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Gwyneth Paltrow x Cameron Diaz: Honoring Your Instincts

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“The last eight years I shifted into another gear,” says Cameron Diaz. “I went in and did some really deep, personal healing.” In this convers...

Repairing an Imperfect Mother-Daughter Relationship

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kelly McDaniel is a licensed professional counselor and the author of Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance...

Drawing Power from Your Shadow

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode, psychotherapists and collaborators Barry Michels (New York Times–bestselling coauthor of The Tools) and Kristan Sargeant g...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Ali Wentworth: The Humor Currency

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

GP catches up with her good friend, actress and author Ali Wentworth. They chat about their daughters (they're best friends), and GP asks Wentworth fo...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Alok Vaid-Menon: Finding Your Inner Freedom

26 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alok Vaid-Menon is a writer, performer, public speaker, and the author of Beyond the Gender Binary, which examines gender fluidity and why the binary...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Fanny Singer: The Beauty that Connects Us

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

GP is joined by a new friend, author Fanny Singer, for a special conversation (originally hosted by Book Passage) about Singer's book Always Home. T...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Edwina von Gal: The Future of Our Landscapes

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Edwina von Gal is a landscape designer and the founder of the Perfect Earth Project and Two Thirds for the Birds, two nonprofits raising awareness ...

The Healing Potential Within Our Bodies

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kimberly Johnson is a trauma educator, somatic guide, and the author of Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It For Go...

Is Representation Enough to Feel Seen?

29 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“For me growing up, the dark skinned women who had a spotlight or were celebrated had to be exceedingly, almost super humanely beautiful,” says cu...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Saundra Dalton-Smith: Which of the 7 Types of Rest Do You Need?

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Sacred Rest, Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD, proposes the idea that there are seven different types of rest. Dalton-Smith says that sometimes the reason...

When We Listen to Our Anxiety

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“We're really indoctrinated with the idea that mental health issues are this genetically determined chemical imbalance,” says holistic psychiatris...

Navigating Attachment Styles in Nonmonogamous Relationships

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“So often I see women come into nonmonogamy better equipped to have difficult conversations,” says Jessica Fern, author of Polysecure: Attachmen...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Billy Porter: Claiming Your Story

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

GP is joined by award-winning actor, singer, director, composer, and playwright Billy Porter. In this intimate and vulnerable conversation, Porter tel...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Kathleen Nadeau: Understanding Women and Girls with ADHD

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kathleen Nadeau is a clinical psychologist and the founder and director of the Chesapeake Center for ADHD Learning and Behavioral Health in Maryland. ...

The Power of Surrendering

15 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Erica Chidi is joined by spiritual teacher and #1 New York Times–bestselling author Gabby Bernstein. Bernstein’s new book, Happy Days, explores ...

Reimagining Our Communities

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Patrisse Cullors is an artist, abolitionist, author, and former executive director of Black Lives Matter Global Network, the movement she cofounded in...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Valerie Kanter: The Next Level of Oral Health

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Valerie Kanter, DMD, MS, is a third-generation dentist and a board-certified endodontist who specializes in biological and integrative dentistry. She ...

What Roe v. Wade Means for All of Us

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Khiara Bridges is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law where she studies the intersection of race, class, and reproduc...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Michael Rubino: A New Approach to the Mold Issue

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Rubino is a mold remediator known for the unique way he helps people identify and remove mold from their homes. His book, The Mold Medic, exp...

Elevating Your Baseline Health

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Robin Berzin, MD, is the founder and CEO of the functional medicine practice Parsley Health and the author of State Change. In her book, Berzin map...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Amy Crawford: Restoring Trust with Yourself

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“We all have different parts of us that show up differently as we orient through our life,” says Amy Crawford, a therapist, educator, and trauma r...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Stanley Tucci: For the Love of Food

28 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“The more universal you try to make something, the less meaning it has,” says Stanley Tucci. “The more specific something is, the more universa...

The Bonds That Break and Make Us

21 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“There's no real guidance about being intentional with identifying and processing our emotions because in a lot of cases, our parents don't know how...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Matthew Walker: How to Sleep Better

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“We have a societal image problem with sleep,” says scientist Matthew Walker, PhD. GP sat down with Walker at our In goop Health wellness summit t...

A New Paradigm for Love

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sara Nasserzadeh, PhD, is a social psychologist who sees both couples and individuals in her Los Angeles-based practice. She joins Erica Chidi to talk...

