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π° Newsletter Topic πΈπ» Society & Culture π‘ Ideas: Big and Small π€°π» Motherhood π Relax & Escape π§ Growth π¨βπ©βπ§βπ§ For the Family β Series
π£= explicit language π = frank content β οΈ = sensitive topic
π° Happy Brain | Tidying for Mental Health (17 min)
“Can tidying up make your brain happy? I found a guy on Instagram who swears by it…”
πΈπ» The Moth | Brand New YOU (51 min)
“Stories of starting fresh. Unexpected opportunities, budding relationships, your next home, and a new take.”
π‘ Life Kit: Health | Feeling Foggy? It’s Not Just You (15 min)
“The stress and trauma from the past year have taken a toll on all of our brains. Mental health care providers say their patients are reporting brain fog and fatigue. If that sounds familiar, here’s why β and what you can do.”
π€°π» How I Built This with Guy Raz | Diapers.com & Jet.com: Marc Lore (76 min)
“Around 2003, after forays into banking, baseball cards, andβbelieve it or notβbobsledding, Marc Lore landed on an idea for an e-commerce business: a website to make it simple for parents to order diapers. The only problem, as he quickly discovered, was that it’s impossible to make money selling diapers on the internet.”
π Family Secrets | Inheritance (18 min)
“Author Dani Shapiro reveals what it was like to, by chance, discover a shocking secret about herself, and what this secret taught her about identity, family, and new beginnings.”
π§ Life Kit | Need To Make A Change? Behavioral Science Can Help (19 min)
“When’s the best time to start a new habit? And what makes some stick while others fall by the wayside? Behavioral scientist Katy Milkman’s new book, How to Change, breaks down the research about how to leverage human nature instead of working against it to achieve your goals.”
π¨βπ©βπ§βπ¦ Imagined Life | The Speaker (38 min)
“You have plenty of things to say. You just have trouble saying them. But one day, your words are going to make people stand up and cheer.”
β The Dropout | Myth-Making | Episode 1 (45 min)
“On the premiere episode of The Dropout, you’ll meet a young Elizabeth Holmes. Convinced of her own destiny even as a young child, she would come to drop out of Stanford in her late teens, intending to mold herself after the great tech icons of our time.”