Mental Health, Trauma & Addiction
398: Danny Trejo | Inmate #1
Danny Trejo (@officialDannyT) is an instantly recognizable actor, producer, and restauranteur with a resume that includes crime, hard time, and battling his own addictions while helping troubled youth overcome theirs. His latest project is the documentary Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo. What We Discuss with Danny Trejo: What it was once like for […]
VIEW EPISODE377: Randolph Nesse | Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
Randolph Nesse (@randynesse) is the founding director of the Center for Evolution Medicine at Arizona State University and author of Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry. What We Discuss with Randolph Nesse: What possible purpose do anxiety, depression, and anger serve from an evolutionary standpoint? Why the body’s mechanisms […]
VIEW EPISODE374: Kelly McGonigal | The Upside of Stress
Kelly McGonigal (@kellymcgonigal) is a research psychologist, a lecturer at Stanford University, and an award-winning science writer. She is the author of The Joy of Movement, The Willpower Instinct, and The Upside of Stress. What We Discuss with Kelly McGonigal: How much does the way you think about stress affect your health? Contrary to what […]
VIEW EPISODE365: Benjamin Hardy | How to Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs
Benjamin Hardy (@BenjaminPHardy) is an organizational psychologist and author of Willpower Doesn’t Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success and Personality Isn’t Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story. What We Discuss with Benjamin Hardy: Why treating the results of a “scientific” personality test like Myers & Briggs or Enneagram as gospel […]
VIEW EPISODE361: From Self-Help Cultist to Sex Offender | Feedback Friday
The mindset and linguistic contortionism you developed as a self-help cult (aka Large Group Awareness Training program) follower led to you becoming a registered sex offender. How did things go so wrong, and what can you do now? This and more here on Feedback Friday. And in case you didn’t already know it, Jordan Harbinger […]
VIEW EPISODE356: How to Make the Most of Quarantine | Deep Dive
Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) joins us for this deep dive exploring the ups and downs of COVID-19 pandemic life and how to make the most of quarantine to emerge better, not beaten, from the experience. [Featured photo by Kari Shea] What We Discuss with Gabriel Mizrahi: While you may not be able to control how long […]
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