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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10.21.2021

“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 ...

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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, ...
07.13.2021 Understanding Our Sexual Fantasies Tracy Clark-Flory is a senior staff writer at Jezebel and author of Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey Into the Heart of Desire. Her book explores the messages we receive from society about sex, intimacy, and pleasure and how this ...
07.06.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Venus Williams: What Drives Us “What’s great about great players is their mind,” says Venus Williams. GP chatted with Williams, who was in Paris on the heels of the French Open. They talk about Williams’ perspective on competition, where her drive comes from, and what ...
06.29.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Bozoma Saint John: Your Singular Existence “I find it so confounding when leaders are uninterested in having their people’s experiences in the work—because how boring is that?” asks Bozoma Saint John, global chief marketing officer at Netflix. In this conversation with GP, Saint John shares some ...
06.22.2021 Realizing Our Belonging Cohost Erica Chidi is joined by Tara Brach, a clinical psychologist, spiritual meditation teacher, and author. Brach’s new book, Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness, explores the fundamental value of connection and how to recognize the value in ourselves. ...
06.15.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Taz Bhatia: Understanding Perimenopause and Menopause Taz Bhatia, MD, is a board-certified integrative medicine physician, author, and the founder of the functional medicine practice, CentreSpringMD. She helps patients navigate their health journey by drawing from different systems of medicine, including Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine. Today, ...
06.08.2021 Is Our Data Equal? Cohost Erica Chidi is joined by the coauthors of Data Feminism: Catherine D’Ignazio (an assistant professor of urban science and planning at MIT) and Lauren F. Klein (an associate professor of English and quantitative theory and methods at Emory University). ...
06.01.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Emeran Mayer: The Gut-Immune Connection Emeran Mayer, MD, PhD, is a gastroenterologist, a neuroscientist, and an author. At UCLA, he serves as the executive director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience and as the codirector of the Digestive Diseases Research ...
05.25.2021 Why We Need to See Health at Every Size “Social inequity is probably the biggest driver of health,” says Lindo Bacon, PhD, author of Health at Every Size, Body Respect, and Radical Belonging. “And if we don’t address the social determinants of health, then we end up blaming the ...
05.18.2021 Should All Drugs Be Legal? Carl Hart, PhD, is the psychology department chair at Columbia University and the author of Drug Use for Grown-Ups. In his book, Hart makes the case for the legalization and regulation of all drugs, drawing on decades of scientific research, ...
05.11.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Edith Eger: Why You Can’t Heal What You Don’t Feel Psychologist and bestselling author Edith Eger’s book, The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life, explores the power of self-renewal and how to free yourself from thoughts and behaviors that might be imprisoning you. Today, she shares her own story ...
05.04.2021 Using Astrology for Practical Action Astrology can be a practical tool, says Chani Nicholas, astrologer and author of You Were Born for This. “Most of our spiritual life is lived out through very practical actions.” In this conversation, Nicholas explores the birth chart of our ...
04.27.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Erica Chidi: Who Puts the Care in Healthcare? GP is joined by her friend Erica Chidi, CEO and cofounder of LOOM, and probably one of the first subscribers to goop back in 2008. They talk about the ways they’ve intersected and aligned over the years, how Chidi’s work ...
04.20.2021 Getting Out of Your Head and Back Into Your Body “The cure for burnout is not self-care,” says Emily Nagoski. “It’s simply care. It’s all of us caring for each other. That means that when you think you need more grit, what you need is more help. When you think ...
04.13.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Barry Michels: Prepare to Be Triggered “I don’t wake up and say, ‘I hope this is a great day, and I’m not going to get triggered,’” says psychotherapist Barry Michels, coauthor of Coming Alive and The Tools. “I say, ‘I’m going to get triggered. There’s no ...
04.06.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Laura Dern: Connecting with Yourself GP catches up with her longtime friend Laura Dern. They chat about being raised by double-artist parents and how their childhoods informed their acting careers, creative lives, and parenting styles. They talk about how they try to create space for ...
03.30.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Gabrielle Union: Past and Future Selves Many of us romanticize our past selves, says actress, producer, and activist Gabrielle Union. “If you don't do an excavation of how you got to where you are, you will continue to live in the romanticized version of who you ...
03.23.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Martha Beck: What Does It Mean to Live in Integrity? GP is joined by Harvard-trained sociologist and bestselling author Martha Beck. Beck’s new book, The Way of Integrity, explores what happens when we’re living in alignment with our true nature and how we become disconnected from it. She and GP ...
03.16.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Cara Delevingne: Being a Recovering People-Pleaser GP catches up with model, actress, entrepreneur, and activist Cara Delevingne. They start with Delevingne’s experience working in a high-pressure industry at young age and how she learned to break free from other people’s expectations. “You're put in a box ...
03.09.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Adam Grant: Think Again “The smarter you are, often the worse you are at rethinking because you can use your intelligence to contort the truth into what you want to hear and what you want to believe,” says organizational psychologist and beloved Wharton professor ...
03.02.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Robin Wright: Honing Your Creative Vision GP is joined today by an actress, producer, and director whose work she’s admired for many years, Robin Wright. Wright has just released her feature directorial debut, Land (which she also stars in), about a woman suffering immeasurable loss who ...
02.23.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Will Cole: Intuitive Fasting GP catches up with her friend and functional medicine practitioner Will Cole, DC. Cole is the author of the new book Intuitive Fasting: The Flexible Four-Week Intermittent Fasting Plan to Recharge Your Metabolism and Renew Your Health. GP has been ...
02.16.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Ethan Kross: Harnessing Your Inner Voice “When something bad is happening, we tend to focus on that problem really narrowly,” says psychologist Ethan Kross. “But if you lose the ability to step back and see the bigger picture, that's when it can become problematic.” Kross explains ...
02.09.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x Kristine Gedroic: How Do We Heal—and Prevent—Chronic Illness? “Sometimes the greatest strength comes from holding course when there aren’t answers, when there isn’t the best outcome around the corner,” says Kristine Gedroic, MD. Gedroic is a Harvard graduate, a fellow of the American Board of Family Medicine, and ...
02.02.2021 Gwyneth Paltrow x John Chester: Living in Disharmony with Nature “There’s no such thing as a perfect harmony with nature,” says John Chester, the farmer and filmmaker behind The Biggest Little Farm. “There’s a comfortable level of disharmony. There is purposefulness in this disharmony.” Chester and his wife, Molly, founded ...
01.26.2021 Uncovering the Cost of Saving a Life “When you have someone in your life who is experiencing illness, especially as a young person, it can be so impossible to bear witness to that,” says author Katherine E. Standefer. “Because then you are confronted with your own lack ...
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 ...

