The goop Podcast

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Gwyneth Paltrow and goop's Chief Content Officer Elise Loehnen chat with leading thinkers, culture changers, and industry disruptors—from doctors to creatives, CEOs to spiritual healers—about shifting old paradigms and starting new conversations.

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“When people ask me about the biggest issues in mental health, I say: Stigma is problems one, two, and three,” says psychiatrist Nina Vasan, MD. In addition to seeing patients in her private practice, Vasan is the chief medical officer ...

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01.19.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Nina Vasan: How Do We Take Care of Our Mental Health? “When people ask me about the biggest issues in mental health, I say: Stigma is problems one, two, and three,” says psychiatrist Nina Vasan, MD. In addition to seeing patients in her private practice, Vasan is the chief medical officer ...
01.12.2021 Why It’s Normal to Dislike Exercise Daniel Lieberman is a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and the author of the new book Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding. Today, he joins host Elise Loehnen to break down ...
01.05.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow: Ask Me Anything We’re kicking off 2021 with a different kind of episode. Today, instead of being joined by a guest, GP is doing a lightning round of AMA, where she answers a handful of listener-submitted questions. True to form, your questions ran ...
12.29.2020 Does Time Equal Money? In Celeste Headlee’s book—Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving—she examines our fractured relationships to work. Why do we use productivity as a measure of self-worth? Where does our obsession with efficiency come from? In this ...
12.23.2020 A Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Resmaa Menakem is a trauma specialist and the New York Times–bestselling author of My Grandmother’s Hands, which examines how racial trauma is deeply embedded in the body. He joins Elise Loehnen today to discuss his work as a somatic healer, ...
12.22.2020 Gwyneth Paltrow x Otto Yang: COVID-19 Antibodies, Vaccines, and Cutting-Edge Research Otto Yang, MD, an infectious disease researcher at UCLA, is leading a global clinical trial on COVID-19 sponsored by the NIH. GP, who had COVID-19 in early March, is a part of the study and has gotten to know Yang’s ...
12.17.2020 Is Belief Overrated? “I didn’t want to just write about loss,” says religion scholar Elaine Pagels. “I wanted to write about coming back from it and finding you can still have joy and a wonderful life. Because for me, that was a surprise.” ...
12.15.2020 Gwyneth Paltrow x Pharrell Williams: Where Can an Open Mind Take You? GP catches up with her friend Pharrell Williams and, no surprise, the multihyphenate artist has a lot of ground to cover. They talk about his parenting philosophy and how its shifted during the pandemic. They talk about his creative process ...
12.10.2020 Systems of Silencing “They could have gone in one of two directions,” says author Lacy Crawford. “Either start asking real questions and listening for honest answers and face the reckoning of what these boys had done to me. Or go the other direction ...
12.08.2020 We’re Good at Capitalism. Can We Get Better at Love? Mellody Hayes, MD, is an anesthesiologist, a healer, a spiritual teacher, and a powerful voice in the psychedelic movement. Though Hayes has worked in traditional medicine for her whole career, she says her spiritual life greatly informs how she approaches ...
12.03.2020 Normalizing the Need to Rest and Retreat In Katherine May’s newest book, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, she explores how we relate to the painful periods in our lives—and what we can gain from normalizing the need to rest and tend to ...
12.01.2020 A Reason to Reveal Your Secrets GP is joined by Ed Catmull, cofounder of Pixar, former president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, and author of the New York Times–bestselling book Creativity, Inc. They talk about what it takes to establish the kind of company culture Catmull ...
11.25.2020 Does Intimacy Count as Sex? Kevin Weinfurt, PhD, is the vice chair for research in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. His work measures sexual function and satisfaction and how sexual well-being can be impacted by illness and other ...
11.24.2020 A Cultural Reckoning and a Vision of Restorative Justice “The Northern Cheyenne people have a saying: A nation is not defeated until the hearts of its women are on the ground,” says Lucy Rain Simpson, executive director of the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center. “And that was a primary ...
11.19.2020 When Work Becomes Personal “The core of leadership should be care,” says psychiatrist Gianpiero Petriglieri, MD. “And then performance is a result of a system in which there is enough care.” Petriglieri is an associate professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD and an expert ...
