A college town is a place to practice—to improvise and try on different selves before you’re ready to make anything official.

I moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to study journalism, and over the next few years I learned that my own insecurity was writing the most complicated version of every story.

This episode is about bluffing my way into the Dean Dome and finding out the simplest explanation is almost always the quiet truth.

Full notes & track listing →⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://everycitywhispers.com/carolina

A college town is a place to practice—to improvise and try on different selves before you’re ready to make anything official. 

I moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to study journalism, and over the next few years I learned that my own insecurity was writing the most complicated version of every story. 

This episode is about bluffing my way into the Dean Dome and finding out the simplest explanation is almost always the quiet truth.

Full notes & track listing → https://everycitywhispers.com/carolina

San Diego gives you perfect days, but perfection comes with a trap: nothing pushes you.

After two years in paradise, I learned how calm can feel like drift, and how comfort becomes its own undertow.

This episode is about what a city teaches you when the real challenge is learning to move without being forced.

Full notes & track listing →⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://everycitywhispers.com/sandiego

Dubai doesn’t ask if you’re doing well—it asks if you look like you are.

After losing my dream job, I saw what lives beneath the glass: ambition, illusion, and the quiet grace of people still trying to belong.

This episode is about identity, reinvention, and the cost of keeping up in a city built on appearances.

Full notes & track listing → ⁠https://everycitywhispers.com/dubai

Amsterdam doesn’t protect you—it dares you.

The city hands you plenty of rope, then watches to see if you can keep your balance in all that freedom.

This episode is about boundaries, momentum, and why Amsterdam can feel like the most honest playground in the world.

Full notes & track listing → https://everycitywhispers.com/amsterdam

São Paulo doesn’t stabilize you—it throws you into motion.

In a city that sways like a subway car with no handrails, I learned to improvise, adapt, and ride the chaos instead of fighting it.

This episode is about pace, survival, and the unexpected joy of finding rhythm inside disorder.

Full notes & track listing → https://everycitywhispers.com/saopaulo

New York doesn’t welcome you—it tests you, room by room.

From fear to tolerance to surrender, the city forces you to confront parts of yourself you didn’t know were negotiable.

This episode is about the rooms that reshape you, and what it means to stay in the fight long enough to be changed.

Full notes & track listing → https://everycitywhispers.com/nyc

Tokyo doesn’t rush you—it absorbs you, quietly, completely.

Living here taught me how structure can become freedom, and how a city can shape you without ever raising its voice.

This episode is about what happens when you try to hold your sense of self inside a place built to choreograph every movement.

Full notes & track listing → https://everycitywhispers.com/tokyo

Some cities push you. Others refine you. All of them change you.

EveryCity Whispers is a show about the invisible messages cities send us—the quiet forces shaping who we become, what we value, and how we move through the world.

In this pilot episode, I share the moment that sparked the idea, tell a few of my own stories, and read excerpts from Paul Graham’s Cities and Ambition, the essay that helped inspire the project.

This isn’t a travel podcast—it’s a way of listening to cities, and to yourself.

Full notes → https://everycitywhispers.com/pilot