Famous Failures
72 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsOn Famous Failures, I interview the world's most interesting people about their failures and what they learned from them.
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End of Season 1
May 19, 2020 04:00 - 3 minutes - 5.11 MBThis episode marks the end of Season 1 of Famous Failures. If you’d like to stay in touch with me, please sign up for my weekly email list at weeklycontrarian.com. My emails go out every Thursday to 21,000+ subscribers and share 1 idea you can read in less than 3 minutes that will help you reimagine the status quo. Readers call it the “one email I look forward to each week.” Thank you to my podcast producer, Chris Mottram of Podcastily, and to my operations assistant, Brendan Seibel, fo...
Derek Sivers on What It Means to Fail
May 05, 2020 04:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBDerek Sivers has lived many lives. He has been a musician, producer, circus performer, entrepreneur, speaker, and book publisher. His TED Talk, “Weird, or just different?”, has been viewed more than 3.5 million times. His book Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur shares everything he learned from starting, growing, and selling the company CD Baby. You can say hello to Derek at https://sivers.org/contact. In this episode Derek and I discuss: How Derek cultivated a...
Derek Sivers on What It Means to Fail
May 05, 2020 04:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBDerek Sivers has lived many lives. He has been a musician, producer, circus performer, entrepreneur, speaker, and book publisher. His TED Talk, “Weird, or just different?”, has been viewed more than 3.5 million times. His book Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur shares everything he learned from starting, growing, and selling the company CD Baby. You can say hello to Derek at https://sivers.org/contact. In this episode Derek and I discuss: How Derek cultivated a...
Cathy Heller on the Power of Radical Empathy
April 21, 2020 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBCathy Heller is the host of the popular podcast Don’t Keep Your Day Job, which was given the #1 spot on iTunes recommended list of shows for the New Year in 2018 and 2019. She started out as a singer songwriter and first found success licensing her music to TV, films and ads. After making a multi six figure living with her music, Cathy started a music agency, and began teaching other artists to grow their own careers. You can subscribe to Cathy’s podcast at https://www.dontkeepyourdayjob.c...
3 Key Insights from Think Like a Rocket Scientist
April 14, 2020 04:00 - 13 minutes - 9.15 MBToday is the official launch date of my new book, Think Like a Rocket Scientist. In this special episode, I share with you three key insights from the book that will help you make giant leaps in work and life. If you order the book by Tuesday, April 21st (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indiebound), you’ll get two special bonuses. The first is a video training with a behind-the-scenes look at my productivity system. You’ll find tips on how to defeat procrastination and get more done in less ...
Baya Voce on the Cure for the Loneliness Epidemic
April 07, 2020 04:00 - 46 minutes - 31.6 MBBaya Voce has produced “magic touch” experiences ranging from two-person rituals to elaborate 1,000+-person immersive-theater productions. Whether 20-person Jeffersonian-style dinners or high-end finance conferences at Lincoln Center (and everything in between), Baya’s focus is engineering unforgettable moments. With more than 4 million views, her TEDx talk on loneliness is one of the most-viewed of all time. She has been featured by Forbes, ABC, Fox, MTV, and SXSW for her perspective on e...
Dorie Clark on Failure and the Entrepreneurial Journey
March 24, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBDorie Clark is a consultant and keynote speaker, and the author of the books Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc. magazine. A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, Dorie has been described by the New York Times as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” Dorie consults and speaks for a diverse range of clients, and teaches executive education. A former award-winning journalist,...
Jessica Kriegel on How You Should Ditch Generational Stereotypes
March 10, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBDr. Jessica Kriegel is a researcher and expert in generational dynamics. Her insights and solutions offer a roadmap for how you can most effectively transform your culture to attract, retain, and engage all generations in the workplace. Jessica’s book, Unfairly Labeled: How Your Workplace Can Benefit From Ditching Generational Stereotypes, challenges the very concept of "generational differences" as an unfair generalization, and offers a roadmap to intergenerational understanding. She also...
