A Time Magazine Top 50 podcast: “The show serves an important purpose: Encouraging men and women to enter a productive dialogue with one another”. Hosted by Nas and Dan (aka Nastaran Tavakoli-Far and Daniel Carroll). Contact: thegenderknot@gmail.com
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Billionaire Zappos founder and tech CEO Tony Hsieh was obsessed with happiness and helping people achieve it. After running “the world’s happiest company” for two decades, Hsieh created his experimental community — The Downtown Project — dedicated to pursuing happiness. But what do Tony's life and death reveal about Silicon Valley’s obsession with re-imagining how society functions? "A gripping tale" - The Guardian The Cost Of Happiness is reported and hosted by Nastaran Tavakoli-Far. It is ...
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This podcast is now the subject of a legal complaint by Nicole Daedone, Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste Incorporated, the Institute of OM LLC and OM IP Co. In the search for wellness, how far would you go? Nicole Daedone, the charismatic co-founder of wellness company One Taste believed that orgasm would one day sit alongside yoga and meditation as the self-care practice for the modern empowered women. Except that now the FBI is making enquiries in to One Taste over allegations including sex traff ...
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Founder and journalist Erica Berger talks to artists, activists, and entrepreneurs about how they lived through uncertainty, and how they live lives that are always "to be determined."
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30-plus years of bands, shows, and memories from The Masquerade. Let’s dive into heaven, hell, purgatory, and the all-new Altar with Greg Green. Do you remember being at The Masquerade anytime in the 80s or...Oleh The Atlanta Podcast
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Former Tennessee deputy Roland McAbee was at The Capitol on January 6th, 2021. In the middle of all the commotion, he tried to render lifesaving aid to a dying Rosanne Boyland. In addition, he helped...Oleh The Atlanta Podcast
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On today’s episode, we chat down with Nas, an investigative journalist and podcaster whose show, “The Cost of Happiness,” was recently nominated for a Webby Award. We discuss why she was so drawn to the...Oleh The Atlanta Podcast
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DJ for Zaytoven. Rude Girl Radio. Teaching people to be seen and so much more. Interview Recorded: Nov 29, 2022 – Magic City – 241 Forsyth St SW, Atlanta, GA 30303 Who introduced us –...Oleh The Atlanta Podcast
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Producing The Wobble, Whisper Song, Soulja Boy, and so much more. A deep dive into making records with the man formerly known as DJ Smurf. Interview Recorded: Feb 7, 2023 – Pittsburgh Yards Who introduced...Oleh The Atlanta Podcast
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Big Mike sits down to talk about musical influences, The Swing Pandemic of the 90s, the highs and lows of tv talent shows, and much more. Interview Recorded: Jan 25, 2023 – Pittsburgh Yards Who...Oleh The Atlanta Podcast
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Learn about Kelli’s journey from stylist to salon owner to the head of a tv/film union. We sat down at her latest endeavor, 404 Coffee, in the Pittsburgh neighborhood. Interview Recorded: Dec 21, 2022 – ...Oleh The Atlanta Podcast
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Interview Recorded: Jan 24, 2023- fodac – 4900 Lewis Rd, Tucker, GA 30083 Please help make a difference, and have fun doing it! The 10th Annual Alzheimer’s Music Fest is back live and in person....Oleh The Atlanta Podcast
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Nastaran chats with Dan Lyons, best-selling author and screenwriter for HBO's Silicon Valley, about the Tony Hsieh story and the highs and lows of tech company culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesOleh Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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No Dogs in the Dog Park | Chapter 7
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What remains of Tony’s utopian, llama-shaped vision for a neighbourhood? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesOleh Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Once again, Tony finds himself at the center of a toxic culture characterized by suspicion and silence. Except this time, there’s no escape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesOleh Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Interview Recorded: Oct 19, 2022- CreateATL 900 Murphy Ave SW, Atlanta, GA 30310 Who introduced us – Several people in Atlanta. Who should I have next on The Atlanta Podcast – The woman who runs...Oleh The Atlanta Podcast
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The feverish excitement around The Downtown Project begins to give way to frustration, confusion, and disappointment. Tony's utopian vision is concealing something toxic. And it isn’t just businesses and investors at stake. All of a sudden, so are people’s lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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When you talk about investing millions in a neglected city, buying up old buildings, funding small businesses and startups, and creating the happiest community on earth, people listen. So it’s no surprise that word quickly spreads about Tony Hsieh’s grand plans and the pilgrimages to Vegas begin. But will Tony’s utopia prevail? Or will the qualitie…
