Best Daniel Jacob Self Podcasts (2025)

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, features Can Reading Fix Men? A Patristic Response to Modern Masculinity, an episode exploring how ancient wisdom and thoughtful reading can reshape character, strengthen ... 30:04

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, features Can Reading Fix Men? A Patristic Response to Modern Masculinity, an episode that delves into how ancient Christian wisdom can offer meaningful guidance to men navigating today’s complex cultural expectations. Through the lens of patristic teachings, we explore how intentional reading, spiritual disci…

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ReThinking: Living each day like it’s your first with Suleika Jaouad 42:01

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Suleika Jaouad is the author of the memoir Between Two Kingdoms and the new Book of Alchemy—she’s also a lifelong journaler. In this episode, Adam and Suleika reflect on how Suleika’s journaling practice has helped her through cancer, discuss the art and science of journaling, and brainstorm creative ways to incorporate it into reflection and relat…

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, features Seeking Your Guidance on Staying Faithful Through Every Season of Marriage. This episode opens an honest conversation about commitment, trust, and the daily ... 29:48

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, features Seeking Your Guidance on Staying Faithful Through Every Season of Marriage, a heartfelt exploration of what it means to remain committed through life’s highs and lows. In this episode, we reflect on the deeper foundations of trust, loyalty, and emotional intimacy that sustain a marriage over time. Th…

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, features “The 2025 Analysis: Why Certain Principles Never Go Out of Style,”exploring timeless values that continue to shape love, relationships, and human connection ... 28:56

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Amid all the changes in dating culture—swipes, algorithms, and digital flirtations—the 2025 analysis reminds us that some truths never fade: honest communication, genuine respect, and the power of first impressions. These enduring principles, deeply rooted in early Christian tradition, speak to the heart of what it means to build meaningful connect…

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ReThinking: Malala Yousafzai on redefining resilience and prioritizing joy 44:13

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Malala Yousafzai is an activist for girls’ education and women’s empowerment, and the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate in history. In her new book, Finding My Way, is her effort to take control of her story after becoming a public figure at a young age. In this episode, Malala and Adam talk about the pressures of childhood fame, Malala’s struggles wit…

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, features “How Can I Stay Close to My Grown Children in a High-Tech World,” a heartfelt exploration of maintaining deep family bonds, emotional connection, and meaningful ... 23:35

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, features “How Can I Stay Close to My Grown Children in a High-Tech World,” a heartfelt episode that delves into the challenges and joys of parenting in the modern era. As technology continues to shape the way families interact, this episode offers thoughtful reflections and practical advice on nurturing emoti…

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152. Gateways to Human Unity – Naina Eira Gupta 49:37

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“Psychedelics trigger a unitive state, and meditation trains it.” So says Naina Eira Gupta, who researches the therapeutic potential of psychedelics and meditation. Psychedelics work because they disrupt the monkey mind, she asserts. They stop the constant chattering in your head, which is the mind’s MO to perpetuate the story of ‘you’. Everything …

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You start when the queen is ready and the vibes are right - with Caitie Murphy 58:44

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Join Josh as he chats with stage manager ⁠Caitie Murphy⁠, who swears drag shows are “held together with gaff tape and prayer,” and whose work spans theatre, opera and the glitter-filled world of drag. Caitie shares her journey from studying music to calling operas and managing the beautiful chaos of drag shows. She opens up about the realities of w…

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, features “Seeking Guidance on Being a Truly Committed Father,” exploring the challenges, responsibilities, and heartfelt wisdom that come with fatherhood. 25:17

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, features “Seeking Guidance on Being a Truly Committed Father,” a deeply personal and emotional exploration of what it truly means to embrace fatherhood with dedication and love. This episode delves into the daily challenges fathers face—balancing responsibilities, nurturing their families, and staying present…

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ReThinking: Permission to play with Jacob Collier 43:28

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Jacob Collier is a Grammy-winning musician, an exceptional teacher and communicator, and a rousing innovator onstage. Jacob joins Adam in front of a live audience at TED to give an interactive performance and share his perspective on audience participation, his insights on communication, and his unconventional approach to making music that defies g…

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, features Love Letters Part 1: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Dating in 2025, uncovering timeless relationship lessons and practical advice for navigating modern love ... 41:53

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Ancient Wisdom for Modern Dating in 2025 reminds us that while technology has transformed how people connect, the timeless principles of love, respect, and balance remain at the heart of meaningful relationships. In a world where swipes and algorithms dictate first impressions, drawing on ancient teachings—from the patience of Confucian harmony to …

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, features The Covenant of Endurance: Building Lasting Commitment in a Culture of Choice 33:33

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In a culture that glorifies endless options and instant gratification, the covenant of endurance stands as a radical act of devotion—choosing to stay, to nurture, and to grow even when challenges arise. True commitment is not forged in moments of ease but in the fires of persistence, where promises are honored despite shifting circumstances. Endura…

