Everyday Better with Leah Smart

Everyday Better with Leah Smart

Everyday Better is your essential podcast for leveling up in personal development, life, and career success. Hosted by Leah Smart, an educator in self-improvement and positive psychology, this podcast offers transformative conversations with influential experts sharing real-life success stories, actionable insights, and research-backed tips. Elevate your mindset, gain clarity, and unlock your potential as you journey toward becoming 'Everyday Better.' Whether you're at a crossroads or simply seeking more daily clarity, every episode leaves you inspired, empowered, and ready for more. Find new episodes of Everyday Better, right here, every Tuesday.

Episodes

Warning: This Podcast Will Remind You of Your Mortality

April 22, 2025 • 47 mins
After Jodi Wellman’s mother passed away at just 58-years-old, Jodi was left to clean out her apartment. Everywhere she looked, she found remnants of her mother’s unfulfilled dreams: business cards from enterprises that never took off, book manuscripts that were never submitted. The experience forced Jodi to realize that life is painfully short, and it’s up to us to make the most of it. A speaker, author and executive coach, Jodi w...
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Core Values 101: A Step-by-Step Guide for Finding Your Inner Compass

April 15, 2025 • 29 mins
In this special episode of Everyday Better, Leah walks through one of her favorite personal growth exercises: defining your core values. When you're facing a tough decision and unsure which path to take, a clearly defined set of values can equip you with the clarity and confidence you need to move forward.  After explaining her own approach to uncovering what truly matters, Leah revisits some powerful moments from a previous conve...
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From Starting Out to Starting Over: Mentorship in Action

April 8, 2025 • 48 mins
We often imagine mentorship as a formal relationship between an experienced professional and someone who’s just starting out. But sometimes the most valuable guidance doesn’t emerge from something structured, but from candid conversations with colleagues. On this week’s episode of Everyday Better, we’re bringing you one of those conversations. Leah is joined by two of her LinkedIn colleagues, Jessi Hempel and Gianna Prudente, for ...
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Escaping Perfectionism with Professor Thomas Curran

April 1, 2025 • 43 mins
Thomas Curran is a Professor of Psychology at the London School of Economics and the author of The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough. In it, he charts the recent rise in perfectionism among young people, exposes the paradoxical effects of perfectionism on everything from work performance to relationships and argues for a “good enough” approach to work that prioritizes sustainability over achievement. On this week...
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How the "Real" Olivia Pope Handles a Crisis

March 25, 2025 • 39 mins
Judy Smith built a career handling some of the most high-profile scandals of our time. As the founder of crisis management firm Smith & Co., she’s advised many notable clients including Monica Lewinsky, Michael Vick and Wesley Snipes. But Judy is perhaps better known for what she inspired: ‘Scandal,’ the hit television series created by Shonda Rhymes. On this week’s episode of Everyday Better, Judy joins Leah to discuss the core p...
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The 10-Year Plan: A Roadmap to Designing Your Dream Life

March 18, 2025 • 20 mins
Imagine your life ten years from now. Where are you, who are you with and how do you feel? On this week’s episode of Everyday Better, Leah introduces the 10-Year Plan, a powerful visualization exercise for making your dreams a reality. After sharing how this tool helped her clarify her own career goals, Leah explains how to create your own 10-Year Plan. So grab a pen, a piece of paper and start shaping the life you want. Listen to ...
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How to ‘Do Your Own Research’ with Medical Journalist Dr. Trisha Pasricha (Part 2)

March 11, 2025 • 39 mins
Medical journalist Dr. Trisha Pasricha is back this week for part two of our deep dive into the latest health and wellness trends. In this episode, Trisha pulls back the curtain on her research process, revealing how she tracks down reliable health information and how fact-checking works at The Washington Post. Later, she shares practical tips for reading academic studies and evaluating health claims made on social media. Trisha an...
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Demystifying Wellness Trends with Medical Journalist Dr. Trisha Pasricha (Part 1)

March 4, 2025 • 50 mins
Full-body MRIs. Red light therapy. Vitamin B12 supplements. Seemingly every day, there’s a new wellness fad taking over the internet. But how do we know which health claims are backed by science – and which are just hype? In this episode of Everyday Better, we’re demystifying the latest health and wellness trends with medical journalist Dr. Trisha Pasricha. Trisha discusses the pros and cons of magnesium supplements, breaks down th...
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Second Acts: How Captain Carole Hopson Found Her ‘One True Thing’

February 25, 2025 • 45 mins
Carole Hopson is a Boeing 737 captain for United Airlines and the author of ‘A Pair of Wings,’ a historical fiction novel about Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to get her pilot license. After a successful twenty-year career working for iconic brands like the National Football League, Foot Locker and L’Oréal, Carole quit her job to pursue her lifelong dream of flying planes.  On today’s episode, Carole tells the story of how s...
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Understanding the Racial Health Gap with Dr. Uché Blackstock

