The Principal Uncertainty
What happens when the path you've followed stops making sense—when achievement delivers everything it promised except meaning?
The Principal Uncertainty is a series of conversations about navigating the unmapped territory between who you've become and who you might be. Host George Laufenberg—a former wilderness educator, political operative, and cultural anthropologist—talks with people who've sat with uncertainty long enough to learn something from it: ministers and therapists, writers and researchers, anyone who's discovered that the questions matter more than the answers.
These aren't interviews. They're thinking-out-loud sessions about presence, purpose, and the courage to stay in the not-knowing.
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Episodes
8 episodes
Wild by Design | Gwyneth Hagan
Gwyneth Hagan grew up moving. Air Force family — eight, nine, ten different schools, no one place long enough to put down roots. What she could count on was this: finding some small natural space ...
Father Time is Undefeated | Steve Filosa
Steve Filosa spent twenty years running Prep@Pingree, a scholarship, academic enrichment, and jobs program in Essex, Massachusetts. The program's premise was simple and counter-cultural: serve kids throug...
Certainty Kills Civic Imagination | Michael Rohd
Bio:Michael Rohd has spent thirty-five years asking the same question from increasingly systemic angles: what does it take for people who don't usually talk to each other to actually talk, and...
Not the Hardest Thing We've Done | Salmaan Kamal
Dr. Salmaan Kamal is an internal medicine physician and addiction specialist at the VA Medical Center in West Los Angeles, where he cares for veterans experiencing homelessness. At every major crossroads — leaving Alabama for Princeton, ...
A Shrine to Something | Alison Dilworth
Alison Dilworth is a Philadelphia-based artist, muralist, and shrine-maker whose work spans the profoundly private and the intensely public. She is also someone who has spent her adult life thinking ...
On The Other Side of Boredom | Adam Ekberg
Adam Ekberg is a photographer whose work lives in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the George Eastman Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Worcester Art Mu...
Everything Is Relational | Kanwal Matharu
Kanwal Matharu is a cornea surgeon, Fulbright scholar, and global health educator who has spent his career building pipelines between American academic medicine and under-resou...
Companionable Silence | Lynn Casteel Harper
What do you do when the people you're caring for can't give you certainty that you're doing it right?Lynn Casteel Harper—minister, chaplain, and author of On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear—spent y...
