Gillian Berner
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Adulting isn't easy, but we got you. Teach Me How To Adult is a smart, unfiltered podcast on everything you never learned growing up, because let’s be honest, no one prepared us for this. Between landing your dream job, crushing your love life, learning to invest, mastering your mindset and figuring out how to be happy along the way, there’s a lot to navigate. Join host Gillian Berner every week for expert interviews and game-changing advice on how we can all live our best lives. There’s more than one way to adult, and it is not always linear...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jillian turns relationship psychology and personal reflection into specific ways of communicating, setting boundaries and showing up for other people.
Teach Me How To Adult treats adulthood as a set of relationships that can be examined and changed. Jillian moves between guest conversations and solo reflection, connecting mental health and sexual health to ordinary choices about drinking, intimacy, friendship and asking for…
That 45-minute coffee might be your village, even if you miss the five-hour plans.
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A plainspoken self-help lens on how acts of service can slide into martyrdom, avoidance, and self-neglect.
The episode treats love languages as a sharp lens on self-sabotage, with acts of service doing most of the work. It ties that habit to martyrdom, task avoidance, procrastination, and the quiet tendency to withhold care from the self while waiting for other people to step in.
A grounded look at how nonstop news and social media can wear people down, with a few practical ways to push back.
The episode treats the 24-7 news cycle as a steady source of mental strain, tying that pressure to economic instability, political tension, war, and conflict.
A sharp look at how judgment often starts with discomfort.
The episode traces how judgment can spring from shame, comparison, and the urge to protect the self when something lands too close to a nerve.
A clear, practical take on money talks before sharing a home.
The episode frames money in a relationship as both practical and emotional, and it lands best when it ties family financial history to the habits people bring into a partnership.
A research-backed reminder to notice which early interests still feel alive.
Jillian centers the episode on a familiar question: whether childhood interests still matter once adult work life takes shape, then supports that idea with research.
A sex conversation that treats consent as a practical habit and makes agency feel usable.
Jillian uses a conversation about sex and intimacy to think through how people ask for pleasure that feels good, with consent and agency kept at the center. The piece works best when it treats agency as something practiced, not just praised.
A grounded look at repair, attachment, and what it takes to feel heard after conflict.
This episode handles repair after conflict best when it stops talking in abstractions and gets specific about what people need: feeling validated, understood, heard, and seen.
A blunt, useful rethink of friendship as small, repeatable care.
Jillian treats adult friendship as something built through small, repeatable acts of care rather than rare, difficult plans. She moves from the annoyance of 45-minute coffees to a clearer idea of reciprocity and capacity, and the examples do the heavy lifting: grocery shopping,…
Small habit changes meet hands-on AI experiments.
Host Gillian Berner shares tips on adulting, including travel and home hosting, with expert interviews and advice.
Amy Chan cites a Match and Kinsey Institute study finding that half of US singles went on zero dates last year, and blames culture, technology and social media for a "relationship recession." She recommends spending 15 minutes before a date cultivating awe, such as watching a video of the northern lights, and skipping social media research on the person.
The host discusses why people lose money during market crashes and recommends index funds and ETFs over individual stocks.
This episode discusses the psychology of decluttering and how it reduces anxiety by reprogramming neural pathways.
The host explores grit as the top predictor of success, drawing on Angela Duckworth's research to explain how passion and perseverance drive achievement.
Host Gillian Berner shares tips on navigating adulthood, including travel and hosting on Airbnb, with expert interviews and advice.
Martyrdom blocks closeness.
Bad news is everywhere.
This episode explores the difference between guilt and shame, and how understanding guilt can positively influence financial decisions and personal growth.
Judgment starts closer to home.
Talking money together?
Jillian explores how forgotten childhood interests contribute to adult career dissatisfaction.
Teach Me How To Adult talks with Darshana Avila, the erotic wholeness coach and sexological bodyworker seen on Netflix's Sex, Love, and Goop, about why eroticism is more than sex.
The conversation sits down with relationship voices to dig into attachment styles, communication, and what it takes to come back together after conflict.
Jillian opens by framing Teach Me How to Adult as a podcast about the things people never learned growing up.
Jillian treats adulthood as an unconventional, nonlinear process and shares lessons from love life, work, investing, mindset, and figuring out how to be happy along the way.
Teach Me How To Adult’s “How to Design Your Life Using Stanford’s Odyssey Plan” walks through a Stanford Designing Your Life exercise built by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.
Host Jillian provides 12 specific conversation-starter questions designed to help listeners navigate holiday social gatherings, avoid awkward small talk, and create deeper connections.
This episode talks plainly about what changes when alcohol stops being the default social tool.
Jillian uses this Teach Me How To Adult quickie to walk listeners through an end-of-year audit built around achievements, challenges, gratitude, a life balance wheel, and a time audit.
The conversation is about building confidence and security in relationships.
Jillian, host of Teach Me How to Adult, argues that her generation has “lost the art of having hobbies” and says the result is boredom, loneliness, and more doom scrolling.
Host Gillian Berner discusses using creativity and self-expression to improve mental and emotional health with poet and songwriter Adam.
Host Gillian Berner interviews financial expert Jess about toxic money behaviors and the psychology behind personal finance.
Host Gillian Berner discusses how to identify and navigate toxic work environments with expert advice.
Host Gillian Berner shares a personal travel story and introduces the podcast's mission to teach practical adulting skills through expert interviews.