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ReThinking: The art of the interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin 36:41

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As a business journalist, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes for the New York Times DealBook, which he founded, and co-anchors Squawk Box on CNBC. In this episode, Adam and Andrew riff on what makes a great conversation and compare notes on their best and worst interviews—including when Elon Musk told Bob Iger to f*** off. They also investigate what Andrew …

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Playing the Long Game: The Power of Self-Control 34:23

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As a special addition to this week's episode, you can see Katy's full sit-down interview with Angela Duckworth, where they also explore the relationship between self-control and grit. Watch or listen to their conversation on YouTube or Spotify. When your emotions flare or temptation calls, what does it take to hold back? Whether it’s resisting the …

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Bonus: A Sit Down With Katy Milkman & Angela Duckworth 33:36

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In this bonus addition of Choiceology, Katy Milkman sits down with psychologist and Grit author Dr. Angela Duckworth, a leading expert on self-control. She breaks down what science tells us about managing impulses, why willpower by itself falls short, and how simple environmental tweaks and practical strategies can help anyone delay gratification a…

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, features Seeking Your Guidance on Keeping Our Marriage Strong—for Life 24:39

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, brings you Seeking Your Guidance on Keeping Our Marriage Strong—for Life. In this heartfelt episode, we open the conversation about love that lasts beyond the honeymoon glow, asking what it takes to nurture a bond that endures through challenges, choices, and change. With sincerity and vulnerability, we explo…

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(Bonus Episode) Book 101 Review, in its fifth season, features Jacob Karnes as my guest. 0:36

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Master Your First Job: The Remarkable Path From First Day to First Promotion Starting your first job the right way! Most first-time employees don’t know how to successfully navigate their first job opportunity. They get hired, hopefully get trained, and get a paycheck. Their first job becomes a line item on a résumé and nothing more. You need a pla…

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, welcomes Jackie Pelegrin as a guest to share her insights on defining love. 25:36

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, welcomes Jackie Pelegrin as a special guest to explore the timeless question of what it truly means to define love. In this heartfelt episode, Jackie opens up about her personal reflections, experiences, and philosophies that shape her understanding of love in its many forms. Together, we dive into the nuance…

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151. Astrology Is a Science of Consciousness – Dan Waites 1:20:52

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Dan Waites displays an impressive depth and insightfulness in the videos on his You Tube channel World Astrology Report, but he actually didn’t start working as a mundane astrologer until 2020 (mundane refers to the use of astrology to understand world events and phases).Dan had studied the subject matter and been mesmerized before that, but when t…

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ReThinking: What being a lawyer taught John Grisham about writing novels 34:15

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John Grisham is the author of over 50 #1 bestselling novels, including A Time To Kill and The Pelican Brief—but before he became the preeminent writer of legal thrillers, he had a tumultuous career as a lawyer. Adam and John discuss how John’s experience in the courtroom inspires his fiction, and how it has continued to shape his perspective on sto…

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Love Letters in its fourth season, featuring Apps for Dating: Unspoken Expectations vs. Practical Ancient Applications for Modern Dating 26:10

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Modern dating apps promise quick connections, but beneath the swipes and curated profiles lie unspoken expectations that often shape relationships before they even begin. From assumptions about instant chemistry to the pressure of constant availability, these digital tools set rules that few openly acknowledge. Yet, if we look back to ancient pract…

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Love Letters in its fourth season, featuring Seeking Guidance About Love. 18:31

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Season 4 of Love Letters features “Seeking Guidance About Love,” an honest, faith-aware conversation with Daniel Lucas and Karen DeLoach. From early attraction to long-term commitment, they explore discernment, communication, boundaries, red flags, and healing after heartbreak. You’ll get actionable frameworks, reflection prompts, and gentle wisdom…

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Rewriting the script of my theatre journey - with Joshua Broadbent 45:15

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Whispers in the Wings is back! Guest host Tim Iffland (Popcorn Podcast) turns the mic on Josh for a candid chat about life after stage management, career pivots, and finding balance in the creative chaos. From backstage to Producing and beyond, Josh opens up about burnout, growth, and rediscovering the magic of theatre — one act at a time. Connect …

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, features an intimate conversation on seeking guidance to find true love 17:54

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, invites listeners into an intimate and heartfelt conversation about seeking guidance on finding true love. In this episode, we explore the timeless questions of the heart—how to recognize genuine love, where to begin the search, and what it means to open ourselves fully to the possibility of lasting connectio…

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ReThinking: What we’re getting wrong about mental health with RaQuel Hopkins 33:53

