The Thought Snob Podcast with Paula Swope
Paula Swope, author, speaker, and Chopra Certified life coach and instructor, aims to leave you in better shape than when you tuned in. Each podcast guest is selected strategically with your health and wellness in mind. Guests appearing on Paula’s podcast are from all walks of life, but they share one commonality – expertise to help you improve in every way.
Episodes
In this inspiring and imaginative episode of The Thought SNOB Podcast, Paula Swope — Author, Speaker, and Chopra-Certified Life Coach — invites listeners to explore one of her favorite tools for self-discovery: The Imaginary Careers Exercise. Through a blend of science, spirituality, and play, Paula guides her audience to write down five dream careers — no limits, no logic — and then “act out” one of them to meet the hidden aspects...
In this bold and deeply honest episode of The Thought SNOB Podcast, Paula Swope — Author, Speaker, and Chopra-Certified Life Coach — invites listeners to explore the radical freedom that comes from permitting themselves to feel what they truly feel. Through humor, candor, and neuroscience, Paula explains how suppressed emotions keep the nervous system stuck in survival mode and how symbolic expression can help complete the body’s s...
In this illuminating episode of The Thought SNOB Podcast, Paula Swope — Author, Speaker, and Chopra-Certified Life Coach — shares a quick yet highly effective morning ritual that blends neuroscience with spiritual discipline. Grounded in research from Nature Neuroscience and PubMed, Paula explains how simply exposing yourself to natural sunlight each morning can reset your circadian rhythm, calm the amygdala, and elevate your mood ...
In this short, powerful episode of The Thought SNOB Podcast, author and Chopra-Certified Life Coach Paula Swope guides listeners through a five-minute nervous system reset designed to calm the mind and restore inner balance. Drawing on neuroscience research from Stanford University’s Huberman Lab, Paula introduces a simple breathwork practice — the double inhale and extended exhale — proven to activate the body’s parasympathetic “r...
What if midlife isn’t the end of an era, but the awakening of your most powerful chapter yet? In this inspiring conversation, Paula Swope sits down with reinvention expert and empowerment coach Wendy Valentine—author of Women Waking Up: The Midlife Manifesto for Passion, Purpose, and Play and host of The Midlife Makeover Show—to talk about how manifestation transformed both of their lives.
At 52 and 48, Wendy and Paula are living p...
This episode is perfect for anyone who’s curious about astrology but doesn’t know where to start. It’s simple, insightful, and connects th...
In this episode, Paula explores the growing trend of algorithmic spirituality — when people treat TikTok, Instagram, and other platforms as if they’re oracles delivering divine messages. She br...
In this headline edition, Will throws out random news stories and Paula responds with unfiltered takes. From shocking crime reports—like the discovery of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s body in a Tesla registered to rapper D4vd—to major shake-ups in late-night TV with Stephen Colbert’s firing and Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, nothing is off limits. Paula shares an unexpected prediction about the D4vd case, then pivots to reflect...
In this episode of The Thought SNOB Podcast, Paula shares how Ayurveda transformed her own health and well-being. Paula has discussed Ayurveda extensively on the show, but this episode is especially notable. She is joined by her Chopra Center mentor, Micole Noble, an ICF-certified Executive and Leadership Coach, Chopra Master Educator, and national board-certified health and wellness coach. The two explore how daily choices around ...
This week’s episode of The Thought SNOB Podcast takes an unexpected turn. Producer Will surprised host Paula with a brand-new discussion style: news headlines. Instead of the usual deep-dive format, Paula was asked to read stories straight from the headlines and share her raw, unfiltered reactions in real time.
From the release of the birthday card Donald Trump once sent Jeffrey Epstein, to the realities of polygamy, to troubling r...
Most people don’t live 90 years — they live the same year 90 times. That’s not living, that’s surviving. In this episode of The Thought SNOB Podcast, Paula unpacks why people resist change so fiercely, even when staying the same destroys health, confidence, and happiness.
Change is natural. You can see it in old pictures: we grow taller, our looks shift, and our needs evolve. We don’t hesitate to toss out a bad mattress or switch u...
In this episode of The Thought SNOB Podcast, Paula tackles the sayings we’ve all been conditioned to believe — the ones we repeat like they’re wisdom, when in reality they’re lies wrapped in clichés. From “money is the root of all evil” to “must be nice,” these phrases shape how we see ourselves, others, and even our future.
Our socialization is powerful. From childhood, we’re taught to adopt ideals that simply aren’t true. Over ti...
In this episode of The Thought Snob Podcast, Paula sits down with Dr. Michael Miller, DO, Vice President of Partnerships at WOOP Care, and Jordan Doepke for a conversation that challenges everything you thought you knew about health care.
Dr. Michael Miller is VP of Partnerships at WOOP Care, where he drives national growth and strategic alliances for a next-generation health plan redefining employer benefits through direct primary...
Paula says this might be her favorite commentary episode yet—and for good reason. She’s finally dropping the filter and speaking with unshakable honesty about what throws people out of alignment, how to spot it instantly, and the surprisingly simple shifts that can pull you back on track. She also shares a blunt truth about how ignoring this alignment robs you of your ability to create—and why that might be the one thing that truly...
his week on The Thought SNOB Podcast, Paula delves deeper into her viral topic, which garnered over 3.5 million views on TikTok—how to distinguish between good and bad people. And here’s the truth: befriending someone’s abuser is not normal. It’s betrayal, plain and simple.
In this episode, Paula discusses why keeping people like that in your life can be toxic and how to peacefully—but firmly—cut ties, regardless of who they are. P...
This week on The Thought SNOB Podcast, Paula dives headfirst into a bold and thought-provoking topic: the slippery slope of organized religion, inspired by Danny McBride’s brilliant satire The Righteous Gemstones. The show hilariously exposes a morally bankrupt megachurch family swimming in wealth—and it got Paula thinking: Do you really have to be a “good” person to manifest money?
Spoiler alert: No, you don’t.
In this episode, Pa...
Ever feel drained after spending time with someone? Like, your energy has been siphoned off just by being in their presence? In this episode of The Thought Snob Podcast, Paula exposes the truth about energy vampires—those relentless attention-seekers who feed off your life force and leave you empty.
She dives deep into how these people sneak past your boundaries, why irritation is more dangerous than you think, and how allowing ene...
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