The goop Podcast

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goop CEO and founder Gwyneth Paltrow and author Cleo Wade take turns hosting the brightest thinkers and culture changers. read less

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The goop Podcast explores dynamic thinkers and professionals who impact today's world. Actor Gwyneth Paltrow, goop's creator, shares her curiosity and passion for vulnerable conversations. Cohost Cleo Wade offers her poetic viewpoint in each compelling episode. Listeners will hear from creatives, thought leaders, scientists, and healers.

In frank discussions, Diane Ladd, Venus Williams, and Esther Perel share their wisdom. Other guests include Erica Chidi, Sade Lythcott, and Peter Attia. They focus on wellness and personal development. In the first episode of The goop Podcast, Gwyneth sits down with Oprah Winfrey. The legendary talk show host and media mogul talks about learning to say "no" and evolving as a person. Gwyneth sheds tears throughout their conversation.

In one episode, Alicia discusses the importance of giving up perfection. The R&B singer-songwriter emphasizes the power of respecting one's flaws and sharing mistakes. As a psychotherapist and sex expert, Esther helps couples have conversations that matter. Through vulnerability and play, people can connect in meaningful ways. The goop Podcast provides tools for living life with truth and purpose in discussions like these.

Gwyneth is passionate about health. Physical fitness is an essential part of well-being. Valter Longo discusses whether intermittent fasting is a fad or has long-term benefits. According to Valter, intermittent fasting improves health and longevity. When Will Cole joins, he discusses the relationship between health and food consumption. The brain and the gut share a deep connection, he says, as do one's physical and emotional self. He provides insight into which foods calm the gut and improve mental health. In another episode, naturopath Nigama Talib shares skincare secrets. Like Will, she knows the importance of gut health. What one eats shows in their skin. Nigama wants people to learn that they can feel better by eating better.

When Gwyneth started goop in 2008, she didn't know how much it would affect readers. What began as a newsletter expanded into a successful and well-known lifestyle brand. Gwyneth started the podcast in 2018. Since then, she's continued to share goop's values with listeners everywhere. New episodes of The goop Podcast arrive weekly.

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In 2008, Gwyneth Paltrow launched goop from her kitchen as a homespun weekly newsletter. It’s grown a lot since then. In 2018, The goop Podcast began. Today, Paltrow takes turns hosting episodes with poet and author Cleo Wade. They chat with thought leaders and culture changers—from doctors to scientists, CEOs, and artists—whose work is reshaping the ways we think and live. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episodes

Examining Our Stories (with therapist Sahaj Kaur Kohli)

Examining Our Stories (with therapist Sahaj Kaur Kohli)

The founder of Brown Girl Therapy and the author of But What Will People Say? joins Cleo Wade to talk about belonging, family, and identity. Kohli examines her own experiences as a child of South Asian immigrants, and the pressure to present different versions of herself across different cultural contexts. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How to Be a Practical Optimist (with psychiatrist Sue Varma)

How to Be a Practical Optimist (with psychiatrist Sue Varma)

Sue Varma, author of Practical Optimism, served as the first medical director and attending psychiatrist at the World Trade Center Mental Health Program, treating civilian and first-responder survivors in the aftermath of 9/11. She shares how her work there led her to develop a framework for practical optimism. She explains what it means to be a practical optimist (and why it's different than blind optimism), ways for moving forward if you're feeling stuck, and how small intentional changes have the power to impact our physical and emotional health. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Thoughts on Love (with author Anne Lamott)

Thoughts on Love (with author Anne Lamott)

Legendary author Anne Lamott discusses the many ways love can transform us. She shares how she learned to break free from perfectionism, the spiritual value of crying, the mantras that help ground her in self-love, and her new book Somehow. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Systems of Self-Care (with founder Katara McCarty)

Systems of Self-Care (with founder Katara McCarty)

Katara McCarty is the founder of Exhale, an app focused on the mental wellness of Black women. Today, she shares her personal life story with Gwyneth. They talk about how McCarty’s work has been informed by a unique survey she conducted in 2023. And what it means to hold space: “I think that holding space takes acknowledging the fullness of the person you’re holding space for,” McCarty says. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How Does Menopause Change Your Brain? (with neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi)

