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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Start the day with gentleness

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

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

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Brooke and Ben talk about starting the day with gentleness (and in Ben's case, complete silence!) and why it's important - particularly on the days we don't feel like there's time for it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast.

0:04.4

This is the podcast all about the how and the why of slow living in a world that sometimes feels like it's anything but.

0:12.6

My name is Brooke McCallory.

0:13.7

Thank you for joining us.

0:15.9

My name is Ben McCallory.

0:17.7

And good morning.

0:19.4

I thought I'd get into the theme of today's episode.

0:23.0

Thank you.

0:23.6

And that is about morning routines or things to do when you wake up.

0:29.5

Yeah, yeah.

0:30.5

More specifically things to do when you wake up.

0:32.6

So the reason that we're doing this particular topic, I guess, is I read an article online a couple of weeks

0:40.1

ago that, I don't know, just got my, my brain turning and I wanted to talk through it. And I know

0:46.5

you guys seem to enjoy when we did the Sucking at Something episode, because it sort of rift on a New York

0:52.5

Times article. So I quite like this way of doing a

0:56.8

Monday show occasionally. If you come across interesting articles or things that you want us to

1:01.0

maybe talk about, feel free to share them on Facebook or over on the website in the comments. And

1:07.2

yeah, I think we might sort of make this a semi-regular thing yeah I quite like it me too I enjoy it

1:13.0

before we do yes just want to say a quick thank you to everyone who has already participated in the

1:20.1

the listener survey so I know we did a jack rabbit one last year middle of last year but we're just

1:26.6

doing one for slow Home at the moment.

1:28.9

It particularly in light of being able to make more things that are going to help you guys,

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