In adulthood, many of us are forced to recalibrate our relationship with joy. As responsibilities multiply exponentially, time grows limited, and challenges mount, it becomes harder to make time for f...Show More
Saoirse Ronan ("Little Women") reads an essay about how a language barrier impacts the relationship between a young woman and an Iraqi doctor. This is an encore presentation.
Episode 194: A Whole Jar of Pickles
This episode tackles topics like trust, birth control, and boundaries. We just launched some new tiers and rewards on Patreon. Join today and get access to an extra weekly episode, video content, mont...Show More
In this week's episode of Head and Heart Work Conversations Sierra talks with Melissa Lozada-Oliva, a Guatelombian (Guatemalan-Colombian) American poet and screenwriter. Read Melissa's new book Dreami...Show More
When Ross Showalter turned 18 and began dating hearing men, he found himself communicating with them on their terms: using spoken language. Years of speech lessons and lip-reading practice forced Ross...Show More
Episode 172: Is It Us, or Is It Capitalism?
This episode tackles topics like growing together in a system that’s working against us, when our friends date our exes, and when they say they love us only during the breakup. Join us on Patreon and...Show More
"You can't meditate yourself out of a 40-hour work week with no childcare and no paid sick days," says Dr. Pooja Lakshmin. But when you're overworked and overwhelmed, what actually can you do? On this...Show More
Ocean Vuong's new collection, Time Is A Mother, is about his grief after losing family members. Vuong told Morning Edition's Rachel Martin that time is different now that he has lost his mother: "when...Show More
Friends and ex-friends finally talk about the one thing between them they've been avoiding. Prologue: Host Ira Glass tells a story he’s never told anyone before, about something someone said to him....Show More
In a society dominated by romantic couples, it can be hard to accept your unpartnered state for what it is. But for the “single at heart,” the desire for partnership is nonexistent—replaced with a sen...Show More
Ada Limón is many things: the U.S. Poet Laureate, a recently named MacArthur "Genius," a Latina, a summer person becoming a fall person. But underneath all those outer identities, she's still in searc...Show More
Trevor is joined by actress/producer/author Kerry Washington. The good friends unpack the end of the Hollywood strikes, the shocking family secret Kerry shares in her newly published memoir, the respo...Show More
We often follow a misguided formula for happiness—pushing us toward material wealth and other worldly successes. But when our expectations set us down the wrong path, it may be time to reorient oursel...Show More
Co-hosts Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost explore our relationship with time and how to reclaim it. Why is it so important to be productive? Why can it feel like there’s never enough time in a day? Why are...Show More
Many of us complain about being too busy—and about not having enough time to do the things we really want to do. But has busyness become an excuse for our inability to focus on what matters? Accordin...Show More
The chef Samin Nosrat lives by the idea that food is love. Her Netflix series, “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,” and the James Beard Award-winning cookbook that inspired it, were about using food to build comm...Show More
In this episode we are joined by clinical psychologist and author of 'The Defining Decade' to talk about all the frustrations, stressors, misconceptions and hard moments of our 20s and why it's only g...Show More
When the best—and perhaps only—way to say something is to write it down. Prologue: Ira goes out with a letter carrier, ‘Grace,’ as she delivers mail on her route. He learns about the people who brin...Show More
From how we build our cities to how we shop, it can seem as though our natural human tendency is to add. But a culture of accumulation may be exactly what holds us back from the simple solution in fro...Show More
Gender Reveal host and producer Tuck Woodstock joins us for an epic love story from another time .... the early aughts. Follow Tuck on Twitter @tuckwoodstock. Get your tickets to our live show ...Show More
Katherine is worried Jim is endangering himself and needs to sleep more, so she’s holding an intervention. Tricia Hersey of the Nap Ministry joins to talk about the importance of sleep and how, especi...Show More
An exploration of the very upper limits of what you do for someone you love.
Saying sorry can be really difficult sometimes – it requires a certain amount of accountability, reflection and empathy. But that's precisely why it can go so far in a familial, romantic or profession...Show More
In the powerful premiere of Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky, Monica reflects on how she found the strength to take back her story after the scandal that turned her life upside down and . With raw hone...Show More
The sisters are thrilled to welcome Dean Spade to the show! He has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a professor at ...Show More
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Happiness is not just a feeling, there are ingredients. Enjoyment (authentic with connection), satisfaction, and purpose (or meaning).