The daily practice that could rewire your brain | Timm Chiusano
Emotional intelligence coach Timm Chiusano shares how noticing a manhole cover on one of the worst days of his career led him to realize he is 'addicted to appreciation.' He explains what appreciation is, how it differs from gratitude, and how consistently noticing and valuing everyday things and people has transformed his life and work. He offers simple practices for cultivating appreciation and argues it can make us happier, more present, and better able to connect and create change together.
Try This Today: How to Use Gratitude to Feel Happier & Improve Your Relationships
Mel Robbins explores gratitude as a practical, science-backed tool for rewiring the brain away from negativity and reducing stress, rather than as a superficial positivity practice. Drawing on research studies and expert insights, she introduces three main gratitude tools: an unsent gratitude letter, a three-minute nightly gratitude journal (and morning variations), and a gratitude-focused text chain. Throughout the episode, she emphasizes how small, consistent gratitude practices can improve mental and physical health, deepen relationships, and help listeners reclaim control over their attention and emotional state.
6 Lessons I Wish I Knew in My 20's & 30's (This Will INSTANTLY Give You Direction!)
Jay Shetty, speaking directly to people in their 20s and 30s, shares six psychological and life lessons about loving the process over results, distinguishing your inner voice from external noise, and separating success from happiness. He explains how real confidence is built through self-trust and small follow-throughs, why most rejection is statistical rather than personal, and how healing often feels messy and disorienting even as your brain and nervous system genuinely change. He frames the 20s as a training ground of "firsts" and identity disruption, encouraging listeners to treat confusion and failure as emotional data and practice rather than proof of inadequacy.
Feeling Lazy or Unmotivated? (Do THIS 5-Minute Rule to Build Discipline & Take Action NOW!)
The host shares a structured approach to overcoming feelings of laziness and lack of motivation by focusing on small, easy actions that build momentum and self-belief over time. He explains how to lower the activation barrier, build rituals instead of relying on willpower, reset dopamine sensitivity, and design your environment to support focus. The episode culminates in practical tools like the 5-minute rule, accountability that "hurts," and a nightly 3-minute review to reinforce progress and consistency.
Neuroscientist Emily McDonald: #1 Science-Based Hack to Rewire Your Brain to ACTUALLY Manifest the Life You Want
Neuroscientist Emily McDonald explains how understanding and rewiring the brain can help people break out of feeling stuck, overcome procrastination, and consciously create a life that aligns with their values. She connects neuroscience concepts like the default mode network, dopamine, vagus nerve tone, and neuroplasticity to practical tools for identity shifting, managing fear, structuring rewards, and manifestation. The conversation also explores self-worth, jealousy, money beliefs, relationships, and Emily's own journey from heavy labeling and health issues to designing a life and career that feel authentic and joyful.
7 Micro Habits That Will INSTANTLY Reset Your Mind & Boost Energy (Without Changing Your Whole Routine!)
The host shares seven small, immediately usable habits designed to reset your mind, regulate stress, and boost energy without overhauling your entire routine. He explains when to use each habit, how to practice it in under a few minutes, and why it works psychologically and biologically. Throughout, he emphasizes using micro-habits to create emotional regulation, presence, and better decision-making in everyday situations.
Constantly Overthinking or Doubting Yourself? (Do THIS 5-Minute Reset to Break Your Negative Spiral!)
Jay Shetty delivers a solo episode about how to interrupt negative self-talk and the inner critic that sabotages progress. He explains why self-criticism feels like control but actually undermines performance, how shame differs from guilt, why our brains focus on mistakes, and why progress and healing are non-linear. Through research references, practical reframes, and examples, he offers seven mindset shifts to replace self-beating with self-compassion, accountability, gratitude, and strategic rest.
Oz Pearlman (Mentalist): This Small Mistake Makes People Dislike You! They Do This, They're Lying!
Mentalist Oze Perlman explains that he cannot literally read minds but has spent decades learning to read people through observation, suggestion, and influence. He shares how overcoming fear of rejection, making interactions about others, systematically taking notes, and improving memory have driven his success on stage and in business. The conversation covers practical techniques for persuasion, confidence, goal setting, habit formation, storytelling, and maintaining childlike wonder while navigating ambition, fame, and mortality.
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield
Andrew Huberman interviews author Stephen Pressfield about his concept of resistance, the difference between amateurs and professionals, and the daily habits and mindsets that support sustained creative work. They discuss Pressfield's military and physical training background, his writing process and use of the "muse," his experiences with failure and delayed success, and broader topics such as calling, addiction, social media, mortality, competition, and life trade-offs in pursuing one's craft.
If You're Feeling Overwhelmed, You Need to Hear This
Mel Robbins explains the crucial difference between stress and overwhelm and why confusing the two can contribute to burnout. Drawing on insights from psychiatrist Dr. K and physician Dr. Aditi Noorakar, she outlines a four-step, science-based process: label whether you're stressed or overwhelmed, use a specific breathing technique to reset your nervous system, perform a "brain dump" to offload mental load, and deliberately add a small, chosen challenge to restore a sense of control. The episode emphasizes that stress and overwhelm are biological states, not personal failings, and shows how simple practices can help listeners feel clearer and more in control.
How to live an asymmetric life
The host outlines five "guaranteed" ways to live a miserable life-avoiding deep friendships, remaining indecisive, neglecting goals and tracking, constantly switching projects, and trying to beat the stock market by picking individual stocks-and then explains how doing the opposite leads to a happier, more successful life. He uses philosophical ideas, psychological experiments, personal stories, and financial data to illustrate how close relationships, decisive action, clear goals, long-term focus, and simple index-fund investing compound over time. The episode concludes with a concise recap of the five positive behaviors listeners should adopt.
You're Manifesting Wrong! Follow THIS 3-Step Alignment Formula That Actually Works (This is Life Changing!)
Jay Shetty breaks down common myths about manifestation and reframes it as a process of clarity, belief, and aligned, consistent action rather than magical thinking. He walks through seven specific misconceptions-about magic, positivity, journaling, wanting, a smooth path, passivity, and material goals-using research, analogies, and personal stories. The episode emphasizes building systems, taking concrete steps, and aligning goals with deeper values and purpose.
How to Create a Successful Mindset: The Science of Passion and Perseverance
Mel Robbins interviews psychologist and author Angela Duckworth about grit-the combination of passion and perseverance for long-term goals-and how it predicts success better than talent alone. Duckworth explains the science behind growth mindset, deliberate practice, interest, purpose, and hope, and how each contributes to developing grit at any age. The conversation offers concrete strategies such as sampling interests, practicing deliberately, reframing "should" into "I want to," designing supportive environments, and building small wins to increase agency and resilience.
Essentials: Time Perception, Memory & Focus
Andrew Huberman explains how different biological timing systems-from yearly and daily rhythms to 90-minute ultradian cycles-shape our perception of time, mood, energy, and performance. He describes how neuromodulators like dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin alter how fast or slow time feels in the moment and how we remember events later. He then connects these mechanisms to trauma, novelty, and habits, showing how deliberate routines and environmental variation can structure our days, influence memory, and support better focus.
It's Not Too Late: How to Transform Your Life at Any Moment
Mel Robbins interviews Rich Roll about how he has radically transformed his life multiple times, from a bullied, approval-seeking kid to an alcoholic lawyer, then to a sober, plant-based ultra-endurance athlete and podcaster. Rich details his descent into severe alcoholism, his recovery, his midlife health crisis at 40, and the sequence of small, contrary actions that allowed him to change course. The conversation focuses on addiction as a spectrum, listening to "knocks" from the universe, prioritizing health, and using tiny consistent actions to change at any age.
How to Make Yourself Unbreakable | DJ Shipley
Retired Navy SEAL and former Tier 1 operator DJ Shipley discusses how he structures his days to protect and improve his mental, physical, and spiritual health after years of high-risk combat deployments and severe injuries. He details his rigid morning and evening routines, his strength and conditioning approach with coach Vernon Griffith, and how psychedelic-assisted therapy with Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT helped him confront depression, addiction to prescription meds, and suicidality. Throughout, he shares stories from his SEAL career, the toll of loss and survivor's guilt, and his current mission to help veterans, first responders, and civilians develop unbreakable mindsets and bodies.
Try It for 1 Week: 6 Small Ways to Bring Back the Happiness, Energy, and Fun
Mel Robbins talks about the growing sense that life is less fun, more curated, and weighed down by stress, and argues that fun is not a luxury but a necessity for mental and physical health. Drawing on research and personal stories, she explains how micro moments of joy and playfulness build resilience and combat burnout, anxiety, and numbness. She then offers six practical ways listeners can deliberately bring more happiness, energy, and fun back into their daily lives.
"Failure Is NOT THE END!" - Tony Robbins Full Intervention
Tony Robbins responds to a woman named Anna who asks how to deal with failures and stay positive, especially when she feels she is wasting time. He explains that highly successful people fail more often but interpret those experiences as learning rather than defeat, and that unrealistic expectations about timelines create unnecessary suffering. Robbins then teaches his RPM framework-focusing on clear outcomes, compelling reasons, and a selective massive action plan-and shares the story of producer Peter Guber to illustrate how embracing struggle and viewing failure as a speed bump leads to long-term success.
How to Get Rich (without luck, talent or a trust fund)
The host lays out four "rules of money" that he used to go from being broke in his twenties to making his first million by 30 and later building a net worth of $30 million. He explains how to pick and master one of four core money-making skills, convert that skill into equity via code, content, or capital instead of renting out time, adopt a long-term perspective that is impatient with action but patient with results, and deliberately move closer to ambitious peers and industry hubs to accelerate progress. Throughout, he illustrates the rules with concrete examples from his own life and from figures like Mr. Biso, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Alex Ramosi, and Steve Martin.
The Best Financial Advice You'll Ever Hear
Mel Robbins interviews financial author Morgan Housel about why financial success is primarily about behavior, expectations, and patience rather than income, education, or math. They explore how comparison, moving goalposts, and status-driven spending keep people broke, and contrast that with using money as a tool for independence and contentment. Housel lays out simple, practical habits-like checking your accounts daily, saving something every time you're paid, and investing patiently-that anyone can adopt regardless of starting point.
8 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Turned 30
Jay Shetty shares eight psychological and life lessons he wishes he had understood before turning 30, aimed at saving time, energy, and emotional stress. Drawing on research in psychology and human behavior, he explains concepts like the spotlight effect, the effort heuristic, socio-emotional selectivity, decision fatigue, social contagion, burnout, and affective forecasting. He then turns these ideas into practical guidance on how to think about other people's opinions, productivity, friendships, discipline, fear, community, meaningful work, and the unpredictability of future happiness and pain.