Shrinking America
Three millennial psychiatrists, military veterans, and friends break down what feels alive in America, right now, through a biopsychosocial lens.
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Episodes
9 episodes
Episode 6: The Hero's Journey
Several influences seemed to coalesce to lead us to creating this episode on the Hero’s Journey. There was the release of The Odyssey, which has grossed $1.4 billion worldwide, arguing there’s something in our collective psyche still drawing...
Episode 5: Aggression
Aggression rose to the top of our early episode list without us fully knowing why — maybe because, as psychiatrists, we see it almost everywhere. In its many forms, it's something we humans tend to deny, push aside, or bury deep — until it e...
Episode 4: Community
Welcome, Shrinking America community, to the community episode! We had a running joke that we would just keep mentioning the community episode without ever actually recording it. And then we quickly realized this was a bit of a metaphor. It'...
Episode 3: The American Dream
For our first real "topic" episode, we decided to start with the American Dream.Maybe we chose it because we thought it’d be a hopeful topic and we want this podcast to be hopeful. But we also quickly got to the dark underbelly...
Episode 2: The Toolkit
Welcome to episode 2 of Shrinking America.This episode is a continuation of our first episode — where we really asked ourselves what we’re doing here. Now that we’ve asked some important defining questions we’re trying to figur...
Episode 1: What Are We Doing?
Welcome to Shrinking America…this time, for real. This episode, recorded in January before any of our other content, dives into a conversation about what got us going on a podcast, who we are as individuals, friends, psychiatrists and as Ame...
Episode 0.125: America on Hold
Welcome to Episode 0.125. It’s an impromptu addition to our prequel series, where we decided to turn the psychiatric lens on ourselves. We noticed in our text thread we were all having interesting reactions about finally putting our work out...
Episode 0 : Artemis II and One Small Step For Shrinks (One Giant Leap Coming June 24th!)
We've been chipping away at this podcast for a while — balancing our collective perfectionism with a "good enough" energy, finding time in chaotic millennial midlife to meet, laugh, and record together on an almost weekly basis. When Artemis...
