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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Decoupling Shame from Sexua...

01.16.2020

“We can decouple shame from your sexuality,” says sex therapist Michael Vigorito. Vigorito joins Elise Loehnen to talk about how removing judgment can help us reframe our thinking about sex, desire, and the label: sex addiction. Vigorito prefers the term ...

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01.16.2020 Decoupling Shame from Sexuality “We can decouple shame from your sexuality,” says sex therapist Michael Vigorito. Vigorito joins Elise Loehnen to talk about how removing judgment can help us reframe our thinking about sex, desire, and the label: sex addiction. Vigorito prefers the term ...
01.14.2020 Gwyneth Paltrow x Eckhart Tolle: Separating Ourselves from the Ego “Most humans live as if past and future—and especially future—were more important than this moment,” says renowned spiritual leader Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now and A New Earth. In this special conversation with GP, Tolle teaches us ...
01.09.2020 Determining Your Life’s Purpose “Do what only you can do with your particular talents, gifts, and flaws,” says Jennifer Freed, psychological astrologer and author of Use Your Planets Wisely. In this episode, Freed joins friend Elise Loehnen to explain how we can use astrology ...
01.07.2020 Why Certain Relationships Work “Conflict is really what sharpens our ability to love,” says John Gottman, PhD, who is the cofounder, with his wife Julie, of the Gottman Institute for relationships. (They’re also coauthors of the new book, Eight Dates.)Today, they join Elise Loehnen ...
01.02.2020 Can We Slow Down The Aging Process? “Only 20 percent of our longevity and health in old age is genetically determined,” says David Sinclair, “The rest is up to us.” The Harvard genetics professor and author of Lifespan joins Elise Loehnen to break down the science behind ...
12.30.2019 The Unexpected Upside of Movement “Not only do we feel connected to one another, but we feel connected to something bigger than ourselves,” says Kelly McGonigal, health psychologist, Stanford University lecturer, and author of The Joy of Movement. Collective joy, McGonigal says, is what happens ...
12.26.2019 Investigating Instead of Reacting “Investigating what’s underneath the rage can help us then articulate—more clearly—our values,” says Rhonda V. Magee, professor of law at the University of San Francisco and author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice. Magee sat down with Elise Loehnen ...
12.23.2019 Why We Are Not Our Emotions Cleo Wade—poet, activist, and author of Where to Begin—joins Elise Loehnen to talk about why she’s hopeful. She reminds us that simple words can turn into bigger actions. She helps us identify the things that get in our own way, ...
12.19.2019 Recovering a Sacred Truth “We’re not just fully human,” says theologian Meggan Watterson. “We’re also fully divine.” In her book Mary Magdalene Revealed, Watterson explains why the recovered gospel of this controversial figure—which was ordered to be destroyed in the fourth century—has the power ...
12.17.2019 How Important Is It to Be Likable? “It’s not as simple as choosing not to care—you’re caught in a bind either way,” says Alicia Menendez, MSNBC anchor and author of The Likeability Trap. Menendez joins Elise Loehnen to talk about why many women are presented with two ...
12.12.2019 Becoming Color-Brave “Courage is not an absence of fear,” says Mellody Hobson, co-CEO and president of Ariel Investments. “It’s overcoming it.” Hobson, who experienced financial instability throughout her childhood, set out to understand money. And once she did, she decided to spread ...
12.10.2019 Why We Reduce Successful Women to One Thing Sophia Bush—actor, activist, and host of the podcast Work in Progress—joined Elise Loehnen on stage at the last In goop Health summit of the year. “You’re very often reduced to the thing that’s the least interesting about you,” Bush said, ...
12.05.2019 Gwyneth Paltrow x Demi Moore: Dismantling Our Defense Mechanisms “I felt empty and alone,” says Demi Moore, “but oddly not lonely.” The actor and author of the new memoir Inside Out joins GP to talk about what happened after the things she had been hiding from “came spilling out.” ...
12.03.2019 The Principles We Live By “How are you going to live your life in a way that is kind, and loving, and honest, and with integrity?” asks Sarah Hurwitz, former speechwriter for Michelle and Barack Obama and author of Here All Along. In her new ...
11.27.2019 Gwyneth Paltrow x Alejandro Junger: A Different Way of Detoxing GP met functional medicine practitioner Alejandro Junger in 2007, and her journey into wellness was forever changed because of it. Junger, who founded the twenty-one-day Clean Program and wrote the bestselling book Clean, has a new seven-day detox protocol and ...
