Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

By: Everything Happens Studios
  • Summary

  • Are you living your best life now? Not always? This is a podcast for you. Duke Professor Kate Bowler is an expert in the stories we tell about success and failure, suffering and happiness. She had Stage IV cancer. Then she didn’t. And since then, all she wants to do is talk to funny and wise people about how to live with the knowledge that, well, everything happens. Find her online at @katecbowler.

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Episodes
  • Parker Palmer: Standing in the Gap
    Nov 5 2024

    How do we stay hopeful in the face of despair and disillusionment—especially when politics threaten to tear us in two? Kate speaks with Parker Palmer, a writer, teacher, and activist. As you’ll hear, he has gone through seasons of deep clinical depression, and has hard-won wisdom to share with us on how to survive, how to regain a sense of agency, how to remain hopeful despite it all.

    In this episode, Kate and Parker discuss:

    1. finding agency in the midst of depression and despair (including his trick of redefining achievement)

    2. why it is important to recalibrate our sense of reality—especially in the face of 24-hour news cycles and social media algorithms

    3. how a broken heart can either shatter or break open into a larger, more compassionate way of being

    So on a day like today when we all might be thinking about the state of our nation or the state of our world or the realities at stake for our families and friends (....or perhaps, more tempted to keep our head in the sand to just make it through Thanksgiving), might we pull up close and listen to what Parker has to teach us about how to keep our hearts soft and remain hopeful, still.

    If you liked this episode, you’ll also love:

    • Sharon McMahon on the small differences we can make

    • Will Willimon on aging into a new vocation

    Watch clips from this conversation, read the full transcript, and access discussion questions by clicking here or visiting katebowler.com/podcasts.

    Follow Kate on Instagram, Facebook, or X (formerly known as Twitter)—@katecbowler. Links to social pages and more available at linktr.ee/katecbowler.

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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    43 mins
  • Charles Spencer: Confronting the Past
    Oct 29 2024

    We need more room to be honest about what it costs when people or institutions fail us. Today's conversation is with Lord Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer. You might also know him as Princess Diana's brother. His latest book, A Very Private School, is a courageous and beautifully written memoir about his time in an abusive English boarding school that was shrouded in secrets, abuse, and cruelty. While his circumstances may be unlike something you’ve experienced, Charles speaks so candidly and tenderly about his painful childhood and what it has cost him and others too.

    In this conversation, Kate and Charles discuss:

    • the challenge and catharsis of writing about personal trauma

    • the casual cruelty Charles and his peers endured

    • what happens when our innocence is stolen from us at a young age

    • what healing looks like 50 years later

    If you liked this conversation, might also like:

    • Rachel Denhollender on getting justice you deserve

    • Tara Westover on how our parents’ best might still not be enough

    Watch clips from this conversation, read the full transcript, and access discussion questions by clicking here or visiting katebowler.com/podcasts.

    Follow Kate on Instagram, Facebook, or X (formerly known as Twitter)—@katecbowler. Links to social pages and more available at linktr.ee/katecbowler.

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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    43 mins
  • Tembi Locke: Grief of the Almosts
    Oct 22 2024

    In every deep relationship, there comes a point where we are asked to give up something of ourselves or change in ways we never anticipated. Who will this make me? What will this love cost? Tembi Locke fell in love with an Italian chef named Saro when she was studying abroad in Italy during college. Their romance was a story for the big screen. (Quite literally. One starring Zoe Saldana.)

    A rare illness upended it all. Tembi spent ten years as Saro’s caregiver before he died. In her grief, Tembi took their young daughter back to Sicily to see what of her husband she could find there—in his culture, in his food, and with his family.

    In this conversation, Kate and Tembi discuss:

    • becoming the architect of your life

    • the effects of long-term caregiving (both the beauty and the cost)

    • who grief makes us

    If you liked this episode, you’ll also love:

    • Katherine and Jay Wolf on what caregiving costs us

    • Thomas Lynch on how we become who we miss

    • John Swinton on living at the speed of love

    Watch clips from this conversation, read the full transcript, and access discussion questions by clicking here or visiting katebowler.com/podcasts.

    Follow Kate on Instagram, Facebook, or X (formerly known as Twitter)—@katecbowler. Links to social pages and more available at linktr.ee/katecbowler.

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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    45 mins

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absolutely fascinating

This is the best podcast I've heard in a while. It is packed full of useful info.

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