Blaire Palmer on rethinking our modern conventions of Work

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Blaire Palmer joins Brooke in this episode, where they dig deep in to modern conventions of work, how to find balance and why sometimes taking a brilliant gamble pays off in unexpected ways.

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0:00.0	you strip away everything that is familiar to you. So there's no comfort at all. There's nothing
0:09.3	that you associate with you being you. It's a bit like when you want to test for allergies,
0:14.7	you stop eating absolutely anything that could be causing an allergy and then you put bits back in.
0:20.6	And so while we were travelling, we were able to think about what are the bits that we want
0:24.9	to put back in and what are the bits we never want to see again of our life.
0:44.3	Hello. Hello and welcome to this slow home podcast. My name is Brooke McCallory and that's not how the intro goes.
0:49.5	No, keep going because I like this new intro.
0:51.6	Do you?
0:52.5	Yeah, keep going.
0:53.5	This is a show all about slow living in a fast-paced world.
0:58.8	And do you want to introduce me just to totally...
1:01.6	Shake it up, yeah.
1:02.8	And you are Ben McAllery.
1:04.3	I am indeed.
1:05.1	My better half.
1:06.1	This is Season 3 episode 2 where you have a lovely conversation with Blair Palmer from a
1:13.8	brilliant gamble.
1:15.6	A brilliant gamble.
1:16.5	So she is a professional gambler.
1:20.5	She's brilliant.
1:21.9	I knew you were doing a diverse range of guests this season, but this is, I'm going to have
1:27.0	trouble sort of joining the dots on the
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