Episodes 103
Avg. Duration 59m
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Apple Rating 4.9 (3,600)
Since Nov 2023
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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New episodes every month. Life advice that doesn’t suck by a 3x #1 NYT bestselling author. I’ve spent two decades calling out everything wrong with the self-help world: the bad science, the guru nonsense, and the advice that preys on people's insecurities. This podcast is my no-BS, research-backed answer to all of it.

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How to Change Your Life, Solved

Jun 03, 2026 5h 6m

If you've ever tried to change something about yourself, failed, tried again, and concluded you must just be broken, here's some good news: you're probably not broken. You've just been aiming at the…

Why We Stay in Bad Relationships, Solved

May 20, 2026 1h 51m

Why do smart, emotionally aware people stay in relationships that are clearly destroying them? Drew and I dug into the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard marriage, to walk through the seven psychological…

How to Overcome Anxiety, Solved

May 06, 2026 2h 18m

Here's the uncomfortable truth about anxiety: most of what people reach for to fix it was chosen because it feels easy, not because it works. The supplement that went viral on TikTok, the CBD gummy,…

Your Questions On Manifestation, Confidence, and Getting Over Your Ex, Solved

Apr 29, 2026 1h 11m

It's been one year of SOLVED. 20 episodes, 20 million downloads, 3 million YouTube subscribers, and a truly unreasonable number of poop jokes. To celebrate, I sat down with over 200 of your questions…

Passion, Solved: Is It Really Worth Pursuing?

Apr 15, 2026 2h 9m

Nearly 60% of American workers are checked out at their jobs. Meanwhile, every graduation speech in history tells you to follow your passion and you'll never work a day in your life. So which is…

Solved, Highlights: What Actually Makes People Happy

Apr 08, 2026 32m

So here's the thing about happiness: the harder you chase it, the faster it runs. That's not some bumper sticker wisdom. It's basically the core finding of decades of research. In this highlight,…

Self-Help, Solved

Apr 01, 2026 2h 10m

We pulled over 2,600 studies and ranked 19 of the most common self-improvement techniques across three dimensions: research quality, consistency of results, and actual effect size. Then we sorted…

The Biggest Self-Help Scam in History, Solved

Mar 25, 2026 27m

This book has sold over a hundred million copies, billionaires swear by it. But what if it's a lie? Does the effectiveness of the book change if we find out that the author is a huge scammer and…

Meditation, Solved: Is It Actually Worth It?

Mar 18, 2026 1h 28m

Meditation has been sold to us as a magic pill for so long that the backlash is almost as overblown as the hype. I spent years deep in Buddhist practice, went on retreats, meditated daily — and then…

Solved, Highlights: How to Find Your Values

Mar 11, 2026 38m

If you’ve ever felt stuck, or like you’re doing all the right things but something still feels off, there’s a good chance it’s a values problem. Not a discipline problem, not a productivity problem.…

Focus, Solved

Mar 04, 2026 3h 22m

Focus is one of those things everyone swears they need more of and almost no one is actually addressing correctly. In this episode, we dig into what the science actually says about attention spans…

The Best Thing About You is Also the Worst Thing

Feb 25, 2026 24m

A Hungarian doctor discovered that handwashing saves lives, and was destroyed for proving it. Michael Jordan’s competitiveness made him a legend, then turned him into a prisoner of his own intensity.…

Romantic Love, Solved

Feb 18, 2026 1h 41m

We put love on trial — literally. Drew and I squared off in a full debate over whether romantic love is overrated. I made the case that love is basically your brain's con man, a neurochemical…

Solved, Highlights: The Real Reason You Procrastinate

Feb 11, 2026 45m

This is a segment from the full episode on procrastination. Procrastination isn't a time management problem — it's an emotional regulation problem, and once you see that, everything changes. We break…

Dating, Solved: Why Finding the Right Person Feels So Hard

Feb 04, 2026 4h 37m

Most people aren’t bad at dating, they’re just trying to solve the wrong problem. We treat dating like a personality test (“Am I attractive enough? Confident enough?”) when it’s actually a…

How to Quiet Your Ego (Without Losing Yourself), Solved

Jan 15, 2026 2h 39m

Most people think ego is either something you need to kill off entirely or inflate to take over the world. Both are wrong. In this episode, we dig deep into what ego actually is—how it evolved, why…

How to Set (And Keep) Your Boundaries, Solved

Jan 01, 2026 4h 12m

This is probably the most comprehensive, no-BS breakdown of boundaries you're going to find anywhere. We cover what boundaries actually are (spoiler: it’s not just telling people to f*ck off), why…

Solved, Answers: Finding Purpose, Failing Better, and the AI Future

Dec 15, 2025 1h 30m

This one’s different. In this special year-end episode, I answer your questions—from the deep stuff about purpose and motivation, to the uncomfortable realities of change, burnout, failure, and…

Finding Your Purpose, Solved

Dec 04, 2025 4h 51m

This is the episode I’ve been waiting to make for a long time. Purpose has been at the core of everything I’ve written and done for over a decade—and in this episode, we go all the way down the…

Comparing Yourself to Others, Solved

Nov 15, 2025 2h 9m

We all compare ourselves to other people—our friends, coworkers, strangers on the internet—and most of the time, it makes us feel like shit. But why do we keep doing it? In this episode of Solved,…

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