Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Jan 3): Top Community Recommendations
Happy New Year! Here’s this week’s roundup of top podcasts and playlist recommendations from the Podyssey community. Highlights include the Top Podcast Episodes of 2020 on Podyssey, and a special takeover by our guest editor Emma Norris, host of A Girl in Progress podcast. Her playlist on goal-setting will help you make the most of this new year.
kerjLast Updated: Jan 3rd, 2021
✨ Guest Curator - Emma Norris from A Girl in Progress (Sponsored) ✨
Kick your 2021 on the right note, with these podcasts on goal-setting and productivity. No matter what your goals are for the new year, imperfect action coach, author and host of the A Girl In Progress podcast Emma’s top recommendations will leave you inspired.
🙌 Featured Episode from A Girl in Progress
Do you ever find yourself catastrophizing situations? Are you always either 'on the bandwagon?' or off? In this episode Emma talks you through how to overcome all-or-nothing thinking.
Procrastinator to Action Taker -> procrastinatortoactiontaker.showit.site/ Do you ever find yourself catastrophising situations? Does everything always have to be a total win, or an absolute disaster?...Show More
A philosophy professor becomes a school crossing guard to find the existential meanings of life.
switters recommended:Dec 27th, 2020
Couldn't agree more with the quote cited in the @cbcpodcasts recommendation. This is the heart of podcasting to me. An original and quirky story compellingly told that leads you somewhere you'd never expect. I am thoroughly looking forward to getting into the rest of the series.
1: Crossing Guard
by Constellation Prize
Humanity's hope for immortality is running for his life. Join the hunt.
(Sponsored by @foreverhasfallen podcast)
foreverhasfallen recommended:Dec 2nd, 2020
How billion dollar fortune was lost. And a global manhunt began.
Teaser - Forever Has Fallen
by Forever Has Fallen
Entrepreneur Tim Ferriss reveals how he became a multi-millionaire and how he learns anything.
lesly recommended:Dec 27th, 2020
Take a deep dive into the chronology of Tim Ferris' work. Listen to his out of the box thinking and raw work ethic led that to his ability to see industry patterns and create multiple success books and business.
Author and Podcaster: Tim Ferriss
by How I Built This with Guy Raz
Want to be the next Tim Ferriss? Get your creative juices flowing with this playlist on entrepreneurship.
Does viral outrage actually lead to change?
pwitham recommended:Dec 22nd, 2020
This episode has a lot to think about, my biggest take away was something I already knew. Social Media is a dangerous out of context place that has in many ways create a lot of the situations we have to deal with to this very day.
Screaming into a Void
by Hidden Brain
Science shows friendships help you live longer and be more successful.
yesitsamerica recommended:Dec 11th, 2020
“The chemistry of friendship” Oldie but good. Part of our “surviving journey” in human history has been deeply connected to our ability to build friendships Specially during times of quarantine: the importance of bonding, friendship, building significant relationships... Super interesting co...Show More
The Science of Friendship
by Call Your Girlfriend
When the DC Sniper shot and murdered 15 people, wide-spread panic ensued.
In the fall of October 2002, a series of seemingly random shootings occurred in and around Washington, D.C. The country was still reeling from the events of September 11, 2001, and these shootings wer...Show More
Revisit the best movies, music and TV shows in 2020.
COVID upended the movie, TV and music industries. Concerts were canceled and movie theaters were mostly closed. Still, our critics say there was some really good stuff to watch and listen to this y...Show More
The shooting of a woman involves Dr. Phil, her ex-husband and his new wife.
A woman is shot dead and investigators focus on her ex-husband's new wife.
Delve into the story behind England’s Sutton Hoo, an Anglo-Saxon burial site that contained a 27 meter long ship.
epekilis recommended:Dec 9th, 2020
Saw today that The Dig starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan is coming soon on Netflix. Thought I’d just point out this podcast on the fascinating real life events of the Sutton Hoo find while you wait for the film to drop. For those of you who have not heard of it, Sutton Hoo is one of the mos...Show More
The Museum podcast #3: The Story of Sutton Hoo
by The British Museum Podcast
A foul-smelling molecule may be responsible for life on Venus.
crispy recommended:Dec 15th, 2020
One of the best.
Bonus Interview #1: Clara Sousa-Silva
by Wild Thing
Four women drunkenly analyze a true-crime case: A woman fell in love with a prisoner and helped him escape.
When it comes to drunken, true-crime solving, you can't keep a good woman down - something we already knew in regards to hosts, Catie, Hannah and Taylor, but we also now know to be true of comedi...Show More