that's what she said

I just listened to the last interview in this series, with writer Amy Bloom. The premise of this season - deep and probing conversations about love that is marked by loss and grief - was fulfilled beyond my imagination. The guests are achingly honest. The host is compassionately engaged. There were moments when I felt like maybe I shouldn’t be allowed to know so much about the worst time of a stranger’s life. But I was welcomed in, and I’m better for it.

If you love deep conversations with thoughtful empathic friends and are missing them right now, then I suggest you listen to this podcast like me! I so appreciate it, especially right now. "Season 5- Wild Love" is keeping me company while I cook, walk, and otherwise hang out inside during Quarantine. The podcast mixes an actor’s humanity with an insatiable curiosity, and hunger for knowledge. Therese guides the conversations toward depth and honesty. (I saw her act in some shows when she was studying at Juilliard, and just love how she’s transferred her gifts of empathy and expressivity into this medium.) I am genuinely thinking about love in new ways from listening to this, and feel myself radiating love in new ways, too.

There is no way you’ll waste your time listening to at least one episode of this. Therese has conversations that feel like eavesdropping on two smart, inquisitive, super-not-basic women getting coffee or on one of their couches being cozy and open. It’s part emotional voyeurism, but more comfort that people are literally all working on the same things and that small thoughts are the key to bigger change. Try it. I think you might like it.

This podcast has kept me company in a deeply helpful way.