Modern Wisdom
Life lessons from the greatest thinkers on the planet with Chris Williamson. Including guests like David Goggins, Dr Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Jocko Willink, Dr Andrew Huberman, Dr Julie Smith, Steven Bartlett, Ryan Holiday, James Clear, Robert Greene, Balaji Srinivasan, Steven Pinker, Alex Hormozi, Douglas Murray, Chris Bumstead, James Smith, Dr David Sinclair, Mark Manson and more. Understanding the world is hard. This podcast will help.
Episodes
June 1, 2024 • 123 mins
Dr Robert Glover is a therapist, coach and an author.
Everyone wants a quality partner. Yet both sexes seem to be struggling to find a mate that makes them feel the way they want. Safe, whole, excited, interested, loved. Why is it so hard and what can we do to make it easier?
Expect to learn how you can make your needs a priority, ways you can learn to be authentic, how men can learn to have more self compassion, what men often don...
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May 30, 2024 • 84 mins
Vienna Pharaon is a licensed marriage and family therapist and an author.
Learning to understand yourself can be the most powerful form of self-care. It helps you fix bad habits and improve your relationships with others. But how do you actually begin to understand who you are, and how do you start the process of becoming unstuck?
Expect to learn how to reconcile what you needed as a child emotionally but never actually got, where ...
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May 27, 2024 • 110 mins
Neil Strauss is a journalist, writer, and an author.
Neil was the world's most famous pickup artist who kickstarted much of the modern dating discourse. So looking back 20 years later, what has he come to realise about what really matters in life and how to find love and connection?
Expect to learn the trajectory of Neil’s views on relationships over the years, how Neil reflects on his book The Game, why Neil is having a baby with ...
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May 25, 2024 • 92 mins
Mo Gawdat is an entrepreneur, former Chief Business Officer at Google, and an author.
We often experience stress without knowing where it's coming from. Although we feel overwhelmed, we struggle to pinpoint the source. So how should we go about assessing our lives and reducing our stress?
Expect to learn why the modern world is so stressful for everyone, what Mo means when he says young people are comfortably numb, how to assess st...
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May 23, 2024 • 71 mins
Bessel van der Kolk is a psychiatrist, researcher, and an author.
Trauma is often discussed as a mental and psychological issue. But what if it affects more than just the mind? What does it mean if your body is holding onto trauma, and how might these memories manifest outside of our brains?
Expect to learn what is meant by the body keeping the score, what is wrong with the traditional way we talk about trauma, how you can learn to...
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May 20, 2024 • 96 mins
Steve Stewart-Williams is an evolutionary psychologist, a professor and an author.
If you follow the thread of evolution long enough, you see that humans are simply a product of adaptations. So why are humans so peculiar? Does everything we do have a rational explanation, or are there aspects of our lives and psychology we have yet to understand?
Expect to learn how aliens would view our species if they were observing from above, w...
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May 18, 2024 • 106 mins
Jimmy Rex is a mens work coach, author and a podcaster.
What does it mean to be a better man today? Is it driving a Bugatti? Praying to God? Making a lot of money? Building a family? Turning into a monk? The options are endless, so are there any underlying principles which can help guide your way?
Expect to learn what it means to be a healthy authentic man, the problems most men struggle with, how more men can learn to face their f...
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May 16, 2024 • 81 mins
Robin Sharma is a leadership expert, motivational speaker and an author.
Often we tell ourselves, ‘Once I make X amount of money then I’ll be free to enjoy my life. However, when we reach that milestone, the fulfillment we hoped for isn’t always there. So what is the key to finding happiness in life while also achieving material success?
Expect to learn the types of wealth that money can't buy and how to cultivate them, what true w...
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May 13, 2024 • 77 mins
Johann Hari is a journalist, a writer and an author.
From fad diets and fasting to vibrating plates, the quest for easier weight loss has been endless. The recent emergence of Ozempic and similar drugs promises a no-strings-attached solution to achieving the body you've always wanted, but is this actually a new miracle drug or a bundle of hidden side effects?
Expect to learn the biggest impact Ozempic is having on people’s lives, w...
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May 11, 2024 • 66 mins
Roanne van Voorst is an anthropologist, researcher and an author.
