Sustained Courage
Welcome to Sustained Courage – the podcast where we dive deep into unlocking the inner hero within us all. I'm Rachel Caruso-Novack: employee, mother, wife, caretaker, author, and lifelong research enthusiast.
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Happy Birthday to Me: On Aging, Wisdom & Giving Fewer F@#&s (opens the original)
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Getting older gets a terrible reputation. We obsess over wrinkles, youth, milestones, timelines and all the things we think we should have accomplished by now. But on my birthday, I wanted to ask a different question: What if aging is actually one of the greatest privileges we get? In this solo episode, I'm digging into the strange history of birthdays and birthday candles, the Maiden-Mother-Crone framework, society's complicated relationship with aging, and the science behind why humans and a v
Can You Be Fair and Impartial? The Courtroom in My Head. (opens the original)
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What does it really mean to be fair and impartial? After an unintentional July break, I'm back with a new episode inspired by my recent jury duty experience — a process that felt equal parts fascinating, frustrating, inefficient, and deeply American. What began as a courthouse rant quickly became a much bigger question: can human beings ever truly set aside their life experiences, assumptions, emotions, and biases long enough to judge something clearly? In this episode, I share what it was like
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