The Mood Booster Podcast

The Home of Wellbeing and Joy Welcome back to The Mood Booster Podcast. This week, Charlie and Dr Marcus get into laughter itself. Why we do it, what it means when we do it together, and what it says about us when we can't stop even though we know we shouldn't. From a live laugh for a minute challenge to a proper psychology deep dive, this one is pure joy from start to finish. 🎧 𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞:...

The Home of Wellbeing and Joy Welcome back to The Mood Booster Podcast. This week, Charlie and Dr Marcus sit down in Hyde Park with Hatty Grant, events manager, Monday Mood Booster ambassador, and someone who has spent the last year quietly transforming her relationship with her health, her body, and herself. Hatty has been part of the Mood Booster community since January and has already become on...

The Home of Wellbeing and Joy Welcome back to The Mood Booster Podcast. This week, Charlie and Dr Marcus are joined by Steve Day, founder of Imagination Running, community runner, psychology student, and one of the most honest guests we have ever had on the pod. Before we get into Steve's story, we open with a letter from a member of our community: a 42-year-old who has worked in retail since the...

We Ran 123km in Under 24 Hours. Here's What Actually Happened | EP - 76 | The Mood Booster Welcome back to The Mood Booster Podcast. This week, Charlie and Dr Marcus are sitting down with their hard earned medals and doing something they have been saving for the pod: a proper, honest debrief of the most physically demanding thing either of them has ever done. Six months ago, they said yes to runni...

The Mood Booster Podcast | Episode 75 - The Home of Wellbeing and Joy What does it take to build a community from nothing? In this episode, Charlie and Dr Marcus sit down with Jonty Brown, co-founder of Run Limited, the world's most collaborative running brand, to explore community, leadership, and what it means to live many different lives in pursuit of the one thing that matters most. Jonty has...

How to Deal With Hate Comments (When You're Just Trying to Help) | The Mood Booster Podcast Ep. 74 The Home of Wellbeing and Joy Welcome back to The Mood Booster Podcast. This week, Charlie and Dr. Marcus are recording live from the New Forest, fire pit roaring, stars overhead, and they are fired up for a reason. After a wave of hateful comments flooded in following last week's episode with Gaz Oa...

Reflecting on: Slow Living, Nature and Self Sufficiency with Gaz Oakley | The Mood Booster Podcast Ep. 73 The Home of Wellbeing and Joy 🌱 Welcome back to The Mood Booster Podcast. This week Charlie and Dr Marcus are joined by for one of our most reflective and grounding conversations yet. From leaving London behind and reconnecting with nature, to growing food, rejecting labels, building communit...

The Home of Wellbeing and Joy 🌱 Welcome to Episode 72 of The Mood Booster Podcast. In this Friday Focus episode, Dr Marcus and Charlie takes Monday's conversation on nostalgia and distils it into the essential psychology, the origins, the science, and the tools that help you understand what your brain is actually doing when it pulls you back to the past. We begin at the very beginning. The word n...

Reflecting on: Nostalgia | Why Your Brain Lives in the Past and What It Says About the Present | The Mood Booster Podcast Ep. 71 The Home of Wellbeing and Joy 🌱 Welcome back to The Mood Booster Podcast. This week Charlie and Dr Marcus are reflecting on nostalgia. Why we crave the past, why it feels so comforting, and why right now, more than ever, the world seems to be looking backwards. From the...

🌱 The Mood Booster Podcast | A New Chapter for the Mood Booster Something is changing. And we wanted to tell you about it ourselves. Episode 70 felt like the right moment to pause, check in, and be honest. Charlie and Dr Marcus have been frustrated. Not with each other, not with the podcast, but with the feeling that something important has been missing. That something is you. In this episode, re...

Welcome to Episode 69 of The Mood Booster Podcast. This week, Charlie and Dr Marcus take things somewhere different. Recorded in Madeira, surrounded by mountains and good food, this episode is a proper debate. The motion: social media is inherently bad for our mental wellbeing. Charlie argues for it. Dr Marcus argues against. And genuinely disagree.  From comparison culture and body image ideals t...

🌱 The Mood Booster Podcast | Self-Expression Through Fashion with Paul Webb  What if the clothes you wear every morning are quietly shaping how you feel all day? From charity shop gold dust to sustainable shopping habits, this episode is about far more than fashion.  In this episode, Charlie and Dr Marcus sit down with Paul Webb, a rising voice on TikTok talking about self-expression, sustainable...

