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
Veronica Valli on The Promise of Emotional Sobriety
What if you could step off the rollercoaster of emotional highs and lows? What if the pain that comes with taking everything personally could taper and largely disappear?
THAT’S the promise of emoti…
00:52:28 |
Thu 23 Dec 2021
John Richards on Mental Health, Music & Community
John Richards is the morning drive host at KEXP, Seattle. For decades, he’s been the soundtrack to the lives of people starting their day, handpicking every record and building a global fanbase.
Th…
00:52:04 |
Thu 16 Dec 2021
Sharon Adams on Emotional Intelligence
What would life be like if we could identify ALL the emotions happening in and around us and have empathy for it all?
Sharon Adams has a few ideas on how we can get there. Sharon’s a master trainer …
01:00:33 |
Thu 09 Dec 2021
Leonard Perlmutter on a Life of Experimentation
What if life wasn’t an endless series of zero-sum, high stakes experiences? Leonard Perlmutter is asking these and many other questions, and he's doing it in a lovely, humble way. He’s a meditation t…
00:59:09 |
Thu 02 Dec 2021
The Shortest Episode, The Biggest Thanks
Laura offers two poems today: one of her favorites, one of her own. Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who are celebrating. And to all, a big heap of gratitude and mystery from all of us at Tell Me S…
00:06:12 |
Thu 25 Nov 2021
AMA with Laura on Intimacy, Creativity, Making Friends, and Early Sobriety
This week, we turned it over to you! In the first Ask Me Anything (AMA) episode, Laura answers four questions from our listener community. She talks about why she does this show, whether or not she’d…
00:56:44 |
Thu 18 Nov 2021
Sara Kuburic on becoming The Millennial Therapist
What would you do if someone said you could “find comfort for the most vexing questions in our digitized lives in the wisdom of 19th c. European philosophers”?
Sara Kuburic has taken up that challen…
00:41:04 |
Thu 11 Nov 2021
Anna Sale on Finding Connection by Talking About Hard Things
What if the hard thing you didn’t want to share was also the thing that made you most human and brought people closer?
Anna Sale knows A LOT about this. Anna is the creator of Death, Sex & Money, a…
00:56:17 |
Thu 04 Nov 2021
Frank X. Walker on Poetry's Urgent Intimacy
When was the last time an artist took you by the hand and said, “Here, let me show you how the world looks through my eyes”?
Frank X. Walker is Kentucky’s former poet laureate and one of the co-foun…
00:59:35 |
Thu 28 Oct 2021
Jane Clapp on Escaping the Social Media Labyrinth
What if social media scrolling was the latest version of the mythical Labyrinth? An elaborate, confusing structure intended to keep the Minotaur (you) from escaping.
Jane Clapp is a Toronto-based Ju…
01:03:20 |
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Rob Bell on Doing What You Love
How would your life look if you arranged it so you could do what you love?
Rob Bell has one of the most pure, electric, inspiring and infectious energies for life. He’s truly engaged in the myster…
01:12:30 |
Thu 14 Oct 2021
Laura McKowen on 7 Years of Sobriety
This week, Laura takes the mic solo to reflect on hitting seven years of sobriety. She goes deep on four ideas that feel most important now as she looks back - ideas that are both urgent and groundin…
00:59:28 |
Thu 07 Oct 2021
Julie Menanno on The Secure Relationship
How many times have you looked at your relationship partner and wondered, “Why do they do that?”
Have we got an episode for you!
Julie Menanno’s “The Secure Relationship” (@thesecurerelationship) …
00:50:49 |
Thu 30 Sep 2021
Kristoffer Carter on Your Epic Life
What would life be like if we gave ourselves PERMISSION?
Permission to truly chill, to feel deeply, to open up and express ourselves in ways that serve us - and others? Kristoffer “KC” Carter has A …
00:47:53 |
Thu 23 Sep 2021
Dr. Anna Lembke on Our Dopamine Nation
Have you ever said, “I’d love to stop scrolling/ drinking/ shopping/ gambling, but…?”
That’s the power of dopamine.
Dr. Anna Lembke is one of our most brilliant science communicators. She’s the N…
01:03:49 |
Thu 16 Sep 2021
Annie Grace on What Animates You
What do you do when you’ve impacted the lives of MILLIONS and you want to walk away because you’re miserable?
Annie Grace’s book, This Naked Mind, and her free online course, The Alcohol Experiment…
01:08:44 |
Thu 09 Sep 2021
Laura McKowen on Social Media & The False Self
How is social media rewiring us, and what’s the cost?
Laura has been living with this question for years. In her writing and on the show, she’s shared how social media has affected her mental health…
00:52:58 |
Thu 02 Sep 2021
Jim Zartman on The 4 Types of Relational Energy
How do you show up in relationships?
Jim Zartman is a certified Enneagram teacher, a former Midwest megachurch producer, a father, husband, and the Co-Founder of The Art of Growth, a top-rated Ennea…
01:02:09 |
Thu 26 Aug 2021
Jenn Wasner on Being vs. Performing
What do you do when the music stops and there’s no dancing in the distraction machine?
For Jenn Wasner, like so many of us, that was her pandemic year. She had become “incredibly adept at outrunnin…
00:58:17 |
Thu 19 Aug 2021
Anne Helen Petersen on Burnout and The Myth of “Having it All”
“Rachel Hollis is a manifestation of a larger ideology about women's place in society. That if you just try hard enough, all of these structural issues that are making your life really, really hard c…
01:04:27 |
Thu 12 Aug 2021
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