September 27, 2023 • 12 mins
The Dakota is one of New York City's great buildings. And its backstory is pretty great to boot.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, and welcome to the short Stuff. I'm Josh and
there's Chuck and we're going short stuff. Architectural style, specifically
architectural style from the mid to late nineteenth century, specifically
in Manhattan on the Upper West Side, specifically about the Dakota.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That's right, Can I say something very quickly since this
is short stuff? Sure, right before we recorded, you said
Dakota Fanning, and that reminded me. I just got back
from New York and I had six celebrity sidings, one
of which was El Fanning.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh yeah, Yeah, she's.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
In the lobby of a hotel. I go on that
hotel to pee. I'm always got my head on a
swivel in that town, especially in fancy hotel lobbies. Sure,
and I was like, hey, this's the code of Fanning.
And I was like, she was sitting with people. I
was like, there's got to be somebody else famous, went
to the bathroom, came out sitting next to Jessica Chastain.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Wow, pretty major siding.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Then at one of my pavement shows, I saw uh
uh Noah Bombbach and Greta Gerwig.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah they're married.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Okay, wow, say so couple?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, I mean he co wrote Barbie with her and
uh Dean Wareham of Luna. They're all good friends and
they were all together, so that was a three banger
in one.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And this uh.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
This lady near me was jumping up and down like
screaming it uh at Greta Gerwig and she was very
sweet from up above in the balcony and like made
the little heart symbol and like said she loved her.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It was very sweete uh.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And then sat next to Tiffany Hattish on the on
the flight home. Wow, but she was a girl across
the asl from me.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Did you did you bugger the whole time? No?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Were you like, hey, Tiffany, you remember this one joke
you told that was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
She's great though. She's very pretty too.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, yes, she is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I like that voice.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So she got that sort of a low voice, kind
of like this, I am Tiffany Hattish.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's okay, all right, we gotta go because we're talking
the Dakota here, not Dakota Fanning or l Fanning.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
No, the apartment building in New York City.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's right, the one where John Lennon was shot in
front of Yeah, he's lived there at the time.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
No, no, no, he lived there, and he was shot on
the sidewalk outside the Dakota.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So that's not the only reason that Dakota is famous,
although it's probably the biggest reason that Dakota is famous.
One of the reasons that Dakota is famous is because
it was one of the first apartment buildings in New
York City, like they didn't do apartments back then. And
even more spectacular than that it being one of the
first apartment buildings is that it was plunk down in
(02:41):
the Upper West Side at a time when Central Park West,
one of the most what is it, white heeled, high heeled,
well healed, well healed, like bits of stretches of real
estate in the world, was a dirt road still and nowheres.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Fill nowhere, yep. Nobody wanted to go up that far.
They were like, there's nothing up there.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
That's right to hay seeds.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And in fact, it was so far out that the
guy who built the Dakota, who will meet in the second,
Edward Cabot Clark, bought it from an industrialist whose wife
threatened to divorce him if he built their house out there.
And he's like, all right, I'll just get rid of
his piece of land.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Then yeah, she's like, I want to live down here
where it's posh in Alphabet City.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You know what's funny is you remember if you go
read our book, there's a whole chapter on Keeping Up
with the Joneses, and it talks a lot about this
part of New York history where there are all sorts
of nowheresvills around that today are just like incredibly famous
and expensive.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
That's right, all right.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So the Dakota, like you said, people were not living
in apartments at the time. They were living in brownstones,
which were single family homes, and there were a couple,
like a couple started to spring up in the eighteen seventies.
They weren't great. They were kind of like you think
of New York apartments. They were small, they didn't have
a lot of light. People didn't love renting and living
(04:08):
in them. And along came this guy, Edward Cabot Clark
that you mentioned. He was the president of the Singer
Sewing Machine company. So he was loaded and he got
together with an architect named Henry Janeway Hardenberg a great name,
and to get into real estate. And the first thing
they built which is sadly not there anymore. Is kind
(04:29):
of a prototype for the Dakota called the Van Corlier,
a red brick, five story, thirty six apartment building that
was on Seventh between fifty fifth and fifty six.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, and it immediately improved on its predecessors because the
rooms were larger, the apartments themselves were larger. There was
a courtyard, so there was plenty of like natural light
and air, had elevators apparently which we talk in like
the eighteen eighties, eighteen seventies, and there was also I
(05:00):
think a what was there, Oh, there was a ramp
that went beneath it. So then you didn't have to
silly your family reputation by accepting deliveries out there in public.
