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Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast

Some of my richest insights into ageing, health, love and grief, come from conversations with friends. This podcast is the audio version of those reports from the friend front, from the technology front, and from the reluctantly encountered shittiness epidemic. Topics include love, sex, technology, money, and very little politics. joannapiros.substack.com

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8:49

Live, on Stage

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/03/23

Wherever you are in your life, it’s within one of three acts. Each one different, with its own joys and challenges and sometimes the balance just isn’t quite fair. that’s something you learn in the second act: life isn’t fair. Who told you it would be? Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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4:16

Humanity Can't be Doomed

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/03/21

It may well be that creativity is the one secret weapon we have against the onslaught of idiocy, and the incursions of AI into every aspect of life. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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9:55

North of 60 at Minus 40

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/03/21

This is my love letter to the North, including endless sunshine and warm chocolate chip cookies. You should go, especially this year of Canadian staycations. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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9:43

A Case of You

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/03/19

Canada geese refusing to fly south for the winter. #ResistanceisrealFriends from overseas are asking me to explain “elbows up”, to discuss how Canadians feel about being threatened by the great orange virus, and what we’re doing to safeguard our independence. Much ink has been spilled on all the manifestations of a newly revitalized Canadian pride so here are just a few items that caught my attention.Driving through the BC interior this past weekend we passed a large delivery truck painted with a

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9:43

A Case of You

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/03/18

I’ve been thinking a lot about Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Stan Rogers and all those other fantastic Canadians who sing so passionately about this country. From skating on the river to fishing off the Grand Banks, from driving a hammer in the bright blazing sun to waxing lyrical about hockey, there’s an embarrassment of riches in our musical love affair with this country.I wish I was a DJ and I could play on! Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at

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3:18

Grammar Queens Unite

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/03/18

Those of us who insist on grammatical rectitude and faint at the sight of a flying apostrophe aren’t always popular, but at least we have each other! Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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8:46

Yoga Poses

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/03/14

If there was ever a time to have strong community around you, this is it. When we have people who have our backs, we can muster the strength to do what must be done, to endure what must be endured, to fight back if necessary.This is the audio version of an older post. I hope you like it. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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7:02

How They Met - Part 5

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/03/12

As you know by now, this is a much-loved sub-series which brings together interesting people, talking about other interesting people who have inspired, impacted or joined their lives.I definitely want to hear yours!This one comes from Toronto by way of Calgary, as we do. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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11:08

How They Met - Part 1

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/03/10

This is the first in what I hope will be a long series, collecting the stories people tell about significant first meetings in their lives.Two of the three are NOT what you may immediately think of. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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3:50

I Was Wrong

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/03/08

As International Women’s Day rolls around again I can’t help but think that announcing an International Men’s Day would be laughed out of the room. Do we really have to revisit gender equality over and over?Apparently, yes. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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7:02

How They Met -- Part 5

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/03/05

I can’t help myself; I must know how things got started. And I must hear it directly from you. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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2:28

In Praise of Happy Endings

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/27

What are friends for if not to explain the finer points of a gentleman’s massage? Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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3:50

Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/27

Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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9:18

For Your Ease and Comfort: All the Audio in One...

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/27

Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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11:04

How They Met - Part 4

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/27

We’ve all had those significant encounters with strangers, some go on to become lovers, some friends, some colleagues, and some make a mark on our lives and move on. Whatever your story is, we’d love to hear it. Message me and we’ll talk. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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14:36

Where Have All the Moderates Gone?

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/22

We are drowning in an epidemic of shittiness, on which I’ve written before. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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7:28

The Orgasmic Kitchen

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

I was peeling roasted beets this morning, as per a recipe in the delightful cookbook, Nothing Fancy, by Alison Roman. Wearing surgical gloves to prevent my hands from looking like a murderer’s, I began to slip the roasted skins off the beets and what came to mind was how very evocative! Something like the feeling of slipping off stockings. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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16:00

There Oughta Be a Name for That

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

Amusing, frustrating and challenging my friends, I have always had a burning need to find or apply terms for things. All kinds of things like a term for the moment after catharsis. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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12:36

Press hard; you're making 18 copies

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

In some countries and cultures a death in the family is met with a full year of official mourning: black clothing, a dearth of celebration of birthdays, national and religious holidays, frequent visits to the gravesite and an obsessive devotion to the memory of the deceased. Candles are lit, flowers are replaced, graveside debris is swept away.Here in North America, it’s about 20 minutes. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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8:25

Call Me When It's Over

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

Apologies off the top to all those incredible, funny, insightful, bold, irreverent writers whose political commentaries I have followed for the past year plus. I have to mute you for a while, and I feel tremendously bad about it, but my mental health makes it imperative. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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