"Every episode is a miniature work of art. So much depth, humor, and empathy packed into just a few minutes of ingeniously crafted interview audio and sound design."

- Hrishikesh Hirway, Song Exploder

10 Things That Scare Me is a marvel of minimalism—short, intimate episodes in which a single person lists ten of their deepest fears. With no host, no music, and no commentary, the podcast strips storytelling to its bones, allowing fear itself to be the narrator. The result is startlingly vulnerable: guests range from the famous to the anonymous, but all are reduced (or elevated) to a voice confessing what keeps them up at night.

Sometimes funny, often profound, the fears are rarely just about phobias—they touch on loneliness, death, failure, climate collapse, and the everyday terror of being human. The show resists analysis, offering instead a kind of sonic mirror: what others fear, we may recognize in ourselves. In its quiet way, 10 Things That Scare Me becomes not just a catalog of dread, but a strangely comforting affirmation that fear is universal, and sometimes, even oddly beautiful.