
Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
Origins are conversations with thought-leaders across an eclectic mix of disciplines (science, engineering, art, and design), crafted specifically for the category-defying society that we live in. We explore the thoughts, passions, and stories that defined these pioneers’ fascinating trajectories, arriving at the origins of the pivotal moments across their lives. Draw inspiration for your own trajectory from the intellectual and spiritual electricity of these eclectic conversations.
Podcasting since 2019 • 76 episodes
Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
Latest Episodes
David Woods - the science of resilience, graceful extensibility, and facilitating insight
Few concepts are more important to our society than resilience. Agnostic of domain, of nation, culture, and scale (as vital, indeed, to the individual life as to the planetary civilization), it would be impossible to overstate the pressure on u...
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Season 7
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Episode 11
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1:12:04

Paul Smaldino - Social identities, collective intelligence, and an ambling open life
Paul Smaldino is an explorer. That might seem like an odd way to describe a professor of cognitive science, but anyone who has glanced at his biography will recognize that he lives his life in exploration. His scholarship as his life are inspir...
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Season 7
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Episode 10
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1:12:20

John Paul Lederach - Peacebuilding, critical yeast, and the language of imagination
I've been following John Paul Lederach's work for years, finding the words he uses inordinately relevant to all of the details and spaces of my life. John Paul is Professor of International Peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Intern...
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Season 7
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Episode 9
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1:13:09

Creating encounters with flourishing: A 'salon' at the National Academy of Sciences
Flourishing is not a fixed state; it is an unfolding. In this time of rupture we need encounters with flourishing, to know it in our lived experiences individually and collectively. In this transformative event on December 12, 2024, Ryan McGran...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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1:47:03

Talia Stroud - Digital communities, civic signals, and connective democracy
Natalie (Talia, as she goes by) Stroud has for years been studying the ways that our lives online show up in and shape our lives together. Her scholarship as her life are unexampled guides to the tumult, the challenges, and the opportunity pres...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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1:04:35
