Sarah from America tells the story of history through the lens of her ancestry, weaving personal genealogical discoveries into the broader narrative of America’s past. Each family connection becomes a window into the events, cultures, and movements that shaped the nation. <br/><br/><a href="https://intrepidinterior.substack.com/s/sarah-from-america?utm_medium=podcast">intrepidinterior.substack.com</a>
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Sarah from America tells the story of history through the lens of her ancestry, weaving personal genealogical discoveries into the broader narrative of America’s past. Each family connection becomes a window into the events, cultures, and movements that shaped the nation. <br/><br/><a href="https://intrepidinterior.substack.com/s/sarah-from-america?utm_medium=podcast">intrepidinterior.substack.com</a>
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January 15, 2026
Charlemagne - Who Decides What Counts?
<p>This episode explores the unsettling idea that much of modern life still operates inside standards set more than a thousand years ago by <strong>Charlemagne</strong>. Rather than framing him as a distant historical figure, the piece examines Charlemagne as a systems builder whose true power came from standardization, not spectacle. By unifying measures of value, currency, law, literacy, time, and obligation, he created a framework that allowed trust, trade, and governance to function at scale. The episode draws a clear line between these early medieval reforms and today’s world of abstract value, credit, contracts, and invisible systems that quietly govern daily life. It challenges listeners to reconsider ideas of individuality and choice, asking whether what we call modern or personal is often just inherited structure wearing a contemporary costume. The takeaway is provocative and reflective: before trying to reinvent yourself or your world, it may be worth asking whose standards you are still living by.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to INTREPID at <a href="https://intrepidinterior.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">intrepidinterior.substack.com/subscribe</a>
January 6, 2026
Charlemagne - Time, Disciplined
<p>In this episode, we trace the origins of January 1st as New Year’s Day and discover that our modern calendar has far more to do with war, empire, and governance than with personal renewal. Beginning in the winter of 152 BC, we follow Roman soldiers freezing in Hispania and senators in Rome confronting a hard truth: traditions built for a seasonal city-state could no longer govern a far-flung empire. The solution was administrative, not spiritual. Rome moved the start of the political year to January 1 so leadership could reach distant frontiers sooner.</p><p>From there, the story travels forward to Charlemagne’s world, where time fractured rather than unified. January 1, Christmas, and March 25 each carried their own meaning, rhythm, and authority. Christmas marked divine arrival and rest. January 1 offered reflection and release. Lady Day, tied to the Annunciation, became the true season of commitment, contracts, and intention.</p><p>By exploring how empires, churches, and households once lived with multiple New Years, this episode invites a gentler question for our own lives: what if winter was never meant for goal-setting, but for letting go? What if lasting work comes not from urgency, but from timing?</p><p>This is a meditation on calendars, power, faith, and the quiet wisdom of choosing the right season to begin.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to INTREPID at <a href="https://intrepidinterior.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">intrepidinterior.substack.com/subscribe</a>
November 30, 2025
Rocking the Boat
<p>Sarah traces her surprising bloodline to five Mayflower families and the ship’s only sea-born child, revealing what Thanksgiving history gets right—and wrong. A quick, curious journey into ancestry and American lore.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to INTREPID at <a href="https://intrepidinterior.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">intrepidinterior.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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