ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Second Start combines personal stories of change with expert perspectives from psychology, health, and beyond, exploring new ways to understand ourselves and others, and to find the courage to change our minds. This podcast goes beyond surface-level self-help to explore, with nuance, the science, the stories, and the practices that can help people start again.
Update frequency:
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Average audio length:
27 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
7 episodes
since April 13, 2026
episodic
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Jean-Marc Dewaele is one of the world's leading researchers on language and emotion, and Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at Birkbeck, University of London. We talk about emotional resonance, foreign language anxiety, accents and belonging, raising a trilingual child, t…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In this fourth episode of Second Start, I sit down with Dr Reenee Singh, one of the leading international voices on intercultural couples and systemic psychotherapy.
The conversation touches me personally: I come from an intercultural couple, and I now live in one. But the themes we explore go far…
A solo episode exploring psilocybin through two different bodies of research: Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind (2018), which gathers a wide range of what was known at the time about psychedelic-assisted therapy, and a 2023 study by Jules Evans and colleagues on something the trials don't us…
In this first solo episode, I talk about a book: Perfect Pain / Perfect Shame: A Journey into Radical Presence, by the psychologist Jerry Duvinsky.
Drawing on the book, I am talking about what shame really is, how it seeds itself in childhood, through what is said and through what is not said and d…
In this first solo episode, I share a book that changed the way I think about shame: Perfect Pain / Perfect Shame: A Journey into Radical Presence, by the American psychologist Jerry Duvinsky. It is a book that almost nobody talks about, and that I found brilliant.
Drawing on the book, I am talking…
Amy went through addiction, an abusive relationship, and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, hearing voices in Cantonese telling her to end her life. After waking from a coma, she decided to live differently. A leaflet for Reiki in a mental health clinic opened a door. The work that followed…
A new podcast about the courage to change your mind.
Second Start is where personal stories of courage meet expert perspectives from psychology, health, and beyond.
Every episode is a real conversation, filmed in person in London, about what it really takes to understand ourselves and others, ask…
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