The Daily Stoic

Do your emotions ever get the best of you? Someone says one thing and it ruins your whole day. A small frustration turns into a big deal. Travel anxiety spirals. Jealousy or irritation shows up before you even realize it. In this episode, you will learn the complete Stoic playbook for mastering your emotions so they don’t end up mastering you. SPECIAL OFFER exclusively for podcast listeners ...

When does belonging start to matter more than being right? In Part 2 of Ryan’s conversation with Jordan Klepper, they dive into how mob thinking takes over, how cultural permission shifts what feels acceptable, why people double down even when the facts are clear, and how leaders shape the tone of an entire country. Jordan Klepper is a comedian, writer, and correspondent on The Daily Show. You can...

Even though we can’t control time or slow it down, even though we can’t control external forces and external events—we can control ourselves, so we can control how we use our time.  SPECIAL OFFER exclusively for podcast listeners  👉 Go to  dailystoic.com/spring  and enter code  DSPOD20  at checkout to get   20% off the  Spring Forward Challenge ! Challenge...

Get your reps in…because none of us have any idea what life has in store for us in the future. SPECIAL OFFER exclusively for podcast listeners 👉 Go to dailystoic.com/spring and enter code DSPOD20 at checkout to get 20% off the Spring Forward Challenge ! Challenge yourself to spring forward and become the person you aspire to be. The Spring Forward Challenge starts March 20, 2026. 🎥 Watch the vid...

It’s been a long winter. But now? Now you can feel something is in the air. 💡 Go to dailystoic.com/spring and enter code DSPOD20 at checkout to get 20% off the Spring Forward Challenge ! Challenge yourself to spring forward and become the person you aspire to be. The Spring Forward Challenge starts March 20, 2026. 👉 Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing to The Daily Stoi...

What do you do when someone says something you completely disagree with or something that sounds totally detached from reality? Jordan Klepper, correspondent and host at  The Daily Show , is known for walking into political rallies and calmly interviewing the most passionate people in the crowd. In this episode, he sits down with Ryan to explain why arguing almost never works, how silence can...

We plan to do it. We mean to do it. We just tell ourselves that we’ll do it tomorrow. The problem, as the Stoics remind us, is that we don’t control tomorrow. 👉 Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing to The Daily Stoic Premium - unlock ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content: https://dailystoic.supercast.com/ 📔 Pick up your own leather bound signed edition of &...

Haven’t you been wrong before? Haven’t you done stuff that in retrospect seems dumb or weird? Of course you have. 📚 Books Mentioned:  Great Gatsby: 100th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays Translation) The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on The Art of Living by Ryan Holiday 👉 Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subs...

Meditating on death isn’t depressing, it’s clarifying. In this episode, Ryan explains how the Stoic practice of Memento Mori will sharpen your priorities, push you to stop wasting time, and remind you to live with character now, not later. 🪙 We have a collection of items in the Daily Stoic store to help you in your own memento mori practice , check them out here: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 👉...

The greatness of Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius was not perfection but progress. They were imperfect men committed to self-discipline and self-correction. Today's episode explores how Antoninus shaped Marcus through steady example and daily discipline, and what their lives reveal about the kind of character a person chooses to build. 📕 You can grab the Discipline Is Destiny ebook for just $1.99 ri...

Power doesn’t wait for the perfect person to raise their hand. Someone will wield it. Someone always does. 📚 Looking for stories to teach your kids about Stoicism? Check out Ryan Holiday’s books: The Boy Who Would Be King and  The Girl Who Would Be Free: A Fable About Epictetus 👉 Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing to The Daily Stoic Premium - unlock ad-free liste...

Is this what we’re here for? To be the passions’ slave? To be the plaything of emotions and impulses? It can’t be! 📓 Pick up a copy of The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on The Art of Living : https://store.dailystoic.com/ 👉 Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing to The Daily Stoic Premium - unlock ad-free listening, early access, and bonus conten...

