Erin Jensen and Bhavana Chilukuri
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Most Self-Improved is a personal growth podcast that releases new episodes every other Thursday, or Thersday! Unless that's annoying, then let's just keep moving! Show hosts Erin Jensen and Bhavana Chilukuri are friends who met in a comedy class in 2019, which they'd enrolled in after being dumped. They quickly bonded over the shared habit of dreaming bold dreams and wanting to go after them. Quite candidly and humorously they'll admit to you that they don't have it allll figured out, but they are certainly trying! In each episode, Bhavana and Erin will talk to an expert (typically in the wellness...
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Most Self-Improved turns to careers, framing the challenge as moving toward a job one can stand, then like, then maybe love. The episode stays practical, leaning on transferable skills, hooks, and the harder double pivot when both the role and the industry change.
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Two hosts revisit one film, show, or book a week, plus long personal tangents.
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Robert Wright interviews specialists on Iran, Gaza, Ukraine, Taiwan, and open-source AI.
Career coach Emily Lamia explains how to pivot toward work you love by using 'little experiments,' prototype conversations, and prototype experiences from Designing Your Life by Dave Evans and Bill Burnett.
Beth Batson tells hosts Abhinav Chilokori and Erin Jensen that traditional goals fade like 'new relationship energy' because they are built on past results or on fixing what seems 'deficient or broken.' She distinguishes a vision, meaning the feeling you want, from a goal, which is 'one way to experience your vision,' and uses Erin's wish for a husband and child to surface the feelings of being cared for and giving love.
Licensed clinical social worker Merle Bombardieri, author of The Baby Decision (1981; updated 2016) and the new Baby or Child Free, tells hosts Bob Michalakori and Erin Jensen that ambivalence is normal and that the question to ask is 'which decision will I regret least?' She proposes making child-free the default, so that anyone who becomes a parent has actively chosen it.
Decision coach Nell Wulfhart tells Most Self-Improved hosts Erin Jensen and Bobna Chilokori that 'the decision making business is really just the regret minimization business.' She says people should separate the decision from the outcome, since 'none of us has a crystal ball' and a bad result does not make the choice bad.
Melissa Byron, founder of a solo travel company for women, began traveling alone in 2009 just before turning 30 instead of waiting for a partner to share Rome with.