11.17.2020 How the Caste System Continues to Shape Our Lives Isabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning, number one New York Times–bestselling author. Her most recent book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, links the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany. She examines how a caste system has shaped ...
11.12.2020 How to Maximize the Power of Your Breath Our guest today is James Nestor, journalist and author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, which explores the often overlooked and undervalued function of breathing and all the ways that breath is at the center of health—and ...
11.10.2020 Gwyneth Paltrow x Abby Wambach: Leading from the Bench GP is joined by two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup Champion, and New York Times–bestselling author Abby Wambach. Since retiring from her record-breaking soccer career, Wambach has become known for her work around equality and inclusion alongside her wife, ...
11.05.2020 Jessica Yellin on the Election and Our Future The former CNN White House correspondent has become known as an independent news source and appreciated by followers for her cogent, insightful approach and for allowing people to draw their own conclusions—without all the added drama. For this special episode, ...
11.02.2020 What Makes a Good Marriage? Eli Finkel, PhD, is a psychology professor at Northwestern University and the author of the fascinating book The All-or-Nothing Marriage, which explores the surprising things that make marriages fulfilling and what can put them on the rocks. Today, he joins ...
10.29.2020 Who’s Scared of an Angry Woman? Journalist Rebecca Traister has written three books, including her most recent New York Times bestseller, Good and Mad, which explores how women’s anger has provoked political and social change over centuries. Traister joined host Elise Loehnen to talk through all ...
10.27.2020 Group Therapy: What’s It Like to Share Your Secrets? Writer and attorney Christie Tate had big reservations when a therapist first suggested she pursue group therapy. The idea of voluntarily sharing her secrets and vulnerabilities with a group of strangers was not appealing. It was terrifying. But she went. ...
10.22.2020 Why Being Brave Means Letting Go of Being Nice “Hope isn’t an optimism that one day it will be okay,” says Austin Channing Brown. “Hope is what we owe to one another as human beings.” Brown is a media producer, a speaker, and the author of the New York ...
10.20.2020 What Makes Us Vulnerable to Mind Control? “The work that I do helping people exit these groups, it isn’t about persuading them to leave,” says mental health counselor Steven Hassan. “It’s teaching them how the mind works, teaching them about social psychology and hypnosis, which helps them ...
10.15.2020 The Secret History of Religion Brian Muraresku—author of The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name—spent twelve years entrenched in connecting the dots between the use of mind-altering drugs and the foundation of Christianity as we know it today. Many of ...
10.13.2020 Gwyneth Paltrow x Kate Hudson: Betting on Yourself GP catches up with her friend Kate Hudson, and true to form, they cover a lot of ground. They talk about being girl moms, what it looks like to own your trauma, and how, at this stage in her life, ...
10.08.2020 The Beauty in Breaking “It’s the possibility of greater change that rejuvenates me,” says Michele Harper, MD. “That’s what makes it possible for me to keep going.” Harper is an emergency room physician who has worked as chief resident at Lincoln Hospital in the ...
10.06.2020 Survival on Stolen Land Author Toni Jensen joined us for the September edition of goop Book Club to talk about her first memoir, Carry, which traces her Métis roots, her childhood in rural Iowa, her closest relationships, and the classrooms she’s inhabited around the ...
10.01.2020 Starting and Ending a Marriage Laura Wasser is a family law expert, a divorce attorney, and the founder of It’s Over Easy, a platform that provides tools to help families navigating divorce. She joins host Elise Loehnen to talk about how people can prepare for ...
09.29.2020 Finding Light in Dark Places David Sheff is a journalist and the author of the number one New York Times–bestselling book Beautiful Boy. Sheff joins us to talk about an incredible man and the subject of his latest book, The Buddhist on Death Row: Jarvis ...
09.24.2020 Gwyneth Paltrow x Susan Rice: What’s Worth Fighting For? Ambassador Susan Rice has had an impressive career in service and government as a diplomat, policy advisor, and public official. She served throughout the Clinton administration, becoming one of the nation’s youngest secretaries of state, and later, became one of ...
09.22.2020 The Science of Self-Compassion Many people find it difficult to exercise self-compassion, in part because we fear that being tender with ourselves will make us lose our edge. But Kristin Neff, PhD—who wrote Self-Compassion and The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook and is steeped in the ...
