Tell Me Something True with Laura McKowen
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Laura on Why We're Wrapping TMST
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we announced last week, this is the last episode of Tell Me Something True. Today, Laura walks through why we made this decision (it’s all fine, ...
Melissa Urban on How Boundaries Will Set You Free
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Urban is one of the few people we’ve asked back to the show and there’s a reason for that. She’s got such a unique, magnetic energy and ...
Jennifer Moss on The Burnout Epidemic
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tell the truth - how many times does the phrase “I’m so burned out?” show up around you?Burnout is both more than we think it is, and much more ...
Ali Shapiro on Healing our Relationship to Food, Weight, and Body Image
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ali Shapiro arrives with a mountain of good news!We don't have to evade our relationship with food. We don't have to be ruled by stories that shame ...
Larissa May and Our Journey to Digital Wellness
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On TMST we’ve been open about our conflicted relationship with technology and social media. And you’ve heard many of our guests recount their mixe...
Erin Lane on the Scripts That Hurt Mothers (and non-mothers, too!)
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We don’t like to admit it, but there are a hell of a lot of scripts that run us. They’re the “shoulds” - ideas so woven into our lives that we...
Jeff & Debra Jay on Intervention & Family Recovery
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a familiar, but true, saying: recovery is about breaking cycles. Jeff and Debra Jay know this better than most. Together, they’ve been doing...
Anne Helen Petersen on Burnout and The Myth of “Having it All
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Rachel Hollis is a manifestation of a larger ideology about women's place in society. That if you just try hard enough, all of these structural iss...
Branden Collinsworth on Lessons Learned from 1,000 Books
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s great to love books and the written word and seeing new worlds open up through a writer’s work is thrilling. We know our lives can be transfo...
Mary Laura Philpott on the Joy & Dread of Being Human
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
People tell Mary Laura Philpott that her writing is like having a conversation with her. We can say that is 100% true. She’s an utterly captivating...
Chris Marshall on How Connection Can Save Your Life
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Being human means sometimes we feel deeply alone. Cut off from other people. For most people, it passes quickly.For others, especially those who also ...
Marissa Moss on Not Getting Chicked
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
HANDS UP if knowing what you want, and standing up for it, has not always been welcome.Imagine being hit with that - and you’re America’s top-sell...
Laura McKowen on Jealousy & Envy
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When was the last time you got real about jealousy or envy?In this episode, Laura brings the heat, digging into how jealousy and envy have shown up in...
Dr. Kate Pate on Vets, First Responders and why “Being Triggered” is More Complicated Than You Think
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are never more than one connection away from a veteran or first responder.They are the ULTRA helping professions. During the pandemic, many were th...
Veronica Valli on The Promise of Emotional Sobriety for TMST’s 1st Birthday
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rollercoasters are a fun diversion, but they’re no way to live. That’s why the whipsaw experience of being on an emotional rollercoaster is one of...
Brianna Madia on Surviving the Lie That Was Killing Her
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brianna Madia’s journey as a vagabond lifestyle influencer was extraordinary. It was her, her van, her dogs and, for a time, her husband. And accord...
Kelly McDaniel on Mother Hunger
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An insatiable need for romantic attention and love. Periods of overeating or starving. Using alcohol, food, or over-working to numb out. A pattern of ...
Michael Slepian on Knowing the Difference Between Secrets, Lies & Privacy
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What could be heavier than the secrets we carry? The constant vigilance and concealment can be exhausting. But can you tell the difference between wha...
Laura on Protecting Your Energy using “Energy Dollars”
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every day, every hour, every minute, there’s a request. More time. More attention. More engagement. More space in our brains and our lives. Laura ...
Shauna Niequist on Thriving After Life Goes in the Blender
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone has a day, or week, go sideways. What happens when life hits the blender - and it goes on for years? Shauna Niequist has a lot to offer beca...
Jodi White on Love Addiction, Mother Hunger and Codependency
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s be real. The words “Love Addiction” can trigger a massive eye roll. Jodi White gets it and she’s here to show us that it’s real and a ...
Ana Marie Cox on Trusting The Process (even when she doesn’t want to)
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Ana Marie Cox said, “I can’t wring self-worth out of the universe,” we felt that hit like a mountain. Ana spent the better part of two dec...
