The Huddle Institute Podcast Show

EPISODE DESCRIPTION When you fight about money in relationships, you’re almost never actually fighting about money. You’re fighting about power, trust, values, safety, love, respect, autonomy, fairness—all the things money represents but that we can’t directly name. So we argue about the credit card bill, the vacation budget, and whether to buy the expensive couch. But underneath: Do you value wha...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION What’s your relationship with money? Not “how much do you make” or “what’s your budget,” but your relationship —how you feel about it, what it means to you, what stories you tell yourself about having it or not having it. For most of us, money isn’t neutral. It’s wrapped up with identity, worth, shame, safety, and power. We say “it’s just money,” but we don’t act like it’s just...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Your heart races, your shoulders tense, your mind spirals with worry. We’ve been taught to suppress anxiety, medicate it, push through it, think our way out of it. But what if anxiety isn’t the problem—it’s a message? What if your nervous system is trying to tell you something important about threat, safety, and what you need? Host Rahul Nair examines anxiety not as a disorder...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION How much of your life is lived versus performed ? You’re at dinner, and before eating, you photograph the food. You’re on vacation, thinking about what pictures will communicate the experience. You have a thought and immediately craft how you’d express it online. When did we become so aware of ourselves as if we’re always being watched? Host Rahul Nair examines identity in the...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Sometimes you can love someone deeply, genuinely, with your whole heart... and still be miserable together. Not because you’re bad people. Not because you don’t care. Not even because you’re incompatible. But because the pattern of how you relate has become toxic, and neither of you knows how to change it. Host Rahul Nair examines relationships—romantic partnerships, marriages,...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Millions of people have quit their jobs—not just changing employers, but questioning whether the whole structure of work makes sense anymore. What looks like a labour market phenomenon is actually something deeper: a crisis of meaning, playing out at every scale of our lives. Host Rahul Nair examines why people are leaving jobs, religions, relationships, and entire identities t...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION It’s getting harder to talk to each other. Not just about politics—though that’s certainly true—but about anything that touches on values, identity, or what kind of world we want to live in. We’re sorting ourselves into increasingly isolated camps, unfriending people who disagree, avoiding topics at family gatherings, dismissing entire groups as ignorant, evil, or beyond reach....

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Why are we so afraid of artificial intelligence? Yes, there are legitimate concerns—job displacement, misinformation, and autonomous weapons. But beneath those specific worries, something more primal is at work. Something that makes this feel less like a technological problem and more like an existential crisis. Host Rahul Nair explores how AI anxiety isn’t really about the tec...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Why does climate change create such profound distress—even in people who are well-informed, well-intentioned, and genuinely care? In this episode, we examine climate anxiety not as weakness or irrationality, but as a predictable response to a problem that violates every assumption our brains make about how threats work. Host Rahul Nair explores how climate anxiety reveals somet...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Why are we lonelier than ever when we’re more “connected” than ever? In this inaugural episode, we examine the loneliness epidemic—not as an individual problem, but as a systemic pattern showing up at every scale of human life. Host Rahul Nair explores how the same dynamics creating loneliness in individuals are fracturing communities, organisations, and nations. Through the le...

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