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Nobody Told Me!
Jan Black & Laura Owens
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When mother-daughter duo Jan Black and Laura Owens first conceptualized their two-generational talk show, nobody told them they’d snag the title of #1 self-help podcast for months on end! But that’s exactly what they’ve done, delving into topics as far-flung as network…
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- 01What Is the Adversity PlanMatt Walker: I did whatever I wanted to do
- 02Why Does Matthew Walker Say the Way You Work Matters More Than the Accomplishment?Matt Walker: I did whatever I wanted to do
- 03What’s Walker’s Purpose for Having People Create AutobiographiesMatt Walker: I did whatever I wanted to do
- 04Why Should We Push the Emotional Reset ButtonMatt Walker: I did whatever I wanted to do
- 05What’s Advice to Someone Struggling With Self-doubtMatt Walker: I did whatever I wanted to do
- 06What Does Matthew Walker Say Happens When You Leave Your Everyday Behavior Behind?Matt Walker: I did whatever I wanted to do
- 07How Does Matthew Walker Define Adventure on Nobody Told Me?Matt Walker: I did whatever I wanted to do
- 08What Is Walker's “nobody Told Me” LessonMatt Walker: I did whatever I wanted to do
- 09How Did Matt Walker Get New Habits to Stick?Matt Walker: I did whatever I wanted to do
- 10What Are the Five Elements of AdventureMatt Walker: I did whatever I wanted to do
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- Dr. Jim Taylor: ...how to survive and thrive when bad things happen
- Dr. Tracy Packiam Alloway: ...how powerful emotions can be in making decisions
- Amy Morin: ...that the world doesn't owe us anything
- Adam J.T. Robarts: comparison is the thief of joy
- Bob Sutton: ...how to deal with assholes
- Dr. Laura Huang: ...that 'be yourself' is bad advice
- Andrew Reiner: ...it's important to ask for help
- John Kralik: ...how the act of saying 'thank you' can turn your life around
- Nancy Ancowitz...you can reach as high as you want to reach
- Sandra Joseph: ...you are born worthy of your dreams
- Ellen Petry Leanse: ...life could be this hard, yet still filled with joy and satisfaction
- Dr. Rick Hanson: ...how to hardwire happiness into our lives
- Daniel Chidiac: ...your visions will become your reality if you just hold onto them
- Dr. Michael Reichert: ...how to raise a young boy into a great man
- Andrew Samuel: ...how to cultivate a life of success, joy, and purpose
- Francesca Gino: ...that it would be important to bring rebelliousness into our lives
- Sarah Shockley: ...you come to know yourself through difficult journeys
- Carmine Gallo: ...that if you don't ask yourself 'how can I be better?', you will always be average
- E. Scott Geller: ...that the key to achieving your goals is simple: one step after the other
- Najwa Zebian: ...that I have always been enough
- Randy Spelling: ...that part of being human is going through challenges
- Tonya Harris: ...that detoxifying your home is faster, cheaper, and easier that you'd think
- Oliver Burkeman: ...that I didn't have to justify my existence through productivity
- Rebecca Pacheco: ...that befriending my own mind was the key to happiness
- Maggie Smith: ...that the best poems come from ordinary moments
- Peter Russell: ...how much worry gets in the way happiness (but it's fixable!)
