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Underpinning all the great challenges of our time there is the human drama, the human condition. And as we move beyond 2020, we turn to Mary Catherine Bateson to help us understand the puzzle of being ourselves, of rising to our best capacities and gifts, in all of our complexity and strangeness. She is the daughter of the great anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and she is a linguist and anthropologist herself.

Mary Catherine Bateson - is Professor Emerita at George Mason University. Her books include a memoir of her life with her parents Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson called With a Daughter's Eye, as well as her bestselling book Composing a Life. Most recently, she is the co-author of Thinking Race: Social Myths and Biological Realities, published nearly 50 years after her mother’s A Rap on Race with James Baldwin.

This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Mary Catherine Bateson —Living as an Improvisational Art." Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.

'Subject To Interpretation' is a weekly podcast that deep dives into the topics that matter to interpreters.🎙 This week we is the re-launch of the podcast after the pause brought on by the pandemic. We have a new host Maria Ceballos-Wallis and the guest is DE LA MORA Institute's president and founder Agustin De La Mora.

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Jonathan Hine works remotely and commutes to a variety of destinations on bicycle, living out of his bags. This interview covers how he made his adventurous lifestyle and business possible, what his life on the road is like, and what his secrets are to making a living as a freelance translator and interpreter.

Click here to visit his business blog.
Click here to visit his travel blog, the Freewheeling Freelancer.

DE LA MORA Instructor and diplomatic interpreter Darinka Mangino discusses the certification process in Mexico, as well as the evolution of the profession and language access for the many speakers of indigenous languages in her beautiful home country.

Click here to view Darinka's online course with us, Advanced Workshop: Conference 101.

Click here to view our webinar on diplomatic interpreting, also taught by Darinka.

This episode provides a thorough assessment of the key points and arguments of Stephen Kelman's 'Pigeon English', drawing upon rhetorical technique and contexts of production.

Today we talk to seasoned freelancer and trainer Matthew Perret on adding B or new C languages, making the most of the plethora of digital interpreter training resources and bringing your other activity and broader perspectives with you into the booth. Trombones may or may not feature...

Catriona Howard is a freelance EU accredited conference interpreter and an experienced interpreting trainer. Today she shares her experience of how she got into the profession, why she loves what she does and some seriously useful tips on everything from looking for work to getting the most out of your research.

She trained as a Linguist. She worked as a Translator. She dreamt as an Illustrator. Eventually Landysh brought them together: co-founding Lingvistov, a Skype based language service which also allowed her illustrations to speak volumes in shouting about the business, so much so they've now become a product of their own.

She shares thoughts on collaborating to expand your ambitions, how to succeed in a business partnership and how they use content marketing to promote their business.

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Here’s some of the key takeaway points:

• Their business was born when a freelance marketplace site changed their conditions to take a bigger percentage of each job; Landysh and her partner decided they'd create their own site instead! Why be at the mercy of someone else?

• When collaborating with others in business - be open and communicate; talk a lot about what you do and what you want to do

• They don't have much marketing budget, instead they use content to pull people to their business as people share it: articles, videos, audio, cartoons

• They have diversified their income; as well as the linguistic school and services, her illustrations are now available to buy in a range of products from their own shop

• Don't feel you have to be 'normal' with a regular job, if you're passionate about something go for it, earn a living a from it

More from Landysh

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The Lingvistov Shop

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