Best Rebecca Sebastian Podcasts (2025)

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Paul Pfeiffer 58:11

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Episode No. 708 features artist Paul Pfeiffer. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is showing the retrospective "Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom." For over 25 years, Pfeiffer has investigated spectacle and mass culture, especially sport, and has found within it the power to create and extend political narratives. Inc…

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What to expect from the UK’s China Audit, with Charles Parton 31:59

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The Labor government in the UK launched an audit of the country’s relations with China in 2024. The results are set to be released in June. In this episode of the MERICS China Podcast, Charles Parton joins Johannes Heller-John to talk about the UK’s China Audit and the importance of science and technology in the China context. Charles Parton is a m…

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Ep. 6: Neighborhood Determinants of Primary Care Access in Virginia, feat. Hannah Shadowen, PhD, and Dr. Alexander Krist(Vol. 23 Iss. 3) 35:01

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Primary care improves the health of communities and decreases health inequities, yet workforce shortages have worsened in the United States. This study, titled "Neighborhood Determinants of Primary Care Access in Virginia," aimed to identify geographic disparities of the primary care workforce in Virginia and identify factors associated with primar…

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Digital Word of Mouth: The Visibility Strategy Yoga Studios Ignore with Tyler Valencia 49:29

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Text me Your email for my Booking Link In this episode of Yoga Biz Champ, Michael Jay sits down with Tyler Valencia—fitness educator, tech-savvy marketer, and founder of KipsOnline.org—to talk about how yoga studio owners can master visibility in a digital-first world. Tyler breaks down the most overlooked marketing strategies that are totally free…

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„China in 25“: KI-Chips, nationale Sicherheit und Chinas Investitionen in Europa 23:01

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„China in 25“ – in maximal 25 Minuten sprechen Mikko Huotari, Bernhard Bartsch und Claudia Wessling über aktuelle Entwicklungen in China. In dieser Folge geht es um eine neue Eskalation zwischen den USA und China im Bereich Hochleistungschips und Künstliche Intelligenz, um Chinas Sicherheits- und Rüstungspolitik sowie um Chinas erstmals seit Jahren…

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Holiday clips: Lorna Simpson 51:20

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Episode No. 707 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a holiday weekend clips episode featuring artist Lorna Simpson. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York is presenting "Lorna Simpson: Source Notes," a survey that focuses on paintings that Simpson has made over the last decade. Across more than 30 works, "Simpson" spotlights the artist's explorati…

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John Wilson, Grace Hartigan 1:33:35

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Episode No. 706 features curators Leslie King-Hammond and Edward Saywell, and curator Jared Ledesma. Along with Patrick Murphy and Jennifer Farrell, Hammond and Saywell are the co-curators of "Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition surveys Wilson's 60-year career, spotlighting the ways in whi…

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Is AI Like The Karma Police? A Yoga Philosophy Convo with Mandi King 50:58

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Someone once told me that hanging around with yoga people was like having all of those late-night “what is the meaning of life?” conversations with full adults. Enter Mandi King to the chat. She and I recreate hanging out at the coffee shop ‘til 3 a.m. drinking black coffee, listening to Radiohead, and talking about deep conversations—this time abo…

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„China in 25“: Einigung im Zollstreit und Xi in Moskau 21:56

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„China in 25“ – in maximal 25 Minuten sprechen Mikko Huotari, Bernhard Bartsch und Claudia Wessling über aktuelle Entwicklungen in China. In dieser Folge geht es um die überraschende Einigung im Zollstreit zwischen den USA und China in Genf, die eine Senkung der gegenseitigen Zölle für 90 Tage vorsieht. Außerdem beleuchten wir die enge Beziehung zw…

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Beyond Software: Eddie Arpin on Supporting Yoga Studio Owners in 2025 44:18

19d ago44:18

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Text me Your email for my Booking Link What does a former hobby project turned all-in-one studio platform have to teach us about the future of yoga studios? In this episode, I chat with Eddie Arpin, co-founder of OfferingTree and a longtime partner of mine in supporting studio owners. We go beyond software to talk about what actually drives success…

