FOMO Sapiens with Patrick J. McGinnis
483 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 214 ratingsPatrick J. McGinnis, creator of the term FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), talks to leaders in business, entrepreneurship, politics, and culture. How do they choose from among the many opportunities in their busy lives and find the courage to miss out on the the rest? Patrick is the author of "The 10% Entrepreneur."
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Introducing Season 3
October 01, 2019 18:28 - 5 minutesIn a world of overwhelming choices, being decisive is harder and more important than ever. In the new season of FOMO Sapiens, Patrick J. McGinnis speaks with a diverse and fascinating set of leaders in business, politics, and culture about how they make decisions in their busy lives. In doing so, he uncovers the answer to a fundamental question: How can you find the power to choose what you actually want and the courage to miss out on the rest? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...
Season 2 Finale
July 18, 2019 16:51 - 32 minutesJoin us for a look back on the best moments with a few words from each guest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We Have the Technology: Jamie Metzl and Building Better Humans
July 11, 2019 19:14 - 35 minutesFuturist and author Jamie Metzl explains why complete human genetic engineering is inevitable and will happen soon, and why it demands a crucial global conversation before it arrives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You’re Invited: Bronson van Wyck and the Art of the Party
June 27, 2019 12:52 - 33 minutesThe founder of the Van Wyck & Van Wyck event production and design agency Bronson van Wyck talks about the marketing power of the perfect party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your Vote Counts? How the Leadership Now Project Wants to Get Your Skin in the Game
June 20, 2019 15:41 - 35 minutesLeadership Now Project CEO and founder Daniella Ballou-Aares shares her organization's mission, efforts, and success in ensuring a fair, principled, competitive, and representative U.S. democratic system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Don’t Read the Comments: Katie Rosman’s Survival Guide to Journalism in the Social Media Age
June 13, 2019 15:12 - 33 minutesNew York Times features reporter Katie Rosman lives at the intersection of popular culture, journalism, and social media. She shares her outlook on the future of reporting in an era of click counts, fake news, and the disruption of print journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Disruptive Fair Trade: How Naadam Is Getting the Cashmere Industry’s Goat
June 06, 2019 15:44 - 36 minutesMatt Scanlan, CEO of the cashmere clothing company, Naadam, talks about how he created a successful startup with almost no knowledge of the industry that he was about to disrupt forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reddit, the Bustling Marketplace of Ideas: How to Preserve — and Monetize — Community-Driven Free Expression
May 30, 2019 14:59 - 34 minutesReddit COO Jen Wong discusses the biggest social network you never talk about, and how Reddit's unique culture of free expression within community-moderated spaces has made it one of the most robust marketplaces of ideas on the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Business of Keeping It Simple: How Less is More at Primary
May 23, 2019 15:38 - 35 minutesPrimary cofounders Galyn Bernard and Christina Carbonell discuss how staying true to their model of curated options and organic community engagement has made their children’s clothing company a startup success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You Are the Product: Giancarlo Pitocco and the Attention Economy
May 16, 2019 12:48 - 43 minutesFormer Facebook and Instagram employee Giancarlo Pitocco explains how the attention economy has created a mental health and productivity crisis -- and how we can begin to reclaim our valuable time and attention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wicked Lobstah: Vertical Integration and the Luke’s Lobster Success Story
May 09, 2019 15:16 - 41 minutesFounder and CEO of Luke's Lobster, Luke Holden, explains how vertical integration -- taking a direct hand in the supply side of his successful lobster shack business -- has been crucial to the runaway success of his passion project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Internet Trolls & Crazy Rich Asians: The Wild World of Vintage Watch Collectors
May 02, 2019 15:27 - 32 minutesEric Wind, former senior watch specialist at Christie’s and a “watch-preneur,” reveals how you can navigate the often irrational world of collection to make money while having fun in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Instagram Army: Activism in the 21st Century
April 25, 2019 12:51 - 40 minutesVenezuelan model, social media influencer, and activist, Eglantina Zingg, shares how Instagram and her remarkable upbringing in the Amazon turned her into a fierce advocate for women and girls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Other FO You Need to Know: FOBO — Fear of a Better Option
April 18, 2019 12:43 - 42 minutesNew York Times Smarter Living columnist Tim Herrera has spent his career writing about the intersection of tech and culture. Tim speaks about the evolution of FOMO, FOBO, and our collective search for a cure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Start-Ups and the Women Who Fund Them
April 11, 2019 15:55 - 41 minutesShan-Lyn Ma, CEO of the wedding e-commerce company Zola, and Anu Duggal, founder of Female Founders Fund, talk fundraising, venture capital, and how women are driving diversity in the world of start-ups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Andrew Yang’s Audacious Plan to Save Us from Automation
April 03, 2019 14:09 - 45 minutesU.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang explains how he’s running his campaign like an entrepreneur and how his plan for Universal Basic Income might just be the viral product he needs to win it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Science of Good Decisions
