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Author Alex Banayan on seeking mentors for life (and writing) guidance

Deviate with Rolf Potts - - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 117 ratings
“You cannot change your reality until you see your reality.” – Alex Banayan In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Alex discuss mentorship (3:00); the genesis of Alex's book The Third Door (10:00); "opportunity hurdles" (30:00); structural storytelling, and the art of learning (54:00); and the imp...
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Lessons I've Learned from Our Guests | James Altucher, Robert Greene, Derek Sivers. Naveen Jain, Dan Millman, Amanda Slavin, Alex Banayan, Rand Fishkin

Building Freedom with Jordan Paris - June 17, 2020 08:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 326 ratings
Jess Larsen, the chairman at Graystoke Investments (a real estate investment trust), interviewed me on his podcast to discuss the lessons I've learned from recording almost 200 episodes of Growth Mindset University. We talked about James Altucher, Robert Greene, Derek Sivers. Naveen Jain, Dan Mi...
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Alex Banayan And A Great Moment From 2019

Big Questions with Cal Fussman - December 31, 2019 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 338 ratings
Cal looks at a favorite moment in 2019, and discovers much under the surface of a video that went viral. It’s set at an event that Alex was speaking at thrown by Dutch Bros. Coffee for its baristas. Just before Alex spoke, one of the baristas, Amanda Sanchez, found out that a college grant had j...
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451: Your best life is happening parallel to the storms with Alex Banayan

Earn Your Happy - November 25, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratings
In This Episode You Will Learn About: -Chris and Lori’s Become Aligned course -EventLuv -How being an author in 2019 is really five jobs in one -The third door to success -Avoiding the comparison spiral -Giving yourself permission to be mindfully angry  -Being a work in progress -The less...
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How The Price is Right Got Alex Banayan on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List

Leveling Up with Eric Siu - November 23, 2019 14:30 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 294 ratings
Hey everyone!  In today’s episode, I share the mic with Alex Banayan, the author of The Third Door. Tune in to find out how Alex got to be featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list, to hear the life-changing advice given by the President of Microsoft and to learn how a public speaker can make up to $...
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Alex Banayan Returns to Talk About Rejection, Lit Agents, Speaking & What's Possible

The Cathy Heller Podcast: A Podcast for Soulful Entrepreneurs - November 21, 2019 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 5.2K ratings
How did 7 years of hearing "no" and getting rejection letters lead to new possibilities? Alex Banayan, bestselling author of The Third Door is back with more insights on what it takes and what it means to have a successful life. He shares the long behind the scenes process of getting a lit agent,...
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AMP #229 Alex Banayan

Aubrey Marcus Podcast - October 30, 2019 09:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3.8K ratings
Alex Banayan came on for a marathon of a podcast officially breaking the AMP record for the longest podcast. It was beautiful to sit and have the opportunity to go incredibly deep with one of the most interesting and inspiring people I’ve ever come across. We tell some intimate stories ...
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AMP #229 Alex Banayan Sets The Podcast Record

Aubrey Marcus Podcast - October 30, 2019 09:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3.8K ratings
Alex Banayan came on for a marathon of a podcast officially breaking the AMP record for the longest podcast. It was beautiful to sit and have the opportunity to go incredibly deep with one of the most interesting and inspiring people I’ve ever come across. We tell some intimate stories of love a...
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#229 Keep Going, Keep Trying, and Keep Loving with Alex Banayan

Aubrey Marcus Podcast - October 30, 2019 09:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3.8K ratings
Alex Banayan came on for a marathon of a podcast officially breaking the AMP record for the longest podcast. It was beautiful to sit and have the opportunity to go incredibly deep with one of the most interesting and inspiring people I’ve ever come across. We tell some intimate stories ...
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507: How to Get Exceptional Mentors and Opportunities with Alex Banayan

How to Be Awesome at Your Job - October 28, 2019 07:41 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 944 ratings
Alex Banayan shares unconventional approaches to creating new opportunities. — YOU'LL LEARN —  1) The ultimate cold email template to recruit mentor.  2) Creative “third door” approaches that nobody takes.  3) Communication secrets from Maya Angelou and Larry King.  Subscribe or vi...
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Alex Banayan: Art of Story Telling, Controlling Your State, Public Speaking | Ep. 248

Align Podcast - October 14, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 840 ratings
Fortune Magazine reported that Alex Banayan is the world's youngest venture capitalist and he was ranked on Forbe's 30 Under 30 List. Alex is the author of the best selling book, The Third Door and is the youngest business author signed in the Crown Publishing Group's 80-year history.   Chec...
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180: Alex Banayan | Reaching Your Goals When No-one’s Taking Your Calls

Fri-Date - September 23, 2019 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 336 ratings
Resources: Instagram: @alexbanayan   The Third Door When Things Fall Apart   Books by Thich Nhat Hanh   Healing Back Pain   Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd   As an 18-year-old, Alex Banayan went o...
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ALEX BANAYAN: How To Overcome Fear & Rejection

Real Talk University: Exploring Success Stories Outside of The Classroom - September 19, 2019 10:56 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
On this episode of Real Talk University, Andre and Christian sat down with Alex Banayan, author of the best-selling book, The Third Door. The book features interviews with the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Tim Ferriss, and many other elite names. On his 7 year quest to track down these peo...
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288: How to Connect with ANYONE with Alex Banayan

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod - September 18, 2019 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
Alex Banayan is the only nationally bestselling business author under the age of 30 in America. His book, The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How The World’s Most Successful People Launched Their Careers, documents his unprecedented seven-year journey to interview the most innovative leade...
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Alex Banayan: A Mission That Is Larger Than Yourself

