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Sunday Pick: Kristen Bell on delivering honesty with empathy | from ReThinking with Adam Grant

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🗓️ 31 May 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On today's "Sunday Pick" on TED Talks Daily, we're bring you an episode from the TED Podcast ReThinking with Adam Grant. You probably know Kristen Bell as the star behind characters like Veronica Mars, Princess Anna from Frozen, and Eleanor from The Good Place. In this episode, Adam sits down with Kristen live at BetterUp’s Uplift leadership summit to examine how she’s learning to overcome her people pleasing tendencies and stop internalizing other people’s emotions. Kristen gets in character to demonstrate how to be honest without being unkind. She also makes the case that compliments are underrated, opens up about her strategies for dealing with envy, and offers a surprising theory of why we overexplain.



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0:00.0

Happy Sunday, y'all.

0:04.9

Elise Hugh here.

0:05.8

Today we're bringing you a Sunday pick

0:07.8

where we share an episode of another podcast from TED

0:10.3

handpicked by us for you.

0:12.7

You probably know Kristen Bell

0:15.0

as the star behind characters like Veronica Mars

0:17.8

or the voice of Princess Anna from Frozen, or as Eleanor from the Good

0:23.3

Place. In this episode of Rethinking with Adam Grant, Kristen Bell and Adam sat down for a live

0:28.9

conversation to talk about a side of Kristen that fewer people know. They explore how she's

0:34.3

learning to overcome her people-pleasing tendencies and stop internalizing

0:38.1

other people's emotions. Kristen gets in character to demonstrate how to be honest without being

0:43.5

unkind. She also makes the case that compliments are underrated, opens up about her strategies

0:49.4

for dealing with envy, and offers a surprising theory of why we over-explain.

0:54.9

To hear more deep conversations, you can find rethinking wherever you get your podcasts.

0:59.9

Learn more about Ted's podcasts at podcast.com.

1:03.9

Now on to the episode, right after a quick break.

1:16.6

My job is morale, period. My job is not to come in and make the strongest creative decisions.

1:20.6

We have writers for that.

1:22.6

We have a showrunner.

1:23.6

The prop department people know what they're doing.

1:25.6

My job is morale.

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