Podcast Episodes

Erin Brockovich on How We’ll Rescue Ourselves

“I never thought you had to be any one way to be a person and to be kind and to learn,” says Erin Brockovich, who continues to redefine what it means to be an activist. The tough news, Brockovich tel…

Published on 6 years, 9 months ago

Family Secrets

“I've been kind of a student of family secrets all my life,” writer Dani Shapiro says. All of her novels have centered around family secrets, and her memoirs have explored secrets in her own family h…

Published on 6 years, 9 months ago

The Skin-Gut Connection

“People get used to sometimes feeling a certain way, and they don't know that they could feel better,” says naturopathic doctor and aesthetician Nigma Talib. “I think when people get the taste of wha…

Published on 6 years, 10 months ago

Gwyneth x Elena Brower: On Divorce and Self-Forgiveness

GP catches up with her old friend Elena Brower, yoga teacher and coauthor of Better Apart: The Radically Positive Way to Separate. They talk about their own divorces, relationship endings and beginni…

Published on 6 years, 10 months ago

How to Deal with Assholes

“For better or worse, I’m the asshole guy,” Robert Sutton once told us. Sutton is a professor at Stanford and the author of The Asshole Survival Guide. Of course, his work encompasses a lot more. Sut…

Published on 6 years, 10 months ago

How to Be with the Partner You Picked

“Our memory is shit,” says couples therapist and author of We Do Stan Tatkin. “It can’t be relied on, and our perception is like a fun-house mirror…. And so that should give way to more cautiousness,…

Published on 6 years, 10 months ago

On Addiction and Recovery

“I didn't think that anybody thought or felt or experienced the world the way that I did until I came into recovery,” Bill Clegg tells our chief content officer, Elise Loehnen. Clegg is the author of…

Published on 6 years, 10 months ago

Miracles from a Magic Shop

“When we promote, if you will, acting compassionately, there’s a subset of people who look at this as a soft science,” says neurosurgeon James Doty, MD. But his research and that of others has demons…

Published on 6 years, 10 months ago

Sticking to Plan A

“I think we build up this thesis of who we are, and then it gets shook.” This is how Abbi Jacobson—one of the creators, executive producers, and stars of Broad City—begins to describe the ups and dow…

Published on 6 years, 10 months ago

Why Love Starts with Loneliness

Alain de Botton talks to Elise Loehnen about the complexities of falling into, and out of, relationship and how we will always be students of love.

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Published on 6 years, 10 months ago