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How To Pitch Yourself (And Get A Yes) | 300 27:52

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We made it— 300 episodes of This Is Woman’s Work ! And we’re marking this milestone by giving you something that could seriously change the game in your business or career: the skill of pitching yourself effectively. Whether you’re dreaming of being a podcast guest, landing a speaking gig, signing a client, or just asking for what you want with confidence—you’re already pitching yourself, every day. But are you doing it well? In this milestone episode, Nicole breaks down exactly how to pitch yourself to be a podcast guest … and actually hear “yes.” With hundreds of pitches landing in her inbox each month, she shares what makes a guest stand out (or get deleted), the biggest mistakes people make, and why podcast guesting is still one of the most powerful ways to grow your reach, authority, and influence. In This Episode, We Cover: ✅ Why we all need to pitch ourselves—and how to do it without feeling gross ✅ The step-by-step process for landing guest spots on podcasts (and more) ✅ A breakdown of the 3 podcast levels: Practice, Peer, and A-List—and how to approach each ✅ The must-haves of a successful podcast pitch (including real examples) ✅ How to craft a pitch that gets read, gets remembered, and gets results Whether you’re new to pitching or want to level up your game, this episode gives you the exact strategy Nicole and her team use to land guest spots on dozens of podcasts every year. Because your voice deserves to be heard. And the world needs what only you can bring. 🎁 Get the FREE Podcast Pitch Checklist + Additional Information on your Practice Group, Peer Group, and A-List Group Strategies: https://nicolekalil.com/podcast 📥 Download The Podcast Pitch Checklist Here Related Podcast Episodes: Shameless and Strategic: How to Brag About Yourself with Tiffany Houser | 298 How To Write & Publish A Book with Michelle Savage | 279 How To Land Your TED Talk and Skyrocket Your Personal Brand with Ashley Stahl | 250 Share the Love: If you found this episode insightful, please share it with a friend, tag us on social media, and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! 🔗 Subscribe & Review: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music…

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The Deeper Thinking Podcast The Deeper Thinking Podcast offers a space where philosophy becomes a way of engaging more fully and deliberately with the world. Each episode explores enduring and emerging ideas that deepen how we live, think, and act. We follow the spirit of those who see the pursuit of wisdom as a lifelong project of becoming more human, more awake, and more responsible. We ask how attention, meaning, and agency might be reclaimed in an age that often scatters them. Drawing on insights stretching across centuries, we explore how time, purpose, and thoughtfulness can quietly transform daily existence. The Deeper Thinking Podcast examines psychology, technology, and philosophy as unseen forces shaping how we think, feel, and choose, often beyond our awareness. It creates a space where big questions are lived with—where ideas are not commodities, but companions on the path. Each episode invites you into a slower, deeper way of being. Join us as we move beyond the noise, beyond the surface, and into the depth, into the quiet, and into the possibilities awakened by deeper thinking.

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We Fear What We Remember, Not What We See - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 16:23

