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The Activate Change Podcast

Gabrielli LaChiara & Chloë Urban

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Welcome to The Activate Change Podcast, where transformation is just a conversation away. Join Gabrielli LaChiara, renowned healer and creator of the LaChiara Method, as she guides individuals through powerful healing sessions. Alongside her, Chloë Faith Urban breaks down the frameworks and tools Gabrielli uses to bring deeper understanding to the profound process of healing. Each episode offers an intimate front-row seat to authentic, raw, and real personal breakthroughs, spiritual healing, ...
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A weekly pop culture podcast covering the things that matter online and offline, pop culture, feminism, literature, movies, and the spine-chilling art of navigating modern life in an urban environment. Hosted by London-dwelling Swedish couple Jenny & David Mustard. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wade Center

Wade Center at Wheaton College (IL)

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The Wade Center Podcast features interviews and discussions with scholars and figures related to Wade Center and our authors: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Owen Barfield, and Charles Williams.
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What does it take to rehumanize ourselves by recognizing our inherent worth, power, and divine essence? In this episode, Chloë debunks the myths of belonging and why it's not about trying to fit in everywhere. She explores how the idea of 'normal' is often a distorted concept that creates unnecessary pressure and self-doubt. Instead of striving for…
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In this episode, Gabrielli has a session with Caroline, who’s on the precipice of a big life transition. She’s feeling bored and complacent with her life and part of her wishes she could just be “normal”. Together, they explore what it will take to move beyond the feelings of being trapped, address her fear of standing out, and discover how embraci…
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In this episode, Gabrielli has a session with Reina, who’s wanting to explore her resistance to having more on every level - more freedom, more energy, more power, more money. As they delve into the underlying reasons for this resistance, they uncover a traumatic experience from Reina's childhood, leading her to do some profound inner child work. R…
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In this episode Gabrielli has a session with Matisse, a poet who’s in the process of renegotiating old habits and patterns in their relationship to themselves and with others. They explore what it will take to receive more than ever before without being greedy or selfish, and where they might be holding back in ways that may be blocking them from t…
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Welcome back to this two part episode of our deep dive with Brenna! In our previous episode, we heard Brenna work through her doubts and fears about her relationship, as she navigated through the terrain of family history, codependency, and finding self-responsibility. Today, we pick back up with a session they did just a week and a half after the …
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This week we're speaking with Molly Aitken about her writing and her latest book Bright I Burn. Buy Molly's latest book 'Bright I Burn': https://amzn.to/4cXhIO6 Preorder What A Time To Be Alive: Amazon: https://amzn.to/3zHR4tG Waterstones: https://tidd.ly/3S3s5aI Blackwells (FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING): https://shorturl.at/wmre6 Buy my book OKAY DAYS:…
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In this episode Gabrielli has a session with Brenna, who’s struggling with her partner’s relationship with alcohol and wonders if she can stay. She doesn’t like the parts of herself that rear their monstrous heads in the relationship, and wonders what it will take to honor herself in a challenging dynamic. This is part one of a two part episode wit…
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In this episode, Gabrielli has a session with Kellie, an entrepreneur who’s longing to have more ease with getting her amazing work out in the world. Listen as she explores her lineage of staying hidden, her struggle with motivation, and her ongoing and profound rebirthing process. Kellie has experience with the work, mostly through sessions with m…
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In this episode your co-hosts Gabrielli and Chloë share about the inspiration behind this podcast and how The LaChiara Method Birthed. The LaChiara Method is a a uniquely badass, soul activating, deeply empowering healing and coaching modality that combines the expertise of two seasoned visionaries in the field who happen to be best friends: Gabrie…
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In this episode, Gabrielli has a session with Mae, who struggles with chronic lyme disease, body dysmorphia, and a complex relationship with food. Listen as Mae explores her underlying beliefs, shame, coping strategies, and perfectionism, uncovering new insights that offer her a more generative relationship with food, her body, and her health. Mae …
