Apr 21, 2026
S63E2: Sleep cycles and Sleep Efficiency
Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
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Episodes
Episodes
Apr 20, 2026
Apr 20, 2026
11 min
Welcome to a brand new series of Walk the Pod. This series our theme is Sleep! Inviting you to contribute your thoughts about sleep, and I’ll be introducing ideas from Matthew Walker’s ‘Why We Sleep’.
Mar 13, 2026
Mar 13, 2026
13 min
A final episode on Ego, closing our series. Walk the Pod will return on Monday 20th April. If you’d like to vote for our next theme, you can do so by joining the walk the Pod lunchtime walk club on Patreon.
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Mar 12, 2026
Mar 12, 2026
10 min
A summary of some of what we’ve discussed this series plus an invitation to join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime Walk Club.
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Mar 11, 2026
Mar 11, 2026
9 min
In today’s episode, a walk in the woods discussing Ursula Le Guin’s discussion of ego in ‘The Dispossessed’. On Le Guin’s fictional planet, Annares, humans in an egalitarian society are ostracised for ‘egoising’. Egoising is an inevitable corollary to the struggle between community and a sense of self. Le Guin does not describe it as a moral failing, just a tension. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for theme voting, private Discord server, and beautiful Walk the Pod artwork stickers! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley
Mar 10, 2026
Mar 10, 2026
10 min
Considering different types of ego this lunchtime including Clyde Barrow’s inability to admit defeat.
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Mar 9, 2026
Mar 9, 2026
11 min
Discussing Alan Watts today who wrote that viewing ourselves inside the head, as an ego, is a ‘dangerous hallucination’.
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Mar 6, 2026
Mar 6, 2026
10 min
Everything we’ve discussed so far this week, plus an invitation to join the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club.
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Mar 5, 2026
Mar 5, 2026
9 min
Discussing various leaders and how ego drives behaviour this lunchtime.
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Walk the Pod
Imagine stepping away from the chaos for just 10 minutes each day to connect with the tranquillity and beauty of nature.
That's the vision behind Walk the Pod, a unique daily podcast inviting you on a short lunchtime stroll accompanied by the soothing sounds of the outdoors.
Join host Rachel Wheeley as she accompanies you from her own lunchtime walks, tuning your senses to the often-overlooked everyday wonders along the path.