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All the Books
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The goop Podcast

We’ve had many exceptional experts and authors on The goop Podcast. And along with hundreds of fascinating conversations come hundreds of fascinating books. We’ll be updating this page each week after episodes run, so check back if you’re searching for your next great read.

  1. Ep. 284: Lindo Bacon, PhD (“Why We Need to See Health at Every Size”); Health at Every Size, Body Respect and Radical Belonging

  2. Ep. 283: Carl Hart, PhD (“Should All Drugs Be Legal?”); Drug Use for Grown-Ups

  3. Ep. 282: GP x Edith Eger (“Why You Can’t Heal What You Don’t Feel”); The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life

  4. Ep. 281: Chani Nicholas (“Using Astrology for Practical Action”); You Were Born for This

  5. Ep. 280: GP x Erica Chidi (“Who Puts the Care in Healthcare?”); no book!

  6. Ep. 279: Emily and Amelia Nagoski (“Getting Out of Your Head and Back Into Your Body”); Burnout and Come As You Are

  7. Ep. 278: GP x Barry Michels (“Prepare to Be Triggered”); The Tools and Coming Alive

  8. Ep. 277: GP x Laura Dern (“Connecting with Yourself”); no book!

  9. Ep. 276: GP x Gabrielle Union (“Past and Future Selves”); no book!

  10. Ep. 275: GP x Martha Beck (“What Does It Mean to Live in Integrity?”); The Way of Integrity

  11. Ep. 274: GP x Cara Delevingne (“Being a Recovering People-Pleaser”); no book!

  12. Ep. 273: GP x Adam Grant (“Think Again”); Think Again

  13. Ep. 272: GP x Robin Wright (“Honing Your Creative Vision”); no book!

  14. Ep. 271: GP x Will Cole, DC (“Intuitive Fasting”); Intuitive Fasting: The Flexible Four-Week Intermittent Fasting Plan to Recharge Your Metabolism and Renew Your Health

  15. Ep. 270: GP x Ethan Kross (“Harnessing Your Inner Voice”); Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

  16. Ep. 269: GP x Kristine Gedroic, MD (“How Do We Heal—and Prevent—Chronic Illness?”); A Nation of Unwell: What Went Wrong?

  17. Ep. 268: GP x John Chester (“Living in Disharmony with Nature”); no book!

  18. Ep. 267: GP x Nina Vasan (“How Do We Take Care of Our Mental Health?”); no book!

  19. Ep. 266: Daniel Lieberman (“Why It’s Normal to Dislike Exercise”); Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

  20. Ep. 265: GP (“Ask Me Anything”); no book!

  21. Ep. 264: Celeste Headlee (“Does Time Equal Money?”); Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

  22. Ep. 263: Resmaa Menakem (“A Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies”); My Grandmother’s Hands

  23. Ep. 262: GP x Otto Yang (“COVID-19 Antibodies, Vaccines, and Cutting-Edge Research”); no book!

  24. Ep. 261: Elaine Pagels (“Is Belief Overrated?”); Why Religion?

  25. Ep. 260: GP x Pharrell Williams (“Where Can an Open Mind Take You?”); no book!

  26. Ep. 259: Lacy Crawford (“Systems of Silencing”); Notes on a Silencing

  27. Ep. 258: Mellody Hayes, MD (“We’re Good at Capitalism. Can We Get Better at Love?”); no book!

  28. Ep. 257: Katherine May (“Normalizing the Need to Rest and Retreat”); Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

  29. Ep. 256: GP x Ed Catmull (“A Reason to Reveal Your Secrets”); Creativity, Inc.

  30. Ep. 255: Kevin Weinfurt, PhD (“Does Intimacy Count as Sex?”); no book!

  31. Ep. 254: Lucy Rain Simpson (“A Cultural Reckoning and a Vision of Restorative Justice”); no book!

  32. Ep. 253: Gianpiero Petriglieri, MD (“When Work Becomes Personal”); no book!

  33. Ep. 252: Isabel Wilkerson (“How the Caste System Continues to Shape Our Lives”); Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

  34. Ep. 251: James Nestor (“How to Maximize the Power of Your Breath”); Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

