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A Bit of Optimism
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What Happens When You’re Naive Enough to Try with KIND Founder Daniel Lubetzky
54 mins; March 31, 2026
AI Can Do Everything… Except This (Why Humans Still Win) With Restaurateur Will Guidara
65 hours 59 mins; March 24, 2026
Revisited: What Dying Teaches Us About Living with Death Doula Alua Arthur
45 mins; March 17, 2026
Revisited: The Kennedy Family and the Search for Self with Journalist Maria Shriver
43 mins; March 10, 2026
Revisited: How to Turn Stress Into Creativity With Grammy-Winner Jacob Collier
58 mins; March 03, 2026
The Confidence Conversation We Need to Have with Scott Galloway
54 mins; February 24, 2026
28 Years on the Force: Chief Angela Averiett on What It Really Takes to Change Police Culture
65 hours 0 mins; February 16, 2026
When Pop Fandom Becomes a Force for Good with AJR’s Adam Met
61 hours 15 mins; February 10, 2026
What Grit Really Teaches Us About Happiness with Professor Angela Duckworth
56 mins; February 03, 2026
Matthew McConaughey on How to Fall Back in Love with Your Life
59 mins; January 27, 2026
Revisited: Trevor Noah Makes My Brain Hurt
56 mins; January 20, 2026
Revisited: Kids (And Employees) Know More Than You Think with Dr. Becky Kennedy
43 mins; January 13, 2026
Revisited: The First Steps To Reducing Your Anxiety with Author Mel Robbins
57 mins; January 06, 2026
Revisited: The Beautiful Brilliance of Boredom with Creative Polymath Elle Cordova
63 hours 10 mins; December 30, 2025
Revisited: Your Unhappy Brain Needs Some Assistance with Happiness Expert Mo Gawdat
90 hours 38 mins; December 23, 2025
A Bit of Optimism Will Return in the New Year
2 mins; December 23, 2025
Prepare for the Life You’re Meant to Live With Chaplain John Fox
67 hours 31 mins; December 16, 2025
How Losing Everything Taught Her to Help Everyone: Joan Howard’s Story
51 mins; December 09, 2025
A Rebel With a Cause (and a Cone) with Jeni’s Ice Cream Founder Jeni Britton
53 mins; December 02, 2025
The Culture That Converts Even the Biggest Cynics with former WD-40 CEO Garry Ridge
56 mins; November 25, 2025
Choose Your Seven Humans Wisely with author Fredrik Backman
58 mins; November 18, 2025
The Smartest Way To Be Stupid with comedian Matthew Broussard
64 hours 53 mins; November 11, 2025
The Man Who Proved Me Right with CEO Bob Chapman and the Barry-Wehmiller Team
72 hours 7 mins; November 04, 2025
Rob Lowe Names Names: The Power of ‘Screw It’
62 hours 21 mins; September 23, 2025
The Future You Avoid Is Riskier Than the One You Face with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman
66 hours 32 mins; September 16, 2025
What Your Love Life Can Teach You About Work Relationships with psychotherapist Esther Perel
62 hours 24 mins; September 09, 2025
Your Instincts Know What You Want with Author Arthur Brooks
55 mins; September 02, 2025
The Power of Doing One Thing Exceptionally Well with Gymshark Founder and CEO Ben Francis
61 hours 14 mins; August 26, 2025
Simon Goes Nuclear with nuclear energy influencer Isabelle Boemeke
66 hours 20 mins; August 19, 2025
The Brilliance of Boredom with creative polymath Elle Cordova
65 hours 22 mins; August 12, 2025
The Privilege of Bad Experiences with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim
26 mins; August 05, 2025
The Business Case for Good Manners with etiquette coach William Hanson
54 mins; July 15, 2025
Live Like You Have 2 Years Left with dancer and cancer survivor Angela Trimbur
53 mins; July 08, 2025
The Quiet Power of the Empathetic Leader with Navy SEAL turned rowing coach Gordon Schmidt
70 hours 2 mins; July 01, 2025
Your Unhappy Brain Needs Some Assistance with happiness expert Mo Gawdat
92 hours 39 mins; June 24, 2025
We All Get Cancelled One Day with Somebody Feed Phil’s Phil Rosenthal
68 hours 17 mins; June 17, 2025
The Extraordinary Magic of Ordinary People with author Brad Meltzer
52 mins; June 10, 2025
This Is... A Bit of Optimism
1 min; June 03, 2025
Ask Yourself "What If?" with Milk Bar Founder Christina Tosi
47 mins; June 03, 2025
Revisited: Love Is Not Enough with couples therapist Shawn McBride
47 mins; May 27, 2025
Revisited: The Secret to Happiness with Harvard professor Robert Waldinger
45 mins; May 20, 2025
Where Is Simon Going? with journalist Cal Fussman
50 mins; May 13, 2025
The Cure for Nihilism with professor Suzy Welch
34 mins; May 06, 2025
(PART 2) The Climb Out of Pain is Taller Than Everest with National Geographic photographer Cory Richards
39 mins; April 29, 2025
(PART 1) The Climb Out of Pain is Taller Than Everest with National Geographic photographer Cory Richards
47 mins; April 22, 2025
