The goop Podcast

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What's The goop Podcast about?

goop CEO and founder Gwyneth Paltrow and longtime goop collaborator Erica Chidi, CEO and cofounder of LOOM, take turns hosting the brightest thinkers and culture changers.

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The Key to Unlocking Creati...

06.28.2022

Erica Chidi is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel, author of Inspired: Understanding Creativity—A Journey through Art, Science, and the Soul. They talk about where creativity comes from, how to harness it, and why the creative process is often ...

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06.28.2022 The Key to Unlocking Creative Thinking Erica Chidi is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel, author of Inspired: Understanding Creativity—A Journey through Art, Science, and the Soul. They talk about where creativity comes from, how to harness it, and why the creative process is often ...
06.21.2022 Gwyneth Paltrow x Phillip Picardi: Changing the Conversation about Religion Phillip Picardi is known in part for his work as an award-winning journalist and editor. He rebranded Teen Vogue (where he became the chief content officer at age twenty-six) and he launched and founded Them, a community-driven platform for LGBTQ+ ...
06.14.2022 Who Is Wellness For? In Fariha Roísín’s book, Who Is Wellness For, she explores how wellness culture has been distilled and commodified from the cultural traditions of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people. Today, she joins Erica Chidi to discuss her path through wellness, how ...
06.07.2022 Gwyneth Paltrow x Terry Real: Moving Toward True Intimacy “I teach people how to put themselves aside and listen and respond with generosity,” says therapist Terry Real. “Our culture doesn’t teach us how to do these things. We have to learn them.” In this open conversation with GP, Real ...
06.02.2022 Gwyneth Paltrow x Kourtney Kardashian: The Competition Myth Kourtney Kardashian joins GP to talk about what shaped her life before she and her family ever appeared on television. They discuss blended family dynamics, what Kardashian turns to her husband Travis Barker for, the one thing she regrets being ...
05.24.2022 Gwyneth Paltrow x Cameron Diaz: Honoring Your Instincts “The last eight years I shifted into another gear,” says Cameron Diaz. “I went in and did some really deep, personal healing.” In this conversation between two friends, GP and Diaz talk about the mechanisms they use for self-protection, why ...
05.17.2022 Repairing an Imperfect Mother-Daughter Relationship Kelly McDaniel is a licensed professional counselor and the author of Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance. In this conversation, McDaniel joins cohost Erica Chidi to talk about the experience of yearning for maternal ...
05.10.2022 Drawing Power from Your Shadow In this special episode, psychotherapists and collaborators Barry Michels (New York Times–bestselling coauthor of The Tools) and Kristan Sargeant guide us through exercises designed to help us connect with our shadow. The shadow, as they explain it, is an often ...
05.03.2022 Gwyneth Paltrow x Ali Wentworth: The Humor Currency GP catches up with her good friend, actress and author Ali Wentworth. They chat about their daughters (they're best friends), and GP asks Wentworth for advice on how to cope when Apple leaves for college. Wentworth shares what has fueled ...
04.26.2022 Gwyneth Paltrow x Alok Vaid-Menon: Finding Your Inner Freedom Alok Vaid-Menon is a writer, performer, public speaker, and the author of Beyond the Gender Binary, which examines gender fluidity and why the binary hurts us all. Vaid-Menon joins GP to discuss their journey as a nonbinary artist, how they’ve ...
04.19.2022 Gwyneth Paltrow x Fanny Singer: The Beauty that Connects Us GP is joined by a new friend, author Fanny Singer, for a special conversation (originally hosted by Book Passage) about Singer's book Always Home. They talk about what it was like to both grow up with famous mothers (Singer is ...
04.12.2022 Gwyneth Paltrow x Edwina von Gal: The Future of Our Landscapes Edwina von Gal is a landscape designer and the founder of the Perfect Earth Project and Two Thirds for the Birds, two nonprofits raising awareness around the positive environmental impact of low-intervention lawns and bird-friendly landscapes. In this conversation, von ...
04.05.2022 The Healing Potential Within Our Bodies Kimberly Johnson is a trauma educator, somatic guide, and the author of Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It For Good. She shares practices for understanding—and befriending—our nervous system. And she explains ...
03.29.2022 Is Representation Enough to Feel Seen? “For me growing up, the dark skinned women who had a spotlight or were celebrated had to be exceedingly, almost super humanely beautiful,” says culture and film critic Zeba Blay. “You couldn’t just be a pretty dark skinned Black girl.” ...
03.22.2022 Gwyneth Paltrow x Saundra Dalton-Smith: Which of the 7 Types of Rest Do You Need? In Sacred Rest, Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD, proposes the idea that there are seven different types of rest. Dalton-Smith says that sometimes the reason we can’t seem to replenish our energy is because we aren’t getting the kind of rest we ...
