How to build resilience through architecture (w/ Alyssa-Amor Gibbons)

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Summer Fridays: How to be more joyful (w/ Ingrid Fetell Lee) (re-release)

How to find and create Joy in your life -- what is joy? And what is its purpose in our lives? We talk with Ingrid about how to cultivate more joy in our daily lives, especially when we don't feel particularly in the headspace for joy, and about how our design choices can have a h ...  Show more

How to understand your family history (w/ Keith Rushing)

Journalist Keith Rushing has spent years trying to report on his most difficult story - the history of his own family. Who do we come from? What do we inherit from the past? How can understanding our ancestors make us better humans today? To find out the answers, Chris invites Ke ...  Show more

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