Rejected Central

Rejected Central

By Brent van StaalduinenSociety & CultureHealth & FitnessMental HealthArts
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Rejected Central episodes

  • The Bell Curve of Rejection: Dennis Rodman | Episode 10
    Happy Holidays, rejects!
     
    Everyone enjoys a "bad boy" or "bad girl" athlete...right? Dave and Brent chat about Dennis Rodman, the bad boy of the Chicago Bulls, pop culture, and North Korea. But his persona is full of complications and challenges.
     
    Subscribe to and rate/review Rejected Central wherever you get your podcasts, and reach out with your rejection stories and ideas (anonymously, if you'd prefer).
    45 min
  • Failure and/or Rejection (with Angie Abdou) | Episode 9
    Angie Abdou chats with RC about writing, competitive swimming at any age, and how failure and rejection work (and don't work) together to make us better lifelong "athletes."
     
    Click here for more information and links to buy her books!
     
    Rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, and follow us online at www.rejectedcentral.com.
    43 min
  • Rejecting BinaryThinking: Palestine and Israel (with Gary Barwin) | Special Episode
    Right now, Israeli forces are reducing much of Gaza to rubble in their attempt to destroy Hamas, and once again Palestinian civilians are bearing the greatest cost of the conflict. But this is more than just war, as evidenced by the language being used to justify the blockade and killing of non-combatants. As more and more voices call out the injustices occurring (and that have long occurred) against the Palestinian people, RC sits down with Gary Barwin, a Jewish Canadian writer, who named what's happening in Palestine with the most direct language possible. Yes, we should call it genocide, he says, and yes, we can talk about why that is.
     
    Read the Facebook post he wrote in response to the protests and conflict, which was what inspired RC to reach out.
     
    Gary recommends What We Talk About when We Talk about Anne Frank by Nathan Englander. Click here for details.
    49 min
  • A Writerly Rejection Panel | Episode 8
    Brent's other life as a writer has brought immeasurable joy into his existence...and immeasurable rejection, which is the inspiration behind RC. In this episode, three writers gather to discuss writing and rejection and what an artistic life can hold, and what can be learned by facing "No!" so many times.
     
    Sonal Champsee's novel-in-progress, Everyone Can’t Be Wrong, was shortlisted for the 2022 UBC/HarperCollins Canada Best New Fiction prize. Sonal runs the Dear Abby-style writing advice column Writer Therapy on Substack, and lives in Toronto.
     
    Steven Mayoff is a novelist, poet and lyricist, born and raised in Montreal but who has made his home on PEI for more than 20 years. Steven answered our call looking for rejection stories by saying he’d received a pretty cool one, which we’ll discover in a bit. Welcome to Rejected Central, Steven!
     
    Alison Gadsby is the host of Junction Reads, a reading series in Toronto. Her short fiction appears in Blue Lake Review, The Ex-Puritan, Coastal Shelf, etc., and does NOT appear in many more.
    51 min
  • Snoop Rejects Weed...jk! | Bonus Episode
    Brent and Dave chat about Snoop Dogg's declaration that he's rejecting..."smoke," which turns out to be yet another social media fakepost teasing up yet another celebrity endorsement. Oh, and Brent gets rejected again...from a Facebook group.
     
    Rejected Central is available wherever you get your podcasts. We'd love to hear your ideas and stories — reach out through [email protected], www.rejectedcentral.com, and social media (@rejectedcentral)!
    23 min
  • Rejecting Bad Human Practices | Episode 7

    The terms "sustainable, "organic," and "fair trade" have welded themselves to our social and economic vocabularies. Jason Hofing of Relay Coffee has been invested in helping everyone across his supply chain live better, fairer lives for 15 years. He hosts RC at the Relay Coffee roasterie for a candid chat about what we're doing well, and how we can do better when it comes to valuing and honouring the people we do business with.

    Rejected Central is a human podcast that seeks to elevate the rejection experience. Follow us online at www.rejectedcentral.com.

    47 min
  • Brent’s Rejected Origin | Bonus Episode
    In our second bonus "origins" segment, Brent talks about one of the rejections that was instrumental in the creation of Rejected Central. The writing life is full of rejections, but some are more personal than others...
     
    Do you have a story or idea for the show? We'd love to hear from you. And don't forget to review, like, and share RC, so more people can enjoy a little more elevated rejection in their lives.
     
    Subscribe to Rejected Central wherever you get your podcasts.
    10 min
  • Rejecting the Closed Mind (with Anne Bokma) | Episode 6

    Brent & Dave sit down with Anne Bokma, author of My Year of Living Spiritually: One Woman's Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life, to discuss why open-mindedness is so important, how hard and yet liberating it can be to say goodbye to religion, and why the term "woo woo" can be problematic. 

    As always, follow Rejected Central online at www.rejectedcentral.com and on social media (@rejectedcentral)!

    52 min
  • Rejecting Saudi Sportwashing | Episode 5
    Saudi Arabia has just announced that it's going to bid for the 2034 World Cup. Qatar hosted the WC last year, showing the world that there's literally nothing money can't buy...or hide. Are we in for another corrupt, sportwashed World Cup?
     
    Rate and review RC where you get your podcasts, and follow us online at www.rejectedcentral.com.
    44 min
  • Dave’s Rejected Origin | Bonus Episode

    In this brief bonus episode, Dave shares one of the stories that got him thinking that this whole Rejection Central thing might be worth exploring. Contest details at the end!

    As always, thanks for listening! www.rejectedcentral.com 

    10 min

About Rejected Central

From the publisher's feed

REJECTED CENTRAL is a podcast that investigates the history, humor, and pain of rejection, without getting dragged through the depressing silliness you can find in a million other places. We don’t care (much) about breakup stories, denied crushes, or the little denials that make up our quotidian existence. We do care about the bigger rejections, the ones that cross boundaries and borders, stories so impactful they demand a response, a laugh, a tear.