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RaQuel Hopkins is a therapist and HR professional whose hot takes on growth and well-being have challenged how many people talk and think about mental health. In this episode, Adam and RaQuel explore how some people use mental health labels as a crutch, discuss ways to expand our capacity instead of simply coping with emotional wounds, and address …

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How Mindset Shapes Success 35:08

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Most of us label ourselves early on as academic (or not), athletic (or not), or talented (or not). But even if you feel like you're lacking in natural talent or ability in certain areas, approaching new skills or challenges with openness, effort, and curiosity can take you farther than you might expect. In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milk…

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Love Letters in its fourth season, featuring When Algorithms Replace Intimacy: What Augustine Would Say About AI Boyfriends 32:18

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What final encouragement would you offer to someone reading this who recognizes themselves in these patterns—either someone currently in an AI relationship or someone who can feel themselves vulnerable to forming one? When Algorithms Replace Intimacy: What Augustine Would Say About AI Boyfriends invites us to imagine how one of history’s greatest t…

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Love Letters in its fourth season, featuring Seeking Guidance to Heal After Infidelity. 20:14

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Love Letters, now in its fourth season, takes on one of the most painful yet transformative journeys of the heart in its episode Seeking Guidance to Heal After Infidelity. This installment creates a safe and compassionate space for listeners who are navigating the aftermath of betrayal, offering both comfort and clarity. With thoughtful conversatio…

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ReThinking: Brené Brown on courageous leadership 41:22

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Brené Brown is a researcher, storyteller, and author who hosts the podcast Dare to Lead and has given some of the most popular TED Talks of all time. Brené joins Adam live at Authors@Wharton to talk about her new book, Strong Ground. They discuss how to identify your core values, what courageous leadership looks like, and whether vulnerability has …

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Places, Please! — A Season 3 Sneak Peek 6:07

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Whispers in the Wings is back for Season 3! After two years away, the podcast returns with new conversations, fresh insights into the magic of theatre, and plenty of tips and tricks to take backstage with you. This sneak peek episode gives you a taste of what’s coming this season, with clips from the first three guest spot episodes: ➡️ Caitie Murph…

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150. The Most Romantic Question in Science: 'Are We Alone?' – Avi Loeb 1:22:02

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“Science isn't about showing off. It’s about attending to unusual data, unusual evidence”, says astrophysicist Avi Loeb.“We can only learn new things from anomalies, from what doesn't line up.”Paying attention to anomalies is precisely what he does as head of the Galileo Project at Harvard, whose purpose is to search for evidence of extraterrestria…

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Love Letters in its fourth season, featuring Dating in a New Rome: Ancient Wisdom for a Swipe-Right World. 31:44

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Dating in a New Rome: Ancient Wisdom for a Swipe-Right World" draws a striking parallel between the lavish, fast-paced culture of ancient Rome and the modern world of instant connections and fleeting digital romances. Just as Roman society wrestled with questions of virtue, loyalty, and pleasure amid its grand spectacles and shifting morals, today’…

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Love Letters in its fourth season, features Love in the Age of Screens. 18:59

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Love Letters, in its fourth season, features Love in the Age of Screens, a heartfelt exploration of how digital technology shapes the way we connect, communicate, and fall in love. As your host, I reflect on the triumphs and challenges of relationships built through texts, video calls, and social media, highlighting both the intimacy and the distan…

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ReThinking: Matthew McConaughey on avoiding cynicism and finding gratitude 34:41

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Matthew McConaughey is the Academy Award-winning star of Dallas Buyers Club, Dazed and Confused, or Interstellar. But he’s not just an actor—he’s also an entrepreneur, philanthropist, teacher, and prolific writer. His second book, Poems and Prayers, was built on decades of his journal entries, poems, and life lessons learned. In this episode, Matth…

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Why Starting Over Hurts 37:56

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If you've ever gotten well into a project—maybe a DIY renovation—and then realized that you've taken the wrong approach, you probably know that it's very tempting to just stay the course. Starting all over again would be so painful, even if starting over is clearly the best option. Or maybe you've taken a wrong turn on a hike and only noticed it a …

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Love Letters in its fourth season, featuring A Counter-Narrative to Modern Sexual Culture and Toxic Masculinity. 33:15

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In a cultural landscape often dominated by performative hypersexuality and restrictive definitions of manhood, a powerful counter-narrative is emerging—one that champions intimacy over conquest and wholeness over hardness. This movement boldly challenges the corrosive tenets of modern sexual culture, which frequently reduces human connection to tra…

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Love Letters in its fourth season, featuring When Wisdom Meets the Swipe: Love In The Time. 48:42

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In the scorched aftermath of collapse, where traditional communities have crumbled to dust, a new and desperate form of connection emerges: love in the time of apocalypse, curated on a cracked screen that glows against the perpetual twilight. This is where ancient wisdom—the practical knowledge of suturing a wound, purifying water, or identifying e…