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US-China policy under Trump 2.0, with Thomas E. Kellogg 29:59

22d ago29:59

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After weeks of fierce confrontations, the US and China are making first steps to negotiate in the ongoing tariff row. Ahead of a meeting of representatives of both sides in Geneva, MERICS Director Communications and Publications Claudia Wessling talked with Thomas E. Kellogg, Executive Director of the Georgetown Center for Asian Law. In the new epi…

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Elizabeth Catlett, Beatriz Cortez 1:16:30

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Episode No. 705 features curators Dalila Scruggs and Catherine Morris, and artist Beatriz Cortez. With Mary Lee Corlett, Scruggs and Morris are the co-curators of "Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The exhibition surveys Catlett's career across over 150 sculptures, prints, paintings, and dr…

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China’s overcapacities, with Max J. Zenglein and Jacob Gunter 23:56

29d ago23:56

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High US tariffs on China have raised concerns in the EU of Chinese goods being rerouted from the US to Europe. This has also rekindled an ongoing discussion about overcapacities in the Chinese industry. Why are they a danger to European industries? What drives them in China? And what options do European decisionmakers have? Max J. Zenglein, Chief E…

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Wafaa Bilal 55:01

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Episode No. 704 features artist Wafaa Bilal. The MCA Chicago is presenting "Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me," the first major survey of Bilal's work. Across his genres-busting career, the Iraqi-American Bilal has made performances, sculptures and related digital presentations that have interrogated the United States' relationship with and conduct within Ir…

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AI Kills The Studio Star? A discussion of yoga, tech, and AI starring J Brown. 1:13:58

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What is the impact AI and tech have had, and are going to have on teaching yoga? J Brown and I have thoughts. KEY TAKEAWAYS: *I do think we need to pay homage to some of the old ways, even as we adapt to new tech. When yoga, as an industry, sort of came of age in the 90s, we were using old shoe boxes, tissue boxes, or cigar boxes to store our money…

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Coming Back to Your Why as a Yoga Studio Owner with Arundhati Baitmangalkar 47:36

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Text me Your email for my Booking Link “Until you find your why, everything else is external.” – Arundhati Baitmangalkar What happens when you build a studio without a business plan—but with a rock-solid purpose? In this episode of Yoga Biz Champ, I sit down with Arundhati Baitmangalkar, the founder of Aham Yoga and host of the Let's Talk Yoga podc…

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Dominique Farge on allogeneic umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells for systemic lupus erythematosus 26:05

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This is the second episode of a mini series on cell-based therapies in rheumatology, with Prof. Dominique Farge discussing the use of allogeneic umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) as treatment for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We cover the limited options currently available for people with severe or refractory SLE, the c…

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„China in 25": Xis Reisediplomatie, Chinas Wirtschaft im 1. Quartal und deutsche Unternehmen 26:17

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„China in 25“ – in maximal 25 Minuten sprechen Mikko Huotari, Bernhard Bartsch und Claudia Wessling über aktuelle Entwicklungen in China. In dieser Folge geht es um die Reisediplomatie von Partei- und Staatschef Xi Jinping, der sich bei Besuchen in Südostasien darum bemüht hat, Unterstützer im Handelskrieg mit den USA zu gewinnen. Wir sprechen auch…

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Dakota Mace, Gorky & Noguchi 1:16:13

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Episode No. 703 features artist Dakota Mace and curator Claire Howard. SITE Santa Fe is showing "Dakota Mace: DAHODIYINII—SACRED PLACES," an investigation of an atrocity during which the United States expelled the Diné people from Dinétah, their ancestral homeland, and forced them to march as many as 400 miles to the Bosque Redondo in central-easte…

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The China-US trade war and implications for the EU, with Jacob Gunter 35:40

