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Beautiful Voyager
by Meredith Arthur
Beautiful Voyager is a podcast for overthinkers, people pleasers, perfectionists, and anyone interested in the connection between the mind, body, and nervous system. Hosted by Meredith Arthur, author of Get Out of My Head and the forthcoming Too Smart to Heal, these conversations explore mindbody science, neuroplastic symptoms, chronic stress, healing, creativity, technology, and what it means to live with a highly analytical mind in a complex world. Featuring thoughtful guests from psychology, medicine, neuroscience, technology, and the arts. Learn more at bevoya.com.
Episodes
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41 - Daniel Duane, Psychotherapist and Writer
What actually makes therapy work? Writer and therapist Daniel Duane joins Meredith to discuss his recent New York Times opinion piece, “Therapy Needs to Get Help,” which questions the ever-expanding world of therapeutic modalities, acronyms, and certifications—and asks what decades of research…
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Ego Death with Morra Aarons-Mele
What happens when the version of success you built your life around suddenly stops working? In this episode of the Anxious Achiever podcast, host Morra Aarons-Mele and I talk about ego death, anxiety, nervous system healing, and what it means to let go of the need to prove yourself. We cover all...
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40 - Ailey Jolie, Somatic Psychotherapist
In this episode, I sit down with the somatic psychotherapist, writer, and teacher Ailey Jolie to explore the evolving intersection of trauma, embodiment, and technology. Ailey shares her journey from eating disorder recovery to psychedelic-assisted research to writing, and her commitment to...
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39 - Sean Hershey, Mind-Body Medicine for Chronic Pain
Sean Hershey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York who specializes in using mind-body work to help his clients end their chronic pain and, in his words, "truly learn to be themselves." He's the host of a new podcast called The Mind-Body Medicine for Chronic Pain, and in that podcast he...
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Anxious Achiever and Beautiful Voyager
In this episode of the Anxious Achiever podcast Morra and I dig into some of the new techniques for managing stress and anxiety I first wrote about in the Beautiful Voyager Stress Relief Cheat Sheets on Substack. I love Morra’s description of the episode: “In the high stakes world of technology...
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Meredith Talks to Girls Write Now
Special guest episode from NYC-based nonprofit Girls Write Now! In this episode of the Writing Our Way to Wellness podcast series, Meredith finds herself in the role of interviewee instead of interviewer. This wide-spanning conversation between Meredith and Girls Write Now Staff Member Vahni…
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38 - Obi Felten, Flourish Labs
Obi is offering our podcast listeners a special discount! Find a trained peer supporter on peers.net who understands exactly what you're going through, then use code "BEVOYA" to book up to 4 FREE SESSIONS and share it with any teen or young adult in your life who could benefit from some extra...
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37 - Megan Cornish, Mental Health Strategist
Megan Cornish is a former social worker and writer who's been tackling big questions about how mental health is discussed on Linkedin. That's where she caught my eye: I loved her authentic, honest voice and risk-taking in what tends to be a pretty stuffy and status-quo environment. I felt like...
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36 - Ximena Vengoechea, Researcher
Ximena Vengoechea is a user researcher, writer, illustrator, and the author of the new book, Rest Easy: Discover Calm and Abundance through the Radical Power of Rest. In this conversation, we dig into what rest really means and why it's not just napping, for example. We talk about her path to...
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35 - Kevin Kelly, Wired Magazine Co-Founder
Kevin Kelly is best known for co-founding the award-winning Wired magazine in 1993, but his work spans widely beyond that. He's the founder of the Cool Tools website and podcast (which I've appeared on in the past!), which has been reviewing tools daily for 20 years. He also puts out the…
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34 - B Dukes, Student of Ancestral Healing
B Dukes is so many things. A queer, non-binary filmmaker, a photographer, an activist, a student, and a healer. They tell the incredible story of their journey from a child in the backwoods of South Carolina to the world of Silicon tech...with many stops in between. We talk about what ancestral...
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33 - Dr Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Yale University Research Scientist
Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist and Director of the Creativity and Emotions lab at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Born in Croatia, Zorana shares cultural perceptions of creativity. Her research centers on the role of emotions in creative work. Zorana...
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32 - Jeffrey Sparr, Self-Taught Artist
Jeffrey Sparr is a father, husband, mental health advocate, teacher, and nonprofit founder who used his early experiences with OCD to fuel his life as a self-taught artist. In this conversation, Jeffrey and I talk about what he's learned from helping people use creativity as a means of...
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31 - Claudia Dawson, Recomendo
Claudia Dawson is a psychonaut -- and if you don't know what that is, you should listen to this podcast. She co-produces one of my favorite weekly newsletters, Recomendo, which features 6 tools for thought each week. She's the Founding Editor of a publication called Phantom Kangaroo, "an eerie...
