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Understand yourself and the world better with Jacob J. Watson-Howland, Europe’s fastest-growing U21 podcaster & award-winning BBC-featured photographer. Crowned one of Spotify’s most popular & most shared new shows, ahead of 93% of podcasts in 2025. Featuring deep-dive conversations on psychology, philosophy, self-improvement, history, entrepreneurship & AI with guests like Evan Carmichael (4.4M+ YouTuber), Jim Cantrell (SpaceX Co-founder), Lord Matt Ridley, Tyler Cowen & 100+ more. ___ In 2 months, I went from 0 to 3.0M+ views & dream guests in my bedroom at 20. Start your own podcast today using my blueprint: https://www.skool.com/remote-pro-podcast-blueprint-8385/about

  1. #78: Jesus' Bones Would Destroy Christianity: PhD Geomythologist Exposes The Dark Truth Experts Ignore - Timothy Burbery

    1D AGO

    #78: Jesus' Bones Would Destroy Christianity: PhD Geomythologist Exposes The Dark Truth Experts Ignore - Timothy Burbery

    Ancient myths aren't superstition, they're survival manuals. Geo-mythologist Timothy Burbery has spent his career proving that the stories your civilization dismissed as legend are actually encoded records of real catastrophes, real people, and real miracles. Timothy Burbery is a Marshall University professor, published author, and the mind behind TED-Ed videos on dragons and mythology with over 2 million views. He’s the man building the bridge between science and the ancient world. Subscribe to understand yourself and the world better. You’ll learn: –Why finding the bones of Christ would actually undermine the entire faith, and what that reveals about the power of myth –How geo-mythology decodes ancient stories as real historical and geological records –The tribe that survived a disaster that killed 200,000 people — because they had the right story –Why the same myths your culture calls superstition have saved entire civilisations from destruction –What it means to be a scientist who believes in the miraculous, and whether faith and scholarship can coexist –How dragon myths and ancient legends map onto real-world events –The one question every Christian must answer: can you believe in Jesus without believing in the Resurrection? Timothy’s Work 📺 TED-Ed Video (2M+ views): Why do so many cultures have dragon legends? 📘 Book — Geomythology: How Common Stories Reflect Earth Events (Routledge, 2021): Routledge listing 🌐 Marshall University Profile: marshall.edu/english/profile/timothy-burbery 📄 Academia.edu (Research Papers): marshall.academia.edu/TimothyBurbery Jacob’s Work Website: https://www.jacobjwatsonhowland.com Music created using Eleven Music by ElevenLabs

    1h 26m
  2. #77: Why Real Connection Is So Rare (And How to Find It) - Ashlee Raymond

    MAR 3

    #77: Why Real Connection Is So Rare (And How to Find It) - Ashlee Raymond

    Why does real connection feel so rare, and what does hiding from yourself actually cost you? Ashlee Raymond is a writer, PA student, and published poet at 25 who's amassed thousands of Substack readers in just six months by saying what nobody else will. She's lived through elite-level figure skating, her dad's brain cancer diagnosis, heartbreak, and a quarter-life crisis, and turned every bit of it into writing that makes strangers message her in paragraphs. Subscribe for weekly conversations on love, identity, and learning to live without a mask. You’ll learn: VALUE BULLETS –Why curiosity is a lost art, and how dating apps have completely destroyed the ability to truly know someone –The one shift that changes every relationship: "It is more intriguing to be interested in somebody than to be interesting" –How Ashlee grew thousands of Substack readers in 6 months by writing journal entries she was terrified to post –The hidden cost of hiding yourself just to be liked, and why it quite honestly makes you feel like sh*t –What 11 years of elite figure skating taught her about identity, obsession, and losing yourself in one thing –How her dad's brain cancer diagnosis changed her life's direction, and why it led her to medicine –The real reason we stay in relationships we know aren't right (it's not stupidity, it's neurochemistry) Ashlee’s Work: Substack: ⁠https://substack.com/@ashleewrites⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/ashrayray/⁠ Book - Deep Dive: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/deep-dive-Ashlee-Raymond/dp/B0DDGY36CM/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.RKaSvNBj6dBRYTEzi6OUA5S0mbYYBtG4He1wwuDt55U.AhBhjaH6ivHHCDO7NRPNhw1ULUWNv0rjIW5Z3O-GjeA&dib_tag=se&keywords=deep+dive+ashlee+raymond&qid=1772535379&sr=8-1⁠ Jacob’s Work Website: ⁠https://www.jacobjwatsonhowland.com⁠