  35. Ep. 250: GP x Abby Wambach (“Leading from the Bench”); Wolfpack

  36. Ep. 249: Jessica Yellin (“Jessica Yellin on the Election and Our Future”); no book!

  37. Ep. 248: Eli Finkel, PhD (“What Makes a Good Marriage?”); The All-or-Nothing Marriage

  38. Ep. 247: Rebecca Traister (“Who’s Scared of an Angry Woman?”); Good and Mad

  39. Ep. 246: Christie Tate (“Group Therapy: What’s It Like to Share Your Secrets?”); Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

  40. Ep. 245: Michele Harper, MD (“The Beauty in Breaking”); The Beauty in Breaking

  41. Ep. 244: Toni Jensen (“Survival on Stolen Land”); Carry

  42. Ep. 243: Laura Wasser (“Starting and Ending a Marriage”); no book!

  43. Ep. 242: David Sheff (“Finding Light in Dark Places”); The Buddhist on Death Row

  44. Ep. 241: GP x Susan Rice (“What’s Worth Fighting For?”); Tough Love

  45. Ep. 240: Kristin Neff, PhD (“The Science of Self-Compassion”); The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook

  46. Ep. 239: Cynthia Bourgeault (“A Different Way to Live Virtuously”); Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm

  47. Ep. 238: GP x Jay Shetty (“What Happens When You Spend Time with Yourself?”); Think Like a Monk

  48. Ep. 237: Cathy Park Hong (“Proving Ourselves into Existence”); Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

  49. Ep. 236: Molly Howes, PhD (“What Makes a Good Apology?”); A Good Apology: Four Steps to Make Things Right

  50. Ep. 235: Christian Busch, PhD (“Can We Create Our Own Good Luck?”); The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck

  51. Ep. 234: Bruce Feiler (“Finding Meaning in Transition”); Life Is in the Transitions

  52. Ep. 233: Gordon Neufeld, PhD (“When Friends Matter Too Much”); Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

  53. Ep. 232: GP x Cameron Diaz (“What to Cut Loose”); no book!

  54. Ep. 231: Jeffrey Rediger, MD (“The Science Behind Spontaneous Healing”); Cured: The Life Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing

  55. Ep. 230: Tom Philpott (“How We Can Save American Farming”); Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It

  56. Ep. 229: Dolly Chugh (“The Trap of Being a ‘Good’ Person”); The Person You Were Meant to Be

  57. Ep. 228: Mark Wolynn (“Do We Inherit Trauma?”); It Didn’t Start with You

  58. Ep. 227: David Wallace-Wells (“The Uninhabitable Earth”); The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

  59. Ep. 226: Jaiya (“What’s Your Map to Arousal?”); no book!

  60. Ep. 225: Jennifer Eberhardt, PhD (“Why We Need to Stop Checking Boxes”); Biased

  61. Ep. 224: Mark Epstein, MD (“When We Stop Trying to Absolve Ourselves of Guilt”); Advice Not Given

  62. Ep. 223: GP x Rick Doblin, PhD (“What’s an MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Session Like?”); no book!

