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Black FreeThinkers

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We are here to challenge you to think and live for yourself, not convert you. Copyright © 2011-2024 All rights reserved. Written permission for use or reproduction is required.
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Grown Up

Derric Holland

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The Grown Up podcast originally began as a personal journey to explore and comprehend the ups and downs of adulthood. It has since evolved into something bigger than imagined. Over the past four years, the host of the Grown Up podcast, Derric, has dedicated himself to championing individuals pursuing careers many may have heard of but few have followed with a deep passion. From life coaches to young black professors to travel agents, Grown Up is committed to fostering a supportive community ...
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Where We Go Next

Michael Callahan

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Visionary founders, best-selling writers, award-winning journalists, acclaimed educators, innovative artists. Where We Go Next is a podcast focused on in-depth conversations with the people changing the ways we think, create, and live.
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Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav’s book Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood (Penguin Random House India, 2024) undertakes a systematic intellectual study of Lala Lajpat Rai’s nationalist thought through four decades of his active political life, lived between 1888 and 1928. It contests the dominant scholarly interpretation of Lajp…
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Salomé Sibonex is a writer, artist, and co-founder of The Black Sheep, a publication that frees people to take the path less traveled. She's given talks at FreedomFest and LibertyCon on how creative freedom allows us all to forge our own path—if we dare. The Black Sheep If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We…
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A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded. Even the human sciences have been more en…
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Harrison Duran is a field paleontologist whose popular social media accounts document his preparation and excavation in the American West. His videography and storytelling convey the work and skill required by paleontology, as well as its significance to our understanding of the natural world. Species which he has excavated and prepared include Tri…
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It is an intuitive truth that religious beliefs are different from ordinary factual beliefs. We understand that a belief in God or the sacredness of scripture is not the same as believing that the sun will rise again tomorrow or that flipping the switch will turn on the light. In Religion as Make Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group …
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Where We Go Next will be back to its regularly scheduled programming next week. Until then, enjoy this re-release of Episode 68, with the brilliant Richard Reeves. Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and writes for a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, National Affairs, The Atlantic, Democracy…
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Nancy Rommelmann is an investigative journalist, columnist, and author - most recently of To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder. Her work appears in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reason Magazine, and her Substack, Make More Pie. Sarah Hepola is the author of the bestselling memoir, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank …
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This past year has been quite challenging for me, so the final few episodes of this year will focus on reflecting on the past 4 years and preparing for the new year. In this first part of the reflecting and resetting series, I will talk about how the podcast will be upgraded in the new year, why I've been struggling to release episodes, and my plan…
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Carissa Carter is a designer, geoscientist, and the academic director at the Stanford d.school. She's the author of The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data, and teaches design courses on emerging technologies, climate change, and data visualization. Her work on designing with machine learning and blockchain has earned mult…
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Ashlee Vance is a feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, host of the innovator-focused travel show Hello World, and the New York Times bestselling author of two books: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, and most recently, When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach, which …
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The specter of the “Godless” Soviet Union haunted the United States and continental Western Europe throughout the Cold War, but what did atheism mean in the Soviet Union? What was its relationship with religion? In her new book, A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism, Dr. Victoria Smolkin explores how the Soviet state defined an…
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Jonathan Turley is a law professor, columnist, television analyst, and litigator. Since 1998, he has held the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at George Washington University Law School. He has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades, representing members of Congress, judges, whistleblowers, five former Atto…
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Meghan Daum is the host of The Unspeakable Podcast, co-host of A Special Place in Hell, the author of six books, and the founder of The Unspeakeasy, a community for free-thinking women who crave honest conversations about subjects that don’t come with easy solutions. I Wasn’t Canceled. I Was Problematized. Who Killed Creative Writing? Was Alice Mun…
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By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making (Cornell University Press, 2021) highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitutional commitments, is reshaped into modern Islamic state la…
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Melissa Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. She is also Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and St…
