David Fajgenbaum: Hope Wears Sneakers
This is the story of one young doctor’s race against the clock as he searches for a cure for his own rare disease. In this conversation, Kate and David Fajgenbaum discuss: how love can turn hope in...
30 Juli 202445min
Listen Again: Lisa Damour—Understanding Today’s Teenagers
How hard is it to be a parent today? After a pandemic? With social media breathing down our necks? It’s so hard! Navigating the delicate balance between granting independence and providing guidance ca...
23 Juli 202457min
Thomas Lynch: Good Grief
What do you learn standing so close to the edge with so many people? Listen for wisdom on mortality and hope—like how the habits of love are hard to break and what makes a ‘good funeral’ directly from...
16 Juli 202451min
Listen Again: Kwame Alexander—To Be Loved Like That
Our most precious relationships are often our most complicated, aren’t they? Poet and bestselling author Kwame Alexander wrote an honest book of poems and essays that name the difficult and beautiful ...
9 Juli 202440min
Suleika Jaouad: You Are Not The Bad Thing
There is a strange tension when we want so badly for the people we love to support us, but want to shield them from the pain at the same time. This is a beautiful, terrible kind of love. In this con...
2 Juli 202432min
Abigail Marsh: Extraordinary Empathy
Are some people more empathetic than others? By studying those on the opposite end of the compassion spectrum–those with psychopathy–researcher Dr. Abigail Marsh discovered something surprising. In ...
18 Juni 202452min
Heather Lanier: Whole and Holy
What if your life hasn’t turned out like you thought it would? When writer Heather Lanier’s daughter, Fiona, was born with a rare genetic syndrome, she learned that the world will not always see her b...
4 Juni 202437min
Sunita Puri: The Uncertainty Specialist
Pain is like a geography—one that isn’t foreign to palliative care physician, Dr. Sunita Puri. Kate and Sunita speak about needing new language for walking the borderlands and how we all might learn t...
21 Maj 202440min
