Nomad + Spice

Nomad + Spice

By Kit Whelan + Viv EganSociety & CulturePlaces & Travel
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Nomad + Spice episodes

  • Going on Hiatus
    • We are going on hiatus for an exciting reason!

    • Flashback to our 2021 end of year episode

    • We might well be back, so keep us in your podcast feed!

    • Managing creative and physical energy with long covid

    • Our Patreon will remain open to keep the N+S website and episodes up

    • We're still hoping to do our retreat

    • Thank you for listening and supporting in so many ways. We love you!

    Support us on Patreon! Email us! [email protected]. Join our FB Group! Nomad + Spice. Catch us on Instagram! @nomadandspice. Tweet us! @nomadandspice. Theme music: Yellow Sea by Madame Gandhi.

    16 min
  • Feminism & Capitalism
    • US police solve only 2% of all major crimes
    • Defunding the police will actually make us safer
    • Aboriginal deaths in custody in Australia
    • Ursula K Le Guin's speech at National Book Awards
    • Feminist writer, coach and business woman Kelly Diels
    • Sophie Lewis' "Abolish the Family" book
    • The family structure we've held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many
    • For a lovely vision of what anti-capitalist living could look like, read A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
    • Also read: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
    • Communal living is taking off in the US: Leaving Cambridge for the comfort of strangers - The Boston Globe
    • Map of communal living spaces in the US: Cohousing Assn of the US
    • Financial Times: Britain and the US are poor societies with a few very rich people
    • Chart on income inequality in the UK & US
    • Sustainable and ethical brand rankings: Good On You
    • Jenny Lachs tells us why she thinks feminism and capitalism can't co-exist
    • Rich people who want to be taxed more: She's Inheriting Millions. She Wants Her Wealth Taxed Away. - The New York Times
    • 'Tax us now': ultra-rich call on governments to introduce wealth taxes
    • Flint Water Crisis: Everything You Need to Know
    • Join your local Buy Nothing group
    • Tiff shares with us why she thinks capitalism and feminism are antithesis

    Support this podcast on Patreon! Email us! [email protected]. Join our FB Group! Nomad + Spice. Catch us on Instagram! @nomadandspice. Tweet us! @nomadandspice. Theme music: Yellow Sea by Madame Gandhi.

    1 hr 22 min
  • See Ya, 2022!

    We discuss end-of-year rituals and bid farewell to the year:

    • We talk about Wintering: The power of Rest & Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
    • What the heck is the Gregorian Calendar anyway?
    • The Celtic Calendar sounds much more our style
    • Kit recommends Spirited, the movie musical, for some holiday fun
    • Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
    • Viv is planning to do the Year Compass as an end-of-2022 ritual
    16 min
  • 5 Year Anniversary

    It's our fifth anniversary!

    • The episode Kit regrets….
    • Viv is proud of our queer episode, although we'd do it differently now
    • Kit shouts out our blockbuster two part episode on neurodivergence (part 2 here)
    • Check out our Reading Retreat… coming back (hopefully) in 2023!
    • You can also join the Long Reads club if you wanna hang with us and
    • Rage Retreat. Camp Catharsis. What do you think? Let us know.
    • Send us your voice memo on feminism and capitalism!

    Support this podcast on Patreon! Email us! [email protected]. Join our FB Group! Nomad + Spice. Catch us on Instagram! @nomadandspice. Tweet us! @nomadandspice. Theme music: Yellow Sea by Madame Gandhi.

    21 min
  • Summer Books 2022
    • Join us at the 7in7 digital nomad conference in Montréal
    • Read with us in our long-reads club
    • Connect with Viv and Kit on Good Reads
    • Powell's City of Books in Portland
    • A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
    • Untamed by Glennon Doyle
    • Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
    • The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
    • Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
    • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
    • A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan
    • Happy Endings by Bella Green
    • The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
    • Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
    • Spoiler Alert ​​by Olivia Dade
    • Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
    • The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe
    • Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
    • Black Widow by Leslie Gray Streeter
    • How to How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

    Support this podcast on Patreon! Email us! [email protected]. Join our FB Group! Nomad + Spice. Catch us on Instagram! @nomadandspice. Tweet us! @nomadandspice. Theme music: Yellow Sea by Madame Gandhi.

    31 min
  • What Nomading Prevents You From Doing
    • Kit mentions our [very old] hobby episode
    • Viv mentions our [also very old] vacation episode
    • Jenny of Digital Nomad Girls shares her home base thoughts. Choir buddies!
    • Have you joined Bumble BFF?
    • One more old episode: How to Stay Politically and Socially Active!
    • Carbon offsetting app Wren
    • Marbree shares her vegetable and mushroom farming adventures
    • Get your own Sleigh the Patriarchy jumper here

    Support this podcast on Patreon! Email us! [email protected]. Join our FB Group! Nomad + Spice. Catch us on Instagram! @nomadandspice. Tweet us! @nomadandspice. Theme music: Yellow Sea by Madame Gandhi.

