Best Kathryn Hodges Podcasts (2024)

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Family Proclamations: “The Only Child Mythbuster,” with Lauren Sandler 1:34:25

4h ago1:34:25

1:34:25

“Family Proclamations” is the brand new podcast by Blair Hodges, host of Fireside. Enjoy this sample episode and be sure to subscribe directly to Family Proclamations now, because this episode will fall out of the Fireside feed next month!By Family Proclamations

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Family Proclamations: “Out of the Hasidic Closet,” with Sara Glass 1:06:56

8d ago1:06:56

1:06:56

“Family Proclamations” is the brand new podcast by Blair Hodges, host of Fireside. Enjoy this sample episode and be sure to subscribe directly to Family Proclamations now, because this episode will fall out of the Fireside feed soon!By Family Proclamations

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S’mores (Bonus Episode)—Tara Boyce on Hope 53:50

10M ago53:50

53:50

Tara Boyce joins us to reconsider Tom Whyman’s episode about “hope.” Is Tom too hopeful? Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org/episodes/boyce. Buy the book and other merch at firesidepod.org/store.By Fireside with Blair Hodges

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Joy, with Ross Gay 1:10:16

1y ago1:10:16

1:10:16

Ross Gay is a New York Times bestselling author of essays and poetry. His latest book is ‘Inciting Joy,’ which argues that “joy is something like what we feel like when we help each other carry our sorrows, what we feel like when we sort of realize we're practicing our entanglement, our belonging to one another.” Transcript at our website, fireside…

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Invisible, with Meghan O’Rourke

1+ y ago

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Meghan O'Rourke is a citizen of what she calls the invisible kingdom. Anyone can become a citizen. Even you. All you need is a debilitating chronic illness that doctors can't easily understand or treat—autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic Lyme, fibromyalgia, and a bunch of other conditions at the blurry edges of medical knowledge.…

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Transitions, with Susan Stryker 1:35:22

1+ y ago1:35:22

1:35:22

When she was born, Susan Stryker’s parents thought they were welcoming a baby boy. She knew they were wrong by the time she was five years old, but it took decades to let them know who she really was. Being trans raised a lot of questions for Susan—practical questions of course, but also theological, philosophical, and historical questions. So she …

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Mission, with Kathryn Gin Lum

1+ y ago

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Race and religion have been intertwined throughout American history. Christians believed they could detect so-called “heathen” unbelief by the color of someone’s skin or the state of a foreign landscape. Over time, the word “heathen” dropped off, but historian Kathryn Gin Lum says the ideas behind it are alive and well in the United States today, e…

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Shell Play, with Toni Jensen

1+ y ago

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Toni Jensen grew up around guns. As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her father. As an adult, she’s had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock, felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. Toni is a Métis woman, with mixed European and Indigenous ancestry. She's no stranger to the violence enacte…

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Hope, with Tom Whyman

1+ y ago

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When Tom Whyman started thinking about becoming a father, he worried. Would he and his partner be able to make a living to support a child? What about political upheaval in the UK, or the increasing threat of climate change—not to mention all the little daily ways having a child could change his life. Then a global pandemic shook things up even mor…

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The Fire, with Danté Stewart 1:29:37

1+ y ago1:29:37

1:29:37

Coming up out of the waters of baptism at a new white Christian church, Danté Stewart envisioned leaving his blackness behind, washing away his boyhood Black Pentecostal baptism, and rising to a colorblind world where all lives matter. But as time passed, as he witnessed more bodies of Black Americans being killed, he felt rage growing inside. An u…

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Heritage, with Masha Rumer

1+ y ago

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Masha Rumer immigrated to the United States from the former Soviet Union when she was thirteen. At first, her nationality made her self-conscious; she wanted to blend in with her new American peers as fast as possible. But over time, Masha discovered her love for her homeland never really went away, and she wanted to share it with her own children.…

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Monsters, with David Livingstone Smith 1:06:01

2y ago1:06:01

1:06:01

David Livingstone Smith has studied dehumanization for decades. He's spent a lot of time researching horrific genocides, lynching, massacres, and other brutalities. Real humans pull the trigger. Real humans administer the poisonous gasses and drop the bombs. People not entirely unlike me and you, although it's a lot more comforting to imagine they'…

