
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 • 78 episodes
Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
Latest Episodes
Susan Magsamen - Neuroscience, NeuroArts, and the mystery that life really is
Susan Magsamen makes her life at the frontier: the frontier of neuroscience, of institutional change, of the intersection of art and science. Her's is a life full of wisdom for how to live amongst mystery and befriend complexity.
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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1:10:30

Season Eight Trailer: A meditation on conversation and the collective narrative of our time
Origins Podcast WebsiteHello friends, a new season of Origins arrives next week, on Tuesday, May 20. This next chapter of Origins is about exploring conversation, that great practi...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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11:29

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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