03.15.2022 When We Listen to Our Anxiety “We're really indoctrinated with the idea that mental health issues are this genetically determined chemical imbalance,” says holistic psychiatrist Ellen Vora. “And that plays a role. I don't deny that, but it's not the whole story.” Vora’s new book, The ...
03.08.2022 Navigating Attachment Styles in Nonmonogamous Relationships “So often I see women come into nonmonogamy better equipped to have difficult conversations,” says Jessica Fern, author of Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Nonmonogamy. Fern is a psychotherapist who specializes in providing support for individuals, couples, and people in ...
03.01.2022 Gwyneth Paltrow x Billy Porter: Claiming Your Story GP is joined by award-winning actor, singer, director, composer, and playwright Billy Porter. In this intimate and vulnerable conversation, Porter tells pieces of his life story—the moment he challenged himself to live authentically, what’s inspired his art, therapies he’s found ...
02.22.2022 Gwyneth Paltrow x Kathleen Nadeau: Understanding Women and Girls with ADHD Kathleen Nadeau is a clinical psychologist and the founder and director of the Chesapeake Center for ADHD Learning and Behavioral Health in Maryland. She joins GP today to discuss how ADHD is often overlooked in young women and girls and ...
02.15.2022 The Power of Surrendering Erica Chidi is joined by spiritual teacher and #1 New York Times–bestselling author Gabby Bernstein. Bernstein’s new book, Happy Days, explores her journey navigating through trauma and the path that led to healing. In this conversation, Bernstein talks about what ...
02.08.2022 Reimagining Our Communities Patrisse Cullors is an artist, abolitionist, author, and former executive director of Black Lives Matter Global Network, the movement she cofounded in 2013. In her book, An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Change Yourself and the World, Cullors outlines a ...
02.01.2022 Gwyneth Paltrow x Valerie Kanter: The Next Level of Oral Health Valerie Kanter, DMD, MS, is a third-generation dentist and a board-certified endodontist who specializes in biological and integrative dentistry. She joins GP (who is one of Kanter's patients) to discuss how our oral health can impact our overall health and ...
01.25.2022 What Roe v. Wade Means for All of Us Khiara Bridges is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law where she studies the intersection of race, class, and reproductive rights and justice. In this episode, Bridges joins Erica Chidi to explain the current state of ...
01.18.2022 Gwyneth Paltrow x Michael Rubino: A New Approach to the Mold Issue Michael Rubino is a mold remediator known for the unique way he helps people identify and remove mold from their homes. His book, The Mold Medic, explores the remediation process, including where to start if you suspect you may have ...
01.11.2022 Elevating Your Baseline Health Robin Berzin, MD, is the founder and CEO of the functional medicine practice Parsley Health and the author of State Change. In her book, Berzin maps out a program for optimizing health. She explores five key factors—from nutrition to exercise ...
01.04.2022 Gwyneth Paltrow x Amy Crawford: Restoring Trust with Yourself “We all have different parts of us that show up differently as we orient through our life,” says Amy Crawford, a therapist, educator, and trauma recovery coach. In this conversation, Crawford and GP discuss a therapy model called Internal Family ...
12.28.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Stanley Tucci: For the Love of Food “The more universal you try to make something, the less meaning it has,” says Stanley Tucci. “The more specific something is, the more universal it becomes.” GP catches up with Tucci to talk about threading together different passions and the ...
12.21.2021 The Bonds That Break and Make Us “There's no real guidance about being intentional with identifying and processing our emotions because in a lot of cases, our parents don't know how to identify and process their own,” says Ashley C. Ford. Ford is the bestselling author of ...
12.14.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Matthew Walker: How to Sleep Better “We have a societal image problem with sleep,” says scientist Matthew Walker, PhD. GP sat down with Walker at our In goop Health wellness summit to talk about why so many of us struggle with this essential pillar of our ...
12.07.2021 A New Paradigm for Love Sara Nasserzadeh, PhD, is a social psychologist who sees both couples and individuals in her Los Angeles-based practice. She joins Erica Chidi to talk about what happens when you’re at the end of a relationship, how to navigate a divorce, ...
11.30.2021 Getting Untamed with Glennon Doyle “I don’t think that anybody needs to get braver or better,” says Glennon Doyle. “I think we all just have to see who we actually are so that we can marvel at how strong and brave we already are.” The ...
11.23.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Jay Shetty: Becoming the Next Iteration of Yourself “The relationship you have with yourself will always be the best relationship you could ever have in the world,” says Jay Shetty. The purpose coach and author of Think Like a Monk joined GP on stage at In goop Health. ...
11.16.2021 How Do We Play as Adults? Intimacy coach Amina Peterson (one of the featured experts on our Netflix show Sex, Love & goop) wants us to acknowledge that sex is how we play as adults. And she wants us to expand what we think of as ...
