Good Is In The Details

Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome author and Engineering Professor Phil Rosenkrantz (Cal Poly Pomona) to discuss The Challenger Spaceshuttle Disaster.  What happened behind the scenes of the launch?  What was known?  What was ignored?  How can we learn from the fatal decision to launch?   Learn more about Professor Rosenkrantz and get his excellent book, Letters From Uncle Dave: https://philr...

Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome back Rev. Dr. Angela Gorrell to discuss her forthcoming book, What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do.  How can we work through difficult decisions?  How can we handle competing ideas or beliefs?  What holds us back?   Learn more about Dr. Gorrell's work: https://www.angelagorrell.com Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GoodIsInTheDetails Thank you to...

Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome author Amber Wardell, PhD to discuss her work on self actualization, self care, and how that impacts our relationships.  What is a self?  How does one care for the self?  How do we communicate our needs to our partner? Learn more about Dr. Wardell: https://amberwardell.com Read Dr. Wardell's work on Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contrib...

Enjoy this encore episode (one of our top episodes!) with author of Lady Killers, Tori Telfer. Learn more about Tori: https://www.toritelfer.com/books Get extra content and support GIID: https://www.patreon.com/GoodIsInTheDetails

"Innocent until proven guilty." You've heard it your entire life. But is it actually how the American legal system works for everyone? The answer, according to constitutional law, is more complicated than the phrase suggests. And the gap between the principle and the practice is where some of the most important legal battles of the last half century have been fought, often by a single lawyer, on b...

Gwendolyn Dolske teams up with Ella Parlor (Eavesdrop With Ella podcast, author of High Tolerance). We discuss the book The Sex Will Be Good Again Tomorrow: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent, by Katherine Angel. What are assumptions about sexuality underscoring conversations about consent?  How can we become more thoughtful communicators?  What are cultural hurdles when it comes to appreciati...

The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. We stopped teaching it. And it shows. When most people hear the word "rhetoric" today, they use it as a synonym for manipulation; empty political speech, dishonest framing, words designed to obscure rather than illuminate. And in dismissing it that way, we've lost access to the most powerful intellectual...

You feel it. You hide it. Philosophy says you might be wrong to. Envy is almost universally condemned, called a deadly sin, a character flaw, something to suppress and never admit to. But what if the story we tell about envy is incomplete? What if some forms of envy aren't moral failures at all but windows into our deepest values, our most honest desires, and even our capacity for growth? In this...

"If only I could get the promotion, then I'll have enough money to be happy. If only I met the right person, then I'd finally be who I want to be." Sound familiar? That logic, the belief that happiness, goodness, and identity all live somewhere just ahead of where you currently are, is one of the most quietly destructive ideas in modern life. And according to existentialist philosophy, it gets som...

Gwendolyn and Rudy welcome back Philosophy Professor Mark D. White to discuss his book Daredevil From the Beginning to Born Again . What moral lessons do we learn from the story of Daredevil?  How do we understand ability and disability culturally? What is Justice? And, what can we learn about love?  Learn more about Mark: https://www.profmdwhite.com Get your CLM Volumizer with offer code GOOD15:...

Every bad date is a data point. The question is, what exactly is it telling you? Not just about the person sitting across the table. About you. About what you were hoping for, what you expected, what you assumed, and what the gap between those hopes and reality reveals about the story you're telling yourself about love, connection, and what a relationship is actually supposed to give you. That is...

Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo present "The Why of Podcasting" for the OutlierHQ Podcast Festival.  We share the story and creation of Good Is In The Details, some tips for podcasters, and our journey of learning through producing the show.   Learn more about OutlierHQ: https://www.outlierhq.com Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GoodIsInTheDetails Thank you to our sponsor: http://www.avonm...

Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome Philosophy Professor Matthew Congdon (Vanderbilt University).  We discuss his book Moral Articulation On the Development of New Moral Concepts .  How do we frame moral issues?  How does language play a role in the way we consider morality?  Can transportation reflect our ideas of justice and equity?  Learn more about Matthew's work: https://matthewcongdon.net...

What if the secret to a good life isn't about getting more, but about knowing what to let go? Most of us approach life as an accumulation problem. More success. More achievement. More certainty. But beyond resilience and grit, there is a transformational art we all can use; and it begins, according to one of the most sought-after public philosophers in the world, with a lemonade stand.  In this ep...

What if the reason you drink more than you planned — every single time — isn't a failure of willpower? What if it was designed that way? The alcohol industry generates hundreds of billions of dollars annually. It employs some of the most sophisticated marketing minds in the world. And for years, one of those minds was Ella Parlor, who helped drive more than $1 billion in beverage sales through cam...

Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome back Philosophy Professors Richard Greene and Josh Heter to discuss  Punk Rock and Philosophy .  What does the genre reveal about cultural shifts and attitudes? What does it mean to be a punk rocker?  We discuss style, gatekeeping, anger and happiness, all within the framework of Punk Rock.   Get your copy: https://www.amazon.com/Punk-Rock-Philosophy-Pop-Cult...

Gwendolyn Dolske partners with The Modern Day Wife and explores the career shifts of women in business.  What are the first steps to bringing one's idea to life?  What is the disposition of the successful woman?  We learn how a belief in self anchors the possibility of creation, community, and happiness.   Learn more about our wonderful guests: Meagan Elieff and Meghan Fialkoff, founders of https:...

Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome back Rich Fahmy, MS, CPT, CWC, CES, PES (National Academy of Sports Medicine).  What is BMI?  How can we understand cultural attitudes around weight and diet vs health?  What are some tips for navigating through the holiday season in a healthy manner? Learn more about Rich Fahmy: https://blog.nasm.org/author/rich-fahmy-ms-nasm-cpt-ces-pes-master-instructor Ch...

Gwendolyn Dolske and guest co-host Konstantin Hatcher (California YIMBY) talk with founder of Latina Rebels and author of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts , Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez.  We learn about the power of writing and observation, of finding one's voice and challenging social norms, and the creation of a genre.   Learn more about Prisca's work: https://www.priscadorca...

If you've ever taken time away from your career to care for a child, a parent, or anyone who needed you, your resume has a gap.  But because the skills you built during that time (empathy, adaptability, crisis management, emotional regulation, leadership under pressure, multi-stakeholder communication) are systematically invisible to the employers who need them most. The organizations that will wi...

Gwendolyn Dolske talks with Dr. Kate Madorin and Dr. Kristina Tansavatdi about their thoughts on the popular podcast  The Retrievals (from This American Life ).  How is women's pain understood and communicated?  What is the role of empathy in medicine?   Learn more about Dr. Tansavadti: https://www.facesbydrt.com/about/dr-tansavatdi/ Visit our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GoodIsInTheDetails Li...

In memory of Brittany Delaney of https://www.blacktablearts.org

Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo talk with Dr. Michaela O'Donnell about her book   Make Work Matter .  What can theology teach us about our approach to work?  How has the pandemic shaped our ideas of work?  What is the role of empathy?   https://www.goodisinthedetails.com

Why are we so fascinated by true crime, and what does that say about us? In this episode of Good Is In The Details , we explore the cultural, psychological, and philosophical dimensions of true crime through one of the most infamous cases in American history: the Black Dahlia. Joined by film and cultural critic Dahlia Schweitzer , we examine how the portrayal of violence—especially against women—i...

Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo interview Philosophy Professor Dr. Gregg Caruso (SUNY Corning), author of Rejecting Retributivism. Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice .  We discuss the meaning of free will, what is a free will skeptic, determinism, and how understanding free will (or rejecting the idea of free will) impacts our sense of justice.   Watch Gregg's Ted Talk "The Dark Side of Fr...