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Interview Recorded: Nov 4, 2022- CreateATL Who introduced us – LolaKash on IG. Who should I have next on The Atlanta Podcast – DJ Roots Queen Intro and Outro Music– Brian Revels. Listen to this episode on...Oleh The Atlanta Podcast
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Flush with cash from his sale of Zappos to Amazon, Tony Hsieh is writing big checks. He has some 350 million dollars to invest — and just a year into this bold experiment in social engineering, his efforts to transform downtown Vegas into the happiest place on earth seem to be well underway. Did his vision for a tech utopia really work wonders on t…
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In July 2009, a man sells a company for $1.2 billion dollars — a company he’s spent the past decade building, and one that has revolutionized how we buy things on the internet. At just 35 years old, he’s instantly among the world’s richest people. But he sees himself as so much more than a business mogul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit pod…
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Josh thought he’d found a tech utopia — but then reality hit. This is a story about one man’s quest to transform a city, and the world, through his particular vision of happiness. It’s about the people who were seduced by that vision. And the people who were left behind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Teaser: The Cost of Happiness - Series Premieres December 5
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Billionaire Zappos founder and tech CEO Tony Hsieh was obsessed with happiness and helping people achieve it. After running “the world’s happiest company” for two decades, Hsieh created his experimental community — The Downtown Project — dedicated to pursuing happiness. But what do Tony's life and death reveal about Silicon Valley’s obsession with …
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The Orgasm Cult: BBC Radio 4 podcast – subscribe!
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2021 is giving 2020 a run for it’s money… sorry we’ve been away, but want to point you to a investigative podcast Nas put out recently for BBC Radio 4. It’s called The Orgasm Cult and looks at a Californian wellness company focusing on female sexuality called One Taste. Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim Ferris were fans. Except there are allegations it may b…
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This podcast is now the subject of a legal complaint by Nicole Daedone, Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste Incorporated, the Institute of OM LLC and OM IP Co. In 2018, Bloomberg Businessweek published an article by reporter Ellen Huet exposing the toxic culture within One Taste. Shortly afterwards, the FBI started making enquiries into the company over alle…
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This podcast is now the subject of a legal complaint by Nicole Daedone, Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste Incorporated, the Institute of OM LLC and OM IP Co. This episode has been edited to remove reference to an email which was described as relating to a specific incident involving Sam and Cassidy. This has been removed because the email in fact concerned…
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This podcast is now the subject of a legal complaint by Nicole Daedone, Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste Incorporated, the Institute of OM LLC and OM IP Co. Even from the early days of One Taste, discussion swirled around whether the company was a cult. Co-founder Nicole Daedone even had a tank top which said “cult” on it in big white letters, and staff w…
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This podcast is now the subject of a legal complaint by Nicole Daedone, Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste Incorporated, the Institute of OM LLC and OM IP Co. One Taste was all about the female orgasm – but a lot of men wanted to get involved too, whether to learn how to relate to women better or just in the hope of more sex. And because Orgasmic Meditation…
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This podcast is now the subject of a legal complaint by Nicole Daedone, Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste Incorporated, the Institute of OM LLC and OM IP Co. One former One Taste member tells us the story of her experiences inside One Taste. Before she encountered One Taste, she had struggled to orgasm, and mainstream doctors hadn’t been able to tell her w…
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This podcast is now the subject of a legal complaint by Nicole Daedone, Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste Incorporated, the Institute of OM LLC and OM IP Co. Many One Taste members lived in communal houses, known as OM houses. They would practice Orgasmic Meditation together multiple times a day while also working for One Taste selling and running courses.…
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4. Why do people turn to the wellness industry?
