Reboot Part 1: Jerry Colonna On Crucible Moments and Starting Over

Jerry Colonna is often referred to as the 'CEO whisperer.' Jerry is the co-founder of Reboot.io, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to the notion that better humans make better leaders. In 2017, WIRED published a piece on Jerry wherein this was written titled "This Man Makes Founders Cry."

How To Live More and Think Less: Dr. Pia Callesen On Metacognitive Approaches To A Happier Life

Thinking is an amazing capacity. We possess the ability to form concepts, imagine possible futures, and solve problems but run amuck; this same capacity can keep you up at night, paralyze effective decision making and keep you in a loop of worst-case scenarios. My guest is Dr. Pia Callesen, who explains how to use meta-cognitive strategies to break free from this overthinking.

How Emotions Are Made: Lisa Feldman Barrett On The Neuroscience of Feeling

In this episode, we discuss how emotions are made and how insights into how our brains make us feel can help us cope with challenging situations. My guest is Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychology professor and neuroscientist at Northeastern University, who is the author of the best-selling book How Emotions Are Made, The Secret Life Of The Brain.

A Reason Why: Dr. William Damon On Purpose And The Benefits Of A Life Review.

This discussion centers on what living with purpose actually means. My guest is Professor William Damon, a psychologist and professor at Stanford University and a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has been designated one of the fifty most influential living psychologists in the world today.

The Upside Of Uncertainty: On The Benefits Of Embracing The Unknown With Nathan and Susannah Harmon Furr

A discussion on the benefits of embracing uncertainty, specifically the tools outlined in their book, The Upside of Uncertainty: The Guide To Finding Possibility In The Unknown. How do we move forward when we don't fully know what we are dealing with?

Life Is Hard: Kieran Setiya On How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way.

Kieran Setiya is a Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kieren’s newest book, Life is Hard, How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way, is the topic of this podcast. In this episode, Keiran challenges the idea that happiness should be life's primary pursuit. Instead, he argues that we should try to live well, and living well means how one lives in relationship to difficulty - not without difficulty.

Ep. 58: Your Brain On Depression: Dr. John Krystal On Antidepressants, Psychedelics, and Ketamine Therapy

This podcast is about what happens chemically to our brains when we are severely depressed, traumatized or anxious. And for those stuck in that state, what are the latest clinical treatments using medication that can help someone get unstuck. Dr. John Krystal's work links psychopharmacology, neuroimaging, molecular genetics, and computational neuroscience to study the neurobiology and treatment of these disorders.

Ep.57: Dealing With The High-Conflict Personality: Dr. Lindsay Gibson On The Emotionally Immature

Dr. Lindsay Gibson has written a best-selling series on dealing with emotionally immature people, the first of which is Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from the Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved. On this podcast, Dr. Gibson sheds light on the high-conflict personality type and gives great psychological and tactical advice for dealing with the emotionally immature.

EP. 56: YOUR BRAIN ON GRIEF: MARY-FRANCIS O’CONNOR ON LEARNING FROM LOSS

For profound loss, we often say we are heartbroken, but it is more accurate to say we are brain broken given the primacy of the role our brains play in how we feel about loss. Mary-Francis is a professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Arizona and is the Director of the Grief, Loss, and Social Stress Lab, where she and her colleagues are creating new frameworks for understanding grief and the grieving process.

Life As Experiment: A.J. Jacobs – Lessons From Living On The Edge

A.J. Jacobs is the king of self-experimentation and participatory journalism. He is an author, journalist, lecturer, and human guinea pig; the results of which have led to some extreme field experiments like living the rules of the Old Testament for a year, thanking over a thousand people who served him coffee, reading the Encyclopedia Britannica to acquire knowledge about everything, and ...

Short Life, Long Lists: Oliver Burkeman On Time Management for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman is a British journalist and author. He writes and publishes a twice-monthly newsletter called "The Imperfectionist." His most recent book is "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals," which is also the topic of the podcast.

EP. 53: THE POWER OF FRIENDS: ROBIN DUNBAR ON OUR MOST IMPORTANT NUMBER

Robin Dunbar is an eminent anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist famous for "Dunbar's Number". He is the head of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. Robin is also the author of Friends — Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships. Robin's research involves ...

