Author Archive: The Tortoise Shack

25. Live, Laugh, Love…

We’re back. This week we talk about our last conversation on body image, finding the right balance and living our best lives. Follow us @BuiltPod, @builtdiffpod Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack https://media.blubrry.com/built-different/media.blubrry.com/built_different_podcast/content.blubrry.com/built_different_podcast/built_diff_ep26.mp3Podcast (built-different): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:08 — 49.7MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | https://tortoiseshack.ie/built-different-podcast/

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264. Exploring the Discourse on Mental Health and Mental Illness

In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory, talks to Dr Calvin Swords, Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Studies Maynooth University, about mental illness and mental health. We ask do we fully understand the significant differences between mental health challenges and mental illness? Calvin explains the difference between the medical approach and the bio psychosocial models to ‘recovery’, social […]

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970. Dedollarisiation and the Debt Ceiling

It was great to be joined for the first time in 2023 by tortoise shack regular, our favourite Irish-Russian US-based economist, Constantin Gurdgiev. He breaks down the US debt ceiling “crisis”, how much of the world is trying to dedollarise their economies and the bumpy economic road ahead of us in 2023 that will sadly lead to more polarisation unless […]

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972. Break the Silence – Tortoise Shack Live

Thanks to Mr irishelectionprojections.com, Harry McEvansoneya, Dublin Inquirer Reporter, Shamim Malekmian and Campaigner and #BreakTheSilence organiser, Mick Finnegan, for joining us along with our online audience to chat about the week that was. Mick brings us up to date on the situation regarding the still unpublished St Johns Ambulance report into child sexual abuse. Then Harry goes into the polls […]

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263. Gaffs Stories – The Conversation of a Generation Locked Out

This is a powerfully honest podcast that offers some of the best insights into the reality of life in Generation Locked Out. In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to Sinead Ellen Griffin and Joanne Whelan about their experience living in their parents homes in their late 20s an early 30s, the impact on their mental health, anxiety, desire for […]

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7. Untangling Identity

In this episode, Niamh speaks with Marie Moran, assistant professor in Equality Studies, and director of University College Dublin’s Equality Studies Centre. Marie is author of Identity and Capitalism, published by Sage in 2015, and of ‘Rethinking Elites in Populist Times’ which is forthcoming from Verso. She is also working on another monograph for Polity called ‘Inequality in the 21 […]

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966. We’re All Brothers and Sisters

Listeners will be familiar with our guest, Chair of United Against Racism, Memet Uludag, and his work in countering the far right in Ireland. What is news to most is that he was recently in Lesbos, Greece, for the (sham)trial of 24 people charged with all sorts of trumped up charges for trying to help save people from drowning in […]

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968. Help! – The Mother and Baby Home Redress Scheme

It was a pleasure to be rejoined on the podcast by Mother and Baby Home survivor, writer and actor, Noelle Brown and human rights barrister and pro-bono co-director of clannproject.ie, Dr Maeve O’Rourke. We just wish it was under better circumstances. On Wednesday the government will attempt to ram through a redress scheme based on the High Court discredited Mother […]

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