The Guy Who Made Me Rethink Social Media
I’ve gone on record about social media. More than once, on this very show, I’ve pointed at it as part of the problem — the isolation, the division, the way...
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We Didn't Stay Quiet This Summer.
We Didn't Stay Quiet This Summer. The fall drop is here. Or almost here. Or rolling in any minute now. If you follow along, you've seen the pattern. SULYN spent...
You Don’t Need a Program. You Need a Table.
Abimbola Oshodi came to the United States on a two-and-a-half-week vacation. That was twelve years ago. A family friend — an “uncle,” in the Nigerian way, where you don’t call...
You Already Belonged
Season Two, Episode 5 · with Brooke Ackerman Brené Brown draws a line between belonging and fitting in. Belonging means being accepted as you are. Fitting in means changing yourself...
The Dolly Chat
The week Dolly Parton passed, something strange happened to our feeds. The doom scrolling stopped. In its place: stories, laughter, music, and a country grieving together — all walks of...
Get Proximate: What Changes When You Actually Notice People
Nicole Detweiler is back. She was one of the standout conversations of Season 1, and this time she came to talk about one word: proximity. Nicole doesn't talk about community...
Who Is Your Neighbor? A Conversation with Brian Bales
Season Two opens with the question underneath everything else we'll talk about this fall. The Surgeon General declared loneliness an epidemic. Most conversations stop right there, at the diagnosis. This...