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We Fear What We Remember, Not What We See The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if our greatest fears were not born from what the world presents to us, but from the memories the brain uses to predict it? In this episode, we explore a profound shift in understanding emotion, trauma, and selfhood: a move from reactivity to construction. Guided by the neuroscience of Lisa Feldman Barrett , we trace how every feeling—anxiety, sorrow, even joy—is not merely a response but a prediction, shaped from the remembered past. Trauma is reframed not as a singular event, but as a pattern of meaning that can be revised. Healing becomes not excavation, but the slow, deliberate work of building new predictions, one breath, one small act at a time. Meaning itself, we discover, is not something discovered ready-made in the world; it is something tenderly, stubbornly, built. Agency does not arrive all at once but flickers into being through tiny acts of rechoosing—by crafting different futures from within the architectures of memory. With reflections on prediction theory, cultural inheritance, trauma, and healing, this episode offers a new way of living inside uncertainty—not as prisoners of the past, but as quiet architects of becoming. With quiet references to Lisa Feldman Barrett , Hannah Arendt , and Simone Weil , this episode listens for the subtle architectures of choice that shape emotional life. What happens when meaning is no longer something passively absorbed but actively constructed? When suffering is not merely endured, but re-authored? When presence itself becomes a radical act of re-making what the body once predicted as inevitable? Why Listen? Discover how emotions are constructed through predictive processing Reframe trauma not as event, but as a revisable pattern of memory and meaning Learn how small acts of attention can reshape the self Engage with philosophical reflections on agency, freedom, and emotional life Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Barrett, Lisa Feldman. How Emotions Are Made . New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition . 2nd ed. Introduction by Margaret Canovan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace . Translated by Emma Craufurd. London: Routledge, 2002. Turkle, Sherry. Reclaiming Conversation . New York: Penguin Press, 2015. Each referenced work supports the philosophical architecture explored in the episode, offering entry points into a deeper reflection on memory, emotion, and agency. #LisaFeldmanBarrett #PredictiveBrain #EmotionTheory #TraumaRecovery #Agency #MeaningMaking #Selfhood #HannahArendt #SimoneWeil #TheDeeperThinkingPodcast…

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The Slow Reweaving - Trust, Presence, and the Unfinished Work of Belonging - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 9:42

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The Slow Reweaving: On Trust, Presence, and the Future of Belonging The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the most urgent repairs a society needs are not material or political, but relational? In this episode, we explore the quiet cost of 'bowling alone'—the erosion of social trust, mutual regard, and the civic imagination itself. Drawing on Andy Haldane’s reflections and Robert Putnam’s seminal analysis, we trace how the thinning of social capital reveals not just an institutional fragility but an existential one: a slow forgetting that freedom is a shared condition, not a private possession. Presence, once lost, cannot be legislated back into being. It must be risked—through small, unseen acts of recognition, patience, and shared vulnerability. Repair does not announce itself. It is stitched, stubbornly and often invisibly, wherever relation is chosen over withdrawal. This is not an episode that proposes solutions. It dwells inside the unfinished work of belonging, inviting a slower, more courageous imagination of civic life beyond spectacle or transaction. With quiet reference to Robert Putnam and Andy Haldane , this episode listens for the wisdom buried not in action plans, but in the delicate, necessary work of trust-making. How do we rebuild presence without spectacle? What becomes possible when relation, not performance, is what holds the future open? Why Listen? Understand how the loss of social trust quietly destabilizes democracy and shared life Explore the relational foundations beneath visible political and economic structures Reflect on how belonging is rebuilt not through design, but through daily acts of presence Engage philosophical ideas on freedom, community, and imagination without academic framing Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Haldane, Andy. CEO Lecture: Counting the Cost of Bowling Alone . RSA Lecture, 2025. Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition . 2nd ed. Introduction by Margaret Canovan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Ahmed, Sara. Living a Feminist Life . Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace . Translated by Emma Craufurd. London: Routledge, 2002.…

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The Shape We Live By: Storytelling and the Human Need for Narrative - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 9:08

