What My Skip Button Taught Me About Bias
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Trisha Carter explores her listening habits and biases through the lens of music in this solo episode.
In this solo episode, Trisha turns the CQ lens on herself, examining a habit she caught in her own listening since her conversation with Mike Newton in Episode 82. What is your thumb actually doing when a song comes on? Trisha unpacks four different doors music uses to move us — the beat, being moved, surprise, and story — and realises she's only ever really been opening one of them. What does it mean when the same song that feels like home to one person tells another they don't belong? And what might be waiting in the very songs your thumb reaches to skip? Trisha closes with an invitation: choose one song from a genre you usually skip, and use the PAUSE process to stay with it all the way through. Resources mentioned in this episode: 🎵 Listen to the episode playlist on Spotify: The Beat Beneath The Bridge - Music for The Shift Podcast Episode 82 The PAUSE Process — first introduced in Episode 53, "Responding to Moments of Shift with PAUSE" Listen to Episode 82 — Mike Newton , on music, culture, and perspective Trisha would love to hear from you — share a piece of music from another culture that shifted something in you, or tell her how you've used music deliberately in your own…
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