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Every book Martha Beck recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Martha Beck has recommended or discussed 6 books on podcasts, as of May 15, 2025.
- Martha Beck has talked about books on 5 podcasts, as of May 15, 2025.
- Those books came up in 5 episodes, as of May 15, 2025.
- The 3 books Martha Beck has mentioned in the most episodes, not counting Martha Beck's own, as of May 15, 2025: Tao Te Ching, Whole Brain Living and The Divine Comedy.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Martha Beck aired on May 15, 2025.
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Across 5 podcasts. Every show Martha Beck appears on, in one place, not just one.
Martha Beck’s most mentioned books
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- Whole Brain Living by Jill Bolte Taylor
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- The master and his emissary by Iain McGilchrist
- Think Like A Monk by Jay Shetty
Martha Beck is a sociologist, life coach, and author who has appeared on prominent podcasts such as Huberman Lab, The Tim Ferriss Show, and Modern Wisdom. Beck has frequently discussed and recommended several books that deeply influenced her personal philosophy and psychological framework. On The Tim Ferriss Show and Modern Wisdom, she cited Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching as her absolute favorite book, utilizing its Eastern principles of perfection and effortless action to explain how the right hemisphere of the brain operates beyond speech. On Huberman Lab, she recommended Jill Bolte Taylor's Whole Brain Living and discussed Iain McGilchrist's The Master and his Emissary in relation to brain hemispheres and meaning. During her appearance on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Beck revealed that she has used Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy as a private self-help guide throughout her life, noting that she first read the literary epic at age eighteen while experiencing severe depression to help navigate a difficult period. In the same interview, she appreciated Jay Shetty's Think Like a Monk to highlight his dedication to his true nature. Additionally, Beck discussed her own autobiographical work Leaving the Saints on The Mel Robbins Podcast to explain how writing about her past experiences helped her break away from her former community and find personal freedom.
Books Martha Beck recommended or discussed
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Tao Te Ching
Recommended“As it says in my favorite book, the daajing, the Chinese daajing, th that which talks does not know, that which knows does not talk.”
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Leaving the Saints
Discussed“and then 10 years later I waited 10 years and then I wrote a book about it called leaving the Saints how I left the Mormons and found my faith because it was about how I had been set free by the experience of dealing with that”
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The Divine Comedy
Discussed“I have been using Dante's Divine Comedy as my own private self-help book my entire life.”
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The master and his emissary
Discussed“his book The Master and his Emissary says the part of the brain that knows meaning should be the master”
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Think Like A Monk
Discussed“And I love your story in Think Like a Monk about giving your first presentation to an empty room on a college campus and just nobody showed up and you still gave the presentation.”
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Books Martha Beck wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (8: passing, ad reads, own books)
“It's funny that you use um the term physics because I wrote a book called The Way of Integrity where I said you have to be in the truth, the truth of your own experience.”
“so after I wrote The Way of Integrity where I say look if you Integrity to me means that you are whole and in that's the what the word means”
“what I found in in the wonderful books I wrote I read about anxiety they always talked about how to get your anxiety to calm down”
“well there's to me there's a three-step process and there are three sections in the book the first one I I use it with the acronym cat calm art and Transcendence”
“this is so interesting because my friend Liz Gilbert of Eat Pray Love Fame that she wrote something before she was famous”
“Yeah, I know, and I call it what I—in the book that I just wrote called Beyond Anxiety.”
“I gave your 4-Hour Workweek to my then-teenage children.”
“And I actually wrote a book that's coming out next year, after I wrote The Way of Integrity , because I was so tough on myself in the integrity thing and it was making people anxious.”