Doubt Diaries

About Doubt Diaries

If you often think things like: 'am I good enough?', 'I'm not ready yet', 'what if I do it wrong?', welcome to Doubt Diaries. A podcast about self-doubt and the people you'd never expect to have it. Host Pippa Woodhead has 2,000+ interviews behind her with CEOs, Olympians and Ivy League psychologists. The surprise: most of the experts told her self-doubt can actually be good for us. As Harvard's Dr Ellen Langer put it: 'If you don't have doubt, you're mindless.' Past guests include Wim Hof, Tim Shriver, Nir Eyal, Aisha Bowe, and Dr Ellen Langer. Archive available now. New episodes late 2026.

Publisher

Pippa Woodhead

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Jun 2026

Latest episode

26 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 34 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   26 Jun 2026

   “If You Don’t Have Self-Doubt, You’re Mindless” - Legendary Psychologist Dr. Ellen Langer

   Dr Ellen Langer has spent over forty years at Harvard reshaping how we think about thinking. She is the longest-serving professor of psychology there and was the first woman ever tenured in the department. Her research has shown we can quite literally think ourselves younger, healthier, and more aware. Her work has changed how I think about self-doubt more than almost anything else I have come across. We talk about her research on mindfulness, why most of us are mindless almost all the time, and the line of hers that quietly became the thesis of this show. Originally released in 2024 when this podcast was called Tiger Therapy. Follow Doubt Diaries wherever you're listening for the archive and new episodes.

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   26 Jun 2026

   Failing in Front of the Whole World at 20 - Olympic Gold Medalist Lindsey Jacobellis

   Lindsey Jacobellis is the most decorated female snowboarder of all time - two Olympic golds, six world championships, thirty-one World Cup gold medals. She is also the woman who, aged twenty, on live television, made a split-second mistake at her first Olympics that the press has not let her forget for sixteen years. We talk about what it actually takes to rebuild after one public moment becomes your entire identity. Originally released in 2024 when this podcast was called Tiger Therapy. Follow Doubt Diaries wherever you're listening for the archive and new episodes.

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   26 Jun 2026

   The World’s #1 Body Language Expert Still Feels Like He’s Faking It - Chase Hughes

   Chase Hughes spent twenty years training CIA operatives in persuasion and lie detection. He is now widely described as the world’s number one expert on body language and behaviour, hosts YouTube’s The Behaviour Panel, and Dr Phil wrote a chapter of his book about him. I was extremely nervous to interview him because he can look at your face and know what you are thinking. We talk about that. We also talk about the questionnaire he uses to identify limiting beliefs in twenty minutes, and a metaphor he gave me about how we talk to ourselves that has stayed with me ever since. Originally released in 2024 when this podcast was called Tiger Therapy. Follow Doubt Diaries wherever you're listening for the archive and new episodes.

Inside a recent episode

Being Both a Superstar Athlete & Oscar Winning Screenwriter - Lesley Paterson

Published 26 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] A thistle, yes. That's such a sort of Scottish analogy. I love it. I love it. OK, so the incredible film you're now known for, All Quiet on the Western Front, was originally a book of the same name. When did you first read the book? Yes, I read it in high school and it's just, you know, it's a text that's known throughout the world, right? A lot of students read it, they analyze it, they do their English essays on it and all the rest of it. So I connected to it very early on. I think the world is so fascinating, World War I in itself. And certainly when you grow up in Scotland or indeed Europe, right, you're a constantly around memorials with thousands of names on them from world war one and we had poppy day and all that kind of stuff so the awareness is very much front and center and then the themes in the book you know the betrayal of youthful generation by that sort of upper brask It's something as a Scottish person, of course, we can relate to, right? […]

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