- Joe Keohane: ...the value of small talk
- Juliet Funt: that your value doesn't come from your accomplishments
- Martha Beck: ...what alignment with yourself feels like
- Dr. Drew Ramsey: ...how to eat to beat depression and anxiety
- Molly Fletcher: ...you can have it all, but can't have it all at once
- Evan Goldstein: ...about the basics of wine
- Elaine Birchall: ...how to overcome clutter and hoarding
- Lori Deschene: ...to listen to my own voice over anyone else's
- Alex Hutchinson: ...that by being too cautious I was holding myself back
- Dr. Michael Reichert: ...how to raise a young boy into a great man
- Daniel Coyle: ...that you have to be vulnerable to build trust
- Catherine Sanderson: ...that it's gonna be okay
- Dr. Venus Nicolino: ...that love cures everything
- Hal Elrod: ...the importance of celebrating life every day
- Jerry Colonna: ...that everybody doubts themselves
- Mitch Prinstein: ...about popularity
- Tanya Menon: ...to think about the kind of connections you'd like to have at the end of your life
- Hal Gregerson: ...that questions are the answer
- Dr. Lisa Damour: ...how powerful a teenage meltdown is
- Andy Andrews: ...that nobody had a job for me
- Jim "The Rookie" Morris: ...things happen for a reason
- Dr. Bryan Robinson: ...that it's okay to stop working and just chill
- Laura Vanderkam: ...you should choose to focus on the times in your life when things worked in your favor
- Todd Rose: ...prioritizing personal fulfillment is the most reliable path to success and happiness
- Shawn Achor: ...the importance of spending time with the right people
- Kate Mangino: ...improving gender inequity at home
- Dr. Guy Winch: ...to recover from any emotional blow, you need to proactively manage your recovery
- Ramie Liddle: ...how a year-long adventure with a 90-year-old woman with stage 4 cancer taught me to seize the day
- Harriet Lerner: ...how profoundly important a heartfelt apology is
- Ingrid Fetell Lee: ...that joy is all around us
- Diane Barth: ...we need to rethink what a friendship is
- Gretchen Rubin: ...that outer order creates inner calm
- Abi Morgan: ...a loved one who no longer recognizes you
- Lori Garver: ...transforming NASCAR and launching a new space age
- Dr. Stephen Trzeciak: …serving others is the best medicine for yourself
- Ronn Owens: ...being a father is an all-consuming and awesome job
- Joseph Burgo: ...how to deal with feelings of shame
- Tiago Forte: ...building a second brain
- Dr. Perry Halkitis: ...a little adversity leads to resilience
- Cyntoia Brown Long: ...that nobody is beyond repair
- Dr. Daniel J Siegel: ...How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become
- Rich Cohen: ...the Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World’s Greatest Negotiator
- Amy Newmark: ...Chicken Soup for the Soul: Your 10 Keys to Happiness
- Kathryn Finney: ...how to start a successful business if you’re not a rich white guy
- Lucie Arnaz: ...take care of yourself, don’t burn yourself on both ends
- Dr. Michele Borba: ....that resilience is teachable
- Clive Wynne: ...how and why dogs love us
- Steven Petrow: ...we can age in our own way
- Greg McKeown: ...if you don't prioritize your life, someone else will
- Dr. Cara Natterson: ...that young boys feel emotions more privately, but just as deeply as young girls
- Sue Klebold: ...remembering the victims of mass shootings
- Damona Hoffman: ...dating is a set of learned skills
- Mary-Frances O’Connor: ...the surprising science of how we learn from love and loss
- Matt Paxton: ...declutter, downsize, and move forward with your life
- Dr. Becca Levy: ...how your beliefs about aging determine how long and well you live
- Nedra Glover Tawwab: ...that it's okay to have boundaries
- Elizabeth Greenwood: ...that the perfect relationship is different for everyone
- Lorene Cary: ...my year with nana at the end of her century
- Dr. Fred Luskin: ...that forgiveness was a lot simpler than I thought
- Dr. Judson Brewer: ...how to break the anxiety cycle
- Terri Cheney: ...that hiding a secret was worse than the secret itself
- Joshua Becker: ...overcoming distraction to pursue a more meaningful life
- Marisa Rene Lee: ...living with loss
- Sarah Fay: ...recovery is possible and mental illness is not proven to be chronic
- Judy Foreman: ...how physical activity slows aging
- Hope Edelman: ...that grieving your mother is a lifelong process
- Maryanne O’Hara: ...that nothing is as important as love
- Adrienne Brodeur: ...the consequences of keeping a big secret
- Marisa Bardach Ramel: ...the mother-daughter bond continues long after death
- Natasha Gregson Wagner: ...that I would learn from my mom, Natalie Wood, long after her death
- Mary Laura Philpott: ...pondering life, death, and everything in between
- Dr. Kelli Harding: ...that you can live longer by being kind