Getting Untamed with Glennon Doyle

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“I don’t think that anybody needs to get braver or better,” says Glennon Doyle. “I think we all just have to see who we actually are so that w...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Jay Shetty: Becoming the Next Iteration of Yourself

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“The relationship you have with yourself will always be the best relationship you could ever have in the world,” says Jay Shetty. The purpose coac...

How Do We Play as Adults?

16 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Intimacy coach Amina Peterson (one of the featured experts on our Netflix show Sex, Love & goop) wants us to acknowledge that sex is how we play as a...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Darshana Avila: Why Do We Diminish Our Sexual Selves?

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Darshana Avila—one of the featured experts in our new Netflix show, Sex, Love & goop—describes herself as an erotic wholeness coach. She believes ...

Nice Racism

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robin DiAngelo is a lecturer on issues of racial and social justice and the bestselling author of White Fragility. In her most recent book, Nice Rac...

Why Happiness Isn’t in Your Head

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Samantha Boardman is a psychiatrist who focuses on optimism, building resilience, and mental well-being. Her new book, Everyday Vitality, explores h...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Jaiya: What’s Your Erotic Blueprint?

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“Every cell in our body is wired for pleasure,” says somatic sexologist and educator Jaiya. “And I believe pleasure is our birthright and it’...

Making Peace with Yourself

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“Healing is like my middle name,” says Alexandra Elle, author of After the Rain: Gentle Reminders of Healing, Courage, and Self-Care. Elle joins ...

What Does Mothering Look Like?

05 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“We all share the universal experience of having been born,” says design historian Amber Winick and co-author of Designing Motherhood: Things Tha...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Erica Chidi: Skin-to-Skin Contact, Internal Family Systems, and Other Things We’re Into

28 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

They’re back: GP catches up with Erica Chidi, CEO and cofounder of LOOM and cohost of The goop Podcast. They reflect on some big takeaways they’ve...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Ella Bell Smith and Stella Nkomo: Race and Gender in the Workplace

21 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

GP is joined by Ella Bell Smith and Stella Nkomo, coauthors of Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. B...

Adopting a Soft-Belly Breathing Practice

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

James Gordon is a psychiatrist, the founder and director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, and author ofThe Transformation. He has a simple medita...

Esther Perel on Playing

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Erica Chidi is joined by sex expert and psychotherapist Esther Perel. They talk about Perel’s new game, Where Should We Begin, which is a deck of ca...

What We Learn from Girlhood

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“If I saw the vulnerability of other people, it almost canceled out the ways that they could be harmful to me,” says Melissa Febos, author of Gir...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Sophie Wiberg Holm: How to Understand—and Invest—in Cryptocurrency

24 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

GP is joined by entrepreneur and cryptocurrency expert Sophie Wiberg Holm (who has been tutoring GP for a bit). Holm is a co-founder at Address Capita...

Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Elinor Cleghorn is a writer, researcher, and author of the book, Unwell Women. Today, Cleghorn and cohost Erica Chidi explore the misdiagnosis and m...

Gwyneth Paltrow: Answers Your Questions

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a while. As requested, GP returns to do a lightning round of AMA, where she answers a handful of listener-submitted questions. How would t...

What Your Voice Says About You

03 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a lot of complexity that we tend to overlook about the power of our voice, says John Colapinto. Colapinto is a journalist and the author of ...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Alicia Keys: Allowing the Process to Unfold

27 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

GP catches up with Alicia Keys to talk about her relationships, motherhood as a multihyphenate artist, where creativity comes from, and how to respect...

How Do We Hold Grief and Joy at the Same Time?

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Alua Arthur is a death doula and the founder of Going with Grace, an end-of-life planning and death doula training organization. Arthur, who was previ...

Understanding Our Sexual Fantasies

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tracy Clark-Flory is a senior staff writer at Jezebel and author of Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey Into the Heart of Desire. Her book explores t...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Venus Williams: What Drives Us

06 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“What’s great about great players is their mind,” says Venus Williams. GP chatted with Williams, who was in Paris on the heels of the French ...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Bozoma Saint John: Your Singular Existence

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“I find it so confounding when leaders are uninterested in having their people’s experiences in the work—because how boring is that?” asks Boz...

Realizing Our Belonging

22 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cohost Erica Chidi is joined by Tara Brach, a clinical psychologist, spiritual meditation teacher, and author. Brach’s new book, Trusting the Gold:...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Taz Bhatia: Understanding Perimenopause and Menopause

15 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Taz Bhatia, MD, is a board-certified integrative medicine physician, author, and the founder of the functional medicine practice, CentreSpringMD. She ...

