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How to Be a Better Human

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Work advice from the world’s favorite couples therapist w/ Master Fixer Dr. Orna Guralnik | from Fixable

22.12.2025 • 00:40:49

Relationships of any kind can be tricky—but therapists are here to help. In this special episode, Anne and Frances talk to clinical psychologist Dr. O...

Re-release: Throwing good parties and building community (w/ Priya Parker)

15.12.2025 • 00:38:16

Many of us are entering the new year with a similar goal — to build community and connect more with others. To kick off season five, Priya Parker shar...

2025 Staff Picks - Best of How to Be a Better Human

08.12.2025 • 00:28:20

Remember those fun high school superlatives like the “Class Clown” or the “Biggest Flirt”? In this special How to Be a Better Human season finale, you...

Pods Fight Poverty: Why Giving Money to Others Makes us Happier | from The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

05.12.2025 • 00:49:01

Money can buy you happiness – but not in the way we think. Giving money away – especially to help others – has been shown make us happier than spendin...

How to find small delights in an uncontrollable world (w/ Sarah Kay)

01.12.2025 • 00:39:37

What makes a hometown home, and how do you find community? Sarah Kay is a spoken word poet and author of the latest poetry collection, A Little Daylig...

How to Eat with Awareness and Purpose (w/ Sean Sherman)

24.11.2025 • 00:33:13

If you remove ingredients like dairy, wheat, flour, cane sugar, beef, pork, and chicken from your diet—then what do you eat? For Sioux chef Sean Sherm...

How to find belonging (w/ Hanif Abdurraqib)

17.11.2025 • 00:32:52

Where do you belong and what does community mean to you? These are the central questions Chris asks poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib while vi...

Why you need to learn how to fight in a relationship (w/ Dr. Julie and John Gottman)

10.11.2025 • 00:35:40

“All couples fight. In fact, how they fight in the first three minutes predicts with 96% accuracy not only how the rest of the conversation will go, b...

How to break bad habits (w/ Edith Zimmerman)

03.11.2025 • 00:39:32

Edith Zimmerman is a sketchbook cartoonist and writer of the Substack newsletter, Drawing Links. In this episode, she joins Chris to talk about honest...

How to use your muscles — or risk losing them (w/ Bonnie Tsui)

27.10.2025 • 00:44:34

Did you know that you start losing bone AND muscle mass as soon as the age of thirty? Or that your fingers and toes don’t have muscles? Or how women i...