We aim to serve as a platform for informed, compelling conversations in an area of interest shared by JTF: the humble approach to life (including intellectual virtues such as curiosity, creativity and humility). We will make six full length podcasts (~50 min) and six broadcast hours for NPR stations (~50 min), with two of those six episodes focusing on curiosity, two on creativity and two on humility.
The questions we plan to address through our podcasts include: “Where do virtues like humility and curiosity meet practices like seeking non-biased sources or asking more and better questions?” and “How can we square our To Do lists, our personal budgets and our schedules with our most cherished, stated values?” These valuable questions (among others) will be explored via in-depth recorded conversations with experts on and exemplars in curiosity, creativity and humility. We plan to recruit a set of true intellectual giants to help our audience engage with these core questions in a conversational format that is accessible and thorough. We take special care to wrap each conversation with a set of takeaways that we share on air and send to our ~18,000 newsletter subscribers.
Our deliverables will include: six long-form podcast episodes, six long-form radio broadcasts, six short-form podcasts, six videos created for social media and six newsletters. This project matters deeply to us as we believe suffering is exacerbated when we keep a small, tight lens on our lives that contains only our most immediate concerns. We also believe that when we pause to consider large human concerns and develop pathways to purpose and mutual understanding, we flourish. Our audience has been telling us through emails for years that the series we produce are helping them transcend their individual lives and think more communally about the human condition.