THE GREAT RESET: ASHLEY STAHL ON CAREER DESIGN AND HOW TO GET UNSTUCK

The great resignation is all over the media of late; it's an economic trend born of the COVID pandemic in which employees (In the U.S. for our purposes) are voluntarily leaving jobs in huge numbers—starting around the end of 2020, ramping in 2021 and increasing now in 2022.

Thinking Traps: Dr. Steven Hayes on Depression and Psychological Flexibility

This podcast is about the power of dealing with negative thoughts and emotions more obliquely. It's a central shift from focusing on what you think and feel to how you relate to what you think and feel. My guest is Steven Hayes PhD...

EP.50: A Short History Of Vaccines. Dr. Paul Offit On Skepticism, Risk, and Medical Innovation

My guest is Dr. Paul Offit, a world renowned expert and medical pioneer in the field of immunology and virology. This is my remedial course on one of the greatest medical achievements of modern civilization.

A HIGHER SELF: LOCH KELLY ON EFFORTLESS MINDFULNESS

Your mind shapes every experience you have and trying to be happy by exerting more control over external forces is futile. You need to spend time on ordering your inner world. This podcast is about doing just that. My guest is Loch Kelly. Loch is an author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist....

EP: 48: THE IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS: NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS ON WHAT WENT WRONG, WHAT’S GOING RIGHT, AND OUR POSSIBLE FUTURE

This podcast is part biography of our current pandemic, and part admonishment on how to live through one. Nicholas Christakis is a physician and social scientist at Yale University who conducts research in network science, biosocial science, and behavior genetics.

EP: 47: CHATTER: ETHAN KROSS ON UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING THE VOICE IN OUR HEAD

On this podcast, I delve into what cognitive science is learning about the conversations we have with ourselves - and how to manage them. My guest is Ethan Kross, Ph.D. An award-winning professor and the author of the just-published book, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It. Ethan says...

High on Life: Tommy Chong on Prison, Pot, and Karma

Tommy Chong is a grammy award-winning comedian and is legendary for his invaluable contribution to American counter-culture as part of the iconic comedy duo Cheech & Chong. During their reign, the twosome recorded six gold comedy albums. In 2003 a fully armed SWAT team raided the comedian's home, culminating with Tommy being sentenced to 9 months in federal prison.

Surviving Survival: Laurence Gonzales on Trauma and New Normals

This podcast is an exploration into the mental processes that enable survivors to cope with extreme post-traumatic stress that sets in after an almost fatal event. Take, for example, Debbie Kiley. Debbie's sailboat went down during a hurricane, and she floated in deep ocean for five days watching three of her friends die before rescue. But rescue was not the end of the story;

Ep. 44: FREEDOM FROM RESULTS : MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI ON REDEFINING SUCCESS

On this episode, my focus is on finding peace of mind amidst persistent uncertainty. So many things that are directly affecting our lives are out of our direct control - and it can be maddening. Massimo Pigliucci is the author or editor of 14 books, including the bestselling "How to Be A Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life." The key to much of our neurosis is not understanding what’s in our control and what’s not. Crazy making is treating outcomes as objects.

EP. 43: MAKING BETTER DECISIONS: ANNIE DUKE ON CREATING YOUR OWN CRYSTAL BALL.

What do you do when you're faced with a big decision? Annie Duke is an expert on decision fitness and is the author of "How To Decide, Simple Tools For Making Better Choices", which is the topic of the show. We talk about her tools and heuristics to make quality decisions and how to create your own crystal ball.

EP. 42: HOW TO FEEL GREAT: DR. DAVID BURNS ON WHAT NEGATIVE EMOTIONS ARE TRYING TO TELL US

Dr. David Burns is one of the pioneers in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and largely responsible for its widespread adoption in psychotherapy today. Dr. Burns says that our negative moods do not result from what’s wrong with us, but rather -- what’s right with us. And paradoxically, when you listen and “hear” what your negative thoughts and feelings are trying to say, you won’t need them anymore, and recovery follows. The goal, according to Dr. Burns, is not just complete elimination of negative feelings, but the development of joy and enlightenment.