11.09.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Darshana Avila: Why Do We Diminish Our Sexual Selves? Darshana Avila—one of the featured experts in our new Netflix show, Sex, Love & goop—describes herself as an erotic wholeness coach. She believes that many of us have been conditioned to compartmentalize or fragment pieces of ourselves. And so often, ...
11.02.2021 Nice Racism Robin DiAngelo is a lecturer on issues of racial and social justice and the bestselling author of White Fragility. In her most recent book, Nice Racism, she explores why well-meaning White progressives perceive themselves as being past racism—and why this ...
10.26.2021 Why Happiness Isn’t in Your Head Samantha Boardman is a psychiatrist who focuses on optimism, building resilience, and mental well-being. Her new book, Everyday Vitality, explores how to find strength amid daily stressors. Today, she joins Erica Chidi to talk about the three keys to cultivating ...
10.21.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Jaiya: What’s Your Erotic Blueprint? “Every cell in our body is wired for pleasure,” says somatic sexologist and educator Jaiya. “And I believe pleasure is our birthright and it’s part of what brings us our liveliness and our connection and our intimacy with this world ...
10.12.2021 Making Peace with Yourself “Healing is like my middle name,” says Alexandra Elle, author of After the Rain: Gentle Reminders of Healing, Courage, and Self-Care. Elle joins Erica Chidi to talk about what it means to nurture your inner child and find a way ...
10.05.2021 What Does Mothering Look Like? “We all share the universal experience of having been born,” says design historian Amber Winick and co-author of Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births. In the book, Winick and co-author Michelle Fisher explore how designs, from the ...
09.28.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Erica Chidi: Skin-to-Skin Contact, Internal Family Systems, and Other Things We’re Into They’re back: GP catches up with Erica Chidi, CEO and cofounder of LOOM and cohost of The goop Podcast. They reflect on some big takeaways they’ve had in the past year at work and at home, how they’re learning to ...
09.21.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Ella Bell Smith and Stella Nkomo: Race and Gender in the Workplace GP is joined by Ella Bell Smith and Stella Nkomo, coauthors of Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. Based on groundbreaking research, the book uncovers how race and gender shape our workplaces, careers, ...
09.14.2021 Adopting a Soft-Belly Breathing Practice James Gordon is a psychiatrist, the founder and director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, and author ofThe Transformation. He has a simple meditation technique called soft-belly breathing that we frequently return to for releasing stress and grounding in the ...
09.07.2021 Esther Perel on Playing Erica Chidi is joined by sex expert and psychotherapist Esther Perel. They talk about Perel’s new game, Where Should We Begin, which is a deck of cards she designed to help people start meaningful conversations with each other. Perel shares ...
08.31.2021 What We Learn from Girlhood “If I saw the vulnerability of other people, it almost canceled out the ways that they could be harmful to me,” says Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood. Today, she joins cohost Erica Chidi to talk about the journey through adolescence ...
08.24.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Sophie Wiberg Holm: How to Understand—and Invest—in Cryptocurrency GP is joined by entrepreneur and cryptocurrency expert Sophie Wiberg Holm (who has been tutoring GP for a bit). Holm is a co-founder at Address Capital, a digital assets investment firm, and the host of I Also Want Money, a ...
08.17.2021 Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World Elinor Cleghorn is a writer, researcher, and author of the book, Unwell Women. Today, Cleghorn and cohost Erica Chidi explore the misdiagnosis and mistreatment of women’s health issues throughout history, including Cleghorn’s own experience with chronic illness. Her symptoms were ...
08.10.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow: Answers Your Questions It’s been a while. As requested, GP returns to do a lightning round of AMA, where she answers a handful of listener-submitted questions. How would those close to you describe you? What are you least confident about? Dating advice? Favorite ...
08.03.2021 What Your Voice Says About You There’s a lot of complexity that we tend to overlook about the power of our voice, says John Colapinto. Colapinto is a journalist and the author of This Is the Voice, which explores the biology of human speech, spanning from ...
07.27.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Alicia Keys: Allowing the Process to Unfold GP catches up with Alicia Keys to talk about her relationships, motherhood as a multihyphenate artist, where creativity comes from, and how to respect our imperfections and flaws. “I don’t like the word ‘perfect’,” says Keys. “It connects us a ...
07.20.2021 How Do We Hold Grief and Joy at the Same Time? Alua Arthur is a death doula and the founder of Going with Grace, an end-of-life planning and death doula training organization. Arthur, who was previously an attorney, has helped thousands of people explore and move through the end-of-life process. Today, ...

