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Craig Brain is not your brain or my brain, but neither must unity be predicated upon uniformity, and this is an invitation for you to take a peek inside the gross (pun intended), squishy alien matter inside of Craig’s Brain.Take a peek.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Craig Brain turns work, family and personal change into candid accounts of how Craig Gross revises his decisions.
Craig Gross treats his own decisions as working material, moving between responsibility at work, family life, generosity and personal change. The format is largely reflective monologue, with occasional conversation, and his stories stay close to choices he has actually faced…
A Super Bowl trip for his dad meets 87 negative patterns; your taste for messy self-reflection has company.
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A candid, grounded look at healing, family patterns, and the uneven work of change.
Craig Brain treats the Hoffman Process as a lived practice rather than a neat self-help arc. The funeral exercise, the paperwork, the count of negative patterns, and the family-origin reflections give the segment its shape, with the smoking aside keeping the tone rooted in…
A candid family-and-sports reflection with a clear case for sharing the good stuff.
Craig Brain turns a bucket-list riff into a family-centered look at generosity, money, and making room for other people. It keeps circling back to marriage, kids, and the idea that giving can be part of being good with money, which gives the conversation a steady emotional…
A candid look at how a child's Tourette's reshapes marriage and family life.
Craig Brain looks at how a child's Tourette's can spill into a marriage, unsettle family life, and push parents toward decisions before they feel ready.
A scruffy work-and-skills riff that turns a joke about not showering into a loose case for getting things done.
The episode uses a joke about not showering to set up a loose, familiar talk about work, adulthood, and the small rituals people lean on to feel useful.
Pop culture trivia, argued fast and with affection.
Pop culture, personal stakes, and room for a tangent.
A Brazilian journalist spends years reinvestigating unsolved child disappearances in Paraná.
Cris Bartz and Juva Lauer alternate debate and interview episodes on Brazilian social issues.
Jeanette reads an epilogue about Craig's change since they met in 1995 and married in 1998.
Craig Brain closes with a long, personal run at Hoffman.
Craig Brain examines why mind chatter differs between Craig, Levi, his mother, and friends such as Chris.
Craig starts by saying this brain is not your brain or my brain.
Craig talks plainly about how a child's pain can spill into a marriage and throw off the whole family rhythm.
Craig Brain opens with Craig Gross joking that he is a 43-year-old man with a gray beard, and that he skipped the shower, hair washing, and grooming on purpose.