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  • Token of Gratitude: #39

    Token of Gratitude: #39


    Episode 39 – It is December 2020, and the crisis has to date brought all of us to the limits, shook us to the core – and even called our very world views into question. While ever mindful of the pain and suffering that the current circumstances have caused for many of us – there are indeed a great many lessons to be learnt. Today’s show is about gratitude to people. It’s about acknowledging the humanness, the vulnerabilities, the creativity and the contributions of people.

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    Shownotes: English Coach Podcast – Living the Language


    Showguest: Andy Beck

    The People

    Peter Gray | Shreya Vijay | Amber Leigh – The Crescent Cardinal | Cody Gene Media | Polina, Marcela and Natalie (Live Your Legend Toronto) | Kerstin (my wife) | Mum, Dad and Aunt – they’re not on social media! | Andy Copps | Friends in Cornwall |Michael Klevenhaus in Bonn | Andy Beck Personal: Instagram | Website | YouTube


    So what’s in it for you?!

    This episode is about Gratitude – Appreciation for Supporters.

    My overarching context for this episode 39, for the previous episode, as well as for the following 40 and 41, will not be weighted with theory and abstractions essentially to no avail – but tangibly entail those very  real human aspects – that speak to face and name.

    We’ve finally begun to accept the reach – the depth and breadth that online engagement offers – together with the pitfalls.

    In the midst of these changes however, as we the creators, trainers, teachers, coaches, -developers, artists, the people who have always known this potential – are finally being leant a well-deserved token of acknowledgement – or legitimacy as you like. Again, we have ourselves also brought to the human limits of what some would call a much more intense “1s and 0s paradigm”. From the limits of my context today – my own experience and world view as independent artist, trainer, coach, creator – I know, that it’s exactly that human element, the relational quality, “das kleine gewisse Etwas – wie wir auf Deutsch immer so sagen” –  that now threatens to be critically lacking. We can get all scientific on this in another show perhaps – but as a past professor once said to me personally – there are other ways of knowing.

    Metaphorically speaking,  as I always say, there is a lot between 1 and 0 – and until we first learn to fathom and negotiate that chasm – let it be known, that this independent show for one – not only embraces a quality of inclusiveness equality – but also as always take my usual relaxed accessible human approach – to your learning experience.

    Sustainable Language Acquisition = Nachhaltiger Spracherwerb.

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  • Finding Your Flow 4:  Conversations and Creations with Andy Beck – Sexy Banjo #32

    Finding Your Flow 4: Conversations and Creations with Andy Beck – Sexy Banjo #32


    Episode 32 – It’s already been almost a year since I’ve been doing this show – and I am very happy to see that the purpose has not changed.

    Shownotes: English Coach Podcast – Living the Language


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    Anyone who knows anything about the show will also know – that the English Coach Podcast is – and has in its own way always been a place where learning doesn’t have to feel like work. It’s a place for people, many of whom are my friends who are looking for a way to hold on to the things they have learnt with context and conversation. I consider myself one of these people – one of the many creators, trainers, teachers, coaches, artists, developers, and human architects of authentic experiences – who actually do the work – and who actually do care…

    The Poetry series continues, looking at among other things the melody of the spoken word. I’ve invited a few artists to play along with this initiative and I’m happy to say that a few have indeed come through.

    This episode 32, of the English Coach Podcast – the fourth in the poetry series – is again self-sponsored and takes my usual relaxed accessible human approach – to your learning experience. Our guest for today – published and practiced author, musician singer and songwriter Andy Beck.


    Showguest: Andy Beck – Works Writing | Works Music


    “Come To The Irish Dance” Featured song

    Well if someone had come to the Irish dance
    With fortune, fame and their luck to chance
    They’d have seen this life from a different stance
    They might well just have changed their plans
    But they sold their souls for land

    Well, I knew a guy who worked in a bank
    His eyeballs set on the highest rank
    He worked so hard that he got the cramp
    every time he had a…..drink!
    He worked all day and all night
    They found him dead at thirty-five
    He was someone rich, but was he satisfied?
    Less than you would think

    But if someone had come to the Irish dance
    With fortune, fame and his luck to chance
    He’d have seen this life from a different stance
    He might well just have changed his plans
    But he sold his soul for a pension plan

    Well I knew a man who worked for the law
    The legal text made his eyeballs sore
    His dating skills, they were so poor
    that he never managed to…..chat!
    The courtroom was his game
    Until a case he worked on failed
    He was someone who chucked himself in the lake
    and that was the end of that

    But if someone had come to the Irish dance
    With fortune, fame and his luck to chance
    He’d have seen this life from a different stance
    He might well just have changed his plans
    But he sold his soul for a witness stand

    Well I know a girl who worked in a shop
    The sight of her made your eyeballs drop
    She could’ve been great at takin’ stock
    but she wanted to become “top dog”
    So she asked the boss if he would swap
    He turned round and said “get lost”
    So she strangled him with the kitchen cloth
    and now she’s eating porridge

    But if someone had come to the Irish dance
    Fortune, fame and her luck to chance
    She’d have seen this life from a different stance
    She might well just have changed her plans
    But now she’s sewing mailing bags

    Well I knew a chap who worked in an office
    He was the boss, so he made the novice
    bring him lots of cups of coffee
    Maltesers and toffee
    His computer crashed and so did the aircon
    The business never got airborne
    There he sits, chained to a keyboard…..
    “Where the hell has my life gone?”

    But if someone had come to the Irish dance
    With fortune, fame and his luck to chance
    He’d have seen this life from a different stance
    He might well just have changed his plans
    But he sold his soul for a wireless LAN

    And if they’d all come to the Irish dance
    Fortune, fame and their luck to chance
    They’d have seen this life from a different stance
    They might well justa changed their plans
    But they sold their souls to the man

    andy beck


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