What if one answer could change the trajectory of your entire life? Welcome to the podcast that overcomes psychological barriers by asking better questions. Each episode uncovers different sticking points and explores practical ways to become "unstuck." We'll unpack questions about potential, self-worth, fear and the creative process with psychologists, authors and thought leaders. If you’re craving more substance and ready to dive deep, you’ve come to the right place.
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How Stored Trauma Shows Up In Daily Interactions - Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald
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"We have our most profound healing relationally and we are most profoundly triggered relationally — trauma both needs to be spoken and feels impossible to speak." Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald is a trauma researcher and author of Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong, which you can preorder now. After spending over a decade researching and lect…
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How To Navigate Criticism - Marguerite Imbert
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"Every book you see on the shelf is the product of a writer saying, 'That's good enough.'" Without any formal training, Marguerite Imbert became a chef, a writer for The Michelin Guide and author of the Amazon bestseller, Not A Cookbook. She teaches recurring writing workshops that focus on therapeutic writing and how to become your own project man…
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How Your Questions Shape Your Behavior - Dr. Marilee Adams
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"What we typically think of as thoughts are actually answers to the questions we ask ourselves.” Dr. Marilee Adams is the author of "Change Your Questions, Change Your Life" and founder of the Inquiry Institute, which teaches participants how to create the futures they want using resources like the Choice Map. What stood out to you in this episode?…
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How To Make Decisions Without Regret - Benjamin Russack
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"Making a decision can be way more important than the result of the decision." Benjamin Russack is a marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and host of the podcast "Look, Just Tell Me What To Do." We begin with an honest examination of what it's actually like to be a therapist, then shift into discussing listener questions, including: - How can I mak…
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How To Stop Resisting Change - Jess Janz (Part Two)
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"Where is your life on auto-pilot? A lot of times auto-pilot is protecting us from looking at the things we need to change." Jess Janz is a writer and artist who calls herself a gatherer of words and questions. In Part Two of our conversation, we look at why naming what you want can feel uncomfortable, how to stop intellectualizing feelings, and ho…
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How To Become A Full-Time Creative - Jess Janz (Part One)
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"The times that I feel not creative are usually because I am away from myself, or because I'm avoiding speaking or admitting the truth to myself." Jess Janz is a writer and artist who calls herself a gatherer of words and questions. In Part One of our conversation, we examine the intersection between creativity and finances, and how monetizing your…
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How To Navigate Ambivalent Relationships - Vanessa Van Edwards
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"Ambivalence is more dangerous and worse for your health and relationships than toxicity. The research is very clear on this — it takes so much more energy to be in ambivalent relationships." Vanessa Van Edwards is the author of the bestselling book Captivate, which has been translated into 17 languages and examines how people tick by decoding thei…
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How To Build A Life That Combines Multiple Interests - Laura Maya
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"Ideas themselves are an act of artistic expression — you don't have to follow through on all of them." Laura Maya is the author of Tell Them My Name, a travel memoir that questions the stressors of "normal" life by viewing different cultures through new eyes. A self-described "multipotentialite," Laura has rejected the idea that you need one passi…
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How To Examine Your Relationship With Money - Paula Pant
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"Look around: all of your clutter used to be money; all of your money used to be time." Money is one of those topics (like health) that affects each of us, whether or not we're interested. However, it can be a particularly loaded topic due to all the emotions attached to our financial stories, so uncovering our ingrained beliefs around money can be…
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How To Stop Second-Guessing Yourself - Jackie Endres
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I like to think of this podcast as a place for critical thinkers and deep feelers — Jackie Endres is the definition of both. In today's episode, Jackie joins me in the studio to examine an array of questions submitted by listeners, including: How much does your nature/nurture experience limit your capacity to change? (3:12 min) How can I stop carin…
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How To Easily Set Boundaries - Sam Lamott (Part Two)
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"It's okay to withhold trust and make it be something earned; it's also beautiful to give somebody a ton of trust from the start and let them have something that they can lose." — Sam Lamott is the host of the How To Human podcast (which has reached over a million listeners) where today he interviews guests like Brené Brown on how to acquire the ps…
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How To Speak To Your Inner Critic - Sam Lamott (Part One)
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"I have this critic inside that is so abusive... but what's its motivation? It doesn't want me to get attacked from the outside so it's willing to attack me from the inside. That's when it's time to invite the critic to the table and say, 'I know you want me to make great work, but you can't speak to me that way — you're in my house.'" Sam Lamott d…
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How Friendships Change In Adulthood - Kat Vellos
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"Learn how to enjoy your own company. Then when you meet other people, you'll come from this rich, deep place of having already experienced the beauty of your own friendship because you gave it to yourself first." Kat Vellos is the author of “We Should Get Together: The Secret To Cultivating Better Friendships.” Her work has been featured in The Ne…
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How Your Self-Image Shapes Your Life - Dr. Kyra Bobinet
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"Everything we do or don’t do can be explained by whether it serves our self-image. We spend most of our energy promoting the image we want to project, maintaining the image we’ve already built, or hiding the image we don’t want others to see." Dr. Kyra Bobinet is an expert in behavior change and design thinking. After earning her Masters at Harvar…
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How To Find Common Ground With Anyone - Dr. Bina Patel