TMST @ SXSW with Jason Isbell, Jan Rader and Wes Hurt
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wes Hurt is the founder of Sparkling Yerba Mate CLEAN Cause, a beverage company donating 50% of its net profits to funding sober living scholarships; ...
AMA with Laura on Impostor Syndrome + Bonus on Writing and Publishing a Book
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Laura mines more gold from the TMST community this week with a MUCH requested topic: Imposter Syndrome. Hands up - who doesn’t face some version of ...
Mishka Shubaly on Getting Through Your Worst Year
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when a friend tells you he’s just gone through his worst year? Well, when he’s a brave and bright light in the world, and he’s M...
Peter Rollins on Grappling with Uncertainty
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Rollins is back! Our first return guest to TMST, we asked Peter back to talk about how we contend with uncertainty (e.g. life). If you don’t k...
Brenda Davies on Purity, Hook-ups & Life In the Grey
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the world is screaming “It’s all black or white,” how do we remember that we mostly live in the grey area? Brenda Davies might be onto som...
Johann Hari on Regaining our Ability to Focus
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if there’s more to our collective struggle to FOCUS than we’ve considered? And what do we have to do to regain what we’ve lost? Those are ...
AMA with Laura on Friendship
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Nothing is personal” is easy to say, but our adult friendships can truly test our ability to hold on to that vital lesson from Don MIguel Ruiz. ...
Sharon McMahon on the Power of Saying “I Don’t Know”
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if one of the most powerful things we can say is, “I don’t know?” Sharon McMahon came to our attention through her hugely popular @sharons...
Caroline Dooner on Saying F*ck It to Hustle & Diet Culture
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re revisiting one of our most discussed and asked-for topics: BURNOUT. Caroline Dooner’s first book, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Shou...
Jill Louise Busby on Being Unfollowed
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How many of us have the courage to face the friction that comes when we need to grow, but people want us to stay the same? You’ve built an audience ...
AMA with Laura on Rising Above Shame & Regret, plus a big show announcement!
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The TMST community takes center stage again as Laura tackles some universal questions on facing down shame and regret. In this episode, we explore the...
Nadia Bolz-Weber on How We’re REALLY Doing
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we asked a big question... what can Timothée Chalamet’s character in “Don’t Look Up” teach us about finding faith in tough times? ...
Amanda White and Our Desire for Control
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Janet was right. It’s all about CONTROL. Amanda White has some wise, and life-earned, things to say about the illusion of control. If we’re hones...
Katy Milkman on How To Change for the Good
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How would you approach change if you saw it as BOTH a practice AND mindset? Katy Milkman has researched this and it’s clear she’s on to something...
AMA with Laura on Infidelity, Trust, Grief and The Complex Reality of Love and LIfe
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We promised more AMAs, so let’s go! This week, Laura answers three questions that interlace around the topics of infidelity, trust, intimacy, divorc...
Jamie Lee Finch on Purity Culture, Sex, & Befriending Your Body (pt.2)
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Purity culture isn’t a thing that happens to OTHER people. The tendrils of sexual repression have insinuated themselves into all of our lives. In ...
Jamie Lee Finch on Purity Culture, Sex, and Befriending Your Body - part 1
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if your body was your closest friend instead of…whatever it is now? Jamie Lee Finch is a wise guide for so many women who are asking - what wo...
Something True for 2022
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our final episode for 2021 is a harvest of hard-earned wisdom to launch us into 2022. You’ll hear from Peter Rollins, Annie Grace, Rob Bell, yung p...
Veronica Valli on The Promise of Emotional Sobriety
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could step off the rollercoaster of emotional highs and lows? What if the pain that comes with taking everything personally could taper an...
John Richards on Mental Health, Music & Community
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Richards is the morning drive host at KEXP, Seattle. For decades, he’s been the soundtrack to the lives of people starting their day, handpicki...
Sharon Adams on Emotional Intelligence
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What would life be like if we could identify ALL the emotions happening in and around us and have empathy for it all? Sharon Adams has a few ideas on...
Leonard Perlmutter on a Life of Experimentation
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What if life wasn’t an endless series of zero-sum, high stakes experiences? Leonard Perlmutter is asking these and many other questions, and he's do...
