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Brought to you by Virtual not Distant, the 21st Century Work Life podcast looks at leading and managing remote teams, online collaboration and working in distributed organisations. Join Pilar Orti, guests & co-hosts as they shine the spotlight on the most relevant themes and news relevant to the modern knowledge worker.
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Season 4: Join co-hosts Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti as they chat about what they've learned through their time leading teams. Season 3: Oh No, My Team's Gone Remote! Seasons 1 and 2: Improve your management and leadership practice over a cup of coffee and get a book recommendation too. The role of the manager is evolving as technology helps us to self-organise and take more control of how and where we work from. In this podcast, Pilar Orti from Virtual not Distant, dissects modern management ...
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www.sarita-sol.com Are you looking to expand your consciousness? Are you looking to heal your body? Are you looking to find your purpose and manifest your best life? Are you looking to find gratitude and peace through every challenge? Are you looking for authentic relationship with loved ones and friend's? If the answer is yes to any of the above then you have come to the right place. Start your journey at www.sarita-sol.com Between the quantum fields of ancient shamanic techniques and the f ...
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In the not-so-distant future, the gaming industry has advanced to a point where developers can create incredibly immersive worlds with lifelike characters, both main and non-player characters (NPCs). Our podcast follows the executives of a cutting-edge company, "Non-Player Char," at the forefront of NPC development. SynthiVerse Technologies has developed a groundbreaking technology that allows for the cloning of NPCs with incredibly complex behavior patterns. These cloned NPCs possess almost ...
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In this episode, host Pilar Orti talks to Sagar Chandni, who describes himself as a distributed work practitioner and a strategy leader with a heart. We talk about the nuances of these terms and the evolving nature of work, particularly in India where Sagar is based. Sagar discusses his work with startups and the challenges and opportunities they f…
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#guidedmeditation #ascension #spirituality Reposting this gorgeous transmission and guided meditation which will allow you to alchemize polarity within you into feeling a divine merge of wholeness within the sacred chalice and body vessel of your being. www.sarita-sol.comBy Sarita Sol
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Send us a text Oh, the wonders of smashing one's head against a wall for hours on end and call it fun. For the uninitiated, the souls-like genre is exactly that. You adventure your way through a difficult and dangerous game, practicing your pattern recognition and patience until you've either given up or claimed victory as the king neckbeard. Well,…
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#meditation #manifesting #healing A beautiful magical journey to cleanse your meridians working with the spirit of the bee and honey frequency. Offers the Explanation first. This is a replay meditation from my Patreon group from last year. Love to you all Music- Cosmic Hum by Jonathan Goldman For online courses, in-person retreats and MP3 meditatio…
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The new series on Manager Mindsets starts with a discussion of comparison. Comparison is unavoidable, especially in the age of social media. It can feed difficult and unpleasant emotions like doubt, jealousy and imposter syndrome. Indeed, someone once said “Comparison is the thief of joy”. And if we aren’t careful comparison can even tempt us into …
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#meditation #treeoflife #healing Sharing here some information and an activation technique to illuminate the wisdom and geometry of the tree of life within us. Shared from a past Patreon workshop. Enjoy! For online courses, in-person retreats and MP3 meditations go to www.sarita-sol.com LIVE WEEKLY ONLINE MEDITATIONS CLASSES WITH ME....JOIN ANYTIME…
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Host Pilar Orti is joined by Doug Haines, the founder of Kalium and Marketing Pros. Doug's entrepreneurial journey began with Kalium, where he successfully recruited talent from South Africa. This positive experience inspired him to launch Marketing Pros, an agency connecting South African marketing professionals with global opportunities. In this …
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#meditation #manifesting #healing This instructional video explains how the energetic architecture of you being works and how to connect to it and enhance your awareness of it in your daily life so that you can understand yourself as a multidimensional being, become the creator of your own reality, stay healthy, happy and access your true nature bo…
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As co-hosts Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti wrap up the Manager Emotions series, they explain why they're moving onto mindset, and how this is different from cognitivie tendencies (and why they might well be mixing the two up!). Plus, some feedback on our episode on Emotional Contagion, and Pilar shares an episode from Workplace Geeks where one of her c…
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#meditation #manifesting #healing This instructional video explains how the energetic architecture of you being works and how to connect to it and enhance your awareness of it in your daily life so that you can understand yourself as a multidimensional being, become the creator of your own reality, stay healthy, happy and access your true nature bo…
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In this episode, host Pilar Orti shares her new framework showing how we connect at work, and talks about some of her other projects. If you'd like to be alerted when the Remotely Shakespeare wall calendar comes out, head over to remotelyshakespeare.com For more information check out www.virtualnotdistant.com…
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Send us a text In a world where casual games have become part of the norm, this genre captivates even the most light-deprived video gamers. Is it a true genre to be enjoyed and celebrated or maligned and ridiculed? That is what we try to figure out in this episode. Oh? Do you like casual games? Pitiful, you're mistaken. The truest essence of gaming…
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A special episode to celebrate the launch of the revised edition of The Long-Distance Leader, written by Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel, who returns to the show with another conversation that made host Pilar Orti laugh plenty of times. The conversation takes a critical look at the “hybrid” workplace - is it a compromise, a hostage negotiation? O…