    2h 31m
  3. #76: How to Grow on Substack & Feel Less Lost in Your 20s - Sydney Rheeder

    FEB 27

    #76: How to Grow on Substack & Feel Less Lost in Your 20s - Sydney Rheeder

    How do you find your true self in your twenties when school, social media, and everyone else's timeline are pulling you in every direction? Sydney Rheeder, South African writer, designer, and creator of for the record®, one of Substack's fastest-growing personal essays newsletters, gets brutally honest about shame, perfectionism, vulnerability, and building a creative life from scratch. Subscribe for weekly conversations on self-discovery, creativity, and living deliberately in your twenties. VALUE BULLETS –Why the most vulnerable, "cringey" thing you post will almost always perform the best –How Sydney went from 0 to 9,000 Substack subscribers in under two months, and the YouTube strategy behind it –The real reason we feel so lost in our twenties, and why school is largely to blame –Why shame is the most dangerous emotion you can carry, and how therapy helped Sydney face her childhood self –The difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and why chasing external validation will make you quit –How to balance ambition with presence: Sydney's personal mantra, persevere with patience –Why your creative niche doesn't need to be chosen, it finds you when you start –The Alan Watts "life as a dance" philosophy that completely reframed how Sydney thinks about success 00:00 Substack Growth Surprise 00:38 Repurposing YouTube Stories 01:34 Why Vulnerability Resonates 03:27 Emma Watson Storytelling Lesson 07:13 Fear of Being Seen Online 10:31 Suppressing Your True Self 16:34 Finding Your Inner Voice 19:31 Experience Over Self Help 21:01 Exposure Therapy and Toastmasters 26:14 Bravery Through Coralline 29:23 Journaling Patterns and Perfectionism 31:47 Therapy as Unbiased Witness 34:41 Shame and Childhood Healing 39:54 Beyond Achievement and Finish Lines 41:37 Chasing the Finish Line 42:44 Dance With the Moment 44:28 Persevere With Patience 46:21 Rituals Over Social Media 47:53 All Or Nothing Cycles 48:59 Alignment And Seasons 50:48 Daily Pauses And Boredom 53:43 Letting Ideas Find You 55:48 Intrinsic Vs Extrinsic Values 01:00:21 Using Negative Fuel Wisely 01:03:03 Creative Dreams And Career Doubts 01:05:37 Why Twenties Feel Lost 01:08:41 What School Never Taught 01:10:21 Industrial Age Education 01:12:24 Side Hustles For Freedom 01:15:19 Sunday Scaries And Taking Risks 01:17:24 Start Before Youre Ready 01:18:25 Keep Going While Young RESOURCES / LINKS 📝 Sydney's Substack — for the record®: https://fortherecordink.substack.com 📺 Sydney's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALqf9ZBI2zOZU7HdOMcmkA 📸 Sydney's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sydneyrheeder/ 🎵 Sydney's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sydney_rheeder Jacob’s Work Website: https://www.jacobjwatsonhowland.com

    1h 19m
  4. The 3 T's That Attract Women - Dr Robert Glover

    FEB 25 · BONUS

    The 3 T's That Attract Women - Dr Robert Glover

    The "Three T's" of attraction: Touch, Tell, and Tease. Dr. Robert Glover, author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, explains why most men self-censor their natural impulses around women, how anxiety becomes contagious and kills attraction, and why attachment to outcomes is the root of all dating anxiety. Subscribe for unfiltered dating psychology that cuts through the noise. VALUE BULLETS The Three T's explained: Touch, Tell, and Tease—and why men shouldn't turn them into mechanical techniques How to touch women confidently (hand on the small of the back, leading her somewhere, leaning in) without being creepy Why "telling" her what to do (not asking permission) demonstrates masculine leadership women respond to The playful teasing mistake: It's not about telling jokes—it's about speaking the obvious with dry wit Why men who say "I'm not funny" actually are—they just censor themselves before speaking The "blurt" principle: Act on impulse instead of overthinking every move How male anxiety becomes contagious and triggers women's fight-or-flight response Why attachment to outcomes creates anxiety and gives women all the power in the interactio Jacob’s Work Podcast blueprint (Skool): https://www.skool.com/remote-pro-podcast-blueprint-8385 FREE Podcast Tips (2nd Channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUp5S7ZIZtjA8PMgXJMwppA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jacobjwatsonhowland Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0r4v5xgyYz0rTFSLklk0Em Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watson-howland/id1813625992 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobwatsonhowland Website: https://www.jacobjwatsonhowland.com

