Karel expands on his previous episodes dealing with career advice by making the case for approaching career health much like we know how to deal with physical health by doing workouts, journals, and checkups.

This episode will give you ways of dealing with uncertainty, becoming an agent of change, and having personal impact.

The top request on a listener poll was for an episode on Mindfulness and Meditation so Karel devotes this episode to that topic. He discusses the research evidence regarding the benefits and then gives guidance on practicing mindfulness and meditation.

Karel is joined by Cynthia Tripathi, the author of Escaping Average. Karel and Cynthia discuss ways of upping your game in the areas of mental state, health, career, finance, and social life.

Karel is again joined by UK Psychologist Mandy Kloppers to discuss recognizing and fixing common errors in thinking.

In response to listener suggestions, Karel devotes this episode to three themes for developing and applying social intelligence to entrepreneurial, intrepreneurial, and self-improvement initiatives.

After conducting a poll with listeners via social media as to what topic to focus on for this episode, it was determined that Optimizing Happiness was far and away the most ask for. Karel builds on the foundation that was established in LH84 on Being Happier to provide additional advice to further hone particular habits to achieve even greater levels of happiness in life.

Karel has been traveling a lot and hasn't recorded episodes lately so he decided to devote this return episode to the topic of optimizing travel.

Inspired by Emma Watson's UN speech, Karel devotes this episode to providing advice for women and men to promote gender equality.

Karel devotes this episode to the critically important habit of developing empathy for others.