Judson Althoff: Striving For Excellence and Finding Balance
Judson Althoff is executive vice president of Microsoft’s Worldwide Commercial Business organization.He leads the company’s commercial business strategy and...
Podcasts
John Nordstrom: Building Corporate Culture, Relationships, Authenticity
This conversation is with John Nordstrom -- of the Nordstrom high-quality fashion retailer in the US -- whose history has gone from a small shoe store, to havin...
Dr. Albert Bandura: The Theory on Creating Human Results
This conversation with Dr. Albert Bandura was an honor.He's literally a living legend in the field of Psychology. He's an extraordinarily innovative scholar...
Alec Stewart on Authenticity, Work Ethic, and Vision
In these conversations, it's my intent to really dig, relentlessly dig, to work to understand the truth. The truth of the nature of the conversation, but also t...
Shaka Smart: Bringing Out The Best in Others
Shaka Smart is the Men’s Basketball Head Coach at the University of Texas and he's got a phenomenal way about himself.It just jumps out of this conversation...
MJ Hegar: Escaping Death, Remaining Calm, and Trusting Self
First - real quick if you haven’t heard yet, we are pivoting from an ad-supported model to a crowdfunding model and we really need your support!You can lear...
Support Finding Mastery!
You may have gathered from many of our Finding Mastery guests that trying things, adjusting, pivoting, are all consistently brought up during the conversations....
Rick Welts: Warriors’ Success, Culture, Leadership
This conversation is with Rick Welts.He has 40 years of experience in the NBA and is currently the President & Chief Operating Officer of the Golden Sta...
Dr. Harry Edwards: Human Rights, Sport and Society
This conversation is loaded. The center of the conversation is Dr. Harry Edwards journey to impact human rights through the experiences of the African American ...
Adam Cheyer: Having a Vision, Approaching Insurmountable Challenges, and Authenticity
If you have an iPhone, you know Adam Cheyer's work. He was the Co-Founder of Siri, Inc.He's now the Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Viv Labs.Their m...
Jon Gordon: Team Building, Relationships, Connection
Jon Gordon is a best-selling author: including The Energy Bus, The Carpenter, Training Camp, The Seed, You Win in the Locker Room First and The No Complaining R...
Wendy Behary: Narcissism and High Performance
Wendy Behary is a founding fellow and consulting supervisor for The Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Aaron T. Beck Institute). Wendy has a specialty in treating na...
Scott Barry Kaufman: Authenticity, Creativity, Confidence
Scott Barry Kaufman is primarily interested in using solid psychological science to live a creative, fulfilling, and meaningful life.He's earned his researc...
Lisa Kerney: Growth Mindset, Vision, Being Present
Lisa Kerney is an anchor of the evening and night editions of SportsCenter.In this conversation we learn what it's like to have a childhood dream -- and -- ...
Tu Lam: Warfare, Service, Survival
This conversation is with Tu Lam. Tu is a modern day warrior, respected by his peers to have a very special understanding of elite war fighting. Tu shares how h...
Tribe Talk Pilot
Normally we sit down with people who are world class - masters of craft - and we work to deconstruct and decode how they became who they are.I want to do so...
In Remembrance: Ugo Ehiogu, Tottenham U23 Coach
This conversation is with Ugo Ehiogu, whom I just met in Great Britain. He was a former English professional footballer. If you're in the states you would call ...
Tina Seelig: Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship
Tina Seelig is Professor of the Practice in the Department of Management Science and Engineering, and a Faculty Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Pro...
Toto Wolff: Risk, Innovation, Winning
This conversation is with Toto Wolff. If you follow Formula One, you know what Toto has helped build over the past handful of years. He's an owner and the Head ...
Nile Rodgers: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Music, Collaboration
This conversation is with Nile Rodgers. If you've listened to music in the last 40 years, you've heard his work. By trade, he's a musician and a producer -- He'...
Chade-Meng Tan: Joy at Scale & Global Peace
Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is a Google pioneer, award-winning engineer, international bestselling author, thought leader and philanthropist. He retired from Google a...
Pat Byrne: Sleep Science & Leveraging Technology
This conversation with Pat Byrne is really about the building of an entrepreneurial venture based on sleep technology.The importance of getting quality slee...
Lawrence Levy: Pixar CFO, Decision Making, Relationships
Lawrence Levy is the author of To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History. Formerly a Silicon Valley lawyer and exec...
Krisztina “Z” Holly: Innovation, Impact, Manufacturing (Part 2)
Krisztina "Z" Holly is an MIT-trained engineer, tech entrepreneur, ed and pioneer. She was curator and host of the first ever TEDx (TEDxUSC) and founder of two ...
