What is it about a song from the 80s or 90s that can stop us mid-day and quietly change how we feel?

In this episode, Dora Jean Gillespie explores resonance — the subtle, physical lift that music from our formative years still gives us, long after life has grown heavier. Drawing on neuroscience, lived experience, and visual art, she reflects on why sound reaches the body before the mind, and why that matters now more than ever.

This is a conversation about creativity without perfection, archives as living spaces, and how technology — when used respectfully — can protect human intuition rather than replace it. Dora also shares the thinking behind Starilum: using machine learning to handle invisible labour so artists can stay connected to feeling, instinct, and meaning.

This episode isn’t about optimisation or productivity.
It’s about belonging.
About staying human.
And about remembering that you don’t have to disappear to move forward.