Episodes

• Season 2

• storytelling

  guest: james robertson. topic: storytelling.
  March 24, 2021

  84 min

• overcoming bulimia

  guest: caroline miller. topic: overcoming bulimia.
  March 17, 2021

  56 min

• minimalism

  guests: joshua fields millburn and ryan nicodemus. topic: minimalism.
  March 10, 2021

  70 min

• mental health stigmas

  guest: audrey brianne. topic: mental health stigmas.
  March 3, 2021

  63 min

• fish out of water

  guest: anna faris. topic: fish out of water.
  February 24, 2021

  82 min
• Season 1

• dead moms

  i talk with whitmer thomas (his special “the golden one” is out now on HBO) about our dead moms. how have we processed our grief ? do we feel anger toward our deceased mothers ? what horrific and hilarious memories can we conjure from our mothers’ terminal months ?
  November 25, 2020

  64 min

• confidence

  i talk with my friend and brilliant comedian daniel sloss (his special “x” is on hbo. his specials “dark” + “jigsaw” are on netflix) about confidence. how can you differentiate between legitimate confidence and false, ego-based confidence ? where does confidence come from and is it possible to fake it ?
  November 18, 2020

  77 min

• handling difficult emotions

  i talk with bestselling author / harvard psychology professor susan david about handling difficult emotions. how can we avoid brooding in or bottling up our feelings ? how does knowing our values help us to manage our emotions ? what's the matter with today's increasingly popular happiness movement ?
  November 11, 2020

  67 min

• antidepressants

  i talk with comedian/actress esther povitsky (her special Hot For My Name is out on Comedy Central now) about antidepressants. how did getting on antidepressants change esther's life ? what led her to get on them in the first place ? and should i get on them immediately ?!?!?
  November 4, 2020

  48 min

• 20something

  i talk with best-selling author / life coach christine hassler about the challenges of being in your 20s. how do you start to take accountability for your life ? how can you establish boundaries and healthy family dynamics ? and most importantly, why did no one tell us that our 20s would be such a shit show ? i mean seriously, what is this shit ?
  October 28, 2020

  62 min

• running

  i talk with olympic runner/bobsledder lolo jones about her various olympic experiences as well as her turbulent upbringing that paved the way for her olympic dreams.
  October 21, 2020

  59 min

• eating disorders in adolescence

  i talk with author / this american life editor / yale graduate susan burton (her memoir empty is out now) about our adolescent experiences with eating disorders . what were our first memories of wanting to change our bodies ? how did we feel when we were on various rungs of the eating disorder “hierarchy” ? did our eating disorders stem from a fixation on little girlhood and wanting to stay child-like ?
  October 14, 2020

  65 min

• adjusting

  i talk with comedy producer / photographer / my dear friend mandee johnson (her book super serious is out now) about adjusting and how covid has changed our courses in life .
  October 7, 2020

  53 min

• dating

  i talk with comedian taylor tomlinson about dating. what are the most important lessons we’ve learned from past relationships ? would we still have chemistry with any of our exes if we met them today ? in which relationship were we the worst versions of ourselves ?
  September 30, 2020

  38 min

• sense of humor

  i talk with comedian/actress arden myrin about humor. when were our senses of humor the cringiest ? when have we used humor as a defense mechanism to mask our pain ? what eventually led us to develop senses of humor that were more genuine to us ? (arden’s book Little Miss Little Compton is out September 29th !! you can pre-order it now at www.ardenmyrin.com).
  September 23, 2020

  63 min

• growing up mormon

  i talk with influencer / skincare expert hyram yarbro about how he came to terms with his sexuality while growing up in the LDS church, our opposite experiences with our mormon upbringings (for me, church was an escape. for hyram, a prison), and the danger of suppressing our emotions .
  September 16, 2020

  57 min

• losing

  i talk with apolo ohno (the most decorated winter olympian of all time) about losing. is a winner made in how they lose ? why does losing discourage some people so much that they never get back up, and yet motivate others ?
  September 9, 2020

  59 min

• alcoholism

  i talk with annie lederman (comedian / writer / one of my new favorite people) about our history with alcohol . was trauma the catalyst for our drinking habits ? what tools helped us finally address + work on our issues ? how pivotal was learning to manage our triggers in helping us resolve our drinking patterns ? WARNING: this episode includes explicit details of sexual abuse .
  September 2, 2020

  99 min

• codependency

  i talk with comedian / writer beth stelling ( her new special “ GirlDaddy ” is out NOW on HBOmax ! ) about codependency . what is our pattern in relationships ? how can we avoid recreating old unhealthy dynamics ? what measures have we taken to work on ourselves in this area ?
  August 26, 2020

  49 min

• rejection

  i talk with my friend (and filmmaker !) zane rubin about rejection. how responsible is rejection for putting you on your current life path? at what point does rejection go from being valuable feedback to being a dream killer? what happens when we orient our lives toward avoiding rejection?
  August 19, 2020

  40 min