Generation You with Catalin Matei
53 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGeneration You’s purpose is to have multidisciplinary conversations around the big challenges of tomorrow. From education, health, food, climate, technology and many others - we strive to empower people to tackle these challenges and advance mankind. Your host, Catalin Matei, is an entrepreneur that's working on ever-more complex problems.
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How Misbeliefs Impact Our Psychology | Dan Ariely Interview
January 31, 2024 16:54 - 1 hour - 97.6 MBHere is an interview with Dan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University. He shares valuable insights and opinions about a variety of topics like: extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation how we should communicate with our colleagues and employees why beauraucracy is killing joy in your company And, of course, we talked a lot about what he calls "misbelief", which is at the center of his newest book. So if you are curious about the ways misbeliefs impact ou...
Neil Patel on Scaling his $100M+/year Agency, AI and Marketing in 2023
June 16, 2023 06:16 - 31 minutes - 45 MBIn today's episode with Neil Patel, we talked about: Current Business Overview: Neil provided a brief overview of his current ventures and the ongoing expansion of his agency, NP Digital. Role within His Business: Neil clarified his role in his company, outlining that most of his time is spent on strategic work with business customers. He also discussed the importance of staying connected with the market's pulse by being involved in day-to-day operations. The Evolution of Personal Brandi...
How to Become Financially Independent with Grant Cardone
November 19, 2021 11:18 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBIn today’s episode, you will find out from Grant Cardone, the founder, and CEO of Cardone Capital, how everyday investors can access the institutional-grade real estate deals that are normally reserved for only the largest investors. The aim of this interview with Grant Cardone was to give young people a hands-on guide on how to become financially independent and wealthy. We touched on topics such as: what types of income are necessary to have, savings and investment tactics, and what ar...
The Future of Business Organization with Simone Cicero
April 26, 2021 08:08 - 1 hour - 141 MBAbout the Guest: Meet Simone Cicero, Italian designer, speaker, and entrepreneur. Creator of Platform Design Toolkit, and managing partner at Boundaryless, a company that helps organizations create platform strategies to mobilize ecosystems for growth, impact, and evolution. Along with other partners, Simone Cicero launched the Platform Design Toolkit. Bringing together service design, business model innovation, lean startup, and customer development, the Toolkit helps designers and busi...
How to Find Lasting Peace And Happiness | Rupert Spira
April 02, 2021 11:32 - 59 minutes - 137 MBAbout the Guest: Rupert Spira is an English studio potter and writer, famous for his carefully crafted minimalist bowls as well as his career as a spiritual writer and teacher, engaged in the practice and philosophy of Non-Duality, which is also called Advaita in Sanskrit. The main point of Non-Duality teaching is the belief that we are the souls who create the illusion that there is an outside world. In this sense, major aspects of the outside world and reality as we know it are consid...
Your Next Five Moves with Patrick Bet-David
March 15, 2021 12:49 - 26 minutes - 60.7 MBAbout the guest: Patrick is a successful startup entrepreneur, CEO of PHP Agency, Inc., emerging author, and Creator of Valuetainment on Youtube. As a natural critical thinker, Patrick takes complex leadership, management, and entrepreneurial ideas and converts them into simple life lessons for today's and tomorrow’s entrepreneurs. Patrick is passionate about shaping the next generation of leaders by teaching thought-provoking perspectives on entrepreneurship and disrupting the tradition...
The New Internet Economy with Beniamin Mincu (CEO Elrond)
March 12, 2021 13:43 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBAbout the Guest: Beniamin Mincu is a tech entrepreneur, particularly focused on Blockchain Technology and Artificial Intelligence. He is the founder & CEO of Elrond.com, where he spends most of his time. He worked at NEM as part of their founding core team, which is a blockchain technology that delivers a world-class platform for the management of almost any kind of as. In this conversation we talked about: The impact of having access to basic financial infrastructure What is the pr...
Bob Moesta | Demand-Side Sales 101
February 04, 2021 14:53 - 42 minutes - 77.3 MBAbout the Guest: Bob has been an innovator and building things for more than 40 years. He has worked with people like W. Edwards Deming, Dr. Genichi Taguchi, and Prof. Clayton Christensen, Jason Fried & Ryan Singer. He is one of the principal architects of the Jobs-To-Be-Done theory. Bob has continued to develop, advance, and apply the innovation framework to everyday business challenges in a wide range of industries. He has dedicated his life to developing products and services that hel...
