Tuesday People

How do you deal with something you don't want to deal with? How do you get through a negative experience without letting it take over your life? How do you keep a life-altering circumstance from dominating every single minute of your days? On today's episode of the Tuesday People podcast, host Mitch Albom discusses the practice of detachment. Learn how Morrie Schwartz, used detachment to get him t...

Is Blue Monday really the most depressing day of the year? We're one day on the other side of it and are hoping that all of our Tuesday People made it through Blue Monday unscathed. Whether the science behind the third Monday of January is real or not, we do know that depression is. And on today's Tuesday People episode, host Mitch Albom and producer Lisa Goich - along with words from Morrie Schwa...

We've welcomed in another new year and the resolutions are in full swing! Weight loss, exercise, giving up sweets, reading more books - what's on your roster for this year? If you're still not sure, we have a suggestion for you in this week's Tuesday People podcast. How about a living eulogy? On today's episode, host Mitch Albom and producer Lisa Goich talk about honoring your friends this year by...

Psychoanalyst, Marriage & Family Therapist, Dr. Bethany Marshall, joins host Mitch Albom on the Tuesday People Podcast as we discuss suicide and the death of beloved dancer and TV personality, Stephen "tWitch" Boss. With Stephen's passing came the universal question, "How can a person with such a positive, upbeat personality on the outside, hurt so much on the inside, and nobody saw it?" This is n...

Could you live with being #2? That's the question we ponder on today's episode of the Tuesday People podcast. Host Mitch Albom - along with a word from Morrie Schwartz - talks about society's obsession with being #1 and the stress that it can bring into our lives. Mitch also gives a recap of his recent SAY Detroit Radiothon, and how he raised over $30,000 just to shave his pandemic goatee. Learn m...

As you shop for holiday gifts this season, ask yourself, is the gift you're buying going to enhance the time that you spend with your loved ones, or detract from the time you spend together? With smart phones and gadgets, big screen TVs and video games, we live in a world where we spend more time with our eyes on our electronics, than we do looking face-to-face with the ones we love. So maybe inst...

'Tis the season to be jolly, our fellow time travelers! As we enter the official "Holiday Season" - that time between Thanksgiving and Christmas - we want to remind everyone to take a moment, take a breath, and don't let the stress of the holiday hoopla get the best of you. Inspired by the movie, "About Time," Tuesday People host Mitch Albom talks about how the film teaches us - as Morrie did in h...

In addition to mom's famous mashed potatoes and Auntie Dee's legendary pumpkin pie, your family lives on through the stories you tell around the Thanksgiving table. And if you absorb those stories, and continue to tell them, you'll never lose the memory of those who spun the first tale. So, this Thanksgiving, pass the stuffing, and pass a good story while you're at it. Learn more about your ad cho...

On today's Tuesday People episode, host Mitch Albom talks about The Present of Being Present, or, How to Pay Attention. We are living in a world rife with attention deficit. Phones, constant media influences, the internet, working from home. It's easy to drift off during a conversation, when you see a notification pop up on your phone, watch or your inbox. It's rare that two people sit in a room a...

We're all born into a body that we spend most of our lives being self-conscious of. We're too fat, we're too skinny, we're too short, we're too tall - we spend so much time on our external selves, that we often forget about those things we should value on the inside. On today's episode of the Tuesday People podcast, host Mitch Albom and producer Lisa Goich talk about "the cartons we are shipped in...

In honor of Halloween, today's episode of the Tuesday People podcast is dedicated to one topic that is often difficult to discuss: Where do you want to go...when you go? Our final resting place is a tough conversation to have with our loved ones. Today we discuss ways to ease into this topic, what to consider when making this very important decision, the reasons why we choose the places we choose,...

In 2007, author, entrepreneur, and Tuesday People guest, Brent Yates, was incapacitated by a mystery illness, a crumbling marriage, shattered familial relationships, and suicidal thoughts. At his lowest point, he credits God with putting people, organizations and resources into his life that came around him and lifted him up from his knees. Host Mitch Albom talks to Brent about his decades-long pi...

