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Season 9 Preview

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171 Season 8 Recap

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170 Carla Hall on Food, Failure, and Finding the Funny in Life

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169 On Friendship and the Shortness of Life

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168 Debbie Millman on Designing Her Career and Life

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167 Q+A: Setting Boundaries

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166 Jewel Burks on Building A Startup

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165 Failing Forward

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164 Barrett Ward on Sustainable Fashion and Socially Conscious Business

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163 Joi Chaney on Politics, Pay Parity, and Productivity

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162 Rainbow Barris on Medicine, Motherhood, and Marriage

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161 Lisa Feldman Barrett on How Emotions Are Made

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160 Benjamin Spall on Designing the Perfect Morning Routine

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159 Q+A: Defining Success + Personal vs Business Brands

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158 Jennifer Romolini on Work, Hustle, and Winning for Misfits

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157 Dhonielle Clayton on Devotion to Craft, Pushing Boundaries, and Designing Her Destiny

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156 Paula Pant on Going from Broke to Financially Independent and Why Time Matters More than Money

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155 Dr. David Burns on Why Therapy Sucks (& How to Make It Better) and Recovering From Perfectionism

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154 Eli Finkel on What Makes Modern Marriage Thrive

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153 Birthday Likes + Lessons

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152 Deesha Dyer on Her Journey from Hip Hop Journalism in Philly to the Obama White House

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151 Amy Morin on Things Mentally Tough People Don't Do

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150 Season 7 Recap

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149 Lisa Congdon on Reinventing Yourself and Melding Commerce and Creativity

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148 Tonya Rapley on Managing Money, Starting Over, and Winning Your Way

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147 8 for 2018

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146 Luchina Fisher on Not Staying In Your Lane, Saying Yes, and Reproductive Rights

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145 Q+A: Political Activism + Social Justice

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144 Idil Ahmed on Science of the Mind, Spirituality, and Getting Out of Your Own Way

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143 Dr. Michael Breus on The Easy Way to Better Sleep

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142 Roderick Cox on Commitment to Craft and Artistic Excellence

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141 Kelly Hoey on Making Connections and Making Leaps

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140 A'Lelia Bundles on Madam CJ Walker + Starting Late and Still Winning

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139 Angela Nissel on Turning Being Broke into a Brilliant Career

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138 Big Questions

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137 Rachel Hill on Making Passion Profitable, Conquering Depression, and Gamifying Marketing

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136 Duane Spires on Turning $5 into a Multimillion Dollar Empire

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135 Africa Miranda on Reinvention, Reality TV, and Real Beauty

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134 Nitasha Tiku on Managing Envy, Orgasmic Meditation + Tech Journalism

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133 How to Make Your Own Luck

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132 Season 6 Recap

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131 Jessica Abel on Creativity, Commerce, and Art as a Service

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130 Felecia Hatcher on Reinventing Yourself, Delegating, and Effective Time Management

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129 More with Less

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128 Tiffany Dufu on Delegating, Dropping the Ball, and Doing Less

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127 Q+A: Choosing Values + Business Structures

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126 Kristi Coulter on Going Dry, Starting Over, and Non-Binary Thinking

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125 Tipsy Talk Part 2: $ + Art

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124 Daniel Crosby on Money + Meaning

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123 Tipsy Talk Part 1: A Listener's Questions for Lisa

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122 Amanda Parris on Making Great Art, Managing Imposter Syndrome + More

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121 Dr. Andrew Newberg on How Meditation + Prayer Change Your Brain

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120: Q+A - Weight Training, Fave Books, Finding Time to Read

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119 Andrea Pippins on Creativity + Minimalism + Fear

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118 Q+A Meditation, Imposter Syndrome, Working for Free

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117 Damon Young of Very Smart Brothas

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116 To Don't List

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115: Tina Lifford

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114 Q+A: Creating an "Ideal Life"

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113 Alyse Killeen

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112 Six in 2016

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111 Tamara Floyd

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110 Q+A: Getting Out of a Funk

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109 Jamila Daniel

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108 Eric Bahn

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107 Season 5 Recap

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106 Ben Watkins

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105 Simone Missick

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104 Monique Woodard

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103 Q+A - Friends Who Match Your Hustle + Feeling Stuck

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102 Kirk Moore

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101 Marlon Nichols

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100: Joyful Ambition

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099 Doreen Bloch

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098 Tiffany Smith-Anoa'i

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097 Q+A: Values Based Filters + Time vs Money

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096 Gunnar Lovelace

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095 Rosetta Thurman Reloaded

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094 Christina Jones

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093: Bea Arthur

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092 Paul Jarvis

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091 Q+A - Journaling & Unsupportive People

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090 Rachel Rodgers

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089 Darrah Brustein

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088 The Strangest Secret

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087 Birthday Episode 2016

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086 Elisa Camahort Page

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085 Willie Jackson

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084 Q+A: Dealing w/ Overwhelm + Opportunities

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083 Colin Wright Reloaded

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082 Season 4 Recap

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081 Q+A: Finding More Time

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080 Erica Nicole

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079 Q+A

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078 Happiness Habits

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077 Maren Kate Donovan

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076 Risk & Reward

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075 Uyo Okebie Eichelberger

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074 On Purpose

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073 Stoicism for Regular People