Ivan Smolnikov || How Smartcat Revolutionized The Translation Industry with Vertical Market Networks
December 09, 2020 15:44 - 54 minutes - 100 MBAbout the Guest: Ivan Smolnikov is the founder of Smartcat (2016), which spun out of ABBYY. Smartcat’s mission is to make translations better for everyone. The platform connects linguists, companies, and language service providers (LSPs) across the globe to streamline the translation of any content into every language on demand. You can use our platform to build and manage translation teams and get your translation management automated like an autopilot. As of September 2020, the platfor...
Kenneth Stanley On Creativity, Objectives, and Open-Endedness
October 08, 2020 12:05 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBAbout guest: Keneth Stanley is one of the founding members at Uber AI Labs and a Charles Millican Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective", a book that seeks that offers an analysis of something fundamental in our culture: Objectives, they're everywhere, and nobody questions them, but this book does, and possibly offers a useful alternative(s). His research goes from introdu...
Alexander Laszlo On How To Attract Our Future Into Being
September 24, 2020 11:12 - 48 minutes - 112 MBAbout guest: Alexander Laszlo, PhD, is a polycultural systems scientist, residing in Argentina. His research and work has delivered outstanding contributions in the fields of leadership, systemic innovation, and sustainability. Laszlo was the 57th President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), known for his work on systems theories and "education ecosystems". He, furthermore, is the President of the Board of Directors of the Bertalanffy Center for the Stud...
Superhuman - The New Normal Series | Wim Hof Documentary
September 07, 2020 09:44 - 51 minutes - 94.5 MBEnjoy our new series of Superhuman – The New Normal where we challenge the status quo. Our first quest is Wim Hof, known as the Ice Man but so much more than that. The Wim Hof Method is composed of breathing techniques, ice bath, cold therapy, and techniques that can regulate your immune system and even your autonomic nervous system generating natural healing. Your host, Catalin Matei welcomes you to charge yourself and be part of the new wave of superhumans where Wim Hof is a powerful rol...
Solving World Problems Through Complex Systems | Yaneer Bar-yam
August 27, 2020 12:25 - 51 minutes - 118 MBToday's guest, Dr. Yaneer Bar-Yam is president of the New England Complex Systems Institute. He's a data scientist who studies pandemics and is an expert in complex systems science that are solving problems in healthcare, education, systems engineering, international development, and ethnic conflict. Time stamps: 00:01 - Introduction 01:40 - What Is The Current State Of The World 04:50 - What Are Effects Of The Current Problems On Us 05:59 - What Are The Biggest Problems That Unders...
Rishad Tobbacowala on Restoring the Soul of Business
August 10, 2020 13:58 - 38 minutes - 88.3 MBToday's guest, Rishad Tobbacowala is the author of “Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data” and a Senior Adviser to the Publicis Groupe, the world’s third-largest communication firm with 80,000 employees serving most recently as its Chief Growth Officer and Chief Strategist. He was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation and TIME magazine dubbed him one of five “Marketing Innovators" Rishad has a BS in Mathematics...
How to Beat Amazon and Build an Unbeatable Business with Jim McKelvey, Co-Founder of Square
August 01, 2020 19:16 - 56 minutes - 104 MBToday's guest, Jim McKelvey is a serial entrepreneur, engineer, and glassblower, the co-founder of Square, a $35 billion company that changed the way businesses could get paid. McKelvey also founded Invisibly, a project to rewire the economics of online content; LaunchCode, a non-profit that trains people to work in technology; and Third Degree Glass Factory, a publicly accessible glass art studio & education center in St. Louis. He’s the author of “The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatab...
Sean Ellis on Hacking Growth
July 24, 2020 05:41 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBToday’s Guest Sean Ellis coined the term "Growth Hacking" and is considered the founder of the worldwide Growth Hacking movement. He developed and applied Growth Hacking at companies like Dropbox, Eventbrite, LogMeIn, and Lookout, which led to breakout growth for these companies (all worth billions of dollars today). Today Sean helps companies around the globe accelerate customer and revenue growth through workshops, keynote presentations, and select advising roles. His work has been featu...
