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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Best Of: The Smell of Success: How Farmgirl Flowers Is Bootstrapping to $30 Million in Sales
August 26, 2021 04:10 - 37 minutesChristina Stembel started Farmgirl Flowers to improve the way the commercial flower industry offers choice, quality, and price. Today she’s at the helm of a growing company that serves flower lovers nationwide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What's Up With the Great Resignation?
August 23, 2021 21:30 - 14 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: How to Make Better Decisions with Gretchen Rubin
August 19, 2021 04:06 - 33 minutesGretchen Rubin, 5-times New York Times Best-Seller, an award-winning podcaster, and speaker, discusses her latest book, "The Four Tendencies." This episode explores the four personality profiles identified in her book: the upholders, the questionnaires, the obligers, the rebels, and how they respond to their inner and outer expectations. By understanding your profile, you can improve your productivity, your life, and the lives of those around you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...
Is There a "Perfect" Morning Routines?
August 16, 2021 04:20 - 12 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
40. Sergey Young on How to Live to 200
August 12, 2021 05:00 - 37 minutesThe prospect of living to 200 years old isn’t science fiction anymore. Sergey Young, a leader in the emerging field of longevity offers his perspective on what cutting-edge breakthroughs are on the horizon, as well as the practical steps we can take now to live healthily to 100 and beyond. He also demystifies the longevity landscape, cutting through the hype and showing readers what they can do now to live better for longer, and offering a look into the exciting possibilities that await us. B...
Best Of Alex Carter
August 12, 2021 04:10 - 26 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Beware FOMO Investing
August 09, 2021 17:00 - 14 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
39. The Art of Charm on How to Be Social Now
August 05, 2021 04:05 - 35 minutesHave you been a little awkward in your first attempts to be social post-vaxx? If you have, don't feel bad. We're all off of our game right now and figuring out what to say, how to safely socialize, and how to regain social momentum is one of the biggest challenges we face right now. But, we called in the perfect guests to help with that problem. In today's episode, AJ Harbinger and Johnny Dzubak from The Art of Charm, share their secrets, backed by science, on how to be social in 2021. Their...
I Got Hypnotized - Here's What Happened
August 02, 2021 17:00 - 14 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
38. Hypnosis: The Facts, The Fiction, & The Benefits
July 29, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutesWhat comes to mind when you think of hypnosis? Some poor fool in a spotlight quacking like a duck who will have no memory of it later in the night? Or guided meditation with a specific outcome in mind? Brooklyn-based hypnosis and regression therapist Daniel Ryan explains the stark contrast between meaningful hypnotherapy and flashy stage show hypnotism and how, as the son of a clinical psychologist trained in hypnotism by the US military in the 1950s, he spent a lifetime learning to spot the ...
Listener Mail: Let's Talk Languages & Travel
July 26, 2021 15:30 - 14 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
37. Rebecca Minkoff & Ali Wyatt’s Female Founder Collective
July 22, 2021 04:01 - 31 minutesRebecca Minkoff built a successful lifestyle brand over two decades but as her success grew as a founder, she noticed more and more the gaps in support and mentorship for female entrepreneurs and the lack of resources available. Determined to make a change, in 2018, Minkoff created the Female Founder Collective and teamed up with Ali Wyatt, a media specialist whose resume boasts such brands as InStyle, The Knot, Refinery29, and even Goop. Together Minkoff and Wyatt struck out to create a com...
My Stress Dream & The Best Way to Intro Yourself
July 20, 2021 17:28 - 15 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
36. Cultivating Influence with Jon Levy
July 15, 2021 05:00 - 32 minutesBehavioral scientist and author of the new book Cultivating Influence Jon Levy explains how one of the most effective strategies for success is making meaningful connections with people who can positively impact you, your life, and the things that mean the most to you. By building deep and meaningful connections based on shared community, interest, or values, you can create an influential network capable of great impact. Jon discusses creating vulnerability loops as an opportunity to build tr...
My Life Motto & Listener Mail
July 12, 2021 05:00 - 14 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
35. Permission to Dream with Chris Gardner
July 08, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutesEntrepreneur, public speaker, and best-selling author Chris Gardner discusses his new book Permission to Dream, and how an inspirational declaration from his mother as a small child empowered him to dream, persevere, and eventually succeed to such heights he inspired an award-winning film about his life starring Will Smith. Inspired by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to be the best he could be, Chris shares how his unwavering dedication to dream big paved the way for his hard work t...
HOORAY! It's Episode 100!
July 05, 2021 16:51 - 16 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of FOMO Sapiens: How To Preserve and Monetize Community-Driven Free Expression
July 01, 2021 17:07 - 38 minutesReddit COO Jen Wong steers one of the largest social networks on the internet, and the one you probably hear about the least. Despite not being a media darling, Reddit is probably one of the largest, if not the largest, repositories of discussion in the digital world. Reddit cleaves to old-school Internet values of free expression and user anonymity, balanced by the moderated forums that are its backbone- a model that has made it a place for robust engagement for both community members and ...