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Love Letters in its fourth season, featuring When Wisdom Meets the Swipe: Love In The Time Of Apocalypse. 48:45

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In the scorched aftermath of collapse, where traditional communities have crumbled to dust, a new and desperate form of connection emerges: love in the time of apocalypse, curated on a cracked screen that glows against the perpetual twilight. This is where ancient wisdom—the practical knowledge of suturing a wound, purifying water, or identifying e…

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ReThinking: Igniting curiosity with Sean The Science Kid 34:03

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At just 10 years old, Sean The Science Kid is our youngest guest ever. Sean is an internet educator with a voracious appetite for learning and a contagious passion for sharing his knowledge. In this episode, Adam chats with Sean and his mother Eunice about the origins of Sean’s curiosity, his strategies for breaking down complex science concepts, a…

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Love Letters in its fourth season, featuring love letters from our listener finding love. 25:10

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Season four of Love Letters arrives with even more heart, authenticity, and connection than ever before—this time, featuring love letters sent directly from our listeners who dared to put their feelings into words. Each letter is a glimpse into real journeys of finding love: from unexpected encounters and second chances, to long-awaited confessions…

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ReThinking: Facing your fears with cliff diver Molly Carlson 38:49

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Molly Carlson is a professional high diver, three-time runner-up at the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, and the founder of Brave Gang, an online community of people who encourage each other to face their fears together. In this episode, Molly and Adam reflect on anxiety and motivation, the functions and dysfunctions of fear, and how to harness …

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Teamwork That Works: What Great Teams Have in Common 42:53

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What makes an effective team? Talent? Skill? Discipline? In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we're looking at some of the more surprising ingredients of successful teams, according to science. Teams where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You'll hear the story of the Kon-Tiki expedition—a harrowing journey across the Pac…

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Love Letters in its fourth season, featuring Beyond Tired Hearts: Recovering . 29:37

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True beauty is not a currency to be earned in the marketplace of trendy features and airbrushed perfection, but the inherent signature of a human soul made visible. It is a light that shines from the unassailable core of human dignity, a dignity that exists not in spite of our perceived flaws, but often because of them—in the stories etched by laug…

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Love Letters in its fourth season, featuring Ms.Karen DeLoach as my Co-host talking about communications. 27:44

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As we step into the poignant and reflective fourth season of *Love Letters*, I am thrilled to be joined by the insightful Ms. Karen DeLoach as my co-host. This season, we're pulling back the curtain on the very heart of our show: communication. Together, Karen and I will explore the profound power of words left unsaid, the courage found in a carefu…

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149. The Last Days of UAP Cover-Up – Gary Heseltine 1:20:34

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It was a pleasure to have Gary Heseltine back on the program, a former detective turned independent UAP investigator. In 2023, after years of research, he released a book, “Non-Human”, about the 1980 Rendlesham forest incidents (RFI), one of the most spectacular and complex UAP events in history.In July of 2025, a documentary about RFI, “Capel Gree…

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ReThinking: Fixing social media with Pinterest CEO Bill Ready 35:20

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On social media, enragement is often used to drive engagement. But what if the algorithm was tuned to what makes us feel good? As the CEO of Pinterest, Bill Ready is leading changes to his platform in the hopes of inspiring change in the tech industry. He and Adam examine steps for improving online interactions, consider solutions for protecting ki…

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Love Letters in its fourth season, featuring Ancient Christian Archetypes vs. Modern Masculine Myth. 48:45

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In an era where modern masculinity is often reduced to conflicting caricatures—the hyper-aggressive alpha male or the emotionally neutered pushover—a deeper excavation reveals a far more robust and timeless blueprint: the ancient Christian archetypes of the Warrior, the Monk, the Prophet, and the King. These are not the frail, sanitized figures of …

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ReThinking: How you can do more for others with Rutger Bregman 33:29

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What are you doing to make the world around you better? Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian and the author of the new book Moral Ambition. He joins Adam live in the Authors@Wharton series to discuss how to stop capable people from wasting their talents, lessons from great moral pioneers, and what it means to be a good person. They also consider how…

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When It Feels Like Everyone's Watching 36:34

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We've all been there. Maybe you fumbled a line in a presentation. Or tripped on a shoelace. Or suffered a bad hair day. It can feel like the whole world is watching you—and judging you—in those embarrassing moments. But are people paying as much attention to you as you think? In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we explore why we tend …

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Love Letters in its fourth season, featuring The Grammar of the Heart: Restoring Love in a Fragmented Age. 44:20

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In a world increasingly defined by digital isolation, ideological divides, and fleeting connections, this profound exploration invites us to reclaim the language of love—not as a sentimental abstraction, but as a moral and emotional grammar capable of mending our fractured relationships and communities. Drawing from literature, philosophy, and raw …