  63. Ep. 222: Rafael Pelayo, MD (“How to Sleep Well”); How to Sleep

  64. Ep. 221: Julie Holland (“The Chemistry of Connection”); Good Chemistry

  65. Ep. 220: Richard Schwartz, PhD (“The Mini-Minds Inside Us”); Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts

  66. Ep. 219: Arlan Hamilton (“Adapting Midsentence”); It’s About Damn Time

  67. Ep. 218: Ozan Varol (“Thinking Like a Rocket Scientist”); Think Like a Rocket Scientist

  68. Ep. 217: Amy Myers, MD (“What’s Making Us Sick?”); The Autoimmune Solution and The Thyroid Connection

  69. Ep. 216: GP x Chelsea Handler (“You’re Never Fully Cooked”); Life Will Be the Death of Me

  70. Ep. 215: Ibram X. Kendi (“Building an Antiracist World”); How to Be an Antiracist

  71. Ep. 214: Jeffrey Bland, PhD (“Getting to the Root Cause”); The Disease Delusion

  72. Ep. 213: GP x Nadine Burke Haris, MD (“How Does Childhood Trauma Impact Health Outcomes?”); The Deepest Well

  73. Ep. 212: Nora McInerny (“Moving Forward Instead of Moving On”); It’s Okay to Laugh

  74. Ep. 211: Mori Taheripour (“The Human Side of Negotiation”); Bring Yourself

  75. Ep. 210: Rhiana Gunn-Wright (“Why We Need to Talk About Environmental Racism”); no book!

  76. Ep. 209: GP x Sherry Sami, DDS (“The Presence Prescription”); no book!

  77. Ep. 208: Jeffrey Becker, MD (“How Do We Untangle Depression?”); no book!

  78. Ep. 207: Byron Katie (“Ending the War on Self”); Loving What Is

  79. Ep. 206: David Michaels, PhD (“How Science Is Manipulated”); The Triumph of Doubt

  80. Ep. 205: GP x Mark Hyman, MD (“How We Vote with Our Forks”); Food Fix

  81. Ep. 204: Vivek Murthy, MD (“Breaking the Downward Spiral of Loneliness”); Together

  82. Ep. 203: Peter Levine, PhD (“How Do We Process Traumatic Memories?”); Trauma and Memory

  83. Ep. 202: Brigid Schulte (“The Culture of Busyness”); Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

  84. Ep. 201: Daniel Pink (“How to Use Time in Your Favor”); When and Drive

  85. Ep. 200: Kate Bowler (“Does Everything Happen For a Reason?”); Everything Happens for a Reason

  86. Ep. 199: GP x Peter Attia, MD (“Gwyneth Interviews Peter Attia about COVID-19”); no book!

  87. Ep. 198: Eileen Fisher (“Why Less Is More”); no book!

  88. Ep. 197: GP x Bob Iger (“What Makes a Good Leader?”); The Ride of a Lifetime

  89. Ep. 196: Terry Real (“Why We Need to Take Our Partners On”); The New Rules of Marriage

  90. Ep. 195: Craig Malkin (“What Does Healthy Narcissism Look Like?”); Rethinking Narcissism

  91. Ep. 194: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (“The Mythology of Personal Responsibility”); Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

  92. Ep. 193: Terry Tempest Williams (“What Are We Being Called to Do?”); Erosions

  93. Ep. 192: Bill Bengston (“What Do We Need to Heal?”); no book!

  94. Ep. 191: GP x Cara Natterson, MD (“How to Have Awkward Conversations with Our Kids”); Decoding Boys

  95. Ep. 190: Sallie Krawcheck (“How to Manage Money through a Crisis”); Own It: The Power of Women at Work

  96. Ep. 189: Harriet A. Washington (“The IQ Debate”); A Terrible Thing to Waste

  97. Ep. 188: Dan Heath (“How to Solve Problems Before They Happen”); Upstream

  98. Ep. 187: Judson Brewer (“Ways to Ground Yourself in Uncertain Times”); The Craving Mind

  99. Ep. 186: Tatiana Schlossberg (“Taking Collective Responsibility for Fixing Climate Change”); Inconspicuous Consumption

  100. Ep. 185: James Gordon, MD (“What Happens during Prolonged Stress”); The Transformation

  101. Ep. 184: Kim John Payne (“Reducing Anxiety for Kids”); Simplicity Parenting

  102. Ep. 183: Layla Saad (“Stepping Out of Privilege”); Me and White Supremacy

  103. Ep. 182: Vivek Murthy, MD (“Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic”); Together

  104. Ep. 181: GP x Jhene Aiko (“What We Turn To in Times of Grief”); no book!

  105. Ep. 180: Matt Richtel (“The Power of a Balanced Immune System”); An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System