    2 min
  5. #75: WW2's Secret Story: The Scientists Who Starved for the Future - Simon Parkin

    FEB 23

    #75: WW2's Secret Story: The Scientists Who Starved for the Future - Simon Parkin

    During the 900-day Siege of Leningrad, scientists guarded a collection of 250,000 seeds as their city starved, and some chose to die rather than eat them. Award-winning journalist and author Simon Parkin reveals the full untold story. Simon Parkin is a contributing writer for The New Yorker and The Observer, and author of The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad, named a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American and The Economist, and an NYT Editors' Choice. Subscribe for weekly conversations on history, science, and the stories you were never taught. 00:00 The Extraordinary Story of the Seed Bank 04:36 The Siege of Leningrad: A Historical Overview 08:50 Nikolai Vavilov: The Visionary Behind the Seed Bank 13:45 The Moral Dilemma: Seeds vs. Survival 18:20 The Botanists' Struggle: Protecting the Collection 22:37 Legacy of the Seed Bank: A Testament to Sacrifice 27:49 Survivor Accounts and Historical Challenges 29:04 The Seed Bank's Role During the Siege 30:41 The Importance of Preserving Seeds 31:29 Finding Obscure Stories in History 34:13 Internment of Enemy Aliens in Britain 35:59 Conditions in Internment Camps 39:53 Nuances of British History During WWII 41:39 Famous Figures in Internment Camps 42:32 Upcoming Projects and Future Stories 44:24 Philosophical Reflections on Life and Death VALUE BULLETS –The Siege of Leningrad lasted 900 days, why more people died there than in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined –How ordinary people survived starvation: swapping pianos for bread, burning furniture for warmth, and worse –The impossible moral dilemma: should the scientists feed the seeds to the starving, or protect them for future generations? –The man who built the world's first seed bank, and was arrested by Stalin and ironically died of starvation in the Gulag –Why a scientist died at his desk with a packet of almonds in his hands that he refused to eat –How 90% of the seeds preserved in the siege exist nowhere else on Earth. and why that still matters today –Britain's shameful secret: how Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany were interned in British camps in 1940 –Simon's next book: Trial of the Space Invaders, the true story of the court case that tried to determine who invented video games Simons Work: 📖 The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad (Simon & Schuster): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Forbidden-Garden/Simon-Parkin/9781668007662 📖 The Island of Extraordinary Captives (Simon & Schuster): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Island-of-Extraordinary-Captives/Simon-Parkin/9781982178529 🌐 Simon Parkin's website: https://www.simonparkin.com 🎙️ My Perfect Console Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/6PzHHkwpOs8YFgzqoKRXAi

    52 min
  6. The CIA Created Mind-Controlled Assassins & Then Buried the Evidence - Dr Colin Ross

    FEB 21 · BONUS

    The CIA Created Mind-Controlled Assassins & Then Buried the Evidence - Dr Colin Ross

    The CIA deliberately created split personalities in real human beings as spy weapons, and it's all in declassified documents. Psychiatrist Dr Colin Ross breaks down how MK Ultra and Project Bluebird used Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) to manufacture Manchurian candidates: operatives who couldn't reveal mission details under interrogation because a separate alter personality held the information. Even more shocking, two founding board members of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, the organisation set up to discredit DID, were top-secret-cleared CIA contractors. One of them killed an elephant with LSD. Another's experiments at Harvard produced the Unabomber. This isn't conspiracy theory. It's admitted to by the US military and CIA in declassified Senate committee hearings. 🎧 Full episode: https://youtu.be/j2JmpgpzazY Jacob’s Work Podcast blueprint (Skool): https://www.skool.com/remote-pro-podcast-blueprint-8385 FREE Podcast Tips (2nd Channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUp5S7ZIZtjA8PMgXJMwppA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jacobjwatsonhowland Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0r4v5xgyYz0rTFSLklk0Em Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watson-howland/id1813625992 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobwatsonhowland Website: https://www.jacobjwatsonhowland.com #MKUltra #DID #psychology

    7 min
  7. #74: Islam vs Christianity Debate: Did Jesus Really Die? - John Bellaimey