- Magda & Nathaniel Newman: ...how to live with gratitude through any obstacles
- Michelle Icard: ...how to make your child comfortable with difficult conversations
- In-Q: ...to look at other people as fellow humans instead of looking up to or down at them
- Laura Trujillo: ...grieving with loss after the loss of a loved one
- Yifat Susskind: ...why domestic violence would increase during the pandemic
- Dr. Jennifer Heisz: ...the role of physical exercise in our mental health
- Matt Richtel: ...how to be more creative
- J.W. Freiberg: ...how painful the problem of loneliness is
- Dr. Charlotte Markey: ...that the shape of your body does not define who you are
- Dr. Ramani Durvasula: ...how to stay sane in an era of narcissism, entitlement, and incivility
- Dr. Kristin Neff: ...that having self-compassion is a superpower
- Arthur C. Brooks: ...finding success, happiness and deep purpose in the second half of life
- Mark Follman ...the mission to stop mass shootings in America
- Matt Paxton: ...that we can keep the memories AND lose the stuff
- Fawn Germer: ...that I would win
- Ashly Perez: ...that not everything is binary
- Christie Tate: ...that a group of strangers would help me heal from shame
- Dr. Mary Alvord: ...the importance of pacing yourself during the pandemic
- Shelley Paxton: ...that you can have both success AND fulfillment
- Dr. Pauline Boss: ...dealing with loss in the pandemic
- Kim Foley: ...how to convey power and presence in virtual meetings
- Dr. Margaret Rutherford: ...that perfectionism is a problem
- Wondery Presents: Call Me Curious
- Cy Wakeman: …things don’t have to be perfect for you to be content
- Jason Harris: ...that I needed to write my own story and figure out how to get there
- Helena Dea Bala: ...that I would find myself in every stranger I met
- Dana Brown: ...true tales of excess, triumph and disaster
- Shannon Kaiser: ...life is actually supposed to be easy
- Megan Roup: ...to know your worth
- Carolyn Dewar: ...how to distinguish yourself from the rest
- Dr. Eben Alexander: ...how my near death experience would give me proof of heaven
- Elaine Birchall: ...how to overcome clutter and hoarding
- Tessa West: ...toxic coworkers and what to do about them
- Jordan Blashek & Christopher Haugh: ...how friendship can bring us together in times of strife
- Lisa Selin Davis: ...the history (and the future) of girls who dare to be different
- Kelli & Cindy Cruciotti: ...what it's like to work as a mother/daughter team
- Dr. Christian Busch: ...the art and science of creating good luck
- Alice Boyes: ...How to to Become Your Most Efficient and Creative Self
- Jennifer Keishin Armstrong: ...how to empower ourselves through life lessons from those in the spotlight
- Andrew Reiner: ...it's important to ask for help
- Nora McInerny: ...not to rush through the hard stuff in life
- Marta Zaraska: ...how friendship, optimism & kindness can help you live to 100
- Maria Goodavage: ...that dogs are being trained to sniff out COVID-19
- Ryan Martin: ...anger is good, healthy, and we should experience it often
- Dan Millman: ...not to take my thoughts (or myself!) so seriously
- Lisa Woodruff: ...how to organize the mountains of paper we all accumulate
- Michael Easter: ...that I wasn't that important
- Gabrielle Bernstein: ...From Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace
- Jennifer Jolly: ...that my biggest challenge would be my own fear
- David Kidder: ...that my biggest successes would come from following my values
- David S. Rose: ...how some of the greatest ideas begin in times of upheaval
- Julian Treasure: ...that we need to listen fully in order to live fully
- Spike Carlsen: ...why curiosity is one of the best traits we can have
- Spencer Courson: …secrets for staying safe in a dangerous world
- Amy Chan: ...that the right relationship won't feel like a struggle
- Bobby Bones: ...that my greatest fulfillment would come from giving back
- Panache Desai: ...that I was enough
- Terri Cole: ...setting boundaries in your personal & professional life to live more freely
- Robert Kolker: ...the far-reaching implications of mental illness on a family
- Jessica Carson: ...that being a contradiction is a strength, not a weakness
- Ramit Sethi: ...managing your money and relationships
- Meghan Sullivan & Paul Blaschko: ...reasoning through the big questions of happiness, faith and meaning
- Caroline Williams: ...how to keep moving and free your mind with an active lifestyle
- Jen Robin: …organizing your home and creating the space for what matters most
- Whitney Goodman: ...the limits of positive thinking and owning our emotions
- Keith Ferrazzi: …how radical adaptability separates the best from the rest
- Henry Gee: …the history of life on earth
- Kindra Hall: ...silence your inner critic and rewrite your life from the inside out
- Dr. Delatorro McNeal: ...drastically improve productivity and boost morale.
