Episode 382: Come Away Corrupted with Dr. Meghan Sullivan
Forever35
Doree Shafrir & Elise Hu
4.8 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We want you to come away from this episode corrupted, in the best way, thanks to our guest Dr. Meghan Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. She joins Doree and Elise to discuss how to live “The Good Life,” and they get into everything from the beginning of democracy and the role philosophy played (and continues to play) in it, to virtue ethics and its relationship to work-life balance. She also gets existential with us about flourishing, happiness, and the vexing question about whether to have children.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to February 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Dory Schaeffreier. And I'm Elise Hugh, and we are two friends who like to talk a lot about serums. |
| 0:22.3 | Welcome to the show. Today we have a philosopher. Yeah, we do. She is a philosophy professor |
| 0:30.3 | at the University of Notre Dame and probably the most interesting philosopher you will ever hear |
| 0:37.4 | because she's so funny, |
| 0:39.9 | so vibrant, she makes these ancient ideas come alive. And I wish she was my instructor at some |
| 0:48.7 | point in my life. We've been encouraging her to start a MOOC. Remember massive online courses? |
| 0:55.2 | Her name's Dr. Megan Sullivan. |
| 0:57.6 | We're going to hear a lot more from her later. |
| 0:59.5 | She also has this like really charming North Carolina accent. |
| 1:04.1 | And so it makes everything a little folksy as she's talking about Aristotle and Socrates. |
| 1:11.0 | And then later, |
| 1:12.0 | as I, |
| 1:13.6 | as I texted Elise, |
| 1:15.9 | like as we were interviewing her, |
| 1:17.7 | I was like, |
| 1:19.3 | she must be the most amazing professor. |
| 1:21.2 | Like, |
| 1:21.3 | you could just tell she's so engaging and, |
| 1:24.2 | like, |
| 1:25.1 | explains kind of complex philosophical ideas in a really relatable and easy to |
| 1:32.9 | understand way. |
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