The Stoic Question: Philosophy and Psychology
Episodes
The Rivalry of Athens and Sparta
25 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk to award-winning historian, and novelist, Dr. Adrian Goldsworthy. He is the author of numerous books on ancient history, espe...
How to Be a Happy Skeptic with Massimo Pigliucci
18 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I talk with Prof. Massimo Pigliucci about Stoicism, Cicero, and his forthcoming book How to be a (Happy) Skeptic.Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life...
Live: "How to do Stoic Therapy" - Conversations with Modern Stoicism
15 May 2026
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Hand Gestures for Self-Improvement
04 May 2026
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How can Stoicism Help Kids?
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Claudia Mills, an emerita professor of philosophy and award-winning author of more than sixty books for young readers. He...
What Marcus Aurelius Can Teach Us Coping with Stress
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Mark Forstater, the producer of over 30 films, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He is the author of a number o...
Stoicism and Anger Live
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you George Shay, Kasey Pierce, Louisa Swaden, Joanna Milne 🏺, Hippie Dippie ME!, and many others for tuning into my live video with Phil Yano...
Five Practical Ideas from Socrates
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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The Rescuer Trap: The Ethics of Love
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features guest hosts Dr. Scott Waltman and Kasey Pierce, authors of the forthcoming book The Rescuer Trap. While we take a short holiday...
The Rescuer Trap: The Skeptic's Guide to Autonomy
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features guest hosts Dr. Scott Waltman and Kasey Pierce, authors of the forthcoming book The Rescuer Trap. Is it a gut Instinct or gut I...
The Rescuer Trap: Broicism Just Might Work (Until it Doesn't)
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features guest hosts Dr. Scott Waltman and Kasey Pierce, authors of the forthcoming book The Rescuer Trap. Kasey asks Scott “Can the a...
The Rescuer Trap: Fate Willing, I'll Get Back to You
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features guest hosts Dr. Scott Waltman and Kasey Pierce, authors of the forthcoming book The Rescuer Trap. Scott and Kasey explore how p...
The Rescuer Trap: Treehouse of Sadness: Codependency and Depression
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features guest hosts Dr. Scott Waltman and Kasey Pierce, authors of the forthcoming book The Rescuer Trap. Kasey breaks the silence with...
The Rescuer Trap: Doormat or a Hand Grenade: When Rescuing Behavior Gets Overcorrected
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features guest hosts Dr. Scott Waltman and Kasey Pierce, authors of the forthcoming book The Rescuer Trap. It’s time to rejoin the pac...
The Rescuer Trap: Dating a Dream: The Rise of AI Dependency
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features guest hosts Dr. Scott Waltman and Kasey Pierce, authors of the forthcoming book The Rescuer Trap. In this Sci-not-so-Fi episode...
The Rescuer Trap: The Schema Trap featuring Dr. Jeff Perron
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features guest hosts Dr. Scott Waltman and Kasey Pierce, authors of the forthcoming book The Rescuer Trap. Dr. Jeff Perron joins us to e...
Video: Stoicism & Resilience
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you Beth Pagano, Ann Cronin, Kevin White, Marcos, BCz, and many others for tuning into my live video with Kyle Shepard! Join me for my next live...
The Rescuer Trap: We're Coming to Fix You, Barbara
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features guest hosts Dr. Scott Waltman and Kasey Pierce, authors of the forthcoming book The Rescuer Trap. Strangers get weird on Scott ...
Stoicism as a Warrior Philosophy
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Commander William C. Spears. William is a submarine warfare officer in the United States Navy, and author of the upcomin...
The Rescuer Trap: Country Fried Parentified
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features guest hosts Dr. Scott Waltman and Kasey Pierce, authors of the forthcoming book The Rescuer Trap. Scott serves up a heapin’ h...
The Rescuer Trap: Values Chameleons
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features guest hosts Dr. Scott Waltman and Kasey Pierce, authors of the forthcoming book The Rescuer Trap. Scott and Kasey discuss the t...
What to Expect When You're Dead
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, my guest is Robert Garland, a British classical philologist and historian who is the Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the ...
The Rescuer Trap: The Philosophy of Love and Relationships
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features guest hosts Dr. Scott Waltman and Kasey Pierce, authors of the forthcoming book The Rescuer Trap. Scott and Kasey discuss the f...
The Controversial History of Marcus Aurelius
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with father-son team Matthew and Matteo Storm, who host the Lost Roman Heroes podcast, a bi-weekly dive deep into the overlook...