How to Leverage AI in your company to grow faster with Lomit Patel
July 15, 2020 16:13 - 59 minutes - 136 MBToday's guest, Lomit Patel is the Vice President of Growth at IMVU, responsible for user acquisition, retention, and monetization. Prior to IMVU, Lomit managed growth at early-stage startups including Roku (IPO), TrustedID (acquired by Equifax), Texture (acquired. by Apple), and EarthLink. Lomit is a public speaker, author, advisor, and recognized as a Mobile Hero by Liftoff. Here you can find the main topics we discussed: 10:04 - 21:58 - Introducing the concept of smart marketing 21:58...
Break Free From Self-Limiting Beliefs and Re-Write Your Story with Benjamin Hardy
June 26, 2020 15:51 - 1 hour - 114 MBToday’s guest, Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author of “Willpower Doesn’t Work” Book. His blogs have been read by over 100 million people and are featured on Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, and many others. I’m a regular contributor to Inc. and Psychology Today. In 2020, Benjamin will have two books coming out. "Personality Isn’t Permanent" book debunks the myth that personality is innate and unchangeable, and gives you science-backed strategies for becoming the...
Scott Young on How to Learn and Master Hard Skills on Your Own
May 16, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 159 MBAbout Generation You Generation You’s purpose is to have multidisciplinary conversations around the big challenges of tomorrow. From education, health, food, climate, technology, and many others - we strive to empower people to tackle these challenges and advance mankind. Your host, Catalin Matei, is an entrepreneur that's working on ever-more complex problems. Today's Guest, Scott Young is the author of Wall Street Journal and National best-selling book: "Ultralearning: Master Hard Sk...
Paul Chek on How To Live Fully and Save The World | Full Interview March 2020
March 25, 2020 16:10 - 1 hour - 253 MBAbout Generation You Generation You’s purpose is to have multidisciplinary conversations around the big challenges of tomorrow. From education, health, food, climate, technology, and many others - we strive to empower people to tackle these challenges and advance mankind. Your host, Catalin Matei, is an entrepreneur that's working on ever-more complex problems. Today's guest, Paul Chek is a world-renowned expert in the fields of corrective and high-performance exercise kines...
How to Control Your Attention and Become Indistractable with Nir Eyal
February 10, 2020 16:17 - 52 minutes - 120 MBAbout Generation You Generation You’s purpose is to have multidisciplinary conversations around the big challenges of tomorrow. From education, health, food, climate, technology and many others - we strive to empower people to tackle these challenges and advance mankind. Your host, Catalin Matei, is an entrepreneur that's working on ever-more complex problems. Today's guest, Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor known for his bestselling book, Hooked: How to ...
John Vervaeke on How to Have a Meaningful Life & How Meaning Works
August 18, 2019 09:58 - 2 hours - 242 MBYou can find the video interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/g71bvL97eJE ----- John Vervaeke, Ph.D. is an award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto in the departments of psychology, cognitive science, and Buddhist psychology. In our interview, he shared a few fundamental lessons that are going to help you understand the role of meaning in our lives and what are some of the most common practices in order to develop it. Here are some of the key concepts discussed in this int...
Robert Kiyosaki on The Next Financial Crash, Taxes, and Beliefs Around Money
August 06, 2019 09:50 - 37 minutes - 86.9 MBRobert Kiyosaki is the best-selling author of the book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", one of the most well-known books in the sphere of personal development. In our interview, he shared a few fundamental lessons that are going to help you in growing your financial situation. Here are some of the key concepts discussed in this interview: 1. "We're going down. Crashes make the rich, richer." Learn more about the potential financial crisis and what one can do about it 2. "You mus...
Aaron Ross On How, When & Why To Build A Sales Team
March 01, 2019 15:02 - 39 minutes - 91.1 MBA conversation about the Hows, Whens, and Whys of Sales with Aaron Ross, the #1 best-selling author of "Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.com". If you are an owner of a small business or intend to become one, this episode will provide you with plenty of powerful insights. Find Aaron: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronross/ https://predictablerevenue.com/ Resources: 4 Phases Of Hiring A First Sales Team we...
Creative Sales Strategies & Advice For Young Entrepreneurs with Danny Nissan
February 22, 2019 12:31 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBTune in and enjoy this conversation about selling strategies, entrepreneurship & advice for young entrepreneurs. Danny has such a fantastic drive and energy. Danny Nissan is a 22-year-old entrepreneur from New York. He owns a business called Glassware Destination DBA Sarona, that customers cut short to Sarona. Right now, Danny is traveling all over America to attend trade shows or meet with potential customers in order to expand the business. Find Danny here: https://www.instagram.com/...
