Hidden Compass: The Podcast

Stories and Storytellers at the Frontiers of Courage and Curiosity

We’re back with season two! Join Hidden Compass co-founders and podcast co-hosts, Sabine K. Bergmann and Sivani Babu, as they narrate stories from their award-winning magazine — and then go behind the scenes in interviews with each storyteller to see what inspired them to venture to the frontiers of courage and curiosity.

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Season 2

What Have I Done?

EPISODE 1
(November 3, 2021)

The Age of Conquest

feat. Jenna Scatena
EPISODE 2
(November 10, 2021)

The Raven-Feeder’s Island

feat. Keith Skinner
EPISODE 3
(November 17, 2021)

You Should Be Dancing

feat. Russell Bradley
EPISODE 4
(November 24, 2021)

Invasion

feat. Shannon Donaghy
EPISODE 5
(December 1, 2021)

Indefensible Escobar

feat. Victoria Sanderson
EPISODE 6
(December 8, 2021)

Just Another Adventure Story

feat. Robert Holmes
EPISODE 7
(December 15, 2021)

Wartime in the Woods

feat. Jennifer Billock
EPISODE 8
(December 22, 2021)

A Constant Push for Perfection

feat. Brandon McWilliams

Season 1

In Pursuit of Phantoms

EPISODE 1
(March 10, 2021)

People of the Forest

feat. Hayli Nicole
EPISODE 2
(March 17, 2021)

Awakening the Canopy

feat. Sabine K. Bergmann
EPISODE 3
(March 24th, 2021)

The Beauty and Violence Beneath Our Feet

feat. Jodi Cash
EPISODE 4
(March 31, 2021)

The Medusa of Time

feat. Daniel Hudon
EPISODE 5
(April 7, 2021)

Ice Bear

feat. Sivani Babu
EPISODE 6
(April 14, 2021)

Trick of the Light

feat. Annelise Jolley
EPISODE 7
(April 21st, 2021)

Journey of a Golden Soul

feat. Martha Ezell
EPISODE 8
(April 28, 2021)

Sweet as Challah

feat. Sonya Pevzner

About Your Hosts

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Sivani Babu

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Sabine K. Bergmann

Sivani Babu

Co-founder/Co-CEO

Sivani Babu is the co-founder, co-CEO, and creative director of Hidden Compass. She is an award-winning journalist and nature photographer who has contributed to BBC Travel, CNN, Backpacker, Outdoor Photographer, Iron Horse Literary Review,and numerous other publications. Her work has been recognized in the Best American Travel Writing series and has appeared in exhibits from San Diego to the Sorbonne. Sivani graduated from the University of Chicago with three majors — economics, public policy studies, and political science — and one Lazarused newspaper, the Chicago Weekly News. At the University of Pennsylvania Law School, she taught high schoolers about their constitutional rights. As a Teach for America corps member, she taught eighth graders about the tangency of math and literacy. After working on a Supreme Court case and occasionally using unicorn metaphors to explain the realities of sentencing to hundreds of indigent criminal defendants, Sivani left her career as a federal public defender to sail across the most brutal sea on earth. Since then, she has chased storms through Tornado Alley, searched for polar bears in the Arctic Circle, and survived a broken neck and a concussion while sailing through a lightning storm in the Bermuda Triangle. Sivani is working on her first book, Saving the Night: Shedding Light on the Importance of Darkness.