Cheers to the present! We will never be able to tell the future, so why spend the energy worrying about it? In this episode of Thick & Thin, my goal is to stop wasting my time trying to control the narrative, but sometimes the anticipatory anxiety and endless what-ifs, win.

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https://ideas.ted.com/why-are-we-so-bad-at-predicting-what-will-happen-to-us-in-the-future/

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/reality-play/201301/the-end-history-illusion

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Sensitivity is not an overreaction. So in this episode of Thick & Thin, I'm glad to reconnect with my sensitive side knowing that I genuinely give and care about other people to the best of my ability. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi4JOlMSWjo&t=318s

https://www.amazon.com/Highly-Sensitive-Person-Elaine-Aron/dp/0553062182/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1436144715&sr=8-1&keywords=the+highly+sensitive+person&linkCode=sl1&tag=simplluxur-20&linkId=1d7817b0044ac440969759c628aa183a

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Is working hard genuinely worth all of the stress? In this episode of Thick & Thin, I dig even deeper into our generation's obsession with the constant grind of work culture. 

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http://www.lewislibbyschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Icarus-Myth-Questions.pdf

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We all hate being told what to do. It's a tale as old as time. So in this episode of Thick & Thin, I try to discover why. Why is it human nature to crave what we can't have? Is it for thrills? For power? For knowledge? Or perhaps, all of the above. 

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https://fellowprimo.com/herostratus-a-madman-who-burned-the-temple-of-artemis-for-fame/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-08/khloe-kardashian-picture-lawyers-takedown-streisand-effect/100055042

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Hey guys, in this last episode of Thick & Thin, I tell the story of Pandora's Box, a powerful box that contains all of life's miseries yet can still bring hope. Thank you all for listening to this podcast, and I'll talk to you guys later; bye! 

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https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/musings/how-hope-crawled-out-of-pandora-s-box-525068

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora

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Everything can be misunderstood –– even sea anemones. In this episode of Thick & Thin, we see how a change in perspective can lead to newfound truths and discoveries; and how maybe not everything we learned from our history textbooks is true. 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagerst%C3%A4tte

https://www.britannica.com/story/was-napoleon-short#:~:text=Napoleon%20was%20thus%20average%20or,that%20the%20emperor%20was%20short

https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/applied-and-social-sciences-magazines/napoleon-complex

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Foul play? A CIA coverup? Or just a bad trip? In this episode of Thick & Thin, we dig into an unresolved case from the 1950s to see how a man of science ended up dead on the streets of New York City. 

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/06/from-mind-control-to-murder-how-a-deadly-fall-revealed-the-cias-darkest-secrets

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-the-cias-dr-frank-olson-jump-to-his-death-or-was-he-pushed

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Sometimes beauty is pain is a complete understatement. And maybe it's time we stop risking it all for the fit; because in this week's episode of Thick & Thin, I discuss fashion trends of the past that led to the death of thousands.

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https://www.nytimes.com/1923/12/01/archives/martha-mansfield-film-star-dies-of-burns-caused-by-costume-fired-by.html

https://genteelandbard.com/southern-history-haunts-folklore-journal/2022/8/10/feeling-green

https://www.esquiremag.ph/the-good-life/pursuits/paris-green-history

https://hyperallergic.com/329747/death-by-wallpaper-alluring-arsenic-colors-poisoned-the-victorian-age/

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This week we travel to Middle of Nowhere, Minnesota, to learn about the medical miracle of Jean Hilliard –– a woman frozen to ice but was thawed back to life. 

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https://allthatsinteresting.com/jean-hilliard

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/01/25/jean-hilliard-northern-minnesota-frozen-survived

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In this week's episode of Thick & Thin, I tell the story of the famed and mysterious femme fatale, Mata Hari: a woman in love who was wrongfully accused of espionage but stood tall in the face of death. 

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https://www.biography.com/military-figures/mata-hari

https://time.com/4977634/mata-hari-true-history/

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In this episode of Thick & Thin, we go back to The Gilded Age to learn about the life and death of Isabella Stewart Gardner: a woman of elegance and culture who persevered through grief to become a trailblazer in the art world. 

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https://www.netflix.com/title/81032570

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/isabella-stewart-gardner-nathaniel-silver/1141387862?ean=9780691973845

https://twitter.com/gardnermuseum/status/899721534755016704?lang=en

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/oh-you-red-sox

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