Mere Mortals Conversations

Something that was recently shared by Gary V and also discussed on a few podcasts of ours, to deal with Chaos you can use the GAP principles.. Gratitude, Accountability and Perspective.
As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!
About Mere Mortals:Striving for excellence through life's lessons. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Meanderings, Interviews & Themed Podcast.
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Will you join Juan in his recent conversion to subsisting on purely oxygen and sunlight? In this episode of Meandering Juan and Kyrin discuss: the recent changes to the Mere Mortals brand and content, taking responsibility for mistakes, spreading some love to those who have helped us, breatharians (the hottest new diet), talking/arguing to people with extreme views, knowing your why and the types of interview questions that are useless and those that are beneficial.
Timeline:0:00 - Introduction & Mere Mortal Moments6:45 - Call outs and call ins10:41 - Shouts outs to our collaborators and helpers14:15 - Breatharians18:08 - Getting to a common ground with extreme views22:34 - When to lead someone in an argument24:25 - Is there a negative on knowing your why?30:30 - Useless interview questions36:00 - What is a good interview question?38:33 - Meet the Mere Mortals in person
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Welcome to another Mere Mortals interview. Sally Hetherington is an author, CEO and recipient of The Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM). Sally's backstory is of travelling to Cambodia in her 20's and learning of the negative effects of voluntourism. To make up for her own inadvertent contribution to this she began working with local Cambodians to register the charity organisation, Human and Hope Association Cambodia (HHA).
This interview began with a detailed look at her backstory and the tangible effects of voluntourism on the local communities. Sally provided some interesting anecdotes of her own failures and subsequent learnings of helping on the ground. This naturally led onto the topic of volunteering in general. How one can start out making sure that good intentions are actually good and actually lead to positive benefits. To finish off Sally answered some questions on travel, goal setting and how she read 170 books in one year!
Timeline:0:00 - Introduction to Sally & overview1:02 - Mere Mortal Moment2:45 - Sally's Cambodian backstory8:09 - What is voluntourism?10:54 - Frustrated with crappy resumes17:11 - The backstory of voluntourism20:24 - Empowering and supporting locals31:16 - Prioritising your volunteering role34:16 - Clarifying intentions, red flags and resilience38:40 - Managing dichotomies within the charity sector44:40 - Influential books, travel and goal setting48:13 - Reading 170 books and bookstagram52:54 - Sally's book, charity and useful links
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Sally's Links:Charity Website: https://humanandhope.orgCharity Brand: https://hopeonpurpose.org/Sally's Website: https://www.sallyhetherington.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sallymareehetherington/
About Mere Mortals:Striving for excellence through life's lessons. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Themed Podcast, Interviews & Meanderings.
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Are you prepared to hear some impossibly awful accent impersonations? In this themed episode Juan and Kyrin discuss the topic of 'Accents'. These are defined as 'a distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class.' They differ from dialect, which a particular form of language using different words. Isolation and evolution contribute to a common baseline language developing different accents, then different dialects before transitioning into a completely different language.
Juan showed his information research power this episode coming up with some doozies. These ranged from the accents apparently developed in Philadelphian sign language, waking up one day and speaking in a completely foreign accent and the changing accents of the mythical Dutch and Scottish chimpanzees. We had a lot of fun this episode and hope you enjoy as much as we did. Mere Mortals out!
Timeline:0:00 - Introduction & Mere Mortal Moments5:03 - Definition and etymology6:51 - Difference between accent and dialect8:16 - Stories of terrible accents12:37 - Did you know sign language can have accents?15:18 - Has your accent ever changed?19:47 - Strange accents can get you killed21:32 - Languages develop through isolation & evolution24:33 - Crying contains melodies of speech patterns27:55 - Foreign accent syndrome30:13 - Mechanical Spanish vs American Spanish33:33 - Dutch and Scottish chimpanzees34:59 - Accents are all about input36:02 - Amy Walker and 21 Accents40:10 - Outro and more MM impersonations
About Mere Mortals:Striving for excellence through life's lessons. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Themed Podcast, Interviews & Meanderings.
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Do you set yourself monthly goals and if so, how many do you set? The Mere Mortals crew on the first Thursday of every month go over their progress from the previous month and where they are heading for the next. Emphasis as always is on the shortcomings and why they didn't achieve their goals and how they will fix that for the month that comes. We hope you get some value from this series, showcasing our own methodology. What do you do differently and why? Let us know in the comments, Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:0:00 - Introduction1:13 - Review of September 20207:02 - Stretching, running and fitness points10:48 - Holidays, intercambios and podcast reviews13:26 - Exuding confidences and doing good deeds17:11 - Building Mere Mortals and keeping healthy20:13 - Book review, maxims and acquiring followers26:11 - Wif Hof breathing and learning languages30:36 - Volunteering and the Buddhist religion36:34 - Mein Kampf takeaways38:45 - What I talk about when I talk about goalsSupport the show

