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The Great Discontent

The Great Discontent - Conversations with today's artists, makers, and risk-takers

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Long-form interviews for your ears, The Great Discontent podcast features in-depth conversations with today's artists, makers, and risk-takers.
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Artwork by Duong Nguyen. A look at how the ideas that we inherit very young can limit or expand the way that we relate to ourselves and our creativity. Hurry Slowly host Jocelyn K. Glei explores how ideas shape our attitude toward everything — how we think with and through the ideas we hold, and how that affects the way we see ourselves, the way we…
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A deep dive into how we create, relate to, and maintain our digital selves/personas/brands — and can we ever truly leave them behind? Or reinvent them? Or start anew? My conversation partner in this investigation is Cody Cook-Parrot, a dancer and a writer who was formerly known as Marlee Grace. Their work focuses on the self, devotion, ritual, crea…
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The myths that drive our creativity, how they create suffering, and how we can ignite our creative fire by embracing the power of the collective. Hurry Slowly host Jocelyn K. Glei explores the closely intertwined myths of individualism and the lone creative genius and how they encourage us to ignore a powerful source of creative inspiration and mom…
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What does it mean to create spaciousness? Through our creative rhythms, through our travels, through the expression of our voices? I talk with writer and teacher Sebene Selassie, the author of You Belong and the excellent Substack newsletter Ancestors to Elements, about cultivating self-reliance through solo travel, the power of acknowledging what …
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Artwork by Guong Nguyn and Geelia Nguyn. Exploring the tension between “the urgency of productivity” and the rhythms of “creative necessity.” Jocelyn contemplates how we can navigate the tension between an external world that is deeply attached to urgency and the “values of technology” and our internal world, where we yearn to create, to play, to r…
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Artwork by Rita Quattrocchi. On the awkwardness of wintering while everyone else is awakening. Jocelyn reflects on being out of sync with the collective energy of reinvention at the beginning of each new year. She talks about being in the “awkward soup of transformation” and contemplates the discomfort of inflection points, the rhythms of creativit…
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What does it mean to be satisfiable? And how do you recognize when you have “enough”? These questions are central not just to our own well-being but to attaining a more just and equitable society. For this conversation, I sit down with writer, facilitator, and activist adrienne maree brown, who recently published the excellent book Pleasure Activis…
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Artwork by James Fenner. How to flip the script on healing and wellness culture by noticing how you already embody all that you yearn for. Jocelyn reflects on the intersection of capitalism, productivity culture, and the wellness industry and how they each try to lure us into focusing on what we lack, what we are not, what we have yet to accomplish…
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A conversation about how to get our bodies (and our brains) onboard with manifesting a new reality. In this episode, I take a deep dive into the mechanics of healing with Dina Schapiro. Dina has been a therapist for over 20 years; she’s also a professor, and formerly the director of the graduate arts therapy program, at the Pratt Institute in Brook…
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A brief reflection on the voice and how our desire to avoid uncertainty — to know the outcome before we even begin the process — can block the free-flow of self-expression. Resources, Ideas & Links Jocelyn’s 4-week course “Finding Your Voice: A sacred practice space for honoring self-expression” is now open for registration. Register before Nov 9 a…
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Artwork by Polina Washington.What are the ideas, thoughts, and habits that rupture, or interrupt, our ability to feel at home?Through the lens of my own past addictions to alcohol and crime fiction, I explore the dark side of habits in this episode — the anxious, internal routines and dialogues that we are constantly performing and re-performing to…
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