Watch our Stoicism & Anger Video
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you Rageforthemachine, Angel, Kevin White, Billy Shebar, Paul Mulcahy, and many others for tuning into my live video with Caleb and Michael! Joi...
The Inner Fortress: Military Resilience and Stoic Philosophy
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, my guest is Carlos Garcia. Carlos is the Co-Founder and CEO of True Progress Lab, a coaching company that operates on the motto 'Get ...
A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Harry Sidebottom. Harry is a Lecturer in Ancient History at Lincoln College, Oxford. He is the bestselling author of fi...
Stoic Empathy – Compassion Without Burnout
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Shermin Kruse. Shermin is a globally recognized negotiation consultant, law professor at Northwestern University’s Prit...
Let’s Compare Marcus Aurelius to Modern Psychotherapy
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk with Raymond DiGiuseppe, Professor of Psychology at St. John’s University and Director of Professional Education at the Albe...
Meditation and Anger in Stoicism and Buddhism
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald speaks with Matthew Gindin, writer, editor, and former Buddhist monk. We talk about Buddhist teachings on anger and the parallels between Budd...
How to Control your Anger According to Seneca
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Charif Ahmed of Study the Greats and Become Greater, about the Stoic approach to anger management found in Seneca’s On ...
Watch us chat about the philosophy and psychology of anger
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you The Plato's Academy Centre, Adam PT, Diane Kalen-Sukra, EHL, VeneerOfCivility, and many others for tuning into my live video with Anya Leona...
REBT, Single Session Therapy, and Anger
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Windy Dryden. Windy is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths in the University of London. He ha...
Meditation: The View from Above
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to Jon Brooks for remastering my audio recording of the View from Above, a guided Stoic meditation exercise.Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Li...
Stoicism and The Moment that Defines your Life
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Chuck Garcia, the founder of Climb Leadership International. Chuck coaches executives of Fortune 500 companies on public ...
Stoicism, Coaching, and Leadership
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Erick Cloward. Erick is an executive coach, based in Amsterdam, who helps leaders build more resilient teams and make be...
Stoicism and Life Coaching
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Benny Voncken, a life coach, and the co-founder of the Via Stoica website and Podcast. He reached out to me saying he’d...
How can we Measure Wisdom?
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Igor Grossmann, a professor of psychology, and renowned researcher in the field of wisdom. Prof. Grossmann directs the W...
Book Launch: How to Think Like Socrates
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to our live How to Think Like Socrates book launch from 19th Nov. Phil Yanov was kind enough to send me this recording of the event.Stoicism: ...
Socrates, Stoicism, and Self-Improvement
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk with Kane, who hosts a podcast for Australian first responders. Kane interviewed me for his podcast and kindly agreed to allo...
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and Stoicism
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Walter Matweychuk. Dr. Matweychuk is a practicing psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of ...
The Saad Truth about Happiness
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Gad Saad. (Apologies for the room reverb on my mic!) Dr. Saad is a well-known public intellectual, champion of free...
Who was Marcus Aurelius?
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I’ll be reading a brief excerpt from my new biography, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor, which is available as an audiobook as we...
How Stoicism can Save Democracy
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This special episode contains a live recording of my recent talk for Conversations with Modern Stoicism, hosted by Phil Yanov. We were celebrating Ma...
The Stoic Mindset in Sports and Life
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Mark Tuitert. Mark is an Olympic gold medallist in speed skating. He is the author of a new book called The Stoic Mind...
Street Epistemology and the Socratic Method
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Anthony Magnabosco a founder and the current Executive Director of the nonprofit Street Epistemology International, an e...
The Plague of Marcus Aurelius
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Colin Elliott, Associate Chair in the Department of History at Indiana University. He describes himself as an economic...
Overview of "Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor"
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I read an exclusive excerpt from my latest book, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor, published by Yale University Press, as part of t...
Did Marcus Aurelius say Kindness is More Manly Than Anger?
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I briefly discuss what Marcus Aurelius said about masculinity, and how it might differ from what some modern self-improvement influen...
Areté: Philosophy and Coaching
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Brian Johnson, the Founder & CEO of Heroic Public Benefit Corporation. Brian is the author of a new book called Areté:...
Excerpt from "Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor"
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I read an exclusive excerpt from my latest book, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor, published by Yale University Press, as part of t...
Socrates and Love
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak about Socrates with Armand D'Angour, professor of classics at Oxford University. He is the translator of How to Innovate: An...