Sujan Patel on B2B Marketing, Branding & Word of Mouth
February 07, 2019 09:12 - 59 minutes - 54 MBA conversation with Sujan Patel on B2B Marketing, Branding & Business, and specific strategy examples. He is the co-founder of Web Profits, a marketing agency that helps companies fuel their businesses. Also, head's up! GIVEAWAY: Sujan was kind enough to offer 5 books for free. All you have to do is follow him on Social Media and leave a review of the podcast. To redeem your free copy, go to https://www.growthmanifesto.com/buy-now/ and use the podcast5 promotional code. Find more about...
Salim Ismail on Exponential Organizations, The Entrepreneurs of The Future & The Educational System
January 29, 2019 15:35 - 1 hour - 150 MBSalim Ismail is the best-selling author of Exponential Organizations and also the Founding Executive Director of Singularity University whose mission is to "educate, inspire and empower a new generation of leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity's grand challenges." I'm also doing a GIVEAWAY with this podcast. So just listen to the podcast, post your favorite takeaway from it on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn, tagging me and Salim. We're going to peek the best three...
A.J. Jacobs on His Year of Living Biblically and How Being Grateful Changes Your Life
December 22, 2018 10:00 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBA.J. Jacobs is an author and a human guinea pig. He has written four New York Times bestsellers, which are a combination of memoir, science, humor and a dash of self-help. He recently decided to thank every single person involved in producing his morning cup of coffee and he wrote a book about it. It's called Thanks A Thousand and you can order it here: https://thanksathousandbook.com/
Mark Metry on being a Young Entrepreneur, building a Minecraft server and Podcasting.
December 03, 2018 08:09 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBMark Metry went from building one of the most successful Minecraft servers at age 15 to failing and now to building one of the biggest podcasts in the world, Humans 2.0. He is an inspiration. Here's where you can find more about Mark: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/ https://www.markmetry.com/
Alan Smithson On How Virtual and Augmented Reality Will Impact the World
November 27, 2018 17:44 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBMeet Alan Smithson. He lives in the future. Alan is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of MetaVRse, North America’s Leading Virtual & Augmented Reality Consultancy platforms for Fortune 100 companies across different industries, and he's one of the industry's thought leaders on the virtual reality subject. Here's where you can find him: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alansmithson/
David Vance on Copywriting and How Comedy Adds Value to Advertising
November 21, 2018 17:16 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBMastering both marketing and comedy, say hello to my special guest, David Vance! Find out more about him: https://www.davevance.co/
Dragos Anastasiu, on Entrepreneurship, Business Principles & The Travel Industry
November 15, 2018 13:36 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBHe practiced 4-5 years medicine he also took his Ph.D., then returned to Romania in order to work in the transport industry. Now he is now the president of Eurolines Group, TUI Travel Center and has over 700 employees.
A marketing conversation about Elon Musk on Joe Rogan, Psychology, Facebook Ads and the State of Marketing in 2018
November 09, 2018 12:21 - 1 hour - 33.6 MBMeet Jordan Menard. He's a Media Buyer, for consulting.com. We talked about a lot of interesting topics, related to marketing, Facebook Ads & so much more. Tune in and enjoy. Here's where you can find Jordan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanmenard1/ https://www.consulting.com/
Iancu Guda on Why Companies Fail and How To Make Better Decisions by Understanding Finance
November 01, 2018 10:54 - 54 minutes - 75.4 MBTo mark his 10 years of professional experience in credit risk management, Iancu Guda wrote the book “Why do companies fail? 10 mistakes and 100 solutions, based on the analysis of the financial statements of 100,000 companies that entered insolvency. Find Iancu here: https://iancuguda.ro/
Evan Burfield, on How Can Entrepreneurs Build Businesses in Regulated Markets
October 04, 2018 14:16 - 42 minutes - 39 MBEvan Burfield, author of Regulatory Hacking: A Playbook for Startups, works with startups around the world tackling challenges in different areas. Here's where you can find Evan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eburfield/ http://www.evanburfield.com/
Doug Tatum, on How To Transition to a Self-Sustaining & Thriving Company
September 25, 2018 10:01 - 43 minutes - 100 MBDoug Tatum is a startup legend and the author of No Man’s Land: Where Growing Companies Fail. (You can get the book from Amazon) Here's where you can find Doug: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougtatum/ https://www.newportboardgroup.com/
Clate Mask, on the most interesting and the most challenging thing about being an entrepreneur
September 19, 2018 12:20 - 2 minutes - 4.89 MBCEO of Infusionsoft, in love with building small businesses.
