🧪The Ultimate Podcast Potion | 12 Favorite Episodes from Each Month
Plus a very important question at the end!
Greetings Friends! What good things have happened to you in this first week of January? My kids are so ready to go back to school and I am so ready to send them off tomorrow with a smile and a “see you later!” I have big plans for Monday. They include sitting on my couch, staring out the window, and savoring the silence.
For the podcast potion this week I decided to scroll back through the whole year and compile a favorite podcast episode from each month.
Podcasts are one of the greatest resources to calm our minds, receive mentoring on any topic we’re interested in, and open us up to new ideas.
2024 was filled with profound and insightful voices that shaped my year. Listening felt like being a student again, except I was immersed in only the most exciting, handpicked electives and I couldn’t get enough!
My hope for 2025 is to stay curious and interested in the topics that make me come alive and guide me toward the adventure of the unknown!
You too?
Then, you’re in the right place!
Here we go…
January
10 % Happier with Dan Harris | Glennon Doyle is Rethinking Her Relationship to Social Media, Hustle Culture, Intuition, Her Body, and Her Parents | Jan 19 2024 | 56 min
“I think my whole life I’ve just been trying to figure out who am I, what is the self, and the idea that maybe there is no self for me to discover, and that maybe there’s just life to live feels like a terrifying relief.”
-Glennon Doyle
February
Pretty Smart with Danielle Robay | Jada Pinkett Smith: A Love Letter to Complicated Women | Feb 29 2024 | 52 min
“A woman has a right to her adventures even if it means courting her shadows as guides to her brightest light.”
-Jada Pinkett Smith, quoted from her book Worthy
March
Body Electric | TED Radio Hour: A More Walkable World | Mar 23 2024 | 54 min
“Almost everywhere I work understands the value of becoming a place where the car is an instrument of freedom rather than a prosthetic device that you need to live your daily life.”
-Jeff Speck, urban planner
April
House Calls with Dr. Vivek Murphy | Rebecca Solnit: Why is Hope So Powerful? | Apr 2 2024 | 52 min
“So many of our crises are story-telling crises. When we change the story of what’s important, what’s valuable, the story of who we are, we change the possibilities that people see and then they connect on them. Stories can change the world.”
-Rebecca Solnit
May
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Julia Gets Wise with Anne Lamott | May 15 2024 | 1 hr
“What works when someone is going through unsurvivable loss is that you show up, and you sit with them, and you are willing to feel like shit with them, and you don’t try to get them to feel any better than they do for as long as it takes and it could be years.”
-Anne Lamott
June
Templeton Ideas Podcast | Scott Shigeoka (Curiosity) | June 6 2024 | 29 min
“Curiosity is not just the questions we ask, but we can move through the world with curiosity as well.”
-Scott Shigeoka
July
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast | Life of Purpose: Elle Luna |A Journey to the Crossroads of Should and Must | Jul 27 2024 | 1 hr 7 min
“It’s the place where you could lose everything. It feels that scary to go after what you really want and why you’re here. And it feels like you maybe could die if you step into that gift, that passion. But it only feels that way because on the other side of that wall, on the other side of all of that, is total and complete freedom in your life.”
- Elle Luna
August
The Science of Happiness | How To Let In New Perspectives | Aug 15 2024 | 27 min
“I really do firmly believe that our culture needs humility, an intellectual humility now more than ever. We’re at a time in which we’re unwilling or unable or underpracticed in having relationships and discussions with people with whom we disagree. We need to do a better job of being able to civilly, kindly, and lovingly engage with people who are idealogically dissimilar from us.”
- Daryl Van Tongeren
September
The Gray Area | What if we get climate change right? | Sept 23 2024 | 47 min
“There’s analysis showing that the impact of you moving your money out of fossil fuels is a bigger impact than any amount of eating only plants and only walking and biking could do. Because it is that bad to be investing in the expansion of fossil fuels.”
-Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
October
The Marie Forleo Podcast | To Anyone Feeling Lost & Unhappy In Life, Find Meaning with Liz Gilbert | Oct 1 2024 | 1 hr 15 min
“Identify what the 3 good hours of the day are, everyone has like 2 or 3 pretty sharp, bright, electrified, online-not on the internet, but like online hours of the day, who or what is currently eating that time? Take it back. Take that time back.”
-Liz Gilbert
November
The Mel Robbins | The Science of Spiritual Experiences: How To Rewire Your Brain For More Happiness & Purpose | Nov 6 2024 | 1 hr 10 min
“There’s an embracing of the uniqueness we each have. All of us have a different expression of our spiritual and religious self. We have to look at each person as an individual but also appreciate how its connected to everyone else as well.”
-Andrew Newberg
December
The One You Feed | How To Break From the ‘More’ Trap and Find Balance in a Busy Life with Chris Bailey | Dec 24 2024 | 1 hr 15 min
“Because calm leads us to presence it makes us more productive because presence is ultimately what productivity is all about. It’s about being engaged with whatever it is that we’re doing in the moment. If we can always be engaged with whatever it is we intend to do, we never need productivity advice because we can always just do the things we set out to do in the first place.”
-Chris Bailey
May you enter this week with an unwieldy expectation for good things to come your way. Stay attentive and be aware of all the magic around you!
Before you go, could you answer this one question:
From my heart to yours,
Charissa
PS: Join me back here on Wednesday for another edition of Welcome Wanderer. You can also follow me on IG for more enchanted words and peeks into my very human life.