People with Purpose | Chaim Marcus
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDid you know that Michael Jordan, in the height of his career, called a kid to apologize for brushing him off? Wanna meet a couple that after not being able to have kids, helped 4,000 couples have a baby? Would you like to meet the 96 y/o man who invented a way to cut your sugar in half and still keep the same taste? Do you drink tap water? Do you have any idea what's in it? Meet the water warrior, Seth Siegel.
Hi there and welcome, I'm Chaim Marcus and if you enjoy hearing from people with an unwavering commitment to making a difference, check us out.
Other topics covered are Israel, sports and entertainment, like the Jewish Jordan - Tamir Goodman, award-winning screenwriter, Greg Allen Howard and Matti Friedman's Spies of No Country.
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Happiness Guru Tal Ben-Shahar
June 27, 2021 04:59 - 52 minutes - 120 MB“My purpose in life is to bring happiness to people.” What a phenomenal life mission that is and what a joy it was to talk with the Guru of Happiness, former Harvard professor, Tal Ben Shahar. Tal Ben-Shahar is an author and lecturer. He taught two of the largest classes in Harvard University’s history, Positive Psychology and The Psychology of Leadership. Today, Tal consults and lectures around the world to executives in multi-national corporations, the general public, and at-risk popul...
From High School Phenom to Professional Hoopster
May 11, 2021 22:30 - 48 minutes - 112 MBYou don't have to like basketball to learn from Tamir Goodman. Sports Illustrated dubbed him the Jewish Jordan. If by Jordan they also mean resilient, leader, beacon of light, then that moniker is spot on. This is Tamir's story, from High School phenom to professional hoopster and all the challenges in between. In this conversation, Tamir talks about his road to professional sports, being born with a gift, gratitude towards his HS coach, dyslexia, multiple injuries, how the internet ha...
Award-winning Screenwriter and Producer Gregory Allen Howard
August 15, 2020 00:37 - 41 minutes - 96 MBGreg is best known for writing the mega hit Remember the Titans, a film about the undefeated High School football team credited with healing the racial divide in Alexandria, Virginia. Although he wrote the film Harriet, the Harriet Tubman biopic, many years ago, Greg discusses what took so long to get this important film produced. Also, how he came to write these films, his inspiration Paddy Chayefsky, thoughts on recent anti-semitic comments by a high-profile athlete, his love ...
The Time Michael Jordan Called
July 27, 2020 19:44 - 40 minutes - 93.1 MBPeople with Purpose host Chaim Marcus talks with Rabbi Shais Taub about the time he received a phone call from Michael Jordan. What prompted the call? What did he say? What impact did the call have? In this episode we explore celebrity, role models, parenting and what lessons can be learnt from a brief phone call. Rabbi Shais Taub has delivered lectures and classes to audiences on six continents. The New York Times calls him "a phenomenon." He writes a popular weekly column in Ami ...
Jew Next Door Podcast 3
June 13, 2020 19:09 - 25 minutes - 11.8 MBWhich city has the most Jews? What is a Hassidic Jew? Why do some Hassidic males have long, curly sideburns? How do Jews decide where to live?
One Couple's Struggle With Infertility That Changed the World
December 25, 2019 03:53 - 34 minutes - 64 MBAfter twenty years of working three jobs and traveling the world to find a solution to their infertility, Rabbi Schlomo & Chani Bochner founded Bonei Olam, a non-profit that provides large scale funding for fertility treatments and genetic research. In this episode, Rabbi Bochner shares his personal journey of struggle and heartbreak and how he channeled that pain into a miraculous org that has already been instrumental in the birth of 8,421 healthy children. The total number grows by an a...
Troubled Water: Interview with NYT Bestselling Author Seth M. Siegel
December 10, 2019 05:00 - 54 minutes - 99.1 MBBestselling author Seth Siegel is on a mission to get Americans to start demanding of our government healthy drinking water. In his new book Troubled Water: What's Wrong With What We Drink, Seth gets your blood boiling as you learn about the awful state of water in America. In this interview, Seth explains the very real crisis, where water comes from and where our waste water goes. We also, discuss, bottled water, boiling water, water solutions and some great investment advice.
How a 96 year old just improved the way we will soon consume most foods.
August 20, 2019 21:25 - 26 minutes - 60 MBSugar. We love the taste we just don't love the consequences. Enter Doux Matok, the company that just figured out how to efficiently deliver sugar to your taste receptors allowing for almost 50% reduction in your sugar intake. The genius behind the company? Professor Avrahahm Baniel who figured this all out at the age of 96. In this episode, Chaim Marcus interviews Professor Baniel’s son, CEO of Doux Matok, Eran Baniel, about his dad, the product, the business and the story behind how this...
The Chaim Marcus Podcast People With Purpose
June 26, 2019 23:34 - 25 minutes - 47.1 MBIn his first episode, Chaim Marcus reviews Matti Friedman's new book, Spies of No Country. Also, a shout out to one of the greatest speeches given in modern Israeli history.
Matti Friedman's Spies of No Country
June 26, 2019 23:34 - 25 minutes - 47.1 MBIn his first episode, Chaim Marcus reviews Matti Friedman's new book, Spies of No Country. Also, a shout out to one of the greatest speeches given in modern Israeli history.