Podcast Episodes

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…

5 months, 1 week 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…

5 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…

5 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…

5 months, 2 weeks 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…

5 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 …

5 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…

5 months, 3 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…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

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Go To on Fear vs. Fact

Season 1 Episode 227

Journalist and author Amanda Ripley cuts through the noise with a startling fact: America is on track for its lowest murder rate since 1960, yet most…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

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Deep Dive with Anna Quindlen on Showing Up

Season 1 Episode 273

Anna Quindlen and Kelly share readings, stories and insights on the art of holidaying, regular-people style - and focus on why showing up for those …

5 months, 4 weeks ago

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