Latest Podcast Episodes

  • Good Life Project

    Your Life in One Word? This Could Change Everything

    What if your entire life story, every chapter, every turn, every moment you felt most yourself, could be distilled down to a single word?

    May 18

  • 10% Happier

    Suppressing Your Emotions Is Making Them Stronger

    Most of us are navigating our emotional lives with roughly the same skill set we had at age five.

    May 18

  • The Happiness Lab

    The Hidden Beliefs That Shape Your Happiness

    As part of The Happiness Lab’s spring cleaning series on well-being, Laurie Santos sits down with Shawn Achor to explore one of the most underexamined forces shaping our lives: the beliefs we hold about ourselves and the world around us.

    May 18

  • Office Hours

    Why Useless Friends Are theBest Kinds of Friends

    We chase success, recognition, and expansive networks, and yet many of us still experience a quiet, persistent loneliness.

    May 18

  • The Happiness Challenge

    How to Cope with Overthinking

    One thought becomes ten, ten becomes a full-blown argument, and suddenly you are replaying the past and catastrophizing the future before you have finished your coffee.

    May 17

  • Live Happy Now

    The Mental Health We Inherit — and the Healing We Choose

    Mental health patterns, coping strategies, and emotional habits do not appear out of nowhere. They travel through generations, often quietly and invisibly, until someone decides to interrupt them.

    May 5

  • Office Hours

    Why You’re Missing Your Own Life — and How to Fix It

    Arthur Brooks opens this episode with a personal tribute to his late mother, an artist whose instinct for savoring the beauty around her was, he now realizes, one of the most important happiness lessons he ever received.

    May 4

  • Good Life Project

    You Probably Shouldn’t Say That. And Yet…

    Julia Minson has spent years studying the psychology of disagreement and what it actually takes to navigate those moments without losing the relationship in the process.

    May 4

  • The Happiness Lab

    What Screen Time Is Really Doing to Your Body

    We spend a lot of time talking about how screens affect our minds. But Manoush Zomorodi argues we are missing an equally important piece of the puzzle: what screens are doing to our bodies.

    May 4

  • 10% Happier

    Stressed, Stuck, and Overthinking? Here’s the Science of Moving Forward

    Faced with uncertainty and fear, most of us freeze. We overanalyze, overthink, and fail to act.

    May 4

  • How to Feel Alive

    Examining Beliefs with Nir Eyal

    Most of our decisions and emotional reactions are not based on facts. They are based on beliefs, and beliefs, unlike facts or faith, can be changed.

    May 3

  • The Happiness Podcast

    The Secret to Happiness: Don’t Grow Up

    When the brilliant writer William F. Buckley Jr. was asked for the secret to happiness, his answer was disarmingly simple: “Don’t grow up.” In this episode, Dr. Robert Puff unpacks why that deceptively playful response may be one of the most profound pieces of wisdom we can carry into adult life.

    May 1