Neil Pasricha: Ask Me Anything
February 25, 2020 05:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBNeil Pasricha is the author of five New York Times bestsellers including: The Book of Awesome, a catalog of simple pleasures based on his 50-million hit, award-winning blog, and The Happiness Equation, a nine-step guidebook to happiness based on new research. His latest book is You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life. Neil is also one of the most popular TED speakers with his first TED Talk “The 3 A’s of Awesome” ranked as one of the ...
Tara Schuster on Rising Up From Rock Bottom
February 11, 2020 05:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBTara Schuster is an author, playwright, and accomplished entertainment executive, currently serving as the Vice President of Talent and Development at Comedy Central. She was the Executive in Charge of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Key & Peele, the Emmy Award winning @Midnight, and numerous other shows. Tara’s first book, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life from Someone Who has Been There, will be released on February 18, 2020. The hilarious and relatab...
Frans Johansson on Why Diversity Drives Innovation
January 28, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBAn entrepreneur, creative thinker, and acclaimed international speaker, Frans Johansson has lived all his life at the intersection. He has started a health-care business, a software company, a hedge fund, and an innovation firm. Frans is the author of The Medici Effect and The Click Moment, and is the founder and CEO of The Medici Group. Reach out and connect with Frans on LinkedIn or Twitter. To learn more about his company The Medici Group, visit their website at https://www.themedicigr...
Scott Harrison on Transforming Himself and Ending the Water Crisis
January 14, 2020 05:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBScott Harrison is the founder and CEO of charity: water, and the New York Times Bestselling author of Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World. In 13 years, with the help of more than 1 million donors worldwide, charity: water has raised more than $400 million and funded more than 44,000 water projects in 28 countries. When completed, those projects will provide over 10 million people with clean, safe drinking water. If you would like to he...
BJ Fogg on How Tiny Habits Can Spark Big Life Changes
December 31, 2019 05:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBBJ Fogg is a behavioral scientist with deep experience in innovation and teaching. At Stanford University he runs the Behavior Design Lab and also teaches his models and methods in graduate seminars. On the industry side, he trains innovators to use his work so they can create solutions that influence behavior. The focus areas include health, financial wellbeing, learning, productivity, and more. BJ has a new book, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything, which came out today...
Laura Vanderkam on Why You Have More Time Than You Think
December 17, 2019 05:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBLaura Vanderkam is the author of several time management and productivity books, including Juliet’s School of Possibilities, Off the Clock, I Know How She Does It, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Fortune. If you’d like to keep in touch with Laura, you can check out her short daily podcast, Before Breakfast, to start your morning with productivi...
What to Do When You Make a Mistake
December 03, 2019 05:00 - 7 minutes - 5.27 MBThis is a short, solo episode of Famous Failures. Instead of doing an interview, I speak about what you should do when you make a mistake. The episode is based on a blog post I wrote a few months ago, which you can find here. If you enjoyed this episode, you’d love my forthcoming book, Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life. The book was named a “must read” by Susan Cain (NYT Bestselling Author of Quiet), “endlessly fascinating...
Rene Denfeld on Healing Trauma and Telling Her Story
November 19, 2019 05:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBRene Denfeld is the author of the acclaimed novels The Child Finder, The Enchanted, and The Butterfly Girl. Her literary thrillers have earned glowing reviews from the New York Times Book Review, among other venues. Margaret Atwood, who is the renowned author of Handmaid’s Tale (among other books), has described Rene’s work as “astonishing,” and Rene’s latest novel, The Butterfly Girl, a “heartbreaking, finger-gnawing, yet ultimately hopeful novel.” Rene was the Chief Investigator at a pub...
Why the "Fail Fast" Mantra is a Recipe for Failure
November 05, 2019 05:00 - 8 minutes - 5.97 MBThis is a short, solo episode of Famous Failures. Instead of doing an interview, I go on a riff on why the popular “fail fast, fail often” mantra is misguided. I offer an alternative that produces better results and explain how you can use it to your advantage in your personal and professional life. The discussion is based in part on my forthcoming book, Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life. The book was named a “must read” b...
