In My Hands

Laura Cassidy works at Recompose, Seattle's human composting facility. She came from journalism, spent a year at a traditional funeral home, and now helps people, including those with terminal diagnoses, navigate one of the most personal decisions of their lives. We talk about: What human composting is and how it works How to talk about money in a sacred space without being weird about it What...

Shawna Williams is the owner of Free Range Cycles, a 790 sq ft bike shop in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. She graduated with a political science degree and bought the shop at age 27. She helps us understand what it actually means to run a small business, the unexpected intimacy of a bike shop, learning how to charging what your work is worth, and building a space where people who've bee...

A sociologist enters a bike shop, a human composting facility, and a pottery studio. In My Hands  is a series of conversations with folks working at the intersection of people, bodies, and money. Whether they're small business owners or nonprofit directors, they building something specific and tangible. Part character study, these aren't success stories or cautionary tales. They reveal hid...