The Horizon Story with Norma Wong
Will we choose humanity? Interdependent, thriving, emergent? The Horizon Story with Norma Wong explores, questions, and shares insights, skills, strategies, and practices to navigate today’s challenges while keeping our eyes on the horizon.
Episodes
13 episodes
S2E5: In Collapse, The Fundamentals Matter
When everything needs attention, how do we decide where to begin and where needs are greatest? Pay attention to the fundamentals. In this episode, Norma Wong lays out a roadmap for focusing on basics and talks fundamentals with Executive Produc...
S2E4: Don’t Wait For Systems Change (The Spam Musubi Rule)
We rely on systems every day without really thinking about them: the banks that hold our money, the rules that keep our food safe, the agencies meant to help when things go wrong. These systems are so familiar that we hardly notice we're choosi...
S2E3: The Future Is Ours To Determine
Is our future pre-determined? Is there only one story possible–just the extension of what happened in the past, and what is happening right now? What are the stories in our head and heart that tell us what we should do today? How we shoul...
S2E2: A Useful Crisis- Finding the Interval In Which Change Is Possible
In this episode, Norma sits down with Season 2 guest Ariel Jacobson to unpack what makes crisis useful and what crisis teaches us about the possibility for change. Norma and Ariel share stories from Maine, Detroit, Hawaii, and beyond, real exam...
S2E1: How Do We Know If We Are Living Through Collapse — and What Happens Next?
What do we do about this state of collapse? The more we accept and understand the state we're in, the more agency we have. The signs are everywhere and the evidence keeps mounting, but naming collapse is only the first move. The harder question...
Episode 7: Everybody's Got a Manaʻo- Norma Wong on Isolation, Division, and Waging Peace (Season 1 Finale)
Everybody's got a manaʻo—a thought, a belief, a way of seeing the world. In the Season 1 finale, the questions come from many listeners, and the manaʻo from one: Norma Wong. The tables turn as Executive Producer Naʻalehu Anthony and...
Episode 6: 1+1 Is Always More Than Two
What if the most important element is missing from the periodic table? What if understanding that element could improve your strategy and help you take bigger, bolder leaps?In this episode, Norma sits down with guest Nan Stoops to get gl...
Episode 5: Do You Have the Guts to Evolve?
We're living through a moment that demands more than business as usual. So what does it actually look like to interrupt old habits, make consequential choices, and pivot? If evolution begins with us, how do we rise to meet these conditions inst...
Episode 4: The Mathematics of Wholeness
What does it cost when we subtract each other from the equation?In a world that makes division easy, host Norma Wong and guest Nan Stoops take time to do the math. This episode adds up the real cost of othering, and makes the case ...
Episode 3: Humans, Not Systems: Looking To Ourselves for Change
What happens when the systems and institutions we depend on start to fail us? In this episode, Norma Wong and guests Nan Stoops and Executive Producer Naʻalehu Anthony explore an important question: can struggling systems continue to deliver? A...
Episode 2: What Is Your Origin Story? Finding Yourself in the Deepest of Kimchis.
Where do you come from? Not just the place, but what are the stories that make you? In this episode, Norma Wong and guest Nan Stoops talk about origins: our personal, collective, and generational stories, and what it means to know where you com...
Episode 1: When No Thing Works: Systems Collapse & How to Meet This Moment
When everything feels like it's falling apart, how do we make sense of this moment? In this first-ever episode, host Norma Wong introduces the purpose of The Horizon Story podcast and how she makes sense of the world around her in a ti...
Coming Soon! The Horizon Story Podcast with Norma Wong
Exciting news...We are launching a podcast! The Horizon Story with Norma Wong is a new podcast grounded in a Native Hawaiian, Zen, and indigenous worldview.Each episode shares thought-provoking teachings, conversations, poetry, and humo...