Psychology and self-help

Looking for answers or just needing not to feel alone, facing your own fears? The audio world might offer some help.

Wildly popular researcher, author and

TED Talk speaker Brené Brown launched a podcast called Unlocking Us. The show features insights from Brown’s work on shame, vulnerability, courage and empathy. Underpinned by decades of research and brought alive by personal anecdotes, Brown uses storytelling to make space for vulnerable conversations.

Underpinning The Happiness Lab are insights from Dr Laurie Santos’s popular Yale course Psychology and the Good Life. In this podcast, Santos bridges the gap between research and applicable lessons for everyday life. This show combines narrative storytelling with interviews to create a podcast that goes beyond the typical two-way interview format.

Using innovative sound design, No Feeling is Final is an Australian memoir show about big feelings. Our host, the charming Honor Eastly, tells the story of her own struggle with mental health and it’s heavy territory, but told with tenderness and humour. This disarmingly vulnerable series explores why it’s so hard to ask for help.

Warning: This show discusses suicide.

With almost 300 episodes, Hidden Brain is a veteran public radio show that began as a Slate column by the same name. Using a question as the starting point for each episode, host Shankur Vedantam draws on science and storytelling to reveal the invisible patterns of human behaviour. The magic of this show is how it makes complex academic research accessible.