Best Kate Macy Podcasts (2025)

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Joanna Macy, In Memoriam — Beauty and Wisdom and Courage (and Rilke) to Sustain Us 50:57

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This rich, gorgeous conversation will fill your soul. The singular and beloved Joanna Macy died at home at the age of 96 on July 20, 2025. She has left an immense legacy of beauty and wisdom and courage to sustain us. A Buddhist teacher, ecological philosopher, and Rilke translator, she taught and embodied a wild love for the world. What follows is…

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S4 Ep15: Dr. Shiro Ishii and Unit 731; part 2 43:53

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Join us for the final part in our exploration of unit 731 and Ishii. In this episode we discuss what happened to prisoners, what ended the unit, and the aftermath. ****TW: sexual assault, pregnancy loss, child death, imprisonment, dismemberment.By Kate Macy and Devon Rebecca

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Ross Gay — Hope Portal, Episode 7 10:19

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Ross Gay is a poet, community gardener, and teacher who brings another way of wisdom to the conviction that we have to know what we love and what delights us. And that we have to tend to that as fiercely as to what is broken and what we’re called to make better, what we’re called to make more just. Knowing what we love and knowing how to take delig…

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S4 Ep14: Dr. Shiro Ishii and Unit 731; part 1 49:12

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Let’s get into part 1 of our series of Unit 731 and its spearheading scientist Dr. Shiro Ishii, beginning with some history and background on his early life and the development of Unit 731. …… Intro/outro: New Media, Olive Musique Cover art: Blossom Creative Studio, Jenny Hamilton Instagram: @medcrimespodcast Follow, like, share, subscribe! Visit u…

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Joy Harjo — The Hope Portal Ep. 6 17:09

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Our teacher this time is the extraordinary Joy Harjo. She is a musician, a visual artist, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, and she’s also former Poet Laureate of the United States. From the beginning of her life, from childhood and even before, she has carried and retained a sense of space and time and life that is so much vaster than present…

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Joanna Macy — Hope Portal, Episode 5 12:03

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Our teacher and inspiration for this session is Joanna Macy. What she embodies is a wild love for the world and a fierce hope that rises irrepressible from that. And she carries and lives an important reminder to us that when we love, we will also know pain, and we will know grief that can feel too awful to bear. When we talk about the muscle of ho…

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S4 Ep13: Georgia Tann, “The Baby Theif”; part 2 36:16

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Join us as Devon wraps up this mind-blowing operation with the adoption society’s downfall, what happened to Georgia and her accomplices, and the fallout as well as resulting changes in legislation. ———— Intro/outro: New Media, Olive Musique Cover art: Blossom Creative Studio, Jenny Hamilton Instagram: @medcrimespodcast Follow, like, share, subscri…

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Ocean Vuong — Hope Portal, Episode 4 11:29

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If hope is to be defining and forceful in the world we have to remake ahead of us, we must also speak hope into being. Ocean Vuong is a fascinating and singular person. The sweep of his work is about bearing witness to the other side of violence and the possibility of joy while taking nothing away and continuing to bear witness to the fullness of w…

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The Resonance Test 97: The Power of Partnership with Colleen Kapase and Elaina Shekhter 35:17

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In the age of AI, there’s no going it alone. Partnership is now an absolute necessity. This conversation between Colleen Kapase, VP of Channels and Partner Programs at Google Cloud, and Elaina Shekhter, EPAM’s Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, demonstrates the value of partnership done right. Their back-and-forth embodies the enduring partnersh…

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Naomi Shihab Nye — Hope Portal, Episode 3 9:15

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In these next few sessions, we investigate some orientations and ways of being that are companions to hope. If hope is a muscle that can be exercised to become stronger and more supple, these qualities might be thought of as fascia, or the tendons — complementary ligaments that make the whole viable and sustainable. The wonderful poet Naomi Shihab …

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Walter Brueggemann, In Memoriam - When the World We Have Trusted In Is Vanishing 1:06:25

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The great Christian scholar of the biblical prophets died on June 5, 2025. Yet, in the lineage of the prophets who called humanity to face its hardest realities, this profound, warm, and timeless conversation is a stunning offering straight into our present. “The amazing contemporaneity of this material," Walter Brueggemann says to Krista in this c…

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S4 Ep12: Georgia Tann, “Baby Thief”; part 1 38:58

