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Know What You See with Brian Lowery

Brian S. Lowery

The “Know What You See” podcast delves into the ways our fundamental need to connect with others profoundly shapes our experience of life. On each episode, through conversations with experts and people just trying to make sense of it all, Brian Lowery takes a journey of exploration—answering and raising questions to deepen our understanding of and appreciation for the often surprising, sometimes perplexing, and now and then transcendent lives we create together.

Brian Lowery

The “Know What You See” podcast delves into the ways our fundamental need to connect with others profoundly shapes our experience of life. On each episode, through conversations with experts and people just trying to make sense of it all, Brian Lowery takes a journey of exploration—answering and raising questions to deepen our understanding of and appreciation for the often surprising, sometimes perplexing, and now and then transcendent lives we create together.

Brian Lowery
17hr 32min
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What's the Point?
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Is it selfish to choose parenthood?
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Brian wonders what being chosen says about you.
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Brian wonders why we need to get away
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This is (not) the end
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The science of wonder
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The science of free will
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Race and Identity
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What Do We Understand About Gender?
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Work/Life Balance Onscreen
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A Feeling More Than a Place
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The illusion of choice in modern dating
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Friends, ones we can depend on
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Lecturer in Organizational Behavior
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On Brian's new book "Self Less: The Social Creation of You"
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Work Stress With Brigid Schulte
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Upskilling and New Pathways to Career Opportunities
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Digital nomads are traveling beyond freelance, working remotely from multiple locations.
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Quitting Time
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A KWYS bonus episode from Brian Lowery
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Today's multi-generational office culture and how managers and employees are navigating it
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The future of the gig economy
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Is working from home working out?
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What's behind the surge in labor organizing?
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Workers are asking their companies for values-based behavior and decision-making
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Shifting to the world of work
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Racial discrimination and churn in the workplace
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In the early 1980s a new sound emerged from the loft parties and underground clubs of Chicago: House music
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When you hear someone speak, how much do you know about them based on how they talk?
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Two chef/restaurant owners, on selling dishes inspired by their personal histories and ethnic heritages.
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What does it mean for food to be authentic? Who owns this or that recipe, ingredient, or flavor? Why do we care?
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Who gets to design, who do they design for, and what does this tell us about ourselves?
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Kwanza Osajyefo, author of BLACK
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Moving Beyond Secret Identities
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Racial identity and the full cost of upward economic mobility.
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Understanding the intimacy of public spaces
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A podcast about the hidden social forces shaping our lives. This season we explore race.
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