Had a fantastic chat with Paris Gee and Kadin Chung, two of Vancouver FC's standout players (and standup guys) to talk about football and life and how a career sometimes needs to go horizontal before it can go vertical.

Rejected Central is a human podcast hosted by bestselling novelist Brent van Staalduinen and educator and life-embracer Dave Parkinson. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, follow us online and social media, and let us know what you think. Thanks for listening!

Kadin's Instagram

Paris' Instagram

Vancouver Football Club

And THAT photo can be found here.

A fantastic chat with the talented and epically thoughtful Renée Sarojini Saklikar, who is crossing all sorts of genres and boundaries in her writing. We talk about her extended work The Heart Of This Story Bears All Patterns (THOT J BAP) and how rejection can be an intentional and thoughtful step along the artistic journey.

Rejected Central is a human podcast hosted by bestselling novelist Brent van Staalduinen and educator and life-embracer Dave Parkinson. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, follow us online and social media, and let us know what you think. Thanks for listening!

Resources from the episode:

• Turning Point Ensemble: https://turningpointensemble.ca/
• The founder of The Writer's Studio at SFU: Besty Warland https://www.betsywarland.com/
• Renée on instagram: @saklikartartyone, and Twitter: @reneesarojini

Rejected Central goes on location to sit down with novelist, essayist, and writing coach Heidi Reimer to talk about the artistic (and personal) journey of a professional writer, which for Heidi has taken time, persistence, and more than her fair share of rejection. She's just launched her first novel into the world: find out more at https://www.heidireimer.com/.

Rejected Central is a human podcast hosted by bestselling novelist Brent van Staalduinen and educator and life-embracer Dave Parkinson. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and be sure to reach out with your ideas and comments.

Brent and Dave are on location at St Joseph's Hospital, where Dave is receiving treatment for a recent mental health crisis. In this candid, personal conversation, Dave shares his struggles and victories with his own mental health with the goal of rejecting the stigmas that surround how we respond to those in crisis or with mental health needs. We should be talking more about metal health.

If you're in crisis or feeling persistently not like yourself, please talk to someone. You're not alone, and help is available.

Rejected Central is a human podcast hosted by bestselling novelist Brent van Staalduinen and educator and life-embracer Dave Parkinson. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, follow us online and social media, and let us know what you think. Thanks for listening!

In the next instalment of our "Bell Curve of Rejection" series, we look at the career and life of Roseanne Barr. Roseanne burst onto the TV and comedy scene in the 1980s riding the success of her schtick as a "Domestic Goddess." However, fame and fortune has brought all sorts of drama into her life and the lives of those around her, and recent political winds have made her even more vocal...about some disturbing things.

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Bestselling crime writer Amy Stuart drops by to chat about rejection, her writing, her hockey coaching life, and an extremely cool forthcoming project.

Amy's website: www.amystuart.ca

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Dave and Brent duel with superfoods, asking whether a given food (we're looking at you, kale) is worth the hype or not.

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Show links:

Superfoods, The Origin Story: https://foodsalive.com/blogs/learn/superfoods-the-origin-story#:~:text=The%20term%20superfood%20originates%20from,digestion%2C%20and%20convenient%20natural%20packaging.

Cosmopolitan: The 10 Superfoods Everyone will be Talking about in 2024: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/g46584075/superfoods-list-2024/

Allpa Foods: https://allpafoods.com/blogs/blog-posts/the-history-and-present-day-impact-of-superfoods-a-journey-through-time

UC Davis https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/what-makes-superfood-so-super

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfood

Writer and extraordinary human Danila Botha joins Brent and Dave for a wide-ranging chat about rejection and community and what it means to be inappropriately happy.

Rejected Central is a podcast dedicated to elevating the rejection experience.