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Podcast recommendations to get you ready for the new year

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👉🏽Ilana Nevins (she/her)

Why this theme?

👉🏽 The end of the year is a time of reflection and — sometimes — goal-setting. To make the start of a new year feel less overwhelming, it can be helpful to focus on a few small ways to approach the next one with intentionality.

One of the ways to do that can be through adding in some science-backed, mental health-focused, or inspiring conversations to get into a good mindset.

Podcast Picks

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Make sure you have a clear to-do list with practical action items to get you ready for 2025. This episode of Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain is packed with advice on strategies to improve your gut health.

The hosts cover everything to help you understand the essential connection between gut and brain health.

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Breath work is a fantastic ritual to add to your routine. It can help you slow down and unwind, not only healing your mind, but also your body. This episode goes into breath work as a powerful tool for stress management, emotional processing, and trauma recovery.

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Looking back at your year, it’s possible you will find wins AND times of struggle. To empower yourself in facing next year’s challenges, listen to this episode from Live Happy Now.

It’s a reminder of the importance of resilience in recovering from setbacks, solving problems, and navigating relationships.

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We often hear about addictions, but less often do we hear about — or focus on — our unhealthy relationship with technology. If you want to learn how to tread on the thin line between empowerment and distraction, listen to this episode. It’s full of fresh perspectives.

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Depending on where you are in the world, you might not be getting enough vitamin D this time of year. This episode explores the benefits of vitamin D, and the best way to make sure you get enough of it — from sunlight to diet and supplements.

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đź’ŠOn Healing. Power. Growth., Blaire Baron shares her personal journey of dealing with chronic pain and other health issues, which led her to explore the connection between the brain and body.

đź’ŤNo Dating Till You're Married is a cross-cultural coming of age story, set between the nostalgia of the 90s and 2020s, following second-generation Indian-American, Aria Kohli.

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💖In Podcast The Newsletter, Lauren Passell recommended Our Ancestors Were Messy. She writes: “Nichole is a masterful storyteller, the way she pulls us through episode one (the love story of one of America's first Black power couples Drs. Anna and Percy Julian) is a bit like the hugely popular Normal Gossip.”

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Podcast news from Podnews

  • The master of ceremonies for the Podcast Hall of Fame 2025 has been announced. It’ll be John R Miles, the creator and host behind the Passion Struck Podcast.

  • “Are podcasts drifting towards over-saturation?” Not a view from the U.S., but instead, from Bhubaneswar in India, where “the streaming market seems to be saturated with the podcast content, and it looks like just a matter of time when this format will become redundant.”

  • How many podcasts still have the Chartable prefix in them? As of earlier this month, there were still 14,241 (not including shows hosted on Megaphone).

Spotlight

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Politics, technology, and the pursuit of happiness. Twice a week, Bradley Tusk, New York-based political strategist and venture investor, covers the collision between new ideas and the real world.

His operating thesis is that you can't understand tech today without understanding politics, too.