How To Academy Podcast
1) Neuroscientist Paul Goldsmith – How to Thrive in a World We Weren’t Made For
In a world transformed beyond recognition, the neural systems that once kept our ancestors alive now leave us overwhelmed, distracted, and dissatisfied. We battle loneliness, anxiety, and stress. We c...Show More
2) Jennifer Breheny Wallace – Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection
Feeling seen, needed, and valued isn't just a nice-to-have—it's essential for our wellbeing and society's future. When people feel they truly matter, everything changes—productivity soars, relationshi...Show More
3) Natalie Haynes and Robin Ince - The Myth of Medea, Reimagined
Priestess, witch, daughter of a brutal king: Medea is the greatest tragic heroine of the classical world. But, as Sunday Times bestselling writer Natalie Haynes reveals, Medea can be so much more than...Show More
4) Wayne McGregor – How to Unlock Your Physical Intelligence
How much do you know about your body? How much does your body know about you? The most acclaimed choreographer of our age, Sir Wayne McGregor’s trailblazing innovations have radically defined dance in...Show More
5) Filmmaker Petra Costa - Democracy on a Knife-edge
When we spoke to Petra Costa last, her film Apocalypse in The Tropics had just been released on Netflix. The film, which leaves us in the aftermath of January 8th 2023 and the storming of the Brazilia...Show More
6) Stanford's Ben Rein – The Neuroscience of Social Connection
It’s not just what you feed your brain that matters—it’s who. From your morning coffee order, to weaving through commuters on the train, sitting through work meetings, riding in a packed lift, heading...Show More
7) Award-winning Novelist Joanna Kavenna - How to Play a Game Without Rules
A riotious comic novel of ideas, Seven tells the story of an unnamed philosopher plunged into the strange world of Theodoros Apostalakis: dentist, poet, pursuer of lost things, and obsessive player of...Show More
8) Investigative Journalist Oliver Bullough - How the Money Launderers Won
Whether you’re a fraudster, a cartel boss, a corrupt politician, a kleptocrat or a terrorist mastermind, your options to move and hide your money are more secure and more impenetrable than they have e...Show More
9) Psychobiologist Daisy Fancourt – How the Arts Can Transform Your Health
How does art affect our brains and bodies, down to our very DNA? Psychobiologist Daisy Fancourt reveals the extraordinary effect of art on our health, and what we can do to make the most of art’s life...Show More
10) Tim Minshall - Your Life is Manufactured
Where do the things we buy actually come from? And how did they become the products on our store shelves, the food in our pantries, and the familiar items in our homes? Cambridge Professor and expert ...Show More