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The Shape We Live By The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the stories we tell about ourselves don’t just reflect the world, but shape how we experience it? In this episode, we explore how narrative structures—from arcs to resolutions—don’t simply make sense of life, but create the conditions for how we understand time, meaning, and agency. We dive into the philosophical tension of whether life follows a narrative, or whether we impose one retroactively to survive the chaos. From war memoirs to courtroom dramas, we trace how narrative functions as a deeply human framework—shaping not only our stories, but our very sense of self. This is not an essay about storytelling for entertainment, but a reflection on how stories make us human, for better or worse. As we untangle the threads of narrative, we draw on thinkers like Paul Ricoeur and Alasdair MacIntyre , who remind us that stories aren’t just reflections of the world, but the very means by which we experience it. But as narratives shape us, they also limit us. We ask whether the human mind can ever resist the pull to make sense of what might forever remain senseless. The episode asks whether we can remain present in the chaos, or if we will always rush to make it into something neatly packaged, ready for consumption. With quiet references to Arendt , Heidegger , and Weil , we reflect on the fundamental question: does the narrative we tell ourselves free us, or trap us? This is not an essay that promises answers, but one that invites a deeper inquiry into the shape of the stories we live by, and whether we are, in fact, living inside a narrative of our own making. Why Listen? Consider how the stories we tell ourselves shape our understanding of time, identity, and meaning Reflect on the tension between imposed narrative and chaotic existence Engage with philosophical ideas about narrative, memory, and human agency Experience an open, reflective approach to philosophy that doesn't seek closure, but invites exploration Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition . 2nd ed. Introduction by Margaret Canovan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time . Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace . Translated by Emma Craufurd. London: Routledge, 2002. MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue . 3rd ed. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Ricoeur, Paul. Time and Narrative , Volume 1. Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. Bibliography Relevance Each work referenced here deepens the philosophical and existential questions raised in this episode. They are invitations to engage more deeply with the implications of narrative and human understanding. Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition explores the fragile practices of labor, action, and thought—fundamental practices that technological acceleration risks unmooring, much like the existential dilemmas raised in this episode. Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time frames existence as something to dwell within, not master—a theme that mirrors the philosophical tension in the essay about the limits of narrative mastery. Simone Weil’s Gravity and Grace offers a meditation on attention as resistance—a fitting echo to the essay’s central focus on narrative attention and the danger of rushing to impose order on life. Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue discusses the relationship between virtue and the narrative structure of human life—deepening the reflections on the philosophical need for stories to shape and define our ethical lives. Paul Ricoeur’s Time and Narrative illuminates the ways in which narrative shapes our experience of time—a crucial perspective for understanding how stories help create the reality we live in. #NarrativePhilosophy #ExistentialNarrative #Storytelling #HannahArendt #Heidegger #SimoneWeil #Ricoeur #MacIntyre #DeeperThinkingPodcast #PhilosophyOfStory #HumanCondition #MeaningAndTime…

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[Update] Demis Hassabis -A Philosophical Profile in Slowness and Discovery 14:08

