Make Vulnerability Your Superpower (with NBA star Kevin Love)
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Not many elite athletes talk openly about mental health, but five-time NBA All-Star Kevin Love is changing that. After a very public panic attack on the basketball court he was told to "snap out of it". But Kevin decided to discuss his "dark moments" of anxiety and depression and show that vulnerability is actually a strength.
The sports star joins Dr. Laurie to talk about overcoming generational trauma, the pressures of toxic masculinity, and how speaking up can change the game for all of us.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight, |
| 0:08.4 | I help a centenarian mend a broken heart. |
| 0:11.0 | How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? |
| 0:18.5 | And I help a man atone for an armed robbery he committed at 14 years old. |
| 0:24.0 | And so I pointed the gun at him and said, this isn't a joke. |
| 0:29.2 | And he got down, and I remember feeling kind of a surge of like, okay, this is power. |
| 0:33.9 | Plus, my old friend Gregor and his brother try to solve my problems through hypnotism. |
| 0:39.6 | We could give you a whole brand new thing where you're like super charming all the time. |
| 0:43.0 | Being more able to look people in the eyes. |
| 0:44.9 | Not always hide behind a microphone. |
| 0:47.5 | Listen to heavyweight wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:50.1 | Music Pushkin. |
| 1:07.4 | As a happiness researcher, I'm grateful to live in 2025, a time when there's been an explosion |
| 1:15.1 | of conversations about the importance of taking care of your well-being. But we're honestly |
| 1:20.0 | still in the early stages of breaking the silence around the mental health issues that so many |
| 1:24.5 | of us struggle with. And in some communities, the stigma against dealing with these issues still runs deep. |
| 1:30.0 | Men, for example, are much less likely than women to seek counseling or treatment for mental |
| 1:35.0 | health challenges. |
| 1:36.5 | And among athletes, that stigma can be even higher. |
| 1:40.3 | I've seen this firsthand with my student athletes at Yale. |
| 1:43.0 | Many of them hold themselves to incredibly |
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