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Greatest Day Podcast

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Everyday setbacks, turned into steady growth.

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Greatest Day Podcast is a direct, informal mental health and mindset show built from ordinary moments: gym bags, parenting strain, Instagram questions, and emotional messiness. Its advice leans practical, encouraging, and rooted in therapy-and-coaching language without losing its casual phone-recorded feel.

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About Greatest Day Podcast

Greatest Day Podcast is a mindset and mental health show shaped around practical encouragement, personal responsibility, and everyday emotional work. Its central voice speaks from therapy and coaching experience, but the show rarely feels like a formal lecture. It often starts in motion. A forgotten pair of socks becomes a lesson about helping future self. A set of Instagram questions opens into therapy, ADHD, parenting, and even a strange personal-detail detour. A message from a friend about Instagram becomes a reflection on social media becoming less social and more algorithmic. The show is at its best when it uses these ordinary setups to make growth feel specific rather than abstract. It returns to familiar but useful territory: getting back to work on oneself, welcoming failure without letting it take over, separating self-worth from outcomes, and learning how to repair after yelling. The parenting material is especially grounded in regulation, modeling, and the way children watch adults respond under stress. The emotional-health material is direct about mixed feelings, grief with gratitude, and the idea that more than one inner experience can be true at once. There is a recurring interest in DBT, ACT, nervous-system language, and the day-to-day tools people use to cope. The show’s energy is loose, conversational, and sometimes transparently improvised. That informality is part of the appeal. It makes the guidance feel close to the moment that produced it. The show does not promise a complete blueprint. It offers reminders, reframes, and small practices that can be used immediately. Some episodes lean into Q&A, while others follow a single observation until it turns into a mindset lesson. Across these episodes, Greatest Day Podcast keeps arguing for effort over performance, repair over shame, and steady recommitment over all-or-nothing change. It suits listeners who want practical mental health reflection without a heavily produced format. Its difference is the blend of casual immediacy and therapy-minded structure: ordinary life gets translated into something a person can actually practice that day.

Made for: Suits a listener who wants therapy-informed encouragement, practical mindset prompts, and direct talk about parenting, emotions, and self-work. It fits someone who prefers casual reflection over polished self-help packaging.

What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its immediacy: small real-life moments become quick, usable lessons about repair, effort, self-worth, and regulation. It sounds less like a seminar and more like a thoughtful note recorded while the lesson is still fresh.

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The Greatest Day Podcast by Craig T. SmithWhat is the Greatest Day Mindset?The Greatest Day Mindset is a lifestyle, a way of living every day with a positive attitude. It is choosing to be happy and live your life with energy, no matter your circumstances. Today truly is the only day you have to live, shape, and create who it is you want to become so choose to ​MAKE TODAY THE GREATEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE!

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Spilled milk, then the look toward your face: Craig T. Smith notices the part you might miss.

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  • a way to repair things after you yell, without pretending you never lose your temper
  • permission to feel grief and gratitude at once without making either feeling win
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#575: Q&A- Therapy, ADHD, parenting and belly button lintMar 18, 2026

A loose phone-recorded Q&A turns therapy and ADHD advice into practical, personal guidance.

The episode turns an Instagram Q&A box into a loose, useful pass through procrastination, ADHD, therapy, and careful conversations with loved ones.

#567: The truth about mixed emotionsDec 10, 2025

A therapist's case for letting grief and gratitude occupy the same emotional room.

Greatest Day Podcast takes up a question people often rush past: whether grief and gratitude can exist in the same moment. Drawing on more than 16 years in clinical therapy, the host uses DBT's idea that two things can be true at once, along with ACT's parallel-passenger image,…

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Episodes

  1. 1

    #539: Don’t be a zombie, bring the energy

    ·11m
  2. 2

    #574: Social Media is killing connection in your life

    ·9m
  3. 3

    #573: Welcome failure, just don’t let it stay too long

    ·7m
  4. 4

    #572: Treat your growth journey like salad dressing and protein shakes

    ·8m
  5. 5

    #571: The “don’t do” list of growth and wellness

    ·14m
  6. 6

    #570: The Cost of Yelling and the Power of Repair

    ·37m
  7. 7

    #569: Be a cheerleader for someone today

    ·5m
  8. 8

    #568: Stop planning your change and take action

    ·8m
  9. 9

    #567: The truth about mixed emotions

    ·27m
  10. 10

    #566: Give yourself permission to “not know”

    ·11m
  11. 11

    #565: Why Change Takes Longer Than You Think

    ·7m
  12. 12

    #564: Gratitude Deep Dive

    ·9m
  13. 13

    #563: Your relationship problem isn’t communication, it’s connection

    ·24m
  14. 14

    #562: Expectations, Disappointments, and embracing sucking at things in life

    ·16m
  15. 15

    #561: Impact is not the same as intention

    ·8m
  16. 16

    #560: I’ve never been this low in my life before

    ·19m
  17. 17

    #559: Inner Greatness Challenge Series

    ·15m
  18. 18

    #558: The Focus Journal is here!

