Numbered episodes
From How to Humanist
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Episodes
- #29 Rebuilding Joy After Deconstruction with Rev. Leika Lewis 2026-08-31As humans, we can find comfort in the most uncomfortable environments as long as it means we don't have to face change and sacrifice the only life…
- #28 Start Your Humanist Group Today with Elizabeth Hegwood 2026-08-24Where there's one of us, there's many. All around the country, people are searching for like-minded community, something AHA's 2025 Humanist…
- #27 Sci-Fi Fantasy and Gods Who Are a Nuisance with Jordan Ifueko 2026-08-17Ever wonder if it's possible to give your children and teenagers books they will love purely for their entertainment value, while also teaching them…
- #26 Who have we forgotten? What have we forgotten? with Dr. Anthony Pinn 2026-08-10Dr. Anthony Pinn spent 13 years in ministry before he couldn't preach what he no longer believed. What he found on the other side of that was…
- #25 Atheism vs Humanism with Nick Fish & Fish Stark 2026-08-03Two Fish walk into a podcast... One is the Executive Director of the American Humanist Association. The other is the President of American Atheists.…
- #24 Drawing the Line for a Healthier Life with Chris Line 2026-07-27Chris Line is a lawyer at the Freedom From Religion Foundation who lost 270 pounds and has kept it off for years. But this isn't a weight loss…
- #23 Fascists Never Win with Qasim Rashid 2026-07-20Have you or anyone you know ever been pulled over for speeding? What if instead of issuing a ticket and a court date, you were stripped of your…
- #22 Knowing When to "No" with Franchesca Ramsey 2026-07-13As kids, we sometimes grow up fantasizing about the many jobs we can have simultaneously. Somehow, we'll manage to be a fireman, a fashion designer,…
- #21 Sorry, I'm on a Safari Right Now with Faith Litchfield 2026-07-06Someone reached out to our team not long ago and asked a question that a lot of people are probably carrying around: when you stop believing, where…
- #20 Get Them a Goddamn Folding Chair with Rev. Dr. Jé Exodus Hooper 2026-06-29Reverend Dr. Je' Exodus Hooper is an arts and cultural community curator, clergy leader, and scholar, but none of those words will prepare you for…
- #19 Fanta-sizing About a Big Gay World with Jack Harrison-Quintana 2026-06-22Jack Harrison-Quintana has spent his career doing work that has shaped LGBTQ lives in corners of the world most advocates never get to reach. He has…
- #18 The Process of Remembering with Amanda W. Timpson of Yesterqueers 2026-06-15As the founder of Yesterqueers, Amanda W. Timpson is doing the work of restoring what got left out of queer history, correcting narratives that were…
- #17 How to Retraumatize Your Foster Kid with Shane Lukas 2026-06-08Shane Lukas runs an award-winning design agency, has a TEDx Talk dropping, and owns a record collection that is genuinely not fair. He also does…
- #16 Kentucky Fried Pride with Cain Culto 2026-06-01Shay has been known to keep her cool in interviews... until now. But it's Cain Culto, so... fair. Cain's music and striking visual artistry has been…
- #15 God Bless This Humanist Friendship with Cheryl Anscombe 2026-05-25Shay has a bestie. Her bestie is a Christian named Cheryl. They have been besties since May 19th, 2009, and neither of them has tried to convert the…
- #14 Norway, She's So Humanist with Christian Lomsdalen 2026-05-18On our first international episide, we visit Bergen to talk to Christian Lomsdalen -- the president of the Norwegian Humanist Association, a high…
- #13 How Ruff Ryders Roll Even if it's Not to the Cookout with Dr. Monica Johnson 2026-05-11Dr. Monica Johnson is a licensed clinical psychologist, a self-proclaimed Swiss Army knife of a human being, and someone who will absolutely bring…
- #12 Little to No "God" at Your Wedding with Bethel Nathan 2026-05-04Turns out you can have the chuppah, break the glass, do the hora, and still not have to mention God once. Or you can mention God exactly once,…
- #11 Prime Real Estate For Satanists with Taylor Leigh 2026-04-27Salem, Massachusetts. Austin, Texas. Kingston, Pennsylvania. Turns out if you know where to look, Satanists have been quietly securing the best real…
- #10 Liberty and Trauma For All with Dr. Lucas Wilson 2026-04-20A man chose Liberty University over the University of Toronto because it had a conversion therapy program. That man is now a postdoctoral fellow…
- #9 What More is There Than Death & Ice Cream? with D.S. Moss 2026-04-13Shay & Devin decide to talk about the big D... Death. Together they cover grief that doesn't end, rituals humanists have yet to invent, what it…
- #8 Sipping Coffee in Hell with Alyssa Grenfell 2026-04-06Alyssa Grenfell grew up knowing three things: coffee was basically heroin, God had a very specific plan for her life, and that plan included Italy.…
- #7 You Can't Always Have Our Forgiveness with Shawn Towers 2026-03-30For years, Shawn Towers ate the mustard. Didn't ask them to take it back, didn't make a fuss, just swallowed it because that's what a good Christian…
- #6 Getting Sober: Secular Style with Dr. Joe Gerstein 2026-03-23A Jesuit priest called Joe Gerstein lazy in 1989 and accidentally launched a global sobriety movement in 38 countries and 16 languages. Joe is a…
- #5 Humanism Rained on My "Kirk is Gone" Parade with Elisa Rosoff 2026-03-16When Charlie Kirk died, Shay had feelings about her feelings. Specifically, the feeling that humanism was standing in the driveway blocking the…
- #4 Allah Flunked Out of Beauty School with Sammy of Haram Doodles 2026-03-09Hear us out... what if Allah was an aspiring hairdresser who flunked out of beauty school, and rather than dealing with that loss in therapy like a…
- #3 God Can't Do Math in the Cereal Aisle with Robert Affinis 2026-03-02After a stranger suggests that maybe two plus two equals five in another universe, Robert Affinis decides he is officially done debating God’s…
- #2 Batman’s Not Real and Other Brutal Truths with Greg Epstein 2026-02-23What if the secret origin story of humanism is just... ancient people getting tired of handing over their goats? In this episode, Greg Epstein —…
- #1 My Mom's Radical Act of Cake 2026-02-23In this debut episode of How to Humanist , Shay Leonia introduces herself as the mildly terrified new podcast host representing a nearly century-old…