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Steve Rathje is a postdoctoral researcher in social psychology at New York University. Broadly, he studies the psychology of technology, and explores how polarization and intergroup conflict interact with social media and artificial intelligence. He is also a science communicator with over one million followers on his psychology TikTok channel. ste…
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Alina Chan is a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, and a co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. She was a member of the Pathogens Project, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists organized to generate new thinking on responsible, high-risk pathogen research. Why the Pandemic Probably Started in…
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An interview with Dr. Nadia Fadil who speaks about secularism the state and Islam. We delve into questions such as what it means to call Islam a lived and embodied reality and what the relationship is between Islam and secularism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://n…
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Steve Fambro is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Aptera Motors, which is aiming to deliver the world’s first mass market solar-powered electric vehicle. Aptera Motors Ground News gathers news coverage from around the world, empowers free thinking, and makes media bias explicit. Subscribe through my link at https://check.ground.news/Next for 15% off you…
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I apologize for the late drop. The show always goes on! On this month's Grown Up episode, we delved into Glenn's new career as a life coach, the significance of mental health and personal development, and the exploration of one's divinity. I also made a huge announcement that Grown Up is expanding to new platforms! We continue to shine the light on…
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Nancy Rommelmann is an investigative journalist, columnist, and author. Her on-the-ground reporting includes covering the war in Ukraine, the fight over abortion rights in Kansas City, and Donald Trump’s New York trial. Her work appears in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reason Magazine, and elsewhere, and she posts on her Substack - title…
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Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933 (Cambridge UP, 2023) is the first substantive investigation into one of the key sources of radicalism in modern German, the subculture that arose at the intersection of secularism and socialism in the late nineteenth-century. It explores the organizations that promoted their h…
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In this episode, we speak to Nivedita Menon about her new book, Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South (Duke University Press, 2024; Permanent Black, 2023). Secularism as Misdirection is an ambitious and wide-ranging work, unravelling a term that is perhaps as contentious as it is ubiquitous in discourses of the Global S…
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Chloé Valdary is an American writer and entrepreneur whose company “Theory of Enchantment” teaches social and emotional learning in schools and diversity and inclusion in companies and government agencies. Theory of Enchantment Enchanted Dojo TED: How Love Can Help Repair Social Inequality, with Chloé Valdary If You Liked This Conversation, You'll …
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Gen Kimura is a YouTube creator and documentary filmmaker tackling controversial political topics via on-the-ground reporting with average citizens and inquisitive interviews with relevant experts. Gen's YouTube Channel Bridging the Bias newsletter Squatters Invaded America. Here's How. - YouTube If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like…
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Carrie Poppy and Ross Blocher are the hosts of Oh No, Ross and Carrie!, an investigative podcast with over half a million downloads monthly. Whether it's joining secretive religious cults, searching for the paranormal, or experimenting with alternative medicine, they bring a skeptical yet open-minded approach to uncovering the truth. Oh No, Ross an…
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On this month's episode of the N.O.W. spotlight artist segment, I am joined by Tajonyx a contemporary R&B and pop artist hailing from Columbus, GA. We discussed how his mother introduced him to music, the challenges he is actively overcoming, and the triumph in his journey to show up authentically in his music. We also discussed his latest album 'P…
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Ernest Scheyder is a senior correspondent for Reuters and the author of The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives Ernest Scheyder at Reuters If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next: 101: Uncovering…
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On this month's episode of Grown Up, I bring back Certified Life Coach Esther Murray! The last time she was here, we discovered her amazing personality and learned about the role of a life coach and the potential benefits they offer if you consider seeking outside help. For her second time back, Esther and I had a casual conversation like two old f…
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Liz Manashil is a feature film writer and director, a distribution consultant for independent films, and the co-host of Making Movies is Hard, a podcast about the trials and tribulations of independent filmmaking. Bread and Butter (2014) Speed of Life (2019) Making Movies is HARD!!! Podcast lizmanashil.com If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Pro…
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Judith Weston is a sought-after coach and teacher to first-class filmmakers and actors around the world, and has been supporting them with workshops, consultations and books for nearly 40 years. Her first book, Directing Actors, was originally published in 1996 and a 25th Anniversary Edition came out in 2021. Her second book, The Film Director’s In…
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Carlos Lozada is an opinion columnist at The New York Times and co-host of the “Matter of Opinion” podcast. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, and is the author of What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era. His new book, The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians, is out now. The Washington Book: …
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Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Northwestern University Press, 2019) by Christopher Cameron, an Associate Professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, is a precise and nuanced history of African American secularism from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. This text is writ…
