might want to know about the local culture before moving to the …
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WHYLD39 - Just a Phase? Busting Bisexuality Stereotypes - Mark Cusack
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Send us a text Is it just a phase? “For that whole time, I was not being authentic. I was low-level terrified on a daily basis. And it doesn't take an expert to think about the effect that has on someone's nervous system. That repression is deadly.” In short, we talk about this in the episode: What are the stereotypes around bisexuality? Can gender…
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WHYLD38 - Without Borders: What Is It Like Being a Humanitarian Physician? - Reza Eshaghian
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Send us a text Do poverty, war, and health crises really lie outside of your responsibility? "I grew up with this sense of how inappropriate and unfair the world is. And how I shouldn't be passive in this injustice and that I shouldn't just take care of myself." In short, we talk about this in the episode: How to become THAT person who saves lives …
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WHYLD37 - Do You Know How to Cuddle Right? Honour Your Boundaries - Jean Franzblau
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Send us a text Do you know how to ask for what you desire, embrace a “no” response, and respect your own boundaries? “I'm learning that to be a whole person and a happier person, I need to have conversations that are challenging all the time. Almost daily.” In short, in this episode, we talk about: What professional cuddling is and why it is valuab…
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Send us a text Have you ever been on a pilgrimage? “The Camino de Santiago […], known in English as the Way of St James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain.” (Wikipedia) On May 17th 2023, Tina is starting…
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WHYLD35 – What Can Dead Bodies Teach Us About Living? – Kari Northey
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Send us a text What story will we tell when we are dead? “There's all sorts of scenarios of death that can be embarrassing. […] It's just very private and very intimate and they're forced into almost having to expose themselves to someone.” In short, we talk about this in the episode: What made Kari decide to become a mortician and what is it like …
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WHYLD34 - Who Am I? How Appreciation of Others and My Reality Led Me Through Difficult Times
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Send us a text What if what you thought you wanted does not hold true anymore? “The issue with phases of transitions is that they are exactly that: phases. They might start overnight and surprise the hell out of you. But then they will patiently accompany you until you figure out how to solidify the person soup that you have become.” It feels good …
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WHYLD33 - Why Fight the Winter? A Long COVID Journey - Nanda Jansson
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Send us a text Will life ever be the same again? “I felt sick for about 10 days. On the 10th day, I went to bed and I woke up in the middle of the night, feeling literally like there was an elephant on my chest.” Nanda Jansson is one of the unlucky ones who made the acquaintance of COVID-19 in March 2020, while the other billions of us followed cas…
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WHYLD32 - Happiness Without Challenging Emotions Is Not Sustainable, Here Is Why – Leonard Gabriel Heygster
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Send us a text 👩🍳 Like sweet and sour: Contrast makes a wholesome recipe – even a recipe for happiness? 😍 Contentment, joy, satisfaction, happiness, well-being… we use various words 💬 to describe a phenomenon that all of us seek to maximize in our lives. Do the aforementioned terms really refer to the same thing? In what ways are they related? And…
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WHYLD31 - Is Connecting With People a Skill That You Can Learn? - Sara Ness
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Send us a text 🤗 Do you feel safe relating your authentic truth? 🗫 “When I was in college, I got really interested in studying intentional living communities, co-ops, cohousing communes. 🏡 […] A lot of what the co-ops would run into were these continuous communication problems. […]🤫There were conflicts, they just wouldn't get dealt with because no …
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Send us a text 🤔 Is it okay to not want sex? ❤️🔥 💬 “I just thought I was a broken gay guy for 20 years.” 💬 When Cody Daigle-Orians first posted a video 📹 on TikTok, outing 📣 himself as asexual, he immediately received hundreds of comments from young ace (asexual) people saying “Wow, I didn't know ace adults existed!” 🙏🏽 He was 42 back then. In our…
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Send us a text 🖌️ What if the most vulnerable parts of your story were painted on your skin? 🎨 This can be a scary thought. We all navigate the sweet tension between wanting to be SEEN for who we are and wanting to hide 🙈 certain aspects we feel uncomfortable showing. While the latter might apply to arguably “minor” things like bad moods, particula…
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WHYLD28 - From Patient to (Role) Model? Defying the Odds with VACTERL Birth Defects - Anja Christoffersen
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Send us a text 😳 Is disability a tragedy? 🤔 “We shouldn’t think of disability as a tragedy but it was that I could have died - which was the tragedy.” 💬 At 28 weeks of her pregnancy, Anja Christoffersen’s mom was told that her baby 👶 had no stomach and would not be able to survive. 17 years later, her beautiful daughter was walking the runway of Am…
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WHYLD27 – A Family Sailing the Oceans for a Living – Brian Trautman
