Amanda Knox Shifts Focus With New Podcast, ‘Hard Knox.’

Amanda Knox is relaunching her five-year-old Labyrinths podcast into a new series called Hard Knox. She describes the new show as a space to think out loud about what hardship teaches us, what justice demands of us, and how we live with what we can’t undo. It is a subject matter that hits close to home for Knox, who spent nearly four years in an Italian prison for a murder that she was ultimately acquitted of.

In an Instagram post, Knox takes on that past. “I was called murderer, a seductress, and a cautionary tale. I lost my freedom, my identity and my life trajectory went right out the window, not exactly what I signed up for when I chose to study abroad,” Knox says. But she says that past will help guide her new direction.

“For the past five years, on my podcast Labyrinth, I’ve been telling stories about getting lost and found again that have reached millions of listeners. Thank you. Now on Hard Knox, I’m shifting the focus from story arcs to big questions and big ideas like, what does resilience actually look like? What does it mean to be free? How do you make peace with the fact that in life there are some things that we can’t undo, and who do we become in the process?”

On the new weekly series, Knox says she will be joined by guests as they focus on resilience, post-traumatic growth and time-tested philosophies.

“I’m going to be talking with guests about navigating the hardest parts about being human, like how to improve yourself in dire circumstances, how to accept that you can’t control what other people think, and how to really be at peace with the fact that in life, the only thing that is certain is that it is uncertain,” she says. Early guests include travel expert Rick Steves, sex columnist Dan Savage, former prosecutor Marcia Clark, and political scandal survivor Monica Lewinsky. Each episode will also have an “Ask Amanda Anything” segment.

Hard Knox is the latest podcast series for Knox. In addition to Labyrinths, she earlier hosted the second season of the true crime series Three: Murder in Vacationland and The Truth About True Crime podcast for SundanceTV, which ran for five seasons.