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Human Nature Odyssey

You are living the latest chapter in a 10,000-year story. Join storyteller Alex Leff on a search for better ways to understand and more clearly experience the incredible, terrifying, and ridiculous world we live in.

Human Nature Odyssey is produced by Alex Leff and hosted by Resilience.

Live Event: The King Is Dead, Now What?: The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy

PAST EVENT: September 10, 2025

Join us for a conversation inspired by the Human Nature Odyssey podcast tracing the long arc of the global battle between monarchy and revolution, authoritarianism and democracy, hierarchy and equality. Featuring podcast host Alex Leff, historian Dan Hoyer, and Post Carbon Institute’s Asher Miller.

Pierre-Antoine Demachy (1723-1807). "Exécution capitale, place de la Révolution".
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Latest Episode

Joanna Macy and Jess Serrante

Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 20: Joanna Macy & The Great Turning — with Jess Serrante

Legendary activist Joanna Macy called this moment the Great Unraveling—a time when our ecological, political, economic, and social systems crumble. And yet, she also insisted that we stand on the threshold of a Great Turning: a profound transition toward a more just and sustainable world.

March 6, 2026

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About the Host

Alex Leff is a documentary filmmaker, immersive theater creator, and podcast host. In addition to having worked for VICE and HBO, his 2022 film, Cycle of Memory, won “Best of the Festival” at the Sunset Los Angeles Film Festival. Alex studied documentary film at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Credits

Human Nature Odyssey is produced, edited, and hosted by Alex Leff, in collaboration with Post Carbon Institute

Theme music is “Celestial Soda Pop” by Ray Lynch, from the album: Deep Breakfast. Courtesy of Ray Lynch Productions (C)(P) 1984/BMI. All rights reserved.