11.26.2019 Processing Our Childhood “You don’t want to live on someone else’s fumes,” says Lisa Brennan-Jobs, author of Small Fry, abestselling memoir about growing up in Silicon Valley as the daughter of artist Chrisann Brennan and Apple legend Steve Jobs. Today, Brennan-Jobs and Elise ...
11.21.2019 Finding Joy Again “When you put on your clothes, how do you feel?” asks Ingrid Fetell Lee, designer and author of the brilliantly researched book Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness. Fetell Lee sits down with Elise Loehnen ...
11.19.2019 All That We Don’t Know “There are more and more academics and scientists becoming interested in matters that have to do with consciousness,” says Leslie Kean, journalist and author of Surviving Death. Kean joins chief content officer Elise Loehnen to talk about life’s greatest mysteries ...
11.14.2019 Unsubscribing from Our Thoughts “I was fully stuck in this neurotic paradox,” says life coach Sasha Heinz, who has a PhD in developmental psychology. That paradox might be familiar: “I do what I don’t want to do, and I don’t do what I want ...
11.12.2019 Demystifying Energy Medicine “There is a source energy that runs through all of us that animates us,” says Jill Blakeway, acupuncturist and author of Energy Medicine. Today, Blakeway joins Elise Loehnen to talk about the integration of Eastern and Western medicine and what ...
11.07.2019 Gwyneth, Elise, Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey: When We Dare to Speak Up Our cohosts, Gwyneth Paltrow and Elise Loehnen, sit down with Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor—coauthors of She Said and the New York Times investigative journalists who won the Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on Harvey Weinstein. As part of their ...
11.05.2019 A Doctor Who Can Feel People’s Pain “There’s a space between people that we just have to take a risk and just leap and see how we can connect,” says Joel Salinas, Harvard Medical School neurologist and author of Mirror Touch. Salinas has mirror-touch synesthesia: He explains ...
10.31.2019 When Our Bodies Talk to Us “So much of the healing that can come to us, we can create for ourselves,” says James Gordon, MD, psychiatrist and author of The Transformation. Gordon is the founder and director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and a clinical ...
10.29.2019 The Quarter-Life Crisis “We set quarter-lifers up to fail,” says psychotherapist Satya Doyle Byock, “and then we make fun of them.” In her practice (called Quarter-Life Counseling), Byock primarily sees people in their twenties and thirties. Today, she sits down with chief content ...
10.24.2019 Are We Bad at Listening? “The world isn’t so evil as people assume,” says Joel Stein, journalist, funnyman, and author of In Defense of Elitism. Stein joins chief content officer Elise Loehnen to talk about what he uncovered when he decided to investigate why people ...
10.22.2019 Gwyneth x Kerry Washington: Staying Mentally and Emotionally Fit GP sat down with Kerry Washington in front of a live audience, and they started reminiscing about going to the same all-girls school in New York City. They talked about how their education shaped the trajectory of their lives in ...
10.17.2019 Using Food as Medicine “We need to do something different to feel something different,” says Will Cole, DC, functional medicine practitioner and cohost of the goopfellas podcast. Today, he’s talking with chief content officer and friend Elise Loehnen about why so many of us ...
10.15.2019 When Our Stories Move the Culture “I have more freedom than I’ve ever had,” says Catt Sadler, journalist and host of the podcast NAKED. After more than a decade of working at E! Entertainment, Sadler, who has won three Emmys, chose to leave over a wage ...
10.10.2019 Gwyneth x Barry Michels: How to Think Less and Do More “We would much rather think than do,” says Barry Michels, psychotherapist and coauthor of The Tools and Coming Alive. He sat down with GP at In goop Health London to share his tools for letting go of negativity, for holding ...
10.08.2019 How We Misunderstand Privilege “We’re so caught up in our own sense of not belonging,” says Elaine Welteroth, “that we aren’t even recognizing that we’re all in it together.” The former editor in chief of Teen Vogue and the author of More than Enough ...
10.03.2019 Why We’re the Loneliest Society “We need to change the cage we’re all living in,” says Johann Hari, the author of Lost Connections. Hari struggled with depression for most of his life. For two different reasons, he was told it was all in his head. ...
10.01.2019 Changing the Perception of Wellness “Being alive and existing isn’t good enough,” says Dr. Robin Berzin. “We want to feel well.” The founder and CEO of the functional medicine practice Parsley Health believes that the scope of our health care system is dated, and that ...
09.26.2019 Why We Can’t Detect a Lie “We may think we know when people are lying, but basically we have no clue,” says Malcolm Gladwell, journalist and New York Times–bestselling author of Talking to Strangers, The Tipping Point, and Blink. Gladwell explores the assumptions we make as ...