Whitney Johnson on Disrupting Yourself
October 22, 2019 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBWhitney Johnson is a leading business thinker and expert on disruptive innovation and personal disruption. She covers the framework for personal disruption in the critically-acclaimed book Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Originally an award-winning stock analyst, Whitney chose to leave her Wall Street career behind at the height of her career. This bold act of personal disruption and the following years of entrepreneurial exploration led to her new ca...
Think Like a Rocket Scientist
October 08, 2019 04:00 - 14 minutes - 9.61 MBIn this special episode of Famous Failures, I read a never-before-released excerpt from my forthcoming book, Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life. If you pre-order the book, you’ll get amazing bonuses that are worth 10x the cost of the book(s). What’s more, if you pre-order the book in any format, you can download and read the digital version NOW, before the book is released to the public. Click here to learn more. I’ve been e...
Tim Urban on Overcoming Procrastination and Finding His Voice Through Experimentation
September 24, 2019 04:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBTim Urban is best known as the writer and illustrator behind the incredibly popular blog Wait But Why, which has garnered millions of unique page views and famous fans like Elon Musk. His deeply researched long-form posts on everything from artificial intelligence to procrastination buck the conventional wisdom that internet writing should be short or SEO optimized to be successful. A former film composer and professional tutor, Tim has parlayed his conversational writing style into a side...
Lindsey Horan on Winning the Women’s World Cup
September 10, 2019 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBIn 2012, eighteen-year-old soccer player Lindsey Horan defied conventional wisdom when she turned down a scholarship from soccer powerhouse University of North Carolina. UNC is almost a guaranteed path to the big leagues for talented and hardworking women, but Lindsey decided to skip a step and move halfway around the world to sign with Paris Saint-Germain. She was the first American woman to go pro directly out of high school. Today Lindsey is a National Women’s Soccer League player with ...
Nadya Okamoto on the Value of Being Unapologetically You
August 27, 2019 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBNadya Okamoto is the Executive Director of PERIOD (period.org), an organization she founded at the age of sixteen to provide menstrual hygiene products to those in need. PERIOD is now the largest youth-run NGO in women’s health, and one of the fastest growing in the United States. In 2017, Nadya ran for office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Although she did not win, her campaign made historic waves in mobilizing young people both on the ground and at the polls. Nadya’s debut book, Period ...
Christine Carter on the Science of Happiness and Escaping the "Busy" Trap
August 13, 2019 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBChristine Carter is a sociologist, columnist and speaker. She’s the author of the books Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents, as well as The Sweet Spot: How to Achieve More by Doing Less. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Greater Good Science Center where she explores the science of happiness and researches how to thrive in our stress-filled, fast-paced modern world. Christine has appeared on the “Oprah Winfrey Show,” the “Dr. Oz Show”, the “TODAY” s...
Tiago Forte on Building a Second Brain
July 30, 2019 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22 MBTiago Forte is one of the world’s foremost experts on productivity. He writes and speaks on how knowledge workers can revolutionize their personal effectiveness using technology, and has taught more than 20,000 people around the world through his online courses and live workshops. Tiago’s online course Building a Second Brain has been taken by more than 1,000 people from more than 60 countries. You can learn more about Building a Second Brain at https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/. I...
How SpaceX Bounced Back from the Brink of Disaster
July 16, 2019 04:00 - 10 minutes - 7.48 MBThis is a special episode of Famous Failures. Instead of doing an interview, I recount the story of the first three failures that SpaceX experienced on the launchpad, which brought the company to the brink of collapse. You’ll learn how SpaceX leveraged these failures for later success and how you can implement the same strategies in your own life. The content of the episode is based on the following sources: Tim Fernholz, Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space ...
