Meredith for Real: the curious introvert

Apr 13 2025 287 ep. 39 mins 361
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Each episode explores a taboo question or cultural blind spot with an expert who is themselves, a paradox -

Like the atheist doctor who studied near death experiences for 50 years (ep 224)

Or the deeply religious man studied by NASA who sees UFOs regularly (ep 261).

The mission is to inspire the kind of curiosity that looks for & celebrates nuance, because we all deserve a more curious future.

So tune in each week (new episodes every Monday) to question things like American individualism (ep 260), trigger warnings (ep 208) & circumcision (ep 178).

Still not sure where to start?

Other listeners loved ep 230 - Can a sexless marriage survive? and ep 237 - Black man who attends KKK rallies: race & friendship

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Ep. 287 If Aliens are Real, Why Does No One Care?

Apr 13 2025 51 mins  
Michael Glawson, PhD, is a philosopher of science and technology with a background in theology. He’s also the host of the podcast Anomalous Review & the UAP Studies Podcast. In this video, we cover the public’s love affair with cryptids, why new information is unlikely to smash our world view, ancient aliens, data vs entertainment & how the Scientific Coalition for UAP

Ep. 286 What is Medically Assisted Sex? [REMASTERED]

Apr 06 2025 29 mins  
Trish St John is the founder of Sensual Solutions in Vancouver, Canada, an intimate care service for adults with disabilities. With everyone trying to be more sex-positive, we ask the question, why then is it so uncomfortable to think about someone with a spinal cord injury having sex? In this episode, she shares how she went from HR executive to sex surrogacy agency owner, why we

Ep. 285 Is Heart Coherence a Chaos Cure-All? Health, Behavior & Intuition

Mar 30 2025 47 mins  
Rollin McCraty, PhD is Psychophysiologist & Director of Research at the HeartMath Institute where his primary areas of focus are the mechanisms by which emotions influence cognitive processes, behavior, health, & global interconnectivity between people & Earth’s energetic systems. His research has appeared in journals including the American Journal of Cardiology, Jour

Ep. 284 Can You Get Fit on Fast Food?! Supersized to Shredded

Mar 23 2025 45 mins  
Matt Lane is a certified personal trainer, behavioral change specialist and practicing registered nurse who gained 50lbs ON PURPOSE, so he could experiment on himself to see IF it was possible to lose weight by only eating fast food for 60 days. In this episode, you’ll hear the emotional impact of his weight gain, the fallacy of portion control, food as a cultural cornerstone &am

Ep. 283 Is Narcissism on the Rise? Internet, Influencers & the Dark Triad

Mar 16 2025 48 mins  
Dr. Stephanie Sarkis is a psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience specializing in ADHD, anxiety, & narcissistic abuse. She’s a contributor to Forbes & Psychology Today & the Author of Healing from Toxic Relationships: 10 Essential Steps to Recover from Gaslighting, Narcissism, and Emotional Abuse. In this episode, you’ll hear the reason there isn’t a lot

Ep. 282 Are Technology, Religion & UFOs Connected? [REMASTERED]

Mar 09 2025 34 mins  
Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka is a Professor of religious history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her research focuses on religion and technology, but it was her research about purgatory specifically that lead her to UFO culture, a journey she documents in her book, American Cosmic. Here she helps us understand the connection between tech, religion & aliens, explains

Ep. 281 Family Influencers: Are Kids Content?

Mar 02 2025 41 mins  
The world of family influencers is one we all know, but what are the impacts of on the children of these influencers when they come of age? Erin Quinn Kong is a longtime magazine editor, having worked at Allure & UsWeekly. Her most current endeavor led her to merging real influencer allegations into a fictional novel called Hate Follow about a teenage daughter of a family influ

Ep. 280 Is Hawaii Haunted? History, Pele & Pizza [REMASTERED]

Feb 23 2025 33 mins  
Lopaka Kapanui is a native Hawaiian who was adopted by a non-Hawaiian family & raised Catholic. When he was 7, he died during a medical procedure & his near-death experience left him with some unusual gifts & an open door to connecting back to his culture. He now celebrates over 25 years of owning & operating Hawaii’s only locally-owned ghost tour company, Mysteri

Ep. 279 Blurred Boundaries: Deepfake Porn Ethics & Impact

Feb 16 2025 43 mins  
Sophie Compton & Reuben Hamlyn are the directors of Another Body, a documentary highlighting an engineering student's experience becoming a victim of nonconsensual intimate imagery or what most call deepfake porn. The documentary walks through how a young engineering student became a victim of image based sexual abuse and in this conversation you’ll hear, how this can be lega

Ep. 278 Morbid or Sacred? Let’s Talk about Death (with a Death Doula)

Feb 09 2025 52 mins  
Dr. Sarah Kerr is the founder of The Centre for Sacred Death Care & has been a practicing death doula since 2012. In this episode, she shares conversational onramps to death conversations (including kids), the difference between death the moment & death the process, how to find death rituals that feel authentic & what a death doula does. If you liked this episode, you