You could go down to the basement and meet the
delivery driver to keep them to take whatever they gave you.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, and it was just nicer overall. I think there
was an intercom system and you know, like Spanish tile.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It was just a step up for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
And all of a sudden in eighteen seventy eight they
rented out very quickly, and so Clark was like, all right,
it turns out if you build it nice enough, they
will come and apartments can be a real thing. And
like you said, bought that property or I guess it
was just land at the time, right, yeah, bought this
land from Jacob Henry Schiff way way uptown and decided
(05:51):
to build his second sort of dream property there.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yep, which would be the Dakota. And I say that
we pause from stage break and then return and begin
talking about the Dakota some more.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And Tiffany Hattish right after this, stoffy jaws.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Sho, stff you a job, job, So Chuck, we're talking
(06:38):
about the Dakota now starting now.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So, if the vancourtlier was an advancement based on the
stuff that came a few years before it, the Dakota
was an even better advancement improvement based on the van courtlier.
It had big apartments, big rooms, yard, lots of light,
ramp underneath and all that stuff. But it was also
(07:04):
like even more luxuriously designed. Like if you came over
to someone's apartment, you couldn't see through down the hallway
to every single room. The walls were kind of like
designed around so that you couldn't like there was a
separation between your visitors and the living part of the
apartment or the sleeping part, you know, the family part,
I guess is what you'd call it. Just little details
(07:26):
like that. Another big detail was that it had its
own power plant that generated electricity for it in the
eighteen seventies.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, not bad.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The kitchens had little balconies so if you had stinky
stuff like garbage that you couldn't get down, or maybe
even stinky food or something, you could put it just
right outside the kitchen, which was something that a lot
of places didn't have. They had a boiler, so they
had insulated pipes bringing steam and hot water into the building,
which was a big innovation at the time. And they
(07:57):
had tennis courts, they had croquet courts. It was a
real gym. It still is. It's one of my favorite
buildings in New York. Oh yeah, every time I go
up there to Central Park, at least, I try to
pop out on that area and just go go give
it a look because it's a beautiful building. It's sort
of a mishmash of styles. It's been called you know,
(08:18):
French Renaissance or got German, Gothic, or even Victorian, and
it's kind of a little bit of everything.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
But it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I don't think I've ever seen it in person. If
I have, I didn't realize it.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
You may have. It's lovely. It's right there on a corner.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So here's the thing. When Edward Cabot Clark was creating
the Dakota, he was widely derided for it. They called
it Clark's folly because people were deeply insensitive in the
nineteenth century. And the reason why they call it that
is because again, it's in the middle of nowhere, and
(08:52):
people aren't really into apartments like we said, they live
in like three story brownstones, like they live in homes.
They don't live apartments. The people who lived in apartments,
as far as this house Stuff Works article points out,
were widows, widowers, and people who were waiting for their
wealthy relatives to die so they could inherit their house.
And all of a sudden, Clark is like, no, no,
(09:14):
we're changing the game. Anyone who is anyone is going
to want to live in an apartment. And it turns
out his gamble paid off. He was right.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, he'd Sadly, he died before it was finished, so
he didn't get to see it come to fruition. But
It was certainly not his folly, because, like you said,
people lined up to rent these things or I guess
I don't know. Were they all rentals at the time.
I wonder if anyone were available for sale.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I think they were all rentals.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Okay, well people rented them, but they were people that
had money. They just weren't like robber barons who wanted
to live in mansions. They were sort of the early
New York, you know, upper class. They were people who
like were bank presidents and people who like the CEOs
of the time. Apparently the Adams sisters were heirs with
chewing gum fortune.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
They live there.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
What's that and that flavored tea berry? One of the
greatest gum flavors of all time? That's it?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Tea berry?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Now? Are you kidding? Because I can't tell.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
No, No, that's for real. It's like a kind of
salmon pink colored gum. No. No, the wrapper is okay,
it tastes like salmon too. No, it's a really delicate,
unique flavor and you could probably find it like cracker barrel.
