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Episode #376: David Perell – Why You Should Write
David Perell believes writing online is one of the biggest opportunities in the world today. For the first time in human history, everybody can freely share their ideas with a global audience. David seeks to help as many people publish their writing online [...]
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Episode #375: Miranda Hawk – How To Cultivate A Loving Relationship
Miranda Hawk is an award winning sales professional, builder of teams, and is on the board for multiple non-profit organizations. Miranda is my wife, and together we are striving to raise our daughters to be kind, strong, hard-working, resilient leaders. Miranda is the former owner of the Dayton Mom Collective, a business that [...]
Episode #374: Alexandra Carter – How To Ask For More (10 Questions To Negotiate Anything)
Alexandra Carter is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School. She has spent the last eleven years helping thousands of people negotiate better, build relationships and reach their goals. In 2019, Alex was awarded the Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University’s [...]
Episode #373: Bill Perkins – How To Get All You Can From Your Money & Your Life
Bill Perkins is a hedge fund manager, film producer, and high stakes poker player from Houston, Texas. He focuses on venture capital and energy markets. He founded Small Ventures USA, L.P in 1997 and later joined Centaurus Energy in 2002. He currently manages Houston-based energy hedge fund, Skylar Capital. Bill is the [...]
Episode #372: Will Guidara – The Nobility Of Service: Lessons Learned From The #1 Restaurateur In The World
Will Guidara is an American restaurateur based in New York City. Will co-owned the Make It Nice hospitality group, established in 2011, which owns and operates Eleven Madison Park, NoMad New York, NoMad Los Angeles, NoMad Las Vegas, NoMad Bar and Made Nice. Will is also the co-author of four books with [...]
Episode #371: Maria Konnikova – How To Pay Attention, Master Yourself, & Win
Maria Konnikova is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, The Confidence Game, winner of the 2016 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, an Anthony and Agatha Award finalist. Her new book, The Biggest Bluff, will be out from Penguin Press on June 23, 2020. She is a regularly contributing writer for The [...]
Episode #370: Steve Herz – Don’t Take Yes For An Answer
Steve Herz is President of The Montag Group, a sports and entertainment talent and marketing consultancy. He is also a career advisor to CEOs, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and young professionals. Prior to joining TMG, Steve was the President and Founding Partner of IF Management, an industry leader whose broadcasting division became one of the [...]
Episode #369: Nancy Koehn & Adi Ignatius – Courageous Leaders Are Forged In Crisis
Nancy Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn’s research focuses on how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact. She’s the author of multiple books, her most recent: Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous [...]
Episode #368: Jim McKelvey – How To Build An Unbeatable Business (One Crazy Idea At A Time)
Jim McKelvey is the co-founder of Square, was chairman of its board until 2010, and still serves on the Board of Directors. In 2011, his iconic card reader design was inducted into the Museum of Modern Art. Jim also founded Invisibly, a project to rewire the economics of online content; LaunchCode, a [...]
Episode #367: Ozan Varol – How To Think Like A Rocket Scientist
Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist, award-winning law professor, and author of non-fiction books. A native of Istanbul, Turkey, Ozan grew up in a family of no English speakers. He moved to the United States by himself at 17 to attend Cornell University and major in planetary sciences. While there, he served [...]
Episode #366: Laurie Santos – The Science Of Well-Being (Psychology & The Good Life)
Laurie Santos is a cognitive scientist and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She has been a featured TED speaker and has been listed in Popular Science as one of their “Brilliant Ten” young scientists in 2007 as well as in Time magazine as a “Leading Campus Celebrity” in 2013. In January 2018, her course titled Psychology and [...]
Episode #365: James Altucher – How To Become An Idea Machine (The 10,000 Experiment Rule)
James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, chess master and prolific writer. He has started and run more than 20 companies and is currently invested in over 30. He is the author of 18 books, including WSJ best-sellers: ‘The Power of No’ and ‘Choose Yourself’. His latest book, “Reinvent Yourself” was [...]
Episode #364: Derek Sivers- How To Redefine Yourself, Make Big Decisions, & Live Life On Your Terms
Derek Sivers is a writer, musician, programmer, and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and former president of CD Baby, an online CD store for independent musicians. A professional musician since 1987, Sivers started CD Baby by accident in 1997 when he was selling his own CD on his website, and [...]