The Best Entrepreneurs Do This to Find Great Ideas
June 28, 2021 17:00 - 14 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
33. Stacy’s Pita Chips Founder's Unconventional Path to Success
June 24, 2021 05:00 - 34 minutesStacy’s Pita Chip and BeBOLD Bars founder Stacy Madison, who evolved from food cart owner to a household name, shares insights on the key to building a successful food brand, how to scale growth, and, how sometimes, you have no other choice but to learn the hard way.From packing to transportation, from vendor procurement to order fulfillment, Stacy and her partner learned quickly as their business grew that selling and shipping a food product has its own set of complexities that not every ent...
A Scammer Just Used FOMO Against Me!
June 21, 2021 14:00 - 13 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
32. Jim McKelvey on Building a Business that Can’t be Beat
June 17, 2021 04:05 - 34 minutesHave you ever been faced with a problem and there wasn’t a ready-made solution? Have you ever been frustrated trying to complete a project and couldn’t find a video or article online for guidance or support? These are challenges that require innovative thinking and novel invention, but they also create some of the best entrepreneurs. Serial entrepreneur, inventor, author, and billionaire philanthropist Jim McKelvey discusses his new book The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business O...
Let's Talk About Bobby Kennedy & Bhutan
June 14, 2021 04:01 - 12 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
31. Where Skill Ends & Chance Begins with Maria Konnikova
June 10, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutesNot many people can say they became a professional poker player while researching a book, but in Dr. Maria Konnikova’s case, she can. In her latest book My Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win, journalist and award-winning author Konnikova explains how her research into the science between luck, skill, randomness, and the myth that hard work always leads to success led her to become an international champion poker player. Konnikova explores the significant ove...
5 Top Tips for Connecting with People
June 07, 2021 07:00 - 14 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Thanks to this episode's sponsor Podcorn. Explore sponsorship opportunities and start monetizing your podcast by signing up here: https://podcorn.com/podcasters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
30. Mastering the Art of Connection with Susan McPherson
June 03, 2021 16:30 - 34 minutesDo you have an expansive network yet it rarely yields any benefits? Are you frustrated, feeling like you are providing as little value to your network as it does to you? That’s probably because while you have succeeded at building a vast network, you have failed at making meaningful connections. Author, serial networker, and master connector Susan McPherson shares insights from her book The Lost Art of Connection: The Gater, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships and ho...
What is the Point if You're Not Happy?
May 31, 2021 13:00 - 13 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
29. Live More Effortlessly with Greg McKeown
May 27, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutesDo you struggle to find the balance between hard work and burnout? Does it sometimes seem impossible to get it all done? Once you’ve hit a wall and you strip away all the non-essentials, does it still seem too much? Then it’s time for a new approach. That’s exactly what author Greg McKeown discusses in his new book Effortless: Making it Easy to Do What Matters. Hard work is indeed a virtue, he agrees, but Greg argues that any virtue can become a vice when taken too far. Greg shares strategies...
The Best Pitches I've Ever Heard
May 24, 2021 07:00 - 14 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
28. How to Get People to Back Your Ideas
May 20, 2021 10:00 - 36 minutesHow is it that some people can convince others to back them, is its personality, style, charisma? No, says Suneel Gupta, author of the new book Backable. Explaining that creativity and persuasion are not the same thing, Suneel shares how his book can help the well-intention strengthen their conviction and enable them to successfully share their insights and ideas. Using failure as a foundation for learning and growth, Suneel explains that conviction is contagious and the importance of uniq...
Patrick's Hot Take on The WeWork Implosion
May 17, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
27. How the Harlem Children’s Zone Navigated COVID
May 13, 2021 04:01 - 33 minutesCan a global pandemic provide a platform for change? If you are Kwame Owusu-Kesse, CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), the answer is a resounding yes. With a pre-existing, comprehensive, platform aimed to combat racial inequity and bridge educational divides, the Harlem Children’s Zone was in a uniquely well-prepared position when COVID hit. Able to identify the immediate and long-term needs of their community members, HCZ focused on a 5-pronged approach. Comprehensive and strategic, Kwa...
Way to Support Women at Work
May 10, 2021 04:01 - 14 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
26. Influence, and the Psychology of Persuasion
May 06, 2021 04:01 - 38 minutesInfluence can be a tricky thing, you want to get people to say yes to you but you also want to be able to identify when others are influencing you in unwelcome ways. First published in 1984, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion is still considered the bible for eCommerce today. Having sold over 5 million copies and been printed in 44 languages, author Dr. Robert Cialdini is updating his bestselling book for an updated world driven by technology. Dr. Cialdini believes that while the platfor...