09.17.2020 A Different Way to Live Virtuously “Each of us, in our own infinite precious particularity, will be led to what’s to be done next in our own time and space,” says Cynthia Bourgeault. The modern-day mystic and Episcopal priest is the author of several brilliant books, ...
09.15.2020 Gwyneth Paltrow x Jay Shetty: What Happens When You Spend Time with Yourself? Jay Shetty, author of the new book Think Like a Monk, is in part known as a former monk. Now, he serves as a coach, helping people identify and live out their purpose. He joined GP to talk about why ...
09.10.2020 Proving Ourselves into Existence “I grew up with this intense fear of failure,” says Cathy Park Hong. “And in retrospect, I can understand why my parents instilled that in me—because for them, there was no safety net.” Hong is a writer, a professor at ...
09.08.2020 What Makes a Good Apology? “There is so much hurt that doesn’t have to remain unhealed,” says Molly Howes, PhD. “A good apology can go the distance to lessen that pain.” Howes is a Harvard-trained clinical psychologist and the author of A Good Apology: Four ...
09.03.2020 The Downstream Impact of ignoring Environmental Health “Most of the diseases that we experience are not inevitable,” says Bruce Lanphear, MD. “They’re preventable.” Lanphear is a clinician scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital, and a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences ...
09.01.2020 Can We Create Our Own Good Luck? We often view moments of serendipity, or happy accidents, as situations that we play no part in and can't control or influence. But author Christian Busch, PhD, believes that luck may not always be circumstantial—and that by training ourselves to ...
08.27.2020 Finding Meaning in Transition You’ve probably been fed the myth that your life will generally follow a linear path, with maybe a midlife crisis and a few other upheavals thrown in along the way. But in reality, you’ve probably experienced more big transitions, or ...
08.25.2020 When Friends Matter Too Much Gordon Neufeld is a developmental psychologist and the author of Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. In his forty-plus years studying child development, a few common threads have emerged. According to Neufeld, parents ...
08.20.2020 Gwyneth Paltrow x Cameron Diaz: What to Cut Loose GP talks with her friend Cameron Diaz about the best part of turning forty, what affects our capacity to be intimate, taking responsibility for who you are, and the launch of Avaline, Diaz’s organic wine line. Diaz explains why she ...
08.18.2020 The Science Behind Spontaneous Healing In the medical community, miraculous recoveries are typically dismissed as flukes and outliers. Because they can’t be explained within the constructs of typical modern care, they end up in the dustbin. But some doctors, like today’s guest Jeffrey Rediger, MD, ...
08.13.2020 How We Can Save American Farming Tom Philpott is a veteran journalist, a former farmer, and the current food and agriculture correspondent for Mother Jones. Philpott has spent years researching how and why American agriculture has gone so disastrously wrong and all the ways our political ...
08.11.2020 The Trap of Being a “Good” Person Dolly Chugh is a psychologist and professor at the Stern School of Business at NYU. She studies how—and why—most of us, however well-intended, are still prone to race and gender bias, as well as what she calls “bounded ethicality,” which ...
08.06.2020 Do We Inherit Trauma? Mark Wolynn is the director of the Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco. The focus of his work is healing trauma. Wolynn believes that the traumas of our parents, grandparents, and even great grandparents can live on in us—particularly if ...
08.04.2020 The Uninhabitable Earth David Wallace-Wells is a lifelong New Yorker. He is not a lifelong environmentalist—“at all,” he says. He came of age in the ’90s, drank a lot of “that development, globalization, neoliberal Kool-Aid and really felt the world was getting better ...
07.30.2020 What’s Your Map to Arousal? “That taboo dark energy around our sexuality can be a place of great expansion,” says somatic sexologist andeducator Jaiya, who has spent the last two decades studying what turns people on. Jaiya developed something called the Erotic Blueprint, an arousal ...
07.28.2020 Why We Need to Stop Checking Boxes “When you push people to be colorblind, not only are you pushing them to not see color; you’re pushing them to not see the harm that comes from color,” says Jennifer Eberhardt, PhD. Eberhardt is a social psychologist, a Stanford ...
07.23.2020 When We Stop Trying to Absolve Ourselves of Guilt “The urge to absolve oneself is a kind of low-level thing where we’re trying to get away from our own complicity,” says psychiatrist Mark Epstein, MD. Epstein is the author of Advice Not Given, and his work lies at the ...
07.21.2020 Gwyneth Paltrow x Rick Doblin: What’s an MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Session Like? “Whatever is emerging, we want to help people explore it and experience it,” says Rick Doblin. GP interviewed the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) about the impact MDMA-assisted psychotherapy may have on PTSD, ...