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Devonism alert! Let’s start exploring the old-timey horror that is Georgia Tann, the social worker who orchestrated a massive, long term child trafficking ring. …… Intro/outro: New Media, Olive Musique Cover art: Blossom Creative Studio, Jenny Hamilton Instagram: @medcrimespodcast Follow, like, share, subscribe! Visit us at: Www.medcrimespodcast.co…

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adrienne maree brown — Hope Portal, Episode 2 13:43

2M ago13:43

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adrienne maree brown shines a light on an emerging ecosystem in our world over and against the drumbeat of what is fractured and breaking. She works with the complex fullness of reality to move towards a wholeness of living. In exploring the idea of hope — the meaning of it, the practice of it — it feels important to begin with someone who works to…

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Krista Tippett — Hope Portal, Episode 1 13:58

2M ago13:58

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Beginning today, and for the next six weeks in the On Being podcast feed and Substack, we’re opening a reflection/course experience curated by Krista and drawing upon her conversations with several visionary humans: adrienne maree brown, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ocean Vuong, Joy Harjo, Joanna Macy, and Ross Gay. Together, they extend rich and actionable i…

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Silo Busting 71: IR Now with Tab Bradshaw and Sam Rehman 27:00

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Today’s incident response ain’t your grandfather’s IR. But the psychology surrounding it hasn’t changed an iota. This is precisely what Sam Rehman, EPAM’s Chief Information Security Officer and SVP, and Tab Bradshaw, Chief Operating Officer at Redpoint Cybersecurity, are talking about on this #SecurityByDesign conversation. “It really comes down to…

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S4 Ep11: “Typhoid Mary” Mallon 55:22

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Let’s go back in time to the early 1900’s and break down the bizarre and sad tale of Typhoid Mary, the first known asymptomatic carrier of Typhoid fever, and how she infected countless people with the deadly disease. ——- Intro/outro: New Media, Olive Musique Cover art: Blossom Creative Studio, Jenny Hamilton Instagram: @medcrimespodcast Follow, lik…

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Roberta Bondi — What is Prayer and How to Begin 33:33

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Buried treasure from the On Being archive! Krista writes of this conversation from the earliest pre-history of On Being: In the years in which I was on a whole new spiritual and intellectual adventure that changed the direction of my life — years which led to the creation of this show — I befriended a delightful, brilliant, straight-talking theolog…

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Yochi Fisher and Loaay Wattad–On Seeing the Trauma of the Other 1:36:34

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This episode emerged from a private gathering in The Hague in the fall of 2024 with a small group of people who live in Israel — both Jewish and Palestinian, Jews and Palestinians who continue to share life. We’re pleased to invite you now to overhear this particular conversation, with the permission of all involved. It centered around the matter o…

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S4 Ep10: HEADLINES! Vol. 2 52:14

2M ago52:14

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Pull up a chair and get your updates on Colonial Heights, Lucy Letby and MUCH MORE!By Kate Macy and Devon Rebecca

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Jason Reynolds and Kessley Janvier — On Being Young In America 1:11:43

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A heavy complexity is on the shoulders of the young of our species in these years — humans growing up in this time. At the same time, from the digital revolution and AI to the ecology and society, they have wisdom and instincts in their bones that will be essential if we are all to flourish and not merely survive this century. In November 2024, the…

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David Bornstein — On Our Lives with the News 54:53

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A calming and helpful conversation for making sense of the very story of our time, and how that is coming to us and being powerfully shaped through media and journalism. The theory of change of journalism as it came out of the 20th century, David Bornstein says, is that shining a light on what is going wrong — what is dangerous and dysfunctional, c…

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S4 Ep9: Janie Lynn Ridd, part 2 35:47

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*the story told here is from the perspective of the victim and contains many statements of actions that the offender was not formally convicted of. These statements are the opinion and retelling of the perspective of the victim only and were not proven in a court of law. In this quick-fire conclusion, Rachel deteriorates further when mysterious hyp…

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Katsi Cook — "Women are the First Environment" 55:19

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Katsi Cook is a beacon in an array of quiet powerful worlds — a magnetic, joyous, loving presence. The public conversation we offer up here was part of a gathering where a fantastic group of young people had come to be nourished, to explore the depths of what community can mean, to become more grounded and whole. They've taken to sitting at the fee…

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Justin Vernon — Being Bon Iver 54:41

