Jessica Murnane
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I'm your host, Jessica Murnane (author and horticultural therapy practitioner) – who is equally obsessed with the healing power of nature and the healing power of watching TV in bed. And I'm merging those two worlds together on Inside and Outside. Each week, my guest and I first discuss an OUTSIDE thing, like our first nature memory, how gardening can change the brain, and the rise of birding. Then we cover an INSIDE thing, like a show we're binging, the latest internet gossip, and pop culture news. Head to baskergardens.com for all the show notes for each episode!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jessica Murnane links nature practice to the media habits and cultural arguments that shape everyday attention.
Jessica Murnane builds each conversation around a revealing change of scenery: practical talk about nature gives way to the media, habits, and cultural arguments occupying her guest's attention.
Peat moss and People magazine's "exclusive" tag get Jessica Murnane curious; your open tabs feel seen.
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Jessica Murnane's inside-outside format gives the conversation shape, moving from gardening and culture into empathy with nature and climate without losing its easy feel.
Jessica Murnane keeps the discussion grounded with that inside-outside frame: first the lighter mix of gardening, pop culture, books, TV, and internet gossip, then the turn toward nature with Michael Ventura.
A loose but attentive conversation about horticultural therapy, gardening, and learning to notice a space more closely.
Jessica Murnane's return keeps the focus on horticultural therapy and on the ways gardening can support mental, emotional, physical, and social well-being.
A personal, conversational episode that moves from gardening and neighborhood attachment into a sharp critique of generational labels and marketing language.
Jessica Murnan starts with gardening as a way to step away and settle the mind, then turns to neighborhood attachment, family memory, and the meaning people build from ordinary details like fences.
A thoughtful conversation about journals, biography, and reading a life with more care.
Jessica Murnane opens by naming her work as a horticultural therapist, author, and founder of Basker, then spends the early stretch on two upcoming events before the conversation finds its footing.
A calm, unsentimental look at empathy, compassion, and disagreement.
Jessica Murnane spends the hour tracing the gap between understanding people and signing off on what they believe or do. Karen Faith brings a calm, ethnography-shaped lens to that tension, and the conversation lands on a useful distinction: empathy is perspective taking, a way…
A loose finale that uses celebrity chatter to sharpen the show's inside/outside premise.
The season closer leans into the show's split personality: garden talk, nature, and birding on one side, books, shows, strange trends, and internet gossip on the other.
A thoughtful conversation about attention, social media, music, and making room for more meaningful listening.
Jessica Murnan uses her horticultural therapy perspective to frame a conversation about attention, algorithms, and the way social media can tug at a person all day.
A gentle season finale about pop culture, birds, worms, and noticing more.
Jessica Murnane closes the season on a loose, curious note, moving from pop culture into birds, a birding romance novel, hummingbirds, starlings, and worms.
Peace, gratitude, and growth in real life.
Life lessons from ordinary turning points.
Minnesota kindness, with hockey and heart.
Jessica Murnan hosts season finale with celebrity fashion writer Emily Kirkpatrick.
Jessica Murnane talks with Emily Pfeiffer, the owner of Botanica in Los Angeles and writer of the Read, Eat, Repeat newsletter, about nature, books, and a longtime friendship that goes back to Botanica’s pre-opening days.
Jessica brings Amelia into a conversation about attention, algorithms, and why it is not your fault when your phone keeps winning.
Jessica Bernan starts with nature and then moves into pop culture.
Jessica Murnane opens with a new “Reasons Why I Love to Grow” segment and tells the story of 92-year-old Mr.
Jessica Murnane speaks with Michael Ventura, author of Applied Empathy, about a value-mapping exercise that helped her decide to study horticultural therapy and about a China-based study, “empathy with nature promotes pro environmental attitudes in preschool children.” Ventura describes moving from New York City to Shelter Island during the pandemic, where crickets, frogs, birds, and a 10-minute walk to the ocean changed how his body felt.
Jessica Murnane introduces Jules Giuliano as a soil researcher, garden educator, and former cannabis cultivator, then pivots into a peat moss debate centered on Rosy Soil's peat-free, biochar-based mixes.
