Laurie Essig, professor and director of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Middlebury College, joins us to explain why we retreat into private relationships and how they can overshadow our contribution to the greater good.
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How To Bargain
This hour, we’ll learn how we can have more productive discussions with Daniel Shapiro, founder of the Harvard International Negotiation Program.
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After The Affair
This hour, we’ll talk about how couples can rebuild trust and turn a crisis into an opportunity with therapist Esther Perel.
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All By Myself
This hour, we’ll talk with Olivia Laing about loneliness, how we connect with other people and the walls we put up to keep others out, the subject of her memoir “The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone.”
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How To Get Close
This hour, we’ll talk about how we can strengthen the neural pathways in our brains that foster closeness with psychiatrist Amy Banks.
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A Wedding Reporter On Finding ‘The One’
Ellen McCarthy experienced a bad breakup the very same day she started as the Washington Post’s full-time weddings reporter. Since that day, she’s seen over 200 weddings. This hour, we’ll talk with her about what she’s learned about dating, commitment and making it last.
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Boys To Men
We’ll talk this hour with Judy Chu from the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University. She explores a recent two-year study in the new book When Boys Become Boys: Development, Relationships, and Masculinity.
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