Oct 4, 2023
I speak with Dr. Kristin Neff, the person perhaps most responsible for researching the effects of self-compassion.
She is the author of the 2011 bestselling book Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself and her newest book, Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up,...
Aug 1, 2023
Dr. John Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.* He is also the Senior Project Scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be the largest, most powerful and complex space telescope ever built and launched...
Apr 1, 2023
* Replay from S2 * Dr. Tammy Nelson is a sex and relationship expert, and author of many books on sex including Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together.
She's a psychotherapist, Director of the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute, university teacher, TEDx speaker and is...
Feb 1, 2023
How do you know that you’re conscious? I mean, don’t you just kind of know?
"The single thing that we know best from our own first person perspective and understand least from the perspective of objective science."
But are we seeing signs of a dawning enlightenment in this field—signs of progress in how we...
Jan 1, 2023
In this replay from Season One, I speak to Deirdre Wolownick-Honnald, the mother of Free Solo superstar rock climber Alex Honnald. I learn from his Mom about the human side of this person so many think of as superhuman. Alex’s Dad, she says, was a person with undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome. “He was in a...