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PODCAST

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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11:20

Death of a Fighter

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2025/02/21

There’s a moment of weightless limbo when you move from one state to another, liquid to gaseous, for example.Or from independent adult to fatherless child. That moment came for me last Wednesday at 11:35 a.m. when my father died. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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18:22

Accepting Our Limitations

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2025/02/21

Chances are good you recently tried to lift something, or jump off a rock wall, or go back to a sport you used to love. Please tell me you didn’t strap on the hockey pads after marinating them in the garage for a decade… Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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8:55

Flight 719

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

The man sitting next to me is a tightly wound bundle of energy, or ADD, hard to tell. He is in his 60s, lean and wiry like a crazed marathoner, and does everything quickly and with gusto. He stuffs a laptop and a book, Michael Lewis’ Premonition, into the seatback pocket and pulls out a large plastic bag which contains, as it turns out, multiple sandwiches and some blue cheese (for which he apologizes later. We agree boiled eggs would have resulted in a seat change request.) Get full access to

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7:15

Can Illiterates Read Minds?

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2025/02/21

My Friday morning yoga instructor announced today she was leaving and I became ridiculously sad and emotional even though I don’t know her all that well. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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11:11

Take Your Flag...

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

Road work flag people fill me with impotent rage, simply by default. Occasionally one will warm my cold, cold heart and I will acknowledge them, regally, with a small, wrist-based wave.Why is this? Why this disproportionate anger toward strangers just out there doing the job? Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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10:40

Unbearable weight, invisible scars

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

When I travelled to El Salvador some years ago I was immediately struck by the glaring disparity of how people lived. Corrugated roof shacks surrounded by brick walls and topped with razor wire because, no matter how little you have, there’s someone wanting to take it from you. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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9:20

A Time For Us

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2025/02/21

Shivering outside the hockey arena in the nighttime cold, the girls stamp their feet on the hard packed, icy snow, smoking Number 7s. They wear short bomber jackets that do little to cut the cold, and huddle together after the Junior B hockey game. Most of the players don’t smoke but you can immediately tell, on those breakaways, which ones do.High school. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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5:01

The Best Medicine

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

My father, whom I have written about previously, had a catastrophic motor vehicle accident three weeks ago and remains in an uncertain state in hospital.This piece is not about that sad story. It’s a strangely happy story that is related. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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7:57

Shape shifters

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

You might remember when Adele first burst onto the music scene and how people were wowed. She was painfully young, a fabulous singer and lyricist, and she was chubby. When she lost weight and revealed her svelte self, the world went even more crazy. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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10:41

IRL Ghost Stories.

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

It’s baffling when a person you consider a close friend ghosts you or becomes an enemy overnight and never explains. You expect it would hurt but the confusion and anger get you over that quickly when you realize that anyone who doesn’t have the courage to explain is likely not someone you can trust anyway. Good to know, right? Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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14:40

Everything to Live For

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2025/02/21

Recently, two young men whose lives are within the circle of my adult children, took their own lives within a couple weeks of each other. In both cases the same description applies: they had everything to live for, careers, friends, family, children. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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20:34

Mansober

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

I caught an interesting piece from CBC news recently, which described a new-ish trend amongst young women (and men) who have chosen to remain celibate and, in many cases, forgo dating and that whole hot mess of online match-ups. It’s called “boysober” which I thought was pretty darned clever so I’ve adapted it to suit what I hear from my own demographic. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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4:01

Persuasion Lessons from Prison

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2025/02/21

For the better part of a decade, I taught an executive development course in Persuasion, with the inimitable David McPhillips. We searched the world for the latest research into the art and science that makes up the body of knowledge of how people make decisions, and what triggers us to say yes.And yet…. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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4:50

Smells Like Childhood

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2025/02/21

When I was a kid, growing up in a small mountain town in the West Kootenays of BC, summer Sundays meant gardening and washing the concrete sidewalks. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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5:45

Addicted to the Data

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2025/02/21

Peter Drucker noted that what gets measured, gets managed. Other iterations evolved to suggest what gets measured gets done.My take is that what gets measured becomes addictive and compulsive. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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5:24

Stickiness

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

Inside my head there is a ball of Velcro. Every time I encounter someone, have a conversation, teach a course or facilitate a workshop, some of what I encounter sticks to the ball. There’s no rational criteria to what sticks: sometimes it’s something I know will come in handy for the next session, sometimes it’s just freaky and fun and sometimes it has depth and potential that bears examination. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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5:28

Start Talking to Strangers

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

Did your social graces suffer a massive setback during the pandemic? Are you only now finding your way back to navigating dinner parties, networking events and conversations involving more than one person at a time?It’s not a trivial trend because, as we lost our opportunities to socialize, we also lost our comfort in communing with strangers and that’s bad for them and for us. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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3:30

The Dad You Never Knew

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2025/02/21

When we’re children we believe our parents came into the world just as we first encountered them and, even as adults, while we can know lots about our parents, we can never know them the way we know the contemporaries we grew up with because we simply were not there. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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6:17

Illegitimus non carborundum

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

I’m so pleased to introduce my guest substacker, Roxanne Stasysyzn, who agreed to share her mixed thoughts and emotions on the death of yet another community newspaper. This isn’t just about one slim bundle of adverts in a suburban neighbourhood; it’s the demise of an institution that, among other things, stitched together a fractious north. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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5:30

AI is Listening

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2025/02/21

I had a scheduled Zoom meeting today, and so fired up the old Zoom room in anticipation of my client joining. In the meantime, I went into the kitchen, just down the hall, to make a quick coffee. My sweetheart came up from his office/man cave and we chatted about a radio interview he had been asked to do, one that was fraught with potential pitfalls. As part of my work is media training, and I spent a dozen years as a radio and television journalist, he was seeking my advice on how heavily he could

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