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Voices, with Jeff Chu 58:01

2y ago58:01

58:01

When Rachel Held Evans unexpectedly died in 2019, the thirty-seven-year-old Christian writer left behind a husband and two young children, as well as an unfinished book manuscript. Rachel's husband Dan knew she would want that book out in the world, so he enlisted their good friend Jeff Chu—a writer, reporter, and editor—to put all the pieces in pl…

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Margins, with Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming 58:38

2y ago58:38

58:38

It’s been said that, like the Bible, there are few women in the Book of Mormon. And that’s true, in one sense. But in another, women are everywhere there. Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming are looking for them while they work on the first complete commentary on the Book of Mormon ever written by women. Transcript available: firesidepod.org/…

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The Books, with Vanessa Zoltan 58:50

2y ago58:50

58:50

What happens if we approach some of our favorite books with a similar kind of devotion and attentive reading religious communities bring to their scripture? Vanessa Zoltan breathes new life into our engagement with our favorite books—even the ones that don't hold up well regarding sexism, racism, and more. Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org…

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Civility, with Alex Zamalin 49:00

2y ago49:00

49:00

In his book Against Civility: The Hidden Racism in our Obsession with Civility, Alex Zamalin traces the history of civility from its deployment against African slaves, through Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement, all the way to today’s Black Lives Matter protests. Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org/episodes/zamalin. Buy the book an…

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Hidden, with Ayala Fader 1:31:00

2y ago1:31:00

1:31:00

Ultra-Orthodox Jews structure every aspect of their lives around their religion. But those who come to doubt their beliefs, or who question various practices and rituals, risk losing everything. Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org/episodes/fader. Buy the book and other merch at firesidepod.org/store.…

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S’mores (Bonus Episode)—Let’s Talk, with Anna Sale 29:44

2y ago29:44

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Anna Sale says a loss of faith in social institutions has left people seeking alternative ways of celebrating, mourning, and connecting. At a fractured and disconnected moment in time, she urges us to reconnect by having hard conversations that are too-often avoided. Anna Sale is the host of the award-winning podcast Death, Sex, and Money from WNYC…

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Options, with Taylor Petrey 1:32:01

2+ y ago1:32:01

1:32:01

Is human gender and sexuality fixed and binary, or malleable and multi-various? Taylor Petrey discusses the fascinating twists and turns in Latter-day Saint thought on these questions. By looking at LDS beliefs as they evolve over time, we might get a clearer view of where we are now and what's up ahead. Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org/e…

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Home, with Lauren Sandler 1:14:03

2+ y ago1:14:03

1:14:03

Lauren Sandler was a journalist covering homelessness in New York City when she met Camilla, a woman without a home who didn’t seem to fit the homeless stereotype at all. Sandler tells Camilla’s story in This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search For Home. It’s an up close and personal account of one woman who shares the fate of millions of Americans…

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Slow Down, with John Swinton 59:52

2+ y ago59:52

59:52

John Swinton’s path-breaking book, Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefulness, and Gentle Discipleship takes us through a brief history of time, showing how western culture has changed its experience of time in big ways, and how those changes have impacted people with intellectual disabilities, brain trauma, and people with conditions like D…

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Reckoning, with Anthea Butler 1:03:15

2+ y ago1:03:15

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Anthea Butler is a top expert on religion, politics, and race in the United States. In her latest book White Evangelical Racism she tells the history of the rise of the Religious Right in America—Christians who are politically conservative, predominantly white, and Republican. As church attendance shrinks and public confidence and respect of religi…

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No Compartments, with David Dark 1:05:24

2+ y ago1:05:24

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David Dark seems hard to pin down. He's a professor of religion and the arts, he's a Christian, and also a self-identified agnostic. He engages readers all along the spectrum of belief by claiming that everyone believes in some sort of scripture, even if it's a sci-fi novel or a Radiohead album. Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org/episodes/d…

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Lost and Found, with Elaine Pagels 1:09:25

3y ago1:09:25

1:09:25

Elaine Pagels is a ground-breaking scholar of Christianity. Back in the Sixties she was a student at Harvard when long-forgotten ancient texts re-emerged, secret gospels challenging old religious ideas. That research shook up Christian history, but for Pagels, it was also really personal. And unlike most scholars, she decided to take her intensely …

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Revision, with Kiese Laymon 1:04:41

3y ago1:04:41

1:04:41

By Fireside with Blair Hodges

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New Words, with Mary Rakow 1:18:54