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For the sixth episode of our series on manager emotions, Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti talk about Compassion. Good leaders don't just remove obstacles and show their people the way forward. People also need to know that their leaders will support them in the hard times. And importantly, they need leaders to demonstrate compassion when they are in diff…
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Welcome to the fifth episode of our series on manager emotions, where hosts Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti talk about Pride. We want to see good work, both in ourselves as managers and also in the teams that we lead. Pride creates a virtuous cycle that rewards and encourages healthy achievement. Do a good thing -> share this achievement with others -> …
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Send us a text let's talk gaming with significant others. It's no trivial thing game with your somebody. Small differences can go downhill quickly or forge stronger bonds through challenges. Where do you think everyone lines up? Is gaming with a spouse a good idea? Have we grown up enough to maintain a healthy relationship capable of surviving gami…
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#meditation #manifesting #healing It was wonderful to catch up with 3 of the speakers from the New Earth Summit, Deborah Jane Sutton, Edward Fitzgerald and Sarita Sol. More gems of wisdom and personal experiences were shared about how we can navigate these times, especially as the unconscious becomes conscious. We discussed how to manage behavior i…
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In today’s episode, host Pilar Orti catches up with Frédérique Lloyd Bougreau, about how she transformed her career and lifestyle by setting up a Pilates studio in rural France. They talk about cultural adaptation, building a business in a new environment and the Importance of movement and exercise as we progress through life. Frédérique’s contact …
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#meditation #manifesting #healing Working with the void and the metawomb and crystalline waters to cleanse the body of heavy metals. Enjoy For online courses, in-person retreats and MP3 meditations go to www.sarita-sol.com LIVE WEEKLY ONLINE MEDITATIONS CLASSES WITH ME....JOIN ANYTIME Now available on the Patreon site.https://www.patreon.com/Sarita…
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#meditation #manifesting #healing This instructional video explains how the energetic architecture of you being works and how to connect to it and enhance your awareness of it in your daily life so that you can understand yourself as a multidimensional being, become the creator of your own reality, stay healthy, happy and access your true nature bo…
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Send us a text You know it seems like the only good AAA games are coming out of Japan for a while now. They aren’t without their problems. We just had more layoffs and closures this month. The industry shitheads are saying things like “Success Can’t Save Your Favorite Studios Anymore” and the like. Which isn’t true. That is not how business works b…
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For the fourth episode of our series on manager emotions we talk about Emotional Contagion, as it's something that keeps coming up. Emotional Contagion describes how one person's emotions can induce similar emotions in others. This is often happening at an unconscious level, for example, we mimic someone's facial expression and start to feel the sa…
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Send us a text A-D-D games. Games that tick your spectrum-riddled boxes. We have gone around the bend a few times now about what makes ‘games fun’. What Autistic boxes do we have? Do we even know? What makes us sink hours into some games but not others? Compense Operation: “Time loss”. 5/23/24 For more insights and discussions, check out our conten…
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#meditation #manifesting #healing This instructional video explains how the energetic architecture of you being works and how to connect to it and enhance your awareness of it in your daily life so that you can understand yourself as a multidimensional being, become the creator of your own reality, stay healthy, happy and access your true nature bo…
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For today’s Recommendations episode, Pilar is joined by Catherine Nicholson, co-founder and creative director of The Virtual Training Team. Before they move onto this month’s reading and listening recommendations, Catherine talks about her recent interest: the blend of generations in the workplace, and how to make the most out of them. Recorded on …
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#meditation #manifesting #healing This instructional video explains how the energetic architecture of you being works and how to connect to it and enhance your awareness of it in your daily life so that you can understand yourself as a multidimensional being, become the creator of your own reality, stay healthy, happy and access your true nature bo…
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Many thanks to Catherine Nicholson from Virtual Training Team for sharing her thoughts on emotions at work and anger, after listening to the first episode of the manager emotions series. We share her comments directly from her LinkedIn posts, and expand on them. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pilarorti_we-kick-off-our-series-on-management-emotions-…
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#meditation #manifesting #healing This instructional video explains how the energetic architecture of you being works and how to connect to it and enhance your awareness of it in your daily life so that you can understand yourself as a multidimensional being, become the creator of your own reality, stay healthy, happy and access your true nature bo…
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We continue with our Manager Emotions series. So much of our work culture is about productivity. Traits like productivity, positivity, drive and a strong work ethic are idolised. We are often expected to overcome obstacles through pure hard work or "grit". This doesn't leave much space for hopelessness! Hopelessness is a difficult emotion for us to…
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#meditation #gaia #healing Sharing from my live Patreon meditation for those that are feeling a little frazzled from the polarity rollercoaster. Enjoy this beautiful journey into the waters and heart of your mother earth Gaia. Feel renewed. much love sarita For online Virtual Meditation Classes, Manifesting and Healing Retreats, Personal Mentoring,…
