Since May 1, 2025
We made Solved to answer life’s biggest questions once and for all.
- 26
- Topics Solved
- 99
- Hours Recorded
- 822,987
- Words Spoken
Hosted by
Mark Manson
and Drew Birnie
Our Team
- Drew Birnie
- Stephanie Arakelian
- Zenya Giatzoglou
- Andrew Nishimura
- Jess Choi
- SJ van Breda
Our Guiding Principles
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Most shows would take a topic like confidence and stretch it over eight weeks with a different guest each time. We put the whole thing in one episode and let it run three to six hours. It takes as long as the question genuinely takes. And to get the whole answer in one place.
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Once we’ve covered a question, we don’t come back to it. No fresh take next year, no part two, because nothing was left out the first time. That forces every episode to live up to its name. It also means an episode from two years ago is just as useful as the one we released last month.
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The people we bring on have nothing launching that month and nothing to sell you. We go to researchers who’ve spent their careers on the question we’re trying to solve and can tell us where the evidence is. When the science is genuinely contested, you’ll hear that instead of a polished soundbite.
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Most podcasts chase big names to pull in someone else’s listeners. We build around the research, and bring someone in when they add what a study can’t: a specific perspective, lived experience, or expertise you can’t get from a paper. Don’t expect a revolving door of celebrity interviews.
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We’ll write up the research, the frameworks, and the sources, so you can go back to them without scrubbing through hours of audio. We started making these for the people who want to do more with what they learned after listening. And we don’t plan on stopping. All free, right here.
Failure.
How to Actually Grow From Failure
What if every piece of advice you’ve ever received about failure has, well... failed you? Failure is the most talked about topic in self-help, yet few of us handle it well. Think back to your last real failure. What did you actually do? Odds are you blamed the timing, went quiet in the group chat, and made your next bet a little smaller. Turns out, “learning from our failures” is incredibly hard to do. In this episode, Drew and I break down why failure stings far more than it should, the three types of failure and how to handle each one, and when quitting is the smartest move you can make. You’ll never avoid failure completely, so let’s get really good at failing.
