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Cheers to 2025! Wishing you a year that is filled with love, possibility, and new adventures. As you go about your busy life, we hope that you can utilize this list and continue to refer back to it whenever you need to. All of these podcasts have been recommended by therapists at Think Happy Live Healthy and cover a variety of topics focusing on parenting and relationships, health and wellness, and self-improvement. Take a look!
Parenting & Relationships
Good Inside with Dr. Becky: Tune in to listen to Dr. Becky Kennedy, a clinical psychologist and mom of three, as she addresses challenging parenting questions and provides actionable steps in this helpful parenting podcast.
The Mark Groves Podcast: Mark identifies himself to be a human connection specialist, speaker, writer, motivator, creator, connector and collaborator. He is the founder of Create the Love, a platform that guides individuals to design the life and love they are seeking and holding space for wherever they are in their journey. His podcast is highly rated and episodes are available twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays. Mark interviews a number of guests and explores topics related to the human experience and how we relate.
Reimagining Love: Dr. Alexandra Solomon is a renowned clinical psychologist, professor, and award winning author. On her podcast, she has meaningful conversations with notable guests from the worlds of therapy, academia, and pop culture, that focus on topics related to love, family, intimacy, and everything in between. This podcast gives listeners the opportunity to reimagine ourselves, our relationships, and our world. New episodes available each week.
Where Should We Begin? Esther Perel, MA, LMFT, is a psychotherapist, New York Times bestselling author, and the host of this well known podcast. Tune in as Esther Perel provides advice on relationships and counsels real couples as they reveal the most intimate, personal, and complicated details of their stories.
Health & Wellness
Dear Therapists: Join hosts Lori Gottlieb, MFT, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, and Guy Winch, Ph.D., author of Emotional First Aid, who are both advice columnists, TED speakers, and therapists in clinical practice. This enlightening podcast gives listeners an in-depth look into therapy by allowing them to listen to real sessions and following along with individuals’ journeys with growth and change, and in the process, learning a lot about themselves.
Expanded- by To Be Magnetic: The Expanded Podcast is created by To Be Magnetic™ (TBM) and focuses on holistic living and manifestation. This podcast is based on Neural Manifestation™, TBM’s unique process which is reported to be rooted in neuroscience, psychology, epigenetics, and energetics, along with some spirituality. Weekly episodes give listeners a deep dive into the process, share powerful manifestation stories, and include interviews with experts. An inspirational podcast that can help you unlock your magnetic potential.
Feel Better Live More: Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is a well regarded general practitioner with nearly 20 years of experience, author of five best-selling books, and star of the reality-documentary series, “Doctor in the House.” Dr. Chatterjee’s goal is to simplify health and his weekly podcast features guests who are health experts and exciting personalities who share useful tips on a variety of topics.
Huberman Lab: In his podcast, Dr. Huberman, a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine, talks about neuroscience and science-based tools for everyday life and interviews a variety of guests who are well renowned in their respective fields.
On Purpose: Jay Shetty is a best selling author, podcast host, entrepreneur, and is the Chief Purpose Officer of Calm. In his podcast, Jay interviews “experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before.” New episodes available twice a week on Mondays and Fridays.
Shrink Chicks: Cofounders of The Therapy Group, Emmalee Bierly, LMFT, and Jennifer Chaiken, LMFT, host this mental health podcast. They strive to make “therapy and therapeutic topics more relatable and accessible." Episodes are available each week.
Self-Improvement
The Best of “How To”: From The Atlantic, these six episodes have been selected as favorites from the past six seasons, and focus on slowing down, making space, and finding meaning in our busy lives. Seasons 1-6 are also available and very informative.
Coach Bennett’s Podcast: Chris Bennett, a running coach on the Nike Run Club app, provides motivation and inspiration with episodes focusing on topics related to sport psychology and growth mindset. As Coach Bennett shares “this podcast is about running… and this podcast is not about running.”
Hidden Brain: Shankar Vedantam, a veteran science journalist, hosts this thought-provoking podcast which combines science and storytelling to explore the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior and can help listeners to understand their own mind as well as the minds of other people.
How to be a Better Human: Comedian Chris Duffy hosts this weekly TED podcast and interviews guests and past speakers who share insights on how to be a better person.
Life Kit: This self-improvement podcast created by NPR is hosted by reporter, Marielle Segarra, who talks to experts and shares useful tips on a variety of topics because “everyone needs a little help being a human.”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: Mel Robbins is a well known author, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and podcast host whose mission is to share proven tools that empower people to create a better life. Her highly regarded podcast has new episodes available Mondays and Thursdays.
The Optimist Project: Yara Shahidi is an award winning actress and producer and is the host of this new podcast which started in November 2024. Yara talks with “incredible changemakers to unlock their secrets to conquering life, love, career, and everything in between with unwavering confidence and hope.” Episodes available weekly.
Pulling The Thread: Elise Loehnen is the host of this podcast and a New York Times bestselling author of On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Woman Pay to Be Good. Weekly episodes explore life’s big questions with leading experts, thinkers, and luminaries of our time.
The Rich Roll Podcast: This self-improvement podcast is hosted by Rich Roll, who identifies himself to be a vegan ultra endurance athlete and full-time wellness and plant-based nutrition advocate and popular public speaker. He is a best selling author, husband, and father of four and his story of transformation is an inspiration to people around the world. Tune in each week for new episodes.
TED Talks Daily: These informative talks presented by the “world’s leading thinkers and doers” are available each day and cover “every subject imaginable.”
What are you starting off your new year listening to? Let us know your thoughts on these recommendations. If you are interested in more resources, check out our recent blog on therapist book recommendations.
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