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A sweet and searching conversation between Krista and the man behind Bon Iver at this year's On Air Fest, full of wisdom and revelation. He is a person who experiences deeply, who metabolizes creatively, and who just keeps growing. He opens up with Krista about the strangeness of being loved for how he put his broken heart to music. They venture in…

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S4 Ep8: Janie Lynn Ridd, part 1 57:59

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What begins as a beautiful friendship deteriorates when Rachel sustains a catastrophic back injury, followed by a slew of complications. Is Janie really acting in Rachel’s best interest?By Kate Macy and Devon Rebecca

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A New Season of On Being 2:24

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On Being is back on April 16, with a special season tethered in the persistent beauty and courage of what it can mean to be human — six conversations Krista has had out in the world in recent months, followed by an experimental, seven-week reflection/action experience— Hope, Imagination, and Remaking the World — to undertake with others in your lif…

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The Resonance Test 96: Building an Aquatic Corporate Community with Antonio Silva & Kate Pretkel 26:24

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What does the phrase “aquatic corporate community” mean to you? A school of fish in business suits holding an underwater meeting around a table of coral? Well, for our guests on the latest episode of *The Resonance Test,* it’s all about plunging into a strategic social responsibility program called “Let’s Swim Together.” Antonio Silva, President of…

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S4 Ep7: Yale University Fertility Center 52:40

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Imagine you’re on a taxing fertility journey and you seek help from a trusted specialist, only to be forced to endure a painful procedure because an employee was skimming drugs for personal use. ——— Intro/outro: New Media, Olive Musique Cover art: Blossom Creative Studio, Jenny Hamilton Instagram: @medcrimespodcast Follow, like, share, subscribe! V…

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Silo Busting 70: Lessons for the Modern CISO with Tim Ramsay and Sam Rehman 26:56

4M ago26:56

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How are CISOs holding up in the era of AI? According to Tim Ramsay, Managing Director of Mandiant Client Advisory (now part of Google Cloud), and our guest on *Silo Busting*: “You have a number of parts of the organization that may be embracing AI without any involvement from central IT, and more importantly… without security.”Not an easy situation…

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S4 Ep6: Kaitlyn Braun, the Series; part 3 38:14

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TW: sexual assault, stillbirth, sexual harassment, child loss. In this short and sweet conclusion, we discuss Kaitlyn's pathology, possible diagnoses, conviction, victim impact, and where she’s at today. ———- Intro/outro: New Media, Olive Musique Cover art: Blossom Creative Studio, Jenny Hamilton Instagram: @medcrimespodcast Follow, like, share, su…

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S4 Ep5: Kaitlyn Braun, the Series; part 2 48:54

5M ago48:54

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TW: SA, sexual harassment, childbirth loss, pregnancy, childbirth, stillbirth. Further down the rabbit hole we go as we dive deeper into Kaitlyn’s misdeeds, learn more about her victims, discover some details regarding her childhood and teen years. ——— Intro/outro: New Media, Olive Musique Cover art: Blossom Creative Studio, Jenny Hamilton Instagra…

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The Resonance Test 95: Technology, Trust & the Customer Experience with Eric Sobie & Chris Tapley 28:25

5M ago28:25

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“If you want to know the future, look at the past.” While no one in their right mind would claim Einstein was giving any thought whatsoever to the future of the financial services industry, history would have once again proven him right if he had. Once upon a time, one’s choice of bank was based on how well that particular institution had won over …

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S4 Ep4: Kaitlyn Braun: the Series; part 1 1:04:41

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*TW: SA, child loss, infant/pregnancy loss, childbirth, cancer* A hardworking doula assists a young woman through an incredibly difficult delivery. When the complications seem never ending, she begins to question everything. ——— Intro/outro: New Media, Olive Musique Cover art: Blossom Creative Studio, Jenny Hamilton Instagram: @medcrimespodcast Fol…

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S4 Ep3: HEADLINES! Colonial Heights Nursing Home, Rooftop Patient death, and UPDATES! 1:00:35

6M ago1:00:35

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Extra! Extra! Welcome to HEADLINES where we talk about some of the crazy medical new stories currently circulating. In this edition, we discuss the events unfolding at Colonial Heights Nursing Home, the tragedy surrounding the patient whom allegedly died after being locked on a hospital roof top, and discuss updates on the following cases: return t…