Is Our Data Equal?

08 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cohost Erica Chidi is joined by the coauthors of Data Feminism: Catherine D’Ignazio (an assistant professor of urban science and planning at MIT) ...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Emeran Mayer: The Gut-Immune Connection

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emeran Mayer, MD, PhD, is a gastroenterologist, a neuroscientist, and an author. At UCLA, he serves as the executive director of the G. Oppenheimer...

Why We Need to See Health at Every Size

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“Social inequity is probably the biggest driver of health,” says Lindo Bacon, PhD, author of Health at Every Size, Body Respect, and Radical ...

Should All Drugs Be Legal?

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Carl Hart, PhD, is the psychology department chair at Columbia University and the author of Drug Use for Grown-Ups. In his book, Hart makes the ca...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Edith Eger: Why You Can’t Heal What You Don’t Feel

11 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Psychologist and bestselling author Edith Eger’s book, The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life, explores the power of self-renewal and how to free y...

Using Astrology for Practical Action

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Astrology can be a practical tool, says Chani Nicholas, astrologer and author of You Were Born for This. “Most of our spiritual life is lived out t...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Erica Chidi: Who Puts the Care in Healthcare?

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

GP is joined by her friend Erica Chidi, CEO and cofounder of LOOM, and probably one of the first subscribers to goop back in 2008. They talk about the...

Getting Out of Your Head and Back Into Your Body

20 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“The cure for burnout is not self-care,” says Emily Nagoski. “It’s simply care. It’s all of us caring for each other. That means that when y...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Barry Michels: Prepare to Be Triggered

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“I don’t wake up and say, ‘I hope this is a great day, and I’m not going to get triggered,’” says psychotherapist Barry Michels, coauthor ...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Laura Dern: Connecting with Yourself

06 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

GP catches up with her longtime friend Laura Dern. They chat about being raised by double-artist parents and how their childhoods informed their act...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Gabrielle Union: Past and Future Selves

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Many of us romanticize our past selves, says actress, producer, and activist Gabrielle Union. “If you don't do an excavation of how you got to wher...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Martha Beck: What Does It Mean to Live in Integrity?

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

GP is joined by Harvard-trained sociologist and bestselling author Martha Beck. Beck’s new book, The Way of Integrity, explores what happens when w...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Cara Delevingne: Being a Recovering People-Pleaser 

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

GP catches up with model, actress, entrepreneur, and activist Cara Delevingne. They start with Delevingne’s experience working in a high-pressure in...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Adam Grant: Think Again

09 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“The smarter you are, often the worse you are at rethinking because you can use your intelligence to contort the truth into what you want to hear an...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Robin Wright: Honing Your Creative Vision

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

GP is joined today by an actress, producer, and director whose work she’s admired for many years, Robin Wright. Wright has just released her feature...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Will Cole: Intuitive Fasting

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

GP catches up with her friend and functional medicine practitioner Will Cole, DC. Cole is the author of the new book Intuitive Fasting: The Flexible ...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Ethan Kross: Harnessing Your Inner Voice

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“When something bad is happening, we tend to focus on that problem really narrowly,” says psychologist Ethan Kross. “But if you lose the abili...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Kristine Gedroic: How Do We Heal—and Prevent—Chronic Illness?

09 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“Sometimes the greatest strength comes from holding course when there aren’t answers, when there isn’t the best outcome around the corner,” sa...

Gwyneth Paltrow x John Chester: Living in Disharmony with Nature

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“There’s no such thing as a perfect harmony with nature,” says John Chester, the farmer and filmmaker behind The Biggest Little Farm. “There’...

Uncovering the Cost of Saving a Life

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“When you have someone in your life who is experiencing illness, especially as a young person, it can be so impossible to bear witness to that,” s...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Nina Vasan: How Do We Take Care of Our Mental Health?

19 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“When people ask me about the biggest issues in mental health, I say: Stigma is problems one, two, and three,” says psychiatrist Nina Vasan, MD...

Why It’s Normal to Dislike Exercise

12 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Lieberman is a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and the author of the new book Exercised: Why Something We Never...

Gwyneth Paltrow: Ask Me Anything

05 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’re kicking off 2021 with a different kind of episode. Today, instead of being joined by a guest, GP is doing a lightning round of AMA, where she ...

Does Time Equal Money?