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Global tariffs introduced by the US government under the second Trump administration on April 2nd have rocked global markets. While they have been reduced to a blanket rate of 10 percent a week later, they have increased for China to 145 percent. In retaliation, the Chinese government raised tariffs on all US goods to 125 percent. Johannes Heller-J…

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Holiday clips: María Magdalena Campos-Pons 56:46

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Episode No. 702 is a holiday weekend clips episode featuring artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles is presenting "María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold" through May 4. It is the first multimedia survey of Campos-Pons’ work in 17 years. The exhibition spotlights Campos-Pons’ photography, installation, and performanc…

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Niche Down to Rise Up: Christina’s 6-Month Yoga Studio Launch Journey 41:54

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Text me Your email for my Booking Link "You can't be everything to everyone, but you can be something amazing to someone." – Christina Garcia In this episode, Michael Jay talks with Christina Garcia, owner of Yoga for One, a niche yoga studio located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Christina shares how her personal journey through yoga, initially spark…

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"China in 25": Einschätzungen zum Handelskrieg und China im Koalitionsvertrag 23:52

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„China in 25“ – in maximal 25 Minuten sprechen Mikko Huotari, Bernhard Bartsch und Claudia Wessling über aktuelle Entwicklungen in China im laufenden Jahr 2025. In dieser Folge geht es um den eskalierenden Handelskrieg zwischen den USA und China sowie um den Koalitionsvertrag zwischen CDU, CSU und SPD. Diese Folge wurde am 10. April um 15:30 Uhr au…

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Caillebotte's Men, Native Pop! 1:23:36

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Episode No. 701 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator Scott Allan, and curators Will Hansen and River Ian Kerstetter. With Gloria Groom and Paul Perrin, Allan is the co-curator of "Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men" at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. The exhibition, which is on view through May 25, looks at how Caillebotte's inter…

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Daydreaming About A Disposable Workforce? Here come AI & Tech in Yoga. 13:57

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Buckle up, friends. We are about to get into how artificial intelligence and tech can impact our futures near and far. It isn’t all bad news, but we do need to be prepared. Also, download our discussion guide for this series! Working In Yoga Website Working In Yoga Newsletter Discussion GuideBy Rebecca Sebastian

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Tarrah Krajnak, Jennifer Raab 1:11:35

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Episode No. 700 (!) features artist Tarrah Krajnak and curator Jennifer Raab. Krajnak is featured in two exhibitions on opposite sides of the United States. At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Krajnak is featured in "Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography" through July 13. The exhibition was curated by Shana…

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Empowered Teachers, Thriving Studios: A Fair-Pay Roadmap with Rebecca Sebastian 55:31

2M ago55:31

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Text me Your email for my Booking Link Michael Jay sits down with Rebecca Sebastian—founder of WorkingInYoga.com and owner of Sunlight Yoga & Apothecary—to explore real-world challenges around fair pay, teacher retention, and sustainable growth. Drawing on her experience as both a studio owner and industry advocate, Rebecca shares why shifting from…

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Jack Whitten 1:28:57

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Episode No. 699 features two conversations with artist Jack Whitten. The Museum of Modern Art, New York is presenting "Jack Whitten: The Messenger," the third major US survey of Whitten's work since 2014. (Previous exhibitions include a paintings retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in 2014-15, and a sculpture retrospective at …

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Ep. 5: Utilization of Treatment for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea and Practice-Level Variation in Treatment in the Primary Care Setting, feat. Dr. Shiying Hao & Dr. Neil Kamdar (Vol. 23 Iss. 2) 28:26

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Authors Shiying Hao, PhD, and Neil Kamdar, MA, discuss their original research study titled "Utilization of Treatment for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea and Practice-Level Variation in Treatment in the Primary Care Setting Using the American Family Cohort.” They talk about barriers to guideline adherence for chlamydia and gonorrhea treatment across primar…

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Rebecca Marsh and Grant Schulert on allogeneic HSCT for children with refractory sJIA and associated lung disease 18:30

