ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Simplify is a podcast for anyone who’s taken a look at their habits, their happiness, their relationships, or their health and thought, “There’s got to be a better way to do this.” Join Caitlin Schiller and Ben Schuman-Stoler for conversations with authors and thinkers you know—and some you might not, yet—that sit at the intersection of reading, thinking, and daily life.
Simplify is now independently owned by Caitlin Schiller and Ben Schuman-Stoler.
Simplify is now independently owned by Caitlin Schiller and Ben Schuman-Stoler.
Update frequency:
every 11 days
Average audio length:
35 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
123 episodes
since July 5, 2017
episodic
explicit content
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~49.70% of listeners are from United States.
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US
49.70%
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UA
14.82%
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RU
12.79%
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DE
4.06%
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AU
1.74%
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GB
1.45%
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PH
1.16%
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FR
1.16%
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CA
1.16%
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BY
0.87%
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MX
0.87%
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KG
0.87%
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ZA
0.87%
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SG
0.87%
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KZ
0.58%
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HK
0.58%
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PT
0.58%
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RS
0.58%
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UZ
0.58%
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SE
0.58%
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NL
0.29%
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EE
0.29%
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TR
0.29%
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FI
0.29%
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AR
0.29%
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XX
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ID
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JP
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BR
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IN
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0.29%
Others
0.07%
* Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. real-time
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
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This time around, Ben takes the interview chair. He's talking with Joanna Walsh, writer, artist, arts activist, author of twelve books, several of them co-written with AIs she coded herself (badly and on purpose <3). Her ne…
What if almost everything you're doing to "optimize" your health is, at best, doing nothing at all?
Caitlin sits down with Dr. Nicola Guess—dietitian, Oxford nutrition scientist, and quite possibly the best BS detector in the wellness space. She studies blood sugar and diabetes for a living and dis…
AI replacing our colleagues, feeling lonelier than ever despite enforced physical presense at the office. What is going on with the workplace?
Caitlin sits down with Christine Armstrong, researcher, author, and founder of Armstrong & Partners, who has spent years doing something refreshingly un…
Diets fail us all the time, and yet we usually blame ourselves. This physician says that neither the blame nor the failure are necessary.
In the episode, Caitlin sits down with Dr. Yoni Freedhoff—Canadian physician, obesity expert, and one of the first doctors in his country board-certified in obes…
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