Podcast Recommendations — Inner Rooms

Podcasts do something books can't — they give you a human voice saying the thing you needed to hear, at the exact moment you needed to hear it. In the car after school drop-off. On a walk when the house feels too quiet. At 11pm when sleep won't come and the thoughts are loud.

These three shows were chosen because they speak directly to the work you've been doing in Room Two. Not generic wellness podcasts. Not vague positivity. These are shows where you'll hear a sentence and stop walking because it landed in the centre of your chest.

Each one has a different gift: one gives you permission, one gives you science, one gives you practical courage. Start wherever you're most hungry.

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Permission + Truth

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle, with Amanda Doyle & Abby Wambach

This is the podcast version of having an older sister who has already survived everything you're going through and refuses to lie to you about it. Glennon Doyle — the author of Untamed — created this show around a single premise: life is hard for everyone, and the way through is not around the hard thing but directly into it.

What makes this show different from every other wellness podcast is its refusal to offer easy answers. Doyle and her co-hosts sit with the mess. They laugh in the middle of it. They say the things you're thinking but haven't said aloud — about divorce, about motherhood, about losing yourself in someone else's life and the terrifying freedom of finding yourself again.

The show covers relationships, mental health, parenting, identity, addiction, purpose, and what it means to rebuild a life on your own terms. It is occasionally chaotic, frequently funny, and always honest.

Start with these episodes

How to Know Yourself — and Why It's the Bravest Thing You'll Do

On the terrifying process of discovering who you actually are after years of performing who you thought you should be. Directly connects to the Identity work in Rooms 1 and 2.

The Life You Want vs. The Life You Have

On the gap between knowing what you want and having the courage to pursue it. Speaks to the heart of the Purpose Sketch and why writing it down feels so exposing.

How Do I Start Over?

A listener Q&A episode about rebuilding after everything falls apart. Raw, practical, and full of moments where you'll whisper "yes, that" at your phone.

Lada's note

This was the first podcast I listened to where I didn't feel like I was being taught something — I felt like I was being seen. Glennon has a way of saying the most painful truth in a room and then making everyone laugh about it. I've listened to the episode about starting over four times. It gets different every time because I'm different every time.

Inner Mentor Body Compass Purpose Sketch Life Chapters

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Science + Body

Huberman Lab

Dr. Andrew Huberman · Stanford Neuroscience

If We Can Do Hard Things gives you emotional permission, Huberman Lab gives you the neuroscience behind why the Room Two exercises actually work. Andrew Huberman is a Stanford neuroscientist who translates complex brain science into actionable protocols — how to use breathing to regulate your nervous system, why visualisation changes behaviour, what happens in the brain when you set an intention, how dopamine drives motivation.

This is not a feelings podcast. It's long, detailed, and deeply scientific. But it answers the question many women ask after doing inner work: Is this real? Is something actually changing in my brain, or am I just journaling into the void? The answer, according to the neuroscience, is that the practices in Room Two — breathing, visualisation, intention-setting, gratitude, body awareness — are producing measurable neurological changes. Huberman explains exactly how.

Episodes run 2–3 hours. You don't need to listen to full episodes — use the timestamps to find the sections relevant to your work.

Start with these episodes

The Science of Setting & Achieving Goals

Why WOOP works at a neurological level. Explains mental contrasting, dopamine's role in motivation, and why positive fantasising alone reduces follow-through. Validates everything in The Compass.

How to Optimise Your Brain-Body Function & Health

The science behind the Daily Anchor's breathing protocol. Explains vagal tone, the extended exhale, and how 90 seconds of intentional breathing resets the nervous system.

Science of Gratitude & How to Build a Gratitude Practice

Why standard gratitude practice has mixed results, and what the neuroscience says about the conditions under which it actually works. Confirms Room Two's approach of gratitude for process over gratitude for blessings.

Lada's note

I'll be honest — I found Huberman intimidating at first. Three-hour episodes full of neuroscience. But then I listened to the goals episode on a long drive and kept pulling over to write things down. He gave me the language for what was already happening in my body. If you're someone who needs to understand the science before you trust the process, start here.

WOOP Daily Anchor Body Compass Gratitude for Becoming

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Courage + Action

Unlocking Us

Brené Brown

Brown's podcast is the conversational companion to her books. Where Rising Strong gives you the framework, Unlocking Us lets you hear her apply it in real time — to her own life, to her guests' stories, to the cultural moment. The show features long, deep conversations with researchers, authors, and thinkers about vulnerability, courage, shame, belonging, and what it means to live wholeheartedly.

What makes this podcast essential for Room Two is Brown's treatment of values as lived practice, not aspirational ideals. Several episodes specifically address how to identify your core values and the gap between what you say matters and how you actually spend your time — the exact territory of the Values Bull's-Eye and the Energy Audit.

Her interviews are long, generous, and genuinely curious. She asks the question behind the question. And her two-part format — a solo episode defining a concept, followed by an interview exploring it — mirrors Room Two's own structure of framework followed by practice.

Start with these episodes

Living Into Our Values

Brown's two-part deep dive into identifying your two core values and building daily practices around them. The clearest articulation of why values work precedes goals work — and why most people skip it.

The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

On intellectual humility, the courage to say "I don't know," and why uncertainty is not a failure of character but a necessary condition for growth. Speaks directly to the discomfort of writing a Purpose Sketch that's incomplete.

Dr. Edith Eger — The Choice: Embrace the Possible

A conversation with a Holocaust survivor and psychologist about what it means to choose freedom after the worst has happened. Devastating and deeply hopeful. This episode will reframe everything you think about resilience.

Lada's note

The "Living Into Our Values" episodes are the ones I come back to most. Brown asks you to name just two core values — not five, not ten, two — and then asks: "What does it look like when you're living into them? What does it look like when you're not?" That question changed my Values Bull's-Eye forever. It made the gap between valued and lived impossible to ignore.

Values Bull's-Eye Energy Audit Purpose Sketch Life Chapters

How to listen

Listen while moving. These podcasts land differently when your body is in motion — walking, driving, cleaning. Something about physical movement opens a channel that sitting still doesn't. The best insights arrive on the second mile.

Keep a voice note nearby. When a sentence stops you — when something lands and you feel it in your chest — pause the episode and record a 30-second voice note to yourself about what it stirred. These notes become some of the most valuable material in your Room Two work.

Don't binge. One episode per week alongside your Room Two work is more than enough. Give each conversation time to settle before starting the next. The space between episodes is where the integration happens.

Sometimes the voice you need is not your own. Sometimes it's a stranger in your earphones who says the exact sentence you've been trying to assemble for months — and suddenly the pieces fall into place.