Krisztina “Z” Holly: Innovation, Impact, Manufacturing (Part 1)
Krisztina "Z" Holly is an MIT-trained engineer, tech entrepreneur, and pioneer. She was curator and host of the first ever TEDx (TEDxUSC) and founder of two uni...
Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler: Altered States of Consciousness, Stealing Fire
This conversation is with Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler. Many of you will remember Steven from our conversation about flow state -- if you missed that, check ou...
Dr. Judson Brewer: Habits, Mindfulness, Addiction
Dr. Judson Brewer is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”, having combined nearly 20 years of experience with mindful...
Cal Fussman: Questions, Storytelling, Adventure (Part 2)
This is part two of the conversation with Cal Fussman.
In part one, Cal took us deep and he took us into many different parts of his life that were wonderful a...
Cal Fussman: Questions, Storytelling, Adventure (Part 1)
This conversation, just like Cal Fussman, gets better as it goes. I really enjoy the conversations, that at the end, I walk away saying, man, I'd love to spend ...
David Goggins: The Hardest Human Alive, Ultra Runner
This conversation with David Goggins is real. This podcast is not for kids -- it's for adults -- who want to understand toughness and authenticity.David is ...
Jewel: Music, Insight, Community
This week’s podcast is a bit unique. It’s with singer-songwriter Jewel and also features a guest appearance from Wisdom 2.0 founder Soren Gordhamer.Soren’s ...
Amy Hood: CFO Microsoft, Purpose, Progression
Amy Hood is currently serving as the Chief Financial Officer at Microsoft Corporation -- whose corporate mission is: "Empower every person and organization on t...
Robert Greene: Mastery & Research
Robert Greene is author of the New York Times bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, and his fifth book...
Anne Devereux-Mills: Leadership, Philanthropy, Parenting
Anne Devereux-Mills is an incredibly accomplished human. She was the chairman and CEO of a number of ad agencies in New York City – which is a massive undertaki...
Mark Divine: SEALFIT, Mindset Training
This conversation is with Mark Divine. Mark and I first met a number of years ago at a high performance camp (Elite11).Mark served 20 years in the Navy SEAL...
Peter McLoughlin: Negotiation, Change, Management
This conversation is with Peter McLoughlin - the president of the Seattle Seahawks.
When most people think of professional franchises, they think of the athlet...
Nic Lamb: Training for Risk, Making Choices, the Ocean
Nic Lamb surfs very large waves. He's a professional surfer on the Big Wave Tour, and was ranked number 4 in the world last year.A native to the Santa Cruz ...
George Raveling: Hall of Fame Coaching, Progression, Being Relevant
George Raveling, referred to by many as “Coach”, is Nike’s Director of International Basketball. George is a husband, a father, a friend, and a mentor to many. ...
Jannell MacAulay: Air Force, Parenting, Health
Lieutenant Colonel Jannell MacAulay is currently the Commander of the 305th Operations Support Squadron at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey. She l...
Karan Bajaj: Mindfulness, Marketing, Sabbaticals
Karan Bajaj is a #1 bestselling Indian novelist with more than 200,000 copies of his novels in print, both optioned into major films. Karan's first worldwide no...
Dacher Keltner: Emotions, Awe, Power
Dacher Keltner is a social psychologist who focuses on the prosocial emotions, such as love, sympathy and gratitude, and processes such as teasing and flirtatio...
Michealene Risley: Storyteller, Empathy, Sexual Abuse
Michealene Risley is an award-winning writer, director, entrepreneur, and human rights activist. She has survived and thrived after being sexually assaulted as ...
Max Baumann: Millennial Entrepreneurship
Max Baumann is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Chill Group, Inc., makers of JUST CHILL® beverages as well as the Founder & President of BAS...
Drew Bledsoe: NFL Quarterback, Life Student, Entrepreneur, Wine
Drew Bledsoe was a star quarterback at Washington State University before he skipped his senior year to go professional. In 1993, he was the No. 1 NFL draft pic...
Vern Gambetta: Movement & Human Development
Vern Gambetta is currently is the Director of Gambetta Sports Training Systems. As a pioneer in the field he is considered the father of “Functional Sports Trai...
Lee Clow: Creative Genius, Loving, Listening
Lee Clow has been making this thing called “advertising” for more than 40 years. He started at Chiat Day in Los Angeles when there were 10 people and 2 accounts...
