2025 Year In Review… And a Look Ahead to 2026
2025 Review and a Look Ahead to 2026 Leading up to 2025, my teammate, Geron Stokes, convinced our Learning Leader Circle members to choose a word of the year. I’d heard of the idea but [...]
Episode #659: Derek Sivers – Not Waiting for Permission, Hell Yeah or No, Leadership Lessons From The Dancing Guy, & Why The Standard Pace is for Chumps
Derek Sivers is the founder of CD Baby and author of "Hell Yeah or No" and "Useful Not True." He shared how he graduated from Cal Berkeley in two years instead of four [...]
Episode #605: Seth Godin – How To Be Remarkable, Create a Strategy, Build a Tribe, Develop Taste, Lead Others, & Leave a Dent in The World
Seth Godin is the author of 21 international bestsellers that have changed the way people think about work and art. They have been translated into 38 languages. His breakthrough books include Purple Cow, [...]
Episode #601: Matt Mullenweg (CEO of Automattic) – Defining Your Creed, Hiring Talented Leaders, & Leading in a Remote World
Matt Mullenweg is the CEO of Automattic. Automattic is a fully distributed company with 1,900 employees. Matt is known for developing the free and open-source web software, WordPress. WordPress is used by 43.4% [...]
Episode #586: Erika Ayers Badan (Former Barstool Sports CEO) – Deserving Great Mentors, Learning From Failure, Building Your Career, Earning Your Dream Job, & Other Hard Truths About Life As A CEO
Erika Ayers Badan is the CEO of Food52. Prior to that, she was the CEO of Barstool Sports, one of the most influential sports, lifestyle, and entertainment media brands on the internet. From [...]
Episode #556: Morgan Housel – A Guide To Human Behavior, Telling Great Stories, Becoming a Reasonable Optimist, Writing Advice, Mr. Beast, & What Never Changes
Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund. He’s the author of The Psychology of Money, which has sold over four million copies, and The New York Times Bestseller Same As Ever: [...]
Episode #554: Tim Urban – Becoming a High-Rung Thinker, Being The Boss of The Ideas In Your Own Head, Writing Wait But Why, & The Best Advice He’s Ever Received
Tim Urban is the writer/illustrator and co-founder of Wait But Why, a long-form, stick-figure-illustrated website with over 600,000 subscribers and a monthly average of half a million visitors. He has produced dozens of [...]
Episode #492: Scott Galloway – Finding What You’re Good At, Handling Criticism, & What It Means To Be A Man
Scott Galloway is a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he teaches brand strategy and digital marketing to second-year MBA students. A serial entrepreneur, he has founded nine firms, [...]
Things I’ve Learned From Interviewing 500 of the World’s Most Productive Achievers (A Birthday Essay)
I'm in Houston, Texas preparing to go on stage in front of 500 people to deliver a keynote speech about The Pursuit of Excellence. Today is also my birthday. Birthdays seem to be a good [...]
Episode #486: Brent Beshore – Growth Without Goals, Continuous Improvement, & The Art Of Sales
Brent Beshore is the Founder and CEO of Permanent Equity, a Midwestern-based private equity firm. They take a long-term approach to private equity, investing “permanent equity” in small to midsize privately held companies [...]