  106. Ep. 179: Eve Ensler (“Getting the Apology You Need”); The Apology

  107. Ep. 178: Gerald Posner (“Where Pharma Went Wrong”); Pharma

  108. Ep. 177: Ambassador Samantha Power (“What’s More Powerful Than Fear?”); The Education of an Idealist

  109. Ep. 176: Glennon Doyle (“When You Quit Being Good”); Untamed

  110. Ep. 175: Kelly LeVeque (“Releasing Emotional Blocks around Food”); Body Love Every Day

  111. Ep. 174: Deborah Mash, PhD (“The Future of Addiction Treatment”); no book!

  112. Ep. 173: Lalah Delia (“The Dark Night of the Soul”); Vibrate Higher Daily

  113. Ep. 172: GP x Kevin Systrom (“Where Great Ideas Come From”); no book!

  114. Ep. 171: Issa Rae (“Owning Our Awkwardness”); The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

  115. Ep. 170: GP x Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“How Does Fear Push Us Forward?”); no book!

  116. Ep. 169: Ada Calhoun (“The New Midlife Crisis”); Why We Can’t Sleep

  117. Ep. 168: Seth Siegel (“How Dangerous Is Our Drinking Water?”); Troubled Water: What’s Wrong with What We Drink

  118. Ep. 167: William Li, MD (“Eating to Beat Disease”); Eat to Beat Disease

  119. Ep. 166: Robin DiAngelo, PhD (“Dismantling White Fragility”); White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

  120. Ep. 165: Valter Longo, PhD (“What Science Says about Fasting”); The Longevity Diet

  121. Ep. 164: GP x BJ Miller, MD (“Processing Our Regrets”); A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

  122. Ep. 163: Shauna Shapiro, PhD (“Why Self-Esteem Is a Fairweather Friend”); Good Morning, I Love You

  123. Ep. 162: Michael Vigorito, LFMT, CGP, CST (“Decoupling Shame from Sexuality”); Treating Out of Control Sexual Behavior

  124. Ep. 161: GP x Eckhart Tolle (“Separating Ourselves from the Ego”); A New Earth and The Power of Now

  125. Ep. 160: Jennifer Freed, PhD, MFT (“Determining Your Life’s Purpose”); Use Your Planets Wisely

  126. Ep. 159: John Gottman, PhD, and Julie Gottman, PhD (“Why Certain Relationships Work”); Eight Dates

  127. Ep. 158: David Sinclair, PhD (“Can We Slow Down the Aging Process?”); Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To

  128. Ep. 157: Kelly McGonigal, PhD (“The Unexpected Upside of Movement”); The Joy of Movement and The Upside of Stress

  129. Ep. 156: Rhonda V. Magee, JD (“Investigating Instead of Reacting”); The Inner Work of Racial Justice

  130. Ep. 155: Cleo Wade (“Why We Are Not Our Emotions”); Where to Begin

  131. Ep. 154: Meggan Watterson (“Recovering a Sacred Truth”); Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven’t Tried Yet

  132. Ep. 153: Alicia Menendez (“How Important Is It to Be Likable?”); The Likeability Trap

  133. Ep. 152: Mellody Hobson (“Becoming Color-Brave”); no book!

  134. Ep. 151: Sophia Bush (“Why We Reduce Successful Women to One Thing”); no book!

  135. Ep. 150: GP x Demi Moore (“Dismantling Our Defense Mechanisms”); Inside Out

  136. Ep. 149: Sarah Hurwitz (“The Principles We Live By”); Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life—in Judaism

  137. Ep. 148: GP x Alejandro Junger, MD (“A Different Way of Detoxing”); Clean 7

  138. Ep. 147: Lisa Brennan-Jobs (“Processing Our Childhood”); Small Fry

  139. Ep. 146: Ingrid Fetell Lee (“Finding Joy Again”); Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness

  140. Ep. 145: Leslie Kean (“All That We Don’t Know”); Surviving Death and UFOs

  141. Ep. 144: Sasha Heinz, PhD (“Unsubscribing from Our Thoughts“); no book!

  142. Ep. 143: Jill Blakeway, DACM, LAc (“Demystifying Energy Medicine”); Energy Medicine: The Science and Mystery of Healing

  143. Ep. 142: GP and Elise x Jody Kantor and Megan Twohey (“When We Dare to Speak Up”); She Said

  144. Ep. 141: Joel Salinas, MD (“A Doctor Who Can Feel People’s Pain”); Mirror Touch: A Memoir of Synesthesia and the Secret Life of the Brain