The Shortest Episode, The Biggest Thanks
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Laura offers two poems today: one of her favorites, one of her own. Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who are celebrating. And to all, a big heap of ...
AMA with Laura on Intimacy, Creativity, Making Friends, and Early Sobriety
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we turned it over to you! In the first Ask Me Anything (AMA) episode, Laura answers four questions from our listener community. She talks a...
Sara Kuburic on becoming The Millennial Therapist
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What would you do if someone said you could “find comfort for the most vexing questions in our digitized lives in the wisdom of 19th c. European phi...
Anna Sale on Finding Connection by Talking About Hard Things
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What if the hard thing you didn’t want to share was also the thing that made you most human and brought people closer? Anna Sale knows A LOT about...
Frank X. Walker on Poetry's Urgent Intimacy
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When was the last time an artist took you by the hand and said, “Here, let me show you how the world looks through my eyes”? Frank X. Walker is K...
Jane Clapp on Escaping the Social Media Labyrinth
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What if social media scrolling was the latest version of the mythical Labyrinth? An elaborate, confusing structure intended to keep the Minotaur (you)...
Rob Bell on Doing What You Love
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How would your life look if you arranged it so you could do what you love? Rob Bell has one of the most pure, electric, inspiring and infectious en...
Laura McKowen on 7 Years of Sobriety
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Laura takes the mic solo to reflect on hitting seven years of sobriety. She goes deep on four ideas that feel most important now as she loo...
Julie Menanno on The Secure Relationship
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How many times have you looked at your relationship partner and wondered, “Why do they do that?” Have we got an episode for you! Julie Menanno’...
Kristoffer Carter on Your Epic Life
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What would life be like if we gave ourselves PERMISSION? Permission to truly chill, to feel deeply, to open up and express ourselves in ways that ser...
Dr. Anna Lembke on Our Dopamine Nation
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever said, “I’d love to stop scrolling/ drinking/ shopping/ gambling, but…?” That’s the power of dopamine. Dr. Anna Lembke is o...
Annie Grace on What Animates You
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when you’ve impacted the lives of MILLIONS and you want to walk away because you’re miserable? Annie Grace’s book, This Naked M...
Laura McKowen on Social Media & The False Self
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How is social media rewiring us, and what’s the cost? Laura has been living with this question for years. In her writing and on the show, she’s s...
Jim Zartman on The 4 Types of Relational Energy
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you show up in relationships? Jim Zartman is a certified Enneagram teacher, a former Midwest megachurch producer, a father, husband, and the C...
Jenn Wasner on Being vs. Performing
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when the music stops and there’s no dancing in the distraction machine? For Jenn Wasner, like so many of us, that was her pandemic ...
Anne Helen Petersen on Burnout and The Myth of “Having it All”
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Rachel Hollis is a manifestation of a larger ideology about women's place in society. That if you just try hard enough, all of these structural iss...
Melissa Urban on Going First
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you find freedom and peace in the act of going first? It was something Melissa Urban had to learn. Melissa Urban is the CEO and co-founder o...
Nabil Ayers on Finding Your Voice
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does it feel like to live with feet in multiple worlds? Nabil Ayers can give a masterclass. He’s both a musician and businessman, bi-racial, t...
Elena Brower on a Life of Openness
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s possible to joyfully embrace the life of a student. We’ve seen it and now you will, too. Elena Brower is a yoga and meditation teacher. Sh...
Africa Brooke on Freedom from Self-Censorship
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Where are you self-censoring and what is it costing you? Africa Brooke is on a mission to get us to ask these questions... and then cut it out! Hai...
Peter Rollins and The Happiness Paradox
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We don’t often hear the word POLYMATH, probably because there aren’t very many. It’s the perfect way to describe Peter Rollins, though. He’s ...
yung pueblo on The Search for Equanimity
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What’s it like to FULLY embrace being a work in progress? yung pueblo is the pen name for Diego Perez. Over the course of two books and a growing ...
Cheryl Strayed and The Savage Truth
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are Savage Truths? Facing your own mediocrity. Accepting the finality of something profoundly tragic by turning it into something beautiful. ...
Tell Me Something True Trailer
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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