Golden frogs are back, bacteria are eating cancer, and cherry blossom season is almost here
Spring is in the air, and so is this week's roundup of solutions, breakthroughs, and good news worth sharing. Arielle and Karissa are back together after last week's Sambhali Trust guest interview, an...
13 Mars 14min
(Guest Interview) From 18 Women to 80,000: How Sambhali Trust is Empowering Girls in India | International Women's Day 2026
This episode is dedicated to Badan Kanwar. In the early 1990s, a woman named Badan Kanwar was widowed in Rajasthan, India. Her world shrank the way it does for widows there — she lost status, voice, a...
6 Mars 48min
New Year, New Us: The Optimist Daily Weekly Roundup goes bigger with 10 solutions
It's our first episode of the year! And the Optimist Daily Weekly Roundup is officially refreshed. Karissa and Arielle kick off the new format (hello, "tasting menu" of all ten weekly solutions), expl...
27 Feb 18min
Holiday gifts for a loved one with cancer + a powerful Miwuk land-back victory near Yosemite
This week, Arielle and Karissa dive into two very different but deeply connected stories about what it means to truly support healing. First, we unpack new research on what people going through cancer...
19 Dec 202521min
Should kids be banned from social media? Inside Australia's bold online safety experiment
Australia just became the first country to ban social media accounts for kids under 16... but will it actually keep them safer online? In this episode, Arielle and Karissa unpack the data that pushed ...
12 Dec 202524min
Holiday health etiquette plus the first female crash test dummy is (finally) here
This week, Karissa and Arielle tackle two big, very real-world solutions: how to gracefully ask friends and family if they're sick before a holiday hangout, and why the U.S. finally introducing its fi...
5 Dec 202519min
Thankful for optimists: a Thanksgiving shout out to The Optimist Daily community
In this special Thanksgiving mini-episode of The Optimist Daily's Weekly Roundup, Karissa and Arielle press pause on the usual headlines to say thank you. They share what they are personally grateful ...
27 Nov 20255min
From bike buses to art therapy: The uplifting solutions changing everyday life
In this week's episode of The Optimist Daily's Weekly Roundup, Arielle and Karissa return from a fall break with a fresh wave of uplifting stories, diving right into two standout solutions of the week...
21 Nov 202516min
