Episodes
Dec. 10, 2025
Ep: 1812 Carlo Rotella - What Can I Get Out of This?
At a moment when college students—and their parents—are scrutinizing the “return on investment” of humanities courses, Carlo Rotella opens the door to a classroom full of wary first-year students. He follows thirty-three stud...
Dec. 10, 2025
Ep: 1811 Nikki Monti PhD - The Dangers of Using AI as Your Therapist
It may seem fun to jump on the ChatGPT bandwagon and use it as a quick fix for mental health questions, but you shouldn’t take shortcuts to heal, according to distinguished licensed marriage, family, and child psychotherapist...
Dec. 3, 2025
Ep: 1810 Angela Burk - Real Girls Guide to Midlife
Forget everything you think you know about women in midlife. Angela Burk ’s raw, unfiltered, and fiercely passionate book shatters the glossy, sugar-coated stories we’ve been sold about ‘aging gracefully.’ This isn’t a manual...
Dec. 3, 2025
Ep: 1809 Laurie Cure PhD - Psychological Safety in the Workplace
Studies consistently show that when employees feel safe to voice concerns, share ideas, and acknowledge mistakes without fear of judgment, they become more innovative, more productive, and more committed to their organization...
Nov. 26, 2025
Ep: 1808 Shuvendu Sen MD - Broadway, Bars, and Fortune
As communities search for more effective ways to support people returning home from prison, one unexpected solution is taking center stage — literally. Theater programs are emerging as powerful tools for restoring confidence ...
Nov. 19, 2025
Ep: 1807 Ea Fuqua and Meg DeLong - Tidying Up
Just in time for the bustling holiday season—when guests, gatherings, and gift wrap tend to take over—Ea Fuqua and Meg DeLong share simple, uplifting strategies to create welcoming, clutter-free spaces. But their approach goe...
Nov. 12, 2025
Ep: 1806 Chris Gillett - The Headshot Mistake
Former successful trial attorney and one of Houston’s most elite sought-after professional photographers, Chris Gillett exposes how a poorly crafted headshot can silently sabotage your professional image. He explains that fir...
Nov. 12, 2025
Ep: 1805 Hunter Stoler - Eat Better, Spend Less
Featured on Fox & Friends for his viral healthy Pumpkin Spice Latte dupe, Hunter Stoler —a viral TikTok and Instagram creator—has captured national attention after losing over 50 pounds and slashing $11,000 a year from his gr...
Nov. 5, 2025
Ep: 1804 Meg Groff - Not If I Can Help It
For more than three decades, family court attorney Meg Groff , based in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, worked 60-hour weeks, often for little or no pay, defending the rights of poor and abused women and their children against a...
Nov. 5, 2025
Ep: 1803 Tess Cacciatore - Yumi's Universe
Step into Yumi’s Universe and get to know the friends who travel the world to learn, grow, and share the message of peace. Each character brings a special gift that helps children everywhere become Keepers of the Garden of Pe...
Oct. 29, 2025
Ep: 1802 Cynthia Rivard - A New Breed of Leader
It has become impossible to escape the never-ending discord and dysfunction that is becoming a defining marker of our current moment. This systemic and social conflict seems to be increasing by the week, and many are growing ...
Oct. 29, 2025
Ep: 1801 Lori Miller Kase - The Accident
A deadly hit-and-run shatters a quiet Connecticut town— and Hannah can't shake the chilling feeling that she knows who's behind the wheel. It might be her brother, Rob. It might be Zach—Rob's best friend and the first boy who...
Oct. 22, 2025
Ep: 1800 Lauren Stienstra - The Beauty of the End
Lauren Stienstra explores a world redefined by a shocking revelation: there is a biological countdown to extinction encoded into every living creature’s DNA. For humanity, just four generations remain. How and when people cho...
Oct. 22, 2025
Ep: 1799 Alyson Richman - The Missing Pages
In 1912, Harry Widener, a passionate book collector, boards the Titanic with a priceless book he recently bought in London. When disaster strikes, his last words are that he must retrieve the book from his cabin—neither he no...
Oct. 15, 2025
Ep: 1798 Robbie Bach - The Blockchain Syndicate
The Blockchain Syndicate offers a gripping exploration of trust, technology and how easily the world we know can come unraveled. Robbie Bach’ s insider knowledge of the tech world and his deep involvement in civic and policy ...
Oct. 15, 2025
Ep: 1797 Lybi Ma - How To Be Less Miserable
As the longtime executive editor of Psychology Today, Lybi Ma offers current research on the human brain’s tendency toward negative thinking: why we do it and why it’s so hard to stop doing it. She examines methods to overcom...
Oct. 8, 2025
Ep: 1796 Melissa Mose LMFT - Therapy for OCD
While many with obsessive compulsive disorder find partial remission with standard treatment, others struggle to fully overcome symptoms or find significant relief. Studies show that 60-80 percent of those with OCD who engage...
Oct. 8, 2025
Ep: 1795 John Beyer - Live a Little Better
Born to addicted parents whose abuse drove his older sisters out of the home while he was still young, John Beyer became a lost teenager plagued by binge drinking, criminal activity, and emotional instability. At a tender age...
Oct. 1, 2025
Ep: 1794 Stephanie Covington PhD - Awaken Your Sexuality
Drawing from cutting edge research and decades of clinical experience, Stephanie Covington PhD goes beyond traditional recovery literature and considers sexuality an integral part of what it means to be whole and well. Addict...
Oct. 1, 2025
Ep: 1793 Charlene Wang - I'll Follow You
Reserved and brainy Faith and charismatic and capricious Kayla are an unlikely but inseparable pair. Creating the successful influencer persona “Hannah Primrose” feels like a lottery ticket to fame in high school, but when Fa...
Sept. 24, 2025
Ep: 1792 Cindy Fazzi - Domingo the Bounty Hunter
Drawing on her own immigrant experience, Cindy Fazzi takes readers on an action-packed ride full of wit and grit in her thrilling two-book release, Sunday or the Highway and Danger No Problem. Whether it’s traffickers, fugiti...
Sept. 17, 2025
Ep: 1791 Florence Ann Romano - Build Your Village
We’re living in the loneliest era of modern history, and yet the solution may not be more connection but the right connection. According to new insights from science and ancient wisdom alike, that connection begins with intui...
Sept. 17, 2025
Ep: 1790 JL Spears - Daemon Protocol
Would you know if AI had already taken over? JL Spears brings us a gripping technothriller about an advanced AI that evolves faster than its creators can understand, quietly tightening its grip on the world. The story was bor...
Sept. 10, 2025
Ep: 1789 Juliette Fay - The Harvey Girls
Charlotte Crowninshield was born into one of the finest Boston society families. Now she’s on the run from a brutal husband, desperate to disappear into the wilds of the Southwest. Billie MacTavish is the oldest of nine child...