301. Stanford Psychologist Dr. Kelly McGoniga...

Happy Pot Luck Halloween Saturday! Salem witches, overturned outhouses, and razor blades in apples. We talk Salem in the early ’90s, Wiccans, warlocks, haunted houses, and a Fenway Park character named Bugsy who claimed to have become a vampire. We go back to Halloween’s Irish an ...  Show more

Happy Regular Guy Friday! We fooled them again and somehow made it through another week! It's Halloween weekend, and we're doing the Monster Mash, or is it the Monster Mash Party? We talk Bobby "Boris" Pickett, the story behind the Halloween classic, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, M ...  Show more

“There are ways of thinking about stress that can make your body’s response to it healthier.”

Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., is an expert on stress, willpower, compassion, and the mind-body response to exercise. In this wide-ranging interview, s ...

We think of stress as “bad” for you, but what if some forms of stress could actually help us grow and change for the better? On today’s episode Forrest and Dr. Rick are joined by Dr. Elissa Epel, a psychologist and leading stress researcher, to explore the science behind the stre ...  Show more

Kelly McGonigal's book the Upside of your Stress challenges everything we believe to know about stress. We discuss how previous research has been misunderstood, some surprising truths about stress and how we can develop a healthy stress response. Find more episodes here: http://s ...  Show more