Everyday Better with Leah Smart
by Leah Smart
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Welcome to Everyday Better!
Welcome to Everyday Better!
About this podcast
Everyday Better is your guide to creating positive change at work, at home, in your relationships, and beyond.
Each week, Leah Smart, LinkedIn's Senior Editor and a certified coach specializing in self-improvement, shares inspiring conversations with trusted voices and curates research-backed strategies to help you navigate transitions, challenges, and uncertainties with clarity and intention. Because work and the rest of your life don’t exist in silos, and what happens in one always finds its way into the other.
Discover fresh perspectives, get unstuck, and take small steps every day, toward the life you want. New episodes every Tuesday.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 285 episodes
- Welcome to Everyday Better! · 3 minSince 2019, Everyday Better has released nearly 300 episodes to guide you in creating positive change in how you think, feel and act in the important areas of your life: at home…
- The Best of Everyday Better: Your Starter Kit for Creating Positive Change · 59 minIn this special curated episode, you’ll hear the most impactful conversations from eight years of Everyday Better. If you’re looking for a practical starting point for personal…
- The Year for Irrational Hope: Dan Harris on Training the Mind Through Meditation · 45 minIn the final episode of our January series, The Year for Irrational Hope, Leah Smart sits down with bestselling author and mindfulness teacher Dan Harris for a practical…
- The Year for Irrational Hope: Gabby Bernstein on Accessing Unshakable Faith · 39 minIn the third episode of our January series, The Year for Irrational Hope, Leah Smart sits down with spiritual teacher and bestselling author Gabby Bernstein for a conversation…
- The Year for Irrational Hope: Debbie Millman on the 10-Year Plan · 36 minIn the second episode of our January series, The Year for Irrational Hope, Leah Smart sits down with legendary designer, author, educator, and podcast host Debbie Millman to…
- The Year for Irrational Hope: Bruce Feiler on Navigating a “Lifequake” · 52 minIn the first episode of our January series, The Year for Irrational Hope, Leah Smart sits down with bestselling author Bruce Feiler about lifequakes – the major transitions that…
- Wintering: How to Weather Difficult Times · 45 minAs we approach the new year, we’re bringing back one of our favorite episodes of Everyday Better, where Leah sits down with Katherine May, author of Wintering: The Power of Rest…
- Forget Trends, Follow Your Gut: Bobbi Brown’s Life and Work Philosophy · 25 minIn this episode, Bobbi Brown, founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and Jones Road, speaks openly about the challenges of building her businesses, and what it felt like when a major…
- The Courage to Choose Plan A: How Sister Monica Clare Embraced Her Calling · 27 minAre you feeling stuck in a career you find meaningless, wondering if you’ll ever find your true calling? This week on Everyday Better, Leah Smart sits down with Sister Monica…
- Core Values 101: A Step-by-Step Guide for Finding Your Inner Compass · 30 minToday, we’re bringing back one of our favorite episodes of Everyday Better, where Leah walks us through one of her essential personal growth exercises: defining your core values…
- Former BBC Journalist Shares the One Communication Habit That Builds Trust · 34 minHave you ever been in a high-stakes conversation where you tried to communicate clearly only to have the other person talk past you? Or maybe you’ve noticed yourself zoning out…
- The Atlantic’s CEO on the Power of Doing Hard Things · 41 minNicholas Thompson is a writer, a father, a CEO, and a champion long-distance runner. Nick says that running has taught him how to navigate the hardest things in life. This…
- Eli Rallo on Surviving Gen Z’s Quarter-Life Crisis · 30 minBefore she became a TikTok star, Eli Rallo had a clear vision for what her post-grad years would look like: she’d have a fulfilling career, fabulous friends, and would finally…
- Engineering A Happier Life with Tal Ben-Shahar · 43 minWe all want to be happier. But how do we get there? Former professor of the most popular course at Harvard, Tal Ben-Shahar is a world-renowned positive psychology expert and…
- Are You Abandoning Yourself to Avoid Conflict? This Survival Instinct Might Be the Culprit · 34 minWe’ve all heard of “fight, flight, freeze,” but there’s a fourth survival instinct that’s harder to spot. “Fawning” can look like people-pleasing, and it’s often applauded in…
- The Only Time Management Technique That Works With Author Oliver Burkeman · 44 minOliver Burkeman is a journalist, author and former “productivity geek.” His bestselling book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals outlines a saner approach to…
- Gretchen Rubin: How to Make Hard Decisions · 46 minIn honor of Back-to-School season, throughout September, Everyday Better is sharing conversations inspired by the essential life skills we didn’t learn in school… but should…
- Case Kenny: How to Become an Optimist · 37 minIn honor of Back-to-School season, throughout September, Everyday Better is sharing conversations inspired by the essential life skills we didn’t learn in school, but should…
- Maya Shankar: How to Navigate Life’s Biggest Transitions · 31 minIn honor of Back-to-School season, throughout September, Everyday Better is sharing conversations inspired by the essential life skills we didn’t learn in school, but should…
- Esther Perel: How to Balance Work, Family, and Fulfillment · 35 minIn honor of Back-to-School season, throughout September, Everyday Better is sharing conversations inspired by the essential life skills we didn’t learn in school, but should…
