In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we’ve pulled together a playlist of podcasts that make space for reflection, resilience, and real talk without losing their sense of humor or heart. Mental Health Mix features everything from sci-fi therapy sessions and workplace wellness tips to honest conversations about burnout, anxiety, and self-sabotage.
Whether you’re looking to feel seen, laugh through the chaos, or just hear someone say the quiet part out loud - this is your go-to queue for May and beyond.
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This Mental Health Awareness month, Mental Health Rewritten challenges how we talk about mental health offering inclusive, compassionate conversations on topics we’re often too afraid to name.
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TED’s How to Be a Better Human ISN’T your average self improvement podcast. Instead, host Chris Duffy and his guests uncover sharp insight from unexpected places on how you can be a better human – from how to cultivate kindness, to how to stop being weird about money, to how to be less cynical.
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So We’ve Been Told is a raw, eye-opening series on love, family, and mental health across cultures. Award-winning therapist Sahaj Kaur Kohli dives deep into bicultural struggles—from immigrant guilt and boundary-setting to family secrets and intercultural relationships. Packed with real stories and expert advice, this is your guide to thriving between worlds. Whether you’re caught between cultures or love someone who is, this show is for you.
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This Mental Health Awareness Month, Kelly Corrigan Wonders invites listeners to laugh, reflect, and grow through honest, heartfelt conversations. Her new series, Hard Conversations, explores how connection and compassion can help heal rifts — both within ourselves and with others.
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Why are we so scared of change? The second half of your life can be happier, sexier and more fulfilled, but you may need to blow some stuff up. To find out how, we're bringing you interviews and frank, irreverent, inexpert advice on everything from career and aging to sex and body image in what used to be called "middle age." Laugh, get honest, break the rules and stop caring what other people think. Join us, and we can be hot together!
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The Best Advice Show is your reminder that there are weird, delightful and effective ways to make life slightly and sometimes profoundly better. In every (very short) episode of the show, a different contributor offers their take on making life more joyful, healthful and livable and it's likely gonna be something you can try today, if you want.
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The Bright Sessions is a sci-fi audio drama about therapy for the extraordinary — blending supernatural abilities with deeply human struggles. It explores vulnerability, connection, and the power of being understood.
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Join author, actor, and funny lady Robin Hopkins as she helps guests manage stress, set some boundaries, find a new apartment, and save a dime or two. And that’s important because social security is probably gonna be gone by the time you get there. Well…Adjusting is honest talk about real problems Gen Z’ers and Millennials face today.
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Where do you go when your own thoughts are unsafe? Basket Case, a series hosted by Nicole Kelly (NK), decodes the kaleidoscope of mental health and uncovers how our brain contorts our reality through original reporting, tender conversations, and deeply personal explorations.
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Shines a light on the burnout crisis facing nonprofit leaders — and offers real solutions. Host Stacy Palmer sits down with changemakers to explore how to lead with resilience, even in the face of limited resources and growing demands. A timely and resourceful show given federal cuts to non-profit and philanthropic sectors.
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Our mental health is deeply impacted by where we often spend most of our time... working. So why don't we focus more on how to address mental health challenges at work? Fixable covers everything from workplace bullying to change management in a leadership position, combating bias to becoming a great mentor.
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Puts you inside the mind of someone navigating anxiety and PTSD — while fighting to protect others like him. It’s a powerful story of healing, resistance, and reclaiming power from those who exploit the vulnerable.
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In a world that can feel overwhelming, this podcast is a breath of fresh air for Mental Health Awareness Month — spotlighting bold thinkers tackling big problems with grounded hope and optimism.