It's Relatable

It's Relatable

Join Kari and her guests to explore all the ways we exist in relationship. Whether they’re talking about how we relate to our bodies and food, music and art, family, our stuff, our thoughts, and more, you’ll be sure to find something relatable in these dynamic conversations. Kari draws on her expertise as a published author, parenting coach, and grief and rage educator to investigate how these connections influence us as we move through the world every day.

Episodes

How Do We Lose Touch With Our Humanity with Vanessa Faloye

August 12, 2025 • 66 mins
Check out the news on any given day and you'll see evidence of all the ways we "other" people, shame them, alienate them, and cause harm to them - passively and actively. In this conversation, Vanessa Faloye and I dig deep in to the things that separate us and cause us to lose touch with our humanity. We explore what it even means to be in touch with it, and why it's so easy sometimes to "other" people. We also talk about the impor...
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Our Relationship to Justice: Redux

June 5, 2025 • 14 mins
In this short episode, Kari revisits her conversation with Jason Sole, who has applied for a pardon for his crimes in the state of Minnesota and discovered just how opaque and unequal the system is. Georgia Fort's conversation with Jason Petition to Pardon Jason by Juneteenth Jason Sole's Linked In profile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Talking with Jess Graham about Our Relationship to Pain

May 1, 2025 • 78 mins
Kari talks to Jess Graham about their new book, Being (Sick) Enough, and what it means to build a relationship to pain - both chronic illness and emotional trauma. The conversation touches on autism, addiction, chronic pain, trauma, healing, spirituality, and the power of keeping the spark of hope Websites:  Jessica Graham You Wild Awakening Links to Buy Books: Being (Sick) Enough Link to Buy Good Sex Social Media:  I...
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Exploring Our Relationship to Place with Faith Scott

March 10, 2025 • 62 mins
Kari talks with Faith Scott, a writer, therapist, TEDx speaker, and all-around amazing human about what "place" means to her. Drawing on inspiration from bell hooks and Nicholas Galanin, Kari and Faith explore ideas of generational migration, belovedness, and what it means to find "home." Faith's Substack: https://faithscott.substack.com/ Poetry Anthology, Shaking off the Ashes: https://inkedelephantpublishing.com/product/shakin...
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Relating to This Time in History in the US

February 8, 2025 • 22 mins
This short episode features Kari thinking out loud about where we can find solace amidst chaos. She invites listeners to think about how to identify solid ground when everything feels scary and tenuous. It is so easy to get caught up in the overwhelm of the news cycle and lose sight of the things that are there for us when we need them. Connect with Kari O'Driscoll Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Marriage and Difference: Navigating Core Challenges

December 9, 2024 • 58 mins
Eleanor Vincent is an author whose latest book is called Disconnected: Portrait of a Neurodiverse Marriage. In this memoir, she recounts her experience of courtship and marriage to a man on the autism spectrum and paints a picture of what it was like to build up hope, fall in love late in life, and fight to connect with her husband when their brains were wired in fundamentally different ways. Kari and Eleanor talk about relationshi...
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One Writer's Relationship to Writing with Aggeliki Pelekedis

October 10, 2024 • 58 mins
Kari and Aggeliki talk about writing, how it relates to life, and Aggeliki's new novel, Unlucky Mel. Exploring themes of caregiving, workplace politics, and humor, the book is tremendously entertaining and relatable. Aggeliki's work can be found here- LinkTree Preorder Unlucky Mel here www.cornellpress.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Challenges of The Sandwich Generation: Taking Care of Kids and Elders at the Same Time

September 6, 2024 • 65 mins
In this episode, Kari and Nina McCollum talk about what it's like to be a caregiver to kids and parents simultaneously. In the last couple of decades, the emergence of the so-called Sandwich Generation has put an enormous strain on families (mostly women) to navigate the pressures of raising kids and caring for elders within systems that weren't designed to support them. Nina's website: www.NinaWriteNow.com Link to the private F...
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Kari and Author Garrett Bucks on Being 'The Right Kind of White'

July 5, 2024 • 64 mins
Garrett Bucks is a writer and organizer dedicated to creating spaces where White folks can have conversations about what it means to really create communities where we all thrive and talk honestly about racism and the way it affects us. Come listen as he explains why the movie ET is a perfect metaphor for how he thinks about whiteness. Garrett Bucks' website https://www.garrettbucks.com/ Kari's memoir about growing up with a Fili...
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Grounding our Activism in Love

