Former US champion gymnast Jennifer Sey first blew the whistle on the culture of bullying and abuse in top level gymnastics in her 2008 book Chalked Up. She's now produced a new Netflix documentary called Athlete A about Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics doctor who sexually abused many of those in his care.

Loneliness is natural, normal and very common — but it's also bad for our health, says Dr Vivek Murthy, former Surgeon General of the United States. Being lonely can increase our risk of heart disease, depression and anxiety and have negative effects on our sleep, work performance and even our kids' school performance, he tells Jesse Mulligan.

The physical effects of ageing on women should not be taboo, says writer and former TV presenter Joan Lunden. She hopes to bring their universality to light — with a sense of humour — in her new book Why Did I Come into This Room? A Candid Conversation about Aging.

The medical profession is still ill-equipped to deal with the intricacies of headaches and how to manage them, according to Durham University Professor Amanda Ellison. Her new book Splitting was written in response to this gap in medical care and that headaches tell us a huge deal about what is going on in our physiology.

Noreena Hertz new book is The Lonely Century - Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart. In a world where robots are replacing people and you can rent a friend, Noreena Hertz looks at our fundamental need for connection and community and offers ideas for how we can re-connect.

Overthinking is a common form of anxiety says psychologist Gwendoline Smith. But there are ways to get it under control. Dr Smith offers practical ways to shut down the worry machine in our heads in The Book of Overthinking: How to Stop the Cycle of Worry.

Every day, we do something 25,000 times and mostly, we do it wrong. We breathe in and out badly, says journalist James Nestor.

Deborah Chambers QC is one of our leading relationship property lawyers. She talks about the process and pitfalls of getting a divorce. She says the process while painful needn’t be horrific. “Most New Zealanders do manage to avoid it being horrific because most New Zealanders are concerned for their children and for their previous partner".

TV and print journalist Jehan Casinader was named Broadcast Reporter of the Year at the Voyager Media Awards in 2020. He's also just written a book This is Not How it Ends about his experience of depression. He joined Jesse to share his story and his favourite songs, books, TV, films and podcasts.

Professor David Tipene Leach, from EIT, has won the 2020 Tahunui-a-rangi Award from the Royal Society Te Apārangi. David led a team which applied mātauranga Māori to create the wahakura, a woven flax bassinet to address the problem of sudden unexpected death in infancy by creating a safe shared sleeping space for babies in their parents’ bed.