Don't they have all sorts of old timey candies or
one of those rocket fizz places.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I have no idea anywhere that sells candy.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I'll bet they have tea berry stick gum and it's
really worth trying.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
All right, O's a nice tip there, thanks.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So the Dakota started a trend all of a sudden,
luxury apartment houses started popping up all over the place,
kind of in the same model, with like bigger rooms
and higher ceilings and stuff like that, and the Upper
West Side. It wasn't right then, but around the early
nineteen hundreds that really started to take off and really
(11:01):
changed the face.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Of New York.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You know, they started building up more after World War One,
obviously when New York said they could, and apartments became
the way to go.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah. Eventually the Dakota started seeing a different clientele, not
you know, straits and squares like bank presidents, but like
stars like Lauren McCall and Judy Garland.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Wowie wow.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Of course Karloff too. That's pretty cool. Imagine living next
to him. And then of course two of the most
famous residents, John Lynn and Yoko oh No, who was
widely blamed for moving John Lenn to the Dakota, and
he would have lived had she not done that. Do
people say that probably somebody out there, okay, poking fun
at those people.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I think he loved the Dakota.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, that would seem to be as home as they
were there for like a dozen years, I think right
before he died.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I'm not sure how long he loved New York City though.
It was a great scene for both he and Yoko.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah, anything else, I got nothing else. Go check out
the Dakota if you're in New York. It's a great,
great looking building.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yes it is. And since Chuck said that that means
short stuff out.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Stuff you should know is a production of iHeartRadio. For
more podcasts my Heart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
Hey, and welcome to the short Stuff. I'm Josh and
there's Chuck and we're going short stuff. Architectural style, specifically
architectural style from the mid to late nineteenth century, specifically
in Manhattan on the Upper West Side, specifically about the Dakota.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That's right, Can I say something very quickly since this
is short stuff? Sure, right before we recorded, you said
Dakota Fanning, and that reminded me. I just got back
from New York and I had six celebrity sidings, one
of which was El Fanning.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh yeah, Yeah, she's.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
In the lobby of a hotel. I go on that
hotel to pee. I'm always got my head on a
swivel in that town, especially in fancy hotel lobbies. Sure,
and I was like, hey, this's the code of Fanning.
And I was like, she was sitting with people. I
was like, there's got to be somebody else famous, went
to the bathroom, came out sitting next to Jessica Chastain.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Wow, pretty major siding.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Then at one of my pavement shows, I saw uh
uh Noah Bombbach and Greta Gerwig.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah they're married.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Okay, wow, say so couple?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, I mean he co wrote Barbie with her and
uh Dean Wareham of Luna. They're all good friends and
they were all together, so that was a three banger
in one.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And this uh.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
This lady near me was jumping up and down like
screaming it uh at Greta Gerwig and she was very
sweet from up above in the balcony and like made
the little heart symbol and like said she loved her.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It was very sweete uh.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And then sat next to Tiffany Hattish on the on
the flight home. Wow, but she was a girl across
the asl from me.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Did you did you bugger the whole time? No?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Were you like, hey, Tiffany, you remember this one joke
you told that was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
She's great though. She's very pretty too.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, yes, she is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I like that voice.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So she got that sort of a low voice, kind
of like this, I am Tiffany Hattish.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's okay, all right, we gotta go because we're talking
the Dakota here, not Dakota Fanning or l Fanning.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
No, the apartment building in New York City.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's right, the one where John Lennon was shot in
front of Yeah, he's lived there at the time.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
No, no, no, he lived there, and he was shot on
the sidewalk outside the Dakota.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So that's not the only reason that Dakota is famous,
although it's probably the biggest reason that Dakota is famous.