Ryan Levesque on Giving Up "Good" for "Great"
July 02, 2019 04:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBRyan Levesque is the CEO of The ASK Method ® Company, and the #1 national best-selling author of Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Method to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy, which was named by Inc. as the #1 Marketing Book of the Year. Ryan’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, and Entrepreneur and over 250,000 entrepreneurs subscribe to his email newsletter offering business advice. His latest book, Choose, helps readers avoid making the s...
Khe Hy on Taming Self-Doubt and Overcoming the Scarcity Mindset
June 18, 2019 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBKhe Hy is the founder of RadReads, which is a community of 20,000 professionals seeking to reexamine their relationship to money, ambition, and ultimately themselves. Khe has been called Oprah for Millennials by CNN and the Wall Street Guru by Bloomberg. He spent the first fifteen years of his career in the financial services industry researching hedge fund investments. He was one of the youngest Managing Directors at BlackRock where he oversaw the New York Research Team. You can sign up ...
Tali Sharot on Our Power to Change Others
June 04, 2019 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBTali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and a leading expert on the neural basis of emotion, decision making and optimism. She has been featured in numerous media outlets,including The New York Times, Time magazine, The Washington Post, CNN, BBC, and more. Her TED talk on the optimism bias was viewed over 2 million times. Her latest book, The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others, tackles the neuroscience behind influence -- what we so ofte...
Susan Cain on Overcoming Failure and Unleashing the Power of Introverts
May 21, 2019 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBSUSAN CAIN is the author of Quiet: The Secret Strengths of Introverts, and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can’t Stop Talking, which has been translated into 40 languages, is in its seventh year on the New York Times best seller list, and was named the #1 best book of the year by Fast Company magazine, which also named Susan one of its Most Creative People in Business. Susan’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and many other pub...
Rob Walker on the Art of Noticing
May 07, 2019 07:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBRob Walker is an author and journalist covering design, technology, business, the arts, and other subjects. He writes the Human Resource column for Lifehacker, and has contributed to The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, TheNewYorker.com, and many others. He is on the faculty of the Products of Design program at the School of Visual Arts. His new book is called The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday. If you ...
Julian Guthrie on Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things
April 23, 2019 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBJulian Guthrie is an award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author, and all around adventurer who loves underdog stories. Her new book, due out April 30, is Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime. Julian has interviewed some of the world's most dynamic leaders and loves improbable stories and contrarian thinkers. You can say hello to Julian on Twitter or on her website. In the interview, Julian and I discu...
Sahil Lavingia on Failing to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
April 09, 2019 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBSahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a web platform where creators can sell products directly to consumers with quick, simple links. Sahil was the second-ever employee at Pinterest before starting Gumroad with the goal of making it a billion-dollar company. Gumroad got off to an explosive start, but it eventually imploded. Sahil managed to keep the company afloat and made it independent, healthy, and profitable. Although Gumroad isn’t the billion-dollar company Sahil originally ...
Julie Zhuo on Becoming a Facebook Manager at 25, Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome, and Staying in the Discomfort Zone
March 26, 2019 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBJulie Zhuo is the Vice President of Product Design at Facebook. As one of Silicon Valley's top product design executives, she leads the teams behind some of the most popular web and mobile services used by billions of people around the world. She writes about technology, design, and leadership on her popular blog The Year of the Looking Glass and in publications like the New York Times and Fast Company. Her book, The Making of A Manager:What to Do When Everyone Looks to You, was published...
Amy Edmondson on Psychological Safety and How Companies Can Learn from Failure
March 12, 2019 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.1 MBAmy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. She is best known for her pioneering work on psychological safety and failure. The topic recently gained widespread popular attention after a February 2016 New York Times Magazine article described psychological safety as the key factor in determining team performance at Google. Her new book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovati...