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On this episode of the N.O.W. spotlight artist segment, I am joined by self-taught musical artist Uncle Tino. We discussed his early interest in music, his experience entering the music scene under a previous stage name, and how he continues reinventing himself as an artist. Uncle Tino, a Houston native, has performed at events such as SXSW and has…
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In today's episode, I take a moment to reflect on my personal growth since I began exploring my spirituality. I have found that my belief in something greater than myself has helped me during times when I felt inadequate on my journey toward independence. This episode reflects the grace I have received, which has allowed me to continue being myself…
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Andrew Boryga is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. His debut novel Victim, from Doubleday Books, is out now. Victim andrewboryga.com If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next: 44: The Unresolvable Tension of Overlapping Identities, with Tomiwa Owol…
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Dr. Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at MIT and University College London, and the founder and director of the Affective Brain Lab, a cognitive neuroscience research laboratory dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the human brain. She’s the author of The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain, The Influenti…
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Grace Blakeley is an economist, journalist, and political commentator. She is the author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialization, The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic will Change Capitalism, and her newest: Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom. Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor …
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Jonathan Vigliotti is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award–winning CBS News national correspondent and the author of Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America. Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These E…
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On this month's N.O.W. spotlight artist interview, in honor of Women's History Month, I am joined by independent female artist Poet 22 representing Wisconsin and Chicago. We had a great discussion about her journey from poet to artist. We talked about the moment she felt like she could turn her poems into songs, who is her favorite poet, and her go…
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This is a Very Special Crossover Episode with Xavier Bonilla, host of Converging Dialogues - a podcast focused on honest conversations about philosophy, psychology, politics, and important social issues. Listen to Converging Dialogues Where We Go Next will return as a weekly show on April 2nd! ---------- Email: michael@wherewegonext.com Instagram: …
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In this episode of Grown Up, I discuss a topic that has come up many times for me during this self-discovery season: authenticity. In the show's first half, I talk about a part of myself that I have consciously not shared based on fears and worries. As I eventually would discover, it was truly all in my head, and having this talk with myself put so…
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Nick Troiano is the founding executive director of Unite America, a philanthropic venture fund that invests in nonpartisan election reform to foster a more representative and functional government. Since 2019, Unite America has invested over $50 million to help win three major statewide ballot initiatives and over a dozen state legislative and muni…
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On this month's N.O.W. spotlight artist artist interview I am joined by Leash Da Beaast representing Brooklyn, New York. Leash has been an upcoming force to be reckoned with having music placement on Bravo, Nat Geo, Amazon Prime, and Tubi, she is continuing to shine bright and be an example for independent musicians and entrepreneurs across the US.…
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Billy Binion is an associate editor at Reason magazine, where he writes about criminal justice and government accountability. He has been published in Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, HuffPost, The Saturday Evening Post, and the Washington Examiner, among other publications, and his work has been cited by The New York Times, The Atlantic, Nat…
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On today's episode I have an amazing conversation with actor/podcaster TJ from Tea with Tj Podcast. He may be slightly new to the podcast lane but he is already gaining traction with the help of his insightful videos on social media. We discussed everything from self-improvement, meditation, our independent journey similarities and differences, and…
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Dre Smith is the founder and CEO of Relationship Restored, a podcast network that delves into all things related to establishing and maintaining healthy romantic relationships. He's also the Executive Podcast Producer & Head of Podcasting at Urban One and the Co-Founder of All About It Social Media & Branding. Relationship Restored Follow Dre on In…
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On Episode 92 I had the pleasure of speaking with Max Sklar. He's a software engineer, with a focus on machine learning, content discovery, and Bayesian inference - all of which we talk about during his episode. He's also the host of The Local Maximum podcast. Max's podcast appeals to me because it touches on a wide array of complex topics in nuanc…
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New Year, More Artists!! I'm excited to continue the N.O.W. segment and finding musicians who deserve to be supported and recognized. On this month's N.O.W. spotlight artist interview I am joined by Apollo Mantikos tapping in from Washington. We talked about how he got his start in music, What motivates him to continue this journey, and Of course w…
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Lenore Skenazy started the Free-Range Kids movement and wrote the book, “Free-Range Kids.” Now she is cofounder and president of Let Grow, the national nonprofit promoting childhood independence. Lenore says our kids are smarter, safer, and stronger than our culture gives them credit for. ‘Old Enough’ Generates Parenting Debate, Latest Netflix Sens…
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