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Sum of Ages
Sum of Ages is a growing audio archive of human experience.
Each episode preserves one person’s voice - speaking in their own words about a lived experience that has shaped how they see the world. Across hundreds of topics, the project gathers stories of loss and happiness, failure and purpose, regret and resilience - without performance or expectation.
The long-term aim is simple and ambitious: to accumulate one million years of lived experience, creating a public library of real voices that can be returned to when guidance, recognition, or quiet company is needed.
Sum of Ages exists as a reminder that whatever we are carrying, someone else has carried something like it before - and chose to speak.
Sum of Ages
31 years of life, and PRESSURE with Jade.
Jade is a 31-year-old from Cape Town, South Africa, with a life story shaped by his unique relationship with pressure.
Jade shares how pressure has shaped every aspect of his journey—from the highs of being a professional cricket player to the lows of breaking his back in a parkour accident. He opens up about surviving violent encounters, including being shot at and stabbed, navigating the mental health struggles that followed, and resisting initiation into dangerous gangs.
This episode is a raw and powerful look at how pressure can both break and build us.
Are you interested in being a "Part of the Sum" and having your story aired? Email us at sumofagespodcast@gmail.com