Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
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Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
Are you living your best life now? Not always? This is a podcast for you. Duke Professor Kate Bowler is an expert in the stories we tell about success and failure, suffering and happiness. She had Stage IV cancer. Then she didn’t. And since then, all she wants to do is talk to funny and wise people...
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Learning to Be Joyful, Anyway: A Big Announcement
Joy won't cure you, but it will carry you.
After surviving a stage-four cancer diagnosis, Kate Bowler knew she was supposed to be grateful. Aliv...
For Those Who Feel It All with Dr. Ellen Vora
Everywhere you turn, there’s something to worry about. And sometimes that buzzing hum of anxiety is trying to tell us something important—about our bo...
America’s Caregiving Crisis: A Conversation with Ai-jen Poo
What happens when love isn’t enough to hold up a broken system?
Ai-jen Poo—award-winning organizer and executive director of the National Domest...
Jen Hatmaker on Divorce, Deconstruction, and Rebuilding from Scratch
What happens when the life you were supposed to have… disappears?
Jen Hatmaker joins Kate Bowler for a conversation about faith, divorce, and th...
Am I Ruining My Kid? A Conversation with Dr. Becky Kennedy
There are no training manuals for this. Just a child staring up at you with cartoon eyes and an inner monologue that asks: Am I doing this right? Am I...
When Caregiving Becomes Codependency: A Conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert
When someone you love is in pain—whether they’re sick, addicted, or falling apart—you show up. Again and again and again. You make the calls. You hold...
What Makes Life Worth Living? Atul Gawande on Mortality, Medicine, and Meaning
In this episode, Kate speaks with surgeon, writer, and public health leader Dr. Atul Gawande about the deeply human questions that surface when medici...
How to Change (But Not Overnight)
You were supposed to be a whole new person by now. Sun-kissed and emotionally regulated. Inbox at zero.
But here we are—still tired, still tryin...
Listen Again: How to gather in meaningful ways with Priya Parker
We are re-airing some of our favorite episodes during our summer break like this one with expert facilitator, Priya Parker. After the pandemic took ap...
Listen Again: How to fall in love with the world again with Margaret Renkl
During our summer break, we are re-airing some of our favorite episodes! Margaret Renkl calls herself a backyard naturalist—but not because she has an...
Listen Again: Why you don’t have to prove your worth by overworking with Shauna Niequist
We are re-airing some of our favorite episodes during our summer break, and this one with Shauna Niequist is a gem. Our obligations never stop, do the...
Listen Again: How to keep creating when grief steals your hope with Lanecia Rouse
During our summer break, we are re-airing some of our favorite episodes. What do you do when hope feels lost? Abstract artist Lanecia Rouse Tinsley is...
The Summer of Too Much: Practicing Holy Underachievement
Ah, summer. The season of sticky popsicles and even stickier expectations. It’s supposed to be the time of rest and freedom, but more-often-than-not,...
Listen Again: Why you don’t need a purpose to be creative with Elizabeth Gilbert
During our summer break, we are re-airing some of our favorite episodes.
In this live conversation recorded at Duke University, the indomitable...
Listen Again: Why you are not what you do with Maria Bowler
During our summer break, we are re-airing some of our favorite episodes! In a world that constantly demands more—more work, more achievement, more hus...
Suleika Jaouad: Survival Is a Creative Act
Sometimes, the bad thing happens—again. The kind of news that flattens your plans, your energy, your sense of who you are. And you think, surely that’...
Erin & Ben Napier: Everyone's From Somewhere
Erin and Ben Napier didn’t plan on becoming household names. They were just trying to build a beautiful life in their beloved hometown of Laurel, Miss...
Stacey Heale: The Aftermath of the Aftermath
When Stacey Heale’s husband, Greg, was diagnosed with terminal cancer, life became a blur of caregiving, grief, and trying to hold a family together w...
Kimberly Williams-Paisley: Where The Light (Still) Gets In
When Kimberly Williams-Paisley’s mother was diagnosed with a rare form of dementia, life became a long stretch of uncertainty, grief, and surprising m...
