
Being Known Podcast
Discovering and exploring what it means to be truly known.
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Jul 17, 2024 • 1h 4min
S10E2: Summer Spotlight - What's Your Story?
Welcome to season 10 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are taking a look back at where we have come over the last couple of years, to determine where we are headed in the future, and as a way to continue bringing you the best content for how to live a life being fully known.
Each week we are spotlighting one episode from a previous season (the best of the best, so to speak). This is just a sample of what that entire season was all about. We hope you have, or will, take the time to listen to all the episodes again.
This week we are focusing on season 2 - The Domains of the Brain.
Storytellers. That’s what we are, and we can’t get away from it. But just how truly do we tell them? It turns out that, just as important as the story you tell, is how you tell it. And that makes all the difference. Join us as we explore the narrative domain of integration, and discover the interpersonal neurobiology of attachment. We can assure you: After you’ve listened in, you’ll have quite a story to tell.
Episode Links and References
Anatomy of the Soul by Curt Thompson, MD
Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
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Jul 10, 2024 • 38min
S10E1: Summer Spotlight - Being Known
Welcome to season 10 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are taking a look back at where we have come over the last couple of years, to determine where we are headed in the future, and as a way to continue bringing you the best content for how to live a life being fully known.
Each week we are spotlighting one episode from a previous season (the best of the best, so to speak). This is just a sample of what that entire season was all about. We hope you have, or will, take the time to listen to all the episodes again.
Let’s start at the very beginning. Join host Pepper Sweeney and psychiatrist Curt Thompson as, together, we awaken to the journey of being fully known.
Episode Links and References
Anatomy of the Soul by Curt Thompson, MD
Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!
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YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
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Jun 5, 2024 • 34min
S9E11: End of Season Q&A
Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
Today we are addressing your questions about suffering and the formation of hope. We hope you have enjoyed this season.
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Episode Links and References
The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!
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May 29, 2024 • 40min
S9E10: Full Circle
Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
We started this season on suffering with what necessarily must precede it if hope is what we want. And now that we are near the season’s conclusion, we find ourselves where we started.
Come hang out with us to discover how what we first thought would only be painful—our suffering—ultimately, because of Jesus and the way our brains and relationships are made to operate, leads to the joy that enables us to fearless encounter our suffering wherever it will emerge in our lives over the course of them. We can’t wait for you to be with us, and join us in all that God has in store.
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Episode Links and References
The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!
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YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
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May 22, 2024 • 30min
S9E9: Hope
Explore the essence of hope and its transformative power through personal reflections and insights from Dr. Kurt Thompson's work. Discover how memorizing Emily Dickinson's poem on hope can shift perspectives during tough times. The vital role of community in nurturing hope is highlighted through Shane's inspiring story post-incarceration. Delve into the importance of meaningful connections and presence in fostering durable hope, while also learning about the upcoming Connections Conference that promises dynamic speakers and community engagement.

May 15, 2024 • 46min
S9E8: Character
Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
We deeply long to be persons of character; we would much rather not, however, have to persevere through suffering to get there. But it turns out that that is exactly how character is formed. Moreover, the formation of character is the necessary prerequisite for hope that lasts, not the flimsy kind that so much or our lives are used to. And therein lies the good news. The resilience of character, something that others see in us but that we often do not see in ourselves, brings us ever closer to the hope we long to form and maintain.
Listen in to these two characters (Pepper and Curt, that is. Well, maybe just Pepper) as we learn what we can do to develop the character that we so long to have.
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Episode Links and References
The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!
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Stay connected:
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YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
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May 8, 2024 • 38min
S9E7: Perseverance
Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
Who hasn’t felt like giving up when the going got, not only tough, but tough for a really long time. We love the idea of what perseverance can ultimately lead to; we would often rather arrive at what we want without having to persevere. Because to be sure: perseverance is not easy. But as we have said on this podcast before, the brain can do a lot of really hard things for a long time, as long as it doesn’t have to do it by itself.
Tune in to hear Pepper persevere in having to be in conversation with Curt yet one more time, and discover again what it means to SNAG the brain while we form durable hope in the process.
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Episode Links and References
The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!
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Stay connected:
Instagram, Facebook
YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.
Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way.

May 1, 2024 • 31min
S9E6: Suffering: The Story of the Present Age
Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
Finally, we’re here. We’ve reached the topic that this series is about. It’s just that, now that we’ve arrived, we don’t want to be here. Nobody wants to suffer. We want less of it, or none of it at all, not just some tired old story of how to grin and bear it.
The good news is that, there are some things we can learn about suffering from what we know of the brain and relationships, things that, once we are aware of them, begin to shed even brighter light on the hope that we are durably forming on our journey through this part of Paul’s letter.
This week we talk about why we suffer, and how we can begin to reframe it in our first steps toward suffering differently.
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Episode Links and References
The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
S2E6: What's Your Story - episode on the narrative domain
S2E9: It's Only a Matter of Time - episode on the temporal domain
Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!
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Stay connected:
Instagram, Facebook
YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.
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Apr 24, 2024 • 30min
S9E5: Glory
Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
Who would ever imagine that glory and suffering would have anything to do with each other? As it turns out, a great deal. So much so, in fact, that when we consider a particular aspect of God’s glory (one that we rarely do), we see how, when we take it seriously, it utterly transforms and prepares us for the suffering we will inevitably encounter. But we can’t encounter it alone. It requires community.
This week you are invited to draw close to God’s glory, even as we draw close to our suffering.
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Episode Links and References
The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!
Bonus conversation on GLORY with the Being Known Podcast team.
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Stay connected:
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YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
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Apr 17, 2024 • 42min
S9E4: A Wide Place to Stand
Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
For Jesus followers, as we approach the topic of suffering, we can’t bypass the body. Fortunately, neither does Paul in Romans 5, or what we know from neuroscience. For indeed, the more we pay attention to how the body works, the more the texts of scripture make sense in our world, a world which has somehow over many centuries found a way to separate the body from the spirit in ways that they simply are not.
Come along this week as we learn how “grace in which we now stand” is no mere metaphor—and shapes our response to suffering in ways we might never imagine.
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Episode Links and References
The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-26, 2024 (save the date for more information coming soon)
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Stay connected:
Instagram, Facebook
YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.
Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way.
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