Apr 26

Conquer Fear & Self-Doubt with Amanda Crew

Amanda Crew is an actress who’s best known for playing Monica on the hit HBO show “Silicon Valley,” which I absolutely love for skewering tech culture in a loving but deadly accurate way. If you haven’t seen the show please, please do yourself a favor and check it out - season 4 recently premiered on HBO. But her career goes back many years: she’s appeared in a ton of shows and movies like Smallville, Final... read more ›
Apr 19

Become A Master Communicator with Vanessa Van Edwards

Vanessa bills herself as a “behavioral investigator” - what that means is that she is absolutely amazing at unpacking what makes people do the things they do and turning that into proven, actionable techniques for others to hone their own people skills. She’s written for publications like CNN, Fast Company and forbes and is the author of the brand new (and incredibly good) book “Captivate: The Science Of Succeeding With People.” You’ve heard me talk... read more ›
Mar 22

How To Stop Waiting And Start Doing w/ Roman Mars

Roman Mars is the host of the wildly popular design podcast “99% Invisible” and has been called “the Ira Glass of design.” With several hundred episodes in the can over its six years in existence, it’s covered everything from “Unsung Icons of Soviet Design” to Love Park’s place in skateboarding history to DIY space suits, all through the same lens of - as he says - “telling stories that make you notice and appreciate the... read more ›
Mar 21

Master Your Fear & Find Your Voice [with My Homie Tim Ferriss]

Okay, so maybe you haven't created your New York Times Best Seller that's sold millions of copies, and maybe you haven't won the Chinese kickboxing championship or hold the Guinness Record for most consecutive tango spins, but there's one all-important thing that you have in common with my pal Tim Ferriss....fear. You might think a wildly successful author and innovator doesn't experience fear like a "normal person," but as Tim revealed here, it's exactly that... read more ›
Feb 16

Adrian Grenier: You can’t scale if you do it alone

You may know Adrian as the star of Entourage and The Devil Wears Prada, but he also has a lengthy history as a documentarian and entrepreneur who’s made a lifelong habit out of going around, over and through the various gatekeepers that stood between him and his goals. You’ll hear a lot of familiar themes come up in this conversation that are very core to me: the critical importance of building a community of peers who will motivate,... read more ›
Feb 09

Caterina Fake: Teach Yourself

Caterina Fake is best known for being the co-founder of Flickr, which pioneered a ton of the things that we now take for granted on the internet: social networking, tagging, and content surfacing algorithms to name just a few. But like many of us, her career path has been - to say the least - unpredictable. On the way to becoming the co-founder of Flickr, Caterina Fake explored everything from banking to graphic design to writing... read more ›
Jan 26

Gretchen Rubin: Think about milestones, not finish lines

Gretchen Rubin is the author of several blockbuster NYT bestsellers (Better Than Before, The Happiness Project and Happier At Home) which have sold millions of copies worldwide. If you notice a common theme of “happiness,” that’s because Gretchen is one of the world’s foremost “happiness experts.” I love this term because it says something very important yet rarely said, which is that happiness is largely a choice - that it’s not random but the product... read more ›
Jan 19

Brian Solis: It’s not good enough to be good enough

Brian Solis is a digital anthropologist and futurist, studying disruptive technology and its impact on the future of business and society. This episode is all about design-- specifically experience design, which is the topic of Brian’s latest book “X: The Experience When Business Meets Design.” It's the paradigm which drives companies like Nike, Airbnb, and Uber that are transforming one industry after the other, and Brian has some great insights that will help you wrap your head around it... read more ›
Jan 12

James Altucher: Experiment and Give Up Fast

To list all of James Altucher's accomplishments would take more space than we have here, but the short version is this: he's written something like 18 books, he’s got a wildly popular blog called the Altucher Confidential, an awesome podcast, and he's started 20 (yes, 20!) companies-- and that's just the highlights. But what makes James really stand out in my opinion is his honesty, specifically his honesty about failure. Failure is an inevitable part of the creative process,... read more ›
Jan 05

Tina Roth Eisenberg: Enthusiasm is Contagious

Tina Roth-Eisenberg aka Swiss Miss is an acclaimed graphic designer and entrepreneur. She's the founder of several ventures including CreativeMornings, a to-do app called TeuxDeux, a designy temporary tattoo shop called Tattly and runs a co-working space called FRIENDS. Today on the podcast, The beauty of starting something as a side project vs a business-- you’re more willing to experiment, less afraid of failure Scratching your own itch. Tina says, "If I keep repeatedly complaining about... read more ›