Dr. Mona Sobhani: Can Science and Spirituality Coexist?
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Mona Sobhani, a cognitive neuroscientist, researcher, entrepreneur and author.After receiving her doctorate from the Un...
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Oliver Burkeman on Time Management: Breaking Down the Facade of Productivity
This week’s conversation is with Oliver Burkeman, a British author and journalist who I’ve really enjoyed his writings on productivity, mortality, the power of ...
Daniel Pink: How to Harness the Power of Regret to Move Forward
This week’s conversation is with Daniel Pink, the author of New York Times bestsellers A Whole New Mind, Drive, To Sell Is Human, and When. His books have sold ...
Susan Cain: Find Happiness in Melancholy
This week’s conversation is with Susan Cain, the author of the bestsellers Quiet Journal, Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts, and Quiet: The Power ...
Dr. Eric Johnson: Frameworks for Better Decision Making
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Eric Johnson, a Norman Eig Professor of Business, and Director of the Center for Decision Sciences at the Columbia Business...
Steven Kotler, Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective
This week’s conversation is with Steven Kotler.The name may ring a bell because he’s been on the podcast twice before and it’s a joy every time we have a ch...
Dr. Brené Brown, Research Professor and Author
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown Endo...
Best-Selling Author Gretchen Rubin
This week’s conversation is with author Gretchen Rubin on happiness, human nature, and habits.Gretchen has spent the past decade researching and writing a...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 bo...
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,...
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, ...
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 leadi...
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 ap...
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 t...