Rachel Simmons on Helping Girls and Women Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success
February 26, 2019 05:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBRachel Simmons is the author of Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy and Fulfilling Lives, and the New York Times bestsellers Odd Girl Out and The Curse of the Good Girl. As an educator, Rachel teaches girls and women skills to build their resilience, amplify their voices, and own their courage so that they—and their relationships—live with integrity and health. Rachel was the host of the PBS television special, “A Girl’s...
Maren Kate Donovan on Zirtual's Meteoric Rise to Overnight Failure
February 12, 2019 05:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBMaren Kate Donovan is an entrepreneur and writer. Her first venture-backed startup, Zirtual, grew to over 400 employees before she turned 30, but then, due to the perfect storm of missteps, was forced to shut down overnight. She now uses her unique experiences as Managing Partner at AVRA, a firm dedicated to creating a world where good help isn’t hard to find. In the show, Maren and I discuss: How a haunted cane launched Maren’s entrepreneurial career Why she decided to start her own vi...
Jennifer Dulski on Being Too Stubborn to Fail and Becoming Head of Facebook Groups
January 29, 2019 05:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBJennifer Dulski is the head of Facebook Groups, a product used by more than 1 billion people. She has more than fifteen years of experience at successful startups and big-brand Internet companies, including as a business unit leader at Yahoo! and as CEO of The Dealmap, which was acquired by Google in 2011, making Jennifer the first woman to sell a company to Google. Prior to Facebook, Jennifer spent 4 years as president & COO of Change.org, a social impact company that empowers people global...
Selina Tobaccowala on Creating a Company Culture Where People are Willing to Fail
January 15, 2019 05:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBSelina Tobaccowala is a serial entrepreneur who started coding in her Stanford dorm room in the late 1990s. Selina and her college friend Al Leib co-founded Evite, which was the dominant platform for online invitations. After Ticketmaster acquired Evite, she served as Senior Vice President of Product and Technology at Ticketmaster. She left Ticketmaster to become the President and CTO of SurveyMonkey. Selina is now back to being a founder. She started Gixo, a live fitness app that aims to ...
Dina Kaplan on Finding Her Path and Overcoming Failure Through Meditation
January 01, 2019 05:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBDina Kaplan is Founder of The Path, which teaches meditation for the modern mind. The Path has taught thousands of people to meditate around the world. Before founding The Path, Dina was co-founder and COO of the tech start-up Blip. Before Blip, she was an Emmy-award winning TV news reporter for local NBC stations. Prior to reporting, Dina worked as an associate producer for MTV News and at the White House as Director of Research for the Office of the White House Counsel. Dina was named ...
Matilda Ho on Revolutionizing the Chinese Food Industry and Learning from Failure
December 18, 2018 05:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBMatilda Ho is the founder of Yimishiji, one of China's first online farmers markets to bring organic and local produce to families. She’s also the founder and managing director of Bits x Bites, China’s first accelerator and venture capital fund that invests in purpose-driven startups to shape the future of food. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Matilda filled leadership roles at IDEO and BCG (The Boston Consulting Group) in both Shanghai and Washington DC. She holds an MBA from the Univers...
Erica Ariel Fox on Winning From Within
December 04, 2018 05:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBErica Ariel Fox is an advisor to CEOs and other senior executives on their leadership challenges. She is the New York Times best-selling author of Winning From Within: A Breakthrough Method for Leading, Living, and Lasting Change, and she's taught at Harvard Law School for most of the last 20 years. Her thought leadership is shared with clients through Mobius Executive Leadership. Her writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review and McKinsey Quarterly. She is also a LinkedIn influencer a...
Austin Buchan on Democratizing Access to College and Helping Students Cope with Failure
November 20, 2018 05:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBAustin Buchan is the CEO of College Forward, which is a nonprofit that coaches students from underserved backgrounds to achieve the benefits of higher education and a college degree. One of the central tenants of College Forward is the belief that everyone who wants to go to college can go to college. College Forward helps universities build and implement student coaching programs that increase retention, persistence, and graduation. Connect with Austin on Twitter and learn more about Col...
