HeyJaredInspire Change with Gunter
MASTHEADInspire Change with Gunter is recorded in our Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia studio and produced in Los Angeles by Bonfire Cinema.
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8-350 | When Men Confuse Combativeness with Strength (opens the original)
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What does it actually mean to be strong?In this episode of Inspire Change with Gunter, Gunter Swoboda explores the difference between combativeness and genuine strength, examining how men can learn to equate winning, dominance and confrontation with being strong. The episode looks at five values that patriarchal systems can hand men: territory, hierarchy, acquisition, competition and combativeness. While competition and assertiveness can have constructive roles, they can become damaging when the
8-349 | Boys Aren’t Less Emotional—They’re Taught What Not to Show (opens the original)
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Are boys actually less emotional than girls—or do they simply learn very early which emotions they're allowed to show?In this episode of Inspire Change with Gunter, psychologist Gunter Swoboda examines how boys learn to manage, conceal and communicate their emotions from childhood—and how family, peers and the adults around them can shape that development long before boys have the language to explain what's happening.Research into children's emotional expression reveals an important distinction:
8-348 | The Songs That Made Us: Dolly Partons Coat of Many Colors & The Psychology of Shame (opens the original)
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What if one of the most beloved songs in American music is also a remarkably precise psychological portrait of childhood shame? For the closing chapter of The Songs That Made Us, Gunter turns to Dolly Parton's deeply personal “Coat of Many Colors”—a song born from poverty, childhood humiliation, a mother's love and one little girl's attempt to understand why something she treasured became a reason for others to ridicule her.At its heart is a powerful psychological distinction:The coat wasn't wha
8-347 | The Songs That Made Us CCR’s Fortunate Son & The Psychology of Unfairness (opens the original)
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What happens when sacrifice is demanded from everyone—but the consequences aren't shared equally?This week on The Songs That Made Us, Gunter explores Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son,” one of the most enduring songs associated with the Vietnam era and a furious examination of class, privilege, fairness and who ultimately pays the price when societies go to war. At the center of the song isn't simply opposition to war.It is resentment toward unequal sacrifice.Through the story of Joh
8-346 | The Songs That Made Us: Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now & The Psychology of Wisdom (opens the original)
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How can the same words mean something entirely different when sung by the same person decades later? This week on The Songs That Made Us, Gunter explores Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” and the extraordinary transformation of a song written by a young woman in the 1960s and revisited by the artist more than three decades later. The lyrics hadn't fundamentally changed.Joni had. Through the evolution of Both Sides Now, Gunter examines the psychology of aging, wisdom, autobiographical memory and l
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