Cartoonist Gemma Correll Saw a Therapist with a Clown-Festooned Office. Once.
British-born, LA-based author and illustrator Gemma Correll had a couple of reasons to choose the motif of an amusement park for her new anxiety book, Anxietyland. One, she loves amusement parks and ...
22 Juni 46min
RFK Jr. Wants To Take Your SSRIs Away. So What Are Democrats Doing About It?
Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is, to put it mildly, a skeptic of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medication, a form of meds that millions of Americans use r...
15 Juni 50min
Robyn Hitchcock is Fundamentally Delusional, Welcomes Birds
If you’ve ever listened to Robyn Hitchcock’s music, you know that it can get pretty surrealistic. Some might say divinely bizarre and eclectic. Others might just say weird. All of that’s fine with the...
8 Juni 1h 4min
Blake Mycoskie Helped the World, Got Rich, Retired to a Life of Ease, Then Fell Apart
There is no Tom behind TOMS Shoes. It’s short for “Tomorrow’s.” There is a Blake, however. Blake Mycoskie founded the company in 2006 under the model that for every pair sold, a second pair would be d...
1 Juni 58min
An Episode About the Grind, Singer Zayna Youssef of Sweet Pill, and YOU
Yes, the episode is about a rock singer but it’s also about any of us who grind away for the benefit of our work and the detriment of ourselves. The sudden cancellation of the band Sweet Pill’s extens...
25 Maj 53min
Terrifying Times for Immigrants in America and Cristina Jimínez is Incredibly Hopeful
This episode of the show is about America, ultimately. We’re joined by Cristina Jimínez, author of the memoir Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real Change and MacArthur genius...
18 Maj 44min
Claude Steele on Churn, the Awkward Social Distress That Divides Us All
I’m pretty sure you’ve been in this situation: you’re in a group setting of consequence and importance. Maybe it’s at work, maybe in school, but something is on the line. In that place are people diff...
11 Maj 55min
Connecting Childhood Events To Your Stress Issues Today with Benjamin Wagner
The things that happened when you were young, especially the really painful things, can easily and often carry into adulthood. For documentarian, former high-powered executive, and actual Mister Roger...
4 Maj 52min
