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Self-care with sparkle, teeth, and receipts.
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness mixes expert interviews, personal stories, and pop-culture detours into a bright, restless self-improvement show. It can move from GLP-1 maintenance to conversion therapy survival to Broadway friendship without losing its core question: how does anyone keep growing?
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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness is a self-improvement show that refuses to behave like a quiet wellness workbook. It is fast, funny, emotionally exposed, and constantly cross-wired between therapy language, queer culture, Broadway, health questions, political fear, and internet life. Jonathan Van Ness leads with curiosity and often with a personal story first. That choice gives the expert interviews a lived-in charge, whether the subject is GLP-1 medication, inner-child work, conversion therapy, or learning how to disagree without turning every exchange into a victory lap. The show can be serious in one breath and ridiculous in the next. That is part of the structure, not a distraction. A conversation with Tim Schrader Rodriguez frames conversion therapy as abusive while making room for survival, community, and religious and recovery contexts around it. A GLP-1 episode with Dr. Kazarian turns audience questions into a candid primer on maintenance, coming off medication, hunger, food noise, and what a non-doctor should leave to doctors. Dr. Nicole LePera brings the show into reparenting, stress reactions, self-sabotage, boundaries, and the daily practice of building safety inside the body. Dylan Mulvaney’s appearance opens into friendship, public criticism, theater, sadness, baths, and the ordinary rituals that help a person keep going. Then The Monday Edit swings the door open wider. Chris joins for spelling bees, production chatter, TikTok trend talk, birthday updates, celebrity references, and the kind of looseness that makes the main show feel less like a lecture and more like an ongoing emotional salon. The show is not afraid of being crowded. It wants the joke, the tangent, the correction, the sincere takeaway, and the useful expert answer all in the same room. Its best moments happen when a sharp question emerges from apparent chaos. Getting Better is for listeners who like their personal growth warm, queer, opinionated, medically curious, politically awake, and allergic to fake serenity.
Made for: For listeners who want personal growth with queer culture, candid health talk, therapy vocabulary, and enough humor to keep heavy subjects breathable. It especially fits people who like expert interviews that still feel intimate and emotionally unscripted.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its combination of high-speed pop-culture banter and earnest care work. It can treat a Broadway spelling bee, a medication question, and a conversion therapy survivor’s story as different parts of the same search for a livable life.
Join Jonathan Van Ness (Queer Eye) each week for their next exciting endeavor! “Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness" is here to empower listeners (and also make them laugh) by using curiosity as a tool for personal growth. In a world that often feels overwhelming—where it’s easy to feel stuck, frustrated, or helpless—Getting Better offers a lifeline. Each week, Jonathan Van Ness, alongside experts and thought leaders, guides us through our shared challenges—confidence, productivity, mental health, happiness, relationships, and more—helping us emerge thriving, invigorated, and most importantly - a little bit better. Join us every Wednesday for brand new episodes, and catch full video episod…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jonathan Van Ness turns candid conversation, practical questions and quick humor into an accessible guide to identity, care and contemporary social life.
Jonathan Van Ness treats self-improvement as a social conversation, pairing candid guest interviews with lively Monday Edit exchanges with producer Chris.
Inner-child work, then a Broadway spelling bee: Jonathan Van Ness gives your feelings costume changes.
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A warm birthday conversation that treats self-care and community as practical tools, not platitudes.
Jonathan Van Ness uses a birthday conversation with Dylan Mulvaney to move from celebration into a more grounded talk about self-acceptance, criticism, and the parts of being seen that still hurt.
Birthday-week banter turns an Afroman algorithm spiral into Broadway friendship talk and a spelling bee.
Birthday-week energy gives this episode a loose but useful frame, as Jonathan Van Ness and Chris move from Afroman taking over the algorithm and a First Amendment win into a Broadway-themed spelling bee for Dylan Mulvaney.
A candid inner-child conversation that turns stress, conflict, and reparenting into something usable.
Getting Better treats inner-child work as something lived and imperfect rather than tidy or abstract. Jonathan Van Ness opens with a joke about lashing out, then eases into reparenting, and his own admission that the work has brought both joy and pain gives the episode an…
Warm, informal, and lightly self-aware, the episode shifts from spring talk and wardrobe questions to a playful spelling game and a Dr. Nicole LaPera close.
The episode moves from spring weather and dopamine dressing into tour prep with an easy, unforced rhythm between the host and Chris. A small question about whether winter coats can finally go away opens into something broader, with seasonal uncertainty and anticipation giving…
Clothes become a mood check, a safety read, and a quiet case for showing up as yourself.
Fashion is framed here as a way of reading mood, not just chasing a trend. The host and Nikki Ogunnaki, editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, tie clothes to mood, perception, gender, finances, and location, and the recurring textures and a Sally look keep the conversation grounded in…
A conversion-therapy ruling brings the chill, while a spelling bee and studio banter keep the episode loose.
Conversion therapy gives the episode its serious center, with Jonathan Van Ness turning to Tim Schrader-Rodriguez as a survivor and reacting to an eight-to-one ruling that arrived faster than expected.
A survivor's account of church pressure, concealment, and safer space after conversion therapy.
Conversion therapy is treated here less as a policy debate than as a system of pressure that follows people well past the room where it happens.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Conversion therapy chills the room.
Conversion therapy is named plainly here.
This episode features a compilation of spelling bee segments from the podcast, along with a preview of an interview with Harvard decision scientist Julia Minson about disagreeing better.
This episode features an interview with Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez, a conversion therapy survivor, discussing his personal experience, the impact of conversion therapy, and the current Supreme Court case Childs v.
This episode discusses conversion therapy, LGBTQ+ topics like LeAnn Rimes and lipstick lesbians, and includes personal reflections on GLP medication for weight management.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
The hosts discuss personal updates including birthdays, weddings, and honesty while teasing topics like GLP-1 and JVN's memory hack.
Jonathan Van Ness celebrates his birthday by bringing Dylan Mulvaney in for a warm, quick-moving conversation about trying to be your best self.
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness mixes birthday-week banter, an Afroman lawsuit story, a Broadway spelling bee, and a Blue Mounds beagle protest.
Jonathan Van Ness opens by asking whether people lash out, then leans into jokes about self-sabotage and overwhelm as a warm-up for Dr.
Jonathan kicks off the Monday Edit with weather whiplash and a bit of dopamine dressing.
Getting Better opens on dopamine dressing, treating clothes as a way to think about mood, perception, and self-expression.
This episode features an interview with Betches Media co-founder Sami Sage, discussing her investigative work on the Epstein files and her approach to providing deeper context in news reporting compared to other social media influencers.
Jonathan Van Ness interviews Melissa Urban about setting healthy boundaries, including when going no contact with loved ones is necessary for self-care and healing.
Jonathan Van Ness interviews Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon about successfully transitioning from competitive sports to entertainment and activism while discussing career pivots.
Jonathan Van Ness interviews comedian Heather McMahan about protecting peace through self-care, blending humor with personal stories of friendship and trauma.
This episode features Tori Dunlap discussing how to build financial self-confidence through a feminist lens, addressing debt, savings, and investing for empowerment.