    ·22m
  19. 19

    #557: Stop Outsourcing Self-Awareness

    ·14m
  20. 20

    #556: You are not your thoughts

    ·11m
  21. 21

    #555: Dear Elizabeth

    ·17m
  22. 22

    #554: How to shift your mindset if nothing ever feels complete

    ·16m
  23. 23

    #553: 2 Methods to help keep social media from overwhelming you

    ·17m
  24. 24

    #552: Focus on making it right, when you don’t get it right

    ·8m
  25. 25

    #551: You’re human, not broken

    ·9m
  26. 26

    #550: “I don’t like you Craig.”

    ·9m
  27. 27

    #549: Say No with confidence and compassion

    ·24m
  28. 28

    #548: Don’t Ignore Patterns For Potential (and other relationship tips)

    ·13m
  29. 29

    #547: ‘Your Greatest Life’ program comes to an end

    ·14m
  30. 30

    #546: Stop Typing Yourself, You’re Not a Quiz Result

    ·9m
  31. 31

    #545: Don’t turn away the things you ask for

    ·12m
  32. 32

    #544: What’s wrong with me?

    ·10m
  33. 33

    #543: This is your responsibility

    ·10m
  34. 34

    #542: It’s Not About The Cups

    ·18m
  35. 35

    #541: Recognizing and Receiving Love

    ·21m
  36. 36

    #540: The growth you desire happens on the go

    ·7m
  37. 37

    #575: Q&A- Therapy, ADHD, parenting and belly button lint

    ·26m
  38. 38

    #538: Practicing Self-Care

    ·11m
  39. 39

    #537: Stop letting the past hurt your love

    ·22m
  40. 40

    #536: 7 ways to be more dependable in your relationship

    ·10m
  41. 41

    #535: Stop arguing about the same thing

    ·14m
  42. 42

    #534: 10 Relationship Tips For Deeper Connection

    ·11m
  43. 43

    #533: How to be a support person

    ·19m
  44. 44

    #532: 4 steps to get out of the rut

    ·12m
  45. 45

    #531: Don’t let awareness hold you back

    ·8m
  46. 46

    #530: My Final Message

    ·15m
  47. 47

    #529: Men’s Mental Health

    ·6m
  48. 48

    #528: Maintain respect and kindness during disagreements

    ·15m
  49. 49

    #527: Election Day - how I voted and why

    ·11m
  50. 50

    #526: Stop measuring yourself against future you

    ·3m
  51. 51

    #525: Think it but don’t speak it

    ·8m
  52. 52

    #524: It only takes one

    ·8m
  53. 53

    #523: Rediscovering YOU as kids grow up

    ·10m
  54. 54

    #522: Your Greatest Life Returns

    ·16m
  55. 55

    #521: Stop being a victim

    ·17m
  56. 56

    #519: The Mother’s Day card you won’t find in stores

    ·11m
  57. 57

    #518: Father’s Day Letter

    ·10m
  58. 58

    #517: How To Conquer False Threats

    ·9m
  59. 59

    #516: Do this when you feel judged by others

    ·8m
  60. 60

    #515: Your relationship might be over but your marriage doesn’t have to end

    ·6m
  61. 61

    #514: Stop chasing the bottom of the to-do list

    ·4m
  62. 62

    #513: Let your mood rise with the sun

    ·4m
  63. 63

    #512: Go To Sleep

    ·3m
  64. 64

    #511: Begin to challenge your thoughts using this method

    ·3m
  65. 65

    #510: Prepare for Disaster (If this, then that)

    ·4m
  66. 66

    #509: Common Humanity

    ·7m
  67. 67

    #508: The Power of Reframing

    ·8m
  68. 68

    #507: Personal Hygiene and Mental Wellness

    ·7m
  69. 69

    #506: Mental Health Tip- Psychological Flexibility

    ·4m
  70. 70

    #505: This is the best thing you can do for your mental health

    ·8m
  71. 71

    #504: You are making a difference

    ·11m
  72. 72

    #503: The Next New Adventure

    ·12m
  73. 73

    #502: You don’t have to love everything about yourself

    ·6m
  74. 74

    #501: THANK YOU!

