The Daily Stoic
For centuries, all sorts of people—generals and politicians, athletes and coaches, writers and leaders—have looked to the teachings of Stoicism to help guide their lives. Each day, author and speaker Ryan Holiday brings you a new lesson about life, inspired by the thoughts and writings of great Stoic thinkers like Marcus Aurelius and Seneca the Younger. Daily Stoic Podcast also features Q+As with listeners and interviews with notable figures from sports, academia, politics, and more. Learn more at DailyStoic.com.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 2674
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
AI Isn't Stealing Creativity, It's Supercharging It | Rick Rubin (PT. 2)
Is AI the end of creativity, or the beginning of a new artistic era? Rick Rubin returns for PT. 2 of his conversation with Ryan about how AI is reshaping creativity and why the real art still lies in…
00:45:00 |
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Look Around, How Lucky We Are To Be Alive Right Now | 10 Quotes To Improve Your Life
For all the stupidity, for all the disasters, for all the noise and uncertainty, this is actually one of the least bad moments to ever exist.
📖 Preorder the final book in Ryan Holiday's The Stoic…
00:32:15 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
This Also Cannot Be Taken (Only Given Up) | Ask Daily Stoic
Why should a Stoic let the awfulness of the world make them feel awful? Why would we let someone else’s darkness cast a shadow on our own life?
📕 Book mentioned: Trust Me I’m Lying by Ryan Holida…
00:12:50 |
Thu 26 Jun 2025
AI Isn't Stealing Creativity, It's Supercharging It | Rick Rubin (PT. 1)
What if AI isn’t replacing creativity, but expanding it in ways we’ve never seen before? Rick Rubin joins Ryan to discuss the mysterious nature of using AI throughout the creative process. They talk …
00:42:40 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Stop Turning Challenges Into Catastrophes
Stress, anxiety, and concern don’t exist outside us but within us—which means we have the power to do something about it, too.
🪙 We are the creators of our anxiety. Which means we can also be th…
00:02:45 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Who Can Tell You You’re Wrong? | What's In Your Way Is The Way
The thing about power is not so much that it changes you but that it changes the people around you. It changes what they’re willing to say to you…and how they say it.
🎥 Watch Why Narcissistic Lea…
00:10:30 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
Letting Go Is Not Giving Up | The Long Way Around
Coming to terms with pain and setbacks and unfairness is critical to moving forward, to affecting change, to being a leader, to basic happiness.
📔 Pick up your own leather bound signed edition o…
00:08:32 |
Mon 23 Jun 2025
The Virtue That Makes All The Others Worth Having
“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” - Mark Twain
In this powerful talk, Ryan explains why justice is the true measure of leadership. This is a call to do the r…
00:42:33 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
The UNTOLD Emotional Struggles of History’s Most Powerful Men | Ron Chernow (PT. 2)
Mark Twain didn’t just write American classics, he lived one of the most powerful personal transformations in history. In Part 2 of this conversation, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow re…
00:45:48 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
You Must Avoid These Stains Too | How To Make The Right Decision (Even When It Will Cost You)
There are forces out there, just as tempting as power, that can cut us off from our values, from truth, from other people, from what matters. It takes work to resist them, to counteract them, and to …
00:38:35 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
You Can’t Be Afraid To Lose It | Ask Daily Stoic
The Stoics remind you that the point of financial security is to feel secure. The point of plenty is to realize that you have enough. You can’t fear losing what you had–there was a time you didn’t ha…
00:10:27 |
Thu 19 Jun 2025
This Cannot Be Taken (Only Given)
Powerful people can take from you. Yet the Stoics remind us: our character is our own.
📖 Preorder the final book in Ryan Holiday's The Stoic Virtues Series: "Wisdom Takes Work": https://store.dai…
00:02:39 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
The UNTOLD Emotional Struggles of History’s Most Powerful Men | Ron Chernow (PT. 1)
Brilliance without emotional control is often a recipe for destruction. In this episode, Ryan sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow, whose acclaimed biographies on Alexander Ha…
00:50:41 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Forgiveness, Can You Imagine? | Take A Walk
We will be wronged—by friends, by colleagues, by life itself. When that happens, we have a choice: to be consumed by bitterness or to rise above it. Marcus showed us the way. The question is, will we…
00:08:01 |
Tue 17 Jun 2025
How Astonished Would They Be? | No Shame In Needing Help
It is astonishing, this world we live in. And it is a gift, this philosophical tradition we carry forward.
📔 Pick up your own leather bound signed edition of The Daily Stoic! Check it out at the …
00:08:44 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
You're Wasting The One Thing You Can’t Get Back
What if the most valuable thing you’ll ever own is already slipping through your fingers?
🎥 Watch Robert and Ryan's conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvzsEopZ94Q
📕 Grab a cop…
00:11:42 |
Sun 15 Jun 2025
How To Survive In A World Of Assholes | Melinda Wenner Moyer
What does it take to stay good when the world feels like it’s falling apart? And how do we prepare the next generation to do the same? Science journalist and bestselling author Melinda Wenner Moyer j…
01:10:33 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
It’s About How You Respond | 7 Habits To Have The Most Productive Week Of Your Life
Nobody likes being criticized. Nobody likes it when someone highlights your mistakes. In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius tries to remind himself that he has the freedom to take correction and criticism.…
00:20:23 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
We Can’t Let Them Stop Us | Ask Daily Stoic
We cannot let them sully us—although we have to accept that they are going to do their best.
📚 Books mentioned:
Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday | https://store.dailystoic.com/
🎙️ Follow Th…
00:12:17 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
The Deadly Cost of Honor in The Wild West | Bryan Burrough
The Wild West is full of myths, but behind the gunfights and honor codes is a deeper story about virtue and civilization. In today’s episode, bestselling author Bryan Burrough joins Ryan to explore t…
01:05:07 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
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