Derek Thompson on Google X, Embracing Failure, and Making Hits
November 06, 2018 05:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBDerek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine. He writes about topics as diverse as behavioral psychology, professional sports, and blockbuster films. Derek also hosts The Atlantic’s latest podcast Crazy/Genius, and is a weekly contributor to “Here and Now,” the national afternoon news show on NPR, and he appears regularly on CBS, the BBC, and MSNBC. He has appeared on numerous lists, including both Inc magazine’s and Forbes’ “30 Under 30” and Time magazine’s 140 Best Twitter Fe...
Jordan Selleck on Navy SEALS, Start-Ups, and Persistence Through Failure
October 23, 2018 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBJordan is the CEO and Founder of DebtMaven, which is like eHarmony for commercial lending. The platform has facilitated over $350 million in deals. Jordan is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Elite Meet, a nonprofit dedicated to helping Navy SEALs and other elite veterans find their place in the civilian world after leaving the service. He has traveled to 32 countries, lived in China for 18 months, trains Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, is a private pilot, SCUBA dives, and speaks Mandarin Chinese. You...
James Clear on Habits, Decision-Making, and Continuous Improvement
October 09, 2018 04:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBJames Clear is an author and speaker focused on habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Time, and on CBS This Morning, and is taught in universities around the world. His website receives millions of visitors each month and hundreds of thousands subscribe to his popular email newsletter. He is a regular speaker at Fortune 500 companies and his work is used by teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB. His latest book, just publ...
Chelsey Korus on Turning Tragedy into a Love Story
September 25, 2018 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBChelsey Korus is one of the most preeminent teachers of yoga. Over the course of her career, she has been featured on Live! with Kelly and Michael, PopSugar, Fitness, Shape, Prevention Magazine, Yoga Journal, and Women’s Health, and many, many others. She’s been teaching yoga since the age of 15 and has been an avid life long learner in numerous movement practices. She shares her vision with thousands of students every year, hosting retreats and teaching classes for Wanderlust. In the i...
Susan Henderson On How to Deal with Failure & Critique
September 11, 2018 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBSusan Henderson is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets award. She is the author of the novels, Up from the Blue (HarperCollins, 2010) and The Flicker of Old Dreams (HarperCollins, 2018). She blogs at litpark.com, which is a supportive community of writers and artists who are in this game for the long haul. Sue grew up in a family of overachieving scientists and engineers yet created her own path as an author. We talk about how she navigated ...
Neil Pasricha on How Seeking Approval Can Lead to Failure
August 28, 2018 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBNeil Pasricha is the author of five New York Times bestsellers including The Book of Awesome, a catalog of simple pleasures based on his 50-million hit, award-winning blog, and The Happiness Equation, a nine-step guidebook to happiness based on new research. His books have been on bestseller lists for over 200 weeks and sold millions of copies. Neil is also one of the most popular TED speakers with his first TED Talk “The 3 A’s of Awesome” ranked as one of the ten most inspiring of all time....
Caroline Webb on How to Build Resilience in the Face of Failure
August 14, 2018 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.1 MBCaroline Webb (Facebook and Twitter) is the CEO of Sevenshift, a firm that shows people how to use insights from behavioral science to improve their working life. Her book on that topic, How To Have A Good Day, was published in 16 languages and more than 60 countries. The book was hailed as one of the "top must-read business books of 2016" by both Inc. and Forbes and described by Fortune as one of their top "self-improvement through data" books. Caroline’s work has been widely featured in...
Shane Snow on His Personal Failures and The Power of Storytelling
July 31, 2018 04:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBShane Snow is an award-winning journalist, celebrated entrepreneur, and the bestselling author of the books Smartcuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking and DREAM TEAMS: Working Together Without Falling Apart, as well as the co-author of The Storytelling Edge. He is founder-at-large of the content technology company Contently, and is a board member of The Hatch Institute, a nonprofit for investigative journalism in the public interest. Snow's writing has appeared in Fast Company, ...