Karamo: How to Actually Do Self-Love (January, 2021)
With the approach of the new year (and perhaps New Year's resolutions) we've decided to replay a very popular episode, featuring one of the most prominent proselytizers for self-love, Karamo from Quee...
22 Dec 202137min
How to Change Your Habits | Katy Milkman (May, 2021)
We're almost at that time of year where we contemplate making New Year's resolutions. So we decided to rerun an episode about the blazingly obvious fact that creating healthy habits can be infernally ...
20 Dec 20211h 8min
How You Can Help End Polarization and Inequality – and Get Happier, Too | Robert Putnam & Shaylyn Romney Garrett
In this episode, Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett discuss the recent book they co-authored, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again. Robert Putnam is p...
15 Dec 202152min
What Is Nirvana? | Robert Thurman
If you want to make change in a world filled with all sorts of horrors and obstacles, does it help or hurt to stay cheerful while you go about your business? Robert Thurman argues passionately in favo...
13 Dec 202139min
This Episode Will Make You Stronger | Sister Dang Nghiem
It's hard to be a human. No matter how good things are for you, being alive is still hard; whatever your life circumstances are, we're all subject to impermanence and entropy. This episode dives into ...
8 Dec 202159min
How To Work Around Your Own Irrationality | Richard Thaler
This episode explores how to make the infernally difficult challenge of habit formation a little easier, with guest Richard H. Thaler, who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2017 for his pion...
6 Dec 202140min
How to Embrace the Anti-Diet | Christy Harrison
This episode is the second in our two-part Anti-Diet Series, and features guest Christy Harrison. Christy is an anti-diet registered dietitian and nutritionist, a certified intuitive eating counselor,...
1 Dec 20211h 6min
Jameela Jamil on Mental Self-Defense
Our guest for our 400th episode is actor and activist Jameela Jamil, who you may have seen on such shows as The Good Place, The Misery Index, and Legendary. Outside of her acting career, Jameela is kn...
29 Nov 20211h 4min
