John Swinton: The Art of Presence
Some people are the LEAN IN sort. They lean into your unsolvable problems, show up on your impossible days, and walk with you all the way to the end. How do we become them? How do we create belonging ...
25 Apr 202346min
Maggie Smith: This Place Could Be Beautiful, Right?
Maggie Smith (poet and author of books like Keep Moving and You Could Make This Place Beautiful) chronicles the aftermath of a painful divorce she didn’t see coming. How do we raise our kids in the wa...
18 Apr 202342min
Mary Louise Kelly: No More Do Overs
What happens when the people we built our lives around stop needing us? Or when we have to pick between our meaningful careers or our family? And what do we do with the ambiguous grief that comes with...
11 Apr 202344min
Rabbi Steve Leder: Don’t Come Out Empty Handed
How should you show up for people in grief? What do you say? What should you do? Why is it that beauty can exist alongside deep suffering? What can be said at funerals when the person who died was com...
4 Apr 202355min
Michael Ignatieff: Where We Turn For Meaning
Historian and Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff explores the cracks in our seamless worldviews… or at least the worldviews we thought were seamless until we’re faced with tragedies of all kinds. I...
28 Mars 202344min
Paulina Porizkova: Complicated Grief and Complicated Love
Supermodel Paulina Porizkova has been in the public eye all her life. But it has been a rollercoaster of soaring successes and deep heartache. Grief and pain comes to us all, and in those moments, we ...
21 Mars 202338min
Tom Long: Number Our Days
The Reverend Tom Long wrote the book on funerals. No, really. When grief threatens to swallow us whole, Tom reminds us of our place in a bigger story of hope and faith, of interdependence and the impo...
14 Mars 202344min
Elaine Pagels: Love Pulls You Forward
Over thirty years ago, Elaine Pagels’ young son and husband died within the same year. In this tender conversation, Kate and Elaine discuss surviving the aftermath of such devastation, the painful exp...
7 Mars 202342min
