8 podcasts to help you live this life

1. "You are important"

Episode duration: 10–60 minutes.

Together with a practicing psychologist Elena Mitskevich, students learn to cultivate love and respect for themselves. Issues help to understand what events in childhood affect adult life and how to find a foothold when it seems as if the whole world is collapsing around.

The guests of the podcast are psychologists, entrepreneurs, bloggers. They share their experience in solving various life issues. For example, Anastasia Dmitrieva, a journalist and author of Your (In)Comfortable Child, a book about parenting, tells how she learned to be angry and feel healthy boundaries. And Svetlana Bronnikova, a clinical psychologist and head of the IntuEat Center for Intuitive Eating, explains how to build a relationship with food.

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2. "Glass of water"

Episode duration: 40 minutes.

A podcast about how to talk with your family on important topics and not quarrel. The presenters, together with invited experts, discuss what to do if the older generation demands grandchildren, is it normal to live with parents after 25 years of age, and what to do when it seems that they have disappointed the family.

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3. "Hackney Brain"

Episode duration: 15–50 minutes.

If you want to understand how the brain works, listen to a podcast by psychologist and coach Olga Kilina. From it you will learn whether it is possible to develop willpower, why people have false memories and whether it is true that good habits are developed in just a month. Or why people spend hours scrolling the social media feed or go to the refrigerator at night.

The presenter reinforces the story with scientific data, and sometimes invites guests. For example, the author of the book “Happiness in Activity” Philip Guzenyuk tells what happiness is and whether it is worth striving for.

The second season of Hackney Brain is only available in the new section with VK Music podcasts. You can listen to them for free, and with a subscription - without ads.

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4. "Look who's Talking"

Episode duration: 40–50 minutes.

The new season of the podcast is dedicated to self-care. Presenters Mikhail Volnykh and Daria Bakina, together with psychologist Elena Kotova, figure out how to avoid emotional burnout, stop being afraid of public speaking, reduce the stress of the news and get rid of the complexes associated with appearance. In each issue, listeners' stories are read and discuss how to find a way out of the situation.

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5. "Norm"

Episode duration: 30–60 minutes.

Journalists Dasha Cherkudinova and Nastya Kurganskaya are discussing how to stop being afraid of moving, you can whether to engage in creativity in adulthood, why the back hurts and what helps to develop eco habits. In almost every episode, the hosts share stories from listeners and take comments from experts. For example, you can hear the writer Oksana Vasyakina, the host of the podcasts “The Decline of the Empire” and “Time and Money” Andrei Aksyonov, the head of the “Body in Business” project Alexandra Vilvovskaya.

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6. "No one is right"

Episode duration: 40 minutes.

Hosts Ksenia Krasilnikova and Maria Karnovich-Valois call their podcast a depressive stand-up. In it, they easily talk about difficult things: mental health, the difficulties of motherhood or women's rights. You will learn what a sandwich generation is, how relationships can develop in a couple when one of the partners is experiencing depression, and why beauty does not require sacrifice. And you can also listen to a funny episode about personality typologies or a serious one about how to break off relations with unpleasant relatives.

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7. "Don't Teach Me How to Live"

Episode duration: 15–25 minutes.

A podcast for those who doubt themselves, despite the successes they have achieved. Life coach Alena Borjesson shares thinking techniques that will help you feel less anxious, feel your own value and stop winding yourself up. In short episodes, which you can listen to at breakfast or on your way to work, you will learn how to truly support yourself, it is easier to overcome turning points in life, and also to stop constantly rushing and enjoy the process of achieving goals.

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8. "Calculator"

Episode duration: 40–50 minutes.

The podcast will help you figure out how to save and increase money. The moderators are financial journalists Lev Parkhomenko and Sasha Krasnova. They, together with experts, tell what is happening with the real estate market in Russia, how to look for work in a crisis, and how cryptocurrency is useful. They also share their thoughts on how not to go broke on vacation, save money on learning a foreign language and profitably sell or buy a car.

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