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The goop Podcast episodes:

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?

Understanding Our Sexual Fantasies

Gwyneth Paltrow x Venus Williams: What Drives Us

Gwyneth Paltrow x Bozoma Saint John: Your Singular Existence

Realizing Our Belonging

Gwyneth Paltrow x Taz Bhatia: Understanding Perimenopause and Menopause

Is Our Data Equal?

Gwyneth Paltrow x Emeran Mayer: The Gut-Immune Connection

Why We Need to See Health at Every Size

Should All Drugs Be Legal?

Gwyneth Paltrow x Edith Eger: Why You Can’t Heal What You Don’t Feel

Using Astrology for Practical Action

Gwyneth Paltrow x Erica Chidi: Who Puts the Care in Healthcare?

Getting Out of Your Head and Back Into Your Body

Gwyneth Paltrow x Barry Michels: Prepare to Be Triggered

Gwyneth Paltrow x Laura Dern: Connecting with Yourself

Gwyneth Paltrow x Gabrielle Union: Past and Future Selves

Gwyneth Paltrow x Martha Beck: What Does It Mean to Live in Integrity?

Gwyneth Paltrow x Cara Delevingne: Being a Recovering People-Pleaser

Gwyneth Paltrow x Adam Grant: Think Again

Gwyneth Paltrow x Robin Wright: Honing Your Creative Vision

Gwyneth Paltrow x Will Cole: Intuitive Fasting

Gwyneth Paltrow x Ethan Kross: Harnessing Your Inner Voice

Gwyneth Paltrow x Kristine Gedroic: How Do We Heal—and Prevent—Chronic Illness?

Gwyneth Paltrow x John Chester: Living in Disharmony with Nature

Uncovering the Cost of Saving a Life

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

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