Keep Talking

Keep Talking

"Keep Talking" exists to have conversations that might help to make a better society and a better culture. I believe that each guest has important information and stories to make public. And it's something that I want to share.

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June 19, 2026 72 mins

Damiaan Denys is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Amsterdam and the co-editor of "Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Frontier in Psychiatry."

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(00:00) Early Fascination With Human Nature

(02:18) Difficult Father and Survival Through Understanding People

(04:07) Boredom...

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Steve Stewart-Williams is a professor, an evolutionary psychologist, and the author of The Ape that Understood the Universe and his newest book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women

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(00:00) Falling In Love With Evolutionary Psyc...

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Kathryn Mannix is a palliative care doctor and the author of With The End In Mind.

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(00:00) Regret, mistakes, and living fully

(02:05) Hospice work and “encountering death”

(04:40) Early medicine: oncology training and dying patients

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Jonathan Zimmeramn is a Professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of the books "Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn" and "Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools."

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Judith Thurman is a staff writer at "The New Yorker," and the author of many books, including "Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller" and "Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette."

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(00:00) “How’d you get to be that thing you are?”—origin story

(02:18) Precocious reader, teacher mom, “foreordained” to wr...

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Liesbeth van der Horst is the director of the Verzetsmuseum - the Museum of WWII Resistance in Amsterdam.

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(00:00) Origins of the Resistance Museum

(02:05) Moving Locations and Growth

(04:12) Becoming Director in 2003

(06:45) Lessons from Resistance Figures

(09:30) The 1940 Germa...

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Lisa Marchiano is a Jungian analyst and is the co-host of This Jungian Lifepodcast.

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(00:00) Finding Jung Feels Like a Native Tongue

(02:10) Early Memories: Mother and Jung’s Mysterious Books

(04:35) The Story of Jung’s Bell and the Paranormal

(06:20) From History an...

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Walter Robinson is an investigative journalist, an editor-at-large at "The Boston Globe," and is the Donald W. Reynolds Visiting Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

This is a rebroadcast of episode 42, from 2022.

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Mark Clifford is president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong and the author of "The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic."

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James Hollis is a Jungian psychoanalyst and the author of many books, including "A Life of Meaning," which is the primary subject of our conversation.

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00:00 Intro

01:05 Why Jim wrote "A Life of Meaning"

05:28 The shadow

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Daniel Lieberman is a psychiatrist, the SVP of mental health at Hims & Hers, and the author of the best-selling book, The Molecule of More.

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(00:59) What would humans be without dopamine?

(01:29) Donating dop...

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Orna is an Israeli sociologist, a teacher at Tel Aviv University, and the author of the landmark book, "Regretting Motherhood."

This is a rebroadcast of episode 78, from 2023.

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Robert Plomin is a British-American scientist, a psychologist and behavioral geneticist, and the author of the bestselling book, Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are.

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Derek Sivers is a TED speaker, an essayist, a businessman, a musician, one of my favorite thinkers on the planet, and the author of many books including his most recent, Useful Not True: Whatever Works For You.

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Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist, Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, and the author of "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence."

This is a rebroadcast of episode 35, from 2022.

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Russell Foster is a sleep expert, a professor of circadian neuroscience, a fellow of the Royal Society, and the author of Life Time.

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(00:55) Views on sleep through time

(03:34) Why we have de-prioritized sleep

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Nick Pollard, "The People Displeaser," is a speaker and life coach who advocates for honest, authentic living through mindful boundaries, free of people-pleasing.

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(01:00) When Nick's was homicidal and suicidal

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Pico Iyer is a novelist, a travel writer, and the author of many books, including his most recent, "Aflame: Learning From Silence," which is the subject of this conversation.

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Orville Schell is an author, a journalist, a China scholar, and the director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations.

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(01:00) Orville's entering China in the 1970s

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Joseph Goldstein is an author, the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and is one of the most influential and important figures to bring vipassana meditation practices into the American mainstream.

A rebroadcast from 2022.

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