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In this episode Gabrielli has a session with Julianne, who explores her struggle with being swayed by others' opinions and how that can lead to her abandoning herself. Listen as she clears out other people’s fear from her body and steps more into her power and potency. Julianne recently completed her Radical Life Coach certification with us and has…
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In this episode Gabrielli has a first-time session with Jake, who explores his fear about becoming a first time parent. Listen as he unpacks his hopes, feelings and insights about the radical change he’s about to experience. Claim your FREE GIFT Transform Your Life in 3 Minutes a Day or Less with These 8 Simple Questions: https://lachiaramethod.com…
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In this episode Gabrielli has a first-time session with Lisa, who struggles with wondering if they’re doing what they’re supposed to be doing with their life. Lisa wonders if they’re living up to their fullest potential and if they’re being a big enough contribution to the world. Claim your FREE GIFT Transform Your Life in 3 Minutes a Day or Less w…
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In this episode Gabrielli has a session with Fern, who has very little experience with the method. She explores her fear of being herself in groups and the self judgment and feelings of not being good enough that have plagued her since she was young. Claim your FREE GIFT Transform Your Life in 3 Minutes a Day or Less with These 8 Simple Questions: …
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To celebrate the start of the Wade Center's new Director, Dr. Jim Beitler (Professor of English) we decided to re-release an archival episode recorded and released back in July 2019. 'Rhetoric’ is often a byword for hollow or negative speech. In truth, rhetoric is the art of persuasion. This week, Dr. Jim Beitler discusses his new book, Seasoned Sp…
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Our dear friends and co-hosts of the podcast, Drs. Crystal & David C. Downing, are retiring as co-directors of the Wade Center in June. Professor of English, Dr. Jim Beitler will serve as the Wade Center's new director starting in July. To bid the Downings a fond farewell and pass the baton to our new director, we decided to share some of our favor…
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Through his writings, C.S. Lewis emphasized the importance of travel and learning for through these two activities we gain the needed perspective to see life through the lens of "many places" and "many times." In this week's episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with author's Dr. Alan Snyder and Jamin Metcalf to discuss their recently…
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In the first half of the 20th century, England elites like T.S. Eliot were trying to devalue John Milton and elevate John Donne—exchanging one 17th-century English poet for another. At the height of World War II, C.S. Lewis took up arms against these oppressors and defended Milton in a series of lectures that would later be published as A Preface t…
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This week we're talking with Chloë Ashby about her writing and her latest book. Buy Chloë's latest book 'Second Self': https://geni.us/SecondSelfPB Buy Chloë's First book 'Wet Paint': https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/chlo%c3%ab-ashby/wet-paint/9781398703001/ Chloë's website: https://www.chloeashby.com/ Buy my book OKAY DAYS: Blackwells (FREE WORLD…
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While he never visited America, C.S. Lewis and his works have greatly impacted the American religious landscape. While many general readers associate Lewis primarily with The Chronicles of Narnia (1950), before his appearance on the cover of Time in 1947 Americans viewed C.S. Lewis quite differently. In this week's episode Drs. Crystal and David C.…
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In many ways, C.S. Lewis was both a man ahead of and behind the times. His approach to science and theology was based upon his professorial comprehension of the Medieval world and what he called "The Model." In this week's episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with Producer Aaron Hill to discuss Lewis's last non-fiction book, The Disc…
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From C.S. Lewis's childhood wardrobe, to Tolkien's desk, to countless unpublished letters and manuscripts, The Marion E. Wade Center is full of many wonderful things. To celebrate the January 2024 launch of our new "Wonders of the Wade" video series on YouTube, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing, along with Producer Aaron Hill, sit down with Chloe D…
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J.R.R. Tolkien loved Beowulf, as evidenced by his landmark lecture, “The Monsters and the Critics,” his posthumously published prose translation (released in 2014), and his inclusion of Anglo-Saxon themes and words throughout The Lord of the Rings. In this week’s episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with Dr. Ben Weber, Associate Prof…
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Archived at the Wade Center are a set of letters between Warren Lewis and a missionary named Blanche Biggs. After the death of his brother, C.S. Lewis, Warren received a letter out of the blue from Blanche, who was serving as a missionary in Papua New Guinea. In this week's episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with Diana Glyer to dis…
