Rachel Nuwer is an award-winning freelance journalist who reports about science, travel, food and adventure for the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American and more. Her multi-award winning first book, Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking, was published in 2018 with Da Capo Press. Her second book, I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World, has just been published with Bloomsbury. The  book recounts the unlikely story of how the...

Andrea and Eric recap season one’s highlights and what season two might have in store. Support the show

Chris Kavanagh is a post-doctoral researcher at Oxford in the Centre for Social Cohesion at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and an Associate Professor at the College of Contemporary Psychology at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. His research interests include East Asian religions, ritual behavior, and the bonding effects of shared dysphoria.  He is also co-host the podcast Decoding the Gurus. Support the show

Carl Trueman is a Christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. He was Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, where he held the Paul Woolley Chair of Church History. In 2018 he became a professor at Grove City College in Pennsylvania.  He has published several books including The Creedal Imperative, Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative, and, most recently in 2020, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. Support the show

Dan Hooper is an American cosmologist and particle physicist specializing in the areas of dark matter, cosmic rays, and neutrino astrophysics. He is a Senior Scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Dan is the author of several books, including Dark Cosmos: In Search of our Universe’s Missing Mass and Energy,  Nature’s Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force,  and At...

Therese Rowley is an educator, business consultant, and spiritual medium. She holds an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern and a PhD in organizational leadership.  She is the author of Mapping a New Reality, Discovering Intuitive Intelligence.  She also describes herself as an audiovoyant, which means she’s able to access spiritual forces through sounds and voices that come to her but that are not normally heard.  She regularly gives readings to a wide client base and conducts...

As Professor of Practice at Columbia Business School and Founder of the Mentora Institute, Hitendra has coached dozens of Fortune 100 C-suite executives and taught 10,000+ MBAs and Executives. His class on Personal Leadership & Success is one of the most popular at Columbia Business School, for which he has won the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence. Hitendra’s mission is to discover, codify and teach the laws of success in life and leadership. His research integrates the latest...

Laurie Anderson is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s, focusing particularly on language, technology, and visual imagery. She became more widely known outside the art world when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK singles chart in 1981. Her debut...

Andrew Solomon, PhD is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology; winner of the National Book Award; and an activist in LGBTQ rights, mental health, and the arts. He is Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center, Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale University, and a former President of PEN American Center. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and other publications on a range of subjects, including depression,...

Amanda Stern is the author of The Long Haul and eleven books for children written under the pseudonyms AJ Stern and Fiona Rosenbloom. In 2003, she founded the legendary Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, which required creative artists to take risks on stage. The multi-disciplinary series became the gold standard for literary events; many of today’s series are (knowingly and unknowingly) based on Happy Ending’s model. It was produced at Joe’s Pub and later at Symphony Space. The series...

Jennifer Freed PhD is the best selling author of Use Your Planets Wisely and a renowned psychological astrologer and social and emotional education trainer. She has spent over thirty years consulting clients and businesses world wide on psychological, spiritual, and educational topics. She has served as the clinical director of Pacifica Graduate Institute and is national consultant for EMDR (Post Traumatic Growth Therapies). ​As a regular contributor to goop, Jennifer has written over 23...

Nicholas Epley is the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science, and Director of the Center for Decision Research, at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He studies social cognition—how thinking people think about other thinking people—to understand why smart people so routinely misunderstand each other. He teaches an ethics and happiness course to MBA students called Designing a Good Life. His research has appeared in more than two dozen...

Mike Levine, known by his nickname Vino, is an American sports agent and executive known for being co-head of CAA Sports, the sports division of Creative Artists Agency (CAA). He has been ranked as one of the most influential people in sports by Worth and Sports Business Journal. Levine has been co-head of CAA Sports, a division of CAA which handles sports properties, athlete representation and licensing, since it was founded in 2007. Under Levine, CAA signed athletes from the NFL, MLB, NBA...

Jackie is President of The Acho Group, a strategy and leadership consulting firm. Prior to founding The Acho Group in 2005, she was a Partner of McKinsey & Company. She has worked for technology, industrial, academic, nonprofit, and economic development clients on a variety of issues, with particular focus on growth and innovation, strategy, and leadership development for 25 years. Current work includes empathy-centered cultural transformation with the Cleveland Police. Jackie received...

