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Everyday Better with Leah Smart

Everyday Better with Leah Smart

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 Everyday Better is your guide to creating positive change at work, at home, in your relationships, and beyond. Each week, Leah Smart, LinkedIn's Senior Editor and a certified coach specializing in self-improvement, shares inspiring conversations with trusted voices and curates research-backed strategies to help you navigate transitions, challenges, and uncertainties with clarity and intention. Because work and the rest of your life don’t exist in silos, and what happens in one always finds its way into the other. Discover fresh perspectives, get unstuck, and take small steps every day, toward the life you want. New episodes every Tuesday.Copyright 2024 All rights reserved. Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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  • Thanks, and Goodbye (for now!)

    Thanks, and Goodbye (for now!)
    Feb 10 2026
    Since 2019, Everyday Better has released nearly 300 episodes to guide you in creating positive change in how you think, feel and act in the important areas of your life: at home, at work, in relationships and beyond. LinkedIn's Senior Editor in self-improvement and certified coach, Leah Smart has explored how to make your life better through expert conversations and research-backed strategies, every week. Now, the show is pressing pause on new episodes of Everyday Better, while Leah refocuses her time on her growing family. But before we go on hiatus, we want to share a big thank-you to the community that has grown alongside the show. Stay connected to Leah through her Substack where she’ll be personally writing about the very same topics you’ve heard on this show. You can also follow her on LinkedIn for practical career tools and interviews with some of the most inspiring people in the professional world. Finally, check her out on Instagram for everyday moments with her growing family. Make sure to follow this feed for updates on how and when the show will come back. In the meantime, while Everyday Better is on hiatus, dive into the close to 300 episodes, full of inspiring conversations with trusted voices, and curated research-backed strategies to help you navigate transitions, challenges, and uncertainties with clarity and intention. Thank you for listening, for growing, and for being part of this community. This chapter of Everyday Better is closing, but the journey continues. See you soon!
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    3 mins
  • The Best of Everyday Better: Your Starter Kit for Creating Positive Change

    The Best of Everyday Better: Your Starter Kit for Creating Positive Change
    Feb 3 2026
    In this special curated episode, you’ll hear the most impactful conversations from eight years of Everyday Better. If you’re looking for a practical starting point for personal growth, this episode is your starter kit. You’ll explore how to get to know yourself better through tools like the Enneagram and astrology, how to discover your purpose and passion, how to use breathwork and mental skills training to regulate stress, how to deepen your friendships and relationships, and through these practices, make meaningful change in your own life and your own corner of the world. Whenever you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or in transition, this collection is a roadmap that brings together the essential ideas, practices, and insights that define Everyday Better. For more from Leah Smart while Everyday Better is on hiatus, follow her on Substack, LinkedIn and Instagram. And if you loved the snippets in this compilation, you can find the full episodes here (in order of appearance): Carole Hopson: Second Acts: How Captain Carole Hopson Found Her ‘One True Thing’ Dr. Jennifer Freed: Astrology + Psychology = A Map to Your Soul Beatrice Chestnut: The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up Dr. Michael Gervais: Rising Above Fear of Other People's Opinions JP Crimi: Can’t Meditate? Try This with JP Crimi Tal Ben-Shahar: Engineering A Happier Life Michelle Thaller: Exploring the Universe: NASA’s Michelle Thaller’s Guide to Everyday Awe Shasta Nelson:The Anatomy of Friendship Julie and John Gottman: Making a Relationship Last
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    59 mins
  • The Year for Irrational Hope: Dan Harris on Training the Mind Through Meditation

    The Year for Irrational Hope: Dan Harris on Training the Mind Through Meditation
    Jan 27 2026
    In the final episode of our January series, The Year for Irrational Hope, Leah Smart sits down with bestselling author and mindfulness teacher Dan Harris for a practical conversation about how to work with your mind when everything feels overwhelming. In this episode, you’ll learn how to recognize and loosen the grip of your inner critic, respond instead of react under stress, and build hope and resilience through simple, science-backed mindfulness practices. Whether you’re skeptical, overwhelmed, or just looking for tools that actually help, Dan breaks down meditation and mindfulness in a grounded, no-nonsense way, showing how mental training can help you feel calmer, more compassionate, and more in control, even amid uncertainty. Follow Dan Harris on LinkedIn and find his books 10% Happier here. For more from Leah Smart while Everyday Better goes on hiatus, follow her on Substack, LinkedIn and Instagram.
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    45 mins
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