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In this episode Pilar talks to Justin Gignac, co-founder of Working Not Working, and Nicolina Jennings, the company's VP and Managing Director. Our guests share the origins and evolution of Working Not Working, and how what they’ve learned about engagement and belonging led to their new platform NTRNL. They make a strong case for increasing employe…
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#meditation #pain #healing With this guided meditation technique I show you how to come into a deeper presence with any pain that you are holding and through the act of awareness heal it as presence will bring you from dis-ease and separation consciousness into wholeness and health. For online courses, in-person retreats and MP3 meditations go to w…
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#meditation #microbiome #healing In this guided meditation we will tap into the scalar wave energy in the stellar star and connect it to the third energy center and then imprint into the consciousness of the microbiome to bring it to optimal levels of heath- enjoy! love sarita For online courses, in-person retreats and MP3 meditations go to www.sar…
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#meditation #manifesting #healingvibes Another Scala Wave energy enhanced meditation to turn you into a perfect generator higher vibration to inform your matter into healing, manifesting and coherence at every level For online courses, in-person retreats and MP3 meditations go to www.sarita-sol.com LIVE WEEKLY ONLINE MEDITATIONS CLASSES WITH ME....…
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We are joined by regular guest Theresa Hollema who has been doing some thinking with host Pilar Orti on the topic of Bonding within remote teams, versus Bridging, where team members create bonds with other parts of the organisation. Plus, Theresa has her own reading and listening recommendations to add to Pilar’s. You can connect with Theresa on Li…
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We continue with our Manager Emotions series. Today’s episode is all about joy. We remind ourselves of what it feels like, but we also wonder whether it’s always ok to express it. Join Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti for coffee - or tea! In our last coffee we talked about how anger can signal that something is wrong. Joy, on the other hand, signals that…
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Send us a text One of the first games that I can remember dominating my social life was Starcraft. In the 90's I begged my parents for a computer capable of playing games. It was basically the birthday and Christmas gifts that year plus it had to be the family machine. Kinda lame but none of that mattered. The whole world of PC gaming just opened u…
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A new player has entered the field in the world of work: generative AI. As remote teams increasingly rely on asynchronous communication, have AI chatbots become go-to resources for quick answers and idea validation? What does this mean for our workplace relationships and social skills? Maya Middlemiss and Pilar Orti discuss! For more detailed show …
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This marks the first of our series on manager emotions, where we discuss some of feelings we experience at work. Anger is one of the more complex emotions for a manager to navigate. Anger is about a perceived wrong and our desire to find a resolution. On the one hand, anger can be energising and act as a powerful catalyst for change. It shows us, a…
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#meditationmusic #manifesting #healing This meditation acts upon the natural scalar wave energy being emitted through the stellar star that we can enhance and magnify using our attention and breath. Then working with the infinity symbol placed within the energy centers this energy will inform every cell in your body and align you to a perfect state…
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Send us a text Yeah, we chat about Remnant 2 again. It's hard to leave it alone now that we've all played it and played together. Games of its caliber are few and far between. As many people as possible should hop on and enjoy them. Gunfire Games did a great job and they deserve every accolade, they've earned it. 10/10 would get crushed by rolling …
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Host Pilar Orti talks to Henry O'Loughlin, founder of Buildremote. As he shares his journey from running a fully remote marketing agency to creating Buildremote, Henry discusses the pitfalls many companies faced during the pandemic and how his experience led him to develop a "remote operating system" playbook. The conversation evolves into a though…
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#energyhealing #manifesting #healing In this video I am speaking with Tom Paladino who is using scalar energy to heal people, animals and places. Such an interesting conversation and his info correlates with so much data that I have received from meditating. To learn more and sign up to try this technology go to https://www.scalarlight.com/ For onl…
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Join our hosts Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti. Most of us are familiar with avoiding a task that we should be doing. But is there more to it? On the one hand we worry that procrastination leads us to being totally unproductive. But is being hyper-efficient realistic? Don't we sometimes need to break the cycle of busywork? Procrastination might actually…
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#meditation #pinealglandactivation #pineal This is an intense and powerful pineal gland activation using the breath and then merging with the heart center to bring in a heart centered expansion of perspective into other dimensions whilst connecting in your physical eyes with triad geometry so that you can 'see' ordinary and non ordinary reality sim…
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#meditation #gaia #healing Re-member yourself as the divine child of the great mother Gaia who loves you without condition. Feel the breath and love and body of Gaia in your body, filling you up and nourishing you body and soul. For online courses, inperson retreats and MP3 meditations go to www.sarita-sol.com LIVE WEEKLY ONLINE MEDITATIONS CLASSES…
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Send us a text Once upon a time in a retail space far far away, video games were treated like toys and dismissed by the masses. Fast forward to 2024; summer blockbusters and AAA games launch as if they are competing. In truth, they are. Video games are pushing 100 billion dollars worldwide each year. It's been a long time since you could wave off a…
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In today’s episode, Pilar Orti welcomes regular guest Mark Kilby onto the show, to find out how he’s using generative AI. They share their personal experiences, preferences, and cautionary tales surrounding various AI tools. Plus, they have plenty of reading, listening and tool recommendations for you this month! Recorded on 24 April 2024, so some …
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