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Change Agent

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How can learning the secrets of competitive breath holding help a woman fix an online shopping habit? What can a recovering alcoholic learn from a Domino's Pizza marketing campaign? Charles Duhigg, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of “The Power of Habit,” hosts this podcast that turns obstacles into opportunities. We unearth surprising stories from science and business to offer solutions to people's problems. Will the solutions work? We stick around to find out. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.

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Language: EN

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Change Agent commands nearly universal praise for its novel format and genuinely useful content. Listeners consistently celebrate the show's core premise—matching people grappling with real problems to outsiders whose unexpected expertise or lived experience offers surprising solutions—as both intellectually satisfying and immediately applicable to their own lives. The show is widely described as uplifting, well-produced, and thoughtfully hosted by Charles Duhigg, with reviewers frequently reporting they binged entire seasons in a single sitting. However, an overwhelming majority of recent and historical reviews express frustration that only five episodes were released; listeners across multiple years have been pleading for the podcast to return with new content, treating its apparent hiatus as a genuine loss. A small handful of negative reviews point to ethical concerns about guest safety in some episodes, though these are far outweighed by the volume of listeners demanding more.

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