Clarity and Wisdom
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak about Clarity and Wisdom with executive coach, Jim Vaselopulos. Jim is co-host of The Leadership Podcast. We discuss his new...
Stoicism and Buddhism
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak about Stoicism and Buddhism with Matthew Gindin. Matthew is a former Forest Monk in the Thai Buddhist tradition. He taught...
Design your Mind with Stoicism
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk to Ryan A. Bush, author of Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture and the forthcoming Become Who You Are: A New T...
Tips for Practical Stoicism in Everyday Life
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Elliot Chung, a student at Phillips Academy Andover, interviewed me recently for his new Philosophy for the Modern Mind podcast, and we decided to sha...
Stoic Philosophy and Alcoholism
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How to drink like a Roman emperor, if that emperor is Marcus Aurelius. In this episode I explore the relationship between Stoic philosophy and the Tw...
Stoicism and the Live and Let Live Movement
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk with Marc J. Victor, about Stoicism and politics. Marc is an attorney in the US, where he is a certified Criminal Law Special...
Plato of Athens, with Robin Waterfield
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk to Robin Waterfield about the life and philosophy of the Greek philosopher, Plato. Robin is a British classicist who has trans...
Stoicism and Martial Arts with Michael Tremblay
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Donald talks with Michael Tremblay. Michael is the co-founder of the Stoa Meditation app and co-host of the Stoa Conversations podcas...
Philosophy as a Way of Life with Matthew Sharpe
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Donald talks with Matthew Sharpe. Matt is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University in Australia. He’s spoken at S...
What is Wisdom? with J.W. Bertolotti
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with J.W. Bertolotti host of the In Search of Wisdom podcast, and founder of the Perennial Leader Project. Josh was one of th...
The Choice of Hercules
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the famous speech, which we’re told inspired Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, to embark on a life of philosophy. He came across it in Book Tw...
Stoicism, Cognitive Therapy, and Resilience
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I answer questions about Stoicism, cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), and emotional-resilience from Valentin Lehodey, a digital jou...
Stoicism, Self-Help and Modern Psychology
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the audio of an interview I gave recently for Book Club with Kaiden Kelly, talking about How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, Verissimus, and St...
How Stoicism Cures Anger
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Donald discusses what Stoicism teaches us about anger and how it can actually help us in practice today.Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life is a rea...
The Great Discourse of Protagoras
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I discuss and recite one of the most important philosophical speeches in history — the Great Discourse or Great Speech of the Sophi...
Anya Leonard on Why Classics Matter Today
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Anya Leonard. Anya is the founder and director of Classical Wisdom, a website and online community dedicated to bringing...
Stoicism as a Philosophy of Life
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is my attempt to provide a short and simple introduction to Stoic practices, which anyone can begin using right away. It includes:* Brief introd...
Archeology: Marcus Aurelius and Carnuntum
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast episode contains the audio recording from a conversation about Marcus Aurelius, and the history of Roman Carnuntum. I spoke with Eduard ...
Alexandra Hudson on Classics and Civility
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Alexandra Hudson, writer, popular speaker, founder of Civic Renaissance, a publication and intellectual community dedicat...
Short Guided Relaxation Exercise
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NB: This episode contains a recording of a guided relaxation technique, which you should not listen to while driving. I created this recording for my...
Stoicism in a Time of Pandemic
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Re-reading a newspaper article that I wrote at the start of the pandemic about how Marcus Aurelius used Stoicism, in the Meditations, to cope with the...
Marcus Aurelius and Carnuntum
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast episode contains the audio recording from a conversation about Marcus Aurelius, which I had with Markus Wachter, the CEO of the Carnuntu...
Massimo Pigliucci on Socrates, Stoicism and Leadership
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Massimo Pigliucci, Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York, part of the team responsible for the Modern S...
Tim LeBon on Stoicism and Psychology
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Tim LeBon, cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist, research director for the Modern Stoicism organization, and author of ...
Podcast: Experimental Technique
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is an audio recording of me explaining, and demonstrating, how to use a very simple but powerful psychological technique, which I call imaginal a...
Interview: Kasey Pierce and 365 Ways to be More Stoic
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My wife, Kasey Robertson, writes under the pen name Kasey Pierce. I thought it would be pretty interesting to interview her about her writing. You c...
Death, Love, Stoicism
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a new audio recording of an article I published on Medium about the Stoic contemplation of death. The photo shows me outside the ruined Templ...
How to Actually Practice Stoicism
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
People keep asking me for advice about simple ways they can begin practicing Stoicism in daily life. This audio recording is based on my recent Mediu...