Welcome to Week 1/12 of Season 1 ! It all starts with a guy bumping into a bull and deciding to take an unconventional approach.

Who or what are you confronting in your life today?

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READ 📖 CHAPTER 1

LISTEN 🎤 S1EP01. Talking To Bulls

REFLECT 🧐 Writer’s Commentary

📖 CHAPTER 1

The Prologue finds our protagonist in the future, and he seems to have some magical powers of human ( & animal) connection which allows him to deal with a potentially fatal confrontation in a new way. It is very loud in his mind, but somehow he pulls a trick to reign in ‘his kingdom’ and gain control.

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Chapter 1. Prologue

“ I stared into its determined eyes, and it stared right back at me. There it stood, resiliently in my path, with horns glistening and nose fuming. Its ears twisted slowly, as though they were sonars trying to locate where I stood, and how to best annihilate me. I had never seen a bull before, but here I was in a western standoff with the 2000-pound bea…

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🎤 S1EP01. Talking To Bulls (and more) - 28 mins with Paul Kist

Omar and Paul get started on their podcast journey, with Paul’s recital of his story in actually confronting a bull in real life. The duo then venture out to try to understand emotional communication, the value of being in nature, and end up deciding to keep doing this podcast, for at least 10 more episodes.

The production and music started coming in at Episode 4 so please don’t judge us on audio quality just yet…

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Ep01. Talking to Bulls w/ Paul Kist

Listen now (28 min) | How do you handle confrontation? What about when your opponent only speaks… cow? Join us on the series premiere of the Gumpcast where Omar interviews the real man who experienced the bull encounter described in chapter 1. We will explore: Confrontation in general…

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🧐 Writer’s Commentary | Confrontation

In this blog post, Omar takes his first stab at confronting his audience. *Gulp* Vulnerability hangovers, here we go…

Excerpt:

The bigger theme here is this: The bull is inside of us all, and by fighting it we get locked in a bloody conflict, whereas by accepting it and relating to it, we can find a way out. It is not easy, and that is going to be Maskat’s journey throughout the story.

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Confrontation

Hello Subscribers! It’s so thrilling to be able to send you something. By subscribing you are keeping me accountable for creating, which is huge for me! So thank you. Here is my first official post. This is how it works: Every 2 weeks: I will open up one of the chapters for discussion. You can see which chapter we are on by clicking on ‘Top’ on the hom…

2 years ago · Omar Shaker

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