    ·12m
  75. 75

    #500: Therapy (coaching) isn’t reserved for hard times

    ·5m
  76. 76

    #499: Comfort or Growth and Healing? You decide

    ·8m
  77. 77

    #498: Listen to this if you are feeling like a failure in life

    ·15m
  78. 78

    #497: Stop chasing stats if you want to win

    ·11m
  79. 79

    #496: Today’s work is creating tomorrow’s light

    ·6m
  80. 80

    #495: Can’t afford therapy, try this

    ·11m
  81. 81

    #494: Toxically Positive

    ·11m
  82. 82

    #493: I failed the marathon training program

    ·9m
  83. 83

    #492: How to deal with negativity and drama in your life

    ·9m
  84. 84

    #491: 4 Things to stop saying in your life

    ·13m
  85. 85

    #490: Marathon Training Updates

    ·15m
  86. 86

    #488: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should

    ·8m
  87. 87

    #489: Anxious, Excited, or Both?

    ·11m
  88. 88

    #487: Get better where it matters

    ·5m
  89. 89

    #486: Communication Tips- Respond, Recover, and Repair

    ·9m
  90. 90

    #485: Gratitude Shift

    ·7m
  91. 91

    #484: No 1 thing is the solution in life

    ·5m
  92. 92

    #483: Who are you becoming

    ·8m
  93. 93

    #482: National Winner’s Day

    ·6m
  94. 94

    #481: UNstacking Habits

    ·18m
  95. 95

    #480: Marathon Man

    ·11m
  96. 96

    #479: Create a Value-Driven Life

    ·18m
  97. 97

    #478: Don’t look at the walls

    ·8m
  98. 98

    #477: Are you running away from your problems?

    ·12m
  99. 99

    #476: Millennium Falcon Theory of Life

    ·7m
  100. 100

    #520: Ultimate Mental Health Giveaway

    The host announces a mental health coaching giveaway on Instagram, reflecting on the importance of authentic content creation and consistency.

    ·26m
  101. 101

    #577: Show up for future you

    A short motivational reminder to take actions today that will benefit your future self, illustrated by a personal anecdote about finding socks in a gym bag.

    Apr 15, 2026·5m
  102. 102

    #576: You are always worth getting back to work on

    A therapist shares how mindful check-ins with past clients reveal the power of reaching out and the importance of working on yourself.

    Apr 14, 2026·9m
  103. 103

    #575: Q&A- Therapy, ADHD, parenting and belly button lint

    Hidden gem

    Greatest Day Podcast #575 is a Q&A episode built around ADHD, therapy, parenting, and a belly-button-lint question.

    Mar 18, 2026·26m·2 clips
  104. 104

    #574: Social Media is killing connection in your life

    The host discusses how social media is becoming less social and more media-focused, using a personal anecdote about an Instagram friend to illustrate the issue.

    Feb 25, 2026·9m
  105. 105

    #573: Welcome failure, just don’t let it stay too long

    A motivational talk about overcoming failure by getting back into action, using personal stories to illustrate the importance of resilience.

    Feb 20, 2026·7m
  106. 106

    #572: Treat your growth journey like salad dressing and protein shakes

    Feb 13, 2026·8m
  107. 107

    #571: The “don’t do” list of growth and wellness

    Feb 10, 2026·14m
  108. 108

    #570: The Cost of Yelling and the Power of Repair

    Hidden gem

    Craig answers an Instagram question from a mom of three children under five who says she yells and hates it.

    Feb 5, 2026·37m·2 clips
  109. 109

    #569: Be a cheerleader for someone today

    Jan 17, 2026·5m
  110. 110

    #568: Stop planning your change and take action

    Jan 16, 2026·8m
  111. 111

    #567: The truth about mixed emotions

    Hidden gem

    ["Greatest Day Podcast #567 argues that grief and gratitude, or relief and sadness, can exist at the same time.", "Craig says his 16+ years in clinical therapy, plus an Instagram poll tied to a holiday post, convinced him that \"emotional co-activation\" is normal.", "He uses childbirth, graduation, divorce, funerals, parenting stress, and personal growth to show how mixed emotions show up in real life.", "He closes with a practical method: name both sides, notice where each feeling sits in the body, and let values rather than feelings guide behavior."]

