Family Secrets Live: In Conversation with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
In January, Dani hit the road for a series of live conversations with some of her favorite writers, artists, and thinkers. Her first stop: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she sat down with renowned t...
7 Touko 202040min
Bug Dust
For years, Steven Romo just didn’t talk about the bleak landscape of his childhood—not with friends, and certainly not with his colleagues at the TV station where he works as an anchor. Until a headli...
9 Huhti 202036min
Bonus: Stephanie Wittels Wachs, host of “Last Day” on storytelling in the time of Coronavirus
In this special bonus episode, Dani speaks with Stephanie Wittels Wachs, actress, activist, and co-host of the hit podcast Last Day, which shines a light on the real human stories behind epidemics we ...
4 Huhti 202046min
The Red Potion
Janny Scott grew up on an 800-acre British-style estate outside Philadelphia with a loving, gregarious father who was always the life of the party. But underneath her father’s light exterior was a dar...
2 Huhti 202033min
Fever Coat
When Axton Betz-Hamilton was in middle school, her family’s mail started going missing. Her parents told her that they’d been the victims of an identity thief, and that the perpetrator was likely some...
26 Maalis 202032min
Bubbe and Zayde and Grandma and Pa
Growing up, Adam Frankel idolized his father and his father’s father, eventually following in their footsteps to become a successful speechwriter for politicians like John Kerry and Barack Obama. But ...
19 Maalis 202046min
Cold People
For most of her young life, Lisa Brennan-Jobs bounced back and forth between two very different homes—that of her mother, who raised Lisa alone for the first few years of her life and struggled to mak...
12 Maalis 202034min
Too Busy to Die
Addiction breeds denial, in both the addict and his loved ones. And when that addiction comes wrapped in a busy, successful, ambitious package like Eilene Zimmerman’s ex-husband, a respected Silicon V...
5 Maalis 202045min
