Deborah Pardes | A Swell Personal Podcast episodes:

• May 23, 2024A reflection on today. A reflection on October 7th. A reflection on the history of hate and the Juxtaposition of love.

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  "Actually, the two of them flew to visit my other two sisters in Israel, and they're all there now. And of course, having family in Israel who move there for a very specific reason, gives me a very specific perspective on the need for Israel to exist and its right to exist. So as I speak into this space, this is my perspective coming out forward, not being obfuscated by anything that's trying to play both sides."

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• April 01, 2024From Adventure to Trauma to Relief to A Story fit for a Swell

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  "And it was getting darker and darker. And then we had another mishap where we were pulled out. And then the trouble really began when we took a wrong turn and we were no longer on the road. That wasn't even a road. We were on a road that was, like, in the middle of nowhere. And we had basically had to go six more miles on the 14 miles road. We were in the car a total of 6 hours."

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• January 17, 2024Truly Me - feeding people!

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  "I just saw this prompt about something that is truly us in our lives, that really defines who we are. And I just love being true to this part of me, and it's feeding people. I have always loved where food lives inside my life and how it brings to me connection, health, joy, valuable time with valuable people. It was such an easy one when I saw this prompt. I was like, yeah, what's truly me that I really love?"

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• January 15, 2024A trip I took with my pet that I will never forget...

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  "And I leaned into the dog mentality, because every time I spent time with Finnegan out in the world, I was always moved by the way she would stop and sniff and smell, but always with curiosity, not with fear. And I wanted to take that energy on. And being with her on this trip was absolutely incredibly instrumental for me because it was instructional for me. I consciously decided to lean into her gestalt, the way she was, her dogness."

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• December 28, 2023The most adventurous trip in the winter that almost made me never hike a mountain again!

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  "And then the wind started whipping and we put up our tents and they were no good. And I'm a New York City girl, and I was like, what is this? This is so not what I can do. And there was a point where I was like, okay, maybe I'm not built for this cold. Am I going to die? And the rest of the group was about nine of us."

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• November 09, 2023#TellYourStory | A Memorable encounter with someone I never met again

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  "But it was the most incredible experience to be held by a woman who just felt the need as a maternal human to hold this little person. I wasn't so little, but you know what I mean. And it's a beautiful memory of exchange of energy and of goodness and kind this. And it really, really set me on a good path. Bye."

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• August 24, 2023PASSION FRUIT… I’m giving it some love

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  "I just love the little seeds and the flavor and it's really fragrant. It's also really high in some important things. It's got vitamin C for sure, which is great for you. What else can I find out about passion fruit? Hold on. I'm looking at the benefits, the health benefits. It's good for wow. Only 17 calories. 9% of your daily value of vitamin C. That's amazing. It's got things for people who deal with what is this saying?"

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• July 26, 2023"DON’T BE SHY!" said the tree to me and I say it to you. Proclaim yourself 💥

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  "But I do think that sometimes, especially when we're feeling a little I don't know, not beaten down, but a little pressured to sort of fall to the weight of life because it's right there weighing on us. But to sneak around that weight and to pop out like a bubble I'm kind of into that right now."

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• July 14, 2023YOU LIGHT ME UP! And other things we say…

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  "It's Friday, and I wanted to just reflect a little bit on this week. I had some really great conversations with a lot of different kinds of people, and I had an experience that I wanted to share just to see if it resonates with any of you just as a reflection. Also yesterday I came home and there was a huge box on my porch, and it was a fire pit that I ordered. It was like 120 pounds. I don't know how things guy delivered it up."

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• June 27, 2023DO YOU REALIZE THE POSITIVE IMPACT YOU MAKE?

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  "And the woman just turned and looked back at the path and pointed and said to the old bucket, hey, look at look at all those flowers on one side of the road, the side that you're on. Thank you so much for watering those beautiful flowers. Look what you did. I love this story because it really helps illuminate what we all know is true, which is that other people see our gifts way before we do sometimes, and we just need some perspective."

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