Each day we set countless expectations: My coffee will taste good, when I say 'thank you' he'll say 'you're welcome', my team will win. We set these expectations without much thought. But what happens when major parts of life that we're used to

Get Through A Day

Apr 10th, 2020 1h 22m

Nobody in their right mind doubts that communication is key to successful relationships. But spend several weeks cooped up with the same people and — presto! — nobody is spending much time in their right mind. Communication is faltering. Rough

Healing Touch

Apr 4th, 2020 49m 28s

It's been several weeks since many people have seen another person, let alone touched one. Others are in close contact with the same people nonstop. It's unclear when this will change, with the increasing likelihood that we find ourselves locke

Hope::Reality

Mar 31st, 2020 44m 31s

Seemingly opposite states that must coexist over time for success to occur: helping ourselves/helping others, working to make a living/staying at home, hope/reality. You're growing uncomfortably familiar with these phenomena, which we'll call p

Lockdown Cuisine: Chef Rock Harper

Mar 27th, 2020 9m 56s

RockSolid Creative Food Group president Chef Rock Harper suggests chicken soups you can make while on lockdown.

Dude, Where's My Food?

Mar 27th, 2020 1h 5m

It's March 26 and many restaurants that were flying high at the beginning of the month have closed indefinitely, most of them for good. Some are hanging on for dear life by converting to carryout operations. But there's little doubt that how we

Navigating Sobriety

Mar 22nd, 2020 43m 18s

Some people are using social distancing as a pretext to break out the good wine. As we all plunge into the unknown, many are having to completely rethink how they will navigate sobriety. I speak with Laura Silverman of The Sobriety Collective a

Greetings from Your Couch

Mar 22nd, 2020 16m 35s

We're reinventing on the fly how we connect with the people who matter to us. Vanessa Harnik of luxe greeting card importer Notes and Queries knows the value of cultivating rich relationships even in the best of times. To address our heightened

Observing Your Child

Mar 20th, 2020 15m 35s

Millions of parents around the world are busy muddling our first week of being full-time caregiving, breadwinning homebodies. One of the easiest things to lose sight of is how different our worldview is from our children's. Early childhood spec

Falling Back

Mar 19th, 2020 1h 13m

We can spend our lives growing. It's possible to expand into increasingly complex versions of ourselves — physically, emotionally, cognitively, relationally, and spiritually. Yet this growth is not a one way street. We often experience a fallin

Jacob's (Virtual Class) Room

Mar 18th, 2020 7m 19s

The passage of time feels remarkably different. I discuss the nasty habit I have of reading Virginia Woolf right before the fabric of reality runs. This obviously relates to convening boisterous preschoolers in virtual video conference rooms. A

WFH?

Mar 16th, 2020 18m 59s

March 16, 2020 is the first day that schools have been closed in many parts of the United States. As millions of professionals stumble into a new reality of balancing careers while working from home without childcare, host Gideon Culman speaks

Pandemic Companions: A Brief Introduction

Mar 16th, 2020 1m 46s

I used to spend my days as an executive coach, supporting top leaders in Washington DC to navigate the shifting sands of their lives with greater clarity and confidence. Now any work I do now takes place on top of being a full-time caregiver fo

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