Archive - Pulling the Thread with Elise Loehnen

How to Be an Effective Idealist (Rutger Bregman)

Listen now (61 mins) | "Because we don't need to find heroes, we need to make heroes. We need to ask people to become a hero. It's as simple as that."

Jul 17 •

Unlocking the Patterns of the Body

How to find and release stuck emotion: A Q&A with Dan Bienenfeld

Jul 16 •

What Would Happen if We Related to Money Differently? (Elizabeth Ralph)

Listen now (58 mins) | “What matters is: Are you free? Do you feel free?”

Jul 10 •

The Rituals of Grief

"Healing trauma requires a restoration of the matrix of life."

Jul 9 •

The Gold of Midlife (Chip Conley)

Listen now (38 mins) | “The midlife crisis is not a dark night of the soul. It’s a dark night of the ego.”

Jul 3 •

Some Vital Medicine for these Times

"You need to be able to get your arms around everything that is arising, including the fear..."

Jul 2 •

June 2025

Is This Our Push Up the Spiral? (Monthly Solo Podcast)

Listen now (57 mins) |

Jun 30 •

Building Wide and Deep Coalitions

How do we become effective idealists?

Jun 27 •

How to Think About Genius (Helen Lewis)

Listen now (64 mins) | "I think that's quite a powerful thing too, because we want our geniuses to be extraordinary. We don't want them to be living…

Jun 26 •

A Formula for Coming Alive (Shannon Watts)

Listen now (64 mins) | “Living on fire is really a metaphor for figuring out two things: What is limiting you. And what is calling you.”

Jun 19 •

Getting Over Creative Disappointment

Bringing the vision over the "threshold" is hard. But we still have to try.

Jun 18 •

Finding Faith in Our Future (Krista Tippett)

Listen now (52 mins) | “You're going to find a lot of people doing their best, revealing how beautiful and strange we are, and how remarkable we can…

Jun 12 •

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