09.24.2019 Why You Want to Feel Fear “I want to be frightened and afraid I’m not going to be able to do it,” says actor Sarah Paulson about what draws her to play a particular character. Paulson, who stars as Xandra in The Goldfinch (out now), met ...
09.19.2019 Gwyneth x Ray Dalio: Why We Can Never Be Sure We’re Right “Why should you believe that just because you have an opinion that that's the right opinion?” asks Ray Dalio, founder of prestigious investment management firm Bridgewater Associates and author of Principles. GP and Dalio talk about how they hear and ...
09.17.2019 What We’re Taught about Money “I have not been able to find a single piece of research that tells me that anything bad happens when women have more money,” says Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and cofounder of Ellevest. Krawcheck joins chief content officer Elise Loehnen to ...
09.12.2019 How We Adapt to Stress Brian MacKenzie doesn’t like when people tell him to “just breathe” either. So even though he’s the founder of a (great, practical, helpful) breathing app (State), you won’t hear those words coming out of his mouth. MacKenzie, the founder of ...
09.10.2019 Why Fear Can Be Magical “Ninety-nine percent of the time when we use the word ‘can’t,’ it’s really a euphemism for ‘won’t,’” says entrepreneur Marie Forleo, the author of Everything Is Figureoutable. Forleo’s specialty is bridging the gap between thinking about doing something and doing ...
09.05.2019 Taking Control of Our Sexual Experience Peggy Orenstein, bestselling author of Girls and Sex, explores the gaps and nuances of intimacy. Today, she talks to Elise about how girls and women are taught that being sexy is important, but being “sexual” is reserved for men. They ...
09.03.2019 Fight Like a Mother This is a handbook for people of all political leanings and persuasions—and for people who aren’t political at all but want to meaningfully engage with an issue. Shannon Watts—author of Fight Like a Mother, founder of Moms Demand Action, mother ...
08.29.2019 Gwyneth x Michelle Pfeiffer: Second Marriages and Careers Although Michelle Pfeiffer and GP do talk about acting and costars, they also talk about who they are off-screen. They talk about why they both decided to get married a second time and what they’ve learned from committing to intimacy. ...
08.27.2019 How to Raise Successful People All parents need to know one thing, says Esther Wojcicki: “There is no perfect parenting.” Wojcicki is the author of How to Raise Successful People, a legendary journalism teacher, and founder of the renowned Media Arts programs at Palo Alto ...
08.22.2019 Why We’re Not Broken “We get into fear, and then we assume what we’re feeling is ours,” says Dana Childs, an intuitive and energy healer. Childs believes that a big part of the anxiety, fear, or even pain we feel—does not always belong to ...
08.20.2019 Feeding Your Digestive Fire Jasmine Hemsley, the author of East by West, was in university when she realized the food she was eating (mainly cheese toasties, morning, noon, and night) was not serving her. Over time, she adapted Ayurvedic principles that changed her life. ...
08.15.2019 The Beauty in the End BJ Miller, MD, is the kind of person who can make you feel good about death—and, in turn, life. He’s also the kind of person who can coauthor a book called A Beginner’s Guide to the End that makes you ...
08.13.2019 What Our Anxiety Is Telling Us “We’re just not taught these days to feel our feelings,” says psychiatrist Ellen Vora, MD. In her New York City practice, Vora takes a holistic, functional-medicine approach to mental health. She sees symptoms—anxiety and depression, hormone and gut issues—as “our ...
08.08.2019 Why We’re Disengaged at Work People are disengaged at work across the board, says Laura Morgan Roberts, PhD, an organizational psychologist who teaches executive and leadership programs at places like Harvard Business School and Georgetown McDonough. Some people are so actively disengaged, says Roberts, that ...
08.06.2019 The Beautiful State “We are either living in a suffering state, or we are living in a beautiful state,” says philosopher Preethaji. “There is no third state.” Which state are you nurturing? asks Preethaji, who is a coauthor (with her husband, Krishnaji) of ...
08.01.2019 Where Do Emotions Come From? “We don’t actually detect things in the world,” says neuroscientist and psychologist Lisa Barrett. “We infer what we expect to see.” Barrett is the author of How Emotions are Made, a book that overturns a lot of what we thought ...
07.30.2019 How Do We Reach Our Full Potential? Michael Gervais, a high-performance psychologist and the host of the podcast Finding Mastery, always loved sports. But he says he struggled “above the neck.” His own mental blocks got in the way when it came time to compete. Gervais got ...

