Work in Progress: Carson Daly
Drama Queens
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 23.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Carson Daly has been a defining voice in pop culture for more than three decades, but despite his warmth, humor and openness in front of the camera, behind the scenes, he's struggled with potentially career-crushing anxiety.
Carson opens up about his first panic attack which took place in his TRL dressing room and how he went from thinking he was “broken” to becoming a leading voice for mental health.
Find out how he's turned his self-awareness into a superpower and uses his mental health toolkit to help others, even on live TV.
Learn more about the Project Healthy Minds World Mental Health Day Festival at https://www.projecthealthyminds.com/
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Hey everyone, it's Sophia. |
| 0:06.8 | Welcome to Work in Progress. |
| 0:19.2 | Welcome back to Work in Progress. This week, we have a guest that I admire so much, |
| 0:25.1 | who I also have some major blast from the past, overlap energy with, and a future upcoming project |
| 0:33.1 | with too. Today we are joined by Carson Daly. You know him as a defining voice in American media for more than |
| 0:41.7 | three decades now. Where I first encountered him was on MTV's Total Request Live. I will never forget |
| 0:48.8 | what it felt like to go with One Tree Hill to TRL for the first time and look through those |
| 0:53.2 | windows in Times Square and be like, |
| 0:54.7 | are all these people here to see us? What? He went on to be the late night host of Last Call with Carson |
| 1:00.7 | Daily, and today he is the longtime host and producer of the Emmy-winning hit series The Voice. |
| 1:07.5 | But beyond all of his incredible media success, Carson is compassionate. |
| 1:12.9 | He has such an easy rapport with artists and guests and people he meets out in the street |
| 1:19.5 | because he is such an open human being and a kind man. |
| 1:24.3 | He's chosen to offer his platform to really bold and honest conversations about mental health, |
| 1:31.5 | first sharing his experience with generalized anxiety disorder and severe panic attacks, |
| 1:36.5 | and emerging as a leading advocate for destigmatizing mental illness, |
| 1:40.9 | which, by the way, we should call mental health care, mental fitness, perhaps. |
| 1:45.6 | That commitment of his is reflected in his work with Project Healthy Minds, where he serves on the board |
| 1:50.4 | of directors, and he hosts the non-profits annual World Mental Health Day Gala, which is a landmark |
| 1:57.2 | event that blends storytelling, performance, and philanthropy to access care. And this |
| 2:02.3 | year, I will be joining Carson and other advocates that he has gathered for World Mental Health Day |
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