Jack Zimmerman holds a BA, MA and PhD from Yale University, Harvard University and the University of Southern California, respectively. He is the co-author of Flesh and Spirit: The Mystery of Intimate Relationship with his life partner, Jaquelyn McCandless, and co-author of The Way of Council with Gigi Coyle. Jack held several leadership roles at The Ojai Foundation over a period of 30 years, including President, and co-founded the Oakwood Secondary School in Los Angeles. Jack started...

Jane Dowling is a Registered Nurse with over 30 years of experience, including working with pediatric and adult emergency care, post-trauma reconstructive surgery and as clinical coordinator for NIH/NIAID AIDS Clinical Trials Group at NYU Medical Center. It was in clinical, epidemiological and ethnographic research that she most closely worked with individuals at end-of-life. Jane became enlightened to the methods that people connected with each other and noted emerging interactive technology...

Nicholas Vreeland is a photographer, Buddhist monk and abbot of the Rato Dratsang monastery in India.  He was born to American parents and his grandmother was Diana Vreeland, long time editor of Vogue magazine.  He is the subject of the documentary Monk with a Camera.   Support the show

Yuan-Qing Yu is assistant concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. An international award-winning violinist, she leads an active life as a soloist, chamber musician, teacher and advocate for the orchestra. A native of Shanghai, China, Yuan-Qing Yu won the Chinese Nationwide Violin Competition at the age of 17. The following year, she captured second prize in the Menuhin International Violin Competition. She was awarded the grand prize in the Holland Music Sessions World Concert Tour...

Chris Bache is a philosopher, author, and psychedelic explorer.  He received a B.A. from Notre Dame and a Ph.D. from Brown University and taught for over 40 years as a professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University, adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Council of Grof Legacy Training. If you want to hear more from Chris, and all of our wonderful guests, head...

Rosanna Warren is a poet, biographer, and classics scholar. Since 2012 she has been the Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.  She is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the New England Poetry Club, among others. She was a Chancellor of the Academy...

Bill Ayers is an educator, political activist, and writer.  He is most famous for being one of the founding members of the Weather Underground, a cadre of leftist revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the US government in the late 1960s and 1970s by bombing government buildings and military installations.  He is the host of the podcast Under the Tree and is featured in the upcoming podcast Mother Country Radicals. If you want to hear more from Bill, and all of our wonderful guests, head...

Kato Wittich is an LA based filmmaker, Rosen method practitioner and facilitator in Family Constellations Therapy.  She is the founder of Liquid Soul Ecstatic Dance, a movement collective.  You can see an example of her work on Episode 5 of Sex, Love, and Goop on Netflix.  If you want to hear more from Kato, and all of our wonderful guests, head over  to our Patreon page to become a supporter where you will have access to all of our amazingly insightful unedited episodes! Support the show

In 2001, Maxwell Ryan started blogging about helping people make their living spaces more beautiful, organized, and healthy.  This blog grew into Apartmenttherapy.com and Thekitchn.com, two of the most popular websites on home design, food, and living well.  Maxwell now lives with his daughter in Brooklyn, New York. If you want to hear more from Maxwell, and all of our wonderful guests, head over  to our Patreon page to become a supporter where you will have access to all of our amazingly...

Adrian Danzig is a performer, circus clown, and teacher.  He was the founder of 500 Clown performance company and a co-founder of the Redmoon theater in Chicago.  His credits include Comedy of Errors at California Shakespeare Festival, The Feast: an intimate Tempest at Chicago Shakespeare, The Seagull at Lake Lucille, Orlando at The Court Theater and The Better Half with Lucky Plush Productions. He has led workshops in physical theater all around the country and internationally for the past...

Dr. Laura Berman is a world renowned couples and sex therapist. She has had shows on the Oprah TV and radio networks. She's written numerous books about everything from how to have better sex to what quantum physics can tell us about love. She currently has a podcast called Listen and Learn. If you want to hear more from Laura, and all of our wonderful guests, head over  to our Patreon page to become a supporter where you will have access to all of our amazingly insightful unedited...