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Talking Strangers is a podcast where we sit down with a complete stranger and talk about stuff. Made in Malaysia.
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Don’t talk to Strangers – The Oakland County Child Murders is a limited run podcast focused on nine child murders that took place in and around south Oakland County between January 1, 1976 and March 16, 1977. Four of these murders appear to be the work of an as yet unidentified serial killer known as the Oakland County Child Killer.
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Talk to Strangers is a podcast. Well, it's also a live show. Well, it's also a standup comedy showcase. Ok, so Talk to Strangers is a variety of things - mostly fun, sometimes sincere, and always a little bit debasing. It's the show that never gets written and nobody asked for!
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Talking with Strangers is a Jack Savoretti influenced podcast. Each week, a different stranger chats about their life and how Jack Savoretti's music has influenced them. Meet Mandy Henson, host of Talking with Strangers "Over the last few years, whilst being one of the three Admins on the #amorettiofficial Facebook group, I have met so many Jack Savoretti fans from around the world with stories to share. I would love you to join me on a conversational journey and let's see where it leads us. ...
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In my short time on Earth I've realized I'm the most happy when connecting with others and understanding how they derive meaning and purpose. Everyone should have a time and place to express themselves. I hope to create that space in this podcast. I look forward to learning more about your story and sharing it with the world.
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I'm Ashley Black, and I'm an introvert. I'm on a quest to obliterate my social awkwardness in an ambitious way: by talking to complete strangers in the format of a podcast talk show, hosted by yours truly. Forget "stranger danger", let's do this.
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Connections to other humans are crucial. But what does that look like? How can we trust others? This second segment of Talking to Strangers focuses on Steph Thompson, founder of sound healing practice Sacred Bloom Tribe talking to strangers about music. Sound and rhythm are crucial aspects to building up our listening skills. Trusting one another--whomever we might be, whatever race, creed, religion, political persuasion--we have to learn to listen to one another and find a common vibration. ...
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Our guest today is Stefania who creates the magic behind Jack Savoretti Romania on Instagram. In this episode of Talking With Strangers we discuss: - Discovering Jack Savoretti - The creation of Jack Savoretti Romania on Instagram - Life in Romania before and after the revolution - Splitting time between Romania/London - Musical grandparents - Mich…
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Our guest today is Emma Bloomfield who lives on the Isle of Wight. In this episode of Talking With Strangers we discuss: - Discovering Jack Savoretti - Isle of Wight - Croatia - Festivals - Caterham cars - Caterham racing - Music influences - The Cat Empire! We hope you enjoyed this episode of Talking with Strangers. Talking with Strangers is a Jac…
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Our guest today is Caroline Richards who uprooted from Manchester to Puglia over 10 years ago. Caroline is a self confessed 'Italophile' and is really living the Italian dream. In this episode of Talking With Strangers we discuss: - Discovering Jack Savoretti - Cafe Nero - Shopping for a property in Italy with a list in hand - Moving from Mancheste…
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Our guests today are a wonderful married couple Jane and Bob Ashton. Jane and Bob met in 1977 in the old Gaumont Theatre in Southampton. Jane was an Usherette (as it was known back then) and Bob was moonlighting (from his day job as a Police Officer) in security and stagehand work at the theatre. Jane thought Bob was a firefighter! Was she disappoi…
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Our guest today is Arvena Deda from Albania. Albania is a very small country and shares the Adriatic Sea with Italy, influencing Arvena's love of Italy and Italian music. Arvena made a road trip with two of her friends to Sibenik in Croatia to her first Jack Savoretti live gig, which is where we met and the rest is history! In this episode of Talki…
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Our guest today is Richard Clarke from Warchild who in 2016 became Music Manager then Head of Music for a while. Rich is totally committed and passionate about his work with Warchild and is a true advocate and ambassador for them. In this episode of Talking With Strangers we talk: - fundraisers - the work of Warchild - Syria, Turkey, Ukraine - Amba…
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Our guest today is Eliane Romanzin from Bern in Switzerland. Eliane's father is Italian and her mother is Swiss and she has sweet childhood memories of Italian holidays and growing up in Bern. Her musical taste is much influenced by her parents who listened to Italian/French music of the 50s/60s, hence her love of Jack's music, especially Europiana…
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Our guest today is Jon Mackay who is an artist, an illustrator and silk screen printer based near Oxford. In addition to producing his own silk screen prints that are exhibited in galleries, Jon has a string of commissions under his belt from JackSavoretti, Bears Den and The Lumineers to name but a few. Jon met Jack by chance whilst at the local ga…
