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 summer 2026.

Doubt Diaries is a education podcast hosted by Pippa Woodhead, with 34 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Pippa Woodhead hosts Doubt Diaries, a education show with 34 episodes published.

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

  Jun 26, 202649 min

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

  Jun 26, 202647 min

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

  Jun 25, 202652 min

  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.

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  Growing Up in a Slum, Magical Thinking & The Power of Dreams - Astrid Tuminez

  Jun 25, 202651 min

  Astrid Tuminez is the first ever female President of Utah Valley University. She grew up in a slum in the Philippines and on her first day of school couldn’t spell her own name. By the end of the year she was top of the class. She would later go to Harvard, MIT, Wall Street and Microsoft before her current role. This is the closest thing I have heard to a real-life movie. We talk about magical thinking, the role of imagination growing up with nothing, and the voice in our heads that does the most damage. 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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  The Confidence To Make a Big Career Change - London Business School’s Herminia Ibarra

  Jun 25, 202644 min

  Herminia Ibarra is Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School and has held tenured positions at INSEAD and Harvard. She has been named one of the most influential business thinkers in the world, and her work on career change is required reading in the field. We talk about why so many midlife career pivots quietly fail, what her data shows actually moves the needle, and her most helpful advice for anyone wrestling with self-doubt about their career. 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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