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Podyssey Picks

Podyssey Picks (Oct 6)

This week’s podcast picks features some great community recommendations, including an episode on stress-busting skills to try in everyday life, whether money can actually buy happiness, and the secret language of the universe according to this prodigy.

We’re also excited to highlight our community sponsor this week, the Insights Unlocked podcast from UserTesting. How do you design digital products that people actually want? Get UX tips and insights from experts behind some of the most successful digital transformations and experiences in the world.

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Last Updated: Oct 6th, 2024

Best Episodes of the Week

1. Stress-busting skills to try in everyday life.

Are you feeling overwhelmed by your to-do list? Going through something really tough? Stress is a part of life — but we can learn to manage it. NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey shares evidence-...Show More

2. Can money actually buy happiness?

People often say that money can't buy you happiness. Sometimes, if you ask them to tell you more about it, they'll mention a famous 2010 study by Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton. ...Show More

3. The secret language of the universe as told by a prodigy.

Ken Ono is a math prodigy whose skills have helped produce a Hollywood movie and made Olympic swimmers faster. The number theorist tells Steve why he sees mathematics as art — and about his unusual pa...Show More

4. An ocean mindfulness exercise to help you relax.

In this 11-minute episode of the *I Can't Relax* podcast, host Benjamin Boster guides you through a soothing ocean mindfulness exercise designed to help reduce anxiety and restore a sense of calm. Ide...Show More

5. Why a captain in the Russian Army fought in Ukraine and fled the war and country with his wife.

In “The Deserter,” Sarah A. Topol reports the story of Ivan, a captain in the Russian Army who fought in Ukraine and then ultimately fled the war and his country with his wife, Anna. Topol spoke to 18...Show More

6. Why even the hottest places in the world were not built for climate change.

In the final episode of Not Built for This, we reckon with the biological limits of climate adaptation.

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Insights Unlocked

How do you design digital products that people actually want? Get UX tips and insights from experts behind some of the most successful digital transformations and experiences in the world.

UserTesting

1 FAN

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Featured Episode: Building trust in email marketing with Cornell’s Ashley Budd

31:11 | Sep 30th, 2024

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New & Notable Podcasts

Kill List

In the depths of the dark net, tech journalist Carl Miller makes a disturbing discovery: a secret Kill List targeting hundreds of innocent people on a murder for hire website. When the police decide not to investigate, Carl is thrown into a race against time to warn those in danger and uncover the truth about the people who want them dead. From Wondery and Novel, comes a true story about obsession, control and the price of life and death.
Genres: True Crime

Wondery | Novel

+9 FANS

Featured Episode: Introducing: Kill List

02:58 | Sep 23rd, 2024

1 RECOMMENDATION

An investigation into a murder-for-hire website gives tech journalist Carl Miller a window into the worst of humanity. Extortion. Abduction. Murder. With nowhere else to turn, Carl has to decide what ...Show More

The Wonder of Stevie

The year 1972 saw the beginning of a five-year span in which Stevie Wonder released five groundbreaking, critically acclaimed albums, garnering him over half a dozen Grammys and over 10 million albums sold, securing his place as one of the most important American musicians and songwriters in history. For the first time, uncover the untold story of an extraordinary artistic journey that shaped the greatest creative era in popular music history.
Genres: Music, History

Higher Ground, Pineapple Street Studios

4 FANS

Featured Episode: Music of My Mind | 1972

58:18 | Sep 26th, 2024

How does Little Stevie Wonder grow into just… Stevie Wonder? Years after signing his first recording deal as a kid with Motown Records, Stevie decides to renegotiate his contract. One of the things on...Show More

For True Crime Lovers

1. A babysitter was hired to watch two kids, but plans changed when she was found dead.

Like a lot of people her age, sixteen year old Alexis Rasmussen, turned to babysitting to earn money for clothes and hanging out with friends. In September of 2011, she was hired to watch a married co...Show More

2. Two tourists set out to explore a fairytale castle in Germany and are killed.

The Castle

The Castle

27:04 | Aug 27th, 2024

When two young American tourists set out to explore a fairytale castle in Germany during the summer of 2023, one of their lives is cut short by a ruthless predator. Police quickly apprehend the perpet...Show More

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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.

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