Kate Bowler is an author, podcaster and professor at Duke University, and Nora’s dear friend. And the thing that helps her remember it’s going to be okay is… ketchup.
You can find Kate’s podcast, Everything Happens with Kate Bowler, wherever you listen to podcasts. Her most recent book, The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days, is availab ... Show More
Aug 10
458. The Luckiest Person In The World
A mattress in New York once told Nora, “You cannot let the bastards get you down.” Today, with this episode of IGTBO, we are not letting the bastards get us down – we’re celebrating the OK things in the world. And Nora’s algorithm (and our voicemail box) have been full of people ... Show More
57m 54s
Oct 2021
Ep. 349: Happier Podcast Book Club: Kate Bowler Talks About Why There’s “No Cure for Being Human”
For the Happier Podcast Book Club, we talk to Duke Divinity School professor Kate Bowler about her moving, funny, thought-provoking new memoir, “No Cure for Being Human” Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; podcast@gretchenrubin.com Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenR ... Show More
41m 54s
Sep 2023
Episode 132: The Truth About the Prosperity Gospel and Parenting with Kate Bowler
One of our favorite things about interviewing folks on this podcast is that we get to introduce you to some of our favorite voices…the ones we trust most. Well, this brilliant, hilarious, wonder of a woman likely needs no introduction to most of you. But, if you’ve been living un ... Show More
37m 58s
May 2024
Why Ketchup Is Magic, and More on Delights of Taste from "Life in Five Senses"
Listen to a bonus episode featuring an excerpt from Gretchen Rubin's latest bestselling book, Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World. This excerpt comes from the chapter Tasting: The Taste of the Tea and the Cake, or Why Ketchup is ... Show More
41m 3s
Mar 2022
#253 - How to Give Yourself Permission with Kate Bowler
A note from Kendra: In this conversation, Kate and I exchange a joke about going to prison for someone we love, and I have since been shown the harm that reaction causes people in communities affected by disproportionate and unfair policing. For that, I am genuinely sorry. Thank ... Show More
32m 17s
Oct 2022
Little Happier: “If You’re Going to Say That, You’d Better Be Holding My Hand.”
The touch of another person can be powerful. In Kate Bowler’s thought-provoking memoir, “Everything Happens for a Reason,” she tells a doctor that if he’s going to deliver bad news, he needs to be holding her hand. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; podcast@gretchenru ... Show More
4m 13s
Jan 2025
Be The Buyer, Not The Seller ft. Katie Lee Biegel
Katie Lee Biegel is on the podcast today! Katie is the host of Food Network’s The Kitchen, and she also has a Dear Media podcast called All On The Table. Katie and I talk about everything from meeting her husband later on, to IVF, getting divorced young, what it was like meeting ... Show More
48m 10s