3y ago1:18:54

1:18:54

Things were falling apart in Mary Rakow’s life. Her writing was stagnating, her marriage was falling apart, and she broke up with God. Then Mary picked up a pen and created one of the most religiously rich books I’ve ever read in my life. Transcript at firesidepod.org/episodes/rakow Buy the book at firesidepod.org/store…

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End Times, with Adam Miller 58:50

3y ago58:50

58:50

If you ask philosopher Adam Miller what he thinks the end of the world will be like, he’d tell you it looks like the day his son turned fifteen years old. Not because anything remarkable that happened that day, but because it wasn’t remarkable at all. It was a day that came and went and then it was gone. And it’s never coming back. We face the end …

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Belonging, with Nora Krug 59:09

3y ago59:09

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Family history can be delightful, but it can also be heart-wrenching. Nora Krug was born in Germany decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth. In her award-winning graphic memoir 'Belonging,' she struggles under the weight of catastrophic history and reflects on the responsib…

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Introducing Fireside with Blair Hodges 1:14

3+ y ago1:14

1:14

Do you think of yourself as spiritual but not religious? Or maybe you feel more religious than spiritual. Or maybe you're not quite sure what labels fit you best because things go back and forth--like, it depends on the day, and you've felt all of it or none of it. But most of all you're really interested in thinking about religion, spirituality, a…

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The Daily Routines of a Software Developer 29:23

5+ y ago29:23

29:23

Kathryn and Robyn each share what a typical day looks like for them as software developers working in the tech industry. Find out what they do to make time for the things that matter to them while also balancing a full-time job and side hustles.By Kathryn Hodge, Robyn Silber

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Sample Projects for a Beginner Programmer (Part 2) 18:06

5+ y ago18:06

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Kathryn and Robyn continue where they left off in episode 8 by walking through 3 additional beginner projects: a library catalogue, a quiz, and a game of hangman.By Kathryn Hodge, Robyn Silber

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Favorite Mobile Apps for Your Everyday Programmer 26:18

5+ y ago26:18

26:18

Happy New Year! Hear some stories about our favorite mobile apps in this week's episode of The Programmer Toolbox. Discover what apps and wearables we use as software developers and how they fit into our everyday lives.By Kathryn Hodge, Robyn Silber

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Sample Projects for a Beginner Programmer 40:32

5+ y ago40:32

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Time to dive in, practice your skills, and start building your programming portfolio! Kathryn and Robyn discuss what considerations to make when defining the requirements for your coding projects. You'll be walked through how to build sample beginner projects that apply the fundamental computer science concepts covered in earlier episodes.…

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Data Structures and Object Oriented Programming for Beginner Programmers 21:58

5+ y ago21:58

21:58

Do you store every piece of data in its own variable? Probably not... and if you had to, that would not be very fun, especially if had thousands or millions of data pieces. This week Kathryn and Robyn from The Programmer Toolbox will be talking all about data structures and why you need them. They'll also explain the basics of how you can organize …

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Beginner Technical Terms in Software Development 25:51

5+ y ago25:51

25:51

In continuation of Episode 2, Episode 6 covers the next set of important software development terminology for beginners. Kathryn and Robyn introduce the elements that make up a programming language.By Kathryn Hodge, Robyn Silber

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What To Do When Your Code Doesn't Work 21:09

5+ y ago21:09

21:09

OMG... My code doesn't work!! Kathryn and Robyn of The Programmer Toolbox explain what to do when your code doesn't work. They explain what errors are in computer programming, how to debug your code, what software tools that help you find where the error occurs in your code and what resources to use to help you solve problems in your code.…

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Why Work on Personal Projects 21:32

5+ y ago21:32

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What is a personal project? Does it have to involve coding? Kathryn and Robyn of The Programmer Toolbox reveal how to gain resume-worthy experience before having any work experience. They cover what a personal project is, how to include it in a resume, and give examples of personal projects that you can work on.…

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Is a Computer Science Degree Required for a Career in Technology? 27:18

5+ y ago27:18

27:18

Do you need a computer science degree to work in tech? The Programmer Toolbox hosts debunk the myth that a computer science degree is required. Kathryn and Robyn evaluate whether to attend college, offer alternatives to conventional education, and provide advice on how to get work experience, build a portfolio, and market to potential employers.…