- Agapi Stassinopoulos:... harness the power of prayer in your life.
- Sharon Gless: ...her life, career, struggles and triumphs.
- Bob Saget: …remembering a comedy legend
- Dr. Shefali Tsabary: ...to not seek validation from others until I can give it to myself
- BJ Fogg: ...form good new habits in just 30 seconds per day
- Kendra Adachi: ... quitting is not failure
- Dr. Guy Winch: ...how to cope with the loss of a pet
- Lacy Crawford: ...the importance of finding the courage to tell your story
- Bob Goff: ...to quit letting fear call the shots
- Kirsten Powers: ...Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, and Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts
- Dr. Doug Noll: -- ...keep your cool when dealing with someone who’s upset and out of control.
- Dr. Tracey Shors: ...the longterm effects of trauma and what we can do to reduce them
- Rev. Molly Baskette and Ellen O’Donnell: ...how to celebrate the holidays with spirituality & gratitude
- Judi Ketteler: ...the power of honesty in a world full of lies
- Matthew Emerzian: ...how to love who we really are
- Marc Randolph: ...that I would found Netflix and start an entertainment revolution
- Dr. BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger: ...how to face your own mortality
- Brendan Borrell: ...about the rivalries & science behind the race for the COVID-19 vaccine
- Elizabeth Lesser: ...how difficult times make us grow
- Dr. Leah Weiss: ...how to address workplace mental health issues
- Dr. David Weill: ...the emotional toll that being a transplant physician would take
- Emily Ladau: ...that my disability does not make me any worthy as a human being
- Dorothy Kalins: ...to treasure memories made in the kitchen with our family
- Jeff Mauro: ...what to cook for special family gatherings
- Alissa Carpenter: ...how to have difficult and uncomfortable conversations at work
- Gretchen Rubin: ...that outer order creates inner calm
- Chris Voss: ...how to negotiate like your life depends on it
- Michael Bungay Stanier: ...the power of having people around you to push you forward
- Harold Ivan Smith: ...how to live with grief during the holidays while others are celebrating
- Matt Paxton: ...that we can keep the memories AND lose the stuff
- Dr. Margaret Chisolm: ...that psychiatric illness is like any other illness
- Robert Jensen: ...how to deal with the worst the world can throw at us
- Ross Douthat: ...that an illness can imprison you
- Maggie Smith: ...why we need to 'keep moving' through difficult times
- Robert Greene: ...the root causes of human behavior
- Clive Wynne: ...why unbelievable relationships form between people and their dogs
- Kendra Adachi: ...how to embrace 'the lazy genius' way to get stuff done
- Dr. Traci Baxley: ...that parenting is activism
- Leonard Perlmutter: ...that trusting our conscience can solve all of life's challenges
- Daniel George and Peter Whitehouse: ..about the myths surrounding Alzheimer's and dementia
- Helen Russell: ...how to get happier by being sad
- Katy Milkman: ...that the path to expect requires you to enjoy the journey
- Elizabeth Smart: ...that there are two types of survivors: those who didn't die and the ones who live
- Dr. Neil Schachter: ...why getting a flu shot this year is more important than ever
- Deborah Tuerkheimer: ...that a credibility complex shapes all of us
- William Stixrud and Ned Johnson: ...how to talk to kids to build motivation & stress tolerance
- Dr. Michele Harper: ...that treating patients would help me heal myself
- James Tate Hill: ...that being blind did not mean I was inferior to the sighted
- Dr. Katharine Hayhoe: ...that we should be having optimistic conversations about climate change
- Joshua Prager: ...about the real lives behind Roe v. Wade
- Heidi Murkoff: ...what to expect when you're expecting
- Dr. Drew & Paulina Pinsky: ...that conversations about consent don't need to be awkward
- Dr. Wendy Suzuki: ...that you can get gifts out of your anxiety
- Tonya Harris: ...that detoxifying your home is faster, cheaper, and easier that you'd think
- Abbe Greenberg & Maggie Sarachek: ...that anxiety and happiness can co-exist
- Peter Russell: ...how much worry gets in the way happiness (but it's fixable!)
