Tending Your Garden in a Burning World
In a moment when the news feels relentless and outrage is often treated as a moral obligation, Amanda reflects on what meditation is really for. Is sitting quietly a form of disengagement, or a way of...
20 Tammi 25min
Why Being Right Won't Set You Free (Michael Semanchik and Scott McMahon)
Mike Semanchik is the executive director of the Innocence Center, and Scott McMahon is an American who spent more than five years imprisoned in the Philippines for a crime he did not commit. In this e...
13 Tammi 1h 16min
New Beginnings
In this episode of Hard Knox, Amanda is joined by her husband Chris for an intimate and surprisingly funny conversation about the practice of beginning again. Drawing from Zen practice, a New Year’s f...
6 Tammi 1h 1min
Why Hope Is Learnable (Scott Barry Kaufman)
Scott Barry Kaufman is a cognitive scientist and bestselling author whose work explores creativity, intelligence, and what helps people grow after hardship. In this episode, Amanda and Scott talk abou...
30 Joulu 20251h 4min
Who's Right? - The True Meaning of Christmas
Amanda and Chris debate the true meaning of Christmas through stories about Charlie Brown, gift giving, religion, pagan traditions, and very strong opinions about gift cards. They explore why Christma...
27 Joulu 202531min
How Journalism Can Be an Act of Hope (Nicholas Kristof)
Nicholas Kristof is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and longtime New York Times columnist whose reporting has taken him from the Tiananmen Square massacre to the brothels of Cambodia and the opioi...
23 Joulu 20251h 1min
Ask Amanda Anything - Life Advice, Dark Humor, Bad Dates
In this Ask Amanda Anything episode, Amanda answers listener questions that range from deeply personal to playfully unexpected, touching on disability, identity, creativity, politics, joy, and very ba...
18 Joulu 202544min
Why Win-Win Thinking Is So Hard (Liv Boeree)
Liv Boeree is a former professional poker champion turned science communicator whose work explores game theory, technology, and the incentive systems shaping our world. In this wide-ranging conversati...
16 Joulu 20251h 3min
