What Are You Known For When You Leave the Room?
Send us Fan Mail Jason Hewlett unpacks the title story of Episode 33: the ninety seconds after the door closes that decide your whole career. This is about the sentence the room actually says when y...
19 Sep 45min
Stay: The Hardest Promise We Ever Ask a Person to Keep
Send us Fan Mail Meet Brandy Vega — the mother, the emcee, the founder of Promise2Live — and the story of the promise she made in the worst moment of her life that has now reached over seven million p...
11 Sep 41min
What Labor Day 2026 Actually Looks Like in America
Send us Fan Mail 6.9 million unemployed. 1.8 million long-term unemployed. 31 percent engagement. Hundreds of millions of vacation days paid for and never used. This is the honest snapshot of American...
4 Sep 43min
Every Religion Has Someone at the Door
Send us Fan Mail 88,500 Latter-day Saints. 430,000 Christian missionaries worldwide. 9 million Jehovah's Witnesses. Every faith sends somebody — and the way we treat the one on our porch says more a...
28 Aug 48min
The Sleep Recession Is Real
Send us Fan Mail America is not sleeping. The brand-new CDC number just landed, and 30.5% of American adults — one in three of us, 83.6 million people — are sleeping less than seven hours a night. R...
21 Aug 50min
Say the Name: An Ode to the Teacher Who Saw You
Send us Fan Mail Two teachers. Two rooms. One boy who became a man because both of them showed up. Jason Hewlett tells the story of the choir teacher who found his voice and the grandma who found hi...
14 Aug 51min
The First Day Is a Promise
Send us Fan Mail The first day of school is a covenant moment we keep treating like a logistics moment. Here are the three promises the first day is actually making — and how to name them out loud thi...
7 Aug 44min
The Great American Attention Reset
Send us Fan Mail New industry data — Bizzabo, CEIR, ZipDo, Talkadot — reveals a paradox. Attention has cratered to eight seconds, but live rooms are winning like never before. And the word that predic...
31 Jul 45min
