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Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

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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68:29

Mette Miriam Böll - Insisting on compassion

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2025/10/28

Biologist, philosopher, educator, facilitator, and historian of science Mette Miriam Böll is embodiment of the kind of life that emerges when we accept, recognize, and revere our profound interconnectedness. Her scholarship as her life are nourishment for returning to the task we are all called to: to human well, at once simple and complex, individual and civilizational. Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: Tibetan Book of the Dead (04:20)Dzogchen - Tib...

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Dan Jay - Doubt, collectivity, and transformative...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2025/09/16

Dr. Dan Jay has a mission to inspire where art and science meet. His life has been spent in the liminal and generative space between and among these domains of inquiry that are too often considered separate, distinct, even opposing. Yet, it is transformative creativity only possible from the co-mingling and conversation of art and science that we seem to be called to in the 21st century. Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: Falling Upward by Richard Rohr ...

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Zachary Ugolnik - Science & spirituality, heightened...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2025/07/29

Zachary Ugolnik has for years been charting a new path that refuses the tired and inanimate narrative about the separateness of science and spirituality, reason and religion. In his life we find rich possibility when those old illusory dichotomies are discarded, and from that possibility perhaps new wisdom for creating a society full of care and flourishing, one that embraces our inherent needfulness and borrows from theology, ecology, and the social sciences. Origins Podcast Website ...

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Jennifer Wiseman - Ultra-deep fields, the numinous,...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2025/07/01

Dr. Jennifer Wiseman gives expression to our cosmos, as a pioneering astrophysicist, an outspoken advocate for science within policy and the public, as well as a person of faith. Her's are sensibilities of a scientist, a theologian, and a human being in awe of the universe, recognizing that these parts of ourselves need not be in opposition but rather in beautiful and enriching conversation. Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: Discovery of comet 114P/Wis...

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Susan Magsamen - Neuroscience, NeuroArts, and the...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2025/05/20

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. Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: spontaneous "you are my sunshine" (02:00)T. S. Eliot (08:00)implementation science (08:40)therapeutic recreation (11:00)Trabian Shorters and asset framing (15:00)Daniel Kahneman (16:00)neuroplasticity...

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Season Eight Trailer: A meditation on conversation...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2025/05/16

Origins Podcast Website Hello friends, a new season of Origins arrives next week, on Tuesday, May 20. This next chapter of Origins is about exploring conversation, that great practice of placing two things next to one another and allowing them to be astonished by the other. It is also about exploring the collective narrative of our time. This trailer is both introduction and meditation on how Origins is more than a podcast: a space for collective inquiry into living well in a frac...

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David Woods - the science of resilience, graceful...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2025/03/26

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 us to understand it. If resilience is a core competency of our time, it would not be hyperbole to say that Dr. David Woods one of our most important thinkers. Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: three mile island (07...

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Paul Smaldino - Social identities, collective...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2025/01/28

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 inspiration for keeping the lines of inquiry wide open and the things we can discover in doing so.Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:The Dancing Wu Li Masters (08:00)The Quantum and the Lotus (12:30)Sagehood (15:00)J. Krishnamurti...

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John Paul Lederach - Peacebuilding, critical yeast,...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2025/01/07

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 International Peace Studies at Notre Dame. He has been a teacher to me across time and space and I believe the ideas he brings into the world are teachers we all need for the world we are walking into. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow...

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Creating encounters with flourishing: A 'salon' at...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2024/12/24

Flourishing is not a fixed state; it is an unfolding. In this time of rupture we need encounters with flourishing, to know it in our lived experiences individually and collectively. In this transformative event on December 12, 2024, Ryan McGranaghan, host of the Origins Podcast and founder of the Flourishing Salons, engaged in a moving conversation with four profound provocateurs and a wider community of artists, designers, engineers, scientists, educators, and contemplatives. The event was c...

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Talia Stroud - Digital communities, civic signals,...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2024/11/05

Natalie (Talia, as she goes by) Stroud has for years been studying the ways that our lives online show up in and shape our lives together. Her scholarship as her life are unexampled guides to the tumult, the challenges, and the opportunity presented by the advent and evolution of digital media. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:Federal Communications Committee "Information Needs of Communities" (08:10)Kathleen Hall Jamieson (08:50)Center for Media Engagement (11:...

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Simon DeDeo - Studying society, the science of...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2024/10/01

Simon DeDeo's inquiry takes on the most immense topics: astrophysics, history, epistemology, culture. He brings the precision of a physicist, the capability of a data scientist, and the sensibility of a philosopher to thinking about how we live our lives; and his polymathic life might be the example we need to make sense of the world we are walking into, one requiring an evolution to our way of studying and understanding.Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:David Sp...

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Lindy Elkins-Tanton - Recognizing flourishing,...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2024/08/13

Lindy Elkins-Tanton is one of the world's foremost scientists. Couple that with an unprecedented understanding of how teams work and a sense of care that is exceedingly rare in our world and you recognize her for what she is: altogether unexampled. Her's is a story of exploration, of universe, of planet, of society, and of self. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:Her memoir: A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman (04:40)A Feeling for the Organism by Fox...

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Jane Hirshfield - Possibility, Poetry, and a Life of...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2024/06/25

It would feel wrong to place labels on Jane Hirshfield. Language would fail to reach there, ironic for someone who has devoted their life to the practice of poetry and the practice of Zen Buddhism. Jane is a modern master, change-maker, and wise and winsome voice. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:The Ritual Process by Victor Turner (09:30)nonattachment (14:00)Poem: "My Skeleton" (21:30)Poem: "For What Binds Us" (28:20, read 33:00)Poets for Science (29:10; 56:30)...

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Agustín Fuentes - A master class in anthropology and...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2024/05/21

Agustín Fuentes reads a multi-million year history of our world, a student of its myriad lessons that often subvert unquestioned modern narratives and the problematic ways we've arrived at them. His is an anthropological, ecological, refreshingly unalloyed sensibility, an uncommon concoction whose life of scholarship and insight illuminate what we all might need to cultivate for the world we are walking into. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:Positionality (...

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Albert-László Barabási - Network science,...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2024/04/16

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Origins and Ongoingness: Thoughts on Season Seven

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2024/04/09

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The Great Askers (episode 1): Sara Hendren and Krista...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2024/01/30

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James Evans - Cultural observatories, knowledge...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2024/01/09

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Ingrid Daubechies - The "Godmother of digital image"...

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan ·

2023/11/28

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