Author & former development exec at Comedy Central, Tara Schuster, joins Jameela this week to discuss surviving a neglectful childhood, the need to re-learn worthiness, the importance of owning and affirming your own experiences, learning to separate internal validation from external validation, gratitude practices, and learning the importance of stardust.

Author, podcaster, and former professional athlete Lewis Howes joins Jameela to discuss his mental health journey, why healing is such important work we all do, why men struggle with processing their feelings, his personal mental breakdown and how The School of Greatness was born from it, the priorities he has in a relationship, and more. 

Activist, model, and writer Yasmin Benoit joins Jameela this week to share her experience and work as an asexual and aromantic person.

Comedian, writer, and singer Rachel Bloom joins Jameela this week to discuss struggling with intrusive thoughts from an early age, learning about ADHD as an adult, going from a fear of “crazy” to embracing the term with her tv series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” processing grief during the pandemic, seeing mental health as bespoke rather than textbook, and more. 

Our favorite love, relationship, and sex therapist Shadeen Francis returns to answer your questions with Jameela.

Actress, LGBTQ+ advocate, and legend Laverne Cox joins Jameela this week to discuss her journey to who she is now, how spending time with trans women changed her mind on who she herself could be, the birth of #transisbeautiful, the problem with trans politics today, reaching across the aisle, the real problems facing Americans today, and more. 

Biochemist and author Jessie Inchauspe (Aka – the Glucose Goddess) joins Jameela to talk about the many ways glucose affects your body.

Author and podcast host Aubrey Gordon joins Jameela this week to discuss her new book “You Just Need To Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths About Fat People.

Author and podcaster Amanda Montell joins Jameela this week discuss all things cults. They cover what makes a cult vs. what makes something cult-ish, what to be on the look out for when assessing if something is a cult (or cult-ish), the dangers of large cults or the cult of one, the cultish qualities of the diet and wellness industries, and more. 

Stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger joins Jameela this week to discuss motherhood and raising a daughter her own way, where Iliza’s confidence comes from and how she keeps jealousy from getting her down, how women are pitted against each other by society, how feminism doesn’t mean loving every woman, what we lose by labelling people, and more. 

Happy almost new year! We are re-releasing a favorite episode of ours that we think will be encouraging as we all step into the new year. Author and expert in menstrual health Maisie Hill joins Jameela this week to discuss the different seasons of the menstrual cycle, how different bodies respond differently to hormones, why perimenopause is a space to process the expectations on people socialized as women, why we are so bad at diagnosing autism in women, and more. 

Happy holidays! We are re-releasing an episode we love and think will be encouraging to us all as we head into the holidays this weekend. Entrepreneur, host, and mental health advocate Poppy Jamie joins Jameela to discuss her new book – Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself From Anxiety.

Playwright, actor, poet, and filmmaker Sarah Jones joins Jameela this week to discuss her new film Sell/Buy/Date, which explores the many complicated layers within the sex industry. They discuss how the sex industry manifests the racism and inequalities of culture at large, the difference between legalization and decriminalization, who truly benefits within it, the ways the industry can be either empowering or dehumanizing, and more.

Sell/Buy/Date is streaming now!

Follow Sarah on Instagram and Twitter @yesimsarahjones

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Therapist and author Nedra Glover Tawwab joins Jameela to talk all things boundaries! They discuss why boundaries are so important, what setting healthy boundaries looks like, how to have boundaries with family over the holidays, why you don’t have to explain your boundaries, and more. Plus, they answer listener questions on boundaries worth ending friendships over, not expecting others to change, and how to set boundaries with parents.

Check out Nedra’s book – Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide To Reclaiming Yourself – wherever books are sold.

Follow Nedra Glover Tawwab on Instagram and Twitter @nedratawwab

You can find transcripts for this episode on the Earwolf website.

I Weigh has amazing merch – check it out at podswag.com

Jameela is on Instagram and Twitter @JameelaJamil

And make sure to check out I Weigh’s Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube for more!

Artist and activist Jesse Krimes joins Jameela to share his powerful story. He describes his experience being incarcerated, discusses how solitary confinement was used as a manipulation tactic, explains the ways that prison is both violent and human, shares the way the prisoners were manipulated, details the racism which pervades the system, and explores how art saved his life in more ways than one.

Check out Jesse Krimes’ documentary – ART & Krimes by Krimes – now streaming on Paramount+

Follow Jesse on Instagram and Twitter @jesse_krimes

You can find transcripts for this episode on the Earwolf website.

I Weigh has amazing merch – check it out at podswag.com

Jameela is on Instagram and Twitter @JameelaJamil

And make sure to check out I Weigh’s Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube for more!