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The goop Podcast episodes:

The Key to Unlocking Creative Thinking

Gwyneth Paltrow x Phillip Picardi: Changing the Conversation about Religion

Who Is Wellness For?

Gwyneth Paltrow x Terry Real: Moving Toward True Intimacy

Gwyneth Paltrow x Kourtney Kardashian: The Competition Myth

Gwyneth Paltrow x Cameron Diaz: Honoring Your Instincts

Repairing an Imperfect Mother-Daughter Relationship

Drawing Power from Your Shadow

Gwyneth Paltrow x Ali Wentworth: The Humor Currency

Gwyneth Paltrow x Alok Vaid-Menon: Finding Your Inner Freedom

Gwyneth Paltrow x Fanny Singer: The Beauty that Connects Us

Gwyneth Paltrow x Edwina von Gal: The Future of Our Landscapes

The Healing Potential Within Our Bodies

Is Representation Enough to Feel Seen?

Gwyneth Paltrow x Saundra Dalton-Smith: Which of the 7 Types of Rest Do You Need?

When We Listen to Our Anxiety

Navigating Attachment Styles in Nonmonogamous Relationships

Gwyneth Paltrow x Billy Porter: Claiming Your Story

Gwyneth Paltrow x Kathleen Nadeau: Understanding Women and Girls with ADHD

The Power of Surrendering

Reimagining Our Communities

Gwyneth Paltrow x Valerie Kanter: The Next Level of Oral Health

What Roe v. Wade Means for All of Us

Gwyneth Paltrow x Michael Rubino: A New Approach to the Mold Issue

Elevating Your Baseline Health

Gwyneth Paltrow x Amy Crawford: Restoring Trust with Yourself

Gwyneth Paltrow x Stanley Tucci: For the Love of Food

The Bonds That Break and Make Us

Gwyneth Paltrow x Matthew Walker: How to Sleep Better

A New Paradigm for Love

Getting Untamed with Glennon Doyle

Gwyneth Paltrow x Jay Shetty: Becoming the Next Iteration of Yourself

How Do We Play as Adults?

Gwyneth Paltrow x Darshana Avila: Why Do We Diminish Our Sexual Selves?

Nice Racism

Why Happiness Isn’t in Your Head

Gwyneth Paltrow x Jaiya: What’s Your Erotic Blueprint?

Making Peace with Yourself

What Does Mothering Look Like?

Gwyneth Paltrow x Erica Chidi: Skin-to-Skin Contact, Internal Family Systems, and Other Things We’re Into

Gwyneth Paltrow x Ella Bell Smith and Stella Nkomo: Race and Gender in the Workplace

Adopting a Soft-Belly Breathing Practice

Esther Perel on Playing

What We Learn from Girlhood

Gwyneth Paltrow x Sophie Wiberg Holm: How to Understand—and Invest—in Cryptocurrency

Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World

Gwyneth Paltrow: Answers Your Questions

What Your Voice Says About You

Gwyneth Paltrow x Alicia Keys: Allowing the Process to Unfold

How Do We Hold Grief and Joy at the Same Time?

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