What if it only took five minutes each morning to feel more in control of your life? In this conversation, Dr. Rangan Chatterjee shares the three daily questions he uses to stay grounded in alignment, contentment, and control. 🎥 Watch Dr. Rangan Chatterjee ’s FULL episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMg8KgzD8DM 👉 Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing to The Dai...

How do you hold a country together when it’s tearing itself apart? In this episode, Ryan sits down with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to talk about Abraham Lincoln’s self-education, his emotional discipline, and how he managed anger, ego, and public pressure without losing himself. Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning presidential historian and bestselling autho...

People are the way they are. They will always be this way. We don’t control that.  👉 Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing to The Daily Stoic Premium - unlock ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content: https://dailystoic.supercast.com/ 🎥 Watch the video episodes on The Daily Stoic YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/@DailyStoic/videos 🎙️ Follow The Da...

The past is gone, and no amount of calculation will bring it back or make it fair. What we do have is agency right now. 🎥 Watch the video of today's episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1zgKBx93rY 👉 Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing to The Daily Stoic Premium - unlock ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content: https://dailystoic.supercast.com/ 🎙️ F...

We have a duty. Our nature—justice—demands something from us. It demands that we get up, get after it, and wear ourselves down doing it. 📘 Grab a copy of The Daily Stoic here: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 👉 Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing to The Daily Stoic Premium - unlock ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content: https://dailystoic.supercast.com/ 🎥 Wa...

Life is a lot. It moves fast. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by what to do, what not to do, and whether you’re even focusing on the right things. In today’s episode, Ryan shares simple Stoic rules to live by that can help you live with more clarity, purpose, and steadiness right now. 👉 Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing to The Daily Stoic Premium - unlock ad-free listen...

If you think history is boring, irrelevant, or just not your "thing", this episode is for you. In today’s episode, Ryan sits down with Kenny Curtis, host of the new podcast History Snacks , to make the case for history. They discuss why history isn’t about memorizing dates or dusty textbooks, but a superpower that gives you perspective, clarity, and calm. 🎥 Watch Kenny Curtis’ episode on The Dail...

It’s discouraging. It’s distracting. All the stuff that’s happening in the world. But you know what you can’t do? You can’t give up your work, your freedom of thought, your freedom of choice pre-emptively. 🎥 Watch the video of this episode on Ryan Holiday's YouTube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEgYzLYPmO4 📚 You can find all the books mentioned in this episode at Ryan's bookstore, Th...

We should pride ourselves on our ability to put up with these people, to be able to be nice to people who are not nice, to be able to turn the other cheek and not be made bitter and cynical. 👉 Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing to The Daily Stoic Premium - unlock ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content: https://dailystoic.supercast.com/ 🎥 Watch the video ep...

Day to day, it’s only our individual actions that are up to us: How we treat people, how we run our businesses, what we think about. 📚 Grab the free PDF at tim.blog/seneca 🎙️ Listen to the audiobook on Audible : https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Tao-of-Seneca-Audiobook/ 👉 Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing to The Daily Stoic Premium - unlock ad-free listening, early acce...

The Stoics knew that wanting less increases gratitude, just as wanting more obliterates it. "Freedom isn't secured by filling up on your heart's desire but by removing your desire." - Epictetus 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on The Art of Living : https://store.dailystoic.com/ 👉 Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscrib...

It’s not that you should never speak up. It’s not that you should never speak truth to power. It’s just that you should never do it while you’re angry. Do it after you’ve calmed down. Do it after you’ve had time to think about it. Do it after you’ve slept on it. 🪙 Carry The Daily Stoic Pause & Reflect Medallion as a reminder to pause. A pause creates space. A pause creates clarity. A pause ca...

All that we see must be illuminated by the calm light of mild philosophy. So we can see what it really is. So we don’t do anything we regret.  📚 Pick up a copy of Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller at The Painted Porch | https://www.thepaintedporch.com 📕 Grab copies of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s books Team of Rivals and Leadership at The Painted Porch | https://www.th...