Welcome to GREAT NEWS!
GREAT VISION:
Our vision is to eliminate apathy by spreading good news and showing the world how much progress we’ve actually made. In a world filled with negativity and pessimism, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed and helpless. We want to change that by sharing stories of hope, progress, and positive change.
We believe that the news we consume has a significant impact on our overall well-being and outlook on life. Unfortunately, traditional news sources often focus on the negative, sensationalizing stories of tragedy and conflict. While it’s important to be aware of the challenges we face as a society, we also need to celebrate our successes and recognize the progress we’ve made.
GREAT MISSION:
At GREAT NEWS, we are committed to bringing you stories of progress and positivity from around the world. From advances in science and technology to inspiring human-interest stories, we cover it all. Our goal is to help our subscribers stay informed about the positive changes happening in the world and to inspire them to take action in their own lives.
We believe that by sharing good news, we can make a real difference in the world. When we focus on the positive, we are more likely to feel hopeful and optimistic about the future. We are also more likely to take action to create positive change in our own lives and in the world around us.
Thank you for joining us on this journey to eliminate apathy and spread good news. We hope that our podcast and newsletter inspires you and brings a lot of positivity into your life.
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The GREAT NEWS Podcast
Tired of all the Doom & Gloom News from Mainstream Media? You’ll get none of that here!
Instead you’ll find inspiring stories and developments that are making the world a better place.
Tired of all the doom and gloom news from mainstream media? You’ll get none of that here! Instead, you’ll find inspiring stories and developments making the world a better place
The Great News podcast is brought to you by the Daily Quote.
Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.
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Until next time… and there will be a next time.
Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!
the daily Quote Podcast
A Podcast Designed to Kickstart Your Day in a Positive Way!
Tune in daily to get a short dose of daily inspiration to kick start your day in a positive way.
the Daily Quote brings you inspirational quotes to help motivate and inspire your day with positivity.
Listen to the show for positive quotes from Albert Einstein, Maya Angelo, Seth Godin, Tony Robbins, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr, John Lennon, William Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, Confucius and more…
Every single day you will hear a motivational quote to fire up your day.
Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host Andrew McGivern and lets dive into todays quote of the day.
Today's quote comes from Martin Short, Canadian actor, comedian, writer, Tony Award winner, and one of the most beloved entertainers of the last five decades. A man the world knows for making people laugh. And a man who has lived a life of profound complexity, extraordinary joy, and deep personal loss.
He once said:
”No one is any one thing.”For a sentence with only five words, it says a lot!Think about how relentlessly we label ourselves and each other. The funny one. The serious one. The strong one. The one who struggles. The successful one. The one who never quite got there.We collapse entire human beings into a single characteristic and then live, or let others live, inside that narrow definition as if it were the whole truth.
But no one is any one thing. Not even close.The person who makes the room laugh is also the person who sits in silence at 2am missing someone they've lost. The one who projects confidence may have spent the last 10 years doubting everything. The one you've written off as difficult has a tenderness you've never been allowed to see. The one who seems to have it all together is quietly carrying something no one knows about.
Martin Short understood this not as an abstract philosophy but as the lived experience of his own life. The world knew him as one of Hollywood's funniest men and in private, he lost his wife Nancy after 30 years of marriage. ” He described her death as ”by far the most awful thing I've been through” But yet he kept going, he said, because his children were watching, looking to him to show them that the family was still standing.
The comedian grieving. The man who makes the world laugh, sitting on a porch at twilight, missing the person he loved most. Both completely true. Neither one the whole story.
This is what Short is pointing at. Every person you know, the very person you are, contains far more than the version you most often show the world. And the freedom that comes from really accepting that for yourself and for the people around you is extraordinary. You stop expecting people to be only one thing. You stop expecting yourself to be only one thing. And you start allowing the full, complicated, irreducibly human truth of what a person actually is.No one is any one thing. That includes the people you admire most and the person you see in the mirror.So here's the question: What single story have you been telling about yourself or about someone in your life that is leaving out far more than it includes?
Because people are not their labels. Not their worst moment, not their public face, not the version of them that fits most conveniently into your understanding. They are all of it, the light and the shadow, the laughter and the grief, the strength and the private struggling.
Give yourself, and the people around you the full picture. It's far more interesting than the one-word version. And far more true.
That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern signing off for now but I'll be back tomorrow, same pod time, same pod station with another Daily Quote.
Andrew McGivern
Podcast Host
Hi, I’m Andrew McGivern and I’m the host of the Daily Quote, Great News podcast and editor of the Great News Letter.
If your tired of hearing about how bad the world is and want some reality based GOOD NEWS to cheer you up and inspire you then you’ve come to the right place.
With a diploma in Business Administration and Commerce and a Bachelors Degree in Economics, I’m interested in covering how converging technological advances are about to radically change our society for the better.