What You Need to Understand from Economics with Planet Money's Alex Mayyasi
If you’ve ever listened to NPR’s Planet Money , you know the vibe: They take dense, eye-glazing economic theories and turn them into cinemat...
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20 of 158 episodesEXTRA: How to Get Unstuck Creatively
What do you do when you're not feeling creative? What do people like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jenny Slate, and James Acaster do? In this third in...
Raising Boys Who Can Feel Things with Ruth Whippman
What does a five-year-old boy learn from the word "buddy"? When Ruth Whippman started shopping around a book about boys in 2021, publishers...
Simplify EXTRA: The Human Premium
Why do commencement speeches suck so often? That's easy. They suck when the speaker is out of touch with their audience - new graduates. Tha...
Heather Widdows: Pretty Privilege Is Real
When did "I resolve to be a better person" get replaced with "I resolve to tone my arms" in the register of resolutions? For a long time, ph...
NEW FORMAT EP1: Nobody Calls a Horse Ugly for Being Large
What if the fastest way out of the beauty standard is deciding you're a horse? This is the first of a new thing. On the weeks there's no int...
Joanna Walsh: Amateurs Made The Internet
What did you make on the internet, back before anyone was paying you to? This time around, Ben takes the interview chair. He's talking with...
Nicola Guess: How To Tell What's BS in Wellness
What if almost everything you're doing to "optimize" your health is, at best, doing nothing at all? Caitlin sits down with Dr. Nicola Guess...
Christine Armstrong: AI is Messier Than You're Told
AI replacing our colleagues, feeling lonelier than ever despite enforced physical presense at the office. What is going on with the workplac...
Dr. Yoni Freedhoff: There Is No Ideal Weight
Diets fail us all the time, and yet we usually blame ourselves. This physician says that neither the blame nor the failure are necessary. In...
Caitlin & Ben: Milestones & Updates
10,000 downloads a month. 11 episodes. 6 months of independence. Caitlin and Ben sit down for a bonus episode to talk about where Simplify h...
Amy Morin: 50 Plays for Your Worst Day at Work
What if the thing standing between you and a better day at work isn't a new habit—but just knowing which play to run? Amy Morin is the psych...
Deb Caulet: Essential Leadership Skills for the Age of AI
What happens in the gap between updating your LinkedIn title and actually knowing how to do the job? Caitlin sits down with Deborah Caulet—l...
Dr. Arielle Schwartz: Your Body Knows Before Your Brain Does
What if the part of you that knows what's actually wrong isn't your brain? This week on Simplify, Caitlin sits down with Dr. Arielle Schwart...
Dr. Arielle Schwartz: Your Body Knows Before Your Brain Does
What if the part of you that knows what's actually wrong isn't your brain? This week on Simplify, Caitlin sits down with Dr. Arielle Schwart...
Angela Natividad: Meet The God Inside Capitalism
Episode Notes What if the stories running your life aren't really yours? This week on Simplify, Caitlin talks with Angela Natividad: a mytho...
Angela Natividad: Meet The God Inside Capitalism
What if the stories running your life aren't really yours? This week on Simplify, Caitlin talks with Angela Natividad: a mythologist, writer...
Nani Jansen Reventlow: How To Actually Change The World
A loss isn't always a loss—sometimes, it's one of many stepping stones towards winning big. When you change how you think about what succeed...
Nani Jansen Reventlow: How To Actually Change The World
A loss isn't always a loss—sometimes, it's one of many stepping stones towards winning big. When you change how you think about what succeed...
Guy Winch: First Aid for Your Work Life
Most of us have gotten up on a Monday morning and thought: I simply cannot do this today. Our job is grinding us down in that slow, invisibl...