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Demis Hassabis -A Philosophical Profile in Slowness and Discovery The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the future of discovery demanded not just faster thinking, but slower seeing? In this episode, we explore the life and vision of Demis Hassabis —chess prodigy, neuroscientist, AI pioneer—and the deeper paradox he embodies: that true innovation may depend less on acceleration than on the careful cultivation of attention. From protein structures to mathematical proofs, from games of logic to the fragile architectures of meaning, Hassabis’s work asks us not simply what we can know, but whether we can remain human enough to hold what we uncover. This is not a celebration of technology. It is a meditation on what discovery requires: patience, discernment, and the refusal to collapse wonder into conquest. Scientific progress, Hassabis reminds us, is not the smooth unveiling of new worlds. It is the slow art of inhabiting uncertainty—of learning to think differently long before we can act differently. As AI accelerates, it is the ancient human skills—attention, slowness, relational imagination—that will decide whether possibility becomes promise or peril. We trace how games trained his mind for complexity, how neuroscience taught him to trust emergence over control, and how philosophy now shadows the future he helped unleash. This isn’t an essay that offers solutions. It opens a space where solutions lose their urgency—and presence becomes the deeper aim. With quiet references to Arendt , Heidegger , and Weil , this episode listens for the forms of wisdom that emerge only when discovery is slowed down. What happens when the machines we build move faster than our capacity to understand them? When meaning risks being outpaced by mastery? When the future demands a different kind of mind—one willing to linger, to doubt, and to dwell? This is not a race to the next breakthrough. It is a return to the older work: the slow making of minds still capable of wonder. Why Listen? Explore how AI is reshaping not only science but the ethics of discovery itself Reflect on slowness, discernment, and the moral architecture of innovation Engage with philosophical tensions around speed, presence, and meaning Experience a relational, contemplative approach to technology and thought Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition . 2nd ed. Introduction by Margaret Canovan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time . Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace . Translated by Emma Craufurd. London: Routledge, 2002. Sennett, Richard. The Craftsman . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution . Translated by Arthur Mitchell. New York: Henry Holt, 1911. Turkle, Sherry. Reclaiming Conversation . New York: Penguin Press, 2015. Bibliography Relevance Each work referenced here deepens the philosophical and ethical questions raised in this episode. They are not citations to decorate, but invitations to linger differently inside the tensions discovery now demands. Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition explores action, labor, and thought as fragile human practices that technological acceleration risks unmooring—a silent foundation beneath the essay’s call for slowness. Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time frames existence not as something to master, but as something to dwell within—a philosophical current that quietly shapes the call for presence in discovery. Simone Weil’s Gravity and Grace offers a meditation on attention and moral discernment as acts of resistance against force—echoing the essay’s concern for the ethics of attention in an era of speed. Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman illuminates the relationship between patience, skill, and care in making—deepening the reflection on how discovery itself might be practiced differently. Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution reframes change as emergence rather than mere accumulation—supporting the essay’s vision of progress as something slower, stranger, and more relational than technological narratives often allow. Sherry Turkle’s Reclaiming Conversation examines the erosion of deep presence in a connected world—offering a cultural echo to the essay’s philosophical call for reweaving attention and relationality in a technological era. #DemisHassabis #ArtificialIntelligence #SlowThinking #EthicsOfAI #DeepMind #PresenceInProgress #HannahArendt #MartinHeidegger #ScientificDiscovery #DeeperThinkingPodcast…

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The Unrendered Self - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 15:23

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The Unrendered Self The Deeper Thinking Podcast What happens to the self when even absence becomes a kind of presence? In this episode, we examine the quiet erosion of identity under conditions of constant visibility. This is not about digital detox or offline escape—it’s about the deeper structural shift where reflection becomes performance, privacy becomes signal, and being becomes something that must be rendered to be real. We explore how the self survives—or doesn’t—amid an economy of attention that cannot tolerate ambiguity. Drawing on Simone Weil ’s ethics of attention, Gloria Anzaldúa ’s defense of contradiction, and Roland Barthes ’s concept of the neutral, the episode traces the contours of presence without performance. We also touch on Édouard Glissant ’s right to opacity and Hannah Arendt ’s space of appearance to imagine what it means to remain unrendered—felt but uncaptioned, real but unreadable. Why Listen? Reframe visibility and identity through the lens of attention, fatigue, and erosion Engage with thinkers like Barthes, Glissant, Weil, and de Certeau without academic distance Experience audio as a space of ambient intimacy and structural reflection Consider what it means to exist without translating yourself Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace . London: Routledge, 2002. Glissant, Édouard. Poetics of Relation . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. Barthes, Roland. The Neutral . New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza . San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1999.…

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The System Forgets Nothing, But It Never Remembers You - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 19:09

