Hi, it's Elise Linen, host of Pulling the Thread. Today I'm talking to the legendary journalist

Krista Tippett, who is a big part of the way I see the world.

Hi, it's Elise Loonan, host of Pulling the Thread. On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here. My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness so that we might all collectively learn and grow.

Here is today's guest, Krista Tippett, on finding hope when you look at a few things that are closest to you.

You're going to find, I really believe this is true.

I really believe this is true anyway.

You're going to find a lot of people doing their best,

revealing how beautiful and strange we are and how remarkable we can be.

Krista Tippett is a Peabod Award winning broadcaster, a National Humanities medalist,

and a New York Times best-selling author. Like many of you, I'm sure, I've drawn so much inspiration from Krista's work at On Being

over the years.

She has thoughtfully interviewed so many luminaries during her career in public radio and

podcasting, and many of those conversations have stuck with me deeply.

It was an honor to get to interview her today.

We talk about where Krista finds herself in this current chapter of her life.

Engage, she says, in a way that feels right for now.

Listening in different ways and enjoying life more.

We reflect on how much has changed since she began her public radio path in the late 90s,

and she answers questions about where we might put our attention now and how that shapes

our presence in the world and who we want to be.

She talks about what's life-giving, calming, and connecting to orient around, and who she believes

are amazing social creatives,

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