# Beat Your Genes Podcast Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101.md RSS feed: https://feeds.libsyn.com/462585/rss Official site: https://beatyourgenes.org/ Author: Nathan Gershfeld Episodes: 402 ## Resource Evolutionary psychology with Dr. Doug Lisle, PhD and Nathan Gershfeld, D.C. Most psychology advice treats your brain like a broken machine. Beat Your Genes starts somewhere different: your instincts aren't broken. They're just optimized for a Stone Age environment that no longer exists. Dr. Lisle - Evolutionary psychologist, former Stanford lecturer, and co-author of The Pleasure Trap - has spent decades developing frameworks that explain human behavior from the ground up. Nathan Gershfeld, D.C. - trained first as an electrical engineer and then spent 14 years as a Doctor of Chiropractic. He brings a systems thinker's curiosity to every conversation. He mostly lets Dr. Lisle talk. Topics include relationships and attraction, self-esteem, personality, depression and anxiety, willpower, the ego trap, and how pushy people exploit agreeable ones. 380+ episodes. New episodes every other week. New here? Start at beatyourgenes.org/start-here ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101.md ## Episodes - [386: How to Handle Bad Advice Without a Fight](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/386-how-to-handle-bad-advice-without-a-fight) — 2026-07-10T12:16:00+00:00 - [385: It's Not the Men. It's Who You Keep Choosing.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/385-it-s-not-the-men-it-s-who-you-keep-choosing) — 2026-06-26T15:25:00+00:00 - [384: What Looks Like a Flaw Is Actually a Strategy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/384-what-looks-like-a-flaw-is-actually-a-strategy) — 2026-06-10T15:08:00+00:00 - [Why Your Bad Moods Are Never Random](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/why-your-bad-moods-are-never-random) — 2026-06-03T19:41:00+00:00 - [Perfect on Paper, But Not for Me - Mate Value, Attraction, and the Disagreeable Personality](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/perfect-on-paper-but-not-for-me-mate-value-attraction-and-the-disagreeable-personality) — 2026-05-13T18:00:00+00:00 - [When the Marriage Is Over, but the Mortgage Isn't](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/when-the-marriage-is-over-but-the-mortgage-isn-t) — 2026-04-29T20:31:00+00:00 - [380: You're Not Overreacting About Your Partner (Here's why)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/380-you-re-not-overreacting-about-your-partner-here-s-why) — 2026-04-15T19:15:00+00:00 - [379: Why Your Partner Stopped Trying (It's Not What You Think)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/379-why-your-partner-stopped-trying-it-s-not-what-you-think) — 2026-04-02T03:44:00+00:00 - [378: All's Fair in Love, War, AI, and the Marketplace](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/378-all-s-fair-in-love-war-ai-and-the-marketplace) — 2026-03-24T19:18:00+00:00 - [377: Dr. Lisle ESCAPES Dubai … to talk about Acceptance/Commitment therapy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/377-dr-lisle-escapes-dubai-to-talk-about-acceptance-commitment-therapy) — 2026-03-11T00:21:00+00:00 - [376: He wants the physical, She wants the emotional](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/376-he-wants-the-physical-she-wants-the-emotional) — 2026-03-05T22:40:00+00:00 - [375: Am I Still Hot? The OCD-Like Anxiety of Aging](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/375-am-i-still-hot-the-ocd-like-anxiety-of-aging) — 2026-02-05T05:32:00+00:00 - [374: Gloat Therapy: What to Do with a Defiant Child](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/374-gloat-therapy-what-to-do-with-a-defiant-child) — 2026-01-28T22:37:00+00:00 - [373: I was in a Traumatic Relationship – How to Recover?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/373-i-was-in-a-traumatic-relationship-how-to-recover) — 2026-01-20T20:18:00+00:00 - [372: Love, Lust, Lies & Lost Motivation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/372-love-lust-lies-lost-motivation) — 2026-01-20T20:15:00+00:00 - [371: Evo Psych Didn't Ruin Anything, You're Just Focused on the Scary Part](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/371-evo-psych-didn-t-ruin-anything-you-re-just-focused-on-the-scary-part) — 2025-12-11T03:18:00+00:00 - [370: Chasing vs. Coasting: Why the Dynamics Change for Both Sexes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/370-chasing-vs-coasting-why-the-dynamics-change-for-both-sexes) — 2025-11-19T19:00:00+00:00 - [369: Love - The Glue Between Anxious Women and Wandering Men](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/369-love-the-glue-between-anxious-women-and-wandering-men) — 2025-11-06T01:17:00+00:00 - [368: Great Romance vs. Great Regret… PLUS: Can the "Least Attractive" Still Be Happy?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/368-great-romance-vs-great-regret-plus-can-the-least-attractive-still-be-happy) — 2025-10-01T17:06:00+00:00 - [367: Emotional Affairs: A Modern Problem in an Ancient Brain](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/367-emotional-affairs-a-modern-problem-in-an-ancient-brain) — 2025-09-19T04:09:00+00:00 - [366: Closing an Open Loop – Friend Disappeared 17 years ago](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/366-closing-an-open-loop-friend-disappeared-17-years-ago) — 2025-09-11T19:11:00+00:00 - [365: Hustle Culture, Burnout, and the Evolution of Self Esteem](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/365-hustle-culture-burnout-and-the-evolution-of-self-esteem) — 2025-08-22T23:38:00+00:00 - [364: Marriage: Nature's Most Optimistic Mistake?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/364-marriage-nature-s-most-optimistic-mistake) — 2025-08-07T01:36:00+00:00 - [363: Too Anxious to Relax, Too Average to Admire?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/363-too-anxious-to-relax-too-average-to-admire) — 2025-07-23T21:34:00+00:00 - [362: Esteem, Friendship, and Finding Your People](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beat-your-genes-podcast-601101/362-esteem-friendship-and-finding-your-people) — 2025-07-11T22:45:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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