Episodes

We all know the basics for sleep: put your phone away, create a bedtime routine, avoid caffeine, keep the room cool. We’ve heard it a thousand times. And yet, one in eight Americans has chronic insomnia, and over half report frequent sleep difficulties. So, what’s the disconnect? Why do we know what to do but still lie awake at 3 a.m., mind racing, exhausted but unable to sleep? In this episode, I talk with Morgan Adams, a certified sleep coach who spent years battling insomnia herself. For a...

Most of us spend our lives pretending we have forever. We push off difficult conversations, delay dreams, and take tomorrow for granted. But the truth is, we don’t have forever. We have about 3,200 weeks, according to average life expectancy. Knowing this can make us work a little harder, love a little deeper, live more intentionally. But how many of us actually sit with the reality that our time is limited? How many of us talk openly about death before it’s too late? In this episode, I talk ...

Beer has been part of the human story for millennia. It helped fuel debates in revolutionary taverns, followed soldiers to war, brought strangers together in colonial alehouses and modern taprooms. From the Founding Fathers’ home brews to today’s experimental IPAs, beer has been a constant companion to our species. But why? What is it about this fermented beverage that’s kept us coming back for ten thousand years? In this episode, I step inside Boston’s Aeronaut Brewing Co. with head brewer M...

I’ve always believed that the questions we ask reveal as much about us as the answers we give. So when I had the chance to set up a booth at the MIT Museum’s 2025 Cambridge Science Carnival, I brought one question with me: “If science could solve one problem for humanity in the next 50 years, what would you choose—and why?” The carnival buzzed with over a hundred booths celebrating curiosity. Families roamed the grounds, kids wide-eyed at hands-on experiments. I was there representing my own ...

There’s something both terrifying and oddly comforting about knowing we have four billion years left. The sun will expand, swallow Earth, and explode. We need to leave. The question isn't whether we should go, but how we'll survive once we do. I’ve always been drawn to stories about humanity’s future in space. Not the sanitized Hollywood versions, but the messy, complicated reality of what it would actually take. When I discovered Dr. Christopher Mason’s book, The Next 500 Years: Engineering ...

Since starting the podcast in 2023, I’ve made a conscious effort to stay out of the way. I ask questions, I guide guests through their stories, I stay detached. I never wanted to be one of those hosts who dominates their show with their own opinions. But staying detached comes at a cost: listeners don’t really get to know me. And in podcasting, that connection matters. People want to feel like they know the person behind the mic. One morning over breakfast, I had the TV on and caught an episo...

Ever since I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by space. As a kid, I had a poster of the Eagle Nebula on my bedroom wall and a telescope I used to study the moon. My favorite movie is Contact, based on Carl Sagan’s novel about searching for extraterrestrial life. Thinking about the cosmos gives us perspective. Not just on our own lives and problems, but on our entire species. Sagan reminded us of this in his iconic Pale Blue Dot speech. When you see how small and fragile our planet is in the...

You’ve felt it. You’re scrolling through social media, sitting in a Zoom meeting, watching a political debate. Some people command attention effortlessly. They draw you in with a glance, hold you with their energy, make you forget you’re staring at a screen. Others, despite having important things to say, don’t hold your attention. Their message never lands because they can’t engage visually. In today’s world, where we’re constantly on camera, this skill isn’t optional anymore. It’s essential. ...

In 2022, I joined The Anthony Thomas Podcast to discuss my sci-fi thriller, The Empathy Academy, a novel that explores this exact question. The story follows Montgomery Hughes, a teenager who infiltrates a controversial academy designed to genetically “correct” unethical behavior in young people. What he discovers inside reveals the dark side of using science to engineer morality. The conversation with Anthony was supposed to be a typical author interview—talk about the book, share some behin...

What if the reason your health problems keep coming back is because you’ve only been treating symptoms, never the underlying cause? When Katie Concannon was a teenager, she started experiencing health issues related to her menstrual cycle. She did what most people do: went to doctors, followed their advice, took medications. The treatments addressed her symptoms temporarily, but they never explored why the problems existed in the first place. Worse, the interventions created new complications...

What if you could work from anywhere in the world—a beach in Bali, a café in Barcelona, a mountain village in Colombia—and never need permission from a boss to buy a plane ticket? The digital nomad lifestyle has become the fantasy of millions stuck in fluorescent-lit offices, scrolling through Instagram feeds of tanned freelancers typing on laptops with ocean views. But behind the perfectly curated photos lies a more complicated reality: How do you actually build a sustainable, location-independ...

Can an AI truly understand us? Does it have thoughts, creativity, or self-awareness? The movie Her was set in 2025—the year we’re living in now. So I decided to interview artificial intelligence itself. In this fascinating 45-minute conversation, I put OpenAI's ChatGPT on the hot seat to explore what AI is actually capable of today, what it fundamentally lacks, and what the future might hold. For over two years, ChatGPT has been my daily research assistant, copyeditor, and conversational part...