Andy Raskin, on Strategic Messaging and Positioning
September 14, 2018 07:07 - 37 minutes - 67.9 MBAndy Raskin is a strategic messaging & positioning expert, helping leaders tell strategic stories. Here's where you can find him: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyraskin/ https://medium.com/@raskin http://andyraskin.com/
Pat Flynn on Why 2018 is not too late for podcasting
September 05, 2018 13:17 - 3 minutes - 7.38 MBPat Flynn is an entrepreneur, blogger, and podcaster best known for his blog and podcast Smart Passive Income, where he conducts income experiments and shares the results.
Josh Silverman on The Difference Between Art and Design and What Makes a Great Designer
August 29, 2018 07:55 - 14 minutes - 32.9 MBJosh Silverman ran Design Operations for Twitter’s product design team and has been founding and scaling design businesses for over 20 years.
Brad Martineau on Marketing Automation, Email Marketing and Implementing Ideas
August 23, 2018 07:28 - 36 minutes - 66.2 MBBrad Martineau is the Co-Founder and CEO of SixthDivision, a company focused on helping businesses with automation and systems for ideas implementation.
Jay Olson on Jet Lag, The Placebo Effect and The Power of Suggestion
August 13, 2018 07:10 - 50 minutes - 40.1 MBJay Olson is a Montreal magician turned into a doctoral researcher in Psychiatry at McGill University, where he researched work fatigue and reducing jet lag. He hasn't been jet lagged since.
David Cancel on Customer Centricity & Conversational Marketing
July 16, 2018 09:44 - 58 minutes - 47.1 MBDavid Cancel is a 5x founder and 2x CEO, currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Drift, where he’s helping marketers transform their relationships with customers to drive retention & growth.
Sergiu Negut on MBAs, future trends and things to look for when wanting to invest
June 28, 2018 08:31 - 54 minutes - 43.6 MBSergiu is an active Business Angel and he mentors entrepreneurs.
Cy Wakeman on reality based leadership, how to create positive work balance and applying leadership to everyday life
February 16, 2018 21:00 - 56 minutes - 46.1 MBCy Wakeman is an international keynote speaker, business consultant and New York Times bestselling author. Her books Reality-Based Leadership, Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace and No Ego teaches people how to turn excuses into results and transform unhappy employees into accountable, successful members of the workforce.
Manu (Swish) Goswami on being a young tech entrepreneur, his story, happiness and motivation
February 02, 2018 17:00 - 55 minutes - 44.8 MBManu (Swish) Goswami, 20, has built a multi-hyphenate career. He is a serial tech entrepreneur, LinkedIn Youth Editor, TEDx speaker, Fortune 500 consultant, venture capitalist, and UN Youth Ambassador.
Mark Dorfman on Biomimicry 3.8, climate change, population and the applications of biomimicry in everyday life
January 25, 2018 18:00 - 49 minutes - 40.6 MBMark Dorfman is biomimicry chemist, learning from and then emulating nature’s forms, processes, and ecosystems to create more sustainable designs.
Massimo Chieruzzi on his first businesses, the first days of online advertising and how AdEspresso came to be and start up accelerators
December 20, 2017 17:00 - 1 hour - 14.7 MBMassimo Chieruzzi is a journalist, speaker, and CEO of AdEspresso, a self-service tool to help Small and Medium Businesses succeed with Facebook Advertising.
Neil Patel on His First Job, Creating Content & Selling Strategies
December 04, 2017 11:22 - 20 minutes - 19.6 MBNeil Patel, top influencers on the web, he created one of the 100 most brilliant companies in the world, helps companies like Amazon, NBC, GM, HP, and Viacom grow their revenue.
Bill Tai on How Blockchain Will Change The World, Being a Venture Capitalist and Networking
November 23, 2017 11:09 - 58 minutes - 20.7 MBBill Tai is a venture capitalist and a kite-surfing fanatic who combines the two whenever possible.