Stories about those moments in life when you have no other choice but to close your eyes … and jump.
The Leap, a podcast about the risky choices that change everything, returns for a second season with six compelling stories of people making dramatic transformations.
Hosted by award-winning public radio reporter-producers Amy Standen and Judy Campbell, The Leap’s first season, which debuted in fall 2015 after the podcast won an internal KQED “co-opetition,” received high praise and rave reviews from listeners as well as industry critics, including The Guardian and Wired magazine, which named The Leap one of its Best Podcasts of 2015.
In Season 2, launching February 28, The Leap delves into what Campbell describes as “strange chapters of this country’s history: long-forgotten LSD experiments in a Southern California hospital for abandoned children and a Northern California child-worshiping cult that met tragedy in rural India.” Other episodes tell more recent stories – including those of young immigrants at a San Francisco high school for newcomers — the leaps that brought them here, and how their lives have changed since the election.
“It’s exciting to see that leaps are universal, nonpartisan and central to the American Dream,” says Standen. “The Leap is a great lens for talking about where we’re at, now.”