StartEdUp Podcast - August 28, 2019 01:23 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 150 ratings
Alex Banayan is the author of "The Third Door," which is a national bestseller. In our first interview he received a massive amount of feedback from students, teachers, and young entrepreneurs. He enjoyed it so much, he asked to return to the show. I jumped at the chance. Alex has always been g...
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"Taking the Third Door" with Alex Banayan

Basic Witches - August 21, 2019 10:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 486 ratings
Knock, knock, knock - who's behind door #3? It's our long sought-after guest and author of The Third Door, Alex Banayan! This man has interviewed incredible people like Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Jane Goodall, Maya Angelou, but now the tables have turned. We manifested Alex into the studio to chat m...
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186: Resourcefulness, Persistence, and the Success Mentality - with Alex Banayan

Bucci Radio - August 14, 2019 15:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.5K ratings
What separates people who make it vs. people who don’t? Is there a measure of success? Is there one thing that successful people do that other people don’t do? This episode is full of incredible storytelling and insight on how to be truly resourceful, chase your dreams, and be persistent to go a...
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Alex Banayan Is Back | The Third Door World Tour

Cat & Cloud Podcast - August 12, 2019 12:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 702 ratings
Alex Banayan is back, and we're so incredibly stoked! His book The Third Door relives his wild journey to interview the world's most successful people about how they started out. Thank you for making time for us in the midst of your world book tour! Mad respect, Alex. Dive in, friends, the wate...
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#67: The Keys to Unlocking Your Larger-Than-Life Dream with Alex Banayan

Dhru Purohit Show - August 08, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
The hardest part about achieving a dream often isn’t actually achieving it, it’s stepping through your fear of the unknown when you don’t have a clear plan. Having a teacher or boss tell you what to do makes life a lot easier. But nobody achieves a dream from the comfort of certainty.  On today...
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How Alex Banayan Interviewed Bill Gates

The Casey Adams Show - June 19, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratings
REPOST: Today on the Rise of The Young Podcast I sit down with Alex Banayan. He's the autor of "The Third Door," and his story has truly opened up my eyes to what's possible. Alex was an 18 year old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens mo...
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235: How To Meet Anyone! with Alex Banayan - A Fireside Chat At My Elite Mastermind

The Chris Harder Show - June 06, 2019 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
In This Episode You Will Learn About: What’s fueling Alex the most right now Hacking The Price Is Right to get money to fund his book How Alex got an interview with Warren Buffett What Alex is curious to tackle next + why repetition isn’t exciting How Alex handles expectations being dif...
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234: Alex Banayan | Take Your Own Third Door Path to Success

Social Anxiety Society - May 27, 2019 09:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 542 ratings
Alex Banayan is the only nationally bestselling business author under 30 in America. His book The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World’s Most Successful People Launched Their Careers has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Over the course of his unprecedented seven-ye...
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#podSessions Ep 7 | Erika Nardini, Reezy Resells & Alex Banayan

Curse Free GaryVee - May 21, 2019 09:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 206 ratings
SUPER excited to be bringing #podSessions back into the mix, and there couldn't have been a better crew to do it with - Erika Nardini is the CEO of Barstool Sports, former CMO of AOL & all around complete badass - Reezy Resells is a young monster hustler following the Crush It! model, blowing up...
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Alex Banayan | The Third Door | Rethink What Is Possible

Cat & Cloud Podcast - April 16, 2019 22:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 702 ratings
You've probably heard Chris mention that The Third Door novel by Alex Banayan has changed his life and redefined what he believes is possible. It's a novel about Alex's "wild quest" to interview the world's most successful people and understand how they got their start in order to help others get...
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870: Alex Banayan, Author of The Third Door

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi - April 08, 2019 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Our guest today is Alex Banayan, who grew up in Southern California. The son of Iranian immigrants who had financial struggles and wished for Alex to experience a better life. And while he didn’t quite meet their initial expectations. (like many Iranian parents, he was encouraged to become a doct...
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EP46: Unlocking The Third Door To Achieve Your Dreams with Alex Banayan

Rise Higher - March 26, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 208 ratings
In this episode, Alex Banayan, author of the acclaimed book ‘The Third Door,’ shares his incredible insights on fear, courage, his quest to fulfill a dream, never giving up and always finding a way. At 18 years old Alex realized the path he had been on his whole life wasn’t the right one. Rather...
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Alex Banayan: ...how fun the storm can be

Nobody Told Me! - February 26, 2019 01:15 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratings
What do Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, Pitbull, Maya Angelou, and Mark Zuckerberg have in common? Bestselling author and "Forbes 30 Under 30" Alex Banayan spent seven years tracking down dozens of the world’s most successful people to learn the secrets of how they carved their own paths in life an...
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AMP #191 Alex Banayan

Aubrey Marcus Podcast - February 13, 2019 10:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.8K ratings
How does a college dropout end up interviewing Lady Gaga, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett and other icons for his first book?  You’ll find out in this podcast. Alex Banayan is the author of the national bestseller, The Third Door, and he has an amazing story to tell.  It is literally one of ...
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#191 Paying the Right Price with Alex Banayan

Aubrey Marcus Podcast - February 13, 2019 10:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.8K ratings
How does a college dropout end up interviewing Lady Gaga, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett and other icons for his first book?  You’ll find out in this podcast. Alex Banayan is the author of the national bestseller, The Third Door, and he has an amazing story to tell.  It is literally one of ...
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AMP #191 Alex Banayan On Finding The Third Door

Aubrey Marcus Podcast - February 13, 2019 10:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.8K ratings
How does a college dropout end up interviewing Lady Gaga, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett and other icons for his first book?  You’ll find out in this podcast. Alex Banayan is the author of the national bestseller, The Third Door, and he has an amazing story to tell.  It is literally one of the best ...
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