Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

About Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Origins are conversations with thought-leaders across an eclectic mix of disciplines (science, engineering, art, and design), crafted specifically for the category-defying society that we live in. We explore the thoughts, passions, and stories that defined these pioneers’ fascinating trajectories, arriving at the origins of the pivotal moments across their lives. Draw inspiration for your own trajectory from the intellectual and spiritual electricity of these eclectic conversations.

Publisher

Ryan McGranaghan

Category

arts · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Mar 2019

Latest episode

11 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

89 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Aug 2026

   David Germano - Ancient wisdom for modern (and future) flourishing

   David Germano is an educator, scientist, and renown Tibetologist. But to let his life and work be merely a list would be an irreparable simplification, inappropriate as framing for this conversation, and a blindness to the genuine teachings of care and loving-kindness that can be found and felt from deep in his work. Origins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter Show Notes: Rainer Maria Rilke (05:20)Gül Dölen and 'critical period' Nardou et al., 2023 (14:30)Tibetan idea of br...

2. 

   7 Jul 2026

   The Great Askers (episode 2): C Thi Nguyen and Julio Ottino

   The Great Askers is an occasional Origins Podcast extra, where we nourish a sensibility of asking and cultivate great askers by exploring it with people who have singularly practiced it. Find the inaugural episode here. So we occasionally on this show add to a series called ‘the great askers’ to center the philosophy and practice of asking questions. We do this by talking with the people asking the most meaningful, searching, even troubling questions and on their process for constructin...

3. 

   19 Jun 2026

   Introducing Season Nine: Trailer and a meditation on the shadow side of vulnerability

   CORRECTION: Season Nine will commence on July 7, not June 30 Origins Podcast Website Hello friends, a new season of Origins arrives on July 7! I can't genuinely describe my experience in the world right now without the term confusion. Confused in a deep sense: feeling a growing distance between the world as I experience it and the world we seem to be creating together. The appropriate response to bewilderment is not certainty but deeper conversation. That has always been the purpose of ...

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

44

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

82

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