13 Best Sense Making Podcasts

1. Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and five-time New York Times best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the mind, society, current events, moral philosophy, religion, and rationality—with an overarching focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Sam is also the creator of the Waking Up app...more Host Sam Harris
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1M+
Recent Guests Michael Pollan, Lloyd Blankfein +13 more
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 43.5KFacebook 596.2KTwitter 27.9KInstagram 499.4K Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Since Sep 2013 Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. The Deeper Thinking Podcast

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The Deeper Thinking Podcast The Deeper Thinking Podcast offers a space where philosophy becomes a way of engaging more fully and deliberately with the world. Each episode explores enduring and emerging ideas that deepen how we live, think, and act. We follow the spirit of those who see the pursuit of wisdom as a lifelong project of becoming more human, more awake, and more responsible. We ask how attention, meaning, and agency might be reclaimed in an age that often scatters them...more Producer/Network The Deeper Thinking Podcast
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest Andrej Karpathy
Apple Rating 3.9/5Apple Reviews 142 Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

3. Sense-Making in a Changing World

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Join Morag Gamble, global permaculture teacher and ambassador, in conversation with leading ecological educators, thinkers, activists, authors, designers and practitioners to explore the kind of thinking and action we need to navigate a positive and regenerative way forward, to myceliate possibilities, and share ideas of what a thriving one-planet way of life could look like. In today's constantly changing world, Morag's guests offer voices of clarity and common sense.more Host Morag Gamble
Producer/Network Morag Gamble: Permaculture Education Institute
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Hannah Moloney, Wilf Richards +7 more
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 109Twitter 206Instagram 15.2K Avg Length 46 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

4. Common Sense with Mike Omoniyi

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Every week, we help you make sense of the world. Honest talk for curious people. Brought to you by The Common Network (@tcsnetwork)
Host Mike Omoniyi
Producer/Network Lets Talk Common Sense with Mike Omoniyi
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest Sophia Thakur
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 39Facebook 1.4K Avg Length 55 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

5. Future Sense

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Making sense of humanity's evolutionary trajectory and our experience of global change, hosted by futurist Steve McDonald.
Producer/Network Future Sense
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 38 Avg Length 46 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

6. World of Wisdom

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A curiosity driven podcast about wisdom, learning and the personal and systemic implications of the transition we are in. Hosted by Amit Paul and Nils von Heijne. For extended shownotes visit: https://worldofwisdom.substack.com/more Producer/Network World of Wisdom
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Dr Martin Lorenz, Emily Harris +28 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 31 Avg Length 72 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. Monitoring the Situation

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Monitoring the Situation is a podcast about the forces shaping our moment—often quietly, sometimes invisibly, moving beneath the surface of a world with fractured attention. Hosted by two Gen Xers, Steve Skojec and Kale Zelden , the show explores technology, culture, science, philosophy, media, and geopolitics through a single guiding question: why are the things that are happening, happening? We live in an age of unprecedented information, accelerating technology, and constant noise—but progress in tools hasn't always meant progress in wisdom...more Producer/Network Steve Skojec & Kale Zelden
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 12 Avg Length 188 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

8. Making sense of this crazy world

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I am a student of history, a teacher of history and a writer of history. You could say history is a passion of mine.I have a website for students and I had been mulling around this idea of a podcast for some time. Would people be interested? Would I make it interesting? That's essentially what was holding me back. But with a new year starting, the craziness still all around us, I thought what the hell give it a go, John!The primary purpose of the podcast is to use history to help us make a little more sense of this crazy world we are living in. I aim to do this by using history...more Producer/Network historymadeeasier
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9. Mind & Life Europe Podcast

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A podcast by Mind & Life Europe , emphasising the importance of exploratory dialogue, radical candour, intersubjectivity, and listening as an epistemology. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of our co-founder, the Chilean neurobiologist and philosopher Francisco Varela, these conversations are one more way of exploring what has been the lodestar for our work at Mind & Life Europe: the continuity between mind and life, or in Francisco's own formulation, 'living as sense-making.' Mind & Life Europe is a home for unconventional interdisciplinary encounters, where researchers and practitioners ..more Producer/Network Mind & Life Europe
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Dr. Stephen Nachmanovitch, Himali Singh Soin +19 more
Apple Rating 4.2/5Apple Reviews 13 Avg Length 80 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

10. The Clearing

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The Clearing is a project to capture my current process of sense making with others - a pod for my friends (except that was a mouthful). The intention is to focus strictly on topics that interest me and people I love listening to. Aiming to avoid pieties, performance, or excessive edification. Themes may emerge. Recording and sharing is an experiment, in the hope that something may resonate usefully with someone - if so, I'm curious to hear about it. carrie802897.substack.commore Producer/Network Carrie's podcast
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Elina Ahlbach, Donata Lasson +6 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 60 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

11. Sera na Sauti

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Sera na Sauti is about making sense of the world—through books, dialogue, and the stories that define us. seranasauti.substack.com
Producer/Network Sera Na Sauti
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Recent Guests Dr. Mugambi Laibuta, Mumbi Kanyogo +3 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 83 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

12. Sense Making Conversations

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With uncertainty and complexity shaping our daily lives, Sense Making Conversations with Andrea Sampson is your guide to understanding what's at play in our world today. Through deep, insightful conversations with thought leaders across industries, disciplines, and perspectives, Andrea unpacks the societal, political, and human shifts redefining our world...more Producer/Network Andrea Sampson
Email ****@talkboutique.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guest Arash Aazami
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 46 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

13. Idea Cast Interview Series

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This series platforms persons from the social sciences, STEM, the humanities, philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, the media arts as well as the musical arts. I seek out conversations that revolve around meaning making, sense making, creative thinking and examination of our potential and challenges.more Get Email Contact