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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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Pamela Morris-Perez: Suicide Prevention and Hope
Here on the Everything Happens Podcast we don’t shy away from difficult subjects, and today’s episode tackles a topic we’ve been wanting to discuss for awhile—suicide among teens and young adults. My guest today, Dr. Pamela Morris-Perez is someone who approaches this subject with the heart of a grieving mom and the mind of a professor and practitioner who wants to make change possible and wants to teach us how we can help. This is such an important conversation on how communities can help prevent adolescent suicide.
In this conversation, Kate and Pamela discuss:
Poignant reflections on being a suicide loss survivor from a parent who is grieving the loss of her child—a topic so rarely discussed
Why we say “died by suicide”
How we can prevent teen suicide—including what signs to look for, what to ask, and next steps to take when you’re concerned
In a very important way, this episode won’t create nearly as much anxiety as you think. Talking about suicide is one of the most important ways of making it less likely. So let’s find better language together, shall we?
If you need to talk to someone, call or text 988. If you are worried about someone, you too can call or text 988 to get resources. Remember: you matter. Please listen with care.
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.
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Chantal Kreviazuk: Finding the Melody
Chantal Kreviazuk is a Canadian singer, songwriter, composer, and pianist—her voice is the soundtrack of all Kate’s Canadian’s teenage angst. She has had an incredible career with a passion for helping others. Among many things, she’s a powerful advocate for destigmatizing mental illness—a cause near and dear to her heart after her brother struggled to get adequate care for nearly 20 years. She’s said, “When a family member is sick, the whole family is sick.” She offers such wisdom for people who struggle with a hurting family member, or their own mental health, or for their marriages that are sometimes not as easy as we had hoped.
In this conversation, Kate and Chantal discuss:
Setting necessary boundaries in complicated families
The ups and downs of a marriage and the unexpected gifts that only reveal themselves when you commit to staying in it for the long haul
A trick to starting a hard day
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.
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For Quieting an Anxious Mind
Instead of berating ourselves for not being worry-free, let’s imagine for a moment that peace is like a homecoming. When we cannot solve the problem of our worried minds, let’s bless our desire to return home to ourselves.
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Rainn Wilson: Brave, Beautiful, and Good Things
Sometimes we can fix our lives and sometimes can’t. So when self-help and self-care fall short, what do we need to turn instead? Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute of NBC’s The Office) says that what we need is a spiritual revolution. This conversation is rich and challenging and invites us all to think about the virtues we need to sustain a life and how we might cultivate these virtues not just for our own wellbeing but for that of the people around us. Spoiler alert: it has nothing to do with bubble baths or the latest cold plunge trend. Wouldn’t it be nice if it were that easy?
In this conversation, Kate and Rainn discuss:
How self-care is often a form of toxic individualism
The current mental health crisis and the need for spiritual tools that provide vision, mission, and purpose
How making oneself useful can be an antidote to despair
A big thank you to our friends at The Fetzer Institute for making today’s conversation possible.
Watch clips from this conversation, read the full transcript, and access discussion questions by clicking here or visiting katebowler.com/podcasts.
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Nicky Gumbel: Questions of Meaning
Our lives are rarely predictable or at all in our control. Sometimes what happens to us or around us can reshape our entire trajectory. Nicky Gumbel is someone whose life was dramatically changed. He thought he was going to be a very fancy lawyer… just like everyone else in his family, but that’s not what happened. Nicky became one of the pioneers of the Alpha Course where 30 million people have been introduced to Christian faith around the world.
In this conversation, Kate and Nicky discuss:
Nicky’s reluctant conversion to Christianity
How to stay open to the things we didn’t expect to happen.
How age isn’t necessarily the limiter we might assume—perhaps there are opportunities or new ventures that can open up in our later third of life
Why the church should be more like a hospital than a museum
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.
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Emma Gannon: The Butterfly Era
So much of modern culture emphasizes success, hard work, and ambition. But what if we don’t conquer every problem or reach every mountaintop? How do you live with the hunger for more while letting yourself have limits and be tired and say no and shut it down too?
In this conversation, Kate and Emma Gannon discuss:
Why ambition isn’t necessarily a bad thing
How Emma reacted to a season of severe burnout and what wisdom she has for all of us
How bucket lists can inadvertently place us in a game we are never going to win (Psst… It’s okay to simmer down a bit)
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.
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Customer Reviews
Rituals of Grief with Clover
I’m gonna try to write this review through tears. Kate Bowler is the epitome of empathy. The warmth in her voice, her calmness, and just her ability to see her guest right where they are. This episode was raw, deep and real. Between 2016-2022 I had a miscarriage(2016), lost my stepdad to cancer(2017), my younger brother(2019), and my baby brother(2022). Just for kicks, let’s throw in there having to put my 15 year old dog down in 2020! The first time I heard Kate was on the Adam young podcast and she has suddenly jumped into my no.1 slot! Thank you for sharing your heart. Thank you for seeing the heart of others. Thank you for creating this safe place to be cut wide open trying to figure out how to put back the pieces. God bless you for what you do.
Tremendous, and you need to invite Kate DiCamillo
I became aware of Kate Bowler via Krista Tippet. She was enthralling. I immediately subscribed to her podcast. I find she has this unfathomable gift for talking about the most terrible experiences (as well as uplifting - it’s not all “fun with doom!”) where her guests speak candidly and humorously and almost painfully openly about devastating experiences, and the listener comes away reminded that living life fully in all of its permutations is great. An early example in my listening experience was her discussion with Rob Delaney. Their humorous while painful discussion of unbearable loss was amazing.
She really needs to have Kate DiCamillo as a guest. Kate’s conversation with Krista Tippet on “On Being” was one of the most memorable conversations I’ve ever heard, and I think the Kates would have an open and irresistible conversation about the unbearable light of being.
Saving My Life
More than once this podcast has delivered the exact message I needed at exactly the right time. Divine intervention? Plus, exquisite work by the podcast staff. Thank you!!