Hard Knox with Amanda Knox

Hard Knox with Amanda Knox

You don't have to be stuck in a prison cell to feel trapped in your own life, but we can all turn adversity into insight, and no one knows this better than Amanda Knox. With a focus on resilience and post-traumatic growth, Amanda and her guests explore the ideas that help us navigate the hardest parts of being human, so we can emerge from our traumas stronger, happier, and better equipped to live a fulfilling life. Each week, subscribers also have a chance to Ask Amanda Anything. Amanda is here to answer your questions, about her, about you, about how to lead a more fulfilling life. And nothing is off the table! To submit your questions and comments, subscribe at www.amandaknox.substack.com, where you’ll also gain access to ad-free and bonus episodes, subscriber-only essays, and more. www.amandaknox.com Twitter: @amandaknox IG: @amamaknox Bluesky: @amandaknox.com.bsky.social

Episodes

Why Trusting Your Gut Is Harder Than It Sounds (Zosia Mamet)

August 21, 2025 • 62 mins
Zosia Mamet is best known for her starring role as Shoshanna Shapiro in the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning HBO series Girls. In this episode Zosia joins Amanda for a vulnerable and funny conversation about anxiety, imposter syndrome, and what it means to feel “too much” in a world that keeps asking for something else. They explore how control becomes a survival strategy, why writing a memoir can feel like publishing your diary...
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How to Turn Scandal Into Strength (Monica Lewinsky)

August 19, 2025 • 68 mins
Monica Lewinsky and Amanda Knox—self-described “Sisters of Ill Repute”—have each reclaimed their own narratives in the face of withering public scrutiny. Now, as executive producers of the new Hulu series The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, they come together for a deeply human conversation about surviving public shaming, living with a past you didn’t choose, and why empathy can be a radical force for change. Together, they explore ho...
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Ask Amanda Anything - Advice for Jurors, Judging One's Soul, Favorite Meal

August 14, 2025 • 66 mins
Reach out to us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.amandaknox.com⁠⁠⁠ ⁠or ⁠⁠⁠⁠amandaknox.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ X: @amandaknox IG: @amamaknox Bluesky: @⁠⁠amandaknox.com⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Free: My Search for Meaning⁠⁠⁠ Waking Up Meditation App⁠https://www.wakingup.com/Amandaknox Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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How to Be Good Without Being Boring (Dessa)

August 12, 2025 • 76 mins
Dessa is a genre-defying rapper, writer, poet and thinker. In this sharp and witty conversation she talks with Amanda about why being a “good person” so much messier than it sounds, moral hangovers, the science of heartbreak, and what it means to live thoughtfully in a world that rewards hot takes and hustle. Reach out to us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.amandaknox.com⁠⁠⁠ ⁠or ⁠⁠⁠⁠amandaknox.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ X: @amandaknox IG: @amamaknox Bluesky: @...
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Old School: Acknowledging the No (Chris Ballew)

August 8, 2025 • 57 mins
Welcome to Old School, where we revisit some of our best episodes from previous years with some current reflections on why these episodes are still fascinating. Chris Ballew never expected or even particularly wanted mainstream success. But when his band, the Presidents of the United States of America, hit it big, he had to reckon with what success meant to him and figure out how to say no when everyone around him wanted him to sa...
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Ask Amanda Anything - Navigating Conflict, Responding with Intention, Power Dynamics

August 7, 2025 • 47 mins
In this episode, Amanda explores how to navigate conflict without getting trapped in outrage cycles, and why responding with intention matters more than always being right. She shares how power dynamics shape the way we speak up, and why the choice to let something go can be just as meaningful as the decision to push back. Reach out to us at ⁠⁠⁠www.amandaknox.com⁠⁠ ⁠or ⁠⁠⁠amandaknox.substack.com⁠⁠⁠ X: @amandaknox IG: @amamaknox B...
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Why Getting Lost Might Be the Point (Rick Steves)

August 6, 2025 • 66 mins
Rick Steves is a renowned travel writer, television host, and guidebook author known for turning tourism into a tool for cultural connection, personal growth, and global citizenship. In this episode, Rick Steves shares how decades of exploring the world have shaped his values, his politics, and his understanding of what makes life meaningful. He and Amanda talk about finding joy in discomfort, why venturing outside your comfort zon...
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How to Turn a Slur Into a Symbol (Simon Tam)

July 31, 2025 • 54 mins
Simon Tam shares how naming his band “The Slants” launched him into a decade-long legal battle over identity, free speech, and what it means to reclaim power. He and Amanda explore why owning the narrative is a form of resistance and what happens when activism becomes art—and vice versa. Reach out to us at ⁠⁠www.amandaknox.com⁠ ⁠or ⁠⁠amandaknox.substack.com⁠ X: @amandaknox IG: @amamaknox Bluesky: @⁠⁠amandaknox.com⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Free: ...
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How Strength Becomes a Cage (Melissa Arnot)

July 29, 2025 • 68 mins
How do you let go of control when survival once depended on it? In this candid and searching conversation, world-renowned mountaineer Melissa Arnot talks with Amanda about the tension between self-reliance and vulnerability, what Everest taught her about fear and identity, and why the real challenge begins after the climb. Together they explore the limits of resilience, the myth of mastery, and how to make peace with the parts of y...
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Old School: The Point of No Return (Roz Savage)

