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.

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Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Introducing Season Nine: Trailer and a meditation on the shadow side of vulnerability

June 19, 2026 • Ryan McGranaghan • Season 9 • Episode 1

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CORRECTION: Season Nine will commence on July 7, not June 30

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Hello friends, a new season of Origins arrives on July 7!

I can't genuinely describe my experience in the world right now without the term confusion.

Confused in a deep sense: feeling a growing distance between the world as I experience it and the world we seem to be creating together.

The appropriate response to bewilderment is not certainty but deeper conversation. That has always been the purpose of Origins: A person bewildered by the world turning toward another person and asking: How do you live here?

So strangely, out of vulnerability there is capacity. Out of confusion there is hope.

The episodes in this season are meant to be companions in that work. They are certainly companions in mine.

What we do now will be oriented toward creating those sites at which vulnerability becomes capacity: belonging and solidarity. I hope each episode becomes an encounter with flourishing.

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