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30 - Larz May, #HalfTheStory
Larz May is the founder of an incredible mental health nonprofit called #HalfTheStory. The nonprofit's mission is to empower the next generation’s relationship with social media through advocacy, education, and providing access to resources. What I love about Larz is her ability to cut through...
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29 - Rosie Acosta, Radically Love
Rosie Acosta has studied and taught yoga and mindfulness around the world. She is the award-winning podcast host of Radically Love and the author of You Are Radically Loved: A Healing Journey to Self-Love. A first generation Mexican-American, Rosie grew up in East LA in the 1990's. We talk about...
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28 - The Anxiety Sisters, Maggie and Abbe
Could there be a more natural and intuitive connection than mine with the Anxiety Sisters? I don't think so. Abbe Greenberg and Maggie Sarachek have built an online community of 200K people and host a popular podcast called The Spin Cycle. In their work, they blend their personal experience with...
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27 - Jessica Poundstone, Artist
Jessica Poundstone is an artist who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Named a Top 100 artist by Saatchi Art, Jessica has found creative process through intuition and exploration. She says, "I work on each image until I feel everything click into place: that feeling of 'rightness' tells me it’s...
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26 - James Kaufman, Creativity Researcher
Dr James Kaufman is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut and the author/editor of more than 50 books, including Creativity 101 and the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity with Robert Sternberg. In this podcast, we talk about the connection between mental health and...
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25 - Peter Krask, The Creativity Guide
Peter M. Krask, a New York-based writer and photographer, is the founder of an unusual consulting business called The Creativity Guide. Using his twenty years of experience in theater, television, visual art, and business, Krask acts as a personal "project whisperer" for creatives and...
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24 - Michael Moskowitz, Founder of AeBeZe
Michael Phillips Moskowitz is the founder of AeBeZe, a cutting-edge research product lab dedicated to establishing a new mental health standard called "Digital Nutrition™." Their app, Moodrise, brings together curated images, videos, and audio to positively affect brain chemistry. Michael has…
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23 - The Zachar Twins, Zach and Michael
Zach and Michael Zakar call themselves the "Middle Eastern Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen," which gives you a taste of how funny they are. Writers, models, and actors, the Zakar Twins most recent book, "How to Be Fucking Happy," is out now. I love this line from their book description, "Happiness…
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22 - Maurice Chiang, CEO of Prairie Health
Maurice Chiang is the CEO and Co-Founder of Prairie Health, a new startup bringing genetic testing to a patient-centered approach to mental health. This is incredibly promising and forward-looking! Genetic testing provides useful information to psychiatrists and prescribing physicians about to…
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21 - Kevin Dedner, CEO of Hurdle
Kevin Dedner is the Founder & CEO of Hurdle, a startup dedicated to building a pipeline of mental health professionals who understand how to help people with varied cultural backgrounds. On the Hurdle website are the thoughtful words: "Your culture will always be honored." Kevin's path to this…
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20 - Oluwapelumi Ajibade, Research Coordinator at UW
Pelumi, whose full given name is Oluwapelumi Ajibade, is a research coordinator at the University of Washington, where she is involved in fascinating work about interracial communication and anxiety. In this conversation, we cover all kinds of things including Pelumi's experiences as a...
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19 - Dr. William Selig, Author and Psychologist
Do you or someone you love have bipolar disorder? If so, this episode is for you. Dr Bill Selig is a clinical psychologist in the Bay Area and author of the new book "When Your Partner Has Bipolar Disorder." In this episode Bill and I talk about changing perceptions of bipolar disorder, the best...
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BONUS EPISODE - Vanessa and Meredith In Conversation
This episode, which will be simultaneously released here and on Vanessa Soto's new book coaching podcast, is a behind-the-scenes on book publishing. In it we discuss how I approached writing GET OUT OF MY HEAD, the stops and starts of the process, and surprise learnings along the way. Vanessa is…
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18 - Suhail Rasheed, Managing Editor of the Bangalore Review
Suhail Rasheed is an Indian writer, editor, and curator currently living in Dubai. A longstanding member of the Beautiful Voyager community, Suhail has written about his mental health journey in the past, but in this very special and personal interview he covers new terrain. Childhood abuse is…
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17 - Anamita Guha of IBM Quantum
It was such a treat to have this conversation with superstar Product Manager Anamita Guha. Anamita is the Global Lead of Product Management at IBM, where she focuses on Quantum computing (yes, we talk about what that means) and she's dedicated to inspiring the next generation of female innovators...
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16 - Joshua Kemble, Graphic Artist and Author
Joshua Kemble lives in Antelope Valley, California, where he is an Art Director and illustrator. A Xeric Award Winning Cartoonist, Josh's newest book is a labor of love: an autobiographical graphic novel about depression and panic attack called Two Stories. In this conversation, Josh and I talk...