One of the reasons that Dakota is famous is because
it was one of the first apartment buildings in New
York City, like they didn't do apartments back then. And
even more spectacular than that it being one of the
first apartment buildings is that it was plunk down in
(02:41):
the Upper West Side at a time when Central Park West,
one of the most what is it, white heeled, high heeled,
well healed, well healed, like bits of stretches of real
estate in the world, was a dirt road still and nowheres.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Fill nowhere, yep. Nobody wanted to go up that far.
They were like, there's nothing up there.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
That's right to hay seeds.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And in fact, it was so far out that the
guy who built the Dakota, who will meet in the second,
Edward Cabot Clark, bought it from an industrialist whose wife
threatened to divorce him if he built their house out there.
And he's like, all right, I'll just get rid of
his piece of land.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Then yeah, she's like, I want to live down here
where it's posh in Alphabet City.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You know what's funny is you remember if you go
read our book, there's a whole chapter on Keeping Up
with the Joneses, and it talks a lot about this
part of New York history where there are all sorts
of nowheresvills around that today are just like incredibly famous
and expensive.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
That's right, all right.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So the Dakota, like you said, people were not living
in apartments at the time. They were living in brownstones,
which were single family homes, and there were a couple,
like a couple started to spring up in the eighteen seventies.
They weren't great. They were kind of like you think
of New York apartments. They were small, they didn't have
a lot of light. People didn't love renting and living
(04:08):
in them. And along came this guy, Edward Cabot Clark
that you mentioned. He was the president of the Singer
Sewing Machine company. So he was loaded and he got
together with an architect named Henry Janeway Hardenberg a great name,
and to get into real estate. And the first thing
they built which is sadly not there anymore. Is kind
(04:29):
of a prototype for the Dakota called the Van Corlier,
a red brick, five story, thirty six apartment building that
was on Seventh between fifty fifth and fifty six.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, and it immediately improved on its predecessors because the
rooms were larger, the apartments themselves were larger. There was
a courtyard, so there was plenty of like natural light
and air, had elevators apparently which we talk in like
the eighteen eighties, eighteen seventies, and there was also I
(05:00):
think a what was there, Oh, there was a ramp
that went beneath it. So then you didn't have to
silly your family reputation by accepting deliveries out there in public.
You could go down to the basement and meet the
delivery driver to keep them to take whatever they gave you.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, and it was just nicer overall. I think there
was an intercom system and you know, like Spanish tile.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It was just a step up for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
And all of a sudden in eighteen seventy eight they
rented out very quickly, and so Clark was like, all right,
it turns out if you build it nice enough, they
will come and apartments can be a real thing. And
like you said, bought that property or I guess it
was just land at the time, right, yeah, bought this
land from Jacob Henry Schiff way way uptown and decided
(05:51):
to build his second sort of dream property there.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yep, which would be the Dakota. And I say that
we pause from stage break and then return and begin
talking about the Dakota some more.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And Tiffany Hattish right after this, stoffy jaws.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Sho, stff you a job, job, So Chuck, we're talking
(06:38):
about the Dakota now starting now.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So, if the vancourtlier was an advancement based on the
stuff that came a few years before it, the Dakota
was an even better advancement improvement based on the van courtlier.
It had big apartments, big rooms, yard, lots of light,
ramp underneath and all that stuff. But it was also
(07:04):
like even more luxuriously designed. Like if you came over
to someone's apartment, you couldn't see through down the hallway
to every single room. The walls were kind of like
designed around so that you couldn't like there was a
separation between your visitors and the living part of the
apartment or the sleeping part, you know, the family part,
I guess is what you'd call it. Just little details
(07:26):
like that. Another big detail was that it had its
own power plant that generated electricity for it in the
eighteen seventies.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, not bad.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The kitchens had little balconies so if you had stinky
stuff like garbage that you couldn't get down, or maybe
even stinky food or something, you could put it just
right outside the kitchen, which was something that a lot
of places didn't have. They had a boiler, so they
had insulated pipes bringing steam and hot water into the building,
which was a big innovation at the time. And they
(07:57):
had tennis courts, they had croquet courts. It was a
real gym. It still is. It's one of my favorite
buildings in New York. Oh yeah, every time I go
up there to Central Park, at least, I try to
pop out on that area and just go go give
it a look because it's a beautiful building. It's sort
of a mishmash of styles. It's been called you know,
(08:18):
French Renaissance or got German, Gothic, or even Victorian, and
it's kind of a little bit of everything.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
But it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I don't think I've ever seen it in person. If
I have, I didn't realize it.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
You may have. It's lovely. It's right there on a corner.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So here's the thing. When Edward Cabot Clark was creating
the Dakota, he was widely derided for it. They called
it Clark's folly because people were deeply insensitive in the
nineteenth century. And the reason why they call it that
is because again, it's in the middle of nowhere, and
(08:52):
people aren't really into apartments like we said, they live
in like three story brownstones, like they live in homes.
