JJ Martin: On Transcendental Travel and Raising Your Vibration

JJ Martin has spent 25 years in Milan building the maximalist fashion label La DoubleJ — and along the way, a full philosophy of living. She joins David to talk about the sacred sites and energetic power points that fuel her: Volcanoes in Sicily, water temples in Bali, caves in Cappadocia, and ston…

Flynn McGarry on Collecting Taste and Technique

At age ten, Flynn McGarry was cooking professionally and covered as a curiosity by publications around the world. Now 27, he runs the New York restaurant Cove and cafe-meets-farm-stand Gem Home. Despite the headlines accompanying his arrival onto the scene, his personal and professional evolution h…

Deborah Needleman on Handmade Beauty and Going to the Source

Deborah Needleman spent decades shaping how we think about design. She founded Domino and edited T: The New York Times Style Magazine before leaving it all behind to become a student of craft. She joins David to talk about what curiosity looks like when there's no magazine to fill. She explores tex…

Nate Berkus on Found Objects and Archiving Memories

Interior designer Nate Berkus has spent decades turning objects into stories — first as Oprah's design authority, then helming his own acclaimed firm and product collections. He joins the show to talk about the places and things that have shaped him: from the antique markets of his Midwestern child…

Andy Baraghani on Yearning for Flavor Across Borders

Andy Baraghani is the internet’s favorite second-generation Iranian American cook, Bon Appétit alum, and James Beard Award-winning author. He joins the show to discuss how his multicultural upbringing and global travels, from Vietnam to Beirut to Sicily, continually shape and expand his culinary id…

Jenna Lyons on Seeing Color and Finding Contrast

The designer who transformed J.Crew into a cultural institution and redefined American style? That is of course Jenna Lyons. In this episode, she joins David to trace the eye for color and texture she's spent a lifetime collecting on the road. From Milanese cafés and silk factories in China to kara…

David Remnick on Notebooks, Reporting, and the Stories That Shape Our Time

David Remnick is a Pulitzer Prize winner and has helmed The New Yorker for 27 years. He joins the show not only to recount his own travels – from Moscow to Tel Aviv to campaign trails and tour buses – but also to reflect on what nearly three decades of dispatching the world's finest writers has rev…

Athena Calderone on Aspiration and an Endless Aesthetic Education

Self-taught designer, cook, and creative force Athena Calderone — dubbed "the modern girl's Martha Stewart” by T magazine — joins David to trace the restless curiosity that took her from Long Island to New York's nightlife scene, and on to Ibiza, Morocco, and Rome, always finding beauty and inspira…

Introducing Traveling Through

In Traveling Through, David Prior—travel writer and founder of experiential travel company Prior—sits down with friends and culture-makers like Jenna Lyons, David Remnick, Deborah Needleman, Athena Calderone, and more to trace the trips, objects, and encounters that shaped who they are. Because the…