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A funny thing happened on the way to my unfinished manuscript… I found myself digging into a series of conversations that might just help us all think more, feel more, do more and be better. Kelly Corrigan Wonders posts new episodes every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday and we welcome you to follow or subscribe.
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Tell Me More: Being Well
March Replays
Fighting Corruption
Wanda Replay
Rupture + Repair
January 2024
Going Deep with Lee C. Camp on Holiday Hope
(Replay) - Going Deep with Mary Louise Kelly on Parenting Choices
Tell Me More: What Does It Take To Make It In America?
Replays
Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival
After Much Study
Modern World
Replay
Creativity, Purpose, Vitality + Useful Failures
Replay
Life Worth Living
Replay
Tell Me More
Maya Shankar
Using Our Five Senses to Explore the World
Live From College (Cont’d)
Feelings, Friction and Family
Replay
Live From College - Spring Semester
The Big Re-Frame
The Happy/Crappy Files
Double Header
Replay 2022
Live From College - Fall Semester (continued)
Replay 2022
Live From College - Fall Semester
2022 Replay
Parenting and the Brain with Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett
All Together Now
How’d You Do That?
Take 2
Ariel Trost
Readings and Conversation with Jen Hatmaker
Take 2
The 2022 Regroup
Top Picks 2021
After a year of conversations, it’s time to reflect on our favorites.
Holidays for Regular People
A series to get you in the mood for the holiday season.
Why Keep it a Secret? A Series on Belief
A series on belief in all its many forms, featuring conversations with a range of thinkers, philosophers, religious leaders and deep believers. This series is supported a production grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.
Mind the Gap: Navigating Generational Differences
A series exploring generational differences and attitudes toward parenting, well-being, money and work. This series is supported by a production grant from Medium and features some of Medium’s most popular writers.
Love Stories for a Weary World
A series featuring perspectives, insights and musings on love in all its forms — from self-love to maternal love to romantic love. The series is supported by a production grant from Medium and features some of Medium’s most popular writers.
Race, Love & Understanding
A series featuring perspectives and insights from some of Kelly’s favorite thinkers and writers on race.
[Also this month, a bonus episode for graduates.]
Finding Meaning
Kelly talks with a teacher, a therapist, a researcher and an old friend about finding meaning through friendship and family, getting to the other side of the pandemic and making sense of our high conflict society
Human Nature
Kelly goes deep on human nature with some of our best living writers, digging into why we’re drawn to stories, what makes us feel most alive, overcoming manipulation and understanding our place in the world. The series is capped off with Tamar Gendler, a Yale philosopher and the Dean of Arts & Sciences, whose thorough historical perspective on what makes us tick will definitely leave you feeling smarter, deeper and full of understanding about yourself and your fellow humans.
How To Make the Most of Family Life
Can anyone claim the perfect family life? Under the shadow of the pandemic and on the verge of her own empty nest, Kelly wades through the regrets, misunderstandings and occasional victories of family life with Pulitzer Prize winning writer Anna Quindlen and with Anna Sale, the award-winning host of the Death, Sex & Money podcast and author of the book Let's Talk About Hard Things. Over five episodes, together, the three women get candid about the throes of motherhood, marriage, feminism and work, while also exploring the slog and splendor of the everyday.
How Change Happens
How Change Really Happens, a 10 part series of frank conversations about suffering, compassion, willpower and tough love, has begun on the podcast. I hope every episode, which runs weekly through January and was supported by the awesome people from The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, will help all of us believe in change and remember how to make it happen in every corner of our lives.
What is always true, under any circumstances, even in the total crap year that is 2020?
Renowned educator Wanda Holland Greene joins Kelly on election day to dig into whether it’s possible to find common ground with absolutely anyone, even people we think we hate. They discuss how uncovering the many things we all share can be transformative, and even overshadow that which divides us.
What did I get wrong? a Q + A with happiness nerd Dacher Keltner
On the heels of the series with Wanda Holland Greene about forgiveness, agency, self awareness and finding common ground, Kelly takes a list of lingering questions to world-class psychologist, Dacher Keltner at UC Berkeley, and asks him everything she ever wanted to know about why we do the weird things we do. And the answers are fantastic.
What conventional wisdom is not actually all that wise?
Platitudes and adages can be comforting, and misleading. I asked four writer/podcaster friends to tell me what maxim they just can not brook. Here’s what we unpacked:
