Inconvenient Chats

Inconvenient Chats

Kaisa Virolainen & Jan Kleine

Climate change is real, accelerating, and profoundly urgent - yet the world isn’t changing quickly or deeply enough.

In our experience, many important conversations are being avoided, maybe unintentionally. They're inconvenient: messy, emotionally charged, a little uncomfortable, ideologically polarized, or simply complex.

This is why we have started Inconvenient Chats, our podcast to create room for some of these conversations – not with all the answers, but with honest questions. We believe that if something makes you uncomfortable, that’s often a sign it’s worth exploring.

We’re two friends who both have been working with climate change and sustainability for a number of years. Each week we’ll explore a new topic, we break it down, discuss different perspectives and explore solutions – and hopefully feel more comfortable talking about them.

The episodes will be short and will come out every week.We want to challenge ourselves to think, understand and question our assumptions about the world and ourselves. And learn a bunch on the side.

So join us when we are making space for the voices in our own heads - the doubts, fears, wonderings. We invite you to come along in that exploration.

By having uncomfortable conversations openly, with curiosity, we hope to invite and encourage dialogues that explore difficult topics with critical thinking, emotional honesty, and kindness in a world that often prioritizes perfection and certainty.

If it’s inconvenient, let’s chat.

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Episodes

Questions & Answers

How many episodes are there of Inconvenient Chats?

There are 38 episodes avaiable of Inconvenient Chats.

What is Inconvenient Chats about?

We have categorized Inconvenient Chats as:

  • News
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Earth Sciences

Where can you listen to Inconvenient Chats?

Inconvenient Chats is available, among others places, on:

  • Spotify
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Podtail
  • Google Podcasts

When did Inconvenient Chats start?

The first episode of Inconvenient Chats that we have available was released 7 September 2025.

Who creates the podcast Inconvenient Chats?

Inconvenient Chats is produced and created by Kaisa Virolainen & Jan Kleine.