    43 min
  • Feminist Weddings
    • Jewels talks about the conflicting objectives of modern weddings and how she made her wedding an event that still has her guests asking for a reunion 10 years on
    • Jon's proposal to Viv
    • Viv's favourite ever proposal (still makes me cry ten years after I first saw it)
    • Wedding magazine editor Sally tells us why she loves weddings despite being a feminist
    • Janice stresses the importance of considering your intentions for wanting to get married
    • Watch the first dance Kit and Claire choreographed for Viv and Jon's wedding
    • And if you really want to see the whole show, here's the [edited!] wedding video
    • Kyrie tells us about her own unconventional wedding plans

    Support this podcast on Patreon! Email us! [email protected]. Join our FB Group! Nomad + Spice. Catch us on Instagram! @nomadandspice. Tweet us! @nomadandspice. Theme music: Yellow Sea by Madame Gandhi.

    1 hr 33 min
  • Neurodivergent Nomads Part 2
    • Please fill out Kit's survey on neurodivergence in nomads
    • Angie shares why she decided to take medication and learned to forgive herself for years of feeling incapable
    • ADHD expert Dr Ned Hallowell on TikTok
    • The worldwide prevalence of ADHD: is it an American condition?
    • The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
    • Make cleaning fun with the Sweepy app
    • Daisy tells us what it's like to have been diagnosed with both ADHD and autism
    • Hannah shares how getting her ADHD diagnosis improved her relationships and gave her the right vocabulary to explain what she is experiencing
    • Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
    • Kathryn tells us about her neurodivergent journey and autistic burnout
    • Fidget toys
    • Calmer earbuds
    • Martina tells us how realised she may have ADHD after two of her close friends were diagnosed
    • ADHD self-assessment for women
    • Autism self-assessment
    • Highly Sensitive Person self-assessment
    • So, You Think You Have ADHD? PDF (includes Facebook groups and other useful links)
    • Have you had or been to a feminist wedding? Share your stories here to be featured in one of our upcoming episodes
    Support this podcast on Patreon! Email us! [email protected]. Join our FB Group! Nomad + Spice. Catch us on Instagram! @nomadandspice. Tweet us! @nomadandspice. Theme music: Yellow Sea by Madame Gandhi.
    1 hr 7 min
  • Neurodivergent Nomads Part 1

    This is the first of our two-part series on ADHD, autism and the whole spectrum of neurodivergence.

    • Jon's bird content
    • Please do Kit's survey on neurodivergence in nomads!
    • Dani Donovan's ADHD comics
    • The "Faces of ADHD" and the "3 Types of ADHD" (more great cartoons here and here)
    • Angie shares how she balances nomading and neurodivergence
    • Jenny of Digital Nomad Girls shares her diagnosis journey
    • Daisy's Irish Independent article [paywall]
    • "Vivienne" tastes like purple icing
    • Here's the reason to retire "Aspergers" from your vocabulary
    • #ActuallyAutistic on Instagram and Twitter and TikTok
    • Buzzfeed News article about person-first language
    • Two sides of ADHD
    • So, You Think You Have ADHD? PDF
    • Hannah Dixon of Digital Nomad Kit talks about her diagnosis journey
    • ADHD self-assessment for women
    • Autism self-assessment
    • Highly Sensitive Person self-assessment
    • ND accounts on Instagram:
      • https://www.instagram.com/connor.dewolfe/
      • https://www.instagram.com/danidonovan/
      • https://www.instagram.com/adhd_alien/
      • https://www.instagram.com/nd.narratives/
      • https://www.instagram.com/the_mini_adhd_coach/
      • https://www.instagram.com/authenticallyadhd/
      • https://www.instagram.com/iampayingattention/
      • https://www.instagram.com/actuallyautistictiktoks/

    Support this podcast on Patreon! Email us! [email protected]. Join our FB Group! Nomad + Spice. Catch us on Instagram! @nomadandspice. Tweet us! @nomadandspice. Theme music: Yellow Sea by Madame Gandhi.

    1 hr 30 min
  • Farewell 2021!
    • What happened when Kit got Covid
    • We mull over what next year might look like
    • The Art of Gathering
    • People making plans for 7in7
    • Shoutout to our excellent VA, Charlotte!
    • Join the Long Reads club on our Patreon
    • We announce our career change to screenwriters
    • The most Australian thing ever (you are welcome)

    Support this podcast on Patreon! Email us! [email protected]. Join our FB Group! Nomad + Spice. Catch us on Instagram! @nomadandspice. Tweet us! @nomadandspice. Theme music: Yellow Sea by Madame Gandhi.

    32 min

About Nomad + Spice

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A podcast for location independent women. Long-term digital nomads Kit Whelan + Viv Egan cover everything from sexism, money, and privilege to hobbies, accessorizing, and pop culture. No bromads…