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The goop Podcast episodes:

Decoupling Shame from Sexuality

Gwyneth Paltrow x Eckhart Tolle: Separating Ourselves from the Ego

Determining Your Life’s Purpose

Why Certain Relationships Work

Can We Slow Down The Aging Process?

The Unexpected Upside of Movement

Investigating Instead of Reacting

Why We Are Not Our Emotions

Recovering a Sacred Truth

How Important Is It to Be Likable?

Becoming Color-Brave

Why We Reduce Successful Women to One Thing

Gwyneth Paltrow x Demi Moore: Dismantling Our Defense Mechanisms

The Principles We Live By

Gwyneth Paltrow x Alejandro Junger: A Different Way of Detoxing

Processing Our Childhood

Finding Joy Again

All That We Don’t Know

Unsubscribing from Our Thoughts

Demystifying Energy Medicine

Gwyneth, Elise, Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey: When We Dare to Speak Up

A Doctor Who Can Feel People’s Pain

When Our Bodies Talk to Us

The Quarter-Life Crisis

Are We Bad at Listening?

Gwyneth x Kerry Washington: Staying Mentally and Emotionally Fit

Using Food as Medicine

When Our Stories Move the Culture

Gwyneth x Barry Michels: How to Think Less and Do More

How We Misunderstand Privilege

Why We’re the Loneliest Society

Changing the Perception of Wellness

Why We Can’t Detect a Lie

Why You Want to Feel Fear

Gwyneth x Ray Dalio: Why We Can Never Be Sure We’re Right

What We’re Taught about Money

How We Adapt to Stress

Why Fear Can Be Magical

Taking Control of Our Sexual Experience

Fight Like a Mother

Gwyneth x Michelle Pfeiffer: Second Marriages and Careers

How to Raise Successful People

Why We’re Not Broken

Feeding Your Digestive Fire

The Beauty in the End

What Our Anxiety Is Telling Us

Why We’re Disengaged at Work

The Beautiful State

Where Do Emotions Come From?

How Do We Reach Our Full Potential?

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