
Welcome to Second Self, the podcast about the self we inherit, and the one we create. In this series, I’ll be having conversations with interesting people about the important ideas they’ve adopted and the ones they’ve moved away from through their lives. Though we live in an increasingly polarised landscape where ‘picking a side’ and digging your heels in is incentivised, Second Self is about inte... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 8 | Founded | 4 years ago |
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| Categories | PhilosophySociety & CultureSelf-ImprovementEducation | ||||

This week's guest is Helen Pluckrose, co-author of the bestselling Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody and founder of Counterweight, an organisation which advocates... more
This week's episode features author and literary agent Catherine Cho on her experience with postpartum psychosis and the incredibly beautiful book that she wrote about it - Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness. We discuss mental health and ill... more
Writer Sarah Maria Griffin is this week's guest on Second Self. Author of Other Words for Smoke, Spare and Found Parts, and Not Lost: A Story About Leaving Home, Sarah is a unique writer and a true individual. We discussed choosing the less trodden p... more
After a week's break from Second Self, we are back for episode four with writer and public intellectual Thomas Chatterton Williams. Thomas is the author of Self Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race, and Losing My Cool: Love, Literature and a ... more
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Beautiful, informative, warming. Highly recommend.
it’s very introspective heavy stuff, something that i do far too much of myself …
lovely sidebars too …cigarette stealing crows, gas
Thought provoking, interesting, and intelligent. Absolutely fantastic!
This is an excellent podcast a with interesting guests and thoughtful topics. Well worth a listen
I devoured the first episode of this podcast and I’ve already recommended it to all my friends. Laura hosts an honest and thought-provoking conversation that ranges from the hilarious to the serious and more. I can’t wait for another episode.








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