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The goop Podcast episodes:

Gwyneth Paltrow x Nina Vasan: How Do We Take Care of Our Mental Health?

Why It’s Normal to Dislike Exercise

Gwyneth Paltrow: Ask Me Anything

Does Time Equal Money?

A Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Gwyneth Paltrow x Otto Yang: COVID-19 Antibodies, Vaccines, and Cutting-Edge Research

Is Belief Overrated?

Gwyneth Paltrow x Pharrell Williams: Where Can an Open Mind Take You?

Systems of Silencing

We’re Good at Capitalism. Can We Get Better at Love?

Normalizing the Need to Rest and Retreat

A Reason to Reveal Your Secrets

Does Intimacy Count as Sex?

A Cultural Reckoning and a Vision of Restorative Justice

When Work Becomes Personal

How the Caste System Continues to Shape Our Lives

How to Maximize the Power of Your Breath

Gwyneth Paltrow x Abby Wambach: Leading from the Bench

Jessica Yellin on the Election and Our Future

What Makes a Good Marriage?

Who’s Scared of an Angry Woman?

Group Therapy: What’s It Like to Share Your Secrets?

Why Being Brave Means Letting Go of Being Nice

What Makes Us Vulnerable to Mind Control?

The Secret History of Religion

Gwyneth Paltrow x Kate Hudson: Betting on Yourself

The Beauty in Breaking

Survival on Stolen Land

Starting and Ending a Marriage

Finding Light in Dark Places

Gwyneth Paltrow x Susan Rice: What’s Worth Fighting For?

The Science of Self-Compassion

A Different Way to Live Virtuously

Gwyneth Paltrow x Jay Shetty: What Happens When You Spend Time with Yourself?

Proving Ourselves into Existence

What Makes a Good Apology?

The Downstream Impact of ignoring Environmental Health

Can We Create Our Own Good Luck?

Finding Meaning in Transition

When Friends Matter Too Much

Gwyneth Paltrow x Cameron Diaz: What to Cut Loose

The Science Behind Spontaneous Healing

How We Can Save American Farming

The Trap of Being a “Good” Person

Do We Inherit Trauma?

The Uninhabitable Earth

What’s Your Map to Arousal?

Why We Need to Stop Checking Boxes

When We Stop Trying to Absolve Ourselves of Guilt

Gwyneth Paltrow x Rick Doblin: What’s an MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Session Like?

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