Inside Outside podcast debut features Jessica Murnan (horticultural therapy founder) and guest Joey Hernandez (food/wine journalist) exploring intersection of nature and indoor lifestyle obsessions.
Season finale of Always Barefoot podcast features Jessica Murnan with guest Allie Hullab, a stylist and pop culture insider.
Jessica Murnane opens Season 2 of Inside and Outside with Kerrilyn Pamer, the founder of CAP Beauty, and a conversation that moves from Oregon bird sanctuaries to the Maha movement.
Jessica Murnane opens with a 2025 Canadian study on prescribing nature for human health, including the finding that 92% of reviewed studies showed consistent improvements across health outcomes.
Jessica Murnane talks with Allison Taylor, co-founder of Le Prunier, a skincare brand built from her Northern California family’s plum business and launched in 2018.
Host Jessica Murnan interviews empathy trainer and ethnographer Karen Faith about the limits of empathy in the face of incomprehensible evil and political division.
Jessica Murnane opens with a quick personal update and a stack of event announcements.
Jessica Murnane talks with artist and author Karen Azoulay about flowers as symbols, keepsakes, and messages, from dandelions in suburban Toronto to plumeria leis at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Selma march.
Jessica Murnane talks with Ruby Warrington about connecting with nature without pretending everyone wants to garden.
Jessica Murnane talks with Claire Foster, the garden editor at House & Garden, about gardening as solace, and Foster says her own garden is her “therapy” in her 50s.
Jessica Murnane opens with why gardening gave her “new friends and deepened friendships,” then introduces Barry Leiner Grant, founder of The Memory Circle and a grief specialist whose work has been featured in the Washington Post, Psychology Today, and Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper.
Jessica Murnane opens with her own "reason number seven" for growing things: bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, including a family story about a butterfly at the burial of her cousin Gordon.
Jessica Murnane opens with the 74% of employees who struggle to disconnect from work, then pivots to her season-three format built around nature news and pop culture.
Jessica Murnane opens Inside and Outside by introducing guest Akaya Windwood, a lead advisor at Third Act, an author, and the founder of the New Universal Wisdom and Leadership Institute.
Jessica Murnane opens with the Wallace Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in California, a plant-covered structure over the 101 freeway that is scheduled for fall 2026 and described as the world's largest wildlife crossing.
Jessica Murnane and Ally Holleb open with butterfly research from the Amistad project, where scientists are trying to identify new species by wing structure, sex organs, and DNA instead of wing color alone.
Jessica Murnane opens by connecting her own horticultural therapy work at Basker to a new service called Starting a Well-Being Garden and a flower-pressing workshop.
Jessica Murnane talks with Cass Marketos, the author of Compost After Reading, who also worked as Kickstarter’s first employee and in Obama’s White House.
Jessica opens with her inside-outside frame and says gardening helps because it gets her offline and gives her brain a break.
Jessica Murnane discusses the healing power of nature and gardening, blending wellness with pop culture in a conversational interview format.
Host Jessica Murnane introduces her new show blending nature topics like gardening and birding with pop culture discussions on TV, gossip, and trends.
The host introduces a podcast about exploring career questions and job satisfaction through interviews with people in various professions.
The host explores deep questions about career satisfaction and personal fulfillment, with a sponsor segment promoting a plant-based cooking course.
The host explores deep questions about career choices and fulfillment by interviewing people with interesting jobs.
Host Jessica Murnane promotes Buffy sustainable bedding and introduces a discussion on endometriosis, blending nature and pop culture.
Jessica Murnane promotes Buffy bedding, sharing a personal story about her son's sweating and the benefits of sustainable comforters.
Host Jessica Murnane promotes Buffy sustainable bedding and introduces a discussion on endometriosis, blending nature and pop culture.
Host Jessica Murnane promotes Buffy sustainable bedding and introduces a discussion on endometriosis, blending nature and pop culture.
Jessica Murnane promotes Buffy's sustainable bedding and introduces a discussion on endometriosis, blending nature and pop culture.