
Why Being Right Won't Set You Free (Michael Semanchik and Scott McMahon)
Mike Semanchik is the executive director of the Innocence Center, and Scott McMahon is an American who spent more than five years imprisoned in the Philippines for a crime he did not commit. In this e...
13 Jan 1h 16min

New Beginnings
In this episode of Hard Knox, Amanda is joined by her husband Chris for an intimate and surprisingly funny conversation about the practice of beginning again. Drawing from Zen practice, a New Year’s f...
6 Jan 1h 1min

Why Hope Is Learnable (Scott Barry Kaufman)
Scott Barry Kaufman is a cognitive scientist and bestselling author whose work explores creativity, intelligence, and what helps people grow after hardship. In this episode, Amanda and Scott talk abou...
30 Dec 20251h 4min

Who's Right? - The True Meaning of Christmas
Amanda and Chris debate the true meaning of Christmas through stories about Charlie Brown, gift giving, religion, pagan traditions, and very strong opinions about gift cards. They explore why Christma...
27 Dec 202531min

How Journalism Can Be an Act of Hope (Nicholas Kristof)
Nicholas Kristof is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and longtime New York Times columnist whose reporting has taken him from the Tiananmen Square massacre to the brothels of Cambodia and the opioi...
23 Dec 20251h 1min

Ask Amanda Anything - Life Advice, Dark Humor, Bad Dates
In this Ask Amanda Anything episode, Amanda answers listener questions that range from deeply personal to playfully unexpected, touching on disability, identity, creativity, politics, joy, and very ba...
18 Dec 202544min

Why Win-Win Thinking Is So Hard (Liv Boeree)
Liv Boeree is a former professional poker champion turned science communicator whose work explores game theory, technology, and the incentive systems shaping our world. In this wide-ranging conversati...
16 Dec 20251h 3min

Old School: Protect Your Heart (Jason Baldwin)
By the time he was sixteen, Jason Baldwin had already felt the sting of prejudice from his community in West Memphis, Arkansas. Kids at the trailer park where he lived had long been shunned by more we...
12 Dec 20251h 7min




















