bettercast

bettercast

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bettercast episodes

  • #9 - sometimes you gotta make a fool of yourself
    What if you only ever tried stuff that you were already awesome at? You'd never end up cycling across France, with a bunch of high school students, like our guest Stella Orange. Learn what you might gain from what she calls "falling on the sword of your own dignity."
    1 hr 1 min
  • #8 - changing your social media habits
    What would happen if you just unfollowed the things that made you feel bad? In a world with millions of social media options, it's becoming more important to be judicious in what you consume. People often audit their diets, but have you ever logged what social media you consume and how it makes you feel? Kat Zdan began doing just that about a year ago, and it turns out the answer is not so simple. She explores the pros and cons of controlling your social media feeds in this open conversation about the impact that they have had on her life and self-image.
    1 hr 2 min
  • #7 - why some people persist at their resolutions and others quit
    Dr. Heather Patrick has designed some of the largest behavior change studies in history. We sit down to talk about why some people seem to achieve their New Year's goals and others struggle. She blows Coach Stevo's mind with a cool new behavior change tool called "practice quitting" and opens up about her own struggle to "find her tribe."
    55 min
  • #6 - how to make confrontation easier
    How do you have difficult conversations? Today we talk to Marcia Baczynscki of "Asking for What you Want" and "The Good Girl Recovery Program" about how she got so good at confrontation and difficult conversations with both people she loves and strangers on the street.
    59 min
  • #5 - put technology in service of your goals

    Does technology help or hinder you? We talk with behavior change designer Dustin DiTommaso about how you can make technology work for you...instead of letting it run your life. Music by Ray Rude: http://www.needledrop.co/wp/artists/ray-rude/

    56 min
  • #4 - what happens when you stop complaining?

    "What would happen if I never complained again?" Cianna Stewart asked herself one day in 2006. The answer inspired the No Complaining Project. Find out the difference between healthy and unhealthy complaining, how to stop complaining when it's an ingrained habit, and how it affects your ability to take action to resolve problems. (If you want to. Why would anyone want to stop complaining, anyway?) Music by Ray Rude: http://www.needledrop.co/wp/artists/ray-rude/

    1 hr 2 min
  • #3 - ashley and the '94 camry

    When her car broke down and she had no money to fix it, Ashley found herself in a "going gets tough" situation. Then, a flirtation at AAA and an expired credit card later, Ashley made herself the hero of her own story. Find out how she got great at fixing cars and hear about her one weird trick: put everything back the way you found it. Music by Ray Rude: http://www.needledrop.co/wp/artists/ray-rude/

    35 min
  • #2 - rally your accountabilibuddies

    Does it ever feel like your friends and family don't support your plans to change? Dr. Jennifer LaGuardia, a Clinical Psychologist and one of the world's top motivation experts, talks about how you can recruit help from the people in your life to change your habits and how to avoid the most common mistakes. Music by Ray Rude: http://www.needledrop.co/wp/artists/ray-rude/

    1 hr 15 min
  • #1 - bettercast preview
    The Bettercast is for people who want to learn how to get a little bit better at the habits that matter. Improving your life is a worthy challenge. It's also damn hard. Meet people who met the challenge and followed through, and hear from psychology and motivation experts about how successful change actually happens. Music by Ray Rude: http://www.needledrop.co/wp/artists/ray-rude/
    6 min

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The bettercast is a weekly conversation with a real person about how they got better at something. Through these conversations, we explore what it means to be a better friend, boss, parter, and…