Personal Growth

What do you do when you go from being the founder and CEO of your own line of successful hotels to the oldest guy at the tech startup surrounded by some of the brightest millennials in the country? Well, if you’re Chip Conley of Airbnb, you set aside your ego, reinvent yourself and …… Read More

This podcast is about recovering from crisis, reinventing yourself and making a positive difference in the world. My guest is Catherine Hoke, a former venture capitalist who is using training in entrepreneurship to solve a severe societal problem…… Read More

What does the 2007 financial crisis, the Fukushima nuclear accident, Three Mile Island, Deepwater Horizon and the 2017 Academy Awards “best picture” Oscar ceremony, all have in common? The small things. Or rather, lots of tightly coupled small things that are overlooked due to complexity or ignored due to culture. Here’s how to “build” an accident…

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This episode is about where you spend the majority of your life – your work: why you do it, how you do it, changing where you do it and how companies should measure it. On this podcast I talk with Fred Kaufman. Fred is the former vice president of executive development at Linkedin …… Read More

In our personal or professional lives there are things we all want to do that are just not getting done. Whether it’s learning a new skill, taking up a new activity or big things like reinventing ourselves to fit a new market, our default effort into doing these things seem to be some sort of goal setting or time management method. 

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All decisions have tradeoffs, risk vs. reward. We have to make choices that have costs yet many factors involved are often hidden. So how do you make good decisions in the face of uncertainty? These are challenges inherent in the game of poker and in poker, as in life, there is a difference between a good decision and a good outcome. For two decades Annie Duke was one of the top poker players in the world. … Read More

This is a podcast about training how you want to exist in the world. Your training how to do this everyday. If you’re existing in a consistently negative state  – angry, fearful, stressful – that’s the habit you’re unconsciously training. My guest on this podcast says a (meditation) practice “is an opportunity to train something different, to explore a different way of being. ​​”… Read More

Rory Sutherland is one of the most admired and influential intellects in advertising. He is also one of the most interesting and witty people I’ve had the privilege talking to. Rory is Vice Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather and co-founder of Ogilvy Change, a behavioral science practice were he co-heads a team of psychology graduates who look for “butterfly effects” in consumer behavior – these are the very small contextual changes which can have enormous effects on the decisions people make…. Read More

What would you do if your child was diagnosed with a debilitating autoimmune disease and every treatment protocol was not working? The medications prescribed are not only ineffective but come with even worse negative physical side effects. What do you do? What’s possible, medically, mentally and physically, is the topic of this podcast.

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