Episodes

When I was a kid, one of my favorite TV shows was The Magic School Bus. In one episode, Ms. Frizzle shrinks the class down and takes them inside the human body to learn about the immune system. I’ve never forgotten it. For ye...

When we think of imagination, we assume it’s reserved for creatives: painters and poets, actors and musicians. But the truth is, we use our imagination almost constantly: anytime we reminisce, anticipate, plan, or daydream. R...

We all know the basics for sleep: put your phone away, create a bedtime routine, avoid caffeine, keep the room cool. We’ve heard it a thousand times. And yet, one in eight Americans has chronic insomnia, and over half report ...

Most of us spend our lives pretending we have forever. We push off difficult conversations, delay dreams, and take tomorrow for granted. But the truth is, we don’t have forever. We have about 3,200 weeks, according to average...

Beer has been part of the human story for millennia. It helped fuel debates in revolutionary taverns, followed soldiers to war, brought strangers together in colonial alehouses and modern taprooms. From the Founding Fathers’ ...

I’ve always believed that the questions we ask reveal as much about us as the answers we give. So when I had the chance to set up a booth at the MIT Museum’s 2025 Cambridge Science Carnival , I brought one question with me: “...

There’s something both terrifying and oddly comforting about knowing we have four billion years left. The sun will expand, swallow Earth, and explode. We need to leave. The question isn't whether we should go, but how we'll s...

Since starting the podcast in 2023, I’ve made a conscious effort to stay out of the way. I ask questions, I guide guests through their stories, I stay detached. I never wanted to be one of those hosts who dominates their show...

Ever since I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by space. As a kid, I had a poster of the Eagle Nebula on my bedroom wall and a telescope I used to study the moon. My favorite movie is Contact , based on Carl Sagan’s novel ab...

You’ve felt it. You’re scrolling through social media, sitting in a Zoom meeting, watching a political debate. Some people command attention effortlessly. They draw you in with a glance, hold you with their energy, make you f...

In 2022, I joined The Anthony Thomas Podcast to discuss my sci-fi thriller, The Empathy Academy , a novel that explores this exact question. The story follows Montgomery Hughes, a teenager who infiltrates a controversial acad...

What if the reason your health problems keep coming back is because you’ve only been treating symptoms, never the underlying cause? When Katie Concannon was a teenager, she started experiencing health issues related to her me...

What if you could work from anywhere in the world—a beach in Bali, a café in Barcelona, a mountain village in Colombia—and never need permission from a boss to buy a plane ticket? The digital nomad lifestyle has become the fa...

Can an AI truly understand us? Does it have thoughts, creativity, or self-awareness? The movie Her was set in 2025—the year we’re living in now. So I decided to interview artificial intelligence itself. In this fascinating 45...

When I was a kid, I questioned rules that didn’t make sense. I resisted illegitimate authority. I could be difficult, inquisitive, sometimes arrogant. My dad used to joke that I had oppositional defiant disorder, or ODD, a be...

When Elon Musk publicly revealed he uses ketamine to manage his depression, the revelation sent shockwaves through both tech and mental health communities. Here was one of the world’s most high-profile figures openly discussi...

What if the future of mental health treatment involves substances we’ve spent decades criminalizing? For years, psychedelics like psilocybin and MDMA were dismissed as dangerous drugs with no medical value. But a growing body...

Exercise is practically a religion in modern culture. We’re told it helps us sleep better, lose weight, reduce anxiety, and lower our risk of countless diseases. So like millions of others, I’ve stayed active—triathlons, mara...

When you listen to an audiobook, especially fiction, you want to be transported, swept into another world where characters feel real and scenes play like movies in your mind. A great narrator doesn’t just read words; they bre...

Cancer doesn’t discriminate. It strikes scientists and artists, children and the elderly, the famous and the unknown. We’ve all felt its cruel grip, whether through our own diagnosis or watching someone we love fight a battle...

Would you believe me if I told you that the flowers in your window and the trees in your yard are actually sophisticated chemical laboratories, producing compounds that could cure disease? Plants can’t run from predators or h...

In early 2024, Kaitlyn Gilbert, a designer I’ve worked with for several years, reached out after hearing me discuss my book The Healing Book on a podcast. “I see parallels in our stories that are too striking to pass up,” she...

What if love isn’t just a feeling, but a form of data from a higher dimension? In this season finale, I invite Jeanne Mayell back to the podcast to pick up where we left off in Episode #4 . Jeanne is an intuitive counselor an...

In this episode, I sit down with Samantha Cooke, author of Love Always, Bailey , a young adult novel that hit #1 in New Releases for YA Mental Health within hours of its November 2023 launch. The book climbed into the top 10 ...