Atticus is the anonymous poet and New York Times Bestselling author of Love Her Wild, The Dark Between Stars and The Truth About Magic. Dubbed “The World’s Most Tattoo-able Poet” by Galore Magazine, he has been featured in Time Magazine, Elle,

46. The Points Guy Brian Kelly | Travel, Mi Amor

Oct 25th, 2021 41m 53s

Brian Kelly aka The Points Guy has become one of the top influencers and experts in the travel and hospitality space. Anyone in my close circle knows how passionate I am about travel, my first true love, and my borderline obsession w points. I

45. Adventurer Grandma Joy | Age is Just a Number

Oct 11th, 2021 38m 41s

Grandma Joy (of “Grandma Joy’s Road Trip” fame) is a spunky 91-year-old adventurer who’s been traveling the country with her grandson, Brad for the last chunk of years. Their goal has been to try and visit all 63 U.S. National Parks and they’ve

44. Happiness Expert Gretchen Rubin | Know Thyself

Oct 4th, 2021 34m 7s

Writer Gretchen Rubin is widely known as an expert on Happiness and Good Habits. Few know that she actually started her career in law, as Editor of the Yale Law Review and clerking for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court.One day G

43. Religious Historian Kate Bowler | Laugh-Crying

Sep 27th, 2021 46m 28s

Kate Bowler is a religious historian and Professor at the Duke Divinity School. She’s also a witty, warm, wildly successful author, wife and mom living with Stage IV Cancer.Much of Kate’s early work was focused on the Prosperity Gospel - the b

42. Dr. Sunita Puri | That Good Night

Aug 30th, 2021 43m 48s

Sunita Puri is the Medical Director of Palliative Medicine at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California.She’s also the author of 2019 bestseller That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour.

41. Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble | Memento Mori

Aug 16th, 2021 39m 16s

Sister Aletheia was profiled by the NY Times in “Meet the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die” reviving the Memento Mori movement. Memento Mori is the practice of intentionally thinking about our own death as a means of appreciating the

40. Palliative Advocate Dr. BJ Miller | Take Good Care

Aug 9th, 2021 43m 11s

BJ Miller is a Hospice & Palliative Care Doctor with a unique path that brought him to this work.As a sophomore at Princeton, while goofing around one night with his buddies, BJ climbed on top of a sleeping commuter train and was immediately e

39. Writer Annabelle Gurwitch | Some Kind of Luck

Jul 26th, 2021 34m 23s

Writer and Comedic Actress Annabelle Gurwitch has a story I first read about in the New York Times in November that caused my own jaw to drop.Last summer, Annabelle walked into an Urgent Care Clinic in a mini mall for a COVID test...and walked

38. Author Greg McKeown | The Lighter Path

Jul 18th, 2021 41m 51s

Greg McKeown is a bestselling author and the host of the popular podcast What’s Essential where he talks to a wide range of guests about prioritizing what matters most in life.Yes, we hit on his new book Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What M

37. Executive Sheryl Sandberg | From Grieving to Meaning

Jul 11th, 2021 20m 49s

Sheryl Sandberg’s professional career is nothing short of legendary. In the early days at Google, she scaled ad sales from 4 to 4,000 people. Then she was handpicked by Mark Zuckerberg to become the COO at Facebook - a title she still holds. In

36. Palliative Care Nurse Cecilia Benns | My Ride or Die

Jun 27th, 2021 51m 28s

Meet my personal palliative care nurse, Cecilia Benns. If you don’t know what that is job is, or you associate it with hospice care for people who are like days out from dying, you’re not alone, and we’re here to help.Hoping people walk away w

35. Neuroscientist Martin Inderbitzin | Research Gets Real

Jun 21st, 2021 48m 43s

Dr. Martin Inderbitzin is a world-renowned Swiss-German Neuroscientist and Mindset Specialist whose previous research focused on stress, emotions and understanding how the brain and the body processes it all.Then 9 years ago, he received a gut

34. First Descents Founder Brad Ludden | Out Livin It

Jun 14th, 2021 41m 4s

Brad Ludden was a young professional whitewater kayaker whose life was first touched by cancer at 12 years old when his aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer. By 18, he was sharing his passion for kayaking with pediatric oncology patients and s

33. Actor Matthew McConaughey | Fight and Flow

Jun 6th, 2021 48m 10s

I’m sure you know Matthew McConaughey. He’s an Academy Award-Winning actor, a proud Texan, a Philanthropist, a new owner of Austin’s MLS team and most recently, a NYT bestselling author for his memoir, Greenlights.What Matthew and I talked abo

32. Death Doula Oceana Sawyer | What Dying is Like

May 31st, 2021 49m 43s

Oceana Sawyer is a former corporate trainer at companies like HP and Levi Strauss now turned death doula. Just like birth doulas who help bring babies into this world at the beginning of life, a death doula helps actualize the emotional and spi

31. Media Mogul Katie Couric | Going There

May 18th, 2021 49m 12s

There’s so much behind the 10,000 kilowatt smile of media mogul Katie Couric. More than just sunshine, Katie’s known tragedy and loss in her personal life and gained wisdom in hindsight from those experiences. After her first husband passed awa

Updates + Announcements

Apr 13th, 2021 17m 23s

We’re going to take a little hiatus from the weekly podcast production machine which has been churning and burning for 6 months now. I don’t imagine it will be too long because #notimetowaste but follow @notimetowasteproject on IG for updates.

30. Poet Maggie Smith | Keep Moving

Apr 5th, 2021 33m 35s

I only recently got introduced to Maggie Smith - the poet, not the actress - when I stumbled upon her book Keep Moving that I really loved. Whereas most books about navigating grief and loss have a somber, self-reflective tone, hers included sh

29. My Dad Frank Hadden | It Runs in the Family

Mar 29th, 2021 36m 47s

I genuinely believe my dad embodies much of what No Time to Waste is all about. I’ve witnessed first-hand his zest for life, his sense of adventure, his desire to help people and his evolution as a self-aware human. And I’ve realized only in re

28. Comedian Chelsea Handler | An Evolution

Mar 22nd, 2021 29m 56s

Chelsea Handler is a Comedian, television host, best-selling author and activist whose humor and candor have established her as one of the most celebrated voices in pop culture today.She hosted E!’s top rated Chelsea Lately for seven years, la

27. Rabbi Steve Leder | The Beauty of What Remains

Mar 15th, 2021 41m 4s

Rabbi Steve Leder heads up one of the largest Jewish congregations in the country at the Wilshire Blvd Temple in LA. In his most recent book “The Beauty of What Remains”, he shares his thoughts on navigating grief and loss through the lens of n

26. King of Transformation Rich Roll | Fueled by Curiosity

Mar 8th, 2021 37m 49s

Rich was once an overweight, hard-drinking corporate attorney who lost touch with the star swimmer he was at Stanford. Fast forward 20 years and now he’s a sober, plant-powered ultra endurance legend, a devoted family man who lives on a farm an

25. Advertising Boss Thas Naseemuddeen | More Than Muppets

Mar 2nd, 2021 33m 47s

Thas is the CEO of Omelet, an LA-based advertising agency, after working her way up the ranks as a brilliant strategist. We met years ago when I was her client and we both recognized quickly that we were each others’ people.Thas was forced to

24. Accidental Philanthropist Erin Foster | Some Real Talk

Feb 23rd, 2021 35m 21s

Erin Foster might have been born into a famous family (her dad is music mogul David Foster) but she didn’t have the charmed upbringing you might expect. Far from the shallow, superficial Hollywood celeb focused on all the wrong things, Erin’s g