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Send us a text 🏝️ A life happening on land, a vacation on a boat - we have heard of that option before. But who says it can’t be the other way round? ⛵ Former electrical engineer Brian Trautman figured an 18-month sabbatical at sea would get him over a “freakout about life” 👻 when he left shore in Seattle back in 2009. He went all in, sold his hous…
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WHYLD26 - Sexing Out Loud. Own Your Pleasure - Alexa Bowditch
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Send us a text Do you get the sex you want? 🔥 Oops, what a bucket-of-cold-water type of question. 🥵😅 Especially for those of you who don’t usually find yourself in conversations about sex. Why should one even podcast about it? Well… I dare say, sex, love, and relationships are a vital part of everyone’s life. 🌱 ❤️ 🧑🤝🧑 This applies in some ways ev…
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Send us a Text Message. 🏃♀️Running away from where it hurt? We all have done that. But walking back towards it? 🚶♀️ Being rejected for who you are takes a toll on a soul. Especially so if the ones rejecting you are the very people you love most - your family, your community. 💔 This happened to Meagan after being outed as a gay woman 👭. One day sh…
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WHYLD24 - Travelling Through Life in a Mobile Record Studio - Ady Parzentny
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Send us a text 🛑 When will you stop treating your passion as a hobby? 🛑 To Ady Parzentny, music is everything. Has been for decades. When the working day was over, he used to hit the rehearsal room and play the night away. 🎸 👨🎤 But making music for a living? 💰 Unthinkable. After all, is it really appropriate for a punk rocker to make money with hi…
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WHYLD23 - How to Reclaim Life Through Authentic Choices – Sam Sheppard
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Send us a text What if you chose YOU today? “By making that choice I became significantly happier. And from then on, every time I made a choice that literally felt authentic, I would gain freedom, I would gain happiness.” 🤗 Those are the words of Sam Sheppard. A kind woman with a big heart and a beautiful warm laugh. A teacher👩🏫 all her life, a fa…
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WHYLD22 - Candidly Speaking - Adolpha Cole
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Send us a text „Why do white people hate black people?” This is an honest question ⁉️ which people visiting Candidly Speaking events might seek answers to. In other contexts, (white) people might read this as an accusation and begin to push back – but not in the intimate space ❤️ Adolpha Cole & her team create for their participants. Candidly Speak…
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WHYLD21 - Exploring the World Awake - with Erik Lorenz
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Send us a text Have you ever, during your travels, had a conversation that was so beautiful, so rare, so impactful that you wished others could have witnessed it? A fleeting moment in time, sharing your universe with a person whom you will likely never meet again. The stranger at the café in Marrakesh, the trucker in New Zealand, the villager in To…
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Send us a text How can you tell a season is ending? That’s a question I have asked myself for 19 episodes of WHYLD Podcast 😅 When I first started this podcast, I guess it felt calming to have a built-in drop out option, a natural end in case this creative endeavour was going nowhere. The opportunity to say anytime: “Hey, this is the last episode of…
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Episode 19 - Adopt, Don't Shop (Romanian Dog Rescue) - Delia Botea
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Send us a Text Message. Who needs to do something about it? For Delia Botea, the answer was “Me.” In Romania, a country where there are 600 000 stray dogs roaming the streets, waiting to be captured and very likely killed, Delia made a choice: If no one helps these poor, often malnourished, injured, sick, abandoned souls… she must do it. Once scare…
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Send us a text Can you be the same person at work that you are at home? Before brushing off this question, pause and reflect. Why should you even ask yourself this? Why shouldn’t you be able to be yourself at work? Why should this be important, after all? Workplaces are spaces in which we spend a whole lot of our time. It’s where we show up, challe…
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Episode 17 - Unicorn in Uniform (Germany's First Transgender Commander) - Anastasia Biefang
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Send us a Text Message. Do you show your true self at work and in all your relationships? You do not need to struggle with your gender identity to experience difficulties in answering YES to that question. Being ourselves first and foremost – and not what we think is expected of us in our many social roles – can be a courageous act. For Anastasia B…
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Send us a text Do you doubt you live up to people's expectations of you? Do you tend to belittle your own successes? Welcome to the club of many. Sometimes we call it modesty, sometimes we speak in the name of realism, sometimes we claim to acknowledge the support of others. But frankly: oftentimes we simply cannot accept our own greatness. I…
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Episode 15 - Luck or Fate? No Success Comes By Chance - Romeo Salazar
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Send us a text Are you holding open the door for fate to enter or do you push it close? Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. Sometimes we hit obstacles, sometimes miracles lift us across them. In this episode, musical theatre performer Romeo Salazar shares his experience of losing the stage to perform on during the Covid pandemic. In this juicy, te…
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Send us a text How much are you willing to sacrifice in order to hide your „imperfections“? We all do it at times. We throw our energy, time, and an impressively creative charade of excuses onto the things we feel insecure about, ashamed of, or „not ready yet“ for. We willingly trade our dreams, opportunities, and belief in ourselves for a chance t…
