Hosted by Derek MacDonald · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 35 episodes
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Derek MacDonald hosts The Unobstructed Podcast, a society show with 35 episodes published.
This episode of The Unobstructed Podcast is about rediscovering joy. It's a topic that friend of the pod, Caleb Walker, brought up recently. Specifically, he’s seeing an uptick in a trend called “kidulting,” where people
This episode of The Unobstructed Podcast is about getting out of your own way—about being caught between shame, fear, and the path to finally feeling clear. The same week I got sober I also started a new job, went throug
This episode of The Unobstructed Podcast is about trade-offs. Caleb Walker and I recently chatted about the pitfalls of polished social media profiles (he's the Managing Director of Digital Strategy for an agency). Part
This episode of The Unobstructed Podcast is a personal reflection from Derek MacDonald on self-discovery, communication, and personal growth. I get into my self-inflicted social isolation as well as my changed relationsh
In this episode of The Unobstructed Podcast, Caleb Walker and I chat about the crotchety complexities of social media. Specifically, with regard to personal identity. His perspective was especially interesting, given his
Listen in on conversations about navigating daily life with more agency and clarity. Sometimes, a new way of seeing things is all it takes to get unstuck. New episodes every month. About the hosts: Derek MacDonald — writ
In this episode of The Unobstructed Podcast, Derek and Rachael have an important conversation about mental health and substance abuse. More specifically, we talk openly about the stigma surrounding suicide and addiction.
In this episode of The Unobstructed Podcast, Rachael and Derek talk about how words like "whatever" and "sorry" impact relationships. The conversation looks closely at the role of gender and societal expectations on our
In this episode of The Unobstructed Podcast, Rachael and Derek chit chat about the cultural imbalance of personal and professional lives. The big question: can we cool it with the rush to add more just because we can? We
This episode dives deep into emotional vulnerability, the societal expectations of masculinity, and how suppressing ourselves impacts our personal and professional lives. The conversation explores the challenges of expre
In our latest episode of the Unobstructed Podcast, we dive into the relationship between time management, productivity, and personal identity. If you only ever try to fix what you’re bad at, you might get better over tim
Instead of living the lives we want, we end up doing what we think we should. In this episode of the Unobstructed Podcast, Derek and Rachael dive into the power of overcoming the limits you give yourself. And then break
In this episode of the Unobstructed Podcast, hosts Derek and Rachael take a nostalgic journey back to their childhood dreams and explore how those early aspirations have influenced their career paths. Rachael shares her
I knew unsubscribes and lost clients would come with sharing more of my true self online. But it was a necessary step toward removing the many masks I’d picked up and glued onto myself over the years. Like many kids tryi
The difference between trying to be funny and opting to be vulnerable is a super fine line. And humor is a defense mechanism at its core. In this episode, Rachael and I talk about the improv rule of “yes, and.” In improv
Friction is the best teacher we’ll ever have, but the hardest to accept. It acts like a mirror. And our level of growth depends on our willingness to look at our own reflection. The Let Them Theory certainly helps to ref
It’s not your responsibility to manage how others perceive you. Most people won’t realize how much you filter yourself. At least, I’d hoped they wouldn’t. And it worked for a while. They might not always notice when you
There’s a kind of exhaustion that comes from pretending to show up. You post because you’re “supposed to.” You rearrange your words to be seen a certain way. You aim for engagement, but not connection. But if you stop, y
Before I ever made a dollar as a solopreneur, I’d spent hundreds and hundreds of hours breaking things in tech tool settings. No, not on purpose? Ok, that’s not entirely true… I definitely do like to take stuff apart to
It started with building a simple spreadsheet. It wasn’t fancy or complicated (ok, that’s not entirely true. But it doesn’t need to be… I just had fun building it that way). Truly I just wanted a way to gamify my way out
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The Unobstructed Podcast is hosted by Derek MacDonald. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 35 episodes.
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