Reflecting on: The Psychology of Optimisation | How to Find the Balance Between Efficiency and Wellbeing | The Mood Booster Podcast Friday Focus Ep. 67 The Home of Wellbeing and Joy 🌱 Welcome to Episode 67 of The Mood Booster Podcast. In this Friday Focus episode, Dr Marcus takes the conversation from Monday and layers in the psychological theory behind why our obsession with optimisation is quie...

Reflecting on: Efficiency | Is Our Obsession With Optimisation Ruining Our Wellbeing? | The Mood Booster Podcast Ep. 66  The Home of Wellbeing and Joy 🌱  Welcome back to The Mood Booster Podcast. This week Charlie and Dr Marcus are asking a question that sounds almost too simple to take seriously: what if all the efficiency we have added to our lives is making us feel worse?  From the boiling tap...

The Home of Wellbeing and Joy 🌱 Welcome to Episode 65 of The Mood Booster Podcast. In this Friday Focus episode, Dr Marcus breaks down the psychology and neuroscience behind failure, building on Monday's honest conversation about what it really feels like to hear no, and why we are so wired to avoid it. This episode explores the deeper mechanisms at play. We look at why rejection activates the sa...

Reflecting on: Failure | The Mood Booster Podcast Ep. 64 The Home of Wellbeing and Joy 🌱 Welcome back to The Mood Booster Podcast. This week Charlie and Dr Marcus are getting honest about failure. Not in the hustle bro way. In the real, grounded, psychologically informed way. Because knowing that failure is good for you does not make it feel any less rubbish in the moment. So in this episode they...

Reflecting on: A Philosopher's Guide to Understanding Your Own Mind w/ Jonny Thomson | Jonny Thomson | The Mood Booster Podcast Ep. 63   The Home of Wellbeing and Joy 🌱   Welcome back to The Mood Booster Podcast. This week we are joined by philosopher, award winning author, and former lecturer Jonny Thomson, best known for his Mini Philosophy series across social media with over 2 million followe...

Welcome to Episode 62 of The Mood Booster Podcast.  In this Friday Focus episode, we break down the psychology behind why so many young men are being pulled toward manosphere content, and why these ideas can feel so convincing, even when they are harmful.  Building on Monday’s reflection, this episode explores the deeper mechanisms at play. We look at how identity threat, uncertainty, and changing...

Welcome to Episode 61 of The Mood Booster Podcast.  In this episode, we explore the rise of the manosphere, the idea of the red pill, and why so many young men are being drawn into online spaces that promote rigid and often harmful ideas about masculinity. But rather than criticising from a distance, we take a step back and ask a deeper question.  What is this content offering that feels so compel...

Welcome to Episode 60 of The Mood Booster Podcast. Guys... this one is special.  In this episode, we celebrate one year of The Mood Booster Podcast. What started as an idea between two friends has grown into something far bigger than we ever expected, and this episode is a chance to pause, reflect, and take it all in.  Recorded in Malta overlooking Valletta at sunset, we open a several beers and t...

The Home of Wellbeing and Joy  Welcome to Episode 59 of The Mood Booster Podcast. In this Friday Focus episode, we turn Monday’s reflections into practical psychological tools to help you deal with rude or aggressive strangers without letting those moments take over your day.  In the previous episode, we reflected on why sudden hostility from strangers can affect us so strongly. In this episode, w...

The Home of Wellbeing and Joy  Welcome to Episode 58 of The Mood Booster Podcast. In this episode, we reflect openly on what happens psychologically when strangers are rude, aggressive, or unexpectedly hostile towards us, and why those moments can stay with us long after the interaction has ended.  Dr Marcus shares a recent experience of being shouted at by a cyclist while out running. A moment of...

The Home of Wellbeing and Joy  Welcome to Episode 56 of The Mood Booster Podcast. In this episode, we reflect openly and honestly on the idea of manifestation and why so many people are drawn to it.  Manifestation has become one of the most talked about ideas in self improvement. Vision boards, scripting your future, speaking goals into existence. Some people swear by it, while others dismiss it e...

Friday Focus: How to Improve Your Attention Span | The Attention Myth Explained | The Mood Booster Podcast | TMBP  The Home of Wellbeing and Joy  Welcome to Episode 55 of The Mood Booster Podcast. In this Friday Focus episode, we turn Monday’s reflections into evidence-based advice to help you find joy in your every day.  Earlier this week, we questioned whether our attention spans are actually sh...

Reflecting on: Our Shrinking Attention Span | Modern Distraction & Presence | The Mood Booster Podcast | TMBP  The Home of Wellbeing and Joy  Welcome to Episode 54 of The Mood Booster Podcast. In this episode, we reflect openly and honestly on the idea that our attention spans are shrinking and whether that narrative actually holds up.  Dr Marcus shares how recently he has found himself flicki...