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The System Forgets Nothing, But It Never Remembers You The Deeper Thinking Podcast We live in a system that forgets nothing but never remembers us. It tracks our movements, records our actions, and stores our data—yet the more it accumulates, the less it seems to know us. It does not recognize us as beings, but as parts within an ever-expanding machine. In this world, alienation is not an external force imposed upon us; it is the very architecture of our lives. This episode traces the recursive contradiction at the heart of capitalism—how it demands our presence while erasing our essence. Through the philosophical architecture of Karl Marx , we follow how estranged labor becomes ontological displacement, how performance replaces participation, and how our interior lives are mapped, mined, and monetized. As Fredric Jameson observed, it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. But this episode does not attempt to predict collapse. Instead, it listens for the quiet interruptions—those moments of unmonetized presence, of shared gesture, of unproductive tenderness. Drawing also from thinkers like Silvia Federici and Bernard Stiegler , we consider the politics of attention, memory, and unpaid life. What remains when everything measurable has been measured? What form of life lingers beyond productivity? This is not a story of revolution. It is a story of recognition—and through that recognition, the possibility of remembering ourselves. Why Listen? Understand capitalism as a system of ontological arrangement, not just economic control Explore alienation beyond emotion—as recursive infrastructure Encounter Marx without being preached to Recognize small, human gestures that capitalism cannot metabolize Further Reading As an affiliate, we may earn from qualifying purchases through these links. Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx — On estranged labor and the loss of species-being. Amazon link Psychopolitics by Byung-Chul Han — A reflection on self-optimization and invisible control. Amazon link Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici — On the historical roots of unpaid labor. Amazon link Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation . New York: Autonomedia, 2004. Han, Byung-Chul. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power . Translated by Erik Butler. London: Verso, 2017. Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. Marx, Karl. Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 . Translated by Martin Milligan. New York: International Publishers, 1964. Stiegler, Bernard. Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus . Translated by Richard Beardsworth and George Collins. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.…

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The Unscripted Reach - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 16:23

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The Unscripted Reach The Deeper Thinking Podcast What happens when the act of reaching out becomes rarer than the connection itself? In this episode, we trace the slow disappearance of interpersonal initiation—not as a cultural lapse, but as a civilizational contradiction. Algorithms promise endless proximity, yet remove the necessity of contact. We ask what is lost when approach is replaced by performance, and what it means to risk presence in an age of optimization. Through the lens of philosophy and lived gesture, we explore the disappearance of embodied mutuality—from Aristotle’s vision of human fulfillment in relation, to Simone Weil’s understanding of attention as generosity, and Levinas’s ethics of the face. We ask: how do we become, if never met? What happens to courage when friction is removed from the social field? In the absence of real-time approach, we find a loss not just of intimacy—but of ethical improvisation itself. This is not an argument for nostalgia. It is a meditation on risk, refusal, and revelation—on the sacred awkwardness of showing up unrehearsed, and the relational art we may be forgetting how to perform. Why Listen? Reflect on intimacy as relational improvisation, not outcome Understand how frictionless design impacts mutual becoming Explore quiet allusions to Aristotle, Weil, Levinas, Badiou, and Byung-Chul Han Reconsider the ethics of hesitation, awkwardness, and approach Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Agamben, Giorgio. The Coming Community . Translated by Michael Hardt. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Aristotle. The Politics . Translated by Benjamin Jowett. New York: Dover Publications, 2000. Badiou, Alain. In Praise of Love . Translated by Peter Bush. New York: The New Press, 2012. Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation . Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. Buber, Martin. I and Thou . Translated by Ronald Gregor Smith. New York: Scribner, 1970. Byung-Chul Han. The Transparency Society . Translated by Erik Butler. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison . Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Kierkegaard, Søren. The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion . Translated by Alexander Dru. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1962. Levinas, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority . Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1969. Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science . Translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Vintage Books, 1974. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra . Translated by R.J. Hollingdale. London: Penguin Books, 2003. Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World . New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Stiegler, Bernard. Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus . Translated by Richard Beardsworth and George Collins. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Turkle, Sherry. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other . New York: Basic Books, 2011. Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace . Translated by Emma Craufurd. London: Routledge, 2002. Weil, Simone. Waiting for God . Translated by Emma Craufurd. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2009. Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power . New York: PublicAffairs, 2019.…

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The Power of Absurdity to Awaken Ethical Consciousness - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 12:11