- Dorothy Kalins: ...that kitchen memories would make up some of my best memories
- Jim Kwik: ...how to learn anything faster
- Natasha Gregson Wagner: ...that I would learn from my mom, Natalie Wood, long after her death
- Rachel Louise Snyder: ...why domestic violence victims don't leave
- Oliver Burkeman: ...that I didn'thave to justify my existence through productivity
- Brian Dumaine: ...what motivates Jeff Bezos to dream bigger and bigger for Amzon
- Regina Louise: ...that the heart and soul of emotional goodness was within me
- Rebecca Pacheco: ...that befriending my own mind was the key to happiness
- Connie Post: ...that raising a severely autistic child would teach me to live in the present
- Greg McKeon: ...that people who do extraordinary things are just ordinary people
- Chaunté Lowe: ...the power of positivity in making a comeback
- Maggie Smith: ...that the best poems come from ordinary moments
- Juliet Funt: that your value doesn't come from your accomplishments
- Steph Cartwright: ...how to write a stand-out resume in a brutal job market
- Martha Beck: ...what alignment with yourself feels like
- Dr. Drew Ramsey: ...how to eat to beat depression and anxiety
- In-Q: ...to look at other people as fellow humans instead of looking up to or down at them
- Elizabeth Greenwood: ...that the perfect relationship is different for everyone
- Joe Keohane: ...the value of small talk
- Lewis Howes: ...how to overcome emotional trauma
- Nastia Liukin: ...how my life would change after becoming an Olympic gold medalist
- Bob Sager: ...that 'Danny Tanner' would impact so many people
- David S. Rose: ...the opportunities that the pandemic would bring for entrepreneurs
- David Buckmaster: ...that people are not out to get you
- Dr. Shefali Tsabary: ...to not seek validation from others until I can give it to myself
- Mark Goulston: ...how to recover from post-COVID PTSD
- Dr. Kristin Neff: ...that having self-compassion is a superpower
- Michael Easter: ...that I wasn't that important
- Steven Petrow: ...we can age in our own way
- Joseph Burgo: ...how to free myself from feelings of shame
- Ron Friedman: ...that the best in the world use reverse engineering to be successful
- Bob Goff: ...that I shouldn't live my life for the approval of other people
- Randy Spelling: ...that part of being human is going through challenges
- Dr. Kelli Harding: ...that you can live longer by being kind
- Dr. Daniel J. Siegel: ...how to develop 'mindsight'
- Dr. Perry Haltis: ...that being gay made me stronger than I would have felt as a straight man
- Christina Hunger: ...that I would have the world's first talking dog
- Najwa Zebian: ...that I have always been enough
- Spencer Coursen: ...that we actually feel the safest when we are in the most danger
- Doug Conant: ...that becoming a leader was about becoming myself
- Carson Kressley: ...how life really works
- Daniel Coyle: ...that you have to be vulnerable to build trust
- Tamika Mallory: ...how to be an effective social justice advocate
- Dr. Sandeep Jauhar: ...that emotional disturbances impact heart health
- Patti Stanger: ...what it takes to find true love
- Maryanne O’Hara: ...that nothing is as important as love
- Jan & Laura: ...how to help someone you love during tough times
- Dr. Michele Borba: ....that resilience is teachable
- Cara Belvin: ...that the loss of my mother was survivable
- Alissa Carpenter: ...how the office will look post-pandemic
- Dr. Cara Natterson: ...that young boys feel emotions more privately, but just as deeply as young girls
- Dr. Tracy Packiam Alloway: ...how powerful emotions can be in making decisions
- Dr. Jennifer Ashton: ...the roadmap to resilience in the pandemic era
- Nedra Glover Tawwab: ...that it's okay to have boundaries
- Judy Batalion: ...that strength and courage can be passed down through generations
- Julia Galef: ...why some people see things clearly and others don't
- ...the ingredients we need to be happy (with Dr. Rick Hanson, Shawn Achor, and Ellen Petry Leanse)
- Jeff Mauro: ...how important family gatherings are
