Kindness, resilience, and care in conversation.
Kult of Kindness centers warm conversations with people who have turned hardship, identity, health, advocacy, or personal growth into service. The show favors patient storytelling over quick advice, letting guests explain what hurt, what helped, and what still matters.
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Kult of Kindness is a conversation-forward show about compassion as a lived habit, not a slogan. Its best moments come when a guest is allowed to stay with a story long enough for the lesson to become clear. Marci Lundy’s style is warm and affirming, with frequent encouragement and a clear instinct to validate before pressing further. The pace is measured. The emotional register is open. Episodes often begin with a guest’s work, then move backward into the experiences that shaped that work. Coach Andre Notice’s conversation follows that pattern, moving from real estate and speaking into a period of housing instability, persistence, and a refusal to abandon his path. Janet Mielke Schwartz, Ph.D. brings a more reflective and serious energy, speaking about empathy, fear, intuition, truth, and hope. Heather Hester’s episode turns the show toward LGBTQ advocacy, parenting, allyship, and the moral responsibility to protect vulnerable communities. Dr. Nicole Peoples gives the wellness side of the show a practical frame, connecting mindfulness with functional medicine, sleep, food, stress, medication, breath work, meditation, and time in nature. Brittany Griggs, LMFT brings family intimacy into the room, with pride, professional growth, motherhood, marriage, and therapy all close together. The show also pauses to honor women guests across its history, using Women’s History Month and a 250-episode milestone as a reason to remember the people who have shaped it. Not every episode is a standard interview. Some entries are brief, poetic meditations built from images of butterflies, wind, moonlight, trees, oceans, mountains, bravery, and presence. A Valentine’s Day episode with Tucker and Marci Lundy loosens the format into playful talk about anniversary songs, romance, and shared history. Across those different shapes, the show keeps returning to the same questions. How does a person keep going. How does care become action. How can a hard season become useful to someone else. It is not polished in a hard-edged way, and that is part of its character. The repetitions, affirmations, and long guest turns make it feel less like a finished lecture than a real conversation held with patience. For listeners drawn to healing stories, practical self-care, and emotionally direct interviews, Kult of Kindness offers a steady place to land.
Made for: For listeners who want gentle, human interviews about healing, advocacy, wellness, family, and finding purpose after difficulty. It suits people who prefer reflective storytelling over sharp debate or fast expert takes.
What sets it apart: The show stands out through its openly affirming pace: guests are not rushed toward a takeaway, and personal stories are allowed to breathe. Its range moves from functional medicine and therapy to LGBTQ allyship, women’s celebration, romantic playfulness, and poetic mindfulness.
Host Marci Lundy’s Kult of Kindness focuses on kindness, with an added emphasis on mindfulness and self care and encouraging conversations. The Kult of Kind book of the month club is dedicated to self care, kindness, and compassion. Sibling to Kindness Rocks and the City.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Warm guest conversations connect emotional wellbeing with practical care for oneself, one's community and people facing exclusion.
Marci Lundy starts with biography and lets each conversation widen into questions about care, resilience and responsibility. Guests connect personal experience to practical concerns: gratitude and self-belief, support for LGBTQ people, courage across difference, and the…
Marci Lundy is your gentle nudge from abstract kindness toward protecting people and checking your sleep.
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A guided meditation using heart-brain coherence frequencies to improve HRV and promote relaxation.
A spiritual monologue encouraging listeners to rest in divine promises and seek God's will.
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