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Kate challenges the myths we cling to when life falls apart—and invites us to live with honesty, tenderness, and a stubborn kind of joy.
Kate Bowler tells the truth about what it means to be human.
A four-time New York Times bestselling author, Duke University professor, and host of the Everything Happens podcast, Kate speaks with fierce clarity and sacred irreverence about living with limits in a culture obsessed with self-optimization.
Whether she’s in a sanctuary, on a stage, or behind a mic, Kate makes space for the ache and the ordinary—offering language for people who are carrying beauty and grief in the same breath. She’s spoken to companies, conferences, universities, healthcare systems, churches, and communities around the world.
Her message—honest, hopeful, and grounded in lived experience—meets people where they are. Whether it’s burnout or caregiving, leadership or loss, audiences leave feeling seen, softened, and just a little more human.
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Everything Happens Podcast
Conversations about what we lose, what we learn, and what we’re living toward.
These are the latest episodes from Everything Happens, Kate Bowler’s weekly podcast about faith, grief, joy, and the truth of our beautiful, terrible lives.
Through the Lens of Love
Tim Shriver—educator, author, and longtime Chairman of Special Olympics—joins Kate for a tender, funny, deeply practical conversation about dignity: what changes when we decide…
Divorce, Deconstruction, and Rebuilding from Scratch
What happens when the life you were supposed to have… disappears?Jen Hatmaker joins Kate Bowler for a conversation about faith, divorce, patriarchy, and the…
When Caregiving Becomes Codependency
When someone you love is in pain—whether they’re sick, addicted, or falling apart—you show up. Again and again and again. You make the calls.…