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15 - Dr. Tameika Lawrence of the Hudson Valley Psychological Association
Dr. Tameika Lawrence holds a doctoral degree in counseling psychology and is a member of the Hudson Valley Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association. She's the author of Outgrow Your Comfort, a 6-step self-help model and book. In this conversation, Dr. Lawrence and I…
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14 - Robert James, OCD and Mental Health Coach
Robert James is a podcaster and mental health coach originally from the UK. Robert developed OCD at the age of 16 and spent his twenties trying everything he could to face it. He read every book he could find on the topic and made a commitment to personal development. This rough ride taught him...
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13 - Caitlin Schiller of Blinkist
Caitlin Schiller and I first met on the audio platform Anchor many years ago. I liked her immediately: she clearly has a love of language and is sharp as a whip. Caitlin lives in Berlin and works as an Executive Producer of New Content at Blinkist, where she produces and co-hosts the podcast...
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12 - Comedian Sara Schaefer
Comedian Sara Schaefer is proud of her new book, GRAND: A Memoir, and she should be! It is the kind of delightful and moving tale that makes you feel like you know Sara, even more so if you listen to her read it, as I did. I loved talking to Sara about what it was like to write this book after...
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11 - Johnny of The Anxious Beard
Johnny, aka "The Anxious Beard," is a former nurse who was born and raised in Southern California (though he spent time in Las Vegas as well). He describes himself as having "31 flavors of mental health:" anxiety, panic, and agoraphobia disorder, as well as ADHD and a learning disability.…
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10 - Meredith O'Connor of Teen Nickelodeon
In honor of World Mental Health Day, today's special guest is singer and activist Meredith O'Connor. Meredith originally came to attention when her music video for the song "Celebrity" went viral on Youtube. Her music was then featured on Teen Nick, and she began to tour and perform around the...
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9 - Patrice Massicotte, Mental Health Certified Peer Specialist
Born and raised in Quebec City (he's French-Canadian), Patrice worked in pharmaceutical marketing in Boston when he experienced serious mental health challenges that almost took his life. His recovery took him on a new career path and led him to California, where he found a government-funded role…
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8 - Amanda Stern of The Bookable Podcast
Amanda Stern is the author of Little Panic, a memoir about growing up in 80's New York with undiagnosed panic disorder. She also wrote The Long Haul, and eleven books for children. She's an advisory board member of the non-profit The Child Mind Institute. The founder of New York City's iconic…
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7 - Rachel Murphy of Pinterest
Writer Rachel Murphy and I work at Pinterest together. Earlier this year we founded Pinside Out, Pinterest's first mental health employee resource group. Rachel recently launched her own new mental health site, Us & Our Stories, a place to have real conversations around emotional wellbeing from a...
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6 - Cassie Clark of Cozy in Carolina
Mental health writer Cassie Clark grew up in Appalachia and moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina when she married her husband Brandon 17 years ago. Cassie writes a blog, Cozy in Carolina, which she describes as "hygge anxiety writing." In this interview we talk about homeschooling, her diagnoses...
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5 - Jordan Brown of The Mental Health Update
Jordan Brown is a mental health advocate, writer, and entrepreneur. Since 2016, he’s been blogging to make mental health more accessible and meaningful (a project near and dear to our hearts). Formally trained as a social worker, Jordan considers his mental health struggles and open-heart surgery...
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4 - Leslie Dotson Van Every of Future Family
I've known Leslie Dotson Van Every for over a decade. We first worked together at CBS, where she rocked her role as Director of PR. Since then, she's led communications and content for companies like Overstock, Scribd, and Future Family. In her spare time(!), she and two partners built a powerful...
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3 - Ryan Fan of Baltimore Public Schools
Ryan Fan is a writer and special-ed teacher in Baltimore, Maryland. A co-editor of the Medium publication Invisible Illness, Ryan is a passionate advocate for new writers in the mental health space. In his free time, Ryan runs marathons. To read some of Ryan's writing on his faith, mental health,...
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2 - Ashwini Dodani of Amazon India
Ashwini Dodani is a poet and writer who lives in Mumbai, India. Originally trained as a mechanical engineer, Ashwini switched career paths to work in the ever-evolving realm of social media, helping support the launch of major TV shows from the likes of Amazon in India. We talk about his adopted...
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1 - Logan Johnston of Facebook
This the first experimental episode of the Beautiful Voyager podcast! I talk with Logan Johnston, community builder extraordinaire. Logan and I first met years ago at a startup called Outdoorsy ("the Airbnb of RVs"). He now works with community leaders of Facebook Groups. We delve into social…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Beautiful Voyager is a podcast for overthinkers, people pleasers, perfectionists, and anyone interested in the connection between the mind, body, and nervous system.
Hosted by Meredith Arthur, author of Get Out of My Head and the forthcoming Too Smart to Heal, these conversations explore mindbody science, neuroplastic symptoms, chronic stress, healing, creativity, technology, and what it means to live with a highly analytical mind in a complex world.
Featuring thoughtful guests from psychology, medicine, neuroscience, technology, and the arts. Learn more at bevoya.com.
HOSTED BY
Meredith Arthur
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