Fail Better with David Duchovny

A podcast by Lemonada Media - Tuesdays

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Society & Culture

51 Episodes

  1. Check it Out: “Use a Messy Closet, a 3-Hour Rule for Difficult People & Renowned Judy Blume on Reading”

    Published: 3/11/2025

  2. Peter Singer Wants to Save Animals… and Humans, Too

    Published: 3/4/2025

  3. Failure-ish with Kenya Barris

    Published: 2/25/2025

  4. Kara Swisher Is So Much More Than the World’s ‘Musk-splainer’

    Published: 2/18/2025

  5. Failure, Freedom, and ‘Friends’ with Maggie Wheeler

    Published: 2/11/2025

  6. EXCLUSIVE PEEK: Reflections on Gillian Anderson, Rosie O’Donnell, and more

    Published: 2/4/2025

  7. The Humor of Being Human with Costica Bradatan

    Published: 1/28/2025

  8. Looking Back: Mary Trump Knows We’re At a Crossroads

    Published: 1/21/2025

  9. The Buoyancy of Rob Lowe

    Published: 1/14/2025

  10. Gretchen Rubin Wants to Make You Happy/ish

    Published: 1/7/2025

  11. Looking Back: Ben Stiller and the Curse of the Sequel

    Published: 12/31/2024

  12. Introducing: Boneheads

    Published: 12/24/2024

  13. Alec Baldwin Might Need to Write Another Memoir

    Published: 12/17/2024

  14. Dr. Vivek Murthy Wants to Help Us Heal

    Published: 12/10/2024

  15. Socialism, Anarchy, and Pixar Movies with Jack Halberstam

    Published: 12/3/2024

  16. Introducing: Pack One Bag

    Published: 11/26/2024

  17. Aimee Mann Is In My Pantheon

    Published: 11/19/2024

  18. Catching Up with Gillian Anderson

    Published: 11/12/2024

  19. Introducing: My So-Called Midlife with Reshma Saujani

    Published: 11/5/2024

  20. Jia Tolentino Battles The Internet

    Published: 10/29/2024

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To be human is to fail – period. And not just to fail once, but to fail a lot. As the author Samuel Beckett said: “Fail again. Fail better.” This saying means a lot to me and my family – so much so that my daughter got a tattoo of it. Why are we, and so many others, so deeply concerned by failure? And if it’s something we all do so often, why are we so afraid of it – especially those of us here in win-at-all-costs America? In this podcast, I sit down with successful, thoughtful people like Ben Stiller, Bette Midler, Sean Penn and more to talk about failure – or what they labeled “failure,” but what was really an unparalleled opportunity for growth and revelation. I even want to delve into my own hardest moments, when I wrestled with setbacks, shame, and fear. We’ll still fail again. And again. But maybe if we fail better, we’ll feel better -- and maybe if we can all laugh together in failure, that's a start.