The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

Why going to a concert or museum, taking up painting or dancing, joining a book group, or going to the movies is a big boost to your health.

Historian Colin Woodard joins us to discuss how our regional differences have pulled us apart and how we can create a more perfect union.

We explore how the pursuit of happiness has evolved in America with constitutional law scholar Jeffrey Rosen and cognitive scientist Laurie Santos.

Nir Eyal on how our assumptions drive our behavior.

In her new book, For Better and Worse, historian Stephanie Coontz digs into thousands of years of marital history to help explain how the tradition has evolved.

Ferrer’s story about how her family was torn apart by the Cuban revolution, their migration to the United States, and the brother they left behind.

Mural Arts' Jane Golden is retiring after four decades and 4000 plus murals. Marty talked with Golden about founding the celebrated program and about how art changes lives.

Diane Button is an end-of-life-doula. She has spent countless hours with people in their last days as they share their regrets, hopes, desires and dreams.

Stand-up Chris Duffy explores the power of humor to connect us with others and to help us weather tough times.

In a new book, Waiting for Dawn:Living with Uncertainty, author Marisa Renee Lee grapples with navigating life’s unstable and overwhelming moments. She writes about her own experience with grief throughout her life and her chronic illness of long Covid. Instead of forcing positivity and control, Lee says we should lean into the unknown, the stress and the loneliness during unforeseen dark ti...

Psychologist Michael Valdovinos felt the pain of moral injury when serving in Afghanistan. His book is Moral Injuries: When Good Conscience Suffers in a World of Hurt

Harry Levant was once addicted to gambling. He’s now a therapist who helps others struggling with problem-gambling. He talks about the growing public health crisis.

Harvard psychologist Ronald Siegel explains why so many of us believe we’re never good enough and why being “special” is overrated,

Social psychologists Gillian Sandstrom and Erica Boothby on why small moments of conversation with people we’ve never met make us happier and the world a kinder place.

Kinsey Institute director and sex researcher Justin Garcia on why the need for intimacy is vital for our wellbeing and has helped us survive as a species.

Clinical psychologist Ingrid Clayton used fawning as a coping strategy growing up in an abusive home. It helped her in those frightening moments but came at a terrible price.

Harvard business professor Leslie John says revealing the sometimes-ugly truth about ourselves can build trust and lead to more honest, meaningful relationships.

Psychoanalyst and advice columnist Lori Gottlieb and author Cathi Hanauer on divorce, breakups and separating without causing too much pain.

Anthony Klotz joins us to talk about his new book "Jolted: Why We Quit, When to Stay, and Why It Matters"

American children used to be adventurous eaters. Why has kids’ food become so bland? And why are so many fussy about what’s on their plates?

Social psychologist Keith Payne on political polarization and why it's so hard to bridge the divide.

Psychologist George Bonanno says we have overestimated the debilitating power of post-traumatic stress disorder and underestimated our resilience.

Father Martin once thought he’d work in the corporate world, but after a few years in New York City, he realized he hated his life. Now he’s written a new memoir about the many summer jobs he had as a kid and how they prepared him for the priesthood.

Psychiatrist Jennifer Reid on where unreasonable expectations come from, how guilt pulls us away from what really matters, and what it takes to finally give ourselves a break.

Neuroscientist Abigail Marsh on extraordinary altruism—people who risk their lives to help strangers—and its opposite: psychopathy, little or no capacity for empathy.