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Episode 13 - How to Find Humility and Dignity on the Journey to Fertility - Sandra Winterbach
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Send us a text Did you know that up to 1 in 4 recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage? This is something few know about. In school during sex education, we learn how to avoid pregnancies. However, the other side of the medal is rarely spoken about: How to deal with not being able to get pregnant or the child never making it through to being a new…
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Send us a text Can you imagine sharing life with more than one partner? Find the love of your life, get married, buy a house, have kids. This default notion of a desirable, successful path in life is a common theme in society. In this picture, a monogamous “escalator” type relationship plays a central role. However, vowing sexual exclusivity to, lo…
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Episode 11 - Challenge Is a Given, Attitude a Choice - Kara Scott
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Send us a text Have you ever questioned feeling pity for someone with a disability? This conversation might make you do just that. Kara Scott had been confronted for years with strange neurological symptoms and vague diagnoses that would make a spelling champion break a sweat. Her life changed for good when, on the flight home after a family vacati…
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Send us a text Does your way of asking questions get you ahead or does it set you back? We pose questions all the time, out of a desire to understand, to connect, to get clearer on a course of action, to challenge others, and a million more reasons. Questions are such a basic component of our linguistic toolkit, rarely do we pay attention to their …
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Send us a text Are you attuned to your inner voice? Can you relate to the feeling of not being able to be your true self in the circumstances you are in? To experiencing pressure, stress, and the resulting effects on your body and mind as you try to meet the expectations of yourself and others? Depending on how deep you are stuck in the rabbit hole…
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Episode 8 - Challenge as a Meditation - Jason Stephenson
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Send us a text How well are you connected to who you truly are being at the core? What might sound like an awkward question to some is a game changer once we actually open up to it. We are more than our name, our profession, our history. Jason Stephenson, the creator of guided mediation and affirmation recordings, reflects on how mindfulness helps …
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Send us a text Have you ever wondered why phone booths in Italy might be wider than elsewhere? Well, it's most likely an untrue myth, to be fair. Plus, this is definitely not the topic of the episode - but you'll hear an answer anyway if you keep listening to the very end. In this episode, you'll get to meet Francesco Leone. A serial entrepreneur w…
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Send us a text Are you putting others first and leaving yourself behind in the process? There is no right answer to the question of how much sacrifice is adequate and what degree of egoism is healthy. Luckily, life is not about either/or. Our span of life provides plenty of room for taking care of others as well for exploration, self-expression, an…
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Send us a Text Message. Pleasure, indulgence and abundance is a popular theme of society Especially in safe and economically prosperous parts of the world. Abstaining from something that we enjoy and think we need can therefore be experienced as anything between pointless, sad, and even downright scary. This could apply to all kinds of things, like…
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Episode 4 - Finding Resilience in 21 Hour Swim - Ashleigh Seymour
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Send us a text What proof do you need to believe in your own resilience? A lot of people tend to attribute their successes in life to external factors. Well, I was just lucky… I had help I couldn’t have done it without. This does not really foster one’s self-esteem. But what if you swam across the sea for 21 hours without stopping, without touching…
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Send us a text Do you take others for granted? You would realize that, at the latest, if you complained about something someone did “not right”. All of us are making hundreds of choices daily when interacting with ourselves or other people. We could choose to be rude, to be unreliable, to be ignorant. Yet instead, most of us most of the time decide…
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Send us a text Would you have it in you to cross the US all the way from the southern to the northern end… on foot? Well, in episode 2 you get to meet someone who did just that. Thomas Clemens walked the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), a long-distance hiking trail that stretches for 4270 kilometers, in 5 months and 13 days. Doing nothing but putting one…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the WHYLD Podcast. Inspire people. Support others' growth. Create a meaningful life. If this mission resonates with your own values, this podcast is for you. My name is Tina Hewelt and I create WHYLD because I love people and am deeply curious about why they do what they do. Especially if – to me – they seem to ha…
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Send us a text Inspire people. Support others' growth. Create a meaningful life. Does this mission reflect your values? Welcome to the community! What is WHYLD about? Bringing together friends and strangers for conversations on topics that might expand their horizons. Fostering the exchange of thoughts between people of diverse walks of life. Givin…
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