- Katharine Brooks: ...to relax and enjoy the college experience
- Dr. Fred Luskin: ...that it's a waste of time to argue with the past
- Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: ...that we have the power to choose who and how we want to be in every situation
- Dr: Ellyn Bader: ...how to work together successfully as a couple
- Dr. Anthony Youn: ...that you can't please everyone
- Alexandra Andrews: ...that you need to do a lot of grunt work to get to the good stuff
- Dr. Doug Stenbrech: ...the impact of Zoom meetings on a man's self-consciousness
- Katherine May: ...the power of rest during difficult times
- Michelle Icard: ...how to make your child comfortable with difficult conversations
- Dr. Laura Huang: ...that 'be yourself' is bad advice
- Dr. Judson Brewer: ...how to break the anxiety cycle
- Heather Chauvin: ...that motherhood is personal growth on steroids
- Michael Crossland: ...the importance of perspective
- Dr. Kenneth Bock: ...the hidden causes of anxiety, depression, & other mood disorders
- J. Randy Taraborelli: ...how similar famous people are to us
- Andrea Barber: ...how to be kind to & forgiving of myself
- Daniel Chidiac: ...that my thoughts would shape my life
- Dr. Catherine Sanderson: ...how to master a positive mindset
- Dr. Steven Kahan: ...how to be a startup superstar
- Alex Banayan: ...that you can always find 'a way in' with grit and creativity
- Mastin Kipp: ...that to get to the next level, you need to allow in support
- Katherine Switzer: ...that we all have much more ability than we think we do
- Shan Boodram: ...that I could take control of my love story
- Leigh Steinberg: ...that focusing on the present will lead to a successful future
- Rachel Cruze: ...how emotional money is
- Lisa Taddeo: ...that we are not alone
- Marc Randolph: ...that I would co-found Netflix
- Joseph Burgo: ...that we can choose whether to let shame destroy us or teach us
- Jennifer Gates: ...why it's so important to have a growth mindset
- Amy Purdy: ...how much perseverance you need to be successful
- Megan Roup: ...to know your worth
- Fawn Germer: ...that I would win
- Panache Desai: ...by being visited by death, we develop the courage to live
- Bob Langert: ...how to open doors by being strategic
- Clive Wynne: ...that our dogs really do love us (and not just because we have a treat!)
- Tim Larkin: ...how to survive when your life is at stake
- Brian David Johnson: ...how to break through fear of the future
- Dan Millman: ...not to take my thoughts (or myself!) so seriously
- Nicole Lapin: ...why you need to take care of yourself before others
- Robin Dreeke: ...that the key to success is to treat others like you want to be treated
- Steph Gaudreau: ...that your weight doesn't determine your worth
- Humble the Poet: ...that true freedom means to choose the challenges in your life
- BJ Fogg: ...how to move past habits that no longer serve you
- Bob Saget: ...that it's a marathon, not a sprint
- Andy Andrews: ...that your thinking determines your destiny
- Robert Kolker: ...about the impact of mental illness on a family
- Sarah Owens: ...that the world needed a reset
- Ty Penninton: ...how to be successful with ADHD
- Bobby Bones: ...that my greatest fulfillment would come from giving back
- Hope Edelman: ...how to deal with grief, the pandemic, and the holidays
- Amy Chan: ...that the right relationship won't feel like a struggle
- Andrew Reiner: ...it's important to ask for help
- Ashly Perez: ...that not everything is binary
- Sue Klebold: ...how to react when someone you love says that they are depressed or suicidal
- Spike Carlsen: ...why curiosity is one of the best traits we can have
- Dr. Jonathan Fader: ...it doesn't matter how much you've achieved if you aren't there to experience it
- Elizabeth Smart: ...that there is always hope
- Christie Tate: ...that a group of strangers would help me heal from shame
- Kim Foley: ...how to convey power and presence in virtual meetings
- Jordan Belfort: ...that anyone can come back from failure
- Jason Harris: ...that I needed to write my own story and figure out how to get there