  145. Ep. 140: James Gordon, MD (“When Our Bodies Talk to Us”); The Transformation

  146. Ep. 139: Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC (“The Quarter-Life Crisis”); no book!

  147. Ep. 138: Joel Stein (“Are We Bad at Listening?”); In Defense of Elitism: Why I’m Better Than You and You Are Better Than Someone Who Didn’t Buy This Book

  148. Ep. 137: GP x Kerry Washington (“Staying Mentally and Emotionally Fit”); no book!

  149. Ep. 136: Will Cole, DC (“Using Food as Medicine”); Ketotarian and The Inflammation Spectrum

  150. Ep. 135: Catt Sadler (“When Our Stories Move the Culture”); no book!

  151. Ep. 134: GP x Barry Michels, LCSW, JD (“How to Think Less and Do More”); The Tools and Coming Alive

  152. Ep. 133: Elaine Welteroth (“How We Misunderstand Privilege”); More Than Enough

  153. Ep. 132: Johann Hari (“Why We’re the Loneliest Society”); Lost Connections

  154. Ep. 131: Robin Berzin, MD (“Changing the Perception of Wellness”); no book!

  155. Ep. 130: Malcolm Gladwell (“Why We Can’t Detect a Lie”); Talking to Strangers

  156. Ep. 129: Sarah Paulson (“Why You Want to Feel Fear”); no book!

  157. Ep. 128: GP x Ray Dalio (“Why We Can Never Be Sure We’re Right”); Principles

  158. Ep. 127: Sallie Krawcheck (“What We’re Taught about Money”); Own It: The Power of Women at Work

  159. Ep. 126: Bryan McKenzie (“How We Adapt to Stress”); no book!

  160. Ep. 125: Marie Forleo (“Why Fear Can Be Magical”); Everything Is Figureoutable

  161. Ep. 124: Peggy Orenstein (“Taking Control of Our Sexual Experience”); Girls & Sex

  162. Ep. 123: Shannon Watts (“Fight Like a Mother”); Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took On the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World

  163. Ep. 122: GP x Michelle Pfeiffer (“Second Marriages and Careers”); no book!

  164. Ep. 121: Esther Wojcicki (“How to Raise Successful People”); How to Raise Successful People

  165. Ep. 120: Dana Childs (“Why We’re Not Broken”); no book!

  166. Ep. 119: Jasmine Hemsley (“Feeding Your Digestive Fire”); East by West

  167. Ep. 118: BJ Miller, MD (“The Beauty in the End”); A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

  168. Ep. 117: Ellen Vora, MD (“What Our Anxiety Is Telling Us”); no book!

  169. Ep. 116: Laura Morgan Roberts (“Why We’re Disengaged at Work”); Race, Work, and Leadership

  170. Ep. 115: Preethaji (“The Beautiful State”); The Four Sacred Secrets: For Love and Prosperity

  171. Ep. 114: Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD (“Where Do Emotions Come From?”); How Emotions Are Made

  172. Ep. 113: Michael Gervais, PhD (“How Do We Reach Our Full Potential?”); no book!

  173. Ep. 112: Lindsay Toczylowski, JD (“Having a Fighting Chance”); no book!

  174. Ep. 111: Robynne Chutkan, MD, and Eva Cwynar, MD (“Why Bloating and Brain Fog Aren’t Normal”); The Microbiome Solution and The Fatigue Solution

  175. Ep. 110: GP x Krista Tippett (“What We Long to Talk About”); Becoming Wise

  176. Ep. 109: Judson Brewer, MD, PhD (“Why We Crave”); The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love—Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

  177. Ep. 108: Rick Doblin, PhD (“Changing Your Relationship to Your Memories”); no book!

  178. Ep. 107: Lisa Taddeo (“What Our Sex Lives Look Like”); Three Women

  179. Ep. 106: Uma Naidoo, MD (“How Food Affects Our Mood”); This Is Your Brain on Food

  180. Ep. 105: Steven Levine, MD (“How Do We Heal from Depression?”); no book!

  181. Ep. 104: Dave Evans (“How to Prototype Your Life”); Designing Your Life

  182. Ep. 103: Andrew Solomon, PhD (“The Difference between Love and Acceptance”); Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

  183. Ep. 102: Lori Gottlieb, LMFT (“Why You Should Follow Your Envy”); Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

