Year End Review 2025 S3E147

This end of year show features a curated selection of guest conversations from 2025, plus a couple of teaser snippets from shows coming in 2026.

The end of the year is a time for reflection. In today’s show, I look back on conversations with some guests this year that illuminate what it is to be human. In fact, I look back in astonishment at the sheer privilege afforded to me to be an intimate witness to people’s lives.

I am a humanist, meaning my life is informed by well-reasoned critical thinking, humbled and called to action by empathy, and enlarged by wonder and respect for the world around us. I bring that humanist life stance to my work as an existential coach, providing space, support, and guidance for people asking life’s big questions: Who am I? What matters now? How do I live well?

Lives Radio Show and Podcast is a public expression of that commitment to our shared humanity. Above all, for me, it is the immeasurable gift of bearing witness to the lives of others. I am interested in people’s “who” and “why” - understanding the self - and their “how” and “what” provides some of the narrative illustrating that.

So this week - with the last show for 2025 - you’ll hear excerpts from conversations that stayed with me. The stories are particular. And yet, if you listen closely, I hope you’ll recognize something familiar in your own life.

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Today's show and others are supported by the generous membership of Amy and Tom Trenolone.

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