Shift for Brains

Shift for Brains

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Shift for Brains episodes

  • Competition

    Bill and Sheldon discuss competition and how we can shift our brains around how we view competition. It's not as innocuous as it first seems - it's actually quite toxic. 

    Shift for Brains is recorded in Mi’Kma’ki unceded Mi’kmag territory. A co-production with The Sheldon MacLeod Show on News 95.7 CHNI in Halifax, Nova Scotia.


    22 min
  • The Right Way To Make A Decision

    This week, Bill and Sheldon talk about the right way to make a decision, and how it differs from making the right decision. 

    Shift for Brains is recorded in Mi’Kma’ki unceded Mi’kmag territory. A co-production with The Sheldon MacLeod Show on News 95.7 CHNI in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    21 min
  • Personal Memory

    Bill and Sheldon discuss personal memory and collective memory, and how they affect our thinking and therefore, how they affect the story of our living. 

    Shift for Brains is recorded in Mi’Kma’ki unceded Mi’kmag territory. A co-production with The Sheldon MacLeod Show on News 95.7 CHNI in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    21 min
  • What Do You Know?

    This week's podcast started as a discussion of "what do you know"? It then shifted into a discussion around the mass killing that happen in Nova Scotia and why an inquiry more necessary than ever.

    Shift for Brains is recorded in Mi’Kma’ki unceded Mi’kmag territory. A co-production with The Sheldon MacLeod Show on News 95.7 CHNI in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    21 min
  • Who Runs Our Lives?

    This week, Bill and Sheldon talk about who runs our lives - politics, economics, nature? The myth of neoliberalism is discussed...and homoeconomics. Say that three times fast. 

    Shift for Brains is recorded in Mi’Kma’ki unceded Mi’kmag territory. A co-production with The Sheldon MacLeod Show on News 95.7 CHNI in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    22 min
  • Reimagining the Police

    Bill and Sheldon discuss what it would be like if we decide to reimagine the police and law enforcement. 

    Shift for Brains is recorded in Mi’Kma’ki unceded Mi’kmag territory. A co-production with The Sheldon MacLeod Show on News 95.7 CHNI in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    22 min
  • What We've Learned from the Pandemic

    This week on Shift For Brains, Bill uses the concept of "sociological imagination" to discuss what we've learned from the pandemic, and what we have to do with what we have learned.

    Shift for Brains is recorded in Mi’Kma’ki unceded Mi’kmag territory. A co-production with The Sheldon MacLeod Show on News 95.7 CHNI in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    20 min
  • Rules to Live By

    This week Bill & Sheldon discuss rules to live by  - social norms, morality, a philosophy of action -  all things we need to consider deeply, especially in this changing time.

    Shift for Brains is recorded in Mi’Kma’ki unceded Mi’kmag territory. A co-production with The Sheldon MacLeod Show on News 95.7 CHNI in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    20 min
  • Discussions in Times of Crises

    This week Bill & Sheldon talk about how to have discussions in times of crises. How do we have these discussions without them becoming degenerating and becoming hurtful and useless.

    Shift for Brains is recorded in Mi’Kma’ki unceded Mi’kmag territory. A co-production with The Sheldon MacLeod Show on News 95.7 CHNI in Halifax, Nova Scotia.


    21 min
  • White Fragility: Confessions of a White Man Part 2

    Bill and Sheldon continue their discussion about the pandemic of racism that is being exposed across the world.

    Shift for Brains is recorded in Mi’Kma’ki unceded Mi’kmag territory. A co-production with The Sheldon MacLeod Show on News 95.7 CHNI in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    20 min

About Shift for Brains

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Shift for Brains (say it fast!) is a podcast dedicated to provide a sounding board and an open safe space for people to carry on discussions about difficult and challenging subjects. It is hoped that these conversations will result in shifts to our thinking that will eventually lead to healthy shifts in our society and culture. Shift for Brains is a podcast for those of us who want to move from our society from apathy to empathy and hype to hope.