Amanda Doyle: When Fixing Isn’t Loving
Some people become the ones others depend on. They organize the plans, remember the details, carry the weight. They know how to fix things—quietly, ef...
Lisa Damour: How to Talk to Teenagers
We used to be afraid of teenagers. Now we’re afraid for them. Anxiety, depression, social media, school pressures, loneliness—it’s easy to feel overwh...
Father Ron Rolheiser: The Ache That Makes Us Human
There’s an ache at the center of being human. The kind that doesn’t go away with a fresh to-do list or a good night’s sleep. It’s the longing for more...
Melinda Gates: That Clearing in Between
There are seasons when everything feels a bit undone. A marriage ends. A child grows up. A job shifts. And suddenly, we’re no longer who we were…and n...
Sarah Bessey: Faith That Survives
What happens when the faith that once held you starts to unravel? When the certainty you clung to turns to dust? Sarah Bessey knows what it’s like to...
Simone Gorrindo: The Cost of Love and Duty
What happens when the person you love is called to something that takes them away? Again and again and again. Journalist Simone Gorrindo never expecte...
Jeff Chu: Good Soil
What happens when a journalist-turned-seminarian finds God in a pile of rotting vegetables? You get Jeff Chu—writer, pastor, and accidental theologian...
Pádraig Ó Tuama: In the Name of Belonging
What does it mean to live alongside people you don’t agree with? And love them anyway? Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet, theologian, and conflict mediator fr...
Amy Griffin: Some Warriors Weep
We all carry stories. Some smooth over the past, making things easier to bear. Others—the truer ones—break us open. Amy Griffin knows what it’s like t...
Coach K: Love in Winning, Love in Losing
What happens when someone believes in you–before you’re even ready to believe in yourself? In this powerful conversation, Kate sits down with legendar...
The Hardest Part: A Lent for Real Life
Lent is here—the season we stop pretending we’re fine and admit that life is…a lot. It’s forty days of naming what’s fragile, walking toward the hard...
Vivek Murthy: We Are Good Medicine
Loneliness is more than just a feeling—it shapes how we see ourselves and the world around us. It can make us withdraw, hesitate to reach out, or conv...
Listen Again: N.T. Wright
Scripture can become a weapon in the hands of the ultra-certain. As if every pain or suffering is part of “God’s divine plan.” So how should we unders...
Listen Again: Adam Grant
Everything is in flux. Nothing is the same anymore. How do we live amid all of this uncertainty? Well, psychologist and bestselling author Adam Grant...
Listen Again: Morgan Harper Nichols
We have thick cultural scripts for what is deemed inspirational and it usually goes like this: You can do it. Never give up. Everything you need is in...
Maria Bowler: "For No Reason" Season
In a world that constantly demands more—more work, more achievement, more hustle—how do we learn to pause? Kate sits down with her sister Maria Bowler...
Listen Again: Christie Watson
At the core of nursing is the ability to love a stranger, to care indiscriminately. Christie Watson was a nurse in the UK for 20 years before she bega...
Oliver Burkeman: New Year, Same Me
Does life ever feel like an endless to-do list? Like if you could just wake up tomorrow with a little more discipline, you’d finally master your sched...
Feeling Happy? Navigating the Highs and Lows with Kelly Corrigan
Kate and Kelly Corrigan (Kelly Corrigan Wonders) wrap up the year with a heart-to-heart about the ups, downs, and everything in between. From the thri...
Feeling Crappy? Navigating the Highs and Lows with Kelly Corrigan
It's that time of year—reflection season, where the "happy" and "crappy" moments rise to the surface. Kate and Kelly Corrigan (Kelly Corrigan Wonders)...
Safiya Sinclair: Rewriting Roots
Writer and poet Safiya Sinclair describes her childhood growing up in a Rasta family in Montego Bay, Jamaica. In this live conversation, Kate and Safi...