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Bearing A Burden: Finding Balance in a World of Extremes

In a world drowning in division and emotional extremes, Bearing a Burden is a return to reason, resilience, and real conversation. This isn’t about taking sides, it"s about rising above reactionary thinking, embracing personal responsibility, and forging balance in chaotic times. Each episode challenges ideas, seeks wisdom, and builds the strength needed to carry life’s burdens with courage, not resentment. If you"re ready to move beyond the noise and reclaim your voice, you"re in the right place.

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00:26:09

The Babel Effect: Tongues of a Thousand Worlds

Bearing A Burden: Finding Balance in a World of Extremes ·

2025/12/12

In this final episode of Bearing a Burden, Nova explores the Babel effect, the idea that humanity hasn’t stopped speaking, but has stopped understanding. With thousands of languages, endless dialects, generational slang, taboo rewrites, body language distortions, spiritual disconnects, and even the rise of computer code, our communication has fractured faster than we can keep up. This conversation dives into how we got here, what we’ve lost along the way, and what it might take to find each other

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00:16:26

The Invisible Weave

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2025/12/11

In this episode of the Bearing a Burden Podcast, Nova explores the delicate threads that hold our lives and society together. Inspired by the metaphor of the “invisible weave,” we reflect on the tension between innovation and preservation, the importance of respecting the past while embracing the new, and the responsibility each of us carries in mending the frayed connections around us. Through personal reflection, vivid imagery, and thoughtful challenges, Nova invites listeners to consider their

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00:17:35

Playing the Professional and Perpetual Victim

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2025/12/08

Have we traded personal responsibility for the comfort of victimhood? In this episode, we explore the rise of the “professional victim,” why blaming others feels easier than advocating for ourselves, and how this mindset quietly corrodes both individuals and society. Using real-life examples including a medical misstep that could have been disastrous, we unpack the difference between accountability and accusation, and offer practical tools to reclaim your power.If you’re ready to stop pointing

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00:11:17

Man and Machine: Are We Mastering Tech, or Serving It?

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2025/12/04

If technology was created to serve us but somewhere along the way, are we starting to serve it instead?Nearing the final episode of the Bearing a Burden Podcast, Nova unpacks the paradox of modern technology: its power to extend our lives, sharpen our abilities, and connect us in ways once unimaginable… and its tendency to enslave us through convenience, distraction, and dependence. From pacemakers and personalized medicine to pocket leashes and endless social feeds, this conversation explores where

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00:25:07

The Universal Law of Balance: When the Scales of the...

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2025/12/01

From the stars above us to the storms within us, everything in existence depends on balance - gravity and expansion, order and chaos, faith and reason. Yet somehow, humanity remains the only force in the universe that keeps fighting equilibrium.In this episode of Bearing a Burden, Nova explores the Universal Law of Balance, how every system from atoms to governments to the human heart seeks harmony through equal and opposite reactions. Through science, philosophy, and faith, she unpacks how

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00:14:45

Little Napoleon...

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2025/11/27

"Little Napoleon” is a poetic letter to the ones who’ve built towers so tall they can no longer hear the world below. It’s about power mistaken for protection: money, control, and pride used as armor against the very people who once helped build the dream. Through irony, compassion, and reflection, this episode reminds us that no empire stands without its builders, and that true strength isn’t found in domination, but in the courage to come down in grace.

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00:15:48

Built to Break: The Ethics of Planned Obsolescence

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2025/11/24

From smartphones that slow down with each update to appliances that mysteriously die just past their warranty, planned obsolescence has become an unspoken rule of modern business. But at what cost? In this episode, Nova explores whether designing products to fail is smart capitalism, silent exploitation, or something even deeper: a reflection of our disposable mindset as a society. Is it ever ethical to engineer limitation? Or does doing so erode trust, sustainability, and human progress

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00:23:45

The Village We Replaced

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2025/11/20

We’ve all heard the phrase “It takes a village to raise a child.” What happens when the village disappears and in its place we hand our kids a digital world filled with strangers, filters, and algorithms that don’t have their best interests at heart?In this episode, Nova takes a hard look at how society traded genuine community for convenience and control. From industries that profit off childhood innocence to parents pressured into performance, this conversation explores a few of the ways we’ve

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00:11:40

The Cycle of Debt

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2025/11/17

Credit card debt doesn’t just “happen”. In this episode, we break down how rising prices, higher interest rates, and quick fixes like consolidation loans all feed into a cycle that keeps consumers stuck while banks and debt collectors thrive. We’ll explore how the system profits from your struggle, why solutions often fail, and what it really takes to step off the hamster wheel of debt.