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The first episode of a mini series on cell-based therapies in rheumatology, with Prof Rebecca Marsh and Grant Schulert discussing the use of allogeneic haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation for children with refractory systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis and associated lung disease. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la…

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It's Like All The Tension, But Never Actually Getting Laid. Why We Can't Seem to Quit Yoga Organizations 16:27

2M ago16:27

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It’s always about money and power, isn’t it? RESOURCES Working In Yoga Website Working In Yoga Newsletter Marc Maron Clip.By Rebecca Sebastian

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How China sees Europe during Trump 2.0, with Grzegorz Stec 30:51

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The widening rift between the United States and Europe will have an effect on the EUs relationship with China. How does Beijing see the EU in the first months of the second Trump administration? Is there an appetite for closer engagement? And what does this mean for Europe? Johannes Heller-John talks to Grzegorz Stec, Head of our Brussels Office an…

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Alex Da Corte, Oaxacan prints 1:00:04

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Episode No. 698 features artist Alex Da Corte and curator Mark Castro. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is presenting "Alex Da Corte: The Whale," a survey of Da Corte's relationship with painting. Featuring more than 40 works, the exhibition examines Da Corte's interest in consumerism, persona, sex, invisible labor, taste, power, and desire. Cur…

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Breaking Down Barriers: How Yoga Studios Can Become More Accessible to Everyone 46:19

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Text me Your email for my Booking Link Michael Jay welcomes Jivana Heyman, founder of Accessible Yoga and a leading voice for inclusive teaching. Jivana shares how AIDS activism drew him back to yoga, eventually centering his work on adaptive classes for marginalized communities. They discuss how studio owners can remove physical, financial, and cu…

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Gertrude Abercrombie, The Monument's End 1:11:48

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Episode No. 697 features curator Sarah Humphreville and author Marisa Anne Bass. With Eric Crosby, Humphreville is the co-curator of "Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery." The exhibition survey's Abercrombie's synthesis of surrealism, landscape, portraiture and still-life, and is the most comprehensive presentation of the artist's wo…

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Your Yoga Orgs Should Work For YOU. A Conversation with Jivana Heyman. 58:27

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This is the final interview in our series about yoga organizations, how they operate, and our futures. And it is a good one. Jivana Heyman is nothing if not an expert in the operations of organizations, with such an amazing understanding of how they work and what they should be doing for us. KEY TAKEAWAYS *The point of an organization, any organiza…

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Die Bundestagswahl von China aus gesehen, mit Kristin Shi-Kupfer 21:58

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Die Wahlen zum Deutschen Bundestag vom 23. Februar wurden auch in China aufmerksam verfolgt. Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Professorin für Sinologie an der Universität Trier und Senior Associate Fellow bei MERICS, berichtet in dieser Ausgabe unseres Podcasts, warum Alice Weidel in den Online-Foren so stark diskutiert wird, was die Netizens über Friedrich Mer…

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Joe Overstreet, Haegue Yang 1:03:56

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Episode No. 696 features curators Natalie Dupêcher and Leigh Arnold. Dupêcher is the curator of "Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight" at the Menil Collection, Houston. "Taking Flight" offers work from three of Overstreet's abstract painting series: Flight Pattern (early 1970s), and related bodies of work from the 1960s and 1990s. While recent exhibitions…

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Kontrollierte Vielfalt – Chinas soziale Medien, mit Kristin Shi-Kupfer und Katja Drinhausen 29:24

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Einige der weltweit größten und erfolgreichsten Social Media Plattformen sind in China – mehrere davon mit hunderten Millionen Nutzern. Sie sind Ort für soziale Interaktion, Unterhaltung, Nachrichten und Wissensaustausch. Auch politische Themen werden diskutiert wie beispielsweise Debatten zur Anhebung des Rentenalters, zur Familienplanungspolitik …

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Leaping Ahead – How Yoga Strong Bet Big on Coaching, Software & Team Support 52:35