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In Celeste Headlee’s book—Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving—she examines our fractured relationships to...

A Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

23 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Resmaa Menakem is a trauma specialist and the New York Times–bestselling author of My Grandmother’s Hands, which examines how racial trauma is d...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Otto Yang: COVID-19 Antibodies, Vaccines, and Cutting-Edge Research

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Otto Yang, MD, an infectious disease researcher at UCLA, is leading a global clinical trial on COVID-19 sponsored by the NIH. GP, who had COVID-19 in ...

Is Belief Overrated?

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“I didn’t want to just write about loss,” says religion scholar Elaine Pagels. “I wanted to write about coming back from it and finding you ca...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Pharrell Williams: Where Can an Open Mind Take You?

15 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

GP catches up with her friend Pharrell Williams and, no surprise, the multihyphenate artist has a lot of ground to cover. They talk about his parentin...

Systems of Silencing

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“They could have gone in one of two directions,” says author Lacy Crawford. “Either start asking real questions and listening for honest answers...

We’re Good at Capitalism. Can We Get Better at Love?

08 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mellody Hayes, MD, is an anesthesiologist, a healer, a spiritual teacher, and a powerful voice in the psychedelic movement. Though Hayes has worked in...

Normalizing the Need to Rest and Retreat

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In Katherine May’s newest book, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, she explores how we relate to the painful periods in ...

A Reason to Reveal Your Secrets

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

GP is joined by Ed Catmull, cofounder of Pixar, former president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, and author of the New York Times–bestselling boo...

Does Intimacy Count as Sex?

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Weinfurt, PhD, is the vice chair for research in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. His work ...

A Cultural Reckoning and a Vision of Restorative Justice

24 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“The Northern Cheyenne people have a saying: A nation is not defeated until the hearts of its women are on the ground,” says Lucy Rain Simpson, ex...

When Work Becomes Personal

19 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“The core of leadership should be care,” says psychiatrist Gianpiero Petriglieri, MD. “And then performance is a result of a system in which the...

How the Caste System Continues to Shape Our Lives

17 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Isabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning, number one New York Times–bestselling author. Her most recent book, Caste: The Origins of Our Dis...

How to Maximize the Power of Your Breath

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is James Nestor, journalist and author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, which explores the often overlooked and undervalued...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Abby Wambach: Leading from the Bench

10 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

GP is joined by two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup Champion, and New York Times–bestselling author Abby Wambach. Since retiring from h...

Jessica Yellin on the Election and Our Future

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The former CNN White House correspondent has become known as an independent news source and appreciated by followers for her cogent, insightful appro...

What Makes a Good Marriage?

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Eli Finkel, PhD, is a psychology professor at Northwestern University and the author of the fascinating book The All-or-Nothing Marriage, which explo...

Who’s Scared of an Angry Woman?

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist Rebecca Traister has written three books, including her most recent New York Times bestseller, Good and Mad, which explores how women’...

Group Therapy: What’s It Like to Share Your Secrets?

27 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Writer and attorney Christie Tate had big reservations when a therapist first suggested she pursue group therapy. The idea of voluntarily sharing her ...

Why Being Brave Means Letting Go of Being Nice 

22 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“Hope isn’t an optimism that one day it will be okay,” says Austin Channing Brown. “Hope is what we owe to one another as human beings.” Bro...

What Makes Us Vulnerable to Mind Control?

20 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“The work that I do helping people exit these groups, it isn’t about persuading them to leave,” says mental health counselor Steven Hassan. “I...

The Secret History of Religion

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Muraresku—author of The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name—spent twelve years entrenched in connecting the do...

Gwyneth Paltrow x Kate Hudson: Betting on Yourself

13 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

GP catches up with her friend Kate Hudson, and true to form, they cover a lot of ground. They talk about being girl moms, what it looks like to own yo...

The Beauty in Breaking

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“It’s the possibility of greater change that rejuvenates me,” says Michele Harper, MD. “That’s what makes it possible for me to keep going.”...

Survival on Stolen Land

06 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Author Toni Jensen joined us for the September edition of goop Book Club to talk about her first memoir, Carry, which traces her Métis roots, her ...

Starting and Ending a Marriage

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Wasser is a family law expert, a divorce attorney, and the founder of It’s Over Easy, a platform that provides tools to help families navigati...

Finding Light in Dark Places

29 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Sheff is a journalist and the author of the number one New York Times–bestselling book Beautiful Boy. Sheff joins us to talk about an inc...