Find Your Sense of Place Podcast
Conversations about belonging, identity, and the places that shape us.
Why Place Matters
There is a moment when a place stops feeling unfamiliar and begins to feel like yours. Not because of what it costs. But because of how it feels.
Find Your Sense of Place explores the environments, stories, and people that help us understand where we belong.
About the show
Conversations about belonging.
In an increasingly placeless world, we explore the people, ideas, and environments that create meaning, connection, and belonging.
Through conversations with architects, artists, hoteliers, wellness leaders, entrepreneurs, and cultural stewards, we uncover how place influences identity, creativity, community, and the way we live.
Episode themes
Eight ways of thinking about place.
I
Psychology of Place
II
Architecture & Design
III
Hospitality
IV
Travel & Culture
V
Wellness & Lifestyle
VI
Intentional Investing
VII
Community & Belonging
VIII
Creativity & Environment
Meet the host
Samuel Vaden
Place curator · storyteller · advisor
Find Your Sense of Place is hosted by Samuel Vaden — a place curator, storyteller, and advisor who believes that environments shape our lives in profound ways.
The podcast is an invitation to explore the relationship between where we are and who we are becoming.
From the Journal
Essays on place, slowly written.
Hospitality & Design
The Long Table at Dusk
What a shared meal in Puglia taught me about the architecture of welcome.
By Samuel Vaden
Place Essays
The Clay Knows
A week with adobe builders in northern New Mexico, and what the earth remembers when we forget.
By Samuel Vaden
Living Well
Friluftsliv, Properly
A small Norwegian word for a larger way of living outside.
By Samuel Vaden