
AROBA Podcasts
AROBA Podcasts offer intimate, in-depth discussions about work, life, and society. We aim to inform, entertain, and inspire.
AROBA can refer to several different things:
1. An acronym: A room of Black artists.
2. The @ symbol: In Spanish, "Arroba" is the word for the "@" symbol, which has the same origin as the unit of weight.
3. A unit of weight: In Spanish, Portuguese, and some other languages, "Arroba" is a unit of weight, equivalent to about 25 pounds (11.3 kg) in Spain and 32 pounds (14.5 kg) in Portugal.
4. A carriage: "Araba" (a variant of "Aroba") is a type of carriage, particularly in Turkey and surrounding regions, drawn by horses or oxen.
(əˈrɑːbə ) noun. an Asian carriage, wagon or cart that is drawn by horses or oxen.
Episodes
7 episodes
Facing Addiction: Loved Ones (part 2)
Part Two Victor Stiff is a Toronto-based entertainment journalist. Victor continues (from part 1 of Loved Ones) to reveal his experiences around the impact of family members' drug use as he tries to support them, as well ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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13:17

Facing Addiction: Loved Ones (part 1)
Part OneVictor Stiff is a Toronto-based entertainment journalist. He has contributed to the Canadian Academy, POV Magazine, Global News, The Playlist, Screen Rant, We Got This Covered, In the Seats, and Sordid Cinema. He also currently prog...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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23:19

Facing Addiction: Commitment
Adrian Hayles’ background includes mural painting, graphic design and illustration. For the pass nine years, he has been operating as an independent artist, before that he worked in the animation industry. A year ago, Adrian began t...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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15:18

Facing Addiction: Kindness
Louis Taylor is a media, content creator who owes and operates Shining Trauma Pictures. In this episode he discusses what it was like to grow-up with traumas from anti Black exper...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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17:39

Facing Addiction: Substances
"A big part of harm reduction is about the language that we use. You know you don't say that somebody's clean, you say somebody stopped using, because those words are very judgmental. We stay away from words like junkie and addict a...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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13:55
