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Welcome to the More In Common Podcast — where curiosity meets courage.Hosted by Keith Richardson and Gerren Taylor, this show explores the human side of connection, communication, and emotional intelligence.
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The Introvert Who Wasn't (opens the original)
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Keith spent 15 years convinced he was an introvert. Then he wasn't. Part 3 closes our "It Is What It Is" arc — the personal turn. After two episodes on how the phrase functions as a permission structure and how marketing sold us pink and blue as biology, Keith and Gerren turn the framework on themselves. Keith on the introvert-extrovert binary he lived inside for a decade and a half — using "I'm an introvert" as the reason to leave every party at 10pm and disengage. Until his wife, whose extrove
Pink Is Just Marketing (opens the original)
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Pink is just marketing. Girls didn't naturally gravitate toward pink. Boys didn't naturally gravitate toward blue. In 1918, a garment industry trade publication argued the exact opposite — pink was the "more decided and stronger" color, better suited for boys. It took the garment industry roughly 60 years to lock in the version we live with now. Then prenatal sex determination arrived in the 1980s and made the segmentation permanent. Now we throw gender reveal parties in the color scheme a marke
"It Is What It Is." — Is It, Though? (opens the original)
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"It is what it is." — Is it, though? Keith and Gerren open a new arc on the phrases we use to shut conversations down — and the systems that benefit when we do. It is what it is. Boys will be boys. That's just how it works. Common sense. Every one of them functions as a permission structure: a way of accepting a condition without ever inspecting whether it's actually inevitable, or whether we've just been told it is. Gerren lays out the three-part framework: the stuff we don't want to think abou
You Have More Power Than the Algorithm (opens the original)
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You have more power than the algorithm. Part 3 closes our arc with Mónica Guzmán — journalist, founder and CEO of Reclaim Curiosity, senior fellow at Braver Angels, and author of I Never Thought of It That Way. Last week we ended on a cliffhanger: how does the system itself stay curious? This week, the answer. Keith opens with a story from the weekend — a real conversation about healthcare with his conservative dad that was going well, until he noticed his dad was drinking from a "leftist tears"
What Nobody Tells You About Staying Curious (opens the original)
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What nobody tells you about staying curious. Part 2 of a multi-episode arc with Mónica Guzmán — journalist, founder and CEO of Reclaim Curiosity, senior fellow at Braver Angels, and author of I Never Thought of It That Way. This is the honest episode about the cost of the work she teaches. Mónica opens up about a footnote in her own book — "sometimes I'm too curious for my own good" — and what that's actually meant across her career. The friendships lost with people who share her politics but no
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