June 12, 2024 • 48 mins
Dr. Paul Zeitz, a physician, activist, and author, joins Kari to talk about his new book, Revolutionary Optimism. They explore ideas of overwhelm and grief and share tips for how to stay focused on love in challenging times, and use that love to fuel our activism. Dr. Paul Zeitz website: https://drpaulzeitz.org/ Sign up sheet for the next Grief and Rage Workshop that begins June 24: Sign up here Kari's website: www.kariodriscoll...
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Kari Talks with Abolitionist Jason Sole about Our Relationship to Justice

May 3, 2024 • 65 mins
Join Kari and Jason Sole to talk about what it means to be in community with each other in ways that heal and repair rifts, and why abolition is a key part of this. Jason's experiences as a Black man in the United States, holding healing circles, and his lived experience with violence and incarceration give him a strong perspective on what it means to find "justice," and where we can't find it. This timely conversation can help us ...
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Judy Hall talks with Kari About Relationship to Food and her Body Post-Cancer

April 12, 2024 • 68 mins
Kari talks with Judy Ryan Hall about how her tongue cancer and the subsequent treatment radically changed her relationship to her body and to food. The treatment not only resulted in serious complications that kept her hospitalized for an extended period of time, but it left her unable to taste most food. As someone who has always loved food and being in a human body, the last few years have been a practice of reinventing these con...
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Relationship to Parenting with Rachael Steidl

March 14, 2024 • 73 mins
Kari and Rachael talk about how they came to their parenting philosophies, examine the complexities of parenting, and look at how their ideas changed over time. Exploring ideas of discipline and attachment and how we often parent as a reaction to the way we were parented, this conversation is full of insight and laughter. youthwell website: https://youthwell.org/ Happy, Healthy Teens book: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475863796/Ha...
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Examining Our Relationship to Violence with Joe Loya

January 5, 2024 • 71 mins
Kari talks with Joe Loya, a man who was convicted of robbing 30 banks and wrote about his time in prison and his life in the memoir, The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell. Joe and Kari explore the intersections of language, religion, maleness and violence and talk about how our ideas of hierarchy and gender impact the way we use and justify violence. Joe's unique history and educational background make him a compelling storyteller. C...
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Kari and Kute Blackson Talk About Surrender

November 17, 2023 • 60 mins
Come listen as Kari and Kute Blackson talk about what it means to surrender, how it changes our perspective when we find the courage to surrender, and how it's related to faith in something larger than us and experienced in our bodies. Whether you're facing a difficult decision or grieving a huge loss or just trying to bolster yourself to make a bold move in your life, how do you think about surrender? Connect with Kari O'Driscoll ...
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Exploring Our Relationship to the Idea of Work with Kathy O'Driscoll

October 16, 2023 • 95 mins
Kari talks to Kathy O'Driscoll, a human-resources professional who has worked in corporate and non-profit organizations, about what it means to work, how the nature of work is changing, and how we can adapt our ideas about labor, effort, and community to shift the way we work. They explore what it means to do uncompensated work like caregiving, the onset of artificial intelligence, the balance of work and play, and how we can incor...
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Andrea Carlisle on Our Relationship to Aging

September 20, 2023 • 57 mins
Kari talks with Andrea Carlisle about her new book, There Was an Old Woman, and her thoughts about aging. Listen as they explore what it means to be "women of a certain age," talk about those obnoxious targeted social media advertisements for "belly fat" and what it might look like to age without shame, and see how Andrea compares aging to adolescence. Andrea's website: https://andreacarlisle.com Buy Andrea's book:  https://osupres...
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What's Your Relationship to Grief?

August 18, 2023 • 26 mins
Please join me for this short episode where I examine my own relationship to grief and invite you to think about the ways you have been taught to grieve, and how we can learn to hold each other when we're in this space. Learn more about Grief and Rage Rituals here: https://kariodriscollwriter.com/my-work/ Reach out to me at kari@kariodriscollwriter.com with questions Find Kari O'Driscoll in Instagram @karilodriscoll Learn more abo...
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Tanya Ward Goodman on Our Relationship to Our Aging Parents

August 2, 2023 • 67 mins
Tanya is the author of Leaving Tinkertown, a memoir about her father's early onset Alzheimer's. She and Kari talk about what it's like to watch our parents age and shift our relationship to them as things get harder for them to navigate on their own. They also talk about what it's like to forge fun, adult relationships with our elders and relate to them on a new level altogether. This one is packed with resources for folks who are ...
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Relationship to Poetry: A Conversation with Dimitri Reyes

July 6, 2023 • 61 mins
Whether you are someone who reads or writes poetry or not, you'll love this episode. Kari and Dimitri talk about playing with language, the difference between spoken word and writing, identity, and even stray into why Kari's youngest daughter sometimes calls her "the Priest." Dimitri reads some gorgeous pieces from his latest book, Papí Pichón, and talks about how he teaches writing. Please join us! Dimitri's website: https://www.d...
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