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Text me Your email for my Booking Link n this episode of Yoga Biz Champ, I sit down with powerhouse studio owner Samantha Harrison from Yoga Strong in Greenville, NC. Samantha has built a thriving yoga business by blending yoga and strength training, embracing her niche, and doubling down on business strategy. We discuss how she transitioned from a…

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Cannupa Hanska Luger, Painting with Silk 1:31:13

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Episode No. 695 features artist Cannupa Hanska Luger and curator Ken Myers. The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University is presenting "Cannupa Hanska Luger: Speechless," an examination of the complications of colonial histories from an Indigenous perspective. "Speechless" particularly focuses on how narratives, myths, and histories are constructed …

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Welcome to 2025! Kicking Off Season 5 with Big Changes & What’s Next for Yoga Biz Champ 37:20

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Text me Your email for my Booking Link 🎉 New Year, New Season, Big Changes! 🎉 Happy 2025, Yoga Biz Champs! Season 5 is officially here, and I couldn’t be more excited to bring you bigger, better, and more impactful episodes. But first, I’ve got some explaining to do… In this episode, I open up about the challenges that kept the podcast inconsistent…

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Bryant England on advanced therapies in US veterans with rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease 8:30

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Dr Bryant England discusses the use of TNF-inhibitor versus non-TNF inhibitor biological or targeted synthetic DMARDs for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis-associated ILD, and the effects on survival and respiratory hospitalisation outcomes. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanrhe/article/PIIS2665-9913(24)00265-0/fulltext?d…

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Tacita Dean, Ilana Harris-Babou 1:15:30

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Episode No. 694 features artists Tacita Dean and Ilana Harris-Babou. The Menil Collection, Houston is presenting "Tacita Dean: Blind Folly," the first major museum survey of Dean's work in the United States. The exhibition examines a range of Dean's production, with a special emphasis on her drawing practice. "Blind Folly" includes new works inform…

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"China in 25": Zölle, USA, China in Wahlprogrammen 18:22

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„China in 25“ ist ein neues Podcast-Format von MERICS: In maximal 25 Minuten sprechen Mikko Huotari, Bernhard Bartsch und Claudia Wessling über aktuelle Entwicklungen in China im laufenden Jahr 2025. In der ersten Folge geht es um den Zollstreit zwischen den USA und China, die Herausforderungen einer transatlantischen Koordination in der China-Poli…

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Let’s Stick Together, Like Birds Of A Feather. An Organizing Conversation w/ Davy Jones 1:01:22

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We should all be watching and listing to Davy Jones. Davy came into this conversation with more nuggets about organizing, connecting, and taking a stand against organizations than almost any other guest I have had on this podcast. I can’t wait for you to listen. KEY TAKEAWAYS *First, I would just really love to mention that the UK has a labor union…

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Holiday clips: John Edmonds 51:42

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Episode No. 693 is a Presidents' Day weekend clips episode featuring artist John Edmonds. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York recently announced the acquisition of Edmonds’s complete 2018 Untitled (Hood) series. The work was included in last year's Guggenheim exhibition "Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility." Edmon…

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DeepSeek and the upcoming AI Action Summit, with Rebecca Arcesati 36:57

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The Chinese startup DeepSeek has rattled Silicon Valley’s confidence in the United States’ lead in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. DeepSeek’s first free Chatbot App became the most downloaded app on the iOS App Store as well as on the Google Play Store by the end of January. These developments come ahead of the French AI Action Summit, whi…

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Caspar David Friedrich, Romantic drawings 1:38:22

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Episode No. 692 features curators Alison Hokanson and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, and Danielle Canter. Hokanson and Seidenstein are the co-curators of "Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature," which opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this weekend and is on view through May 11. It is the first retrospective of the German Romantic artist's wo…

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Kota Ezawa, Amy Pleasant 1:11:42

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Episode No. 691 features artists Kota Ezawa and Amy Pleasant. The Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture is presenting "Kota Ezawa: Here and There - Now and Then," an investigation into the creation of memory in the Bay Area and nationally, through March 9. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, featur…

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