The Perfect Summary Podcast

Tarantino and Avary revisit their video-store years, how they broke into film, why TV isn't cinema, and Avary's journey through prison.

Mel Robbins and her daughter Sawyer share a breakup survival guide: why heartbreak is grief, the 30-day no-contact rule, and six ways to move on.

Medical inventor Dr. Jeff Karp shares six simple tools he uses to break autopilot, focus attention, learn from failure and reconnect.

Mel Robbins shows how Let Them and Let Me, plus seeing through your family's eyes, can calm family drama and build closer connection.

Morgan Housel explains why money buys happiness indirectly, how independence beats status, and why comparison and identity trap us on a treadmill.

Mel Robbins explains compatibility, three mistakes that wreck relationships, and her ABC loop for deciding whether to stay or go.

Psychologist Ethan Kross explains the inner voice, why chatter hurts, and tools like distanced self-talk, mental time travel, nature and WOOP.

Computational neuroscientist Terry Sejnowski on the brain's learning algorithm, learning how to learn, exercise for brain energy, and AI as a partner.

Argentina's President Javier Milei explains his libertarian ideals, his chainsaw reforms, inflation and poverty data, and his fight against the establishment.

Financial expert Farnoosh Torabi explains the most common money fears, where they come from and how to use them to take control of your finances.

Dr. Shanna Swan explains how phthalates, BPA, pesticides and PFAS disrupt hormones and fertility, and how to cut your exposure.

Mel Robbins explains why dread hijacks mind and body, and shares simple tools to calm down and act on what you can control.

Mel Robbins, with Dr. James Doty, Steven Bartlett, Dr. K and Sarah Jakes Roberts, debunks three self-limiting lies about failure, motivation and change.

Mel Robbins and her husband Chris share six hard-won lessons on commitment, consideration, acceptance, money, good intent and connection.

Death doula Alua Arthur explains how thinking honestly about your death can clarify how to live, love, grieve and plan.

Stanford neurosurgeon Jim Doty explains manifesting as neuroscience: calm the nervous system, quiet self-talk and embed intentions.

Mel Robbins uses a road trip metaphor to show how to reinvent your life after setbacks, breakups or burnout, and why the best years are ahead.

Mel Robbins explains why small comforts and rituals aren't childish but essential tools that help you reset, refuel and take on life's stretches.

Huberman explains where microplastics and endocrine disruptors come from, what they may do in the body, and simple ways to cut exposure.

Mel Robbins teaches "slithering," a somatic technique from her therapist that moves morning dread out of the body so you can get up.

Futurist Ari Wallach and Andrew Huberman on escaping short-term thinking and practical tools for being a great ancestor.

Jordan Peterson and Lex Fridman discuss Nietzsche, unifying ideas, the Abraham story, envy, psychopaths online, his years of pain, and how to find truth.

Mel Robbins breaks down habit science: three common mistakes, the trigger-behavior-reward loop, and practical ways to replace bad habits.

Dr. Craig Koniver shares how he uses peptides, NAD, methylene blue and more, plus dosing, sourcing and the FDA's recent crackdown.

Mel Robbins shares the breast implant decision she regretted for years and how to stop hiding, trust your intuition and move forward.

Cursor's founders explain how their AI code editor works, from Tab and speculative edits to agents, bug finding, scaling laws, and programming's future.

Memory scientist Charan Ranganath explains how curiosity, intention and healthy habits sharpen memory, and why task switching and aging erode it.

Esther Perel explains identity and change in love, the dynamics of conflict, true apology and repair, and the tension between love and desire.

Trial lawyer Jefferson Fisher shares practical scripts for arguments, hard conversations, disrespect, oversharing and speaking with confidence.

Mel Robbins breaks down six free daily habits from Warren Buffett, Taylor Swift, LeBron James, Sara Blakely, Shigeru Miyamoto and Jamie Kern Lima.