Who's in your line of dominoes? Who is going to affect you in some way, and have something to say about your future, and ultimately, the future of everyone you touch, and possibly the world? On today's Tuesday People episode, host Mitch Albom honors a man who did just that. Jack Thomas was the reporter who first covered Morrie Schwartz's story for the Boston Globe. He sadly passed away earlier thi...

Many of us are haunted by experiences that happened to us as children. In Morrie's youth, he faced a trauma that shaped his life. On today's episode of the Tuesday People podcast, host Mitch Albom discusses childhood trauma and how we can overcome our past by creating our own future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Jewish tradition of Yom Kippur - or the Day of Atonement - is a time to reflect on sins or wrongdoings from the previous year. On today's episode of the Tuesday People podcast, host Mitch Albom - along with thoughts on the subject from Morrie Schwartz - discusses forgiveness, and how this act between people can actually be a cleansing exercise for those on both sides of the olive branch. Learn...

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. On today's episode of the Tuesday People podcast, host Mitch Albom and producer Lisa discuss why that's not too far from the truth. Some of the most important meetings throughout history took place over food and drink. It's the great equalizer. Every Tuesday before visiting Morrie, Mitch would stop to pick up some food from a local co-op hi...

Worrying about your age? Hop on the loop-de-loop, as Morrie said, and enjoy whatever season of your life you're in! There are a whole slew of activities that you can do to transport yourself through the fall and winter of your later years, back to the free-spirited spring and summer of your youth. Every age you ever were is inside you. The only passport you need to travel back in time is the power...

What's your "number" that suddenly makes you feel, "Uh oh!"? The age where you start to feel that perhaps you're running out of time? The birthday that signals you've neglected your body for so long that it's time to regroup? The milestone you reach that coincides with the same age a parent was when they passed away? Have you reached that number yet? On today's Tuesday People episode, Producer Lis...

When the leaves are just about to change colors, and the heat dials down to those beautiful crisp Autumn days, you know that September is here! Since childhood, the month of September has always meant renewal: The start of a new year, new friends, new books, new clothes, new you. But once we're done with school and step into adulthood, that magical time of an annual rebirth disappears. But it does...

Serenity, silence, babies - they're all connected. On today's episode – on the 25th Anniversary of the publication of "Tuesdays with Morrie" – we talk about thoughts left unspoken, how creativity can spring from letting our minds and voices rest, and how Morrie processed serenity and silence in his final days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back. As host Mitch Albom drops his teens from "Have Faith Haiti" off at college, we reflect on the luck, or destiny, of finding a special professor like Morrie. And t...

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of "Tuesdays with Morrie," host Mitch Albom discusses the early days of the book's life, and how a story that started with a slow simmer, turned out to be one of the bestselling memoirs of all time. Mitch also gives an update on baby Nadide, and how her presence is also a lesson in letting things find their way to us in our lives. All proof that it's never to...

On today's episode of the Tuesday People podcast, host Mitch Albom - just back from visiting his orphanage in Haiti - has a very special story to share with our audience. The moral of today's story: Even the greatest responsibility can be the greatest blessing. Tune in for the big heart tugging reveal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There was "Tuesdays with Morrie," the book. Then came "Tuesdays with Morrie," the TV movie. And then there was "Tuesdays with Morrie," the play. On today's episode, host and author, Mitch Albom, talks about how the beloved play that has traveled the world came to be, and announces the first run of shows ever in his home state of Michigan. For more information on dates, locations and tickets, visit...

Have you lived a life worthy of a glowing obituary? Will your family remember you with kind words when it comes time for your eulogy? On today's episode of the Tuesday People podcast, host Mitch Albom and producer Lisa Goich discuss obituaries: the good, the bad, and the ugly. And we hear from Mitch's beloved former professor, Morrie Schwartz, on the subject who simply wanted to be remembered as "...