Listen now (55 mins) | "So one night, late night, I was working in February and I printed out the PDF of this and it went alphabetically. And the fourth name was Joan Bingham..."

Listen now (43 mins) | "I think it's the only thing that can actually dispel fear and part of the thing too is, is it effective? Are we successful? Well then we're not called..."

Listen now (61 mins) | "Because we don't need to find heroes, we need to make heroes. We need to ask people to become a hero. It's as simple as that."

Listen now (56 mins) | “In writing my book, I wanted to bring it back to the self because being online allows us to have this inappropriate level of audacity. And I think audacity is a very..."

Listen now (61 mins) | “How do we center the voices that traditionally and historically we know existed, but were only marginalized in the tradition? And that does feel like holy work..."

Listen now (59 mins) | “When you are quite literally told that you are not human. What option do you have? What’s the other option other than to overthrow the system that is telling..."

Listen now (54 min) | “The NRA and gun owners then signified, you know, the sort of comradery, responsibility, safety, sort of a bygone..."

Listen now (55 mins) | "This is the richness of the trad wife explosion, right? There's this simple idea that you get to choose. Now you're choosing to emulate a situation that's a…"

Listen now (52 mins) | “What I'm positing is, is an ability to grapple with contradiction. So that's the paradox mindset that Wendy Smith, Maryanne Lewis...

Listen now (56 mins) | "We need to understand how your mind works and how their mind works and how even they might be the..."

Listen now (51 min) | “Humanity is messy, each of us starts with ourselves, it's horribly messy and then multiply that times millions. And that's an incredible, lovely mess."

Listen now (50 min) | "So if we take that off the table, if we take off this, this goal of changing somebody's mind, then what are you left with? What's your..."

Listen now (56 mins) | "I think historically we have always seen that intergenerational partnership is the way that movements grow and expand and the way people feel resilient about what..."

Listen now (47 mins) | "And that is the single most dangerous idea that humans, in my opinion, have ever created because it will continuously lead to..."

Listen now (62 mins) | “We all feel wronged almost hour by hour every day, right?”

Listen now (55 mins) | "The Caucasus was where Prometheus had been chained to a rock in eternal punishment for having stolen fire. Beauty, based on subjective..."

Listen now (58 min) | “We must stop the siloed thinking that racism is great for white people and bad for people of color..."

Listen now (54 mins) | "And this wisdom from somebody who has lived a life that most of us can never imagine, this wisdom that she has left behind for us, that your enemies..."

Listen now (47 mins) | “Here's what I would say: peace will happen when people invest in cultivating peace as opposed to war. Peace will happen. And one thing I know, for me, I know peace, I know..."

Listen now (53 min) | “I mean, the idea that we're colorblind or, or gender blind or age blind or something, is ridiculous. I mean, we categorize those things..."

Listen now (47 mins) | “But one thing the whole 'Karen' thing did, which I think was very good, was that it pointed out the existence of spaces Ostensibly open to everyone, but not, and then..."

Listen now (55 min) | “Usually in high conflict, the conflict becomes the whole point. So you make a lot of mistakes and you can miss opportunities..."

Listen now (63 mins) | “I believe certainly, I know now, after have going through this years and years of feeling ashamed of who I am, you know, internalizing the shame, how America sees trans..."

Listen now (53 min) | “Do you want to continue to live out the patterns of your childhood? Or do you want to make different choices? Are you programmed or are you self-determining?..."

Listen now (52 mins) | "You start with the self and the calling in culture. Then you calibrate the size of the conflict because if somebody's just being awkward or irritating, is there actually..."

Listen now (58 mins) | "Often we don't think about the consequences of being compliant as well because there is a cost to always disregarding your values and..."

Listen now (61 min) | “There's a fantasy in argument, in Lean In, or Girlboss style corporate feminism that says, once you have women in charge of your company, then your company is feminist..."

Listen now (59 mins) | “But I now think about how wonderful it is that some of these radio stories that meant a lot to me that might have otherwise just disappeared, now do have a longer life. And..."

Listen now (55 mins) |"It sort of stiffens us up and this preoccupation interferes with our ability to perform in the immediate situation or function in the immediate situation. But it also affects these big choices in our lives like what's going to be my college major?"  

Listen now (59 mins) | “I think it's really important for, you know, people to realize that you can totally be an absolutely excellent parent of a traumatized child and the trauma had nothing..."

Listen now (53 mins) | “If we’re not open to discrepant, unwanted information that happens to be correct, we become unable to change our direction and change our minds.”

Listen now (61 mins) | "There’s a thin line between feeling enhanced and improved versus feeling disconnected from my own self. Did I have a good night's sleep? I think so, my ring says no..."

Listen now (45 min) | “Outside the legal context, I'm urging readers and listeners in this case to think very deliberately about whether that high standard of proof..."

Listen now (58 min) | “But a life devoted to something larger than yourself is a life worth living. It's a life that is in recognition of life is given to us...

Listen now (77 mins) | “All growing up stages are the product of scientific investigation of the stages of growing up that people go through. And those are all defined in third person terms..."

Listen now (43 mins) | “Well, the interesting thing is, I guess some of this came from writing the book too, but all of those versions of me live inside of me, right? Even the kid that was..."

Listen now (56 mins) | "In certain ways, our culture has glamorized the cynic. The person who doesn't have faith in others is seen as maybe wise or especially sharp. And it turns out that..."

This is a wide and complex issue, and I will frankly never be done reading into how civilizations evolve (and equity fails).