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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Does slow living rob us of ambition?

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

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

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Does slow living rob us of ambition by removing the things that drive us? Brooke chats with listener Kate about this very question.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.

0:11.8

My name is Brooke McCallory. My name is Ben McCallery. Welcome to Season 4, Episode 1.

0:17.7

We have the new format for this season, which we mentioned in episode zero, if you wanted to go back and check that out.

0:25.8

I found that episode extremely interesting.

0:29.9

It's full of segues.

0:31.0

Wasn't it?

0:31.5

Yes.

0:32.2

Now, the first half of this conversation will be with your, a listener of the show, Kate Mildenhall.

0:41.7

Yes.

0:42.1

Who wrote actually the book Skylarking, which you, I remember you getting last year.

0:47.8

No, I was.

0:49.2

Yeah, when did you read that?

0:50.5

Before we went to Canada.

0:51.8

It was, okay.

0:52.2

Yeah.

0:52.6

So it's one of my favorite books.

0:56.5

It is such a beautiful read.

0:58.2

And my mum and your mum both read it after.

1:02.3

And I still think about the characters in Skylarking.

1:06.2

So while this season is not about authors or anything like that,

1:11.3

it's just so happens that Kate wrote to me when I put...

1:14.8

As a listener of the show.

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