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Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Are you living your best life now? Not always? This is a podcast for you. Duke Professor Kate Bowler is an expert in the stories we tell about success and failure, suffering and happiness. She had Stage IV cancer. Then she didn’t. And since then, all she wants to do is talk to funny and wise people about how to live with the knowledge that, well, everything happens. Find her online at @katecbowler. Sales and Distribution by Lemonada Media https://lemonadamedia.com/

Katherine May: Becoming Enchanted

51 mins; December 05, 2023

Bozoma Saint John: Everything Can Be True at Once

53 mins; November 28, 2023

Anna Sale: Hard Topics, Softer Conversations

47 mins; November 23, 2023

Iliza Shlesinger: Laughter is the Best Medicine

27 mins; November 21, 2023

Steph Catudal: Love That Carries Us

46 mins; November 14, 2023

Catherine Price: Serious About Fun

47 mins; November 07, 2023

Margaret Renkl: The Art of Noticing

51 mins; October 31, 2023

David Brooks: How to Really Know Someone

43 mins; October 24, 2023

Clover Stroud: The Rituals of Grief

47 mins; October 17, 2023

N.T. Wright: The Mystery of God

48 mins; October 10, 2023

Angela Williams: The Caring Power of Community

47 mins; October 03, 2023

Emi Nietfeld: The Cost of Survival

51 mins; September 26, 2023

Lisa Damour: Understanding Today’s Teenagers

54 mins; September 19, 2023

Rob Delaney: A Heart that Works is a Heart that Hurts

45 mins; September 12, 2023

Jenna Bush Hager: Get in the Game

44 mins; September 05, 2023

Introducing Season 11 of Everything Happens

2 mins; August 21, 2023

Tig Notaro: The Luckiest Unlucky Person

45 mins; June 05, 2023

Miroslav Volf: Life Worth Living

44 mins; May 29, 2023

Kwame Alexander: To Be Loved Like That

37 mins; May 15, 2023

Minka Kelly: Clear Eyes, Full Hearts

37 mins; May 01, 2023

John Swinton: The Art of Presence

43 mins; April 24, 2023

Maggie Smith: This Place Could Be Beautiful, Right?

39 mins; April 17, 2023

Mary Louise Kelly: No More Do Overs

41 mins; April 10, 2023

Rabbi Steve Leder: Don’t Come Out Empty Handed

53 mins; April 03, 2023

Michael Ignatieff: Where We Turn For Meaning

41 mins; March 27, 2023

Paulina Porizkova: Complicated Grief and Complicated Love

35 mins; March 20, 2023

Tom Long: Number Our Days

41 mins; March 13, 2023

Elaine Pagels: Love Pulls You Forward

40 mins; March 06, 2023

Frank Bruni: Adapting to Loss

41 mins; February 27, 2023

Beth Moore: Back to the Beginning

51 mins; February 20, 2023

Blessing Our ACTUAL Lives

17 mins; February 13, 2023

Kelly Corrigan: Here's to the Happies

53 mins; December 26, 2022

Kelly Corrigan: Cheers to the Crappies

53 mins; December 19, 2022

Liz Gilbert: Why Your Creativity Matters

49 mins; December 13, 2022

Bryan Stevenson: Love Mercy

61 hours 9 mins; December 07, 2022

The Season of Waiting (And Waiting... And Waiting...)

