Sum of Ages
Sum of Ages
Podcast Description
A library of life stories, tackling hundreds of topics. The mission? Accumulating 1 million years of combined life experience. Each episode, a guest tells their story on a topic they want to share—their happiness, or loss, or regret, or success, and everything in between. These stories remind us that no matter what we’re going through, there is someone else who has been through it too.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers an array of topics including resilience, transformation, loss, addiction, and mental health. Episodes feature stories like that of Adam Hartswick, a veteran discussing his journey after a life-altering injury, and Lauren Fields, who reflects on overcoming a traumatic brain injury and embracing her calling as a clinical psychologist.
Sum of Ages is a growing audio archive of human experience.
Each episode preserves one person’s voice – speaking in their own words about a lived experience that has shaped how they see the world. Across hundreds of topics, the project gathers stories of loss and happiness, failure and purpose, regret and resilience – without performance or expectation.
The long-term aim is simple and ambitious: to accumulate one million years of lived experience, creating a public library of real voices that can be returned to when guidance, recognition, or quiet company is needed.
Sum of Ages exists as a reminder that whatever we are carrying, someone else has carried something like it before – and chose to speak.
In this episode, Matt – a dad, husband, friend, and cancer survivor – speaks openly about life beyond diagnosis and treatment. The conversation explores mental health, parenthood, and how perspective can shift in the aftermath of illness.
Are you interested in being a ”Part of the Sum” and having your story aired? Email us at [email protected]
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