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The Louise Fitzgerald Podcast has been providing mindfulness and personal growth tips since 2022.Currently on hiatus, but explore a sample of episodes recorded across the years. Visit louisefitzgerald.com.au for more resources and https://insighttimer.com/louisefitzgerald for free meditations

Take a pause with Paul and Cheri! Brief episodes, released occasionally, casually themed.

In Bulletproof Investing, real estate expert, investor, entrepreneur, and author James Fitzgerald, delivers a collection of personal stories and experiences that will show how you too can gain and retain financial control of your life. You’ll learn how to spend less than you earn, find a mentor, identify a purpose for your financial wellbeing, and, ultimately, learn to achieve financial independence.

"He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist." Bernice is having a difficult summer trying to fit in with her popular cousin Marjorie and her friends. But when Marjorie helps her become a society girl and she wins the affections of a certain young man, a battle of wits and wills ensues between the two cousins. In classic 90s makeover movie style, 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' is the 1920s equivalent of 'She's All That'.

"You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding--it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl." Ardita, a beautiful and bored young Flapper, is hanging out on her uncle's yacht when it's suddenly captured by pirates. When Ardita meets and falls in love with the charming captain she knows she's been right to reject the boring and rich society men. But a truth lurks around the corner that will make her question everything she thinks she knows.

"I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." When Benjamin Button is born he looks oddly like an old man. He's not interested in playing with other kids and he's too low on energy to participate anyway. When Benjamin turns 20 it dawns on his family that he is aging backwards. The younger he grows, the more he learns to embrace life.

Zavier keeps his past buried under his home, where he hopes it will stay forgotten by all. Andora is a young priestess in training who couldn’t kill her friend for blaspheming, and is being hunted for her lack of action. The two will collide in an apocalyptic coincidence that threatens to usurp the entire continent of Domhan, and the theocracy that has been constructed by their god, Halion, and his two children. They will meet, they will be bound together, and they will be pursued. As they flee for their lives, they will discover a deeper connection from their past.

Cuando todo es perfecto, ¿qué puede salir mal? Dick y Nicole lo tienen todo: son ricos, inteligentes y elegantes. Viajan a la Riviera francesa, epicentro de la clase alta mundial. Pero tras tan imponente carta de presentación se esconden secretos y debilidades que acaban convirtiéndose en un caballo desbocado imposible de domar, haciendo que la perfección de Dick y Nicole no sea más que un espejismo.

Bryan Dalyrimple returns to his hometown as a war hero after World War I. But after the ticker tape parades and back-slapping handshakes, he finds himself stuck in a dead-end job with little room for advancement, and frustration begins to mount. He decides to turn to the only option left for him—crime. Originally published in the 1920 short story collection Flappers and Philosophers, Fitzgerald shines a light on the sentiment toward the returning doughboys of World War I, and the dwindling opportunities awaiting them upon their return.

"A este lado del paraíso" es la ópera prima del autor F. Scott Fitzgerald. Se centra en la psicología de Armory Blane, estudiante adinerado de la universidad de Princeton, durante la Gran Guerra. Sus preocupaciones, obsesiones y desengaños amorosos le servirán al autor para hacer una profunda reflexión sobre su generación.

When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. Originally based on the idea that the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success but also moral and spiritual growth, the dream had by Fitzgerald's time become increasingly focused on money and pleasure—a phenomenon the high-living writer was only too familiar with.

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald's fictional narrative fully renders that period—known for its jazz music, economic prosperity, flapper culture, libertine mores, rebellious youth, and ubiquitous speakeasies.

Con la inevitabilidad de una brújula giró la cabeza hacia la mesa de la acusada y volvió a mirar fijamente la cara enorme e inexpresiva de la asesina, adornada por unos ojos que parecían dos botones rojos. Era la señora Choynski, de soltera Delehanty, y el destino había dispuesto que un día agarrara un hacha de carnicero y partiera en dos a su amante, un marinero. Las manos hinchadas que habían blandido el arma no dejaban de darle vueltas a un tintero; varias veces miró hacia el público con una sonrisa nerviosa.

Dark humor abounds as a tax agent tries to tame a post-apocalyptic hellscape in this audiobook podcast by author M.P. Fitzgerald. Music by Dust Mice.

Desperate to enjoy their empty nest, Jen and Andeep downsize to the countryside, to forage, upcycle and fall in love again, only to be joined by their two 20-something daughters, Asha and Camille. Living on top of each other in a tiny house, with no way to make money, tensions simmer, and as Jen and Andeep focus increasingly on themselves, the girls become isolated, argumentative and violent.

Rompedora colección de relatos cortos de Francis Scott Fitzgerald en los que el autor pinta un fresco de lo más peculiar de la socieda americana de su época, un mosaico que comprende guinistas que se hacen pasar por mendigos, seductores que provocan suicidios femeninos, ricas herederas incapaces de encontrar marido o empresarios encerrados por error en hospitales psiquiátricos. Una antología tan emblemática como hilarante.

Recopilación de todos los relatos cortos de Francis Scott Fitzgerald en los que se aprecian los temas estrella de la narrativa del autor: el desengaño generacional, la amargura del fracaso, la decadencia social y personal y la reflexión profunda sobre los excesos de la juventud.

Dotada de una sensibilidad inusual a la hora de plasmar el desencanto de toda una generación, "Hermosos y malditos" está considerada como una de las novelas más prometedoras y certeras de Francis Scott Fitzgerald. La trama nos presenta la decadencia vital de Anthony Junior, adinerado heredero cuya única misión en la vida es esperar la muerte de su acaudalado abuelo. Cuando se vea apartado del testamento familiar, se iniciará una catástrofe que sacudirá los cimientos de su vida.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button tells the tale of Benjamin, son of Roger Button, who was born as an old man and who, over the course of his life, miraculously ages backward. Beginning life as an octogenarian in his crib, Benjamin grows "older" while his body, conversely, appears younger and younger with each passing birthday. The story takes us through Benjamin's entire life: his difficult adolescence, his marriage, life as a soldier and father, and, ultimately, his inevitable descent into infanthood.