How Does Menopause Change Your Brain? (with neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi)

Gwyneth is joined by Lisa Mosconi, author of The Menopause Brain. Mosconi is an associate professor of neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the director of its Women’s Brain Initiative and the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program. Today, Mosconi explains how hormonal shifts during perimenopause and menopause can impact cognitive health and shares some of the clinical trials and brain-imaging work her lab is doing to better understand this stage of life. They about the foods that can support brain health at any stage of life and Mosconi’s perspective on why menopause can be seen as an opportunity, particularly from an evolutionary standpoint. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Quieting Your Mental Chatter (with Moments of Space cofounder Kim Little)

Quieting Your Mental Chatter (with Moments of Space cofounder Kim Little)

Today, we’re sharing a conversation from our last In goop Health summit. Kim Little is a software developer, lifelong meditator, and cofounder of Moments of Space, a new meditation app that teaches an eyes-open technique. Little joined Gwyneth onstage to talk about how we can find deep connection throughout the everyday. (GP uses the eyes-open technique during her walks and has found it so beneficial that she’s recently come on as a co-owner and community director at Moments of Space.) At the end of their conversation, Little shares three ways to approach the eyes-open method and guides us through a live meditation. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What's Our Grief Asking Us to Do? (with therapist Claire Bidwell Smith)

What's Our Grief Asking Us to Do? (with therapist Claire Bidwell Smith)

The author of Conscious Grieving: A Transformative Approach to Healing from Loss joins Cleo Wade to discuss how we go about rebuilding a life, or finding wisdom in grief. They talk about how men and women often process their emotions differently, and why it can be difficult to acknowledge loss and to sit with our grief. "We have to start by just being in it, and it's actually the hardest thing because everyone tries to move out of it as quickly as possible," says Bidwell Smith. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Are You Languishing? (with sociologist Corey Keyes)

Are You Languishing? (with sociologist Corey Keyes)

Cleo Wade is joined by Corey Keyes, author of Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down. In today's conversation, Keyes explains how he measures the states of languishing and flourishing, and what we get wrong about mental health. And he shares the personal story of his own search for meaning, which sparked his research all the way back in 2002. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How to Have Better Conversations (with author Charles Duhigg)

How to Have Better Conversations (with author Charles Duhigg)

Gwyneth is joined by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Supercommunicators to talk about the art and science behind meaningful conversation. Duhigg explains the three types of conversations, what makes certain ones work, and the traits of highly effective communicators. He also shares a few tools for reframing difficult conversations and his most important tip for moving past small talk. And at the end, GP shares the dinner-party question she likes to ask to build connection. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Examining Your Faith (with author Cole Arthur Riley)

Examining Your Faith (with author Cole Arthur Riley)

Cleo Wade is joined today by Cole Arthur Riley to discuss her new book— Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human—and her personal journey through spirituality. Riley shares what led her to write a prayer book that embraces questioning as part of faith and what happened after she allowed herself to question her own spiritual beliefs. They talk about discovering spiritual communities among writers and artists, using breath and other rituals as a form of prayer, and finding the beauty and meaning in contemplation. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What’s Your Shadow Trying to Tell You? (Special Episode)

What’s Your Shadow Trying to Tell You? (Special Episode)

Psychotherapists Barry Michels and Kristan Sargeant lead this special episode—part workshop, part conversation—on the shadow. (Michels is perhaps best known for cowriting The Tools and his pioneering psychotherapy work with his coauthor Phil Stutz, which Sargeant continues to evolve.) For them, the shadow is the tool that has the potential to bring about the greatest growth and transformation. How to begin to use it? Today, they walk you through getting to know your own shadow—the parts of yourself that you've rejected or pushed deep down into the unconscious. They show how your shadow can become an incredible source of wisdom. And a conduit to living as your full, authentic self. (To join their work on the shadow, see their upcoming event lineup.) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Committing to Yourself (with Lindsay Peoples)

Committing to Yourself (with Lindsay Peoples)

Lindsay Peoples, the editor-in-chief of the Cut and cofounder of the Black in Fashion Council, says she was a people pleaser growing up. In today's conversation, she explains why she's not anymore, and she answers questions about what drives boldness. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Moving from Inspiration to Execution (with Beatrice Dixon)