Do you also feel there is something a bit weird in the bookstagram community? In this episode of 'Musings' Juan and Kyrin discuss: the infinite feeds available on social media and techniques to avoid losing yourself in the never-ending void of content, Kyrin's big booty and how it is NOT necessary for the Mere Mortals brand, some lessons and practical take-aways from a year's worth of podcasting, the small innocuous comments that can really kill a passion and why Juan's dad was correct; he is in fact too big. As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:0:00 - Introduction0:28 - Infinity social media pools5:21 - Creating a story without big booty pics6:10 - Choosing TikTok over sleep12:27 - Following thought rabbit holes13:21 - The dark side of Bookstagram18:09 - WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO19:00 - Learnings from a year's worth of podcasting25:06 - Following your passion and it being ok29:37 - Juan my son, you're getting too big32:11 - The two places to goSupport the show

What is the one thing you can concretely rely on.. your effort. Today's Monday Movement rolls quickly into a discussion of effort.
As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!
About Mere Mortals:Striving for excellence through life's lessons. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Meanderings, Interviews & Themed Podcast.
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How would the sum of human psychology change if every person's death was preceded by an ecstatic euphoria? In this episode of 'Meanderings' Juan and Kyrin discuss: changing the overall perception of death as a negative event, Juan's ambivalence towards food, desiring every piece of gym equipment known to man, learning to perfect the fundamental movements and general fitness/flexibility goals for 2021. We hope your day isn't as windy as our was and as always, hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!
Timeline:0:00 - Introduction0:43 - What if every death was preceded by euphoria?4:53 - Analogy of a last meal for a death row inmate9:35 - Juan wants to eat maggots13:41 - Sporting equipment wish list17:39 - Getting back to the fundamentals23:36 - Kyrin's 2021 fitness goals26:22 - Juan's 2021 fitness goals29:19 - Stretching and mobility goals33:16 - Windy windy days
About Mere Mortals:Striving for excellence through life's lessons. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Themed Podcast, Interviews & Meanderings.
Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalsmedia.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mere_mortals_media/Facebook: https://facebook.com/MeremortalsmediaSupport the show

Sammy & Don Appah are two brothers living in London and are the hosts of 'The Family' podcast. Kyrin connected with them via Instagram and loved their mix of humorous banter with deep philosophical questionings. The brothers kindly made themselves available for a discussion on some topics that immediately jump out when listening to their podcast.
The convo started off with some personal role models that have had a big impact for both Sammy and Don. This led into the commonality of the traits that they exhibit. With the recent BLM protests across the world the brothers gave a unique perspective on racism and an ideal world where this problem is solved. Finishing up we talked about family and why across human history we all tend to be drawn to 'home', wherever and however it is defined.
Timeline:0:00 - Introduction2:46 - Initial connection3:49 - What's the difference between a role model & entertainer6:14 - Don's personal role models11:14 - Sammy's personal role models17:56 - Divorcing the person and their ideas/traits23:25 - Commitment to making oneself better25:37 - Authenticity 30:50 - Racism: No utopias and equal treatment44:30 - Holding competing views at the same time45:51 - Strong views held loosely48:56 - The roots of 'The Family' podcast58:27 - What is the call of home?1:04:08 - Different cultures through a different filter1:09:07 - Connecting with 'The Family'
Connect with Sammy & Don:The Family Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefamilypodcast/Sammy's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/s_isforsammy/Don's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/don.speaks/Support the show

What are long-term goals and why are they important? In this themed episode Juan and Kyrin discuss the topic of 'Long-Term Goals'. First of all we want to apologise for the inferior audio quality in this episode. We had some technical glitches that unfortunately were not able to be fixed to our normal standard, but felt that the listener would still receive sufficient benefit from the conversation. Rest assured, one of our long-term goals is to continually improve the Mere Mortals podcast, in terms of technical capability and conversational value. Nevertheless, we are only Mere Mortals in the end and mistakes will be made.
With that said, the Mere Mortals start off the convo as usual with a definition and talking about the process of creating long-term goals. This leads into a conversation on the shared values that most humans have as well as what to do once you have your goals set. Both Kyrin and Juan then share their personal long-term goals before rounding of the chat with some additional helpful tips. This was an episode we had been excited about for a while and so hope you get some value despite the decreased audio quality. As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!
Timeline:0:00 - Introduction & Mere Mortals Moments3:34 - Definition and previous goal setting conversations6:17 - Where does a long-term goal come from?14:28 - The drafting process20:49 - Formulating the list27:48 - We all care about similar life aspects31:38 - Weighting and priorities35:54 - Connecting long-term goals to medium-term goals40:59 - Kyrin's 8 x long term goals48:12 - Juan's level 5 eminent human being goals54:20 - Methods and pitfalls of goal setting59:11 - Setting impossible goals1:07:59 - Summation of the process1:13:25 - Learn more about goal settingSupport the show