The Clearing with Katherine May

Katherine May
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Booking Overview

The Clearing is a retreat-minded, deeply personal podcast where Katherine May invites thoughtful authors and cultural figures to describe the sanctuary they turn to for resilience. It’s a strong fit for PR efforts that want brand-safe, human-interest conversations around hope, rest, meaning, and survival in difficult times.

Metrics

Episodes: 89

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 57.0k followers

30s Ad: 129 - 147, 60s Ad: 152 - 170

Host

Katherine May - Katherine May is a writer and the host of The Clearing podcast. She is the author of Wintering and Enchantment, and her work focuses on restoration, resilience, and the emotional/spiritual mindset ...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Published authors (often with a track record in literature, nature writing, or spiritual/cultural essays), educators/broadcasters, and creative thinkers with a clear personal philosophy around rest, resilience, and meaning.
Required Achievements:  
Notable books (bestseller recognition or widely loved literary/nature works), Public-facing cultural roles (broadcasting, education, public scholarship), Distinct creative voice connected to nature, wellbeing, or meaning-making

Recent Guest Discussions

Kate Bowler - Coping With Difficult Times; Small Delights; Time And Brittleness; Finding Joy Through Absurdity

Jeffrey Boakye - Finding Peace Through Walking And Everyday Textures; Joy In Mundane Life; Failure And Learning; Pointless Hobbies

Robert Macfarlane - Rest And Sanctuary Through Landscape Imagery And Nature-focused Meaning

Jackie Morris - Rest And Sanctuary Through Nature Imagination; Wonder And Creative Vision

Recent Topics

Resilience, Rest, Spirituality, Hope, Meaning, Nature, Literature, Creativity, Wellness, Life Story

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Clearing with Katherine May
:

Yasmin Khan’s warm seas and verdant greens

May 21, 2026

Warm waters, humid, verdant jungle and the nighttime hum of insects are where we find ourselves this week as our guest, Yasmin Khan, transports us on a much-needed break to the tropics. Yasmin is the bestselling author of travel cookbooks exploring the food, people and stories of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. In 2025 she found herself in the middle of a bizarre legal storm when she was threatened with legal action by a deli for calling her latest book ‘Sabzi’ - the word for ...

Kate Bowler’s Bridge of Absurdity

May 14, 2026

Kate Bowler is the multiple New York Times-bestselling author, professor of divinity and stage-four cancer survivor who has mastered the art of finding small delights in the everyday. No grand gestures for her. In this wonderful conversation with Katherine, they talk about ‘how to cope’, the brittleness of time and why revelling in absurdity is really the answer to everything. A celebration of silliness, tattoos, the important differences between canoes and kayaks and the most beautifull...

Jeffrey Boakye’s city path to peace

May 07, 2026

Our first guest to choose a city for his dreamscape, the brilliant writer, BBC broadcaster and educator Jeffrey Boakye reveals he’s most at peace when walking for walking’s sake through the ever-changing textures of London’s streets.  The very essence of a ‘flâneur’, as we discover.A gorgeous and meandering conversation, Jeffrey and Katherine explore a wonderful array of topics: from skateboarding as a life lesson in failure to finding joy in packed tube trains, why we need to foster mor...

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