18 mins; November 28, 2022

Fred Penner: Music That Makes Us

35 mins; November 21, 2022

Kate Bowler Joins We Can Do Hard Things

62 hours 1 min; November 17, 2022

Julia Samuel: Every Family Has A Story

42 mins; November 14, 2022

Priya Parker: The Art of Gathering

44 mins; November 07, 2022

Katherine and Jay Wolf: Wounded Healers

54 mins; October 31, 2022

Stanley Hauerwas: More Life, Fewer Explanations

41 mins; October 24, 2022

Melissa Urban: Worthy of Boundaries

43 mins; October 17, 2022

Jeff Chu: Full Circle Faith

39 mins; October 10, 2022

Mary Laura Philpott: Everybody Has Something

42 mins; October 03, 2022

Thomas Lynch: A Good Funeral

50 mins; September 26, 2022

Arthur Brooks: When Success Isn’t Success

37 mins; September 19, 2022

Randall Balmer: Wrestling With the Faith We Love

45 mins; September 12, 2022

Ibram Kendi: Showing Your Scars

42 mins; September 05, 2022

Introducing Season 9 of EVERYTHING HAPPENS

3 mins; August 29, 2022

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby: Suspicious of Joy

56 mins; May 02, 2022

Susan Cain: Survival of the Kindest

40 mins; April 26, 2022

Haider Warraich: Embracing the Complexity of Pain

40 mins; April 18, 2022

Tara Westover: Remaking Home

37 mins; April 11, 2022

Anna Sale: Hard Topics, Softer Conversations

45 mins; April 04, 2022

Cammie McGovern: Mythbusting Parenting

39 mins; March 29, 2022

Mitch Albom: Counting your Somethings

38 mins; March 22, 2022

Ann Patchett: Behold, These Precious Days

44 mins; March 14, 2022

Taylor Harris: Peace for Our Anxious Selves

38 mins; March 07, 2022

Liz Tichenor: Being Church on Our Worst Days

40 mins; February 28, 2022

Kate Baer: Tolerating Imperfection

31 mins; February 21, 2022

Giving Up on Perfect

16 mins; February 14, 2022

Rick Mercer: Proud of Absolutely Everybody

42 mins; February 07, 2022

Katie Couric: The Courage to Try (and Wisdom to Know When to Let Go)

43 mins; January 31, 2022

Introducing Season 8 of EVERYTHING HAPPENS

1 min; January 31, 2022

David Brooks & Kate Bowler: Never, Ever Enough

43 mins; November 29, 2021

Sarah Sentilles: Loving a Stranger

40 mins; November 23, 2021

Cindy McCain: A Special Kind of Brave

34 mins; November 15, 2021

Richard Rohr: Learning to Hold On, Learning to Let Go

36 mins; November 08, 2021

Alexi Pappas: Staying Awake to Our Pain

40 mins; November 01, 2021

Jerry Sittser: Life After Loss

36 mins; October 25, 2021

Susan David: Toxic Positivity

34 mins; October 18, 2021

Stanley Tucci: Small Pleasures, Simple Joys

38 mins; October 11, 2021

Philip Yancey: The Scandal of Grace

35 mins; October 04, 2021

No Cure For Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)

18 mins; September 27, 2021

Tony Hale: Gentleness for Our Awkward, Anxious Selves

41 mins; September 20, 2021

Antoni Porowski: Tastes Like Love

40 mins; September 13, 2021

Gretchen Rubin: Can We Be A Tiny Bit Happier?

35 mins; September 06, 2021

Nadine Burke Harris: What Your Childhood Means for Your Health

41 mins; August 30, 2021

Cecily Strong: Embracing the Yes/And

34 mins; August 23, 2021

Malcolm Gladwell: Can People Change?

38 mins; August 16, 2021

Introducing Season 7 of EVERYTHING HAPPENS

2 mins; August 09, 2021

Debunking "Everything Happens for a Reason" with Kelly Corrigan

44 mins; June 21, 2021

How Far We’ve Come

33 mins; June 07, 2021

Julianna Margulies: Getting Unstuck

38 mins; May 31, 2021

Suleika Jaouad: You Are Not The Bad Thing (Part 2)

30 mins; May 24, 2021

Suleika Jaouad: The Kingdom of the Sick (Part 1)

35 mins; May 17, 2021

Adam Grant: Leaning into Uncertainty

33 mins; May 11, 2021

Heather Havrilesky: Be Where You Are

37 mins; May 03, 2021

Mari Andrew: Beautiful, Terrible, and Everything In-Between

34 mins; April 26, 2021

Bessel van der Kolk: Our Bodies Keep Score

36 mins; April 20, 2021

Jamie Lee: Weddings, Divorces, and Loves That Carry Us

37 mins; April 13, 2021

Jenny Lawson: The Art of the Absurd

40 mins; April 06, 2021

Father James Martin: What Good Is Prayer?

35 mins; March 29, 2021

Willie Jennings: Belonging

39 mins; March 23, 2021

Nicole Chung: Family Lore

38 mins; March 15, 2021

Matthew McConaughey: Stories We Tell Ourselves

40 mins; March 09, 2021

Anne Lamott: Loved and Chosen

40 mins; March 01, 2021

Dani Shapiro: Family Secrets

40 mins; February 22, 2021

Father Greg Boyle: The Case for Hope

40 mins; February 15, 2021

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