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The Power of Absurdity to Awaken Ethical Consciousness The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the moment that woke you up wasn’t a grand political speech or a philosophical epiphany but a joke that landed too well? What if the start of ethical clarity came not from solemn reflection but from a laugh you couldn’t contain—at precisely the wrong time, in precisely the wrong room? In this episode, we explore absurdity not as nonsense but as a kind of epistemic tremor—a jolt that unsettles what seemed settled, that shows how much of what we call sense is performance. From slapstick to silence, from farts to fascism, absurdity becomes a method of seeing—especially when clarity arrives not through logic, but through rupture. Absurdity doesn’t offer arguments. It offers asymmetry. A sideways truth that resists explanation but insists on being felt. That resistance is itself a kind of ethics: it refuses to reduce. We trace how the ridiculous unsettles authority, how laughter holds ethical force, and how awkwardness becomes a mode of moral recognition. This isn’t about irreverence for its own sake. It’s about what becomes visible when nothing fits—and why that’s when truth might finally appear. With quiet references to Camus , Butler , and Arendt , this episode listens for the wisdom buried in disruption. What happens when the body refuses the script? When decorum fails to contain dissent? When mockery becomes a mirror—and that mirror doesn’t flatter? This is not an essay that resolves. It dwells. It opens a space for thinking that begins where certainty breaks. Why Listen? Discover how absurdity can reveal invisible power structures Explore laughter as a form of ethical attention and resistance Hear how awkwardness and disruption can open new moral insight Engage with philosophical concepts without academic framing Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition . 2nd ed. Introduction by Margaret Canovan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Butler, Judith. Undoing Gender . New York: Routledge, 2004. Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus . Translated by Justin O’Brien. New York: Vintage International, 1991. Camus, Albert. Caligula and Other Plays . Translated by Stuart Gilbert. London: Penguin Books, 2006. Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace . Translated by Emma Craufurd. London: Routledge, 2002. Ahmed, Sara. Living a Feminist Life . Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza . 4th ed. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2012. Bergson, Henri. Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic . Translated by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell. New York: Macmillan, 1911. Bakhtin, Mikhail. Rabelais and His World . Translated by Hélène Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984. Critchley, Simon. On Humour . London: Routledge, 2002.…

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The Moment That Didn’t Land - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 13:58

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The Moment That Didn’t Land The Deeper Thinking Podcast What happens when something you offer is received differently than you hoped? When laughter greets your vulnerability—not cruel, but clear? This episode explores how legacy, recognition, and love all take shape not in the moment we present something, but in what happens when that moment falters. Drawing on Axel Honneth , Hans Jonas , and Stanley Cavell , we examine what it means to stay present—not when things go well, but when they go sideways. This is not a story about success or impact. It’s about the courage of staying available to truth—especially when that truth arrives in the form of refusal. As Simone de Beauvoir reminds us, freedom is always reciprocal. And Nietzsche warns that the artist will always be exposed. What matters isn’t whether your offering lands. What matters is how you remain when it doesn’t. In this episode, recognition becomes less about affirmation and more about relationship. Legacy shifts from what is passed down to what is made possible through presence. And the moment that didn’t land becomes something else entirely: a mirror, a question, a quiet act of love. Why Listen? Learn how recognition theory explains moments of emotional misfire Explore what legacy looks like when admiration is withheld Understand how laughter can be a form of ethical relationship Engage with thinkers from Hegel to Cavell , Beauvoir to Nietzsche Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex . Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. New York: Vintage, 2011. Cavell, Stanley. The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy . New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Honneth, Axel. The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts . Translated by Joel Anderson. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. Jonas, Hans. The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy . Translated by Shaun Whiteside. London: Penguin Books, 1993.…

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The Weight We Inherit and The Space We Leave - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 20:56

