How To Be Sad with Helen Russell
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
BONUS! How to Raise a Viking audiobook extract
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate the publication of How to Raise a Viking and as a special thank you to listeners of the podcast we are delighted to share this exclusive ...
Season 5 #5 Julia Samuel
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Samuel MBE is a psychotherapist, grief counsellor, and author of the bestsellers Griefworks, This Too Shall Pass. She was also one of my favouri...
Season 5 #4 Rosie Wilby
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rosie Wilby is a comedian, podcaster and author of The Breakup Monologues – about the unexpected joy of heartbreak and all we can learn from it. BBC...
Season 5 #3 Marcus Buckingham
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At a time when many of us are rethinking our work, searching for meaning and connection post pandemic, I wanted to speak to someone about the part wor...
Season 5 #2 Cally Beaton
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cally Beaton was working as a senior TV exec until she was 45, when the late great Joan Rivers told her she should try stand-up. So she did. Now a ...
Season 5 #1 Emma Kennedy
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today began performing at Oxford with Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. She trained as a solicitor before moving into writing, presenting, act...
Season 5 Trailer: The Best of (So Far!)
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sadness happens to all of us, but in much of the world we don’t know how to handle it. Let alone talk about it. Having spent 10 years researching in...
Season 4 #7 Whitney Goodman
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Whitney Goodman is the radically honest psychotherapist behind the hugely popular Instagram account @sitwithwhit and the author of Toxic Positivity –...
Season 4 #6 Laura Friedman Williams
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today met her husband when she was 19. Three kids and 27 years later, he fell in love with another woman. For several months after finding ou...
Season 4 #5 Tova Leigh
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tova Leigh is a writer and performer with a global community of 1.6m fans worldwide. Born in Israel, where she practised as a lawyer, Tova moved to th...
Season 4 #4 Mark Rice-Oxley
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the outside, life looked great for Mark Rice-Oxley - an editor on a national newspaper – The Guardian - with a happy marriage and three childre...
BONUS! Helen Russell on The Happiness Lab Podcast
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special, bonus episode where the tables are turned and I’m the one interviewed by none other than Laurie Santos, Yale professor and host o...
Season 4 #3 Jo Piazza and Christine Pride
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My guests today are Jo Piazza and Christine Pride. Jo is a bestselling journalist and author, Christine is her esteemed editor and a publishing vetera...
Season 4 #2 Mitch Albom
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Mitch Albom - American author, journalist, and musician - whose books have sold 40 million copies worldwide. Having achieved nationa...
Season 4 #1 Emily Dean
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When writer, radio presenter and podcaster Emily Dean lost her sister to cancer, her world caved in. Within three years, both her parents had died to...
Season 3 #8 Kate Bowler
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Bowler is a NYT bestselling author; history professor; and ‘an incurable optimist’. Host of the podcast Everything Happens, her TED talk has ...
Season 3 #7 Joshua Becker
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Joshua Becker – author, philanthropist, pastor and minimalist. After a personal epiphany, Becker found that when he began ownin...
BONUS! How to be Sad audiobook extract
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate the publication of How to be Sad in America and as a special thank you to listeners of the podcast we are delighted to share this exclusi...
Season 3 #6 Nathaniel Herr
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nathaniel Herr is a Professor of Psychology at American University in Washington DC, and an expert in ‘emotional regulation’ – something we shou...
Season 3 #5 Dr Julie Smith
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest has 2.8M Followers on TikTok, 420 thousand on Instagram and 30.5M Likes but she’s not your typical social media influencer. Dr Julie...
Season 3 #4 Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“We all learn the value of rest the hard way,” says today’s guest - a former Silicon Valley tech consultant, visiting scholar at Stanford, and a...
Season 3 #3 Ingrid Fetell Lee
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us these days are getting the memo that a meaningful, fulfilled life comes only from letting go of our attachments to worldly things, but my g...
Season 3 #2 Tracii Guns
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is something of a departure - how often do you hear a happiness researcher in conversation with a heavy metal icon? Not often enough, we ...
Season 3 #1 Dr Tal Ben Shahar
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Psychologist and New York Times Bestselling author Dr Tal Ben-Shahar taught the most popular course at Harvard on Positive Psychology – but he’s a...
Season 2 #10 Daisy Buchanan
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daisy Buchanan is an award-winning journalist, chart topping podcaster, author of How To Be A Grown Up, The Sisterhood and her latest, Insatiable. As ...
Season 2 #9 Rebecca Schiller
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and campaigner Rebecca Schiller moved her family to a rural smallholding in the hope of a simpler life. But she soon found that life wasn’t a...
Season 2 #8 Baz Ashmawy
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Baz Ashmawy is an Irish radio and television star whose series, 50 ways to kill your mammy, won him an Emmy. He’s also a podcaster, dad of six and a...
Season 2 #7 Matthew Ashton
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is the toy designer Matthew Ashton - Vice President of design at Lego; Executive Producer on the Lego Movies; head judge on Lego Master...
Season 2 #6 Sophie Walker
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Walker is a journalist, activist and former politician. She spent 20 years at Reuters and after a long and trying journey supporting her daught...
Season 2 #5 Jody Day
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jody Day is the founder of Gateway Women, the global support network for childless women - now celebrating its 10th Anniversary. Jody is also a psycho...
Season 2 #4 Xand van Tulleken
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Xand van Tulleken is a much-loved medic, broadcaster and someone with first hand experience of the impact of covid 19. In spring 2020 Xand contract...
Season 2 #3 Rosie Green
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rosie Green is an award winning journalist and columnist who’s spent 20 writing about beauty, fashion, spas and health - as well as interviewing and...
Season 2 #2 Mungi Ngomane and Reverend Nontombi Naomi Tutu
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we have our first mother daughter guests on the show. I’m honoured to be joined by Mungi Ngomane, human rights activist, the granddaughte...
Season 2 #1 Holly Tucker
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Holly Tucker MBE is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and UK Ambassador for Creative Small Businesses. She’s the founder of notonthehighstreet.com an...
BONUS! Steph Douglas of Don’t Buy Her Flowers
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Steph Douglas is a businesswoman, mother of three, wife of Doug, and founder of the thoughtful gift company she started after realising that sometimes...
#7 Yomi Adegoke
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yomi Adegoke is an award-winning journalist; columnist for Vogue and The Guardian; and bestselling author of Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible -...
#6 Helen Thorn
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Thorn is an award winning stand-up comedian, writer and podcaster – one-half of comedy double act Scummy Mummies and co-host of the UK’s num...
#5 Cathy Rentzenbrink
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cathy Rentzenbrink is a bestselling author, former editor at The Bookseller magazine and head of Quick Reads – short books to encourage adults who m...
#4 Mo Gawdat
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mo Gawdat of Solve For Happy is a tech entrepreneur, engineer, and former chief business officer for Google X - the “moonshot” factory tackling th...
BONUS! How to be Sad audiobook extract
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today is publication day for Helen’s new book How to be Sad. As a special thank you to listeners of the podcast we are delighted to share this exclu...
#3 Hollie McNish
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hollie McNish is a poet, writer and Ted Hughes Award-winning author of Nobody Told Me – a collection of poems and stories about raising a child in m...
#2 Meik Wiking
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meik Wiking is a Danish happiness researcher, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute, and author of the bestselling Little Book of Hygge. Meik is ...
#1 Ella Mills
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ella Mills of Deliciously Ella is a champion of plant-based living, an award-winning author, and an adept businesswoman. Here, Ella also opens up abo...
Trailer
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we cry? How come love hurts? And what’s a happiness researcher doing talking about sadness, anyway? Helen Russell is a journalist and happine...