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The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted lives, industries, and even spirituality across the globe. In this week's episode, critically acclaimed author Philip Yancey sits down with Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing to discuss his new book called "Undone." Published by our close friends over at The Rabbit Room, Yancey's book "renders 17th century poet John D…
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In Orthodoxy (1908), G.K. Chesterton shares his idea to write a romance in which an Englishman travels around the world and sets foot on a foreign land only to discover that he returned home. "How can we contrive to be astonished at the world and yet at home in it?" Published only four years later in 1912, Manalive is that story. In this week's epi…
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Only G.K. Chesterton could write a detective novel about undercover poet cops bravely battling anarchists as a way of explaining the problem of evil and the revelation of God in nature. In this week's episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with Producer Aaron Hill to unpack all the twists and turns in The Man Who Was Thursday—a book th…
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Today's culture favors convenience and speed. Even finding the time to slow down and read a physical book feels impossible. In this week's episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with Dr. Corey Olsen, the Founder and President of Signum University, to discuss his long-running podcast on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, specifically his clos…
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Pre-order OKAY DAYS and enter the giveaway!! Just send your receipt before June 26th to okaydays@hodder.co.uk with your name and address (UK only, sorry!!) Pre-order my debut novel OKAY DAYS : (Worldwide shipping available) Amazon: https://amzn.to/3BOtXeh Waterstones: https://tidd.ly/3dSnVS7 Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/jennymustard S…
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How should we read, interpret, and apply history? How can historical misconceptions doom us to repeat the mistakes of the past? Is everything always getting better, or is it possible for new inventions and new ideas to be retrogressive--to take us a step backward? In this week's episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with Producer Aaro…
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These days everyone is a critic. The internet is filled with—some might say "fueled" by—criticism of movies, books, art, society, everything. Over six decades ago, C.S. Lewis recognized and warned us that the wrong kind of critical posture can turn us not only into cynics but into cultural and ideological puritans. In this week's episode, Drs. Crys…
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Long before the internet was invented people wrote letters to C.S. Lewis and he wrote back, sending them meaningful, insightful, and compassionate letters. In this week's episode Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with Marjorie Mead, Co-Director of the Wade Center to discuss a book of Letters to Children (1985). Marjorie reveals how the boo…
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We're back and we are in the middle of renovations and book cover reveals! Pre-order the novel and get a signed postcard from me! Just send your receipt before March 7th to okaydays@hodder.co.uk with your name and address (UK only, sorry!!) Pre-order Jenny's debut novel OKAY DAYS : WORLDWIDE SHIPPING! Amazon: https://amzn.to/3BOtXeh Bookshop.org: h…
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The works of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien are filled with magical lands, walking trees, and talking animals. They elicit wonder in our hearts not just for fictional places but for the real world around us. In this week's episode Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down to interview Dr. Kristen Page about her recent book The Wonder of Creation: L…
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Even though he constantly reminded readers that he wasn't a theologian or a biblical scholar, C.S. Lewis wrote an entire book on how to read and reflect on the Psalms. In this week's episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with Producer Aaron Hill to discuss Lewis's often overlooked and under-read book, Reflections on the Psalms (1958).…
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In this week's episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with Producer Aaron Hill to finish unwrapping the many memorable witticisms, penetrating insights, and enchanting metaphors contained within the final chapters of Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton. Additionally, this is both our final episode of 2022 and the final episode of our bi-weekl…
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Over the last century many Christian apologists have made a name for themselves. At the root of this apologetic tree lies the genius and charm of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and Orthodoxy. In this week's episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with Producer Aaron Hill to unwrap the many memorable witticisms, penetrating insights, and encha…