Moving from Inspiration to Execution (with Beatrice Dixon)

Gwyneth asks her friend Beatrice Dixon to share the incredibly unique personal story behind her brand the Honey Pot. It’s an unexpected, and awe-inspiring, conversation. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Getting Unstuck (with author Bonnie Wan)

Getting Unstuck (with author Bonnie Wan)

Our guest today is Bonnie Wan, creator and author of The Life Brief, which is her transformative three-step tool for helping people reimagine their lives and gain clarity on what they really want. Wan joined Cleo Wade to talk about why she created the process for herself and what happened when she allowed herself to unearth her truths. "This is a practice of curiosity," says Wan. "So one insight leads to more questions and those questions unpack more insights." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Reflections on Marriage, Stunts, and Dim Sum (with Michelle Yeoh)

Reflections on Marriage, Stunts, and Dim Sum (with Michelle Yeoh)

GP is joined today by actress Michelle Yeoh. They talked about Yeoh's beginnings as a ballet dancer in England, which unexpectedly led to her career in acting, and how she landed her first commercial with Jackie Chan. They talked about responsibility in family and why Yeoh decided early on in her career to step away from acting to prioritize her first marriage and how she feels about that decision now. Other highlights: how the pair felt winning their respective Oscar awards at very different stages in their lives, maintaining friendships with exes, what it was like for Yeoh to work with GP’s husband on The Brothers Sun, and what they order at dim sum. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 5 Principles that Lead to Resilient Humans (with developmental psychologist Aliza Pressman)

The 5 Principles that Lead to Resilient Humans (with developmental psychologist Aliza Pressman)

“We don't allow ourselves to just kind of let our shoulders go down and trust that we are enough and we’re exactly what our kids need and that it’s not as complicated as it’s made out to be,” says Aliza Pressman, author of The 5 Principles of Parenting and host of the Raising Good Humans podcast. In this conversation, Pressman talks through the importance of having a strength-based (vs. deficit) approach to parenting; the difference between boundaries, limits, and rules; and how to use the five principles to build resilience. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your Astrological Forecast for 2024—Plus Insights from an Enneagram Coach (Special Episode)

Your Astrological Forecast for 2024—Plus Insights from an Enneagram Coach (Special Episode)

We’re kicking off 2024 with something a little different: a conversation between Enneagram coach Courtney Smith and psychological astrologer Jennifer Freed, PhD. In this episode, the two friends join each other to talk about the astrological themes to expect in the new year and how the Enneagram system of personality types can be used to help us see challenges as opportunities for growth. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cleo Wade: Reflections, Resolutions, and Answering Listener Questions

Cleo Wade: Reflections, Resolutions, and Answering Listener Questions

For our last episode of 2023, instead of being joined by a guest, cohost and New York Times-bestselling author Cleo Wade is doing a special round of Ask-Me-Anything reflecting on the last year, what she thinks about resolutions, and her New Year’s Eve traditions. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Separating Ourselves from the Ego

Separating Ourselves from the Ego

This week, we're sharing a special conversation from our archives. In January 2020, Gwyneth sat down with Eckhart Tolle, the legendary spirituality teacher and bestselling author of The Power of Now and A New Earth. They discussed the profound transformation Tolle had in his twenties that changed the course of his life. And Tolle taught us how to break from our own ego and bring awareness to the emotions that we tend to sublimate. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Becoming a Better Listener

Becoming a Better Listener

“We cannot feel well physically or mentally unless we are feeling loved by the people around us and the way that we do that is by being good listeners,” says Peoplehood cofounder Julie Rice. In this week’s episode, Cleo Wade sits down with Rice to talk about her entrepreneurial journey from founding SoulCycle to the impetus behind Peoplehood, a guided group practice where people can share, listen, and cultivate their interpersonal relationship skills. “Relationships are a process, and they take time and attention and work and love,” says Rice. “And the same grit and ambition that you give to your career and all the other things need to go into relationships. They don't just happen.” (After you listen, head to Peoplehood and use code Peoplehood1 for a free gathering session.) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices