Podcast Episodes

Thanks For Being Here Heather's Essay "My Mom and Three Writers I Love"

Season 1 Episode 73

Today’s Thanks For Being Here was submitted by Heather Hoskeer. It’s a poignant, beautifully-written essay called, “My Mom and Three Writer…

2 years, 9 months ago

View Episode

Loss and New Beginnings

Season 1 Episode 101

Today’s For the Good of the Order is a speech that Kelly gave at Camp Kesem, a very special place that welcomes loss, friendship, sorrow and…

2 years, 9 months ago

View Episode

Claire Danes and Kate Bowler Book Clubbing with Kelly Part 3

Season 1 Episode 145

Sadly, this is the last conversation with Claire Danes and Kate Bowler about what makes life worth all the trouble, worry and suffering. In…

2 years, 9 months ago

View Episode

Thanks For Being Here Amy's Dad Harold "Wes" Westlund

Season 1 Episode 72

Amy Zuckerman shares a remembrance of her late father Harry “Wes” Westlund. Wes was a special man whose dream of becoming an Air Force figh…

2 years, 9 months ago

View Episode

Loss and Growing Up

Season 1 Episode 100

In this tender essay, Kelly traces her understanding of death from the day her goldfish died to the moment her father died. For everyone wh…

2 years, 9 months ago

View Episode

Claire Danes and Kate Bowler Book Clubbing with Kelly Part 2

Season 1 Episode 144

Claire Danes, Kate Bowler and I try to figure out how the hell to live lives of real meaning and discovery, how to depersonalize the slings …

2 years, 9 months ago

View Episode

Thanks For Being Here Courtney's Letter for Her Mom's 75th Birthday

Season 1 Episode 71

Writer Courtney Martin wrote this loving, humorous tribute to her mother for her 75th birthday. Along with detailing some of her mom’s quir…

2 years, 9 months ago

View Episode

Axios Finish Line Reading

Season 1 Episode 99

I find the Axios Finish Line newsletter hugely useful. I read it every day without fail. With 2023 graduates in mind, and all the conversa…

2 years, 9 months ago

View Episode

Claire Danes and Kate Bowler Book Clubbing with Kelly Part 1

Season 1 Episode 143

How do the values we inherited clash or complement the cultures we come of age in? How can we stay the right size in the world and in our o…

2 years, 9 months ago

View Episode

Thanks For Being Here Amy + Brandon's Donor Story

Season 1 Episode 70

This is the story of an oncologist named Amy who diagnosed herself with leukemia in her own lab and a stem cell donor named Brandon who step…

2 years, 9 months ago

View Episode