Given that many people are already struggling to find partners in the modern world, what does the future of love have in store? Is it AI girlfriends, rentable cuddle partners and sex robots? Or a return to something more traditional?
Expect to learn what is happening with modern sexuality, what the future of sex work may look like, whether polyamory is going to becom...
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May 9, 2024 • 108 mins
Connor Beaton is a men’s life coach, founder of ManTalks and an author focusing on men’s wellness and personal growth.
Attachment styles are the hot new idea to understand how we relate and connect to others. Today we get a great overview of the entire field, an understanding of the limitations of Attachment Theory and practical insights on how to improve yours.
Expect to learn how to identify what your attachment style is, where t...
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May 6, 2024 • 193 mins
Tim Ferriss is an entrepreneur, author, and podcaster.
Tim is one of the world’s leading thinkers and his podcast recently crossed 1 billion downloads. Today get to hear his biggest lessons from 2 decades of hacking life and self-improvement.
Expect to learn Tim’s ultimate hack for productivity, what his morning routine looks like, what Tim thought would make him happier when he was younger but didn't, how to deal with depression, ...
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May 4, 2024 • 117 mins
Hamza Ahmed is a YouTuber, personal development coach and a community leader.
"What does it mean to be a man today?" is a question many young guys try to answer, with varied success. Hamza has a huge community of young guys looking for advice so I figured it would be useful to find out what they're struggling with and try to offer some solutions.
Expect to learn about how monk mode can go wrong, the dangers of audience capture, why...
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May 2, 2024 • 68 mins
Annie Jacobsen is a journalist, investigative reporter and an author.
The threat of nuclear war has loomed for over half a century now. But the question remains - just how close to nuclear armageddon are we and what would happen if the world went into a nuclear war.
Expect to learn how many nukes there are in the world right now, the most likely steps to an accidental nuclear war, what happens when a country fires the first nuke, w...
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April 29, 2024 • 115 mins
Gary Vaynerchuk is an entrepreneur, speaker and an author.
Most people would like to increase their reach online, to connect with people they respect and have access to a bigger audience. Which leaves two questions - is this something you actually want? And if you do, how can you grow your platform in 2024?
Expect to learn why attention is more valuable than ever, how to actually become relevant in 2024, what it takes to be authent...
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April 27, 2024 • 113 mins
I hit 2 million Subscribers on YouTube!!
To celebrate, I asked for questions from YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, so here’s another 90 minutes of me trying to answer as many as possible. As always there’s some great questions in here about my thoughts on Andrew Huberman's recent drama, the future of the podcasting industry and whether I'm becoming religious or not.
Expect to learn what I'd tell my 18 year old self, whether I'm afra...
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April 25, 2024 • 85 mins
Daniel Cox is a researcher, pollster and Director of the Survey Center on American Life.
Never before has the divide between left and right mirrored the split between men and women so closely. Women are increasingly leaning to the left, while young men are skewing towards the right. Daniel is the original analyser of this groundbreaking data and has a variety of explanations for exactly what we're seeing in the modern political wor...
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April 22, 2024 • 208 mins
MrBallen is a storyteller, YouTuber and a former United States Navy SEAL.
Why are we drawn to fear? This fascination often balances us the edge of life and death, infused with a dash of excitement. From his beginnings as a Navy SEAL to becoming a renowned YouTuber, Mr. Ballen possesses a unique storytelling talent. He captivates us with some of the most spine-chilling true stories, drawn both from his experiences and the lives of o...
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April 20, 2024 • 88 mins
Abigail Shrier is a journalist, a writer for The Wall Street Journal, and an author.
Therapy use is becoming more prevalent while mental health is getting worse. Are these two things causing each other? Or just happening at the same time? It's a lively one today as I try to get to the bottom of this.
Expect to learn what is happening with modern mental health, the typical timeline of mental health for young people, what the current...
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April 18, 2024 • 74 mins
Oliver Burkeman is a journalist, a writer for The Guardian and an author.
We often find ourselves caught in a productivity spiral, feeling as though we aren’t accomplishing enough and scalding ourselves when we fall short of impossibly high bars. What drives this constant pursuit of perfection? Is it truly beneficial to continuously seek efficiency?
Expect to learn why so many of us have a ruthless obsession with being productive, ...
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