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Bishop Michael Curry: The Power of Ordinary Love
Sometimes it feels like the world is irreparably broken. A climate crisis leading to more hurricanes, fires, warming oceans, a pol...
Susan Burton: Bless This Body
There are some secrets we'd rather not tell, but that eat us alive anyway. Writer Susan Burton was trapped in an eating disorder w...
Victoria Sweet: Medicine with a Soul
How do doctors, nurses, and other caring professionals keep their hearts soft when there are forces that make it hard to stay that...
Will Willimon: Your Work is a Calling
What does it mean to be called to something? What if that job wears you thin? What if you think you've aged out of your vocation? ...
Lanecia Rouse Tinsely: When Hope Seems Lost
What do you do when all hope feels lost? Abstract artist Lanecia Rouse Tinsley is no stranger to the hopelessness that comes with ...
Mary Pipher: The Art of Aging
Who are we as we age? Our culture has such poor language for the who-we-are-ness across time. The ways we grow and the things that...
Morgan Harper Nichols: Blessed Are The Mirrors
We have thick cultural scripts for what is deemed inspirational and it usually goes like this: You can do it. Never give up. Every...
Shauna Niequist: Spread Too Thin
Our lives have shrunk and our choices have been dramatically restricted. But the obligations never stopped, did they? How do we ge...
Ken Carter: Living Alongside Fear
What does it feel like to really live? Some people jump out of airplanes. Others prefer for their feet to stay on the floor. Some ...
Kristen Howerton: World’s Okayest Mom
Parenting isn't always Instagram-worthy, but the American myth of perfectionism rarely shows that messy middle. Kristen Howerton, ...
Rachael Denhollander: The Pursuit of Justice
What do we do when the institutions that are supposed to protect us, fail? As a child, Rachael Denhollander was sexually abused by...
Anthony Ray Hinton: The Sun Does Shine
Ray Hinton spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. With the help of justice lawyer Bryan Stevenson, Ray won hi...
Justin Yopp and Don Rosenstein: The Magic of WE
When a group of young moms died around the same time, clinicians Justin Yopp and Don Rosenstein wanted to refer their widowed spou...
Heather Lanier: Whole and Holy
What if your life hasn't turned out like you thought it would? When writer Heather Lanier's daughter was born with a rare genetic ...
Timothy Omundson & Joel McHale: Flying Buttresses
Timothy Omundson knows what it feels like to make something, then have well-made plans come apart after he suffered a massive stro...
Jason Rosenthal: Blank Space
When Jason Rosenthal’s wife died, she left him a gift that he couldn’t even have known to ask for—in the form of a viral Mod...
Sarah Bessey: Ordinary Miracles
Sarah Bessey speaks right to the soft spot where our deepest pain and deepest hope meet. The place where in the bleakest of nights...
Hillary McBride: Living Inside Our Bodies
Is fear avoidable? What does this emotion do to our bodies and minds? In this episode, Kate speaks with psychologi...
Mia Birdsong: Community as a Verb
There's a story we're told about how we should save ourselves through sheer grit. But many fall on the other side of...
Wes Moore: Fork in the Road
Wes Moore had a rough childhood growing up in Baltimore. His father died when he was a child, he struggled in school and was arres...
Gary Haugen: Joy is the Oxygen
Certain people decide to make other people's pain their own. Gary Haugen, founder and CEO of International Justice Mission, is one...
Wajahat Ali: Make Me A Gardener
Wajahat Ali was about to give a TED talk on the global case for havin...
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 that brought h...
Lori Gottlieb: Does My Pain Count?
How do we find joy and connection when tragedy surrounds us? In this episode, Kate speaks with bestselling author and psychotherap...
Glennon Doyle: The Love Bridge
We need guides to walk with us when life goes a little off-script. In this episode, Kate speaks with bestselling author Glennon Do...
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 needi...
The Emergency Button
When fear is overwhelming, sometimes you need to press the button—the emergency button. In this special episode, Kate gets real ...
Ari Johnson: More Than Enough
Sometimes everything is possible. Sometimes nothing is possible. How do you know the difference? Dr. Ari Johnson works to change ...
Angela Duckworth: Finding the Margins
Psychologist Angela Duckworth studies the significance of grit. There are those who experience a difficult circumstance and scrap...
Vivek Murthy: The Loneliness Epidemic
US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy embarked on a listening tour to determine what was ailing Americans. The answer surprised him....
Jen Hatmaker: The Preacher’s Wife
Author and speaker Jen Hatmaker ruled the Christian marketplace as the evangelical darling. But when her theology shifted, she lea...
Sister Helen Prejean: The Face of Love
Sister Helen Prejean didn't know what she was getting into when she became pen pals with an inmate on death row, a story told in t...
Nora McInerny: It’s Okay to Laugh
Nora McInerny had a miscarriage, lost her father, and lost her husband all within a few weeks. Much to her surprise, she kept livi...
Sesame Street: How Do We Talk to Kids about Hard Things?
How do we prepare our kids for a world we can't always protect them from? Sesame Street creates educational programs to make ...
Andrew Solomon: The Stories of Who We Are
Writer Andrew Solomon never felt like he fit in. But studying other communities that celebrate differences transformed his se...
Jerome Adams: We Belong to Each Other
US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams is committed to combatting the rising fatalities from opioids because he knows the struggle to...
John Swinton: The Speed of Love
The quality of time depends on our abilities and disabilities, possibilities and limitations. In a world of speed and productivity...
BJ Miller: Loving What Is
After an accident left BJ Miller with a serious phy...
John Green: Chronic Not Curable
Society likes to tell the narrative of sick to healthy. But what if there are things we can’t just get over? In his novel,
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Kelly Corrigan: Tell Me More
When bestselling author Kelly Corrigan experienced the death of her dad and dear friend back-to-back, she couldn’t shake the fee...
How to Grieve Well: A Special Conversation
What can we expect in the first moments of loss? How is it possible to grieve someone we may have never met? How can we best suppo...
Jayson Greene: The Language of Grief
When Jayson Greene’s two-year-old daughter died in a random tragedy, he was forced to find a way forward. What does it look like...
Mark Lukach: True Believers
Mark Lukach felt like he was hit with a tsunami when his beautiful marriage was upended by mental illness. With one diagnosis, he ...
Barbara Brown Taylor: Life After Dark
Author and Episcopal priest Barbara Brown Taylor is no stranger to darkness. After experiencing devastating loss, Barbara explores...
Emily McDowell: There’s No Good Card for That
Why is it so hard to say the right thing to those going through difficult circumstances?
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Alan Alda: Can You Hear Me Now?
Alan Alda is best known for his prolific acting career. But he has also spent years learning about, and teaching, communication. T...
Margaret Feinberg: Joyful, Anyways
Bestselling author and speaker, Margaret Feinberg was writing a book about joy when her world fell apart. Suddenly, she was fighti...
Awkward with Alexandra Petri
Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri is the queen of awkwardness. She didn’t audition for “America’s Next Top Model” ...
Lucy Kalanithi: Costly Love
When Lucy Kalanithi fell for another doctor, she couldn’t know how much love would teach her about suffering. Lucy Kalanithi is ...
Ray Barfield: This is Going to Hurt Just A Little
Dr. Ray Barfield knew when he entered the field of pediatric oncology that he was going to have an unusually tough day job. Some k...
Nadia Bolz-Weber: The Insight of Outsiders
Before Nadia Bolz-Weber became famous as a foul-mouthed pastor and bestselling author, she was an alcoholic and stand-up comedian....