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Welcome to Talking with Strangers, a Jack Savoretti influenced podcast. Our guest today is Julie Hunter, whose love of dogs inspired her to become a Dog Groomer and now runs a successful bespoke wedding dog care service, Spotlessly Chic! Julie lives in rural Aberdeenshire with her husband and two dalmation dogs Cielo and Winnie. Moving to the count…
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Welcome to Talking with Strangers, a Jack Savoretti influenced podcast. Our guest today is Jo Twist, who is an outdoor explorer, an artist, a Reiki Practioner and is in the process of running wellness retreats. Jo lives in a cottage in Somerset which she also uses as a makeshift art studio. Jo currently works in the film industry but likes nothing …
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Welcome to Talking with Strangers, a Jack Savoretti influenced podcast. Our guest today is Meredith Hepner Chapman, an expert in PR, Podcasting, Name Dropping and Jack Savoretti (especially as Meredith is Jack’s cousin.) Meredith lives in Hertfordshire, with her husband Jeremy, four beautiful children and two dachshunds. Meredith is host of the Dia…
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Meet Mandy Henson, host of Talking with Strangers "Over the last few years, whilst being one of the three Admins on the #amorettiofficial Facebook group, I have met so many Jack Savoretti fans from around the world with stories to share. I would love you to join me on a conversational journey and let's see where it leads us..." Talking with Strange…
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Meet Mandy Henson, host of Talking with Strangers "Over the last few years, whilst being one of the three Admins on the #amorettiofficial Facebook group, I have met so many Jack Savoretti fans from around the world with stories to share. I would love you to join me on a conversational journey and let's see where it leads us..." Talking with Strange…
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Meet Mandy Henson, host of Talking with Strangers "Over the last few years, whilst being one of the three Admins on the #amorettiofficial Facebook group, I have met so many Jack Savoretti fans from around the world with stories to share. I would love you to join me on a conversational journey and let's see where it leads us..." Talking with Strange…
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Meet Mandy Henson, host of Talking with Strangers "Over the last few years, whilst being one of the three Admins on the #amorettiofficial Facebook group, I have met so many Jack Savoretti fans from around the world with stories to share. I would love you to join me on a conversational journey and let's see where it leads us..." Talking with Strange…
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Meet Mandy Henson, host of Talking with Strangers "Over the last few years, whilst being one of the three Admins on the #amorettiofficial Facebook group, I have met so many Jack Savoretti fans from around the world with stories to share. I would love you to join me on a conversational journey and let's see where it leads us..." Talking with Strange…
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Meet Mandy Henson, host of Talking with Strangers "Over the last few years, whilst being one of the three Admins on the #amorettiofficial Facebook group, I have met so many Jack Savoretti fans from around the world with stories to share. I would love you to join me on a conversational journey and let's see where it leads us..." Talking with Strange…
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Meet Mandy Henson, host of Talking with Strangers "Over the last few years, whilst being one of the three Admins on the #amorettiofficial Facebook group, I have met so many Jack Savoretti fans from around the world with stories to share. I would love you to join me on a conversational journey and let's see where it leads us..." Talking with Strange…
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Meet Mandy Henson, host of Talking with Strangers "Over the last few years, whilst being one of the three Admins on the #amorettiofficial Facebook group, I have met so many Jack Savoretti fans from around the world with stories to share. I would love you to join me on a conversational journey and let's see where it leads us..." Talking with Strange…
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When confusion reigns, where do you turn? We are strangers to ourselves in these moments, unfocused and unclear. I often turn to the piano, or other musical instruments to get at and get out what's going on inside. More even than writing, composing music allows thoughts and feelings to flow through me unencumbered (or, at least, less encumbered tha…
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What makes us love a musician? The connection with a performer and their music is not unlike other loves probably, a slightly inexplicable alchemy that hits us hard, right off the bat. Seeing a long line of people waiting mid-morning for the best seats for the Phoebe Bridgers benefit concert in Prospect Park last week, I was curious: why do these f…
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My interaction with the young band Moxie is a direct result of saying 'yes.' "Can a band stay with us a couple of nights?" my son Eli asked a couple weeks back and--based on my love of strangers, especially meeting them in my house--I didn't skip a beat. "Yes," I said. And so it was that I found myself in my kitchen with four of the most lovely dyn…
