The Rewired Soul

Whether you're a parent, have nieces and nephews, or hang with your best friends and their kids, we don't want them to fail or feel like failures. The reality is that failure is a gift, and that's exactly what we discuss today with Jessica Lahey. As a parent and educator, she wrote an amazing book about how we can help our kids fail better.

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Thousands of people die from drug addiction each year, which means that even more people know someone who struggles with addiction or has died from it. The Rewired Soul host Chris got clean from his opioid addiction on June 23, 2012, and today he talks with Charlotte Bismuth about her book Bad Medicine. Charlotte is a former prosecutor who helped take down one of New York's deadliest pill-pushing doctors. In this episode, we discuss some of the challenges we face with the opioid epidemic, Big Pharma, and what we can do about it.

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It's 2021, and writing is a major part of all of our lives. We write emails, texts, and social media posts. But how do we persuade our coworkers or boss to try our idea? And how do we make sure we're writing to be understood by the receiver? Today's guest is Anne Janzer who has years of experience writing and teaching others how to become better writers as well in all areas.

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After the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, many of us were left wondering how people can be treated as less than human. And how do we explain atrocities like the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide? Today, Chris had the opportunity to sit down with professor and philosopher David Livingstone Smith to discuss his book On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It.

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Love and relationships play a major role in our lives. Love can bring us immense joy, or it can send us spiraling into depression. Some people can't love. But what if there was a pill for love? Or a pill for heartache? What about a drug that could reignite the flame with your significant other? Today, we talk with bioethicist and philosopher of Yale and Oxford, Brian Earp, about his book Love Drugs.

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QAnon is a group that believes in conspiracy theories despite the lack of evidence, and we saw their numbers skyrocket during the COVID pandemic. Many of us are left asking why people believe QAnon conspiracy theories and how can these conspiracy theories lead people to take actions that can potentially harm others? Today's guest is Dr. Sophia Moskalenko who co-authored a brand new book with Dr. Mia Bloom that dives into the psychology of QAnon and what you can do to help a loved one who fell down the rabbit hole.

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Money is a difficult subject for a lot of us, but once we learn the psychology behind how to be better with our money, we can make incredible changes. Today's guest is the author Brian Portnoy, and he specializes in the psychology of investing, saving, and making smarter financial decisions overall.

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It's no secret that people are more polarized than ever, and it's very clear in the age of social media. Conventional wisdom tells us that echo chambers, misinformation, and more are the leading causes of this polarization, but how can we know for sure? Today's guest is the author of Breaking the Social Media Prism, Chris Bail. He's a professor at Duke and the director of the Polarization Lab, and he's done a ton of research that we discuss in this episode.

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We all want to become better decision-makers, but one issue we face is that we ignore risk. Whether it's denial or discounting the future, it happens to all of us. In this episode, we speak with the amazing strategist, policy expert, and author Michele Wucker to discuss what she calls "the gray rhino" and how we can make better decisions by acknowledging and assessing risk.

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Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? And more importantly, what can we do to help people escape the rabbit hole? That's exactly what we discuss with this week's guest, conspiracy theory debunker Mick West. In this episode, we discuss how to not only help people see the flaws in their conspiratorial thinking, like those who believe in QAnon or election fraud, but Mick gives us some great tools to be a bit more skeptical about data and information in our daily lives.

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