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The Weight We Inherit and The Space We Leave The Deeper Thinking Podcast We carry more than we know. Not just genetics or stories, but gestures, silences, expectations—small inheritances that shape how we love, how we work, how we wait. This episode traces those inheritances—not to resolve them, but to notice their weight, and ask whether we might set some of them down. What if care didn’t have to mean self-erasure? What if ambition didn’t have to echo someone else’s hunger? What if legacy wasn’t a monument, but a pause? Drawing on traditions of ethical philosophy and lived reflection, we ask what it means to become someone for others, not just to them. What if inheritance wasn’t a script, but a question? As Simone Weil reminds us, attention is an act of devotion. Hannah Arendt writes that every birth marks the beginning of a world. And Viktor Frankl insists that meaning is found not in comfort, but in the stance we take toward suffering. This episode sits within their lineage—but also offers a path through the ordinary textures of ambition, care, and silence that structure how we live today. Why Listen? Learn how legacy forms through silence, gesture, and rhythm—not just story Reframe ambition and care as inherited structures, not personal traits Understand inheritance as ethical authorship, not historical debt Explore how refusal, failure, and softness can become forms of legacy Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Ahmed, Sara. Living a Feminist Life . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition . 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza . 4th ed. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2012. Butler, Judith. Giving an Account of Oneself . New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning . Translated by Ilse Lasch. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006. Han, Byung-Chul. The Burnout Society . Translated by Erik Butler. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. Han, Byung-Chul. The Transparency Society . Translated by Erik Butler. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. Nussbaum, Martha C. Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Srinivasan, Amia. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace . Translated by Emma Craufurd. London: Routledge, 2002. West, Cornel. The Cornel West Reader . New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999. West, Cornel. Race Matters . Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.…

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Edges That Hold, How Constraint Shapes What Lasts - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 16:14

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Edges That Hold: How Constraint Shapes What Lasts The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the moments that stay with us didn’t arise from freedom, but from its absence? This episode explores how material, emotional, and structural constraint can become the shape of expression itself. We trace this paradox through a child’s treehouse, the tape hiss in Daniel Johnston’s basement recordings, the quiet of Agnes Martin’s grids, and the undeveloped rolls left behind by Vivian Maier. These are not stories of overcoming adversity. They are devotions to the form that holds. Constraint here is not failure—it’s fidelity. The conversation threads through Simone Weil on attention as moral act, Marshall McLuhan on form becoming message, Gaston Bachelard on poetic space, and Jean-Paul Sartre on situated freedom. From minimalist sound to photographic silence, from domestic labor to the unseen archive, this episode listens for the work that doesn’t transcend its frame—but honours it. Why Listen? Reframe constraint as creative condition, not limitation Encounter artists whose work is inseparable from what they lacked Explore the ethics of form, silence, and minimal presence Engage thinkers from Martin to Maier , Johnston to Bachelard Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space . Boston: Beacon Press, 1994. Maier, Vivian. Vivian Maier: Street Photographer . New York: powerHouse Books, 2011. Martin, Agnes. Writings . Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2005. McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man . Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994. Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness . Translated by Hazel Barnes. New York: Washington Square Press, 1993. Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace . Translated by Emma Craufurd. London: Routledge, 2002.…

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The Unspoken Lives of Men - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 7:35

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The Unspoken Lives of Men What does it mean to witness a masculinity that doesn’t perform? And how do we make space for the kinds of strength that don’t announce themselves? As bell hooks teaches us, love and liberation are intertwined—not just for women, but for men too. And Simone Weil reminds us that attention is a form of devotion. In this episode, we pay attention to what masculinity becomes when performance is stripped away. Why Listen? What happens when the scripts for being a man no longer fit Why not-knowing can be a new kind of presence The emotional terrain of disenfranchised masculinity Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Ahmed, Sara. Living a Feminist Life . Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. hooks, bell. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love . New York: Washington Square Press, 2004. Srinivasan, Amia. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace . Translated by Emma Craufurd. London: Routledge, 2002. Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza . San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1999.…

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The Saturated State - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 21:35

