Simplify is a podcast for anyone who’s taken a look at their habits, their happiness, their relationships, or their health and thought, “There’s got to be a better way to do this.” Join Caitlin Schiller and Ben Schuman-Stoler for conversations with authors and thinkers you know—and some you might not, yet—that sit at the intersection of reading, thinking, and daily life.Simplify is now independently owned by Caitlin Schiller and Ben Schuman-Stoler.
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Contact path
Public web form
Booking probability
45%
Guest openness
Selective
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Signup to Generate a PitchSimplify is a podcast for anyone who’s taken a look at their habits, their happiness, their relationships, or their health and thought, “There’s got to be a better way to do this.” Join Caitlin Schiller and Ben Schuman-Stoler for conversations with authors and thinkers you know, and some you might not, yet, that sit at the intersection of reading, thinking,...
Recent episodes include "Deep Listening is a Scam with Julian Treasure" (26 October 2026, 52 minutes), "The Keys to Longevity - and Bryan Johnson's Diagnosis" (19 October 2026, 9 minutes), and "What You Need to Understand from Economics with Planet Money's Alex Mayyasi" (12 October 2026, 57 minutes).
Simplify publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 37 minutes across 123 episodes.
Booking probability for Simplify is 45%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Simplify requires a Pod Score of 82 or higher. Simplify's contact route on record: public web form.
Simplify is an education podcast with 123 episodes published.
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Episode #124
We live in an increasingly noisy world, yet most of us spend almost no time thinking about how sound shapes our thoughts, focus, and relationships. In this episode, world-renowned sound and listening expert Julian...
Episode #123
Do you want to live forever? Bryan Johnson - the gazillionaire tech entrepreneur who started the "don't die" movement - created headlines (and some schadenfreude giggles) when he announced he was diagnosed with...
Episode #122
If you’ve ever listened to NPR’s Planet Money , you know the vibe: They take dense, eye-glazing economic theories and turn them into cinematic, human-driven stories. Whether following a t-shirt across the global supply...
Episode #121
What do you do when you're not feeling creative? What do people like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jenny Slate, and James Acaster do? In this third installment of our new a/v format - EXTRA - Caitlin drives. Sparked by a supercut...
Episode #120
What does a five-year-old boy learn from the word "buddy"? When Ruth Whippman started shopping around a book about boys in 2021, publishers mostly shrugged—boys, surely, have it great. Ruth, a British journalist, former...
Episode #119
Why do commencement speeches suck so often? That's easy. They suck when the speaker is out of touch with their audience - new graduates. That's why legendary ones like from David Foster Wallace and George Saunders and...
Episode #118
When did "I resolve to be a better person" get replaced with "I resolve to tone my arms" in the register of resolutions? For a long time, philosophy treated caring about how you look as proof you weren't serious...
Episode #117
What if the fastest way out of the beauty standard is deciding you're a horse? This is the first of a new thing. On the weeks there's no interview, Caitlin and Ben take turns bringing each other one idea they found out...
Episode #116
What did you make on the internet, back before anyone was paying you to? This time around, Ben takes the interview chair. He's talking with Joanna Walsh, writer, artist, arts activist, author of twelve books, several of...
Episode #115
What if almost everything you're doing to "optimize" your health is, at best, doing nothing at all? Caitlin sits down with Dr. Nicola Guess —dietitian, Oxford nutrition scientist, and quite possibly the best BS detector...
Episode #113
AI replacing our colleagues, feeling lonelier than ever despite enforced physical presense at the office. What is going on with the workplace? Caitlin sits down with Christine Armstrong, researcher, author, and founder...
Episode #112
Diets fail us all the time, and yet we usually blame ourselves. This physician says that neither the blame nor the failure are necessary. In the episode, Caitlin sits down with Dr. Yoni Freedhoff—Canadian physician...
Episode #111
10,000 downloads a month. 11 episodes. 6 months of independence. Caitlin and Ben sit down for a bonus episode to talk about where Simplify has been and where it's going. They bought the show back from Blinkist at the...
Recent guests on Simplify. Study who booked and why before you pitch.
sound and communication expert, award-winning author, five-time TED speaker, The Listening Society
Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
speaker at Mac Nutrition Live Conference, University of Oxford
seasonsed marketer and acclaimed academic, Armstrong and Partners
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