Hosted and co-written by Carvell Wallace Co-produced by iHeartMedia and Fatherly in partnership with Transmitter Media.

This 10 episode series deals with the spiritual, moral, and political meaning of Fred Roger’s theology and philosophy. We interview psychologists, spiritual leaders, and people who worked and lived alongside Fred Rogers about how “I like you just the way you are” applies in situations of racism, violence, oppression, genocide and war. The show was named Best Podcast 2019 by The Atlantic and has been nominated for a Peabody Award (listen here…)

Slate, co-hosted by Carvell Wallace, Gabriel Roth, and Rebecca Lavoie

For two years I co-hosted Slate’s parenting advice podcast where we tackled listener questions ranging from the heart-breaking to the absurd. We also shared our own triumphs, fails and recommendations from the world of parenting. Named one of Time Magazine’s 50 best podcasts of 2018 (listen now…)

Produced by Al Jazeera and Jetty Media. Written and hosted by Carvell Wallace

In the wake of the the 2016 presidential election I talk with Americans grappling with the state of the union while trying to reconcile my own family’s fractured history. Guests included Mahershala Ali, Van Jones, Shereen Marisol-Maraji, Rabia Chaudry, My Aunt Bea, and my own childhood best friend Shamrace Mims. The episode featuring him, Why Me, won a 2018 Kaliedescope award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (listen now…)

I joined Longform’s Max Linsky for a wide ranging conversation about writing, career, celebrity interviews, and obsessive behavior. Listen Here

I joined Molly, Emily, and Tess to talk about sea animals, land whales, ouija boards and haunted wood. I laughed out loud a lot while listening back (Listen here)

i joined poet Imani Simms to talk about the double bind of performing Blackness in public. KUOW in Seattle (Listen here…)

Long form convo (and musical breaks) about trauma, the past, relationships, love and home with therapist Lily Sloane. Recorded live on Valencia St in SF (Listen H

While some parents might struggle over when and how to introduce their children to racism and other ugly truths, journalist Dani McClain writes that black mothers don't have "the luxury of sticking our heads in the sand and hoping our children learn about race and power as they go." Black mothering, McClain writes, is an inherently political act. Forum talks with McClain and writer Carvell Wallace about black parenthood and how to raise children with joy and serenity in a world that's often hostile to them. (Listen here…)

Nobody knows anything," the late William Goldman famously wrote about the alchemy of success in Hollywood. Now comes Jennifer Traig to make much the same case about parenting. She is to parenting rules as Robin Hood is to the laws of Nottingham. She observes them at a great distance and with an even greater disdain. Traig, a writer, memoirist and mother of two, writes with evident frustration that children are baffling, mysterious little machines that most of the time can’t even tell you what’s wrong. Does anyone know anything about raising their kids?

Guests: Jennifer Traig, memoirist and humor writer. Ph.D. in literature. Her children are ages 7 and 9. Author of "Act Natural: A Cultural History of Misadventures in Parenting."

Carvell Wallace, writer, and father of two teens, ages 13 and 15. Co-host of Slate’s "Mom and Dad Are Fighting" podcast, and he co-writes Slate's "Care and Feeding" advice column. (Listen here…)

Carvell Wallace is a writer known for his work at GQ, ESPN and the New Yorker delving into sports, music and pop culture. But his writing has always been firmly rooted in context — where we are now, and how did we get here. And lately he’s been thinking about how America has gotten to this particular place in its history. But at the same time he’s been thinking about his own family’s fractured history and how to come to some reconciliation. His new podcast, Closer Than They Appear, is a mash-up of personal exploration of his family’s past and deep-thinking about America’s national estrangement. All with an eye for healing, or at least some kind of peace-making. (Listen here…)

In today’s episode of The Sunday Read, Carvell Wallace considers why, for his kids, a global pandemic that shut down the world was not news — it was the opposite of news. It was a struggle that had, in some ways, always been a part of their lives. (Listen here…)