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Thinh Nguyen runs an extremely successful Amazon Wholesale business and generates passive income for his investors. I met him through instagram and wanted to reach out to share his come up. From a worker at Dunkin’ Donuts to now a 7 figure entrepreneur Thinh has exceeded all of his peers expectations of him and created a life of his own design wher…
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I reached out to Harrison through TikTok because I resonated with the content and value he was providing for his clients. In this episode, he shares his entrepreneurial journey from when he was in his early twenties working day and night to support his daughter, to his military career, to his work as a life insurance underwriter and now as a consul…
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Andrew Giorgi is a successful 7 and soon to be 8 figure eCommerce entrepreneur, wonderful human being and mentor of mine. In this episode Andrew shares his journey breaking free from a traditional 9-5 and all the attitudes it can encourage to leveraging his focus and unique set of skills to help others make an additional 3-5k in passive income ever…
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I'm glad Omer and I had a chance to sit down and connect. He's 19 and absolutely killing it in the real estate game. He is a true entrepreneur at heart and goes after what he wants in life with ferosity. Listen in for more about his journey through high school and college and how the shifts in his mindset catalyzed his financial independence. You'l…
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When I sat down to write about Dani Markham, the first thing I did was look up "cool." Even though it was the first word that came to mind when I thought to describe her, I guess I don't really know why, or what 'cool' really means... Obviously, like all words, 'cool' is subjective. But what came up from psychologists who study perceptions of human…
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For this episode, I sat down naked at the piano. Sometimes, it is only through music and rhythm that I am able to get at what I'm REALLY thinking and feeling, what I want to express. Sometimes, often, words don't work. I so like to express my naked thoughts and ideas. And I like to hear other people's. People often can see that in my eyes, in my bo…
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Trust is an interesting thing. To talk to someone, to engage with them, is to offer them a sort of trust. When I first talked to Jason Naradzay a few years back, it was to interview him for a piece I was writing in support of Musicambia, a nonprofit music education organization he had been involved with during his time served at Sing Sing Correctio…
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I knew that Jamee Jurecki and Leonissa Morris were to be my pals back when I first encountered them in December of 2017. As we stood there in front of the long mirrors of the communal bathroom at the Posh Hostel in South Beach, brushing our teeth and hair, preparing to hit the town, it was very clear. We had come to Miami on our own, adventurous la…
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On Facebook the other day, someone posed the question, "what career did you dream of having when you were a kid?" I didn't skip a beat. "A singer!" I responded. My sister and I spent countless hours singing into a tape recorder (yes, a tape recorder, with cassette tapes whose plastic film we often had to detangle and re-roll with a pen. I am that o…
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I first met Nora Fish in a little cafe named Parco, in Park Slope. She had a beautiful German Shepherd named Annika and an adorable pug named Tootsie. As she reminds me during this podcast, she and I "were constantly complimenting each other's boots!" I have always admired Nora's style, from the great knit ponchos she makes herself to the gorgeous …
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When James Yang came to my kids' school to talk about his illustrated children's book back in 2013, I was immediately struck by its powerful simplicity. I had just started volunteering at a school where kids didn't get to meet authors like my kids did, and I invited James to join. We reminisced during this podcast about that day, about how the kids…
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It was quite the coup to get one of my teenagers to come on to the podcast. After all, they are independent humans with ideas of their own about how to live life, and doing my bidding often takes low priority, as it should be. Over the years, I humiliated them bi-weekly with my Fearless Parenting column in the Brooklyn Paper, subjected them to a fe…
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When I first met the lovely Emily Sause a few years back, she was 'head of community' for a stunning Manhattan co-working space called The Assemblage. It was part of her job to be welcoming, but she seemed to go above and beyond with her bright-eyed enthusiasm. While I didn't end up joining the super-cool workspace, I did manage to come for a coupl…
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I met Roberto at Cafe Martin in Park Slope. He was a mathematician/philosopher working there between gigs. A song had come on and I asked a question about it, and he said how popular it was with the French kids. He said it with a bit of a scoff. He sounded French but...”where are you from?” I asked before I guessed. “I’m Italian,” he said. He grew …
