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Mel Robbins' Toolkit for Building Confidence: Why Confidence Is the Willingness to Try
Mel Robbins redefines confidence as the willingness to try, busts three myths and shares five research-based tools to build it as a skill.
Mel Robbins on How to Speak Up for Yourself: A Six-Step Formula for Difficult Conversations
Mel Robbins coaches four listeners through hard conversations and shares her six-step formula, from knowing your why to validating and setting boundaries.
Patrick McKeown on Nose Breathing, Slow Exhales and Better Sleep
Breathing expert Patrick McKeown coaches Mel Robbins through nose breathing, breath holds and slow exhales to cut stress and improve sleep.
James Sexton on How Small Disconnections End Marriages and How to Prevent Them
Divorce lawyer James Sexton explains why marriage is a technology with tradeoffs and how candor about sex and money keeps couples together.
Amanda Rizkalla on "Hungered": A Debut Novel About a Family Living in Their Car (Oprah's Book Club)
Amanda Rizkalla tells Oprah how her teenage experience of losing housing shaped Hungered, the 125th Oprah's Book Club pick.
Amy Morin on Mental Strength, Avoidance, and What to Do on Your Worst Days
Psychotherapist Amy Morin and Simon Sinek treat mental strength as a daily practice and share small, practical moves for bad days.
Dan McClellan on How the Bible Was Written, Edited, and Reinterpreted Over Time, with Joe Rogan
Biblical scholar Dan McClellan and Joe Rogan explore ancient artifacts, Paul, First Enoch, the roots of hell, and why our minds shape belief.
How to Stop Being Overlooked: Professor Marina Cooley on Self-Promotion, Portable Reputations, and the Attention Economy
Emory professor Marina Cooley explains how to get noticed at work and beyond: sticky ideas, sharing wins without cringe, and meeting prep that pays off.
Rob Lowe on the "Screw-Its," Bombing at the Oscars, and Why Authenticity Is Hollywood's Real Currency
Rob Lowe and Simon Sinek on risk-taking, surviving public humiliation, refusing to self-edit, and finding humor in life's hardest parts.
Arthur Brooks on Trusting Your Gut, Career Reinvention, and Finding Happiness in Process (A Bit of Optimism, Revisited)
Arthur Brooks and Simon Sinek on the 80/20/0 gut check, careers as spirals, the arrival fallacy, and why AI may erode the struggle that builds wisdom.
Acquired: Disney's Renaissance, ESPN, Pixar, and the Streaming Era (Disney Part II)
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal trace Disney from its 1984 near-breakup through Eisner, Pixar, ESPN, and Iger to the Disney+ streaming era.
Dr. Tara Narula on How Stress Damages the Heart and Why Resilience Is a Learnable Skill
Cardiologist Dr. Tara Narula explains how stress can cause heart attacks and shares her toolkit for building resilience in adults and kids.
Simon Sinek on Finding Your Why, Real Optimism, and Rethinking Work with Oprah
Simon Sinek and Oprah on finding your why, real optimism vs. positivity, the 'great rebalancing' of work, and the friend test for purpose.
Esther Perel and Simon Sinek on Why the Quality of Our Relationships Shapes Our Lives, at Home and at Work
Esther Perel on how love and work turned happiness from a perk into the glue, why play matters, and why Gen Z should talk to strangers.
Dr. Michael Eisenberg on Testosterone, Erectile Dysfunction, Fertility, and Prostate Health
Stanford urologist Dr. Michael Eisenberg explains testosterone, erectile dysfunction, male fertility, and prostate health as windows into a man's overall health.
God in the flesh: why John's letters made the incarnation the test
John's Gospel opens with the Word made flesh, and 1 John and 2 John treat confessing that Jesus came in the flesh as the line between true and false teaching. Bishop Robert Barron places the incarnation at the center of Christian faith, and Joe Eszterhas describes coming to faith in a flesh-and-blood Jesus. The early insistence on a real, bodily Jesus explains why Christianity resists purely spiritual or symbolic versions of him.
How a library became a Bible: who decided which books made the canon
The Old Testament grew as a collection of books gathered over centuries, Paul's letters were written with secretaries and later ordered and collected, the New Testament's twenty-seven books came together into one collection over time, and Wesley Huff explains how scholars trace the formation of the New Testament canon. Knowing that the Bible was assembled, not delivered as one book, changes how readers weigh disputes over which texts belong.
Is Hell Real? Bishop Barron and Jordan Peterson Rethink It, Rob Bell Rethinks God
Bishop Robert Barron describes hell as the limit of a self collapsed in on itself, measured against love, and Jordan Peterson treats death and hell as something a person faces now, voluntarily, while unsure whether hell comes after life. Rob Bell doesn't take up hell directly; he says some pictures of God should be allowed to die, which gives readers troubled by what they were taught a third way into the question.
Jacob's Wrestling Match: Peterson's Conscience and Rob Bell's Limp of Self-Ownership
Genesis renames the trickster Jacob as Israel after a night of wrestling, and Jordan Peterson reads that name, "we who wrestle with God," as an honest struggle with conscience and aim. Rob Bell reads the injured, limping Jacob as a man who stops pretending to be someone else and owns his whole story, and both treat struggle as part of a spiritual life rather than a failure of it.
Questions, Books, Dreams and Encounters: How Five People Left or Found Faith
For a missionary who lost his faith, a Mormon who lost his and later found something like God, a campus atheist who woke up, a lapsed Catholic who came back, and a self-described Sam Harris atheist who found Jung, crisis alone rarely changed belief: a question they couldn't dismiss, a book, a dream or a person who lived differently did that work. Several moved more than once, and evidence, experience and community pushed them in opposite directions.
Not Knowing Without Not Caring: Four Voices on Keeping the God Question Open
An atheist who refuses to deny God, an agnostic philosopher, a former Mormon seeker and a rabbi who loves his atheist sparring partners each treat uncertainty about God as something reached through argument, experience and care. They disagree on where the evidence points, but together they show that not knowing can be a serious, engaged position rather than indifference.
Sex is play, pleasure is the measure: dropping the orgasm scoreboard
Emily Morse argues for orgasm without pressure and asks what sex is for, Emily Nagoski makes pleasure rather than performance the measure of a good sex life, and urologist Rena Malik reframes sex as play and part of health. Taking the performance goal away from sex lowers anxiety and makes intimacy easier for couples to enjoy and keep up.
Peacemaker, fixer, scapegoat: the family role you can stop playing
Mel Robbins coaches a lifelong family peacemaker and a fixer to step out of those roles, Ramani Durvasula maps the roles in a narcissistic family, Aaron Doughty asks who you had to be as a kid to receive love, and Nicole LePera and Meg Josephson describe childhood archetypes that persist as coping strategies. Seeing your old role as an adaptation, not your identity, makes it possible to show up differently at family gatherings and in adult relationships.
End-of-life regrets point back to people, not achievements
Robert Waldinger draws on 86 years of Harvard data on what people regret at the end, death doula Alua Arthur talks about regrets and forgiveness at the bedside, Mel Robbins replays end-of-life regret as one of her year's most resonant moments, and Arthur Brooks ties family to regret. Looking ahead to those regrets gives a concrete reason to put relationships first while there is still time.