March 14, 2019 22:13 - 34 minutesDespite our lofty intellects, decision-making is one of the biggest challenges to humans. Cheryl Einhorn shares the process that led to developing AREA, a strategic tool used by some of the most powerful organizations in the world, and why our increasingly complex modern world demands better decisions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hometown Kid Makes Good Code
February 28, 2019 21:45 - 34 minutesFOMO Sapiens’ youngest guest, Diego Gonzalez, shares his triumphs, failures, and learnings from his problem-solving ventures born of hackathons: StudentPeer, a peer-to-peer tutoring client, and a novel use of the diagnostic tool Microlisa as an affordable, low-friction lung cancer screening tool. He shows us that while FOMO knows no age limits, neither does entrepreneurship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Moneyball for the Music Industry
February 14, 2019 21:34 - 33 minutesWhat makes a hit? Jacob Fain of Sony/ATV Music Publishing knows that the path from creative genius to creative success is rarely a straight line. Jacob shares the thoughts, processes, and tools that a music A&R uses to bring the next big thing to the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fun Beats FOMO
January 31, 2019 21:26 - 39 minutesVana Koutsomitis is in the business of relationships, and she knows that "fun" brings people together the best. She’s the CEO of DatePlay, where romantic matches meet by playing mobile games together, creator of VinoByVana wines, and a branding and marketing strategist. Vana talks about how to turn social influence into startup success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The History and Future of FOMO and FOBO
January 04, 2019 21:04 - 29 minutesFrom the seismic impact of millennials on the market to the rise of Trump and the first article about FOMO, Ben Schreckinger has written about the intersection of politics, culture, and the economy for years.Ben dons his journalist hat and turns the tables, interviewing me about the history and future of FOMO and FOBO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hungry for Success
January 03, 2019 20:55 - 35 minutesRip Van Wafels co-founders Rip Pruisken and Marco de Leon started their company in a dorm room at Brown University, primarily serving their products to college students. Those products are now sold in thousands of Starbucks and are a favorite snack in Silicon Valley tech companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
FOMO, FOBO, and Picking the Perfect College
December 13, 2018 20:44 - 36 minutesKate Eberle Walker, education executive and former CEO of The Princeton Review, breaks down the FOMO- and FOBO-provoking experience of choosing a college. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fighting FOMO with Love, Not Fear
November 28, 2018 20:43 - 43 minutesCraig Dubitsky, the nice guy behind disruptors Hello Products, an oral care brand, and EOS, the lip balm maker, knows that building a brand around positivity doesn't just give you warm fuzzies -- it gives you breakout success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tesla Engineer Who Cured His Startup Hangover
November 15, 2018 20:35 - 33 minutesSisun Lee, the founder of Morning Recovery, a hangover prevention company, shares his story behind one of 2018's most spectacular breakout startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fight for Your Beliefs: Trading the Corporate World for Political Entrepreneurship
November 01, 2018 20:19 - 37 minutesForward Majority's Vicky Hausman leverages her organizational knowledge to heal our democratic process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Renaissance Men Don’t Get FOMO
October 18, 2018 20:07 - 43 minutesAs the founder of the clothing brand Rowing Blazers, Jack L. Carlson knows that popular fashion continues to evolve. Find out how he built a worldwide brand that blurs genres and creates its own influencers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Secret to an Examined Life
October 04, 2018 19:55 - 43 minutesKhe Hy was a Wall Street analyst for 15 years and a managing director at the world's largest investment management company. Find out why he's now a blogger, author, and podcast director about happiness, self-examination, and quality of life. Khe Hy is the creator of RadReads.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Indistractable Equals Indestructible
September 20, 2018 19:41 - 38 minutesThe author of "Hooked" and the blog, NirandFar, Nir Eyal’s passion for consumer psychology has a particular focus: how technology can attract, motivate, and even addict us. Nir tells us how we can master habits to send a powerful message and improve our own process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Finding the Courage to Monetize Your Talents
September 06, 2018 19:32 - 33 minutesDorie Clark is passionate about the art and science of personal entrepreneurship -- she writes, speaks, teaches, and lives it. The personal branding expert talks about the emotional jumps you need to take when you are the product. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How to Scale Your Side Hustle While Working and Studying Full-Time
August 23, 2018 19:25 - 33 minutesYou probably already know MarketSnacks, the newsletter about Wall Street that makes financial news fun, accessible, and bite-sized. But did you know that its co-founders Jack Kramer and Nick Martell began MarketSnacks as a 10%? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
FOMO and the Fight for Your Life
August 09, 2018 19:15 - 36 minutesMedia executive Sally Wolf was diagnosed with cancer three times in the course of two years. In this episode of FOMO Sapiens, she talks about how life’s unexpected twists and turns can change your priorities, refocus your energy, and maybe even offer a lifelong cure for FOMO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
FOMO and the Influencer Economy
July 25, 2018 18:52 - 32 minutesSocial media expert Ryan Williams, author of The "Influencer Economy," kicks off FOMO Sapiens by exploring how influencers really drive social media marketing, how they're used to manipulate consumer behavior, and how you can harness this powerful tool to drive early adoption and sales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices