How to Be a Better Human Transcripts
2025
- Throwing good parties and building community (w/ Priya Parker)
- How to believe in God even when the world sucks (w/ Nadia Bolz-Weber)
- How to make the most of a finite life (w/ Oliver Burkeman)
- How to stop being weird about money (w/ Paco de Leon)
- How to get your sense of wonder back (w/ Nate DiMeo)
- How to trust in times of uncertainty (w/ Rachel Botsman)
- The right way to know you might be wrong (w/ Tenelle Porter)
- How poetry builds teenagers' confidence (w/ Youth Poet Laureate Naisha Randhar)
- How to cultivate kindness (w/ Richard Weissbourd)
- How to tell a juicy story (w/ Rachelle Hampton)
- History, memories, and the stories we tell ourselves (w/ Clint Smith)
- What if we get climate solutions right? (w/ Ayana Elizabeth Johnson)
2024
- Why you should start thinking about death (w/ Alua Arthur)
- How to make generosity contagious (w/ Chris Anderson)
- How to discover your authentic self -- at any age (w/ Bevy Smith)
- How to be good enough in America (w/ Wajahat Ali)
- How to find connection –and love– in everyday life (w/ Barbara Fredrickson)
- How to cultivate the skill of happiness (w/ Dan Harris)
- What to do when the truth isn’t enough to be believed (w/ Dina Nayeri)
- How to find wisdom and wholeness in a modern world (w/ Krista Tippett)
- How to find “your thing” (or your many things) – (w/ Constance Hockaday)
- How to develop the habits you want – and get rid of the ones you don’t (w/ James Clear)
- How to find food in your own backyard (w/ Alexis Nikole Nelson)
- How to build resilience through architecture (w/ Alyssa-Amor Gibbons)
- How to laugh at yourself (w/ Nuar Alsadir)
- Re-release: How to co-parent as allies, not adversaries (w/ Ebony Roberts)
- How to give and receive good advice (w/ Hola Papi’s John Paul Brammer)
- How to follow the laws of nature (w/ Nonette Royo)
- The meaning of embodiment w/ Prentis Hemphill
- The art of paying attention (w/ Wendy MacNaughton and Laurel Braitman)
- How to be brave when family life gets tough (w/ Kelly Corrigan)
- Why spirituality is important in our increasingly secular world (w/ David DeSteno)
- How to have a say in how society is built (w/ Tessza Udvarhelyi)
- How to make grassroots political change (w/Katie Fahey)
- How to be civil even if you disagree (w/ Alexandra Hudson)
- How to get into nature and out of your head
- How to craft the work-life balance you deserve
- How to re-spark your imagination (w/ Anab Jain)
- How to be less cynical (w/ Jamil Zaki)
- How peace can persevere (w/ Aziz Abu Sarah)
- Why solving global issues is more accessible than we think (w/ Angeline Murimirwa)
- How to let go of needing a plan (w/ Reggie Watts)
- Why you should make a spectacle out of life (w/ Lear deBessonet)
- How to reclaim your cringe (w/ Dave Nadelberg and Neil Katcher)
- How to gain perspective in a climate crisis (w/ David Finnigan)
- How to finally embrace your body (w/ Ronald Young Jr.)
- How to make every job a good job (w/ Zeynep Ton)
- How to fix any problem (w/ Anne Morriss and Frances Frei)
- How to make dating not suck (w/ Logan Ury)
- How Sikh wisdom can transform your life (w/ Simran Jeet Singh)
- How to talk about your body without shame (w/ Anita Rao)
2023
- You can do better than a New Year’s resolution (w/ Gretchen Rubin)
- There is no “grief starter pack” (w/ Michael Cruz Kayne)
- How to care for the people who take care of us (w/ Ai-jen Poo)
- The science of happiness (w/ Laurie Santos)
- Andrew Marantz doesn’t want you to give up on the internet
- Jody Avirgan learned everything from sports
- Why love –and therapy– means going in a direction you don’t yet know (w/ Dr. Orna Guralnik)
- Anne Helen Petersen on changing your relationship to work and the guardrails that can prevent burnout
- Cord Jefferson's creativity is fueled by mental health
- Why Kim Scott thinks you need to ask for feedback
- Julissa Arce on why success isn’t worth her assimilation
- Stephen Satterfield wants his meals to match his ideals
- How to keep house while drowning (w/ KC Davis)
- ALOK is microdosing creativity and rejecting norms
- The difference between easy and difficult beauty (w/ Chloe Cooper Jones)
- How to stop finding your self-worth through your job (w/ Gloria Chan Packer)
- How to dive into your fears (w/ Jill Heinerth)
- How to set boundaries and find peace (w/ Nedra Glover Tawwab)
- What we can learn from great salespeople (w/ Colin Coggins)
- How to be an adult – and how to raise one (w/ Julie Lythcott-Haims)
- How to embrace – and challenge – the idea of “beauty” (w/ Elise Hu)
- What will you do with your one wild and precious planet? (w/ Bill McKibben)
- How to travel without even leaving home (w/ Saleem Reshamwala)
- Why we should rethink what mental health means (w/ Sandy Allen)
- How can art hold space for your pain? (w/ Jessie Reyez)
- Do we have something to learn from conspiracy theories? (w/ Peter McIndoe)
- Why your brain is an unreliable narrator (w/ Aparna Nancherla)
- How changing your story can change your life (w/ Lori Gottlieb)
- What vision loss helped Andrew Leland gain
- How to build better relationships between kids, parents, and ourselves (w/ Dr. Becky Kennedy)
- How do I know what my future self wants? (w/ Shankar Vedantam)
- Why you should try birding (w/ Christian Cooper)
- How to solve your problems through drawing (w/ Liana Finck)
- How comedy helps us deal with hard truths (w/ Roy Wood Jr.)
- The perks of listening to the sounds of the world (w/ Dallas Taylor)
- What do our guests do to be better humans?
- Lessons from 102-year-old swimmer Maurine Kornfeld
2022
- How to unite people through art (with JR)
- How to find the comedy in a messed-up world (with Maeve Higgins)
- How to make yourself more human in an automated world (with Kevin Roose)
- How to find your voice (with Greta Morgan)
- How to make transformative ideas happen (with Frans Johannson)
- How do you approach gender as a parent? (with LB Hannahs)
- How to let go of being a "good" person (with Dolly Chugh)
- How to embrace rejection (with Jia Jiang)
- How to be okay when things are not okay (with Mollie West Duffy and Liz Fosslien)
- How to get motivated - by losing?! (with Monica Wadhwa)
- How to be perfect (with Michael Schur)
- How to have great sex (w/ Siphumeze Khundayi and Tiffany Mugo)
- How to get workplace gender equity now (with Sara Sanford)
- How to tell your authentic story (with Noor Tagouri)
- How to stand up for what you believe in (with Luvvie Ajayi Jones)
- How labor unions create worker power (w/ Margaret Levi)
- How to take charge of your money (w/ Wendy De La Rosa)
- How to have curious conversations in dangerously divided times (w/ Mónica Guzmán)
- How to answer your biggest questions—with data (w/ Mona Chalabi)