They don't live apartments. The people who lived in apartments,
as far as this house Stuff Works article points out,
were widows, widowers, and people who were waiting for their
wealthy relatives to die so they could inherit their house.
And all of a sudden, Clark is like, no, no,
(09:14):
we're changing the game. Anyone who is anyone is going
to want to live in an apartment. And it turns
out his gamble paid off. He was right.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, he'd Sadly, he died before it was finished, so
he didn't get to see it come to fruition. But
It was certainly not his folly, because, like you said,
people lined up to rent these things or I guess
I don't know. Were they all rentals at the time.
I wonder if anyone were available for sale.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I think they were all rentals.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Okay, well people rented them, but they were people that
had money. They just weren't like robber barons who wanted
to live in mansions. They were sort of the early
New York, you know, upper class. They were people who
like were bank presidents and people who like the CEOs
of the time. Apparently the Adams sisters were heirs with
chewing gum fortune.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
They live there.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
What's that and that flavored tea berry? One of the
greatest gum flavors of all time? That's it?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Tea berry?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Now? Are you kidding? Because I can't tell.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
No, No, that's for real. It's like a kind of
salmon pink colored gum. No. No, the wrapper is okay,
it tastes like salmon too. No, it's a really delicate,
unique flavor and you could probably find it like cracker barrel.
Don't they have all sorts of old timey candies or
one of those rocket fizz places.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I have no idea anywhere that sells candy.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I'll bet they have tea berry stick gum and it's
really worth trying.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
All right, O's a nice tip there, thanks.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So the Dakota started a trend all of a sudden,
luxury apartment houses started popping up all over the place,
kind of in the same model, with like bigger rooms
and higher ceilings and stuff like that, and the Upper
West Side. It wasn't right then, but around the early
nineteen hundreds that really started to take off and really
(11:01):
changed the face.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Of New York.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You know, they started building up more after World War One,
obviously when New York said they could, and apartments became
the way to go.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah. Eventually the Dakota started seeing a different clientele, not
you know, straits and squares like bank presidents, but like
stars like Lauren McCall and Judy Garland.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Wowie wow.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Of course Karloff too. That's pretty cool. Imagine living next
to him. And then of course two of the most
famous residents, John Lynn and Yoko oh No, who was
widely blamed for moving John Lenn to the Dakota, and
he would have lived had she not done that. Do
people say that probably somebody out there, okay, poking fun
at those people.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I think he loved the Dakota.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, that would seem to be as home as they
were there for like a dozen years, I think right
before he died.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I'm not sure how long he loved New York City though.
It was a great scene for both he and Yoko.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah, anything else, I got nothing else. Go check out
the Dakota if you're in New York. It's a great,
great looking building.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yes it is. And since Chuck said that that means
short stuff out.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
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Welcome to Bookmarked by Reese’s Book Club — the podcast where great stories, bold women, and irresistible conversations collide! Hosted by award-winning journalist Danielle Robay, each week new episodes balance thoughtful literary insight with the fervor of buzzy book trends, pop culture and more. Bookmarked brings together celebrities, tastemakers, influencers and authors from Reese's Book Club and beyond to share stories that transcend the page. Pull up a chair. You’re not just listening — you’re part of the conversation.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com