Life in Seven Songs

By The San Francisco Standard

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What songs tell your life story? Host Sophie Bearman asks this question of some of the world’s most fascinating people. Through seven songs, guests reveal the milestones—and the music—that have shaped their lives. New episodes every Tuesday.

Episode Date
From the South Bronx to Sesame Street: How Sonia Manzano made Maria a Latina icon
Oct 07, 2025
From Mozart to Drake: The music that moves Misty Copeland
Sep 30, 2025
Riding waves and weathering life’s storms with surfer-turned-writer Jamie Brisick
Sep 23, 2025
Special Episode: The songs that shaped our listeners’ lives (and Sophie’s, too)
Sep 16, 2025
How I Met Your Mother gave Josh Radnor 'identity vertigo.' Ayahuasca set him straight.
Sep 09, 2025
How TV’s favorite couples therapist, Dr. Orna Guralnik, found her interior life through music
Sep 02, 2025
'Everyone’s seen my tits': Keeley Hazell on reclaiming the narrative in her new memoir
Aug 26, 2025
Amanda Knox survived a living nightmare. Flight of the Conchords helped.
Aug 19, 2025
ENCORE: How Robert Reich learned to fight bullies
Aug 12, 2025
Mary Louise Kelly: NPR host, war reporter, mother … spy novelist?
Aug 05, 2025
Biographer of geniuses Walter Isaacson on the songs and city that made him
Jul 29, 2025
Best-selling author Jason Reynolds writes the YA books he never had
Jul 22, 2025
The music, movie stars and murder trial that shaped actor Griffin Dunne
Jul 08, 2025
Joan Osborne got famous for 'One of Us' — but finding her own voice took decades
Jun 24, 2025
Death, Sex, Money – and music: The mixtape to podcaster Anna Sale’s life
Jun 10, 2025
W. Kamau Bell on fighting white supremacy — but keeping it funny
May 27, 2025
The White Lotus’ Natasha Rothwell on the 'angsty' music that shaped her
May 13, 2025
How Damian Woetzel jeté-ed his way from ballet phenom to head of The Juilliard School
Apr 29, 2025
Embracing ‘amor prohibido’ with singer David Archuleta
Apr 15, 2025
John, Yoko, and a 'beautiful boy': How author David Sheff's life was shaped by three relationships
Apr 01, 2025
America, the broken? Richard Misrach photographs the country's splendor and scars
Mar 18, 2025
Held captive in Iran, Sarah Shourd found solace in a Seal song
Mar 04, 2025
Rufus Wainwright’s rough road to becoming ‘the greatest songwriter on the planet’
Feb 18, 2025
Inside actor Rita Wilson's other life as a singer
Feb 04, 2025
Director Cord Jefferson on winning an Oscar and writing for love
Jan 21, 2025
Introducing Professional Book Nerds: An Interview with Daniel Handler
Jan 14, 2025
Failing publicly and feeling at home with Nextdoor’s Nirav Tolia
Jan 07, 2025
Rock photographer Jay Blakesberg on capturing the souls of legends
Dec 17, 2024
Sandra Bernhard’s ‘risky, beautiful, and heartbreaking’ life
Dec 03, 2024
Chesa Boudin, raised by radicals, on the songs that shaped him
Nov 19, 2024
Rahsaan “New York” Thomas on breaking barriers behind bars
Nov 05, 2024
Why Kara Swisher loves country music and the military
Oct 22, 2024
Turns out, Mark Cuban is an emotional guy
Oct 08, 2024
Introducing American Masters: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Can Do That Genre Too!
Oct 01, 2024
OpenAI’s Sam Altman: the human behind the machine
Sep 24, 2024
How Rhodessa Jones went from nude dancer to theater icon
Sep 10, 2024
How Robert Reich learned to fight bullies
Aug 27, 2024
What Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, says about terror
Aug 13, 2024
What inspired the original starchitect, Lord Norman Foster
Jul 30, 2024
How comedy saved Margaret Cho’s life
Jul 16, 2024
‘Life in Seven Songs’ full theme song
Jul 09, 2024
He shaped the iPhone—so what shaped Jony Ive?
Jul 02, 2024
D’Wayne Wiggins on Tony! Toni! Toné!, Beyoncé and beyond
Jun 18, 2024
The truth hurts with SF Mayor London Breed
Jun 18, 2024
Introducing ‘Life in Seven Songs’
May 29, 2024