Fail Better with David Duchovny

A podcast by Lemonada Media - Tuesdays

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Society & Culture

57 Episodes

  1. The Grit and Grind of Steve Lukather

    Published: 4/15/2025

  2. Introducing: Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan

    Published: 4/11/2025

  3. EXCLUSIVE PEEK: Reflections on Alec Baldwin, Kenya Barris, and more

    Published: 4/8/2025

  4. Graydon Carter and The Editor’s Eye

    Published: 4/1/2025

  5. 25 Years Later and Bree Sharp Is Still Asking Why Won’t I Love Her

    Published: 3/25/2025

  6. Failure Matters with Jaleel White

    Published: 3/18/2025

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

    Published: 3/11/2025

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

    Published: 3/4/2025

  9. Failure-ish with Kenya Barris

    Published: 2/25/2025

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

    Published: 2/18/2025

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

    Published: 2/11/2025

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

    Published: 2/4/2025

  13. The Humor of Being Human with Costica Bradatan

    Published: 1/28/2025

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

    Published: 1/21/2025

  15. The Buoyancy of Rob Lowe

    Published: 1/14/2025

  16. Gretchen Rubin Wants to Make You Happy/ish

    Published: 1/7/2025

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

    Published: 12/31/2024

  18. Introducing: Boneheads

    Published: 12/24/2024

  19. Alec Baldwin Might Need to Write Another Memoir

    Published: 12/17/2024

  20. Dr. Vivek Murthy Wants to Help Us Heal

    Published: 12/10/2024

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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.