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Soul Boom

Does Happiness Last? Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Soul Boom

Rainn Wilson

Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Kelly Corrigan (NYT bestselling author, PBS host) joins Rainn Wilson for an illuminating conversation on fear, moods, creativity, and the wisdom found in wonder. Kelly shares her experience with cancer, raising daughters, her evolving beliefs about God, and how staying in someone’s home reveals more about life than any philosophy book. THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS! 🐶 Ollie (60% OFF!) 👉 Take the online quiz and introduce Ollie to your pet. Visit https://www.ollie.com/soulboom today for 60% OFF your first box of meals! #ToKnowThemIsToLoveThem BRAGG (20% OFF! CODE: SOULBOOM) 👉 ⁠⁠https://www.bragg.com⁠ Masterclass (at least 15% OFF!) 👉 ⁠https://www.masterclass.com/soulboom⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⏯️ SUBSCRIBE!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠👕 MERCH OUT NOW! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠📩 SUBSTACK!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  FOLLOW US! 👉 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: http://instagram.com/soulboom⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 👉 TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://tiktok.com/@soulboom⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  CONTACT US! Sponsor Soul Boom: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Work with Soul Boom: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Send Fan Creations, Questions, Comments: ⁠[email protected]⁠  Executive Produced by: Kartik Chainani Executive Produced by: Ford Bowers, Samah Tokmachi Companion Arts Production Supervisor: Mike O'Brien Theme Music by: Marcos Moscat

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0:00.0

You're listening to So Boo!

0:03.0

I think we are really misunderstanding moods.

0:06.0

So happiness is not a good mood.

0:08.0

The idea that you should never be in this set of moods,

0:12.0

and you should only strive for this little tiny, like,

0:16.0

target of moods, is so problematic. Because then every time you're in one of these moods you think

0:23.6

there's something wrong with you and say but those moods are part of it this is the full human

0:28.3

experience you're going to be in all the moods all the moods are coming hey there it's me Wilson, and I want to dig into the human experience.

0:43.0

I want to have conversations about a spiritual revolution.

0:46.4

Let's get deep with our favorite thinkers, friends, and entertainers about life, meaning, and idiocy.

0:53.3

Welcome to the Soul Boom podcast. Do you think all people are creative?

1:03.5

I do. And I think that lots of people who work with three and four year olds would say the same.

1:10.1

So that's really what I'm borrowing their point of view because I don't have enough experience

1:14.4

to answer the question with any gravitas.

1:17.0

But if you talk to preschool teachers and elementary school teachers, they will say,

1:22.1

every kid has an idea.

1:23.4

Every kid wants to do things.

1:24.4

I think what happened is that creativity sort of conjures a very narrow set of activities in most minds.

1:33.3

And I'm talking about, like Claire's a computer science major.

1:36.9

So writing code, she considers to be a creative act.

1:39.7

Woodworking is a creative act.

1:41.2

Robotics is a creative act.

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