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This podcast is now the subject of a legal complaint by Nicole Daedone, Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste Incorporated, the Institute of OM LLC and OM IP Co. One Taste sold itself as a wellness company – part of a multi-billion dollar industry selling everything from green smoothies to healing crystals to cryotherapy. The wellness industry has grown massiv…
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This podcast is now the subject of a legal complaint by Nicole Daedone, Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste Incorporated, the Institute of OM LLC and OM IP Co. One Taste didn’t invent Orgasmic Meditation – but they did repackage it for a modern audience. The idea of “deliberate orgasm” achieved by genital stroking started in the hippy communes of 1960s Calif…
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This podcast is now the subject of a legal complaint by Nicole Daedone, Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste Incorporated, the Institute of OM LLC and OM IP Co. Before we dive into the story of One Taste, we go back to basics on the female orgasm. What exactly is an orgasm? What’s going on in the body and the brain during the process? Why do some women strugg…
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This podcast is now the subject of a legal complaint by Nicole Daedone, Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste Incorporated, the Institute of OM LLC and OM IP Co. Nastaran Tavakoli-Far explores the rise and fall of One Taste. We learn how to practise Orgasmic Meditation with a former member and his wife, and hear co-founder Nicole Daedone’s story of how she enc…
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This podcast is now the subject of a legal complaint by Nicole Daedone, Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste Incorporated, the Institute of OM LLC and OM IP Co. Nicole Daedone, the charismatic co-founder of wellness company One Taste believed that orgasm would one day sit alongside yoga and meditation as the self-care self-care practice for the modern empower…
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Victim blaming: how to not do it and how to be supportive instead
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We’re back with a bonus hiatus episode and we’re talking about victim blaming, especially as it pertains to sexual assault. This is when a victim of an alleged assault is blamed, ranging from being asked what they were wearing, if they’d drunk alcohol, all the way to people not believing their story. Sometimes friends also don’t know how to handle …
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Liz Plank: are we too mean about men?
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We close season 6 with journalist Liz Plank. She’s just written a book about mindful masculinity and tells us about the general scripts we have about men and if these help or hinder our wider conversations. We then delve into her thoughts more. We will be back with a new season in March 2020, and will pop up for some bonus episodes in January and F…
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We revisit this important topic just once more to really hammer out the purpose of an apology and some dos and don’ts. We get some tips and insight from Harriet Lerner’s book ‘Why won’t you apologize?’ https://amzn.to/38hWsBz As well as some wisdom from Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg’s powerful twitter threads which you can delve into further here http://b…
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We talk a lot about what men can be doing right now, but we revisit a chat with Esther Perel on what women can be doing right now, and how we can all best be allies to one another. Guest: Esther Perel, therapist, author of ‘Mating in Captivity’ and ‘The State of Affairs’, host of the podcasts Where Should We Begin? and How’s work? Hosts: Nastaran T…
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Everyone’s talking more about consent but where does this start? Educator Ellen Frederichs joins us to chat about how consent starts with kids and why we all need to be more specific about our experiences. Guest: Ellen Frederichs, educator and author of ‘Good Sexual Citizenship: how to create a (sexually) safer world” https://www.sexedvice.com/good…
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Journalist Hussein Kesvani writes a lot about the internet, and about masculinity, and about the intersection of the two. He recently interviewed people about apologies in a piece for The Huffington Post, focusing on men and their understanding of an apology and if many men have been taught how to give one. He was inspired after Aziz Ansari’s attem…
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Dan Savage’s tips for straight couples
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We re-visit some wisdom from the sex and relationship advice columnist and host of the Savage LoveCast Dan Savage, who tells us what straight couples can learn from same sex couples. Guest: Dan Savage, sex and relationship advice columnist and Savage Lovecast host Hosts: Nastaran Tavakoli-Far and Daniel Carroll Co-producers: Sam Baker and Jonathan …
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Liz Plank on women who support Trump
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Journalist and author of the book ‘For the Love of Men: a vision for mindful masculinity’ tells us about meeting women who support who Trump, and what this tells us about our attitudes towards men and the role women play in upholding these. We also find out about Dan’s backstory on this show, and how we can all take things a bit less personally. Al…
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Author Jeannie Vanasco interviewed her rapist
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We’re back with Season 6. We talk to author Jeannie Vanasco who interviewed a friend from her teenage years who raped her 15 years ago. Vanasco got in touch with him to find out if and how the rape impacted him, and wrote about it in her new book ‘Things we didn’t talk about when I was a girl’. We talk to her about the role we all play in supportin…
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