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
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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!
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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.
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June 25, 2025 • 45 mins
Amanda and Chris explore the emotional complexity of saying goodbye, unpacking why goodbyes can be so difficult, the rituals that help us let go, and how fear of the unknown often keeps us stuck. From awkward Irish exits to dramatic farewell hugs, breakups to burritos, they explore why letting go can be so hard… and sometimes weird. It’s a fond farewell to one chapter, and a wink at what’s coming next.
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June 18, 2025 • 69 mins
Dr. Aleksandra Treglown has spent years listening to children recount the worst moments of their lives—only to watch their truths be ignored. In this episode, she reveals how disbelief—by courts, by law enforcement, and by the public—is not just a barrier to justice, but a form of systemic violence against women and children. Through her research and frontline work, she exposes the devastating power of disbelief, and the urgent nee...
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June 13, 2025 • 47 mins
Emily Wilson traveled the world over the course of her modeling career. But one photoshoot always...haunted her. She was accustomed to be valued for her beauty, but that fateful day, she was used as a weapon. Find Emily on Instagram @emilykatwilson
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June 11, 2025 • 38 mins
Amanda and Chris return from yet another whirlwind of work and travel to ask: can you really have work-life balance when your life is your work? In this episode, they dig into the tension between ambition and presence, the creative curse of never switching off, and what happens when your business partner is also your spouse.
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June 4, 2025 • 57 mins
Stephanie Kemmerer spent years spiraling through conspiracy theories—from 9/11 truthers to reptilian overlords—before a single, personal conversation snapped her back to reality. Her journey through the world of conspiracy theories reveals how trauma, alienation, and the search for meaning can lead us deep into illusion. In this conversation, she reflects on the allure of certainty, the cost of disconnection, and what it really tak...
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June 2, 2025 • 38 mins
When defense attorneys Shannon Smith and Molly Blythe agreed to represent Olympic doctor Larry Nassar, who pled guilty to sexually abusing young gymnasts, they were accused of betraying womankind.
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