Tell Me Something True with Laura McKowen
Tell Me Something True is for people who want to fall in love with the mystery of life again. Practical, fun, and provocative conversations that use the lenses of psychology, philosophy, creativity, science, and spirituality to help us discover the surprising things that make life meaningful. Laura McKowen, the host, is the best-selling author of We Are The Luckiest, a "raw, deep and hopeful" memoir. Laura brings hard-won life experience, a searing curiosity, and deep passion for others to every conversation.
Faith
Spirituality
Health & Fitness
Personal Journals
Creativity
Self Help
Mental Health
Psychology
Science
Wellness
Humor
Love
Philosophy
Meditation
Music
Literature
Society & Culture
Relationships
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
Jodi White on Love Addiction, Mother Hunger and Codependency
Let’s be real. The words “Love Addiction” can trigger a massive eye roll. Jodi White gets it and she’s here to show us that it’s real and a lot more common than we think.
Jodi draws on the groundbr…
01:00:13 |
Thu 12 May 2022
Ana Marie Cox on Trusting The Process (even when she doesn’t want to)
When Ana Marie Cox said, “I can’t wring self-worth out of the universe,” we felt that hit like a mountain.
Ana spent the better part of two decades as a political columnist and culture critic. She s…
00:49:11 |
Thu 05 May 2022
TMST @ SXSW with Jason Isbell, Jan Rader and Wes Hurt
Wes Hurt is the founder of Sparkling Yerba Mate CLEAN Cause, a beverage company donating 50% of its net profits to funding sober living scholarships; Jason Isbell is a Grammy Award-Winning singer/son…
00:57:56 |
Thu 28 Apr 2022
AMA with Laura on Impostor Syndrome + Bonus on Writing and Publishing a Book
Laura mines more gold from the TMST community this week with a MUCH requested topic: Imposter Syndrome. Hands up - who doesn’t face some version of this, and would we want to hang with someone who do…
00:40:04 |
Thu 21 Apr 2022
Mishka Shubaly on Getting Through Your Worst Year
What do you do when a friend tells you he’s just gone through his worst year?
Well, when he’s a brave and bright light in the world, and he’s Mishka Shubaly, you invite him on the podcast! Seriously…
01:07:34 |
Thu 14 Apr 2022
Peter Rollins on Grappling with Uncertainty
Peter Rollins is back! Our first return guest to TMST, we asked Peter back to talk about how we contend with uncertainty (e.g. life). If you don’t know Peter, he’s an Irish theologian, philosopher, a…
01:02:58 |
Thu 07 Apr 2022
Brenda Davies on Purity, Hook-ups & Life In the Grey
When the world is screaming “It’s all black or white,” how do we remember that we mostly live in the grey area?
Brenda Davies might be onto something. She’s the author of “On Her Knees: Memoir of a …
00:45:11 |
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Johann Hari on Regaining our Ability to Focus
What if there’s more to our collective struggle to FOCUS than we’ve considered? And what do we have to do to regain what we’ve lost?
Those are the questions Johann Hari is exploring in his new book,…
00:38:17 |
Thu 24 Mar 2022
AMA with Laura on Friendship
“Nothing is personal” is easy to say, but our adult friendships can truly test our ability to hold on to that vital lesson from Don MIguel Ruiz.
In this AMA Laura takes on two different questions fr…
01:02:57 |
Thu 17 Mar 2022
Sharon McMahon on the Power of Saying “I Don’t Know”
What if one of the most powerful things we can say is, “I don’t know?”
Sharon McMahon came to our attention through her hugely popular @sharonsaysso Instragram account. Sharon’s ability to share cle…
00:44:29 |
Thu 10 Mar 2022
Caroline Dooner on Saying F*ck It to Hustle & Diet Culture
This week, we’re revisiting one of our most discussed and asked-for topics: BURNOUT.
Caroline Dooner’s first book, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy is a massively popular and influential boo…
00:53:03 |
Thu 03 Mar 2022
Jill Louise Busby on Being Unfollowed
How many of us have the courage to face the friction that comes when we need to grow, but people want us to stay the same? You’ve built an audience as a “truth-teller,” but then what if your understa…
00:41:46 |
Thu 24 Feb 2022
AMA with Laura on Rising Above Shame & Regret, plus a big show announcement!
The TMST community takes center stage again as Laura tackles some universal questions on facing down shame and regret. In this episode, we explore the ways our mistakes, our successes, our disappoint…
00:53:39 |
Thu 17 Feb 2022
Nadia Bolz-Weber on How We’re REALLY Doing
This week, we asked a big question... what can Timothée Chalamet’s character in “Don’t Look Up” teach us about finding faith in tough times?
No, seriously… we dig into it in a real way and Nadia Bol…
00:55:13 |
Thu 10 Feb 2022
Amanda White and Our Desire for Control
Janet was right. It’s all about CONTROL.
Amanda White has some wise, and life-earned, things to say about the illusion of control. If we’re honest, our desire for control is inseparable from all of …
00:42:20 |
Thu 03 Feb 2022
Katy Milkman on How To Change for the Good
How would you approach change if you saw it as BOTH a practice AND mindset?
Katy Milkman has researched this and it’s clear she’s on to something. In today’s conversation and in her bestselling book…
00:43:33 |
Thu 27 Jan 2022
AMA with Laura on Infidelity, Trust, Grief and The Complex Reality of Love and LIfe
We promised more AMAs, so let’s go! This week, Laura answers three questions that interlace around the topics of infidelity, trust, intimacy, divorce, addiction, forgiveness, and the complex reality …
00:51:43 |
Thu 20 Jan 2022
Jamie Lee Finch on Purity Culture, Sex, & Befriending Your Body (pt.2)
Purity culture isn’t a thing that happens to OTHER people. The tendrils of sexual repression have insinuated themselves into all of our lives.
In the second half of our conversation with Jamie Lee …
00:40:14 |
Thu 13 Jan 2022
Jamie Lee Finch on Purity Culture, Sex, and Befriending Your Body - part 1
What if your body was your closest friend instead of…whatever it is now?
Jamie Lee Finch is a wise guide for so many women who are asking - what would a healthy relationship with my body look like? …
00:36:49 |
Thu 06 Jan 2022
Something True for 2022
Our final episode for 2021 is a harvest of hard-earned wisdom to launch us into 2022. You’ll hear from Peter Rollins, Annie Grace, Rob Bell, yung pueblo, and africa brooke. They share so much on how…
00:53:16 |
Thu 30 Dec 2021
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