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Dr. Bina Patel is an expert in conflict resolution. She conducts leadership training for the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, and corporations worldwide. We talk about how to spot toxic leadership in the workplace, why some people will never change their mind, and how to ask questions that connect rather than divide. If you’re enjoying these c…
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How To Connect Your Present Self and Future Self - Tracy DeLuca
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“So often, we design our lives unintentionally, or by default. Since our future self is still a stranger to us, still a theoretical self, the design process acts as the bridge between the action you take today and the future you want.” Tracy DeLuca is the founder of How Might We Design, a consultancy that helps companies and individuals design thei…
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How To Combine Your Skills Into a Life Statement - Dr. Michelle Chappel
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"We become our most powerful when we combine our passions and skills, allow them to commingle and play with each other. Because I think we're so fractured... when we blend our different strengths into a life statement for ourselves, we become more whole." After earning her Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology at Princeton and being voted "Most Inspirationa…
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How To Discern Between Distractions & Opportunities - Gary Vaynerchuk
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“I’m not crippled by being wrong... I’m only right 4 out of 10 times, but that’s more than enough to be successful." Gary Vaynerchuk is a 5-time New York Times bestselling author and one of the earliest investors in companies including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo and Uber. Gary immigrated to the US in 1978 and grew up in a studio apartment in …
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How To Speak Up Without Diluting Your Message - Chuck Klosterman
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“When you realize you’re no longer doing things to achieve something else later, then this question suddenly looks at you very aggressively: “This is your life, why is this your life?" Chuck Klosterman is a best-selling author and journalist whose work focuses on popular culture in America. For years he wrote “The Ethicist” column for the New York …
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How To Feel At Home Anywhere - Dr. Sharon Eve
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“We operate with a lot of irrational beliefs... Our feelings don’t come from the things that happen, they come from the beliefs about the things that happen." Dr. Sharon Eve is a psychologist who has worked with individuals and couples for the past 40 years. Her work focuses on integrating your past experience into your present life, identifying pa…
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How To Own And Use Your Voice - Reema Zaman
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“The only people who ever say ‘Who do you think you are?' are projecting their own insecurity. Their sense of self has become reliant on you keeping yourself small. Where do we wish to place our loyalty — on other people’s comfort levels, or on our greater potential?" Reema Zaman is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir I Am Yours. Her writ…
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How To Turn Any Idea Into A Reality - Dale Backus
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“The decision to create or build something rarely backfires." After deciding college was not for him, Dale Backus decided to enter the Doritos Super Bowl contest. The winner of the contest would have a Doritos commercial aired right after the kick off and also win a large cash prize. Dale (and his friend) went on to not only win the first year, but…
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How To Use Rejection To Your Advantage - Sarah Curts
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“Rejection still has an impact on me, but you always have the choice to open up rather than shrink. When people reject you, get bigger." Sarah Curts was (and still is) a massage therapist, but in 2009 she had what she calls a dramatic psychic awakening. Today she runs a company called Body Insights, which allows her to incorporate her massage thera…
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How To Change Your Life By Designing Your Day - Yaro Starak
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“What you focus on in the moment becomes who you are in the future… but until you find direction, every path looks interesting." Yaro Starak is blogger and podcaster who decided after graduating college that he would never work for someone else or have a real job again. Since the age of 19, Yaro has been running his own online businesses that have …
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How To Deepen Your Connections With Radical Honesty - Max Collins
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“Are we risking taking our relationships to a messy place, a vulnerable place where you don't know what you're about to say?" Bio Max Collins is an artist and photographer who specializes in large-scale murals. He first began pasting his street murals illegally, driven by the idea that art should be a democratic process where everyone is free to sh…
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How To Become The Expert On Your Own Life - Dr. Denise Ernst
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“We try to fix things that are not ours to fix… when I am here in service of someone else, it is not about me and my solutions." — Dr. Denise Ernst Bio Dr. Denise Ernst is a psychologist whose research and teaching centers around a counseling method called Motivational Interviewing. This method helps people find the internal motivation they need to…
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How To Transform Your Conversations - Jonathan Fields
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“Because we are terrified of being outcasts and not belonging, we tend to sacrifice doing the things that fill us up in the name of being accepted." — Jonathan Fields (@jonathanfields) Jonathan is a bestselling author and founder of The Good Life Project, which has become one of the highest-ranked podcasts in the world. His podcast and books have b…
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How To Question Your Fears - Karen Thompson Walker
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"How can we tell the difference between fears worth listening to, and all the others?" Bio Karen Thompson Walker is a New York Times bestselling author. She wrote her first book The Age of Miracles while she was still working as an editor in NY on the subway to and from work. The Age of Miracles has been translated into 27 languages, and was named …
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How To Be More Effective Than Efficient - Chris Guillebeau
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"Effectiveness is far more important than efficiency... If you're doing the right things, you can afford to be a little inefficient." Bio Chris Guillebeau is a New York Times bestselling author of several books, including The Art of Non-Conformity, The $100 Startup, The Happiness of Pursuit, Born for This, and Side Hustle. By age 35, Chris had trav…
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How To Show Up When You Feel Like Hiding - Seth Godin
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"I feel like hiding every single day. The thing that counters it is generosity. If you can envision that you’re doing this work for someone else, then only a selfish person would choose to hide." — Seth Godin Bio Seth Godin (@sethgodin) is a best-selling author, speaker and entrepreneur. His daily blog is one of most popular in the world and his 18…
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