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This week we're talking with Rowan Hisayo Buchanan about her writing and her new book. Pre-order Rowan's latest book: Amazon: https://amzn.to/3TTFFLz Waterstones: https://tidd.ly/3TNZXpY Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11206/9781399710626 Pre-order Jenny's debut novel OKAY DAYS : Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/jennymus... Waters…
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Did you know that the archaic language in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight colored J.R.R. Tolkien's prose in The Lord of the Rings? Or that the characters in this medieval, fourteenth century, fairy tale for adults informed and inspired characters and themes in both The Chronicles of Narnia and the Ransom trilogy by C.S. Lewis? In this week's episod…
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Just when you thought Phantastes couldn't get any more fantastical, George MacDonald slips in two short stories: one in which women with wings, who live on another planet, find babies out in nature, and die from desire; the other in which Cosmo von Wehrstahl, a student in Prague, purchases a magic mirror which contains a beautiful woman. In this fo…
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This week we're talking about our road trip through 7 countries!! Pre-order Jenny's debut novel OKAY DAYS : Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/jennymus... Waterstones: https://tidd.ly/3dSnVS7 Amazon: https://amzn.to/3BOtXeh Australia: https://www.booktopia.com.au/okay-day... NZ: https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/o... Subscribe to our new …
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This is the story that started it all—the fairy tale that baptized C.S. Lewis's imagination and inspired countless fantasy novels such as Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In this week's episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with Producer Aaron Hill to discuss George MacDonald's dreamlike fairy tale for adults, Phantas…
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Tolkien fans, you don't want to miss this episode! As Graham Shea notes, "Critics have long debated whether, and to what degree, J.R.R. Tolkien writes allegorically. Any answer to this question must attempt to reconcile Tolkien’s numerous comments about allegory, which often seem to contradict one another." In this week's episode Drs. Crystal and D…
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This week we're talking about the reason why we've been gone! Pre-order OKAY DAYS: Waterstones: https://tidd.ly/3dSnVS7 Amazon: https://amzn.to/3BOtXeh Subscribe to our new channel: https://bit.ly/3wOqvvy Subscribe to our Podcast on Apple Podcast : https://apple.co/2DR2lpF Spotify : https://spoti.fi/2BAGuUJ Subscribe here to our channel for more : …
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Is there such a thing as Christian literature? How important is originality in literature and culture? Should Christianity embrace or reject culture? In their second discussion of Christian Reflections, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing discuss Lewis's answers to these timeless questions using two dense but powerful essays by C.S. Lewis titled, "Ch…
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When Yuri Gagarin returned from mankind's first trip into space, he declared, "I looked and looked and looked, but I didn't see God." In an essay written in 1963, C.S. Lewis retorted, "Those who do not find Him on earth are unlikely to find Him in space." In this week's episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with the beloved Dr. Jerry …
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For over a decade, C.S. Lewis and Stella Aldwinckle modeled how to discuss Christianity, atheism, and belief with civility and grace through the Oxford Socratic Club. Many of Lewis's talks at the club meetings made their way into print, in the form of essays. In part three of the Wade Center's series on God in the Dock (1970), Drs. Crystal and Davi…
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"Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes." In part two of the Wade Center's series on God in the Dock (1970), Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing discuss three powerful essays published by C.S. Lewis in the 1940s: "On the Reading of Old Books," "Meditation in a Toolshe…
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Between writing best-selling books, C.S. Lewis published hundreds of essays. Many of them were collected and published after Lewis's death as God in the Dock in 1970. Over the next several episodes, the Wade Center Podcast is going to explore Lewis's wonderful insights about the challenges of maintaining and sharing your faith in the modern world. …
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To tide you over until we return from vacation, enjoy this re-released episode on George MacDonald from the Wade Center archives. Most Inklings fans see George MacDonald through the lens of C.S. Lewis. Others enter MacDonald's novels through diverse doorways. In this week's episode Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with Producer Aaron Hill…
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