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Ground & Common is a personal field report from the middle distance—a place where I reflect, wander, and sometimes unravel. Through essays, interviews, and unscripted fragments, this project follows the quiet fault lines between progress and collapse, intimacy and estrangement, meaning and noise. It’s not about answers. It’s about staying awake to the strange poetry of being alive right now.

A pig pile is a terrible place to get any real thinking done—unless, of course, you don’t mind the noise.

I’m Nathan Tower—writer, producer, and podcast strategist at Lower Street. After years spent shaping narratives, coaching hosts, and crafting podcasts that resonate, I’ve seen firsthand the power of authentic conversation. Ground & Common is where I go deeper—a space for raw ideas, unfiltered exploration, and the questions that don’t fit neatly into a show brief.

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Ground & Common is a personal field report from a middle distance—a place where I reflect, wander, and sometimes unravel. This project follows the quiet fault lines between progress and collapse, intimacy and estrangement, meaning and noise.

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Nathan Tower

@phaseynatey

Podcast strategy and development at Lower Street. Helping brands make podcasts people actually want to listen to. Runner, writer, dad, and rooted in the Maine coast. Also, coffee.