Episodios

  • Is This Our Push Up the Spiral? (Monthly Solo)

    Is This Our Push Up the Spiral? (Monthly Solo)
    Jun 30 2025
    In this month’s solo episode, I’m sharing: The tools and people helping me to manage my fear right now. Thoughts on growing up versus waking up. The most important things I’ve learned from the Spiral Dynamics theory of human development, and Ken Wilbur’s concept of holarchies. What makes me believe there is a way for many of us to expand our worldviews and push up the spiral now. And more. For the show notes (and so many links if you want to go deeper), head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    57 m
  • Why Does the Genius Myth Have a Hold Over Us? (Helen Lewis)

    Why Does the Genius Myth Have a Hold Over Us? (Helen Lewis)
    Jun 26 2025
    In her new book, The Genius Myth, journalist Helen Lewis explores how and why we label certain people geniuses; and the impact this has on said geniuses, us, and culture at large. Today, we talk about our perception of the exceptional, and some of our more pernicious and dark misperceptions. For the show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 h y 2 m
  • A Formula for Coming Alive (Shannon Watts)

    A Formula for Coming Alive (Shannon Watts)
    Jun 19 2025
    “Living on fire is really a metaphor for figuring out two things,” says Shannon Watts. “What is limiting you. And what is calling you.” Watts spent 11 years as the full-time volunteer lead of Moms Demand Action, which she founded. Now, as she puts it, Watts continues to summon the audacity of other women. Today, she shares so many useful life nuggets from her new book, Fired Up: How to Turn Your Spark Into a Flame and Come Alive at Any Age. For the show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 h y 3 m
  • Finding Faith in our Future (Krista Tippett)

    Finding Faith in our Future (Krista Tippett)
    Jun 12 2025
    “You're going to find a lot of people doing their best, revealing how beautiful and strange we are, and how remarkable we can be,” says Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and founder of On Being Krista Tippett. In this conversation, Tippett shares where we might turn for more hope and pleasure, and how she thinks about what shapes our presence in the world. For the show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    56 m
  • Should Romantic Love Be at the Center of Our Lives? (Melissa Febos)

    Should Romantic Love Be at the Center of Our Lives? (Melissa Febos)
    Jun 5 2025
    In her new memoir, The Dry Season, Melissa Febos (award-winning author of Girlhood) examines her (and our culture’s) relationship to love, to falling in love with someone, to being in love with someone. Today, we talk about why she decided to spend a year celibate after a particularly rough breakup, and what more she wanted from a relationship, from herself, and for her life. We talk about being conditioned to be codependent, the lovely things that have happened in our own long-term relationships when we’ve gone off script, what it actually means to be a people pleaser—and more. For links to Melissa Febos’s books and the show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    59 m
  • Moving Away from Hierarchy (Danielle Gibbons)

    Moving Away from Hierarchy (Danielle Gibbons)
    May 29 2025
    Okay, this is a wild one. Danielle Gibbons is not a psychic, but she is a channel—she channels messages from Mother Mary. Today, she’s sharing her origin story, and a message from Mother: about how to create something sustainable and meaningful, adapt to these ever-evolving times, and find a little bit of beauty right now. For the show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    44 m
  • How Do We Get Efficient with Our Energy? (Monthly Solo)

    How Do We Get Efficient with Our Energy? (Monthly Solo)
    May 27 2025
    In May’s monthly solo episode, I’m reflecting on: motherhood, my mom, the Performance of Parenthood, and what provokes my anger around Mother’s Day. How badly the world needs us all to hold a balance of the masculine and feminine—and how badly we need the feminine to rise in men. What it might look like if we didn’t operate out of fear. Applying my writing process and system to other areas of life. What keeps us from saying no, and what keeps us from saying yes—based on our Enneagram types. And, more. For the show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    54 m
  • Is It Time to Stop Optimizing? (Coco Krumme)

    Is It Time to Stop Optimizing? (Coco Krumme)
    May 22 2025
    “I think both of those things are problematic—both that we’ve optimized too many things and that it’s our sole worldview,” says Coco Krumme, applied mathematician and author of Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization. Today, we talk about what we lose by prioritizing optimization above all else—and what we could gain by choosing something else. We also talk about why Krumme thinks the threat of surveillance capitalism is overblown, and why she’s more optimistic about what humans can do than what AI can do. For the show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    39 m