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In this episode, I had the pleasure of collaborating with Ebony Uamaki. Ebony is a proud mother, intuitive reader, model, coach, speaker, and disability advocate. Ebony is also blind, and it's a testament to her resilience and wisdom that she has overcome the challenges and stigma associated with disability and stands as an inspiration to all. Raising children will always be perhaps the world&...

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Welcome to this special collaborative episode of the Your Listener and Eb n Flow podcasts, made especially for the third edition of Podcasthon in 2025. I'm John Cuturilo; I own Your Listener Counselling and host the Your Listener podcast, in Melbourne, Australia. My co-host is Ebony Uamaki; Ebony is a mother, intuitive reader, model, coach, speaker, disability advocate, and host of the Eb n Fl...

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In this episode, I had the pleasure of collaborating with Amey Greenaway, host of the podcast Your Honest Ally. Amey discusses life and personal wellbeing to fulfil her calling of helping people to be their best selves. Here, we discuss the concept of what it means to be deserving. We explore how encouraging people to perceive themselves as worthy is an antidote to suppressed self-esteem, and the...

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I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — I appreciate it! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS I was honoured to recently partake in a conference of local community members to contribute ideas on how we could make our environment a better home for all. He...

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I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — I appreciate it! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS Does it really matter what words mean? Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, much of your thinking is dictated by the meanings of words which...

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I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — I appreciate it! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS In this episode, I change themes and discuss a topic which affects most of us: digital data. The fact is that most people I've met don't have a sound pl...

I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — I appreciate it! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS Any endeavour in life can be done well or not so well, and being a counsellor is no exception. Here, I discuss some of the fallacies both from inside and outsid...

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I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — I appreciate it! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS In this episode, I explain what collectivist and individualist cultures are, and how describing a society may not be so simple as referring to one or the other....

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I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — I appreciate it! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS We all seem to freely make fun of politics, without knowing exactly how much we allow ourselves to be affected by it. In this episode, I provide some truths abo...

I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — I appreciate it! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS Was I ever a life coach? Most likely not! I was always a counsellor. So what's with the terminology? In this episode, I reveal some developments at Your Lis...

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