Find Your Allies Fast with philanthropist Melinda French Gates
38 mins; April 15, 2025
Who Are You, Really? with journalist Maria Shriver
41 mins; April 08, 2025
The Search for Self-Love with podcaster Lewis Howes
51 mins; April 01, 2025
Revisited: Why Awkward Is Awesome with psychologist Ty Tashiro
31 mins; March 25, 2025
Find Your Allies Fast with philanthropist Melinda French Gates
38 mins; March 25, 2025
Does Gender Change How We Lead? with Retired Colonel DeDe Halfhill
40 mins; March 18, 2025
The Myth of the Perfect Meditator with podcaster Jay Shetty
50 mins; March 11, 2025
When Your 'Flaw' Becomes Your Edge with Comedian Hasan Minhaj
44 mins; March 04, 2025
Humble Leaders Lead Better Teams with Retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink
42 mins; February 25, 2025
A Sweet Conversation About Dying with Death Doula Alua Arthur
45 mins; February 18, 2025
The Secret Art of Micromanagement with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
44 mins; February 11, 2025
You Are More Like Grammy-Winner Jacob Collier Than You Think
57 mins; February 04, 2025
Kids (And Employees) Know More Than You Think with Dr. Becky Kennedy
42 mins; January 28, 2025
Spite Is The Greatest Motivator with Watch Duty founder John Mills
39 mins; January 21, 2025
The First Steps to Reducing Your Anxiety with author Mel Robbins
54 mins; January 14, 2025
The Cure for Loneliness with U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
46 mins; January 07, 2025
Trevor Noah Makes My Brain Hurt
56 mins; December 17, 2024
Should You Work With Your Friends? with my friend Will Guidara
49 mins; December 10, 2024
The Secret to Happiness with Harvard professor Robert Waldinger
45 mins; December 03, 2024
The First Steps to Find Love with Matthew Hussey
48 mins; November 26, 2024
Dr. Mark Hyman: To Live Longer You Need...
48 mins; November 19, 2024
Alexis Ohanian: Why I Left Reddit and Why Greed Can Inspire Good
64 hours 18 mins; November 12, 2024
What can we learn from a rural school in Kenya? with principal Carol Moraa
39 mins; November 05, 2024
Peace Is A Process with negotiation expert William Ury
42 mins; October 29, 2024
Creating Astonishment with Chicago Bears CEO Kevin Warren
56 mins; October 22, 2024
A Lifetime of Leadership with President Joe Biden
32 mins; October 15, 2024
Revisited: How To Be A Friend with chef and entrepreneur Christina Tosi
39 mins; October 08, 2024
Revisited: Molly's Game with Molly Bloom
49 mins; October 01, 2024
Revisited: We Cannot Heal Alone In The Loneliness Epidemic with Rabbi Sharon Brous
34 mins; September 17, 2024
Confident Ignorance with rapper, novelist, and filmmaker Logic
59 mins; September 17, 2024
Wealth Is Togetherness with community organizer Kennedy Odede
36 mins; September 10, 2024
Landing Moonshots with Google's Innovation Chief Dr. Astro Teller
44 mins; September 03, 2024
Creativity Is Connection with poet IN-Q
37 mins; August 06, 2024
The Smell of Memory with scent designer Dawn Goldworm
44 mins; July 30, 2024
Mastery is an Infinite Game with performance psychologist Mike Gervais
41 mins; July 23, 2024
Breaking Tradition with cellist Anastasia Kobekina
38 mins; July 16, 2024
How to Breathe Out Fear with freediver Li Karlsen
46 mins; July 08, 2024
More Thinking About Thinking with Brené Brown and Adam Grant: Part Two
38 mins; July 01, 2024
Thinking About Thinking with Brené Brown and Adam Grant: Part One
42 mins; June 24, 2024
The War On The Young with Professor Scott Galloway
62 hours 20 mins; June 17, 2024
Moral Courage with Diane Foley, mother of executed journalist James Foley
30 mins; June 11, 2024
Humble Confidence with veteran and entrepreneur Blake Hall
27 mins; June 04, 2024
The Ultimate Infinite-Minded CEO with Trek Bicycle CEO John Burke
24 mins; May 28, 2024
Be Necessary with war journalist Sebastian Junger
31 mins; May 21, 2024
Invention is Reinvention with entrepreneur Eric Ryan
34 mins; May 14, 2024
The Definition of Success with author Neil Strauss
33 mins; May 07, 2024
Happily Friended with author Rhaina Cohen
25 mins; April 30, 2024
How To Eat with Glucose Goddess Jessie Inchauspé
34 mins; April 23, 2024
Love Is Not Enough with couples therapist Shawn McBride
47 mins; April 16, 2024
We Cannot Heal Alone with Rabbi Sharon Brous
34 mins; April 09, 2024
Ideas That Stick with advertising legend Lee Clow
38 mins; April 02, 2024
The Anxious Generation with social psychologist Jonathan Haidt
35 mins; March 26, 2024
How to Live to 100 with Blue Zones explorer Dan Buettner
42 mins; March 19, 2024
Going To Mars with NASA director Laurie Leshin
38 mins; March 12, 2024
Four Years in Solitary Confinement with political prisoner Leopoldo Lopez
44 mins; March 05, 2024
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