EDITORIAL + REPORTED PODCASTS

Nashia Williams and Kate O’Connell have been ER nurses (and best friends!) in New York City for over a decade — and since every nursing year in the trenches equals 10 regular years, they’ve got a lot of battle stories to tell. They’ve learned that the ER is often the last stop for those who've been failed by America’s systems. In fact, if the United States itself walked into Kate and Nashia’s ER, they’d rush the country straight into Trauma 1.

Racism. Violence. Poverty. Poor sex education. The mental health crisis. What happens when these issues walk through the ER doors? And what could have been done to prevent it? Nashia and Kate investigate. They speak candidly with a different guest — patients, medical professionals and experts alike — each episode. They talk with people who understand these issues first-hand, and learn how we can each do our part to prevent these systemic problems from claiming more lives.

Through it all — their uniquely dark nurses-station humor keeps us all from crying at the dire state of our country’s health. Join us, as our fed-up and faithful nurses do a head to toe examination of the United States.

Mood Ring is a practical guide to feelings. Every episode, host and mental health writer Anna Borges explores one new way we can cope with our feelings, our baggage, or the world around us—especially in a society where access to mental health care and the ability to practice self-care are both huge privileges. Through Anna's self-aware humor and vibrant guest interviews, the podcast shares creative self-care ideas you may not have heard before, as well as realistic takes on classic mental health tips.

Need advice? Comedian Tig Notaro doesn’t have all the answers, but that won’t stop her from fielding your questions on life’s many challenges. With the help of her friends and the occasional expert, Tig gives her best inexpert guidance on everything from lost love to giving yourself a haircut with toddler scissors. We’re warning you now: Don’t Ask Tig.

Technology is reshaping our cities—often without permission and sometimes without a clue. Hosted by urban innovation expert Molly Turner and startup advisor Jim Kapsis, Technopolis asks the questions nobody is asking about what needs to change for tech to help solve more problems than it creates.

1968 was a year of huge social upheaval for the United States. Heat and Light goes deep into six key but lesser known stories from that year, guided by people who were personally affected by them. So much so that they have devoted their lives to studying the history of 1968 – and how it continues to shape our society today. From the students who challenged their schools’ military connections and the tortured set up of American TV’s first interracial kiss to the roots of Silicon Valley and the beginning of the end of the “traditional” American family. What was just heat? What brought light, too?

Influenced by well-known Spoonie artists like Joan Didion and Frida Khalo, Chronic Creators is a podcast that tells the stories of artists living with chronic illness and disability.

Creating is a human birthright often inaccessible to disabled artists due to ableism and exclusivity. However, this community is inherently extremely creative because, in order to survive, they need to create a world that works for them, inside a world built against them.

Chronic Creators host Karolina Kristina Chorvath has lived and reported in many countries including Spain, Poland, the Czech Republic and Croatia. She manages the energy for all that using Spoon Theory, and is the author of "Self-care for Spoonies: A Guide to Thriving with Chronic Illness."

She is also a model and content creator with the BTWN agency, whose brand partnerships include Caudalie, Ilia, Bodyography, Glossier, Supergoop and many more. Karolína uses her platform to fight for access and inclusion for people living with disabilities and chronic illnesses.

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Storytelling is at the center of the human experience. Possibly Fictional proposes that by pulling apart the building blocks of a story, we can look inward and grow outward.

In every episode, Possibly Fictional picks up a storybuilding device, trope or genre as a tool, and tries to answer a question about how we can use that tool to improve our lives – and the world around us.

The podcast series is built like a storybook anthology: 10 episode collections, each exploring one overarching question, bookended by a prologue and an epilogue.

Hot Take is a holistic, irreverent, honest look at the climate crisis and all the ways media and society are talking—and not talking—about it. Hosted by real-life friends Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt—an essayist and a journalist— Hot Take offers a unique perspective on the issue of climate change. With a breath of fresh humanity and humor, conversation moves swiftly from cackling about the bad week an oil company had, to speaking seriously and passionately about the unequal distribution of climate impacts and our own experiences of climate grief. And then washing it down with a round of dad jokes!

Every week, we’ll connect you with the latest climate news and with the journalists and storytellers trying to make sense of this complex issue to help you see the world through climate-colored glasses.

Women face gender discrimination throughout our careers. It doesn't have to derail our ambitions — but how do we prepare to deal with it? There's no workplace orientation session about narrowing the wage gap, standing up to interrupting male colleagues, or taking on many other issues we encounter at work. So HBR staffers Amy Bernstein, Amy Gallo, and Emily Caulfield are untangling some of the knottiest problems. They interview experts on gender, tell stories about their own experiences, and give lots of practical advice to help you succeed in spite of the obstacles.

In Massachusetts, Gloucester PD started an "angel program" to help people in the grip of opioid addiction get help. Instead of arresting people for opioid-related crimes, police directed them to treatment programs and resources. The angel program eventually grew into PAARI, the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative. It’s now a national program. Reporter Maria Murriel visits the original program to see how it all works.