Between Worlds with Jack Sorrin
Between Worlds with Jack Sorrin is a weekly podcast for thoughtful people trying to stay sane, clear, and human in a world that feels louder, faster, stranger, and more divided by the day.
Jack Sorrin explores the forces shaping modern life — attention, technology, AI, politics, trust, status, meaning, beauty, belonging, and the quiet ache of not fitting the script.
This is not rage-bait. It is not recruiting. It is not self-help fluff. It is cultural diagnosis with human warmth: a weekly map and a weekly move for people who want intellectual depth, practical clarity, and language for the things they feel but cannot quite name.
If you are overwhelmed by the noise, suspicious of easy answers, and still stubbornly interested in truth, hope, and a more humane way to live, you are in the right place.
No yelling. No recruiting. Just clarity with teeth.
Episodes
19 episodes
S2E5: How to Be Strong Without Becoming Hard
How to Be Strong Without Becoming HardWhat Real Strength Looks Like Under PressureYou can win the exchange and still become someone people hesitate to be honest with.How do you hold a conviction, handle pressure, and...
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S2E4: Why Enough Never Feels Like Enough
Why Enough Never Feels Like EnoughMoney Anxiety and the Moving Target of SecurityYou get the raise, pay off the debt, or reach the number you were aiming for. Why is it still so hard to relax?From an unexpectedly exp...
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S2E3: When Your Life Becomes an Audition
When Your Life Becomes an AuditionThe Status Games Running Your BrainYou say the likes don’t matter. Then you check again.The same pressure shows up far beyond social media: in a meeting where being corrected feels u...
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S2E2: Why You Keep Reaching for More
Why You Keep Reaching for MoreThe Hunger Under Your HungerYour calendar is full. You’re learning constantly. So why do you still find yourself asking, “What am I doing with my life?”Another tab, another purchase, ano...
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S201: Why Your Life Doesn’t Feel Like Yours
Why Your Life Doesn’t Feel Like YoursHow the Feed Quietly Takes Your AgencyYou meant to check one thing. Fifteen minutes later, you’re invested in an argument between people who don’t know you exist.Your day may be f...
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BS03: Season 2 Preview: Install the OS for a Life That Holds
Season 2 of Between Worlds is where the show shifts from diagnosis to construction. This preview gives listeners ten windows into the season ahead: agency, meaning, status, money, strength, trust, desire, repair, beauty, and rule of life. The c...
BS02: Jackisms: A Field Guide to Between Worlds Vocabulary
This between-seasons mini-episode is a palate cleanser, field guide, and small act of linguistic housekeeping. Jack walks through the phrases that keep showing up in Between Worlds: clarity with teeth, drafted, approved boxes, Reality Check, Th...
BS01: Season One: What I Learned (And What I Didn't): Drift, Attention, and a Life That Holds
Season One of Between Worlds began as a set of episodes, but it became something more useful: a ladder. Sanity, belonging, truth, formation, politics, comedy, attention, disagreement, real friendship, and rule of life all pointed to one underly...
S1E10: Hope Without Denial: A Rule of Life for 2026
The Season 1 finale gathers the whole toolkit into a rule of life: not a lifestyle brand, not a guilt spreadsheet, but a trellis that helps a real life grow. Jack defines hope without denial as the refusal to pretend reality is better than it i...
S1E09: Belonging Without a Tribe: Third Places and Real Friends
You can have good opinions and still be lonely. You can know the truth and still be draftable. In the second episode of the closing trilogy, Jack maps the ecosystem where human beings actually belong. He names three counterfeits: audience, netw...
S1E08: How to Disagree Without Becoming a Monster
Disagreement is unavoidable. Monstrosity is optional. In this episode, Jack names the Monster Pipeline: motive, label, contempt, license. It is the quiet sequence that turns real people into enemy objects and makes cruelty feel righteous. This ...
S1E07: Attention Theft: The Seven-Day Attention Audit
Your phone is not just a tool. It is a formation environment with its own tempo, values, rewards, and punishments. In this field-manual episode, Jack moves from diagnosis to drill: the Seven-Day Attention Audit. The problem is not only that you...
S1E06: Jokes Tell the Truth: Comedy as Moral X-Ray
Comedy is not just entertainment. It is a truth-delivery system. In this episode, Jack shows how laughter exposes hypocrisy, bypasses defenses, and relieves pressure when serious speech feels too heavy to receive. But comedy has a moral shape. ...
S1E05: Politics for People Who Hate Politics: Staying Human in the Public Square
If the word politics makes your soul file a change-of-address form, this episode is for you. Jack argues that many people do not hate public life; they hate being drafted into hysteria. Modern politics deforms people when it becomes identity, e...
S1E04: Algorithms vs Your Soul: How You're Being Formed by the Feed
This episode goes into the engine room. Jack argues that the feed is not merely information; it is formation. Through attention capture, identity shaping, and moral outsourcing, algorithms train what you notice, what you fear, what you mock, wh...
S1E01: You're Not Crazy, It's Just 2026: How to Stay Sane in a Machine-Tempo World
Season One of Between Worlds began as a set of episodes, but it became something more useful: a ladder. Sanity, belonging, truth, formation, politics, comedy, attention, disagreement, real friendship, and rule of life all pointed to one underly...
S1E03: Truth Without a Tribe: How to Think When Reality Is Fractured
In a world of ten-second clips, hot takes, and profitable frames, truth gets broken before most people know what happened. Jack maps the three fractures: speed, incentives, and identity capture. Then he names the trust-collapse spiral that turn...
S1E02: Hybrids: How to Belong When You Don't Fit Anywhere
What do you do when none of the approved boxes fit? In this episode, Jack names the loneliness of the hybrid: the person who feels too much of one thing for one tribe and too much of another thing for the next. But being in-between is not alway...