Will Smith (@willsmith) is an actor, producer and musician, two-time Academy Award nominee, Grammy Award and NAACP award winner who has enjoyed a diverse career encompassing films, television and multi platinum records. Starting as a rapper in 1985, Smith is best known for his acting roles in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, I Am Legend, the Bad Boys and Men in ... Show More
Mar 27
If You Feel Uncomfortable In New Social Situations, Listen to This (7 Science-Backed Shifts That Make Conversations Feel Easy)
Jay explores a moment many of us know all too well, walking into a room full of strangers and instantly feeling small, anxious, or out of place. Instead of assuming something is wrong with you, he reframes it through what’s actually happening in the brain. In those moments, your ... Show More
28m 55s
Mar 25
Dr. Shannon Ritchey: Why You’re Not Seeing Results in The Gym (Do THIS 4-Part Strength Framework to Completely Transform your Body
What’s one thing you’ve been doing that might actually be making your progress harder, not better? Jay sits down with Dr. Shannon Ritchey to discuss deeply ingrained beliefs we’ve been carrying about fitness, health, and our bodies, and what emerges is a powerful invitation to re ... Show More
1h 21m
Mar 23
Nischa Shah: #1 Financial Mistake People Make in Their 20s & 30s (Fix It With This Simple System)
Today, Jay sits down with his dear friend Nischa Shah, a former investment banker and accountant who walked away from a high-status corporate career to help people rethink their relationship with money, success, and freedom. Nischa reflects on the “dark phase” she experienced whi ... Show More
1h 7m
Oct 2023
Jada Pinkett Smith Reveals All: Family, Relationships, Loss & Light
<p>Jada Pinkett Smith is an American actress and talk show host. She is co-host of the Facebook Watch talk show Red Table Talk, for which she has received several Daytime Emmy Awards. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021.</p><p>In this episod ... Show More
1h 2m
Apr 2022
29 - Will Smith learnt violence from his childhood. What did you learn?
In this episode, we look at the recent drama of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars in defense of his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, when Chris Rock disrespected her with a joke about her hair-less condition, alopecia.
Louise starts the episode by sharing that she felt like t ... Show More
42m 1s
Feb 2023
Sneak preview: The Jay Shetty episode
This week Ella is joined by Jay Shetty. Jay is a #1 Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestselling author, award-winning podcast host of On Purpose, and the Chief Purpose Officer of Calm. Since launching his video channel in 2016, Jay’s wisdom videos have garnered over 10 billion ... Show More
4m 28s
Oct 2021
Alan Cumming | Making Peace & Claiming Joy
<p>Surviving what he describes as a tormented childhood riddled with abuse, Alan Cumming turned to acting, before he knew it was acting, as a way to step out of the world he inhabited and into one of his own creation. One that was safe, where he made the rules. That impulse event ... Show More
46m 51s
Mar 2020
Jay Shetty: Learn to see the layers in everyone
<p>"Why?” asks an insistent high school art teacher. “Why? Why? Why?” Staring blankly back, a young Jay Shetty has nothing to say. It’s an art project, it's just homework. A collage. It’s just … layers. The next day in a subway station, Jay's chance encounter with an ad peeling o ... Show More
27m 18s
Apr 2022
Shaka Senghor | How Not to Be Defined by Your Worst Moment
<p>I’m fascinated by the idea of snap decisions, how some can lead to amazing outcomes, and others can destroy lives. What you so often find is that nothing actually happens in a moment, there is no real snap, but rather a series of experiences leading up to it, often years in th ... Show More
1h 4m
Feb 2022
The Good News About Your Inevitable Decline | Arthur Brooks
<p>The unavoidable truth is that our skills change as we get older. We invest so much in our professional success, and then at some point, things change. But there's good news. While certain abilities and mental capacities erode with age, others get stronger. With some foresight, ... Show More
1h 14m