Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Latest Episodes

Tig Notaro: The Luckiest Unlucky Person

June 6, 2023 - 45:01
How do you live knowing life can just come undone at a moment’s notice? In the span of a few months, Tig Notaro received three...

Miroslav Volf: Life Worth Living

May 30, 2023 - 44:06
What makes a good life? How would you answer that question? Not just life in the abstract… but what makes YOUR life good? Professor...

Kwame Alexander: To Be Loved Like That

May 16, 2023 - 37:42
Our most precious relationships are often our most complicated, aren’t they? Poet and bestselling author Kwame Alexander wrote an honest...

About The Show

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.

More Episodes

Tig Notaro: The Luckiest Unlucky Person

June 6, 2023 - 45:01
How do you live knowing life can just come undone at a moment’s notice? In the span of a few months, Tig Notaro received three...

Miroslav Volf: Life Worth Living

May 30, 2023 - 44:06
What makes a good life? How would you answer that question? Not just life in the abstract… but what makes YOUR life good? Professor...

Kwame Alexander: To Be Loved Like That

May 16, 2023 - 37:42
Our most precious relationships are often our most complicated, aren’t they? Poet and bestselling author Kwame Alexander wrote an honest...

Minka Kelly: Clear Eyes, Full Hearts

May 2, 2023 - 37:48
How do we stay soft in a world that has taught us to be tough? Actress Minka Kelly is known for her roles as Lyla Garrity on Friday...

John Swinton: The Art of Presence

April 25, 2023 - 43:16
Some people are the LEAN IN sort. They lean into your unsolvable problems, show up on your impossible days, and walk with you all the...

Maggie Smith: This Place Could Be Beautiful, Right?

April 18, 2023 - 39:46
Maggie Smith (poet and author of books like Keep Moving and You Could Make This Place Beautiful) chronicles the aftermath of a painful...