July 25, 2025 • 48 mins
Welcome to Old School, where we revisit some of our best episodes from previous years with some current reflections on why these episodes are still fascinating. Twenty years ago, Roz Savage was a management consultant living in London with her husband. From the outside, it looked like a good life, but Roz was miserable. Until she blew up that life and found a new one on the other side of the ocean. She'd just have to row for three...
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Ask Amanda Anything - Living Without a List, How to Find Common Ground, Parenting for Independence

July 24, 2025 • 40 mins
Amanda reflects on what it really means to be an adult, how to foster trust without control, and why setting boundaries that keep kids safe doesn't mean clipping their wings. She also shares her “thrift store mindset” for navigating life that explains why letting go of rigid expectations makes room for surprise, gratitude, and a mushroom-shaped lamp you didn’t know you needed. Reach out to us at ⁠⁠www.amandaknox.com⁠ ⁠or ⁠⁠amandak...
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How Iranian Women Are Leading a Revolution (Zahra Amanpour)

July 22, 2025 • 90 mins
Why are Iranian women leading the fight for freedom—and how have they sustained that fight for over four decades? In this powerful conversation, Zahra Amanpour shares how her life was shaped by the Iranian resistance after her father was executed by the regime, and why she believes women must be at the forefront of revolution. Amanda and Zahra explore how faith can be both weaponized and reclaimed, why choice—not conformity—is the ...
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Ask Amanda Anything - Forgiving Guede, How to Become Fluent, How to Tell Your Own Story

July 17, 2025 • 60 mins
In this episode of Ask Amanda Anything, Amanda discusses Rudy Guede's new trial and why she no longer needs to confront her friend’s killer to find peace. She also shares how learning Italian in prison—from a Harry Potter book and a borrowed dictionary—became an unlikely act of agency and self-preservation. Along the way, Amanda explains why police deception undermines justice, how storytelling can turn pain into meaning, and why a...
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Why Monogamy Isn’t Morality (Dan Savage)

July 15, 2025 • 81 mins
Sex advice legend Dan Savage joins Amanda for a conversation about desire, trauma, and why our culture still freaks out over butt stuff. They dig into why shame is boring, why marriage isn’t sacred, and how telling the truth about your sex life might just be the most liberating thing you can do. Reach out to us at ⁠www.amandaknox.com⁠ or ⁠amandaknox.substack.com⁠ X: @amandaknox IG: @amamaknox Bluesky: @⁠amandaknox.com⁠ ⁠Free...
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Old School: It's OK to Be OK (Samantha Geimer)

July 11, 2025 • 50 mins
Welcome to Old School, where we revisit some of our best episodes from previous years with some current reflections on why these episodes are still fascinating. In 1977, Roman Polanski raped 13-year old Samantha Geimer. But strangely, the rape itself wasn't as bad as what followed. Amanda and Chris join Samantha to sift through the trauma of thirty years of exploitation by the justice system and the media. Reach out to us at ⁠w...
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Ask Amanda Anything - Punching Down, Change Your Past?, Does It Get Better?

July 10, 2025 • 46 mins
In the first episode of Ask Amanda Anything, Amanda opens up about everything from the gendered double standards in her wrongful conviction to that time a comedian blindsided her with a lazy murder joke—while she was in the audience. She shares how trauma shaped her instinct to live in crisis mode, how meditation and stand-up helped her reset, and why she’s finally learning to trust the calm without waiting for the chaos. Please...
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Why The Truth Matters More Than Winning (Marcia Clark)

July 8, 2025 • 70 mins
Marcia Clark is a former prosecutor best known for leading the O.J. Simpson trial. Today, she’s a bestselling crime novelist and legal commentator with sharp insights into justice, media, and what it means to be a woman in the public eye. In this episode of Hard Knox, Marcia shares what she’s learned about the human tendency to reduce people to heroes or villains. She breaks down why complexity matters, how to stay grounded in the...
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Introducing: Hard Knox

July 7, 2025 • 3 mins
After years of telling stories—my own and others—I realized I wanted to spend more time on the ideas underneath the narrative arcs. So I’m launching Hard Knox, a space to think out loud about what hardship teaches us, what justice demands of us, and how we live with what we can’t undo. You don't have to be stuck in a prison cell to feel trapped in your own life, but we can all turn adversity into insight. With a focus on resilience...
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#126 - Out of the Labyrinth

July 2, 2025 • 99 mins
After five years of exploring life’s twists, turns, and dead ends, Amanda and Chris are wrapping up Labyrinths—but not without one last walk down memory lane. From celebrity guests to mushroom trips, miscarriages to moral dilemmas, they revisit some of their favorite moments and biggest lessons. It’s a heartfelt send-off to a podcast that was never afraid to get lost. And a teaser for what is coming next on this same feed! ⁠⁠⁠ht...
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Best Of: Everyone's Biased, But Me (Itiel Dror)

June 27, 2025 • 48 mins
Dr. Itiel Dror is used to facing resistance to his work. It comes with the territory when you're a neuroscientist studying cognitive bias in experts: no one wants to believe they have biases they're not aware of. But the pushback to a paper he published last year was extreme even by Dr. Dror's standards. After the paper came out, the ensuing backlash even threatened his job. Check out Dr. Dror's latest paper here: https://onlin...
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