America braced again. Another winter storm. Another week of breathless warnings. Another round of stockpiling flashlights, firewood — and nerves.

In this episode of Searching for America, I reflect on how weather in the United States isn’t just something that happens — it’s something that comes for you. Storms don’t pass, they threaten. They don’t dissipate, they devastate. And over time, that language of catastrophe has bled from meteorology into politics.

From red alert weather graphics to cable-news outrage cycles, from snow-mageddons to democratic doomsdays, this episode explores how fear has become a performance — and how a nation perpetually bracing for disaster risks losing its sense of proportion.

Recorded from Atlanta, as another storm approached, this is a meditation on weather, media, politics, and America’s addiction to catastrophe.

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Robyn Curnow is a sought-after public speaker on what it takes to create positive leadership in complicated times. As a South African now living in the American South, Robyn is determined to bring a hopeful and light-hearted tone to all conversations. 

She reflects on her interviews with U.S. Presidents Bush, Clinton and Carter and First Lady Michelle Obama. She has impactful stories of working alongside Nobel Peace Prize Lauretes Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu

She has delivered talks and hosted events around the Blue Economy in the Principality of Monaco where she introduced Prince Albert of Monaco and Prince William, Prince of Wales and French President Emmanuel Macron, the Lincoln Centre in New York, the Science Museum in London, the Swedish Royal Palace in Stockholm, the YPO annual conference in Cape Town, the United Nations, a Haaretz newspaper panel in Jerusalem, the Nantucket Yacht club and many more. 

She has recently worked with Prince Albert II Foundation in Monaco and Philadelphia, the Swedish royal family in Stockholm, Made by Dyslexia in London, the Red Cross of Georgia in Atlanta alongside Delta Airlines.

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