About the show

Curiosity is a practice.
This is where we practice it.

The Smarter Podcast started with a simple hunch: that the best ideas get sharper when you talk them through with someone who's spent a lifetime thinking about them. So that's what we do — every week.

We love a good question

There's no shortage of advice in the world — most of it loud, simple, and wrong. We'd rather sit with the harder, more honest version of things. The version that respects how complicated it actually is to learn, to grow, to live a good life.

Each episode is one long, unhurried conversation with someone worth listening to — a researcher, a writer, a founder, a monk, a teacher. We ask better questions and we let the answers breathe.

2026
Recording since
124
Long-form conversations
Your hosts

The voices in your ears

Quincy Solano

Host & Creator

Spent a decade in adult education before starting the show. Quincy runs the interviews and has a gift for the unhurried follow-up question that gets a guest to finally say what they really mean.

Jeremy Lum

Co-Host & Producer

A former philosophy major and audio obsessive, Jeremy produces every episode, pressure-tests the big claims, and keeps the conversations honest.

How we make it

Three things we promise

01

No clickbait thinking

We don't dumb ideas down. We make them clear, which is harder and a lot more useful.

02

Real conversations

Unscripted, unhurried, and edited only for clarity — never to make someone sound smarter than they are.

03

Always free

Every episode, every platform, no paywall. Learning shouldn't be locked behind a subscription.

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