- Gretchen Rubin: ...that decluttering would lead to a happier life
- Carmine Gallo: ...that if you don't ask yourself 'how can I be better?', you will always be average
- Carmine Gallo: ...that if you don't ask yourself 'how can I be better?', you will always be average
- David Kidder: ...that my biggest successes would come from following my values
- Kathy Callahan: ...that fostering dogs would show me the good in people
- Reshma Saujani: ...that I had to be brave, not perfect
- Robert Greene: ...that I wouldn't choose to change a thing about my past
- Elizabeth Lesser: ...finding your voice is the path to freedom
- Simone St. James: ...to push myself to do something more, bigger, and better
- Shawn Achor: ...the importance of spending time with the right people
- Amy Morin: ...that the world doesn't owe us anything
- Jennifer Jolly: ...that my biggest challenge would be my own fear
- Lori Gottlieb: ...we need to have more compassion for ourselves
- Theresa Caputo: ...how much our loved ones work from the other side
- Mitch Albom: ...how lives and losses intersect
- Chris Voss: ...that life is a series of negotiations
- Michael Gelb: ...that preparation is most of the game
- Dr. Charlotte Markey: ...that the shape of your body does not define who you are
- Dr. BJ Miller: ...that independence doesn't really exist
- Kendra Adachi: ...that quitting is not failure
- Dr. Fred Luskin: ...that forgiveness was a lot simpler than I thought
- Terri Cheney: ...that hiding a secret was worse than the secret itself
- Dr. Jim Taylor: ...how to survive and thrive when bad things happen
- Greg McKeown: ...if you don't prioritize your life, someone else will
- Lisa Woodruff: ...how to organize the mountains of paper we all accumulate
- Dr. Guy Winch...how to cope with the loss of a pet (National Dog Day special episode)
- Lisa Selin Davis: ...the history (and the future) of girls who dare to be different
- Jessica Carson: ...that being a contradiction is a strength, not a weakness
- Dr. Ed Tronick & Dr. Claudia Gold: ...the power of discord
- Helena Dea Bala: ...that I would find myself in every stranger I met
- Julian Treasure: ...that we need to listen fully in order to live fully
- Dr. Mary Alvord: ...the importance of pacing yourself during the pandemic
- Jordan Blashek & Christopher Haugh: ...how friendship can bring us together in times of strife
- Dr. Elizabeth Englander: ...how to cope with bullying
- Maria Goodavage: ...that dogs are being trained to sniff out COVID-19
- Lacy Crawford: ...
- Dr. Lydia Dugdale: ...how COVID-19 is changing the conversation about end-of-life issues
- Bob Goff: ...to quit letting fear call the shots
- Judith Matloff: ...the importance of staying calm in a life-threatening situation
- Marta Zaraska: ...how friendship, optimism & kindness can help you live to 100
- Alissa Carpenter: ...how to listen and be heard at work
- Dr. Christian Busch: ...the art and science of creating good luck
- Ronn Owens: ...the challenges and rewards that come with being a father
- Robert Kolker: ...the far-reaching implications of mental illness on a family
- Jennifer Keishin Armstrong: ...how to empower ourselves through life lessons of those in the spotlight
- Majo Molfino: ...the importance of learning self-compassion
- Rachel Louise Snyder: ...that domestic violence begets other types of violence
- Bob Saget: ...we can fight the common enemy of hatred, anger, and fear
- Catherine Sanderson: ...how to develop moral courage
- Dr. Margaret Rutherford: ...that perfectionism is a problem
- David S. Rose: ...how some of the greatest ideas begin in times of upheaval
- J.W. Freiberg: ...how painful the problem of loneliness is
- Yifat Susskind: ...why domestic violence would increase during the pandemic
- Allison Holzer: ...how to find inspiration during the pandemic
- Hope Edelman: ...that grieving your mother is a lifelong process
- Cyntoia Brown: ...that nobody is beyond repair
- Vishen Lakhiani: ...the secret spiritual art of success
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