Episodes

  • Kinda Conversations: Sensory Diversity

    Kinda Conversations: Sensory Diversity
    Oct 28 2025

    In this special series, recorded live at Soho House 180 the Strand, we feature some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts. In this episode, we explore sensory diversity - the idea that each of our own perceptions of the world are uniquely shaped by the way our individual senses process them.


    Joined by experts Julia Simner, professor of neuropsychology at the University of Sussex, and Jennifer Crook, artistic director of Collective Act, producers of Dreamachine, we explore the different ways each individual can experience our sensory worlds around us.

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    52 mins
  • Kinda Conversations: From Virtual Worlds to Real Wellness - VR & Mental Health

    Kinda Conversations: From Virtual Worlds to Real Wellness - VR & Mental Health
    May 13 2025
    In this special episode, recorded live at SXSW 2025 in Austin our experts Skip Rizzo, Sarah Ticho and Sean Carroll discuss the untapped potential of VR to address and prevent mental health issues, highlighting ethics, accessibility, and the challenge of bridging creatives with healthcare practitioners. Exploring the paradox of using technology to reconnect us with our bodies, minds, nature, and each other.

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    1 hr
  • Kinda Conversations: Emotional Machines - AI, Feeling & The Human Body

    Kinda Conversations: Emotional Machines - AI, Feeling & The Human Body
    Apr 30 2025
    In this special episode, recorded live at SXSW 2025 in Austin we explore artificial emotional intelligence and its evolving role in human experience. Human emotion is embodied - rooted in sensation and deep knowing. Can machines experience emotions without a physical body? Bringing together experts Suhair Khan, Danielle Krettek Cobb & Barney Steel.

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    56 mins
  • Kinda Conversations: Transformative Travel

    Kinda Conversations: Transformative Travel
    Apr 23 2024
    In this special series, recorded live at Soho House 180 The Strand, we feature some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts. In this episode we explore the role of transformative travel, with guests Sara Doyle, Vice President, Global Brand Leader at Design Hotels, and Dr. Lauren Macdonald, Psychedelic Trial Doctor at Imperial College London, and Co-founder and Facilitator at Essence Medicine.

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    36 mins
  • Kinda Conversations: Immersion

    Kinda Conversations: Immersion
    Nov 30 2023
    In this special series, recorded at Soho House 180 The Strand, we're bringing listeners inside our 6-part series on connection and immersion. Featuring some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts, we explore the role of connection and immersion in our daily worlds. This episode features May Abdalla, Founder and Director of Anagram, an award-winning studio creating interactive and immersive experiences.

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    42 mins
  • Kinda Conversations: Connection to Environment

    Kinda Conversations: Connection to Environment
    Nov 15 2023
    In this special series, recorded at Soho House 180 The Strand, we're bringing listeners inside our 6-part series on connection and immersion. Featuring some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts, we explore the role of connection and immersion in our daily worlds. This episode features Dame Judy Ling Wong and Dr Rosalind Watts, leaders at the intersection of science, ecology and planetary connection

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    36 mins
  • Kinda Conversations: Connection to Others

    Kinda Conversations: Connection to Others
    Nov 2 2023
    In this special series, recorded at Soho House 180 The Strand, we're bringing listeners inside our 6-part series on connection and immersion. Featuring some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts, we explore the role of connection and immersion in our daily worlds. This episode kicks explores the power of joining in groups and as community in rituals and live experiences and the powerful way this bonds and unites us as one.

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    28 mins
  • Kinda Conversations: Connection to Self: Interoception

    Kinda Conversations: Connection to Self: Interoception
    Oct 16 2023


    In this special series, recorded at Soho House 180 The Strand, we're bringing listeners inside our 6-part series on connection and immersion. Featuring some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts, we explore the role of connection and immersion in our daily worlds. This episode kicks off the series in conversation about Connection to Self with Dr. Jenny Murphy, a leading scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London on Interoception.


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    27 mins