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Hosted by Pippa Woodhead · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 34 episodes
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If you often think things like: 'am I good enough?', 'I'm not ready yet', 'what if I do it wrong?', welcome to Doubt Diaries. A podcast about self-doubt and the people you'd never expect to have it. Host Pippa Woodhead has 2,000+ interviews behind her with CEOs, Olympians and Ivy League psychologists. The surprise: most of the experts told her self-doubt can actually be good for us. As Harvard's Dr Ellen Langer put it: 'If you don't have doubt, you're mindless.' Past guests include Wim Hof, Tim Shriver, Nir Eyal, Aisha Bowe, and Dr Ellen Langer. Archive available now. New episodes summer 2026.
Pippa Woodhead hosts Doubt Diaries, a education show with 34 episodes published.
Dr Ellen Langer has spent over forty years at Harvard reshaping how we think about thinking. She is the longest-serving professor of psychology there and was the first woman ever tenured in the department. Her research h
Lindsey Jacobellis is the most decorated female snowboarder of all time - two Olympic golds, six world championships, thirty-one World Cup gold medals. She is also the woman who, aged twenty, on live television, made a s
Chase Hughes spent twenty years training CIA operatives in persuasion and lie detection. He is now widely described as the world’s number one expert on body language and behaviour, hosts YouTube’s The Behaviour Panel, an
Astrid Tuminez is the first ever female President of Utah Valley University. She grew up in a slum in the Philippines and on her first day of school couldn’t spell her own name. By the end of the year she was top of the
Herminia Ibarra is Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School and has held tenured positions at INSEAD and Harvard. She has been named one of the most influential business thinkers in the world, and h
Dr Lisa Orbé-Austin earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology from Columbia and has spent her career researching imposter syndrome and how to dismantle it. She has been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America and
Wim Hof - known globally as The Iceman - holds twenty-six world records for what he can do in extreme cold. He has run a half marathon above the Arctic Circle barefoot. He has scaled Mount Everest in shorts. He arrived a
Dr Caroline Leaf is a cognitive neuroscientist with three decades of research on the mind-brain connection. She is the author of Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess and other bestsellers, and has been featured in Vogue, Forbes
Amy Morin is a psychotherapist and the bestselling author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, which has sold over a million copies in more than forty languages. Her TEDx talk has been viewed twenty-three millio
Amy Edmondson is Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School and is the originator of the concept of ‘psychological safety,’ which has now become a central tenet of modern management thinking. She has been named t
Lesley Paterson is a five-time World Champion professional triathlete and the Oscar-winning co-screenwriter of All Quiet on the Western Front. For sixteen years she used her triathlon prize money to renew the option on a
Aisha Bowe’s high school guidance counsellor told her she wouldn’t amount to much, and maybe she could try cosmetology. She didn’t apply to college. Five years later she was interning at NASA, and a few years after that
Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is Professor of Business Psychology at both University College London and Columbia University. He is the author of Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders. His ideas have changed my mind
Julia Stewart’s story is one of the best I’ve ever heard. As she puts it: ‘You don’t borrow $2.7 billion for revenge, but…’ Julia is the former President of Applebee’s, the former CEO of IHOP, and when IHOP acquired Appl
Ken Honda is known as Japan’s ‘Zen Millionaire.’ His books have sold almost nine million copies across more than two hundred titles. He still tells me he feels shy in interviews and that his tendency is to stay small. We
Ash Bhardwaj is a travel writer, journalist, broadcaster and author. We talk about why going somewhere new might make you braver back home, and what travelling alone does to your relationship with self-doubt. Originally
Kute Blackson is a transformational teacher, author and speaker. We talk about how our beliefs shape our reality - and what it takes to swap one belief for another. Originally released in 2024 when this podcast was calle
Cindy Gallop is the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn and a former Chairman of advertising agency BBH in New York. She is a globally known TED speaker and one of the most genuinely fearless people I have ever interviewed. There
Paul Dupuis is the Japan Chairman and CEO of Randstad. He arrived in Osaka aged twenty-two with a red backpack, slept on a park bench his first night, and is, thirty-three years later, running one of Japan’s biggest staf
Shellye Archambeau decided in high school that she would become a CEO. Decades later she became one of Silicon Valley’s first ever Black female CEOs. She built her career on the simple principle that you improve your odd
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