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When I run out of coffee, I am always glad because it means I can take a walk over to Java Joe. For so many years, I have been going to this little shop on 8th Street, in Park Slope, to buy their deliciously strong Black Magic espresso beans. The shop is adorable, run by a lovely frank Irish lady, and besides the INCREDIBLE mint malted milk balls (…
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In this episode, I head to the beach to drum, and I talk a bit about how we learn to trust ourselves and others. It's not easy. I often use the metaphor of music, and work with people, including homeless men, to try to get at thoughts about connection, and trust and flexibility through drumming together. What we can create together, quickly, us str…
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What I loved about Samir LanGus from the first time I saw him was how comfortably he seemed to mix cultures seamlessly and stylishly. As a Moroccan musician steeped in the classically spiritual Gnawa music of his homeland, he is always sporting American fashions like his favored Adidas jackets or running pants along with more traditional Moroccan g…
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I'm "friends" on Facebook with a lot of people I've never met. Maybe we have mutual friends, maybe they read something of mine or listened to my podcast, maybe I heard them play somewhere. Neither Chris Rael nor I remember exactly how we became "friends," though we have a long list of friends in common, mostly musicians (since he is one.) Even thou…
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I try not to take advantage of my friendship with veteran psychoanalyst Mubasher Naseer. After all, he is clearly easy to talk to, listens well and has many years' experience helping people sort out relationships and other of life's strains and stresses with his sage advice. Since we met, roughly six years ago, Mubasher is always a good person to c…
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Since meeting jazz pianist James Carney seven or so years ago in a little bar in Park Slope, I have sat many times in various venues to see and hear him tickle the ivories, his fingers flying fast across the keys masterfully to create rhythms that resound in the soul. It was a pleasure to sit with him again and hear a few of these sounds, this time…
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It is fitting that in our chat, in her sumptuous living quarters in the Fort Greene area of Brooklyn, stylist/creative director Hilary Robertson would quote Keats' Ode to a Grecian Urn. She waved her hand this way and that with her usual English dramatic flair, and the crisp striped fabric of the full-length dress shirt she wore shifted slightly. "…
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I first met Saskia Layden (now Saskia Layden Kaya) when she was teaching yoga to children at Still Waters in a Storm, a storefront after-school program in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Her smile and laugh lit up the room, and the children gathered around her, all over her, like puppies. I knew immediately I needed her to teach the kids in my ow…
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It is fitting that I am posting this episode of Talking to Strangers late at night, as that's when I met today's guest, jazz guitarist Andy Bianco. We met at Korzo, a Park Slope restaurant and bar, during one of the late great Konceptions Music Series shows put on by pianist James Carney and his wife Heidi Bayer. He wasn't playing that night, but I…
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Believing in yourself can be a hard thing. With Stanley Mills' sure smile and easy laugh, and his gentle prodding, it seems easier. Stanley has been a personal trainer for over 20 years, though his body seems to defy that that's even possible! It is his physique that is physically impressive, but it is his amazing positivity that really drives one …
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When you buy a house and decide to gut renovate it, you are suddenly in contact with a lot of strangers you have to learn to trust. Last November, I hired upstate contractor Andy Kane from Peak Builders, and he began to work on the fixer-upper we'd purchased in Elka Park, NY. It has been 10 months since then, and there have been an amazing cast of …
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It's funny to remember back nearly four decades ago to a time and place, to a 50s diner in Tucson, Arizona in the 80s. That young girl in the too-tight Laverne shirt making shakes behind the ice cream counter was me, Steph Saull. I found this recording I made talking about that time (and digressing, of course, onto other seemingly related topics) a…
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Discovering a fabulous musician you've never heard of at a club, alone in a foreign city is...well, it is an amazing, life-affirming highly connected experience, one I wholeheartedly recommend. Rolling through recordings on my phone, searching for a podcast for Day 4 of my 30-day lead-up to 50, I happened upon a performance I'd recorded at the Suns…
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Trying to title this podcast, I was uncharacteristically at a loss for words. It's hard to put Alex in a box. He said he would go into one, but only if he knew who he was in there with...Ha. This is why Alex and I have become great friends and confidants over the last five years, ever since we met on the lunchroom balcony of the Omega Institute in …
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