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A playlist of my favorite episodes


  • 1

    James Baldwin's Fire

    Throughline

    45:59 | Sep 17th, 2020

    1 recommendation

    The meaning and purpose of James Baldwin's work and how his words can help us navigate the current moment.

    fiercefab recommended:

    “We are not only disasters, we are miracles.” This deeply moving, often meditative episode of Throughline has left me stunned and reaching for superlatives. So many times it felt so true it hurt. W...Show More

  • 2

    On Buddhism and Blackness

    Future Perfect

    1:07:34 | Jul 1st, 2020

    1 recommendation

    Co-host Sigal Samuel talks to Valerie Brown, a mindfulness teacher with a racial justice lens, about how to use Buddhist spiritual teachings not just to soothe us as individuals, but to tackle broader...Show More

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    How does internalized oppression show up in our bodies and on our faces? It’s not something I’d thought about until this illuminating conversation between Valerie Brown, an African American mindfulne...Show More

  • 3

    This two-episode special is based on a course that Dr. Harriet Lerner and I did together on her groundbreaking book, “Why Won’t You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts.” You can expec...Show More

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    You know it’s a hard one when you hear Brené Brown struggle — but I’m so glad she did, because it helped me control my own adrenaline. Her reactions throughout affirmed for me that This Shit Is Hard, ...Show More

  • 4

    1. Listen Closer

    Have You Heard George's Podcast?

    19:48 | Sep 5th, 2018

    6 recommendations

    In the series debut George invites his listeners to step into the speakers and join him on a meandering ride aboard his own train of thought. The Poet muses on the interplay between crime and music in...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    “You are being taught at all times. What you learn is up to you.” - George the Poet This podcast may be the best I’ve ever heard, and I listen to a lot of podcasts. Crackling with originality, poetry...Show More

  • 5

    Virtual Choir

    Twenty Thousand Hertz

    29:37 | Oct 21st, 2019

    10 recommendations

    Singing with others is a powerful form of expression. That's why the composer Eric Whitacre started the Virtual Choir; an experiment that connects singers from every corner of the globe. In this episo...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    I’d echo the other echoes on this one. Mesmerizing. Brought tears to my eyes.

  • 6

    Black music, forged in captivity, became the sound of complete artistic freedom. It also became the sound of America. On today’s episode: Wesley Morris, a critic-at-large for The New York Times. “161...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    Honestly, I should just echo every episode of this series. It’s one of the best I’ve ever, ever heard. This one is particularly powerful following the strained conversation about blackface we just h...Show More

  • 7

    Teju Cole — Sitting Together in the Dark

    On Being with Krista Tippett

    52:44 | Feb 28th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Writer and photographer Teju Cole says he is “intrigued by the continuity of places, by the singing line that connects them all.” He attends to the border, overlap and interplay of things — from Brahm...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    “If everyone’s so woke, why are things so terrible? ... being woke is different from waking up, because it’s a performing — knowing the right things to say so that you don’t get attacked. But the resp...Show More

  • 8

    Carlo Rovelli — All Reality Is Interaction

    On Being with Krista Tippett

    52:10 | Apr 26th, 2018

    3 recommendations

    “We don’t understand the world as made by stones — by things. We understand the world made by kisses, or things like kisses: happenings.” Carlo Rovelli offers vast, complex ideas beyond most of our im...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    I loves this interview. It left me astonished and grateful, looking at myself and the world around me in a different way. Through this poetic physicist’s eyes, we are all part of a “wave of happenings...Show More

  • 9

    [Unedited] Tracy K. Smith with Krista Tippett

    On Being with Krista Tippett

    1:29:27 | Nov 1st, 2018

    1 recommendation

    The U.S. Poet Laureate. “There’s this whole other narrative unfolding.” How history “which once felt so remote, feels closer and active and unresolved.” Listening for the spaces that are under-imagine...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    “Love isn’t just flowers and hearts. Love is work. Love is dangerous. Love is ennobling, but not in the easy, pretty way that we sometimes imagine that it is.” - Tracy K. Smith ❤️ I needed this conv...Show More

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