  184. Ep. 101: Lacy Phillips (“Manifesting the Life You Want”); no book!

  185. Ep. 100: Priya Parker (“How to Create Meaning in Groups”); The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

  186. Ep. 99: Lauren Roxburgh and John Amaral, DC (“Unlocking the Energy That Holds Stress and Causes Pain”); The Power Source

  187. Ep. 98: Jamil Zaki, PhD (“Getting through Empathy Overload”); The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World

  188. Ep. 97: GP x Elizabeth Gilbert (“Can Creating Something Small Heal Something Big?”); Big Magic

  189. Ep. 96: Lynne Twist (“The Soul of Money”); The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life

  190. Ep. 95: GP x Eddie Stern (“The Punk Rocker Turned Yogi Who Changed Her Life”); One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life

  191. Ep. 94: Seamus Mullen (“Moving beyond Victimhood”); Real Food Heals

  192. Ep. 93: Daniel Shapiro, PhD (“What Every Conflict Is Actually About”); Negotiating the Nonnegotiable

  193. Ep. 92: Apostolos Lekkos, DO (“The Levers That Keep Us Well”); no book!

  194. Ep. 91: GP x Caroline Myss (“On Living a Lie”); Sacred Contracts and Anatomy of the Spirit

  195. Ep. 90: Will Siu, MD (“Processing the Trauma of Loneliness”); no book!

  196. Ep. 89: Kim John Payne, MEd (“Creating a Value-Centered Home”); Simplicity Parenting

  197. Ep. 88: David de Rothschild (“How to Move from Consumer to Citizen”); no book!

  198. Ep. 87: GP, Demi Moore, and Ariana Huffington (“On Redefining Success with Age”); Thrive

  199. Ep. 86: Valerie Jarrett (“Letting Perfectionism Go”); Finding My Voice

  200. Ep. 85: Emily Nagoski, PhD (“How to Minimize Stress and Avoid Burnout”); Burnout and Come as You Are

  201. Ep. 84: GP x Brené Brown, PhD (“On the Roots of Shame, Courage, and Vulnerability”); Dare to Lead

  202. Ep. 83: Laura Day and Laura Lynne Jackson (“How to Cultivate Intuition”); The Circle, Practical Intuition, How to Rule the World from Your Couch, Signs and The Light between Us

  203. Ep. 82: Swamiji Parthasarathy (“Why Are We All So Unhappy?”); The Holocaust of Attachment

  204. Ep. 81: Bonnie St. John (“The Small Hacks That Make Life Easier”); Micro-Resilience

  205. Ep. 80: Zach Bush, MD (“How Soil Health Is Reflected in the Gut”); no book!

  206. Ep. 79: Sally Kohn (“What We Get Wrong about Other People”); The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity

  207. Ep. 78: GP x Lupita Nyong’o (“On Giving Yourself Permission to Learn”); no book!

  208. Ep. 77: Gabor Maté, CM (“How Does Childhood Stress Manifest in Adulthood?); In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, When the Body Says No, Scattered, and more

  209. Ep. 76: Joe Dispenza, DC (“How to Become Your Future Self”); Becoming Supernatural

  210. Ep. 75: GP x Dax Shepard (“On Triggers and Self-Esteem”); no book!

  211. Ep. 74: Ellen Hendrickson, PhD (“The Social Anxiety Toolbox”); How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety

  212. Ep. 73: Anna Machin, PhD (“What Makes a Dad a Dad”); The Life of Dad: The Making of the Modern Father

  213. Ep. 72: Erin Brockovich (“How We’ll Rescue Ourselves“); Superman’s Not Coming

  214. Ep. 71: Dani Shapiro (“Family Secrets”): Inheritance

  215. Ep. 70: Nigma Talib, ND (“The Skin-Gut Connection”); Younger Skin Starts in the Gut

  216. Ep. 69: GP x Elena Brower (“On Divorce and Self-Forgiveness”); Better Apart: The Radically Positive Way to Separate

  217. Ep. 68: Bob Sutton, PhD (“How to Deal with Assholes”); The Asshole Survival Guide

  218. Ep. 67: Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT (“How to Be with the Partner You Picked”); We Do

  219. Ep. 66: Bill Clegg (“On Addiction and Recovery”); Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery, Did You Ever Have a Family

