TEDxNashville

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDxNashville is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.
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08/22/2026

Our first speaker announcement for The Science of Woo: The Divine Feminine ✨

September 15 & 16, we’re bringing together voices from science, spirituality, psychology, mythology, music, and embodied practice to explore one central question:

What happens when we start listening again?

SEPTEMBER 15 — DEEP LISTENING

Bekah Liechty — Singer-songwriter and member of Girl Named Tom

Sarah Brown-Schmidt — Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University

Ryoko Suzuki — Holistic Therapist & Embodiment Practitioner

SEPTEMBER 16 — THE DIVINE FEMININE

Dr. Yolanda Pierce — Dean, Vanderbilt Divinity School

Julia Mossbridge — Cognitive Neuroscientist, Author, Educator & Lead Human Potential Researcher for The Telepathy Tapes

Chiara Sulprizio — Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, Vanderbilt University

And this is only the first drop.

We have some surprise additions still to announce for both evenings.

Two nights. Two distinct experiences. One invitation to listen differently.

September 15 & 16 | Nashville

TEDxNashville presents The Science of Woo: The Divine Feminine — Honor the Wisdom Within

Tickets available at TEDxNashville.com

08/19/2026

Ok, we can’t wait to announce this any longer.

The Science of Woo returns this October for **GHOSTS.**

Hauntings. Apparitions. Felt presences. Encounters with the dead.

On October 28, we’re bringing together science, psychology, and extraordinary human experience to ask what might be behind the phenomenon we’ve called ghosts for thousands of years.

**Tickets are live.**

head to the link in our bio.

(and don’t forget to check out tickets for Science of Woo: The Divine Feminine this September!)

08/18/2026

Last night was a dream come true for Maneet Chauhan fans.

She designed a custom menu just for TEDxNashville Tastings, and shared with us how much more “Indian food” means than we might think.

But even more than the food, she spent the evening going from table to table laughing and sharing stories with our attendees.

She is one of a kind and so was this event.

Love these photos so much. We’ll share more including the video soon!

Photos by Adam Mescan

08/17/2026

There are parts of our lives we can’t quite explain.

Why one song takes us back.
Why one lyric can undo us.
Why certain melodies feel like home.

On August 19, JP Saxe and Daisha McBride (The Rap Girl) join us for TEDxNashville Mixtape.

Four questions about their lives.
Every answer has to be a song.

They’re not performing. They’re letting us into the music that shaped them—and the memories, relationships and moments behind each choice.

We get to know the artists beyond their own music. And somewhere in their stories, we might recognize pieces of our own.

Their songs. Their stories. Maybe yours, too.

Come listen with us.

08/16/2026

For years, women have stepped onto the TEDxNashville stage and told us what it feels like to move through a world that doesn’t always make space for what we know, what we feel, or what we see.

They’ve talked about loneliness. 
About not belonging. 
About isolation. 
About seeing pain in the world—and wondering what to do with it.

Different women. Different stories. Different moments in our history.

But listening back, we hear a thread.
What happened when we stopped listening?

To one another. 
To ourselves. 
To the parts of human experience that can’t always be measured, explained, or neatly put into words.

And what might happen if we start listening again?

On September 15 and 16, The Science of Woo: The Divine Feminine continues a conversation that has been unfolding on the TEDxNashville stage for years.

Not about what it means to be feminine.

But about what we may have lost when we learned to distrust certain ways of knowing—and what we might rediscover by making space for them again.

Tickets at TEDxNashville.com.

08/15/2026

Four questions about their lives. Every answer is a song. 🎶

On August 19, TEDxNashville Mixtape returns to Analog for an intimate night with JP Saxe and Daisha McBride (aka Rap Girl)—sharing their stories through the songs they love, not as artists, but as fans.

We ask the questions. They choose the songs. Then we listen together and hear the stories behind their choices—and discover where our stories converge.

It’s a social experiment designed by The Come Together Music Project to explore the power of music to connect us to one another.

📍 Analog at Hutton Hotel 📅 August 19 🎟️ Free for TEDxNashville members. Tickets available at tedxnashville.com/events

08/11/2026

There are ways of knowing, connecting, creating, and moving through the world that we’ve associated with the feminine for thousands of years.

But what do we actually mean by the feminine?

And what might science, psychology, mythology, art, music, and lived experience teach us about it?

This September, we’re taking two nights—and two very different spaces—to explore those questions.

SEPTEMBER 15 — THE PARTHENON Night One: Deep Listening

Inside one of Nashville’s most extraordinary spaces, we’ll explore what it means to really listen—to ourselves, to one another, and to the world around us.

SEPTEMBER 16 — STUDIO 615 Night Two: When We Start Listening Again

What becomes possible when we do? We’ll explore intuition, embodiment, relationship, creativity, and the many forms feminine wisdom can take.

This isn’t about defining what women should be. And it isn’t about suggesting there’s one way to be feminine.

It’s an exploration of something humans have been trying to understand for a very long time.

THE DIVINE FEMININE 
September 15 & 16 Tickets are on sale now.

Speakers to be announced soon! The song “Waters” by Girl Named Tom playing might be a clue 🕵️

07/31/2026

We are all travelers.

But we know not where from or to where.

Welcome to Consciousness and Cocktails: the sober social where we ask our questions about the universe.

Join us at the next one 🖖

Thank you to Studio 615 for being the perfect host.

Thank you to our partner OLIPOP for supplying the NA vibe.

07/29/2026

You don’t solve writer’s block by writing more.
You go for a walk in the woods.

TEDxNashville is built on the same idea.

We bring together ideas from every direction—and people who are endlessly curious—because you probably don’t know what you need to hear yet.

Scientists. Artists. Entrepreneurs. Musicians. Psychologists. Chefs. Philosophers. Explorers.

Because the idea that changes your thinking is rarely the one you came looking for.

And sometimes, it isn’t even the talk.

The people in the room bring their own questions, experiences, and perspectives. They notice things you missed. They make connections you wouldn’t have made. Long after the event is over, you find yourself seeing an idea differently because of a conversation you had.

That’s what membership is.

An environment where unexpected ideas—and the people they bring together—change the way you think.

We’re the woods.

Become a TEDxNashville Member. From $15/month.

07/28/2026

Last night we hosted a conversation about what it means to be a mother. The real story. Not the Instagram version.

It’s complicated and not just at first. It’s a lifetime of mixed emotions.

Thank you to Dr Kate Humphreys and Jessica Guerrieri for providing your valuable insights and perspective.

Thank you to HarperCollins and Harper Muse Books for supporting this event, including providing a copy of Jessica’s book “Both Can be True” to our attendees.

And special thanks to Analog at Hutton Hotel for being such a steady anchor in our programming.

If you missed the event but you are a woman seeking community around identity as a mom, a future mom, or in your decision to not be a mom, stay tuned for more.

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