83 Episodes

  1. Listen Now: Alive with Steve Burns

    Published: 10/14/2025

  2. No Scars, No Stories with Charlie Sheen (Live at 92NY)

    Published: 10/7/2025

  3. Looking Back: Gretchen Rubin Wants to Make You Happy/ish

    Published: 9/30/2025

  4. How Steve Burns Found His Aliveness Again

    Published: 9/23/2025

  5. Tom Pelphrey Wouldn’t Change a Day

    Published: 9/16/2025

  6. Gene Simmons: The Demon Loves His Mom

    Published: 9/9/2025

  7. Check It Out: Building a Legacy with Tisha Campbell (Legacy Talk)

    Published: 9/2/2025

  8. Amanda Knox’s Story Isn’t Over

    Published: 8/26/2025

  9. The Pitfalls of Manhood with Terry Real

    Published: 8/19/2025

  10. An Hour with Melissa Febos About a Year Without Sex

    Published: 8/12/2025

  11. Jess Walter Can Hoop (and Write)

    Published: 8/5/2025

  12. Tim Minchin’s Infinite Universes

    Published: 7/29/2025

  13. The Family Business with Robert Downey Jr.

    Published: 7/22/2025

  14. What Jake Clark Wants You To Know About Trauma

    Published: 7/15/2025

  15. A Forensic Analysis with Emily Deschanel

    Published: 7/8/2025

  16. Check It Out: The Disappearance of Eric Robinson (Uinta Triangle)

    Published: 7/1/2025

  17. Truth and Lies with James Frey

    Published: 6/24/2025

  18. From “Junkie Doctor” to Addiction Specialist with Dr. Jason Giles

    Published: 6/17/2025

  19. AI Should Fear Justine Bateman

    Published: 6/10/2025

  20. Chris Carter Wants You To Believe

    Published: 6/3/2025

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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.