  220. Ep. 65: James Doty, MD (“Miracles from a Magic Shop”); Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

  221. Ep. 64: Abbi Jacobson (“Sticking to Plan A”); I Might Regret This

  222. Ep. 63: Alain de Botton (“Why Love Starts with Loneliness”); On Love, The Course of Love, How to Think More about Sex, and more

  223. Ep. 62: Farnoosh Torabi (“How We Relate to Money”); When She Makes More

  224. Ep. 61: Jessica Helm, PhD (“How to Avoid the Chemicals That Disrupt Hormones“); No book! (Though Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring is a classic)

  225. Ep. 60: GP x Howard Schultz (“On the Entrepreneur’s Dream”); From the Ground Up

  226. Ep. 59: Deanna Minnich, PhD (“Detox without Deprivation”); Whole Detox

  227. Ep. 58: Steven Pinker, PhD (“Why Optimism Is a Better Match for Reality”); Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

  228. Ep. 57: Valter Longo, PhD (“Is Intermittent Fasting the Key to Health?”); The Longevity Diet

  229. Ep. 56: Wim Hof (“The Man Who Defies What’s Possible”); The Way of the Iceman

  230. Ep. 55: GP x Ana x Caitlin (“On Detoxes, Cleanses, and How GP Eats”); The Clean Plate

  231. Ep. 54: Jeff Hancock, PhD (“Are We Lying More?”); no book!

  232. Ep. 53: Geneen Roth (“Why We Use Food to Shame Ourselves”); This Messy, Magnificent Life

  233. Ep. 52: Nicole Daedone (“The Orgasm Myth”); Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm

  234. Ep. 51: Srini Pillay, MD (“The Power of the Unconscious Mind”); Tinker, Dabble, Doodle, Try: The Power of the Unfocused Mind

  235. Ep. 50: Dominique Fradin-Read, MD, MPH (“How to Balance Your Hormones”); no book!

  236. Ep. 49: Alex Belser, PhD (“Are Psychedelics a Mental Health Panacea?”); no book!

  237. Ep. 48: GP x Misty Copeland (“On Being the First”); Ballerina Body

  238. Ep. 47: Kelly Brogan, MD (“Can You Heal the Mind through the Body?”); A Mind of Your Own: The Truth about Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives

  239. Ep. 46: Chip Heath, PhD (“How to Create Memories That Matter”); The Power of Moments

  240. Ep. 45: Mary Beard, PhD (“The Silencing of Women”); Women & Power, How Do We Look, and more

  241. Ep. 44: A.J. Jacobs (“Selfishly Thankful”); Thanks a Thousand

  242. Ep. 43: Alejandro Junger, MD; Nigma Talib, ND; and Karlene Karst (“It Begins and Ends in the Gut”); no book!

  243. Ep. 42: GP x Ashley Graham (“On Being Put in a Corner”); A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like

  244. Ep. 41: Gabby Reece (“A Different Way of Looking at the Scale”); My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper

  245. Ep. 40: Amy Whitaker, MA, MBA (“Tapping Into Your Inner Creative”); Art Thinking

  246. Ep. 39: Ellen Vora, MD; Jennifer Freed, PhD; and Andrew Kerklaan, DC (“The Anxious Mind”); no book!

  247. Ep. 38: GP x Julia Roberts (“On Seismic Life Shifts“); no book!

  248. Ep. 37: DeRay Mckesson (“How to Move from Ally to Accomplice”); On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

  249. Ep. 36: GP x Stella McCartney (“On Being Ridiculed, Building a Brand, and Creating What’s Cool”); no book!

  250. Ep. 35: Greg McKeown (“Why ‘Doing it All’ Is a Con”); Essentialism

  251. Ep. 34: Maya Shetreat, MD (“Is Science the Way to Describe Magic?”); The Dirt Cure: Healthy Food, Healthy Gut, Happy Child

