From indie film sets in New York to the earliest days at YouTube, Sara Pollack Darsky has lived at the center of culture and tech. In this conversation, she reflects on chasing dreams, surviving quarter-life crises, building a career that reshaped media, and creating a home that feels both grounded and aspirational. Along the way, she opens up about her career (she is currently the Global Head of Consumer Marketing at Pinterest), parenting, and what it means to belong—to a city, a family, and even a house.

• Pinterest
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Everything is Illuminated
• Miramax
• Fisher Stevens
• Hoffman Process
• Shou Sugi Ban
• Limewash

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Former West Virginia Governor Robert E. Wise reflects on a lifetime of public service—from long drives across one of the most sprawling districts east of the Mississippi to leading his home state through crises and change. In this conversation, he shares why he believes education is the only true passport out of poverty, how trust and humility shaped his leadership, and what “home” means after decades in Washington, Charleston, and beyond. Wise also opens up about family life in the governor’s mansion, the power of bipartisan work in education, and why he still carries with him the lessons of a high school mock election that he lost in 1965.

This episode blends personal history, political insight, and deep reflections on the meaning of service and home.

• Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) https://all4ed.org
• Future Ready Schools https://futureready.org
• Highlander Research and Education Center https://highlandercenter.org
• Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky (AppalReD Legal Aid) https://www.ardfky.org
• Chartwell school https://chartwell.org

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In this episode of Homeplace, host Anna Richardson White talks with her close friend Dr. Julie Foucher — a family physician with Wild Health, founder of the Pursuing Health podcast, four-time CrossFit Games athlete and so much more. Julie shares how growing up in the Midwest, stretching out medical school to compete in CrossFit, and later stepping into a functional medicine startup all shaped her understanding of health, home, and community.

Together, they explore how Julie balances a life of travel with her inner homebody, carrying rituals — from candles and coffee setups to fitness routines — that bring home wherever she goes. Julie reflects on community as a cornerstone of health, the importance of repairing and sustaining relationships, and why these connections are perhaps more vital than exercise or nutrition. Along the way, they talk candidly about shifting from an achievement-driven approach to life to a more authentic and vulnerable one.

It’s a conversation about home as both place and practice: grounded in community and sustained by the courage to live authentically.

• Pursuing Health website https://pursuing-health.com/
• Pursuing Health podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pursuing-health/id1019070179
• Wild Health https://www.wildhealth.com/
• CrossFit https://www.crossfit.com/

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