Lead to Gold

Somewhere between Halloween and Thanksgiving, the year starts closing its doors, and the internet responds by handing us a shopping list: candles, throw blankets, matching loungewear...the full “hibernation era” haul. In this episode, I’m making the case for a different kind of cozy, one you can feel without having to purchase. I'll walk us through my own pre-hibernation ritual, a kind of second spring cleaning where my husband and I clear out the shed, cover the patio furniture, donate...

When most of us hear the word "grief," we immediately associate it with physical human death. But the real definition and use case expands far beyond that - even when we don't consciously recognize it, our bodies certainly do. So in this episode, we're widening the scope on what counts as grief and why we desperately need to get in touch with it, longer than anyone will give you official permission to. Whether you have lost someone recently, or you're mourning a former version of yourself, or...

This week broke something open. Between the news - the Cornell 57, the city-wide bomb threats, the daily fresh hell of this particular moment in history - and a week at work that tested my patience and my faith in people in equal measure, I found myself sitting with a question I couldn’t shake: what happens when people just stop caring? Not dramatically, not all at once, but quietly: in classrooms, at homecoming dances, in comment sections, and in the halls of power. In this episode we'...

The wellness internet has a money problem, and it's dressed up in the language of liberation. In this episode, I'm getting into something that has been bothering me for a long time: the quiet but pervasive trend of spiritual bypassing around finances in online wellness culture, and how it gets repackaged and sold to women under the banner of feminism. We talk about why the "money is neutral" conversation is not only wrong but actively harmful, and why the framework of abundance mindsets...

I cursed a lot in this one. This week, we're getting into everything that's been keeping us up at night about AI, starting with the news that broke this week around Jacob Coxon and the growing chorus of whistleblowers sounding the alarm on superintelligence. We talk about why this fear isn't new, why the environmental, moral, and educational damage has been accumulating for years, and why I think AI is categorically different from every other disruptive technology in human history. We also ge...