Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Dec 19)
This week’s podcast picks features some great community recommendations, including the scientific evidence of why you shouldn’t diet, how the Nazis used performance enhancing drugs in WWII, and whether you can love your partner when you don’t speak their language.
Also, we’re excited to highlight our sponsor this week, the The ABM Conversations Podcast that features interviews with top business people and marketers in the world, such as Seth Godin and Guy Kawasaki.
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Best Episodes of the Week
1. The scientific evidence against dieting, according to a dietician.
Christy Harrison discusses her personal experience with disordered eating, the problems with and deep historical roots of diet culture, the scientific evidence against dieting, and the principles of i...Show More
2. How the Nazis used drugs to enhance their performance in WWII.
In a podcast episode with award-winning author and screenwriter Norman Ohler, Dr. Puder and Dr. Borecky discussed Ohler’s recent book, Blitzed, about how the Third Reich used drugs to optimize perform...Show More
3. Is it possible to love your partner when you don’t speak their language?
Saoirse Ronan ("Little Women") reads an essay about how a language barrier impacts the relationship between a young woman and an Iraqi doctor. This is an encore presentation.
4. The epic story of how the Calendly founder turned $550k into $80m of revenue per year.
After emigrating from Nigeria to the US to attend college, Tope Awotona worked as a door-to-door salesman and eventually set out to become a tech entrepreneur. He launched a series of e-commerce busi...Show More
5. Fame maybe isn’t all that worth it. 3 stories to rethink fame plus one about monkeys.
Today on Decoder Ring: Three stories about fame, and one about monkeys. Are primates susceptible to celebrity endorsements? What does fame do to the mind of a famous person? Who were the famous tattoo...Show More
6. A woman recorded a minute of her life every year since she was 15.5 years old. (Audio drama)
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The Yaag Project
Featured Episode: Seth Godin: How to be sensible in the modern marketing world
In this episode, Seth Godin joins us to share his 40+ years of experience and insights on -- “How to be sensible in the modern marketing world”.
New & Notable Podcasts
Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
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It's a Wonderful Lie
For True Crime Lovers
1. A hardworking mother murdered with battery acid.
Murder Incorporated brings you another twisted true crime case! November 1997, The corpse of Nancy Billiter was found had being bound, severely beaten, sexually violated, injected with battery acid, a...Show More
2. The little known mass murder in southern Utah that left 120 emigrants dead.
Join the RB squad as we talk about one of the US's lesser known massacres. Find out why travelling through Utah in the 1850's could cost you your life!
Podcast Playlists
Podcasts about Kindness
It’s that time of year when gratitude and thinking of others is top of mind, so here’s a playlist of Kindness as a nice way to end the year.
podcastbrunch5 episodes
Top 2021 Podcast Picks from CBC Podcast Playlist Team
The best podcasts this year that the CBC Podcast Playlist team loves and they listen to a tonne of podcasts each year!
podcastplaylist7 episodes
Meet the Curators
Melody and Danny are the co-founders of Podyssey. Every week we curate this round-up with the mission of helping our readers find the hidden gems in the podcast world.
Have you listened to a great podcast? Have you made a great podcast? Recommend it on Podyssey we may just feature it on next week's Podyssey Picks.