EP. 41: MISTAKES WERE MADE: CAROL TAVRIS AND ELLIOT ARONSON ON COGNITIVE BIAS AND LEARNING FROM THE ERROR OF OUR WAYS

On this podcast, we talk about what happens after we make a terrible mistake. What is our response to our mistakes? Do we try to brush it off? Do we say screw it and double down? Mistakes don't end with the mistake itself - it can get worse, much worse. My guests are Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson. They co-authored the book "Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me):

EP. 40: HOW WILL WE BEHAVE? RORY SUTHERLAND ON THE NEW WORLD OF WORK AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR POST COVID-19

Rory Sutherland is a best selling author, ad man being the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy and Mather and co-founder of Ogilvy Change, a behavioral science practice where they believe the greatest gains to be made in business and society are psychological, not technological.

EP.39: CORONAVIRUS UPDATES: JAMES ALTUCHER AND BOUNCE BACK PREDICTIONS

James Altucher has been talking with a wide variety of experts about the Coronavirus, everyone from an immunologist, physicians, geneticist, economist to policy experts and super forecasters in the form of regular updates starting in February. He also lives in Manhattan, which is ground zero for the epidemic here in the states, which gives him another perspective I don't have.

A Setback Toolkit: William B. Irvine On Stoic Challenges

The Stoics’ realized that even though you have limited control over what setbacks you experience, you can develop considerable control over how you respond to them. The 1st century Stoic Seneca wrote about the differences between experiencing a setback and suffering from it, by changing the perspective of how one thinks of setbacks.

EP. 37: THE WEDGE, SCOTT CARNEY ON STRESS AND HACKING THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

This episode is about trying to understand our true capacity to cope with stress and how to arouse the dormant resilience in all of us. My guest on this show seems to be proof there are benefits from extreme physical challenges. In his case, actually seeking out stressors and using them to hack the nervous system - reprogramming it's response to those stressors.

EP. 36: CORONAVIRUS QA WITH DR. ALEX LICKERMAN, M.D.

As I publish this on April 6, 2020, there are 340,000 cases of the Coronavirus in the U.S. with over 9,700 deaths. Over 70,000 deaths world wide. The amount and velocity of information on the pandemic can be overwhelming and much of it is conflicting. Do this - don't do that, this works, no it doesn’t.

EP. 35: STRESS INOCULATION: STEVEN SOUTHWICK ON THE SCIENCE OF RESILIENCE AND COPING WITH EXTREMES

Dr. Steven M. Southwick, is the author of Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges. In this show he summarizes his research into the psychological, biological, and social impact of trauma, combining the latest scientific findings in the area of resilience drawing on two decades of work with trauma survivors

The Motivation Equation: Piers Steel On The Science of Drive and Procrastination

This podcast is about every promise you made to yourself but broke. Let me introduce you to the Pope of Procrastination, who forgives you of all that. My guest is Piers Steel. Piers is a Distinguished Research Chair at the University of Calgary. He's also the inventor of the procrastination equation, encapsulating pretty much every scientific finding on procrastination out there to date.

EP. 33: LIVING THE LIVES WE WANT: NIR EYAL ON BEING INDISTRACTABLE

This is about your time and attention, why you lose control of it and how to get it back. Nir Eyal is the author of the bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.

A FRAMEWORK FOR HUMAN EFFORT

This is a podcast about results; how to move past uncertainty, define a future and get things done. Whether you're an individual trying to make a career change or you lead a company’s efforts to innovate new products, challenge and fear are relative.

The Technology Fallacy: Prof. Gerald Kane on Managing Digital Transformation

What allows some organizations and individuals to thrive in a world of rapid technology innovation - and subsequent disruption - while others fall behind or get stuck in obsolescence?

Learning To Live With Learning Machines:

Humans are making machines smarter and the machines are learning. So, what is happening to humans using smart machines? These are the types of questions I wanted to ask Kartik Hosanagar.

WORKING WITH A.I. :

Artificial intelligence and its abbreviation “A.I.” can evoke fantasies of sentient overlord robots, HAL 9000, deus ex machina, or sexy operating systems (please). I admit AlphaZero spooks me a little but outside of games where are we?

Larry Weeks