Paul Assaiante: Longest winning streak in NCAA, perspective, and courage
Coach Paul Assaiante knows how to motivate teams for success. As the current coach of the Men’s Squash team at Trinity College and the former Men’s Tennis team ...
Caroline Leaf: What’s Possible for the Mind
Dr. Caroline Leaf is a cognitive neuroscientist with a PhD in Communication Pathology specializing in Neuropsychology. Since the early 1980‘s she has studied an...
Anders Ericsson: The Science of Expertise
Anders Ericsson is a Swedish psychologist and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University who is internationally recognized ...
Kai Lenny: Watermen, Risk, Innovation
In the Hawaiian language Kai means ocean, and Kai Lenny certainly lives up to his name. Born on Maui to parents who loved to surf and windsurf, Kai has grown up...
Ryan Holiday: Ego, Obstacles, Writing
Ryan Holiday is a media strategist and prominent writer on strategy and business. After dropping out of college at nineteen to apprentice under Robert Greene, a...
Dan Harris: Authenticity, Panic, Mindfulness
Those that have earned authenticity are rare. At birth we are genuine - then people, environmental conditions and pop-culture pull us down windy trails until we...
Michael Gervais: Initial Thoughts From Rio
Michael Gervais spent the last three weeks in Rio De Janeiro supporting two different volleyball teams at the Olympics.
Throughout this experience, there were...
James Bond: Risk, Creative, Being Real
James Bond, co-founder of Undefeated, is one of the most recognized and well-curated sneaker boutiques in the world.
With its themes of victory and virtue, Ja...
Anthony Ervin: Swimming, Finding Authentic Self
Anthony Ervin is a U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist, former world record holder in the 50 freestyle, and former World Champion in the 50 and 100 freestyle. After winn...
Stephanie Labbé: Deep Focus, Soccer, Mindfulness
Stephanie Labbe is the goalkeeper for the Canadian women's national soccer team and is headed to Rio for the Olympics.Stephanie truly believes that everythi...
David Yeung: Movement Maker, Green Monday
David Yeung is a noted environmental advocate and founder of Green Monday, an innovative social venture that takes on on climate change, food insecurity, health...
Colin O’Brady: Explorers Grand Slam
Two-time world record holder, Colin O'Brady spent the last two decades as an elite endurance athlete.On a backpacking trip in Thailand, Colin suffered a tra...
Jimmy Smith: Creativity, Authenticity, Growth (Part 2)
Authenticity is rare. Those who invest in insight, as well as, the courage to express what is authentically happening for him/her are even more rare. The abilit...
Jimmy Smith: Creativity, Authenticity, Growth (Part 1)
Authenticity is rare. Those who invest in insight, as well as, the courage to express what is authentically happening for him/her are even more rare. The abilit...
Nicole Davis: Volleyball and Making a Ripple
The word "libero" is an Italian word that means "free." In sport, it captures a player who roams freely - with the design that removing some of the structural c...
Michael Gervais: State of Finding Mastery
The purpose of holding a "State of Finding Mastery" is to discuss findings from the recent survey, announce the launch of both "Minutes on Mastery" and the "Fin...
Nicholas McCarthy: Music, Insight, and Investing in Craft
The conversations we have with ourselves either facilitate or slow down the pursuit to understand potential. It is not the external obstacles that determine one...
Alyssa Roenigk: Writing About and Living Adventure
Some design their life to “go for it” and others research those who do. It’s a joy to know Alyssa Roenigk, who is doing both. Alyssa lives fully – thinks deeply...
Pat LaFontaine: Being Ignited and Igniting Others (Part 2)
There are no short cuts on the path of mastery and those that carve a path – that has yet be carved – have much to teach us about pushing the accepted norms of ...
Pat LaFontaine: Being Ignited and Igniting Others (Part 1)
There are no short cuts on the path of mastery and those that carve a path - that has yet be carved - have much to teach us about pushing the accepted norms of ...
Angela Duckworth: Passion and Perseverance
Is there a set of characteristics that string together those who excel in life?My grandmother, like most Americans who were raised in the midst of the great...
Ian Walsh: Big Waves, Facing Fear, Giving
When humility, passion, risk taking, mother nature and service collide: Ian Walsh. The Maui native has been tackling massive waves around the world since he was...
Pete Carroll: Competing to Be Your Best
Is there a right way to live life? For thousands of years, this question has been at the heart of some of the most influential shapers of modern living.Worl...
Kayt Sukel: Sex, Risk, and the Brain
As a cultural scientist, passionate traveler and science journalist, Kayt Sukel has no problem tackling interesting (and often risky) subjects spanning love, se...
Katie Holloway: Fire in the Eyes
Fire in the eyes. What does that thought conjure up for you? Katie Holloway describes it as what she feels like when she's at her best. She outlines how she thi...
Tim Ryan: Congress, Mindfulness, Real Food
Laughter is wonderful. It’s primitive. It’s easily recognized, promotes bonding, and is health providing, independent of culture or geographic region. It’s a fo...
Nate Boyer: Going For It (Part 2)
Some people think about adventure — and others make their life a living adventure.Nate graduated high school unsure about his path in life. Looking for a ch...
Nate Boyer: Going For It (Part 1)
Some people think about adventure -- and others make their life a living adventure.Nate Boyer graduated high school unsure about his path in life. Looking f...
John Donahoe: eBay, PayPal, Bain… Leadership
John Donahoe served as president and chief executive officer of eBay Inc. from 2008-2015. In this role, he was responsible for growing each of the company's bu...
Liz Wiseman: Multiplying Genius
Leading others is much more involved than the charisma to motivate.Where are you leading to, is equally as important of a question as: Where are you leading...
Clint Bruce: On Becoming Tribal – Navy Seals to Entreprenuership
What allows one man to move from elite sport (NFL) to elite special forces (Navy SEALs) to serial entrepreneurship? Clint Bruce shares his approach towards life...
Carli Lloyd: Purpose Driven Work
Imagine there was a global award for what you do, whatever you are most passionate about: parenting, marketing, coaching, law, giving to others, teaching, etc. ...
Rich Roll: Change
If you've ever thought, “If I would have known then, what I know now, I’d shift gears in a heartbeat” — or — If you've ever wanted to shift gears and blaze a n...
Steven Kotler: Ultimate Performance
Those who "go for it" in life, and I mean really go for it, at some level have made the decision to "let go."They work to let go of trying to hold on to wha...
Jon Gordon: Storytelling
If you’ve ever found yourself wondering if you’ve made the mistake of trading your deepest talents — for the security of a good-paying-gig — I think you’ll appr...
Elizabeth Lindsey: Elders’ Wisdoms
Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey is the first female and first Polynesian to become an explorer for the National Geographic Society. She has made it her mission to find, p...
Kevin Levrone: Strength
The path toward mastery requires honoring what is true. Often times what is true can be intensely painful. Kevin Levrone walks us through his journey of loss, g...
Ashley Merryman: Science of Competition
The origin of the word "compete" emphasizes the notion of striving together (as compared to striving against). Author Ashley Merryman takes a deep dive into the...
Michael Gervais: Finding Mastery
As the fable goes — there are three paths for each of us, to become:The Old Fool: the person who chased external rewards and pleasures.The Bitter Old Fo...
Dave Phillips: Golf & Entrepreneurship
One of the accelerants to growth is surrounding ourselves with people that have insight…..another accelerant is going down the path of developing insight within...
Ariana Kukors: Swim
In this conversation we learn from Ariana Kukors, who is a USA Olympic Swimmer, current American Record holder and former World Record holder in the 200-meter i...
Luke Tyburski: Endurance Adventurer
Luke Tyburski has designed the past three years of his life to push the limits of what “we" think to be possible. He’s designed an event to test his mental and ...
Keith Power: High Performance
In this conversation with Keith Power, he shares with us how he's structuring his efforts on high performance for Malaysia. Imagine working to optimize the huma...
Sean Hutchison: Leadership
Sean Hutchison is a former US Olympic swim coach and an experienced entrepreneur with a history of building outstanding teams, innovative products, and revoluti...
Fik-Shun: Dance
Fik-Shun (born as Dushaunt Stegall) has captured the creative expression through dance. In just his 21 years of life, he's discovered a special way to relate to...
Baggio Husidic: Soccer
Sport is a way to learn more about who we are — how we handle success, failure, pain, loss, friendships, challenges and opportunities. In this conversation, spo...
Tom Osborne: Leadership
While in graduate school, a psychology professor asked the class to draw a line across the middle of the paper. He asked us to write down, above the line, three...
Kai Kight: Violin
A contemporary composer & innovator, Kai Kight has a diverse background that has been fueled by creating and making.He holds an engineering degree from ...
Karch Kiraly: Leadership, Passion, Risk
Volleyball legend and three-time Gold Medalist, Karch Kiraly is synonymous with the sport of Pro Beach Volleyball.The ‘winningest’ player in the history of ...
Michael Gervais Introduction
Dr. Michael Gervais is fascinated by the psychology of high performance, in rugged environments.Throughout the past 15 years, Michael has been in the trench...