    Dec 10, 2025·27m·1 clip
  112. 112

    #566: Give yourself permission to “not know”

    Nov 21, 2025·11m
  113. 113

    #565: Why Change Takes Longer Than You Think

    Nov 14, 2025·7m
  114. 114

    #564: Gratitude Deep Dive

    Nov 5, 2025·9m
  115. 115

    #563: Your relationship problem isn’t communication, it’s connection

    The Greatest Day Podcast episode argues that couples often have a connection problem rather than a communication problem, because criticism and defensiveness follow weakened care and compassion.

    Oct 24, 2025·24m·1 clip
  116. 116

    #562: Expectations, Disappointments, and embracing sucking at things in life

    Craig explains how lowering expectations can reduce disappointment when reality falls short.

    Sep 6, 2025·16m·1 clip
  117. 117

    #561: Impact is not the same as intention

    Sep 5, 2025·8m
  118. 118

    #560: I’ve never been this low in my life before

    Craig describes a six-month depressive period that began around February, during which he gained weight and stopped going to the gym.

    Aug 29, 2025·19m·1 clip
  119. 119

    #559: Inner Greatness Challenge Series

    Aug 22, 2025·15m
  120. 120

    #558: The Focus Journal is here!

    Craig introduces a redesigned Focus Journal with 90 days of structured entries and new prompts for priorities, challenges, and values.

    Aug 1, 2025·22m·1 clip
  121. 121

    #557: Stop Outsourcing Self-Awareness

    Jul 24, 2025·14m
  122. 122

    #556: You are not your thoughts

    Jul 10, 2025·11m
  123. 123

    #555: Dear Elizabeth

    Jul 8, 2025·17m
  124. 124

    #554: How to shift your mindset if nothing ever feels complete

    Jun 12, 2025·16m
  125. 125

    #553: 2 Methods to help keep social media from overwhelming you

    Jun 10, 2025·17m
  126. 126

    #552: Focus on making it right, when you don’t get it right

    Jun 3, 2025·8m
  127. 127

    #551: You’re human, not broken

    Jun 2, 2025·9m
  128. 128

    #550: “I don’t like you Craig.”

    May 23, 2025·9m
  129. 129

    #549: Say No with confidence and compassion

    This episode teaches how to set boundaries and say no with confidence and compassion, using a free worksheet and scripts from a coaching call.

    May 21, 2025·24m
  130. 130

    #548: Don’t Ignore Patterns For Potential (and other relationship tips)

    May 5, 2025·13m
  131. 131

    #547: ‘Your Greatest Life’ program comes to an end

    Apr 27, 2025·14m
  132. 132

    #546: Stop Typing Yourself, You’re Not a Quiz Result

    Apr 25, 2025·9m
  133. 133

    #545: Don’t turn away the things you ask for

    Apr 22, 2025·12m
  134. 134

    #544: What’s wrong with me?

    Apr 8, 2025·10m
  135. 135

    #542: It’s Not About The Cups

    Mar 28, 2025·18m
  136. 136

    #543: This is your responsibility

    Mar 28, 2025·10m
  137. 137

    #541: Recognizing and Receiving Love

    This episode explores how people, especially men, often fail to recognize or receive love due to narrow perceptions and barriers, and offers insights on giving and receiving love more openly.

    Mar 21, 2025·21m
  138. 138

    #540: The growth you desire happens on the go

    Mar 18, 2025·7m
  139. 139

    #539: Don’t be a zombie, bring the energy

    Mar 13, 2025·11m
  140. 140

    #538: Practicing Self-Care

    Mar 12, 2025·11m
  141. 141

    #537: Stop letting the past hurt your love

    Mar 7, 2025·22m
  142. 142

    #536: 7 ways to be more dependable in your relationship

    Mar 5, 2025·10m
  143. 143

    #535: Stop arguing about the same thing

    Feb 28, 2025·14m
  144. 144

    #534: 10 Relationship Tips For Deeper Connection

    Feb 26, 2025·11m
  145. 145

    #533: How to be a support person

    Feb 25, 2025·19m
  146. 146

    #532: 4 steps to get out of the rut

    Feb 23, 2025·12m
  147. 147

    #531: Don’t let awareness hold you back

    Feb 19, 2025·8m
  148. 148

    #530: My Final Message

    Dec 11, 2024·15m
  149. 149

    #529: Men’s Mental Health

    Nov 14, 2024·6m
  150. 150

    #528: Maintain respect and kindness during disagreements

    Nov 7, 2024·15m