🧪Your Podcast Potion | The Week of Dec 9
Sikh wisdom, disembodied half-person, funny = sexy, happiness hacks, how Krista Tippett finds quiet, traveler or pilgrim, and an interview with Author Anthony Doerr
Hello dear friend!
Currently, I’m sitting at a cafe with a mug of peppermint tea, brewing up your podcast potion for the week ahead, while my daughter is at Nutcracker ballet practice. The last Sunday before the big show!
If you’re new here…each week, I distill the vast podcast universe into a carefully crafted elixir, mixing just the right ingredients to spark your imagination, cultivate curiosity, promote good conversation, and transform your week!
This isn’t just a playlist. It’s a potion!🎧✨
Some will make you laugh. Some will make you think. Some will transport you to entirely new worlds. But together? Pure magic.
So, here you go… I can’t wait to hear which one you leap for first!
Monday
How To Be A Better Human | How Sikh wisdom can transform your life (w/ Simran Jeet Singh) | Dec 9 2024 | 45 min
“What religion unlocks is how do you live in the grey. Recognizing that life is grey and it’s not always easy to know what the answers are, and sometimes you take these principles of compassion or service and you apply those and it helps you figure out- this is how I want to deal with this situation where there is no easy answer.”
Tuesday
No Small Endeavor | Unabridged Interview: Audrey Assad | Dec 10 2024 | 50 min
“My experience of being a woman as a Christian was damaging…I didn’t have an experience that affirmed or uplifted my gender. I’ve had to do alot of recovering from that experience and reclaiming of things. And even just as a Catholic, when I was heavily in that world, Mary being held up as the paragon of virtue. Well, Mary was considered by the Catholics to never have had sex. Her labor was probably painless according to Catholic tradition. It left me feeling like I have to be a disembodied half-person to be like the most virtuous woman there ever was.”
Wednesday
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Julia Gets Wise with Rita Morena | Dec 11 2024 | 1 hr 11 min
“The reason I really fell in love with my husband was because he was funny…There’s something about someone who has a quick wit that makes me feel protected from the outside world and I find that very sexy because they can protect me…by just coming up with some funny, hilarious thing that will distract me from that person who is handing out the poison.”
Thursday
The Mel Robbins Podcast | The Science of Well-Being: Powerful Happiness Hacks That 5 Million People Are Using | Dec 11 2024 | 1 hr
“We’re rushing around, we all feel so busy. Time famine has felt like it’s going up all around. We just don’t have the bandwidth to help other people. We don’t have the bandwidth to help the planet. There’s lots of evidence that if you’re feeling under more time pressure, you’re not going to recycle.”
Friday
Say More | BEATING BURNOUT: Krista Tippett on the Power of Getting Quiet | June 19 2024 | 26 min
“It’s not that easy an ask for us to just sit down and be quiet, to sit down and breathe, and it’s not what I always want to do either. I will usually have some book and it might be a book of poetry and it might just be a really thoughtful book that I want to read but know that I’m not going to sit down and read 250 pages of it. So I will just take something like that almost as a meditation. A poem. A page. Or a paragraph. And just give that time over, that 5 or 10 minutes to reading that short thing and have some blank paper…even just copy out lines of that poem or the thing that I read that are beautiful to me…or I find myself coming into conversation with that thing that I was reading.”
Saturday
The Interview | Rick Steves Refuses to Get Cynical About Life | July 19 2024 | 1 hr 10 min
“There are three kinds of travel. You can travel as a tourist, a traveler, or a pilgrim. And you don’t need to be all of one or all of the other. What I like to do is free people or inspire people to mix it up.
…A traveler learns about the world. But I think a pilgrim learns about themself.”
Sunday
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver | Anthony Doerr | Oct 12 2022 | 49 min
“The worst crime you can commit is to sleepwalk through your life.”
I hope this is the perfect way to cap off your week and that you discover a new podcast you love!
Thank you for joining me here and I’ll be back Wednesday with another edition of Welcome Wanderer!
With joy,
Charissa