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The Saturated State The Deeper Thinking Podcast We are governed not by force alone, but by saturation—of noise, of image, of pace. This episode explores how distraction, emotional overload, and political fatigue are not accidents of the moment but tools of governance. It asks what happens when democracy becomes aesthetic, memory becomes unstable, and speech becomes calibration rather than expression. Power today no longer declares. It performs. Following thinkers like Byung-Chul Han , who examines the psychic toll of hyper-visibility, and Lauren Berlant , who identifies the slow erosion of public optimism, we explore how governance now operates atmospherically—through mood, through rhythm, and through exhaustion. Drawing on Mark Fisher ’s critique of capitalist realism and Simone Weil ’s concept of attention as resistance, we ask what it means to hold shape when institutions collapse inward. What forms of refusal are still possible in an environment saturated not by fear, but by feeling? Why Listen? The emotional infrastructure of modern governance How performance, saturation, and speed structure consent Why memory, language, and clarity are forms of resistance The ethics of staying present in atmospheres of overload Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Fisher, Mark. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2009. Han, Byung-Chul. The Burnout Society . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace . Translated by Emma Crawford and Mario von der Ruhr. London: Routledge, 2002.…

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Come Home to Yourself - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 18:49

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Come Home to Yourself The Deeper Thinking Podcast What does it mean to return to yourself—not as a goal, but as a rhythm? This episode is a translation of an inner voice: the one that waits beneath survival, beyond performance, beneath the noise. It doesn’t instruct. It doesn’t explain. It listens. And when we listen back, something begins to soften. Drawing on the emotional textures of slow growth, quiet resistance, and relational repair, we explore how healing isn’t a triumph but a return. We question clarity as a requirement, challenge motivation as a moral standard, and examine how joy, pain, and presence can coexist without apology. With echoes of Brené Brown , Sara Ahmed , and Pádraig Ó Tuama , this episode isn’t here to tell you what to feel. It’s here to keep you company while you feel it. No fixing. No striving. Just a steady invitation back to the truth beneath it all. Why Listen? For a companionable, poetic audio essay that moves at the speed of breath To explore how boundaries, belonging, and burnout intertwine with care To learn how to live from softness without collapsing To feel reminded—not instructed—of what’s already true in you Bibliography Ahmed, Sara. Living a Feminist Life . Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza . 4th ed. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2012. Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace . Translated by Emma Crawford and Mario von der Ruhr. London: Routledge, 2002.…

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How Suffering Became Cinematic - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 14:24

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How Suffering Became Cinematic The Deeper Thinking Podcast We are often told that suffering is meaningful. That trauma refines us. That resilience is beautiful. This episode refuses all of it. We listen not for inspiration but for rupture—for the contradictions that emerge when romanticized stories are interrupted by real, unresolved lives. Here, caregiving isn’t framed as devotion—it’s structural disappearance. Neurodivergence is not charming—it’s socially masked exhaustion. Homelessness isn’t freedom—it’s logistical, economic, and ontological exclusion. Romanticization is revealed as a quiet violence, and what remains are not metaphors, but fragments. Drawing from thinkers like Simone Weil , Fred Moten , Sara Ahmed , and Giorgio Agamben , we explore contradiction not as something to fix, but as something to hold. The episode resists closure. It listens for the residue of lives misread and refuses to translate them into insight. This is not a story. It is a structure. Why Listen? Hear stories that remain outside the frame of redemption Understand how romanticization functions as erasure Engage contradiction as an ethical and philosophical form Learn from Weil , Moten , Caruth , Federici , Butler Further Reading Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil In the Break by Fred Moten Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt Trauma: Explorations in Memory by Cathy Caruth Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Ahmed, Sara. Living a Feminist Life . Duke University Press, 2017. Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer . Stanford University Press, 1998. Butler, Judith. Precarious Life . Verso Books, 2004. Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience . Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Federici, Silvia. Re-enchanting the World . PM Press, 2019. Moten, Fred. In the Break . University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace . Routledge, 2002.…

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