Via recommendation, I I have now listened to my first episode of Finding Mastery: Conversations with Michael Gervais. It was a good one. (Obviously I can’t speak to the podcast on the whole.) He was interviewing Abby Wambach, a former professional soccer player (highest all-time scorer, regardless of gender) and Olympian. Many pieces of the … Read more
Every now and then, I read or hear something that takes a concept I am familiar with and puts it in a new light, adds a new twist, creates more depth. There was one from Where Should We Begin just a week ago, and today, there’s another. It becomes a conversation about entitlement and deprivation. … Read more
As I mentioned a bit ago, I have been bingeing on Where Should We Begin? by Esther Perel. The first episode of the second season (“You Need Help to Help Her”), she’s talking with a couple who has a young adult daughter with problems. Most of the details of the episode aren’t relevant to this … Read more
In talking about podcasts, I’ve mentioned Armchair Expert a couple of times. A week or so ago, I listened to Dax’s interview with Esther Perel, a psychotherapist who specializes in relationships and sexuality. It was captivating. In it, they mentioned that she has a podcast, Where Should We Begin? She’s beginning her third season, so … Read more
There’s not a bite or a sound clip or a quote for me to pull from this podcast—there was just too much—so I’m just going to recommend listening to the whole thing. Dax Shepard (Armchair Expert) talks with Johann Hari about his research and books exploring addiction. Much of the information was not new to … Read more
I have been listening to a series on creativity on Freakonomics. One episode was on failure, and there was a notion that caught my attention. They repeatedly referred to drafts as failures. I write a lot nowadays. I’ve done more years of formal schooling than I care to count (but would be a professional student … Read more
The TED Interview has been an interesting little series to work through. Chris Anderson talks with people who have given TED talks to delve a little deeper into their content. Through this, I listened to a “bonus episode” (not found on the site linked above, but accessible through a podcast app) of Ezra Klein interviewing … Read more
There’s a short podcast series (four episodes) called UnErased, talking about the history of gay conversion therapy in the US. It’s captivating. You’ll experience at least most of the span of human emotions listening to it—or at least, I did. In the last episode, they spend time with John Smid, a man among the leadership … Read more
TED has started a new podcast series called TED Interviews, where Chris Anderson interviews people who have give TED talks about their talks, and they get more in depth. I haven’t quite listened to all of them, but all that I’ve listened to have been captivating. (As of this writing, there are only six of … Read more
Much like the book quotes, sometimes, there’s something from a podcast that makes me stop what I’m doing, rewind, and write it down. This one is from The Wilderness, Chapter 15. Beginning almost half an hour in, he’s talking with Barack Obama. Obama says this: “To some degree, this goes back to something you often … Read more