Podcast Episodes

THX - Karen Mulvaney's Eulogy for her Father

Season 1 Episode 203

Karen Mulvaney writes about her father—a man who did cartwheels in a cornfield when her mother said "Yes!", who woke his kids with pots and pans at d…

3 months ago

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Go To on Going For It

Season 1 Episode 230

Kelly had a dream. Over a decade, the dream started to seem stupidly out of reach so she went about her business raising money for non profits. But i…

3 months ago

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Deep Dive with Kate Bowler on the Crappy Files 2025

Season 1 Episode 276

Kelly and Kate Bowler return for their annual, end-of-the-year "Crappy Happy" tradition—this week, the crappy. They wade into the losses that don't a…

3 months ago

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Thanks For Being Here - Mary Pat's Christmas Stockings

Season 1 Episode 202

Colleen Gilroy tells the story of her mother, Mary Pat—a woman who stayed up deep into the night knitting Christmas stockings, thinking about each re…

3 months, 1 week ago

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Go To on Attention and Awe

Season 1 Episode 229

What does it take to truly see someone before they're gone? Kelly shares an essay she wrote for an evening celebrating awe, reflecting on attention a…

3 months, 1 week ago

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Deep Dive with Dr. Francis S. Collins on Nature

Season 1 Episode 275

How much can we blame DNA for our depression and anxiety? Is something about our mental health pre-written into our genetic code? How much trauma car…

3 months, 1 week ago

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Thanks For Being Here - Wendie's Letter to Joanie and Da

Season 1 Episode 201

Wendy Childress shares the story of losing her beautiful daughter Chloe in the devastating Camp Mystic floods in Texas, and writes a deeply moving t…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Go To on Takeaways from Five Years of Podcasting

Season 1 Episode 228

After 700 episodes, Kelly distills what matters most: the places where old wisdom meets new science, what eulogies teach us about greatness, and why …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Deep Dive with Anna Quindlen on The Art of Gifting and Regifting

Season 1 Episode 274

For anyone with gift anxiety, for anyone who feels like you can’t win for losing, this is the conversation for you. Full of reminders and insights as…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Thanks For Being Here - Meghan's Eulogy for her Father, Forty Years Later

Season 1 Episode 200

In this episode, writer Megan Cathlin shares a eulogy written four decades after her father's death by suicide when she was five years old. She refle…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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