February 18, 2025 • 45 mins
When Dr. Uché Blackstock was a student at Harvard Medical School, she didn’t learn about racial health disparities or the history of racial violence that mark the field of medicine. It wasn’t until years later, while working in an urgent care in Brooklyn, that Dr. Blackstock was moved to investigate the history of healthcare in America. Now, as a health equity advocate and author of the New York Times bestseller ‘LEGACY: A Black Ph...
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How Peloton Yoga Instructor Chelsea Jackson Roberts Stays Sane in a Chaotic World

February 11, 2025 • 51 mins
When Chelsea Jackson Roberts was 24, she lost her best friend to gun violence. That’s when Chelsea’s yoga practice became about something much more than exercise; it became a tool for coping with grief and, eventually, rediscovering joy. Today, as a Peloton yoga and meditation instructor, Chelsea teaches others how to tap into a deeper, more emotionally supportive yoga practice. On this week’s episode of Everyday Better, Chelsea sh...
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On the Clock: A Working Mothers’ Roundtable on Parenthood and Ambition

February 4, 2025 • 55 mins
When Leah and her husband decided to start a family, she found herself facing a daunting question: could she balance the career she’d worked so hard to build with the life she dreamed of creating at home? Would becoming a parent mean sacrificing her professional goals, or could she find a way to thrive in both worlds? In this special episode of Everyday Better, Leah brings her most pressing questions about balancing kids and career...
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Your 2025 Relationship Reset: How to Stop Fighting About Work With Dr. Alexandra Solomon

January 28, 2025 • 60 mins
The research is clear: how satisfied you feel at work impacts the quality of your relationships at home, and the quality of your relationships at home impacts the way you show up at work.  That’s why Dr. Alexandra Solomon wants you to think more deeply about the work-related arguments you have with your partner. Are you really fighting about how many hours you or your partner work, or are you feeling shortchanged for quality time? ...
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Your 2025 Work Reset: Redefine Your Relationship to Work With Writer Jennifer Romolini

January 21, 2025 • 43 mins
What does 'success' mean to you? Jennifer Romolini is a writer, author and podcaster. Her second book is ‘Ambition Monster,’ a memoir about the connection between workaholism and childhood trauma. In it, she traces the evolution of her voracious ambition and reckons with the price she paid to obtain career success. On this week’s episode of Everyday Better, Jennifer joins Leah to discuss how her relationship to work has evolved sin...
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Your 2025 Physical Reset: Setting the Record Straight on Sleep With Dr. Rebecca Robbins

January 14, 2025 • 47 mins
Everyday Better is kicking off 2025 with a month’s worth of conversations designed to help you reset for the year ahead. Each week, you’ll learn about research-backed techniques to improve your mental, physical, work and relational well-being. No matter what your goals are this year, our 2025 Reset Series will equip you with the tools you need to make measurable, lasting changes in your life. In our productivity-obsessed world, get...
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Your 2025 Mental Reset: How to Conquer Stress and Burnout With Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

January 7, 2025 • 45 mins
Happy New Year! To kick off 2025, Everyday Better is bringing you a month’s worth of conversations designed to help you reset for the year ahead. Each week, you’ll learn about research-backed techniques to improve your mental, physical, work and relational well-being. No matter what your goals are this year, our 2025 Reset Series will equip you with the tools you need to make measurable, lasting change in your life. Today’s guest i...
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Hygge: Conscious Coziness as a Survival Strategy

December 31, 2024 • 34 mins
Meik Wiking is the founder and CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen. He’s also the author of several books including The Little Book of Hygge and My Hygge Home.  On this week’s episode of Everyday Better, Meik joins Leah to discuss ‘hygge’ – a Danish word that loosely translates to “coziness.” Meik shares how he and other Danes prepare for winter each year by creating ultra-cozy indoor environments to support well-...
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Wintering: How to Weather Difficult Times

December 24, 2024 • 44 mins
Each winter, life slows down. It’s dark and cold, yet the season offers an opportunity for rest. This week’s episode of Everyday Better honors the beginning of winter with Katherine May, author of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times. In Wintering, Katherine shares the story of navigating a personal ‘winter’ – a challenging period of time during which she retreated into herself in order to cope with everythin...
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Thinking About Going to Therapy? Start Here.

December 17, 2024 • 27 mins
Andrew Adams, co-founder and CEO of Headway, is making access to therapy easier. Headway is a mental health care marketplace that matches patients with providers who accept insurance. Earlier this year, Headway was named a LinkedIn top 50 startup. On this week’s episode of Everyday Better, Andrew joins Leah to discuss the barriers to accessing mental health care. He shares his experience with finding a therapist and going to therap...
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Why Cooperation Is Key to Humanity’s Survival With Psychologist Athena Aktipis

December 10, 2024 • 42 mins
Athena Aktipis is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University and co-Director of The Human Generosity Project. She studies how people work together, especially during crises, through the lenses of evolutionary biology and psychology. Her latest book, “A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times”, digs into the history and science of cooperation. On this week’s episode of Everyday Bette...
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