The Grey Area
The Grey Area
Marta Gèpe & Seiji Nakano
Seiji is Japanese, Marta is Spanish. Seiji plays many instruments and enjoys solitude; Marta writes and hasn’t baked any home-made Sourdough yet. They live in London and like the rest of the world, they are discovering the lights and shadows of being in confinement. Everything seems pretty grey at the moment, really. They’ve been having many conversations on it so they thought, why not talking on a podcast about dealing with the lights and shadows of living in the Apocalypse?
E6. Exclusive Interview  With ‘The Quarantine Diaries’ Author Marta Gèpe
This week’s episode Seiji interviews Marta for her recent book ‘The Quarantine Diaries’! She talks through her comical experience during lockdown in a room with a balcony, music as a great soothing therapy and how she managed to sneak in a casting to work for Disneyland Paris and get the job! Just as the novel, it’s all a bit crazy!
Jul 21, 2020
53 min
E5. Disney Movie Time!: Peter Pan Is The Real Villain
Quote of the week: “When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.” – Morihei Ueshiba
Jul 14, 2020
50 min
E4. Be The Moon Reflected On the Water: What Lessons Can We Learn From Aikido?
Song of the week:‘To The Lions’ by The Hoosiershttps://youtu.be/gh_9Tvd6QrQ
Jul 7, 2020
41 min
E3. What Does Arigato Really Mean? Be More Grateful In Life (and enjoy your popcorns!)
What are the chances that Japan, Buddhism, Beauty And The Beast, Covid19 and gratefulness could be closely related? Well, some might think it’s hard to happen, but Seiji and Marta manage to link them all on this episode!
Jun 23, 2020
52 min
E2. What About Receiving Kindness?
What’s tougher, to treat people with kindness or to receive it? Also, what’s the real difference between being nice and kind? So much food for thought. Seiji and Marta navigate through these dilemmas and discuss how much better this world would be if we let our shields down and embraced our vulnerability… but, as Coldplay...
Jun 16, 2020
52 min
E1. What Is Kindness?
Seiji explains what kindness means in the Japanese culture. Marta arrives to the conclusion that SnowWhite wasn’t a very kind person.
Jun 9, 2020
40 min