Let's Nerd Out on Positive Psychology
May 03, 2021 18:23 - 13 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
25. Level Up with BetterUp
April 29, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutesIn this week’s all-new episode, founder and CEO of BetterUp, the largest coaching platform in the world, Alexi Robichaux explains how his company uses individualized coaching, counseling, mentorship, and digital learning programs to help members grow, adapt and flourish personally and professionally. Explaining that mental health isn’t simply the absence of sickness, Alexi shares his mission to cultivate mental fitness through customized coaching and community support. BetterUp provides a p...
Why I Love Ranked Choice Voting
April 26, 2021 07:00 - 12 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
24. Andrew Yang is Back & He’s Running for Mayor!
April 22, 2021 07:00 - 31 minutesFrom a non-profit start-up to the national political stage, Andrew Yang is not your typical mayoral candidate. After raising nearly $40M in grassroots efforts and outlasting career politicians in the 2020 presidential race, Andrew Yang is focusing on revitalizing and rebuilding New York City after a devastating pandemic that wounded the city, in some ways, beyond measure. Yang shares how he plans to invest in this city and its people while getting others to do so as well. Focusing on anti-...
Your Post-Pan Plan
April 19, 2021 13:00 - 13 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23. How to use Tech to Take Your Business to the Next Level
April 15, 2021 14:16 - 36 minutesFrom a series of startups to the giant Amazon Web Services, this week’s guest, Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio and author of the new book Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century, has figured out a way to bridge the divide between developers and business executives to create successful solutions and customer experiences. Jeff explains how the best companies utilize their technical partners as creative problem solvers rather than just digital a...
Vaccine FOMO
April 12, 2021 13:00 - 13 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
22. Diversify and Thrive with Sami Gayle
April 08, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutesYou may have seen her as a little girl on Broadway or recognize her from your favorite Friday night show Blue Bloods, but Sami Gayle is more than just an actress! Singer, producer, activist, and investor, Sami has managed to seamlessly diversify both her portfolio and her career, and, in this all-new episode, she shares her long-term cost averaging approach to investment success in what she calls “an irrational market.” After the financial crisis of 2008 left her future in the entertainment ...
The Secrets to Setting Up the Perfect Home Office
April 05, 2021 07:00 - 13 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21. Did you Know you Can Hack People?
April 01, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutesDid you know that like computers, people are hackable? Christopher Hadnagy, adjunct professor of Social Engineering at the University of Arizona’s NSA Design Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations and author of the new book Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People and Leave Them Better Off For Having Met You, is a social engineer who sheds light on the concept of human hacking and how to use it to understand and validate others. The essence of human hacking is understanding ho...
My Experience with Tourette's Syndrome
March 29, 2021 07:00 - 13 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
FOMO and ADHD
March 25, 2021 07:00 - 27 minutesDo you, a loved one, or any of your employees struggle with time management, organization, or decision-making? Does impatience triggers disproportionate anger responses? These could all be signs and symptoms of ADHD. George Sachs, a clinical psychologist specializing in ADHD, discusses how this neuro-developmental disorder may present in the workplace and how it is strongly linked to FOMO. When you are hypersensitive to rejection and constantly seeking acceptance, you will inevitably lack the...
20. FOMO and ADHD
March 25, 2021 07:00 - 29 minutesDo you, a loved one, or any of your employees struggle with time management, organization, or decision-making? Does impatience triggers disproportionate anger responses? These could all be signs and symptoms of ADHD. George Sachs, a clinical psychologist specializing in ADHD, discusses how this neuro-developmental disorder may present in the workplace and how it is strongly linked to FOMO. When you are hypersensitive to rejection and constantly seeking acceptance, you will inevitably lack the...
Patrick's Hot Take on Clubhouse, 2021's FOMOiest App
March 22, 2021 13:17 - 11 minutesJoin Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
19. Can't We All Just Get Along?
March 18, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutesWhat do a 22-year-old former venture capital intern and an 11-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker have in common? Political entrepreneurship. Manu Meel, CEO of BridgeUSA, and Mark Kassan, co-founder of A Starting Point (ASP), alongside actor Chris Evans, share how their organizations dedicate themselves to creating spaces and platforms to foster civic engagement and meaningful conversations across the political divide. BridgeUSA works with college campuses across the country to combat pessimistic p...
20. Can't We All Just Get Along?
March 18, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutesWhat do a 22-year-old former venture capital intern and an 11-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker have in common? Political entrepreneurship. Manu Meel, CEO of BridgeUSA, and Mark Kassan, co-founder of A Starting Point (ASP), alongside actor Chris Evans, share how their organizations dedicate themselves to creating spaces and platforms to foster civic engagement and meaningful conversations across the political divide. BridgeUSA works with college campuses across the country to combat pessimistic p...