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#682 - 23 August 2019
What if someone told you about a type of therapy that could help you work through unhealed trauma in just ten sessions? Some people knock through it in two weeks. Jaime Lowe tried the therapy—and recorded it.
#681 - 16 August 2019
What happens when our most ingenious creations actually make it out into the world.
#680 - 26 July 2019
Words mean things, but some words are especially meaningful — whether in a survival manual, a song lyric, or a slur.
#679 - 12 July 2019
People go on missions to save young girls from danger. But sometimes they get so caught up in the mission that it overshadows the girl herself.
#678 - 5 July 2019
This country is crawling in presidential candidates right now and they're bumping into each other in Des Moines and yelling over each other in Miami. We hang out with them, in this weird early period of the election when they're easy to walk right up to.
#677 - 14 June 2019
Stories of those unexpected moments when we see who we really are.
#676 - 31 May 2019
Adults telling kids who they are, and kids wondering — are they right?
#675 - 17 May 2019
What it's like to be momentarily big on the small screen.
#674 - 10 May 2019
Stories of people standing up for themselves, shaking off their fear, bracing themselves, and doing what they’ve been scared to do.
#673 - 19 April 2019
People figuring out how to move through a world in which something important has disappeared.