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What is Computer Science? 21:35

5+ y ago21:35

21:35

Robyn Silber and Kathryn Hodge at The Programmer Toolbox break down computer science fundamentals.By Kathryn Hodge, Robyn Silber

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How Did You Get Into Technology? 28:01

5+ y ago28:01

28:01

From zero to programming hero, The Programmer Toolbox hosts Kathryn Hodge and Robyn Silber introduce themselves and share the paths they took that led them to software engineering.By Kathryn Hodge, Robyn Silber

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Embrace your Quirkiness - it may just be your path 37:18

7y ago37:18

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Cas McCullough is the CEO & Founder of a tech startup, Writally. Cas' current work involves creating an App to help business people communicate in a more meaningful way through their online content. This App is built around story elements, or communication pieces, and Cas has spent a lot of time studying and developing her skills as a communicator.…

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Books can change lives - helping people bloom 37:58

7y ago37:58

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Bev Ryan is the founder of Bev Ryan Publishing services, helping people find their voice, claim their place and shine their light through publishing, as well as being the editor of Honestly Woman magazine, inspiring change and reinvention. Bev is definitely someone who has walked her talk, and has been inspired to change and has reinvented herself …

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Don't Fight Yourself - Your Path will Find You 32:34

7+ y ago32:34

32:34

Adam Jaffrey is a Freelance Digital Marketing Strategist, and the host of MATEpodcast, a podcast about Marketing, Advertising, Technology and Entrepreneurship. The honest truth, is that I was a little bit scared about talking with Adam, because Digital Marketing, Advertising and Technology are all words that make me break out in emotional hives! Ad…

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From "All or Nothing" to Mindful Moments with Bec Manson 51:56

7+ y ago51:56

51:56

Bec Manson describes herself as having been a bit of a chameleon in her early years, and now living a life of connection and healing. Bec Manson is a Forensic Healer at SophAura, former youth worker, former numbed out chameleon of life. Bec specialises in helping people with childhood trauma, anxiety and eating disorders, all of those being things …

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Speak your Truth, Make an Impact with Karly Nimmo 38:17

7+ y ago38:17

38:17

Karly Nimmo is a voice over artist, podcaster and mentor, running her own podcasting school, Radcasters. Looking back, Karly can see that she has been an entrepeneur her whole life, always having a side gig and a bit of hustle going on. Karly has been through some ups and some downs, and she's not afraid to talk about the dark days, which is such a…

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Fear or Love. Which emotions are driving you? 49:24

7+ y ago49:24

49:24

Amanda Foy is the Emotional Strength Trainer, who helps people heal when life is testing their limits. Amanda and I talk about her spiritual journey beginning in her teens, before corporate life took her away for a while. But in 2006 she began what she calls "the work", and now she is back, helping people to put their physical and our emotional sel…

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The importance of our bodies as part of our whole selves 48:21

7+ y ago48:21

48:21

Kristie Melling is the founder of Feeling Peachy, the host of Rubbed the Wrong Way, a podcast for massage professionals. Kristie shared with me her recent nudge up against the importance of vulnerability and that she has recently been reminded that it's not enough to be grateful, loving and aware of self care in our attitudes, but that the importan…

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Learning to surrender to follow the flow of life 32:18

7+ y ago32:18

32:18

Michelle House is a Money Guru, and the founder of Rich Living. Her work with people begins with money, and then goes so much further. We talked about how Michelle began her working life, and some of the twists and turns that have brought her to her Richliving life she has today. We also talked about the loss of each of her parents, and specificall…

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Overcoming schoolyard bullying to living a life of gratitude 30:13

7+ y ago30:13

30:13

Warrick Bidwell is the co-host of highly successful The Tradies Business Show podcast, and is a business coach (or wingman, as he likes to refer to his role). Warrick discusses his career from uni, to accounting roles, to business coaching, and described a challenging start at school involving being bullied. Warrick could have succumbed to those bu…

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Making sense of our world when reading is a struggle 28:15

7+ y ago28:15

28:15

Graham Wakefield is my Dad. My Dad has always has fairly limited reading and writing levels. He describes how he can now read a novel, by working at it, taking it in small pieces, and giving himself permission to skip over the parts where he gets confused. We talked about coping with death, as my Mum and his wife Brenda, passed away in 2013. When m…

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