Can Anxiety Be a Super-Power? Science Says Yes…ish. | Dr. Wendy Suzuki
Most of us treat anxiety as a malfunction to be fixed or medicated away, and the neuroscience points somewhere stranger. There is a narrow b...
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20 of 1,198 episodesHarlan Coben: It's Never Too Late to Start Your Creative Life
Harlan Coben spent decades insisting his novels had nothing to do with his life. Then he went looking, and found his life inside every singl...
Inflammation, Aging, & How to Put Out the Fires Your Body Keeps Setting | David Furman, PhD
Every year you get your blood drawn, and someone circles a number that supposedly tells you your inflammation level. Turns out that number i...
Jimmy Chin: The Cost of Risking Too Little
We spend a lot of time weighing the cost of risking too much. Jimmy Chin has spent most of his life on the harder question, which is what it...
The Social Fear That Keeps Us Lonely (and the easy fix) | Nicholas Epley
Nicholas Epley studies how people misjudge each other, avoid conversations with strangers, and miss out on life-affirming relationships. It...
47 Doctors, Data Galore, and a Problem Only She Could Solve | Giorgia Lupi
She measured everything about her illness. The measuring turned out to be part of what kept her sick. Giorgia Lupi is an information designe...
How 7 Core Beliefs Shape Your Health, Happiness, & Success | Shawn Achor
Shawn Achor spent twelve years at Harvard studying the science of belief and success, and his TED talk has been watched more than 25 million...
Good Life Jam: Parenting Burdens & Self-Help Book Burials | Leah Smart
Today, we’re introducing a new conversation format that we’ll be working into the mix called Good Life Jams. These sessions take on 2-3 hot...
Getting Back Up After You’ve Been Brought to Your Knees | Mark Nepo
Martial artists spend years learning how to fall before they learn much of anything else. The rest of us just brace, then wonder why the lan...
He’s Spent 20 Years Trying to Change The World | Scott Harrison
Jonathan sits down with Scott Harrison, charity: water founder, for a wide-ranging reflection on his 20-year mission to bring clean water to...
Sex in Midlife: It Doesn’t Have to Fade (and Can Even Be Great) | Susan Bratton
Susan Bratton has spent over two decades teaching people the passionate lovemaking and intimate communication skills that sex education (and...
The Endings You Don’t See Coming (Until They’re Gone) | Jonathan Fields
Somewhere in the past few years, you did something you love, with someone you love, for the very last time. And you had no idea when it happ...
Jodi Picoult: Why Every Villain is the Hero of Their Own Story
Every villain is the hero of their own story. That line opens part two of Jodi Picoult's thirtieth novel, and she'll tell you it's also how...
Single at Heart: What if You Don't Need Someone Else to “Complete” You | Bella DePaulo, PhD
Bizarre fact, if you tell people you’re genuinely happy being single, they don’t believe you. You, in fact, may be among the doubters when i...
The Midlife Curiosity Tour That Changed Everything | Allison Aubrey
Allison Aubrey walked into a longevity lab expecting a great story. She walked out believing she was failing at key parts of her own life. A...
Why Grit Alone Doesn’t Cut It: New Research From Angela Duckworth
Angela Duckworth on why grit is only half the story. Acclaimed researcher Professor Angela Duckworth returns to unpack a bigger idea behind...
How to Make Better Decisions | Shane Parrish [Best of]
Most of us think good decisions happen in the moment. Shane Parrish says they’re already decided before you sit down. And most of them end u...
Why Avoiding a Fight is Killing Your Relationship (and How to Fight Well) | Priya Parker
Priya Parker comes back to argue that the fights you're avoiding aren't threatening your closest relationships; they're the only thing that...
The Menopause Timeline Most Women Never Learn Until Midlife | Dr. Jessica Shepherd
Most women don't hear about perimenopause until they're already deep into it, sometimes a decade in. This week, guest host Karen Walrond tal...
How to Avoid Cognitive Decline & Dementia (starting in your 40s) | Dr. Tommy Wood
Your brain does not have to decline with age. Recent research reveals that for most people, staving off cognitive decline or dementia is mor...