Podcast Episodes

How To Talk About Hard Things

Season 1 Episode 101

Anna Sale is what you might call a professional “haver of hard conversations”. As the creator of the podcast “Death, Sex, & Money,” she’s spent years exploring the big questions and taboo topics peop…

Published on 1 day ago

Listen To: Amanda Knox’s “False Confessions”

Season 1

Today we’re sharing a podcast episode with all of you that we think you’ll love: it’s called “False Confessions: How to Break the Mind" from Amanda Knox’s podcast “Hard Knox”.

For years, Amanda Knox …

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Maya Is Chris Hemsworth’s Brain Coach!

Season 1

It’s not every day that Maya gets to coach a literal superhero…but tomorrow is that day! Tune in Friday, August 15, to see Maya featured as a neuroscience expert on Chris Hemsworth’s TV show, “Limitl…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

“I Feel So Wildly Lucky To Like Myself”

Season 1 Episode 100

Jessica Slice spent years working towards the day when she might actually like herself. If she just tried a little harder, achieved a little more, ate a little healthier, she thought she could earn h…

Published on 1 month ago

How Jacinda Ardern Turned Self-Doubt into a Strength

Season 1

A few weeks ago, Maya joined former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for a deeply reflective, intimate conversation in front of a live audience in San Francisco. The event was hosted by City…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

When Productivity Becomes Pathological

Season 1 Episode 99

These days, psychiatrist Judith Joseph knows joy. It’s the feeling she has after eating a delicious meal, celebrating the completion of a successful study in her lab, or watching her children play ha…

Published on 2 months ago

Sahil Bloom: Building A (Truly) Happy Life

Season 1 Episode 98

Sahil Bloom spent years working in the financial industry, putting in long hours and cashing big paychecks. But even though he’d found career success, he started to question whether the life he was b…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

One Trauma, Two Different Paths

Season 1

Tommy Caldwell’s experience being held captive in Kyrgyzstan unlocks a new state of mind that propels him to become the greatest big wall climber of all time.

This conversation first aired in 2021. I…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

A Climber Loses Her Grip

Season 1 Episode 97

As a professional rock climber, Beth Rodden was taught to see pain as weakness. Fear and discomfort—mental and physical—were just things to be tolerated along the path to one record-breaking climbing…

Published on 3 months ago

BONUS: Boost Your Resilience At Work

Season 1 Episode 96

What can we do to cultivate more resilience at work? Ben Walter, CEO of Chase for Business and host of The Unshakeables podcast, thinks about this question a lot. In today’s mini episode, Ben joins M…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago