Owen McGrann

Sonder Union

Society EN ↓ 29 episodes

Sonder Union is, at heart, an exercise in human connection. In a world that encourages spit-polished projections of ourselves on every kind of social media, marketing, personal branding, etc., are we able to actually connect with people we don't already intimately know? Sonder is defined as "the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it."Let's start paying attention to the complex lives around us. www.owenmcgrann.com

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Owen McGrann

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Ep. 4 - The Fine Art of Doing Epic S**t 13.09.2023 1:30:09

This episode's guest Does Epic S**t, from running successful companies to competing in iron man races to sipping ginger ale in large social settings. Oh, and there's the song parodies ( https://perfectparody.com/ ). I hope you enjoy my discussion with John Lindsey as much as I did. He's one of a kind, a fellow introvert comfortable on stage, a man who knows how to wear a wig. You can f...

Ep. 3 - The Irish Goodbye 28.08.2023 28:05

Well, this is embarrassing. In this episode of Sonder Union, you get a peek behind the scenes into the lunacy that has been the creation of this podcast, as two-thirds of the conversation I have with Lenor Marquis Segal failed to record. But the 25 minutes that I do have is pretty great! Lenor is one of my favorite writers on LinkedIn and is so good, she made me break one of my rules for Sonder Un...

Ep. 2 - The Finite and the Infinite 13.08.2023 1:11:12

Louis Colombo joins us for the second episode of Sonder Union. Louis is a fellow traveler of mine in many ways: we have faced (and continue to face) serious illnesses, death, and Hegel. We have an unflinching discussion of some pretty tough topics, with the gallows humor that you have to develop to fight through. This episode includes extensive discussion of serious illness, death, and suicide. So...

Ep. 1 - Digital Hauntings & Second Souls 29.07.2023 52:43

Welcome to Sonder Union, a podcast whose sole purpose is to create the opportunity for human connection in a world so interested in projections of surface. We are joined in our inaugural episode by Jerry Bui, creator, digital forensics expert, and all-around fascinating dude. You can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrybui/ All music copyright © Owen McGrann, 2023. This is a public episod...