The Principal Uncertainty
George Laufenberg
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What happens when the path you've followed stops making sense—when achievement delivers everything it promised except meaning?
The Principal Uncertainty is a series of conversations about navigating the unmapped territory between who you've become and who you might be. Host George Laufenberg—a former wilderness educator, political operative, and cultural anthropologist—talks with people who've sat with uncertainty long enough to learn something from it: ministers and therapists, writers and researchers, anyone who's discovered that the questions matter more than the answers.
These aren't interviews. They're thinking-out-loud sessions about presence, purpose, and the courage to stay in the not-knowing.
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S1E9 Confidently Irreverent | Jessie Rack
Send us Fan MailJessie Rack is an ecologist, naturalist, and environmental educator passionate about communicating how the world works. Jessie has a PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from the…
S1E8 Wild by Design | Gwyneth Hagan
Send us Fan MailGwyneth Hagan grew up moving. Air Force family — eight, nine, ten different schools, no one place long enough to put down roots. What she could count on was this: finding some small…
S1E7 Father Time is Undefeated | Steve Filosa
Send us Fan MailSteve Filosa spent twenty years running Prep@Pingree, a scholarship, academic enrichment, and jobs program in Essex, Massachusetts. The program's premise was simple and…
S1E6 Certainty Kills Civic Imagination | Michael Rohd
Send us Fan MailBio:Michael Rohd has spent thirty-five years asking the same question from increasingly systemic angles: what does it take for people who don't usually talk to each other to actually…
S1E5 Not the Hardest Thing We've Done | Salmaan Kamal
Send us Fan MailDr. Salmaan Kamal is an internal medicine physician and addiction specialist at the VA Medical Center in West Los Angeles, where he cares for veterans experiencing homelessness. At…
S1E4 A Shrine to Something | Alison Dilworth
Send us Fan MailAlison Dilworth is a Philadelphia-based artist, muralist, and shrine-maker whose work spans the profoundly private and the intensely public. She is also someone who has spent her…
S1E3 On The Other Side of Boredom | Adam Ekberg
Send us Fan MailAdam Ekberg is a photographer whose work lives in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the George Eastman Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and…
S1E2 Everything Is Relational | Kanwal Matharu
Send us Fan MailKanwal Matharu is a cornea surgeon, Fulbright scholar, and global health educator who has spent his career building pipelines between American academic medicine and under-resourced…
S1E1 Companionable Silence | Lynn Casteel Harper
Send us Fan MailWhat do you do when the people you're caring for can't give you certainty that you're doing it right?Lynn Casteel Harper—minister, chaplain, and author of On Vanishing: Mortality,…
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The Principal Uncertainty has published 9 episodes since January 2026, covering topics in Philosophy, Science.
The Principal Uncertainty is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 1h 13m.
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