This one is personal in a different way.

Twelve episodes in, a recruiter at a company you’d recognize said something I’ve heard, in one form or another, my whole career: “I don’t know how to explain you.”

It wasn’t really a compliment. It was a diagnosis — of a system that’s very good at reading specialists, and not very good at reading anyone else.

This episode is about that gap. About a blue gummy bear on a Tokyo sidewalk, and why I went back to look at it. About the voices that shape who we become, especially when the people physically closest to us aren’t shaping us in the direction we want to grow. And about why the things that are hardest to explain about you are often the things that built the most capability.

It’s also the most direct I’ve ever been about why I made this show, and who I made it for.

This is the last bridge episode before Season 2.

The cities aren’t the point.

The seeing is.

Show notes, track list, transcript and more: https://everycitywhispers.com/looking