  252. Ep. 33: GP x Chrissy Teigen (“On Food, Marriage, and Social Media”); Cravings

  253. Ep. 32: GP x Elise (“GP on Perfectionism, Curiosity, and Criticism”); no book!

  254. Ep. 31: Bryan Stevenson, JD (“We Are Better than the Worst Things We’ve Done”); Just Mercy

  255. Ep. 30: Jennifer Rudolph Walsh (“The Talent Whisperer”); no book!

  256. Ep. 29: Joe Newman (“What ‘Problem’ Kids Are Trying to Teach Us”); Raising Lions

  257. Ep. 28: Stephen Snyder, MD (“Why Sex Therapists Don’t Care about Orgasms”); Love Worth Making

  258. Ep. 27: Will Cole, DC (“The Autoimmune Spectrum”); Ketotarian and The Inflammation Spectrum

  259. Ep. 26: Peter Crone (“The Mind Architect”); no book!

  260. Ep. 25: Josh Axe, DC (“Herbs, Spices, and Proteins to Live By”); Eat Dirt

  261. Ep. 24: Lucy Kalanithi, MD (“What Matters in the End”); When Breath Becomes Air (by her late husband, Paul Kalanithi, MD)

  262. Ep. 23: GP x Sarah Jessica Parker (“On Heartbreak, Business, Books, and Reality TV”); no book!

  263. Ep. 22: Marianne Williamson (“Who Are You in Crisis?”); A Return to Love, A Year of Miracles, and more

  264. Ep. 21: Mark Hyman, MD (“What We Got Wrong about Nutrition”); Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet—One Bite at a Time; Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?, and more

  265. Ep. 20: GP x Janet Mock (“The Journey to Self-Acceptance”); Surpassing Certainty

  266. Ep. 19: GP x Michaela Boehm (“Creating Sexual Tension”); The Wild Woman’s Way

  267. Ep. 18: Laura Lynne Jackson (“Are We All Psychic?”): Signs and The Light between Us

  268. Ep. 17: Oscar Serrallach, MBChB, FRACGP (“Are You Still Recovering from Pregnancy Years Later?”); The Postnatal Depletion Cure

  269. Ep. 16: Olivia Wilde (“Changing Perception”); no book!

  270. Ep. 15: Barry Michels, LCSW, JD (“How to Defeat Your Inner Critic”); The Tools and Coming Alive

  271. Ep. 14: Alejandro Junger, MD (“Is Detoxing Real?”); Clean and Clean 7

  272. Ep. 13: Taz Batia, MD (“Super Woman Syndrome”); Super Woman RX: Unlock the Secrets to Lasting Health, Your Perfect Weight, Energy, and Passion

  273. Ep. 12: Eben Alexander, MD, and Karen Newell (“Is There Proof of a Spiritual Universe?”); Proof of Heaven and Living in a Mindful Universe

  274. Ep. 11: Audrey Gelman (“A Woman’s Work Utopia”); no book!

  275. Ep. 10: Robin Berman, MD (“How to Move On from Your Imperfect Childhood”); Permission to Parent

  276. Ep. 9: Esther Perel (“What Turns You On”); The State of Affairs and Mating in Captivity

  277. Ep. 8: GP x Blythe Danner (“On Mothers and Daughters”); no book!

  278. Ep. 7: Terry Real (“It’s Normal to Occasionally Hate Your Spouse”), The New Rules of Marriage, I Don’t Want to Talk about It, and How Can I Get through to You

  279. Ep. 6: Steven Gundry, MD (“Could Changing Your Diet Heal Autoimmune Disease?”); The Plant Paradox and The Longevity Paradox

  280. Ep. 5: Anita Moorjani (“Lessons from the Other Side”); Dying to Be Me

  281. Ep. 4: Adam Grant, PhD (“The Unexpected Sparks of Creativity, Confrontation, and Office Culture”); Originals and Give & Take

  282. Ep. 3: Catherine Birndorf, MD (“Postpartum Anxiety and the Motherhood Shift”); What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood

  283. Ep. 2: Sara Gottfried, MD (“Resetting Hormones, Weight, and the Conversation around Women’s Health”); The Hormone Cure, Brain Body Diet, and Younger

  284. Ep. 1: GP x Oprah (“Power, Perception, and Soul Purpose”); The Path Made Clear; Food, Health, and Happiness; The Wisdom of Sundays, and more


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