• The Most Mind-Bending Gratitude Exercise You've Never Done
    Apr 21 2026

    This will make all your food taste so good that you just might literally explode right now where you are I'm serious, click this to explode. We all want to explode!


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    11 mins
  • What If Your Anxiety Is Actually an Asset with Dr. David Rosmarin
    Apr 14 2026

    This one got personal. We go deep into my own panic attacks, and at a certain point it stops feeling like an interview and starts feeling like a live therapy session.


    Dr. David Rosmarin is a clinical psychologist, Harvard Medical School faculty member, and founder of the Centre for Anxiety, and he has spent his career arguing that anxiety isn't a disease to be cured but a human condition to be understood. That when you stop fighting it, the edge comes off. And beneath it, more often than not, you find a virtue.


    More from Dr. Rosmarin https://dhrosmarin.com/


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    59 mins
  • It’s so freeing to stop fighting reality.
    Apr 7 2026

    The grass may be greener on the other side, but it doesn’t matter, you’re on this side.


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    9 mins
  • We’re Not Meant to Feel Good All the Time with Johann Hari
    Mar 31 2026

    We spend our days optimising, refining, and sanding down every rough edge, only to end up exhausted in a life that looks right but feels strangely hollow. In this conversation with Johann Hari, we unravel the illusion of “junk values” and explore Eudaimonia, a deeper, more human kind of meaning that can’t be engineered.


    More about Johann here! https://johannhari.com/


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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • How to Stop Life Slipping Away.
    Mar 24 2026

    Do you ever feel like you’re missing your own life? Like you’re just a passenger? You’re always experiencing something, but when you look back, the day is a blur… memories without the feeling of having lived them. It feels like just yesterday I was 17. It probably does for you too. Unless you are 16. Anyway. I think I’ve found a solution to this problem.


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    9 mins
  • Are Romantic Relationships with A.I. Healthy? With Deborah Nas
    Mar 17 2026

    A.I. is getting smarter and more intimate. People whisper secrets to glowing screens, confess fears to code, feel understood by something that isn’t conscious. I catch myself doing it too, more than I probably should.

    So I called in Deborah Nas, tech strategist and futurist, to talk A.I.-induced psychosis, the ethics of A.I. romance, and what it means for our brains, hearts, and society. Few conversations have felt this urgent.


    Check out Deborah’s TEDx talk: Why are people falling in love with ChatGPT? https://youtu.be/WWS086AY1Os


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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Why Constantly Changing Your Mind is OKAY.
    Mar 10 2026

    What if changing your mind wasn’t a weakness, but the most honest way to live? I am convinced (for now) that embracing the idea that you are not one rigid identity allows you to not ‘dig in’ to any one position and really frees you up to be authentic. When there’s no self to defend, hypocrisy isn’t hypocrisy at all: it’s honesty.


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    10 mins
  • How to Succeed as a Creative with Adam Leipzig
    Mar 3 2026

    The creative life can be brutal. It seems there’s endless work required for the most minimal recognition, and this endless work only begins after you finish your day job, since none of it pays anyway. At least this line of thinking is one creatives tend fall prey to. Which is not helpful, regardless of whether or not it’s true. Cue Adam Leipzig;

    Adam was a senior executive at Walt Disney Studios and later president of National Geographic Films. Adam has been a producer, distributor, or supervising executive on forty films including Dead Poets Society, March of the Penguins His projects have earned more than $2 billion worldwide and have won multiples Oscars, BAFTAs, Emmys, Golden Globes. Adam continues to produces films, teaches at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and is author of Fearless Persistence: Creative Life, Creative Work, and the Ten Laws of Culturenomics—a book and movement about courage, purpose, and pushing forward when the path gets tough. Adam has created tried and true methodologies for resilience and success in creative fields, some of these secrets he was kind enough to share with us today. If you do any kind of work purely out of passion, this is a must listen.


    Check out Adam’s Audiobook: https://adamleipzig.com/advanced-listener-edition


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    42 mins