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00:08:18

Education as a Freedom at Risk

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2025/11/13

Education was once one of society’s greatest equalizers, opening doors, creating opportunity, and giving generations the tools to build better lives. But somewhere along the way, the value began to fade. Today, even those who play by the rules don’t always see the reward, and finger pointing has replaced accountability.In this episode, Nova unpacks the history, the peaks, and the decline of our school system, asking tough questions about where responsibility really lies. Is it teachers,

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00:19:44

Youth is Wasted on the Young

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2025/11/10

“Youth is wasted on the young” or is it? In this episode, Nova unpacks the paradox of energy without wisdom and wisdom without energy. From the thrill seeking decisions of adolescence to the impatience with responsibility and the undervaluing of hard earned skill, we explore how inexperience shapes not just individual lives but entire communities. The conversation takes a hard look at civic engagement too: how youthful passion, while powerful, can lose its way without discipline and foresight,

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00:11:53

Elder Obsolete

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2025/11/06

Elders Obsolete explores what happens when a society built on progress forgets the people who carried it here. From ancient civilizations where elders were honored as living libraries of wisdom to today’s families struggling to care for aging parents, this episode examines how we’ve shifted from reverence to neglect. We’ll look at the rising costs of elder care, the commercialization of death itself, and what it would take to reclaim dignity for our elders and for ourselves.

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00:22:35

The Kick-the-Dog Effect: Why Boundaries Matter

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2025/11/03

Why is it so hard to say no and what happens when people cannot? In this episode of Bearing a Burden, Nova explores the strength it takes to set boundaries in a world that constantly pressures people to give in. From pushy sales tactics and digital overload to workplace demands, politics, and even family obligations, fortitude is tested every day.This episode looks at how the struggle to set boundaries plays out across generations, why elders are especially vulnerable, and how the kick the dog

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00:11:55

Roots in the Shadows: The Lost Meaning of Halloween

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2025/10/30

Halloween wasn’t always about costumes, candy, and cheap thrills. Its roots run back to ancient harvest festivals, sacred blessings of the land, and rituals meant to honor ancestors while keeping darkness at bay. In this episode, we peel back the layers of consumerism and spectacle to remember what Halloween once was: a night of gratitude, balance, and protection. Along the way, we’ll explore how it evolved into the holiday we know today, and what it might look like if we chose to honor its

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00:16:48

Life, Liberty, and Choice: Abortion and the Clash of...

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2025/10/27

Abortion is one of the most divisive issues of our time but are we even asking the right questions? In this episode, Nova steps past court cases and political soundbites to explore abortion through the lenses of freedom, responsibility, faith, and human dignity. From constitutional rights and religious tensions to stories of medical risk, trauma, and desperation, she unpacks the clash between liberty and life with honesty and compassion. Along the way, she raises overlooked angles the father’s role,

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00:09:52

The Health Paradox: Transgender Debate, Disability,...

Bearing A Burden: Finding Balance in a World of Extremes ·

2025/10/23

In this episode of Bearing a Burden, Nova takes on a difficult but necessary conversation: how we define health, who gets access to care, and why language matters more than ever. She unpacks the growing tension between life-or-death medical necessities and identity-driven elective procedures asking whether it’s fair to frame both under the same banner of “essential healthcare.”This isn’t about attacking individuals. It’s about clarity, fairness, and priorities. Nova affirms free will and personal

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00:13:11

Speech or Silence: Free Expression in a Cancel...

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2025/10/20

Cancel culture has become the norm but at what cost? In this episode, Nova unpacks the tension between free expression and silencing harmful voices. From McCarthyism to modern social media, we explore why we silence each other, what history teaches us about erasure, and how ego and small mistakes have snowballed into division. The challenge: will we choose speech, or silence?

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00:18:31

The Season of Giving: When Generosity Meets...

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2025/10/16

Charity is supposed to be the purest form of goodwill, the act of giving without expectation. But what happens when generosity becomes an industry? In this episode, Nova takes a hard look at the ethical gray zones of modern philanthropy. From multimillion-dollar CEO salaries to marketing budgets that dwarf actual aid, this conversation asks whether today’s charities are still driven by compassion or simply operating as polished businesses wearing halos.

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00:08:45

The Land that Feeds Us...

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2025/10/13

We depend on the land for everything: food, shelter, energy, even the tables where we gather with our families. Somewhere along the way, need turned into want, and want turned into waste. In this episode of the Bearing a Burden Podcast, Nova explores our complicated relationship with the earth, from quarrying mountains for countertops to the fisherman’s nets to the rig worker’s long days in the sun.This is not a climate report or a political debate. It is a conversation about respect,

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00:15:24

The Fragility of Truth: Media, Bias, and Misinformation

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2025/10/09

Truth has always been fragile, but in today’s world of media spin, social platforms, and endless algorithms, it feels more breakable than ever. In this episode of the Bearing a Burden podcast, Nova unpacks how bias shapes what we see, how misinformation spreads faster than facts, and what it costs us as a society, as individuals, and in our closest relationships. From the role of journalism and technology to the personal responsibility we all carry, this conversation wrestles with a hard question:

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