    FEB 20

    #74: Islam vs Christianity Debate: Did Jesus Really Die? - John Bellaimey

    Islam says Jesus didn't die. Christianity says he did. TED educator John Bellaimey reveals what the scriptures actually say — and it's not what you'd expect. The biggest question dividing Islam and Christianity: did Jesus actually die on the cross? John Bellaimey, author, former academic, and creator of one of TED's most-watched talks on world religions, breaks it all down. A rare educator who explains Islam, Christianity, and Judaism without an agenda, just scholarship, curiosity, and a lifetime of study. Subscribe for weekly conversations on understanding the world and yourself. VALUE BULLETS –Why Islam and Christianity agree on far more about Jesus than most people realise –The Islamic teaching that Jesus didn't die on the cross, and what really happened instead –How Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all grew from the exact same tree –Why most people confuse religion with God, and why that matters –The yin and yang of religious balance and how to apply it to your daily life –What "Tikkun Olam" actually means, and why it redefines what Judaism is really about –How to understand sin across all major religions: it's not about evil, it's about missing the mark –The hidden reason Islam, Christianity, and Judaism keep conflicting despite sharing the same roots 00:00 Why You Can't Understand the World Without Religion 03:49 God vs. Organised Religion: Don't Confuse the Two 10:54 How Religion Evolved From Hunter-Gatherers to Monotheism 21:57 Yin & Yang: The Hidden Balance in All Major Religions 26:56 Compassion: The Core Principle of Every True Religion 44:34 The Four Life Stages and Finding Spiritual Balance 48:30 How and When Did Judaism Actually Begin? 51:04 The Rise of Monotheism and Why It Dominates the World 53:21 What Everyone Gets Wrong About Judaism 59:04 Christianity's True Relationship With Judaism 01:05:42 Islam's Surprising Connection to Jesus, Mary & the Bible 01:10:50 Why Do Religions Conflict If They Share the Same Roots? John's TED-Ed Talk: The Five Major World Religions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6dCxo7t_aE John's TED-Ed Talk: The Hidden Meanings of Yin and Yang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezmR9Attpyc Book: The Tree of World Religions (2nd Edition) https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-tree-of-world-religions-second-edition-john-bellaimey/1128421858 Jacob’s Work YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jacobjwatsonhowland #IslamVsChristianity #WorldReligions #religion

    1h 6m
  8. The Formula I Told Chris Williamson To Attract Women - Dr Robert Glover

    FEB 18 · BONUS

    The Formula I Told Chris Williamson To Attract Women - Dr Robert Glover

    What makes women viscerally attracted to men? Dr. Robert Glover, relationship expert and author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, shares the three-part masculine energy formula that went viral after Chris Williamson spread it to Alex Hormozi, Mark Manson, and millions of men worldwide: be comfortable in your own skin, know where you're going, and look like you're having a good time getting there. Subscribe for more raw dating psychology that actually works in the real world. VALUE BULLETS The three-part attraction formula that female dating coaches call "visceral"—and why it works on primal levels How to recognize subtle signals women send when they're attracted (hip jutting, "accidental" cleavage, repeated proximity) Why men who spend time with other men radiate masculine energy that women find irresistible The Amsterdam steakhouse story: How 12 men at a men's retreat turned on "everything feminine" around them without trying What "comfortable in your own skin" actually means—letting go of shame, accepting what you can't change, and working on what you can Why most men are completely oblivious to open doors and available women right in front of them The waitress test: How Dr. Glover got a phone number in 10 seconds by simply walking through an already-open door The biggest fear holding men back from approaching women—and why it almost never happens in reality Jacob’s Work Podcast blueprint (Skool): https://www.skool.com/remote-pro-podcast-blueprint-8385 FREE Podcast Tips (2nd Channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUp5S7ZIZtjA8PMgXJMwppA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jacobjwatsonhowland Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0r4v5xgyYz0rTFSLklk0Em Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watson-howland/id1813625992 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobwatsonhowland Website: https://www.jacobjwatsonhowland.com

    8 min
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Understand yourself and the world better with Jacob J. Watson-Howland, Europe’s fastest-growing U21 podcaster & award-winning BBC-featured photographer. Crowned one of Spotify’s most popular & most shared new shows, ahead of 93% of podcasts in 2025. Featuring deep-dive conversations on psychology, philosophy, self-improvement, history, entrepreneurship & AI with guests like Evan Carmichael (4.4M+ YouTuber), Jim Cantrell (SpaceX Co-founder), Lord Matt Ridley, Tyler Cowen & 100+ more. ___ In 2 months, I went from 0 to 3.0M+ views & dream guests in my bedroom at 20. Start your own podcast today using my blueprint: https://www.skool.com/remote-pro-podcast-blueprint-8385/about

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  • Creator
    Jacob J. Watson-Howland
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    200
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Jacob J. Watson-Howland
  • Show Website
    Watson-Howland

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