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Rejected Central is a SFW podcast that seeks to elevate the rejection experience. Hosted by bestselling novelist Brent van Staalduinen (www.brentvans.com) and educator and life-embracer Dave Parkinson. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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We're shelving the podcast, y'all (final ep March 26), but as one final act of thanks, we're raffling off THE VERY LAST Rejected Central mug in support of all the amazing mental health professionals out there! Details here: rejectedcentral.com Thanks, everyone! #rejection #rejects

16.05.2025 14:23 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Chinese-Canadian writer Su Chang joins us to talk about writing the book she thinks her father should have written. (And also, FTR, her new novel THE IMMORTAL WOMAN might just have the year's best cover.) @rejectedcentral.com
Details: www.rejectedcentral.com #rejection
@houseofanansi.bsky.social

05.05.2025 19:17 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Worth a listen (I just listened again)!

03.05.2025 12:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The latest episode of @rejectedcentral.com is live with guest Elizabeth Mateer. @brentvans.com and I spoke about her rejected dance auditions, transitioning into becoming an author and then studying neuropsychology at @harvard.edu. Listen now wherever you pod. www.rejectedcentral.com

02.05.2025 01:01 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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EPISODES | Rejected Central Rejected Central is a podcast that seeks to elevate the rejection experience with interviews, lively conversation, and an all-round rejection of the idea that rejection is always a bad thing.

We had bestselling author & veteran journalist
@philipshenon.bsky.social on @rejectedcentral.com to talk about his new book and the "battle for the soul" of the Church. (Also rejection, naturally.) Available wherever you pod! rejectedcentral.com @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social

14.04.2025 14:44 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Great to have you! Thanks for being here.

10.04.2025 10:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This week, Dave and I chat with the incredible @anuja-v.bsky.social about winning awards, writing and rejection, and where Brent learns about a new literature genre: #romantasy Available wherever you pod! @daveparkie.bsky.social
rejectedcentral.com

09.04.2025 00:46 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Amazing RC chat with Marissa Stapley, the only Canadian writer to be on Reese Witherspoon's Book Club, about life, writing, and success! (Oh, and regarding the TV adaptation of her novel Lucky: big, BIG names involved.) rejectedcentral.com #rejection Wherever you pod! @daveparkie.bsky.social

17.03.2025 19:38 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I hesitate to even give TFG the honoured title Reject, but he is being solidly rejected all over the show, and so he might (blech) qualify. We even did an episode about him: www.rejectedcentral.com/podcast/epis...

26.02.2025 14:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Had a fantastic chat with @randalljstephens.bsky.social about faith and music, history and BlueSky, and how the current political climate demands creativity from us all. @rejectedcentral.com is available wherever you get your podcasts! #rejection #reject #popmusic rejectedcentral.com

18.02.2025 01:22 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Winter is tough, but @rejectedcentral.com might have the medicine. In episode 49, @brentvans.com and I spoke with Stephen Doucet-Campbell about how Seasonal Affective Disorder affects our mental health and gives us strategies to reframe our thinking. Available now wherever you podcast.

11.02.2025 21:55 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Today's episode features another fantastic conversation about mental health, this time chatting about how the seasons affect our mental wellness, and what we can do about it. Available wherever you pod! rejectedcentral.com #rejection #reject #mentalhealth #sad @rejectedcentral.com #therapy

11.02.2025 19:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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After dropping Nazi sig-heils at last week's #inauguration, Elon's agenda is now clear. In this week's pod, @daveparkie.bsky.social and @brentvans.com dig in and call out his crappiness. Available wherever you get your podcasts! Website: rejectedcentral.com #rejection #elonmusk #resist #podcast

27.01.2025 14:48 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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In the lead to next week's @rejectedcentral.com episode, I decided that the interwebs needs a fabulous graphic where everyone can tell VP Elon exactly what they think of his Nazi ways. Note the handy space at the top to add a helpful message! #elonmusk #trump #inauguration #elon #saynotofascism

23.01.2025 17:19 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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How are the gov't of Canada's deep cuts to immigration and foreign student visas impacting student and institutional communities? In short, they hurt. Today on RC, @daveparkie.bsky.social & I chat with Olami & Lynn from Ontario Student Voices. www.rejectedcentral.com
#rejection

13.01.2025 21:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hey, town/city/village-slicker, ever thought about leaving it all behind? Dave and Brent chat about whether or not that's a good idea. (Teaser hint: poison mushrooms and bears.) Available wherever you get your podcasts! rejectedcentral.com @daveparkie.bsky.social @brentvans.com

23.12.2024 14:06 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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From wrestling with lifelong body-perception mental health issues to writing a bestselling guide for helping folks prepare for their flight crew interview, @carrieellise.bsky.social has learned a few things along the way. Available wherever you pod! rejectedcentral.com @daveparkie.bsky.social

16.12.2024 14:44 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
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On this week's @rejectedcentral.com, I chat with the incomparable @masonmennenga.bsky.social about rejection, deconstruction, callling, vocation, & the power of story as a universal language. Get it wherever you get your pods! #rejectedcentral #rejection #podcast #deconstruction rejectedcentral.com

11.12.2024 18:52 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Chatted sci-fi/spec/horror with @geoffreywcole.bsky.social, and about rejection and life, and why certain orgy-centred stories can be a hard sell. @rejectedcentral.com is available wherever you get your podcasts! rejectedcentral.com

02.12.2024 15:34 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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On today’s episode of @rejectedcentral.com we speak with Kate Dunn-Flynn, professor and sociologist about positive psychology and her creativity with handing rejection with curiosity and growth. Find us on your podcatchers. @brentvans.com

26.11.2024 14:45 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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We had an incredible chat with sociologist and professor Kate Dunn-Flynn about positive psych and how we can reinvent our relationship to rejection! Available wherever you pod! @daveparkie.bsky.social @brentvans.com
www.rejectedcentral.com #podcast #rejection #rejected #psychology #sociology

26.11.2024 12:02 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hey everyone! Episode 37 of @rejectedcentral.bsky.social is live and @brentvans.bsky.social @daveparkie.bsky.social talk about #PeteRose and his futile effort to get into the Hall of Fame! Catch us on all your pod catchers.

19.11.2024 21:51 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Hello, #BlueSky! The Rejected Central podcast is here! Give us a follow and a share, willya? #reject #rejectedcentral #podcast #podcasting #rejection

18.11.2024 22:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We're here, Rejects!! @rejectedcentral.bsky.social is on BlueSky! Give us a follow and a share, will you? Thanks! #podcast #podcasting #rejection #reject
Web: www.rejectedcentral.com

18.11.2024 22:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So excited to be here elevating the rejection experience amidst such blue and positive skies! Check us out wherever you get your podcasts! www.rejectedcentral.com #podcast #rejection #rejectedcentral #listen #goodvibes

16.11.2024 14:12 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0