What's the Big Idea with Andrew Horn
46 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsA podcast for the smartest, most creative thinkers on the planet to distill the single idea or piece of insight that will help you to live a better life.
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Annie Lalla - How to create a healthy, inspiring and love-filled romantic relationship
February 13, 2024 23:01 - 1 hour - 86.1 MBToday's guest is Annie Lala. Annie is one of the top relationship experts and coaches on the planet. I am very fortunate to have called her my relationship coach through my 11 year marriage, my recent divorce, and now with my new partner Melissa. I would not be in the happy co-parenting relationship I currently an with Miki (my ex) without her love and support. She is truly world class at helping people to work through really difficult challenges and conflict in their relationships. She's a...
Jayson Gaddis - ”Getting to Zero” - How to master conflict resolution in your important relationships
November 14, 2023 22:12 - 59 minutes - 67.9 MBThese days, I only fire up the podcast for people who I believe to be truly world-class at what they do. @jaysongaddis is one of those people. His book “Getting to Zero” provides a practical framework to master conflict resolution in our important relationships. Jayson offered up a ton of practical wisdom about how we can approach conflict consciously, tips for effective communication, and how to navigate the inner turmoil that challenges our personal fulfillment and growth. ...
Valter Longo - An introduction to Intermittent Fasting
March 10, 2023 18:23 - 53 minutes - 74 MBValter Longo is an Italian-American biologist and gerontologist who is a professor of gerontology and biological science at the University of Southern California. He is the director of the USC Longevity Institute and the Program on Longevity and Cancer at IFOM (FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology) in Milan, Italy. Longo is known for his research on the biological mechanisms of aging, and for his work on fasting-mimicking diets, which he claims can promote health and longevity. He has writt...
The Founder of 1800 Flowers on cultivating Human Connection in the Digital Age
August 03, 2021 16:48 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBJim McCann is the business leader, author, and philanthropist who founded 1-800-Flowers.com and grew the business from its roots as a single flower shop in Manhattan into the world's largest florist. With a passion for helping people deliver smiles, Jim transformed the flower and gift marketplace to help customers express themselves and connect with the important people in their lives. Devoted to helping others, Jim founded the nonprofit organization Smile Farms to provide meaningful jo...
44. Adam "Smiley" Poswolsky - The Power of Friendship in the Age of Loneliness
May 05, 2021 14:54 - 1 hour - 77 MBHow have your friendships changed since COVID began? How did your community shrink or expand? Do you have more depth with less people? If you want some help exploring these types of questions and the power of friendship in the age of loneliness, this is a great one. - We explore the stats that break down the loneliness epidemic we are currently facing in America. - Tangible strategies for building friendships and community - Intro to facilitation and meaningful gathering - Two fri...
Michael Hebb: Talk About Death So You Can Live A Better Life
September 22, 2020 16:20 - 1 hour - 113 MBMichael Hebb is an innovative and influential cultural figure, entrepreneur and activist, described by the New York Times as an “underground restaurateur, impresario and provocateur.” He believes that the dinner table is one of the most effective (and overlooked) vehicles for changing the world. After teaching a University of Washington graduate course titled Let’s Have Dinner and Talk About Death, Michael started Death Over Dinner. This project was created as a gift, an invitation and a si...
CROSSPOST - Andrew on the Art of Charm Podcast. Emotional Mastery and Social Flow
May 25, 2020 18:05 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBThe Art of Charm Podcast is one of the most popular lifestyle podcasts on the planet with nearly 2.5M monthly downloads. You'll learn our top strategies to improve your career, confidence, lifestyle, and love-life from top experts like life and business-hackers. Andrew has always loved the AOC podcast because of their focus on communication, confidence and relational dynamics. On this episode he focused on emotional mastery techniques from his men's work facilitation, as well as his proprie...
Thom Bond: Compassion - An Intro To Non-Violent Communication
May 17, 2020 18:26 - 1 hour - 23.3 MBThom Bond is a thought leader, author, peace educator and mediation consultant. He is best known as the creator and leader of The Compassion Course, a comprehensive online training, that has served over 20,000 participants in over 130 countries, in four languages. Thom is a founder and the Director of Education for NYCNVC, The New York Center for Nonviolent Communication (a United Nations Civil Society Organization). He is the author of The Compassion Book, the founder of The Engineering Pea...
Eldra Jackson III: Hurt People Hurt People. Healed People Heal People.
April 21, 2020 02:19 - 1 hour - 93.9 MBEldra Jackson III is a spiritual warrior who lives a passion of "saving lives one circle at a time." After living most of his life devoid of emotions and coming face-to-face with the reality of dying behind bars, he came to a point of self-inquiry, seeking answers as to how his life had spiraled into a mass of destruction set upon self and others. From this point, the space was made to save his life. Today, Jackson works to bring his spiritual medicine into the world while simultaneously gu...
Justin Faerman and Jackie Knechtel: An Introduction To Flow Consciousness
April 08, 2020 05:15 - 1 hour - 114 MBJackie Knechtel, M.A., is an executive coach/consultant, behavioral therapist, international speaker and pioneer in the area of flow. She is the co-founder of the Flow Consciousness Institute which holds cutting edge trainings, retreats, leads workshops and delivers transformational experiences worldwide. Jackie is also the co-author of the forthcoming book Flow: The Art of Effortless Living and is actively shifting consciousness on a global scale through her speaking, coaching practice and ...
Dan Doty: What The World Needs from Men
March 31, 2020 17:18 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBCo-Founder of Evryman, Dan works with men to help them connect with those in their lives and help them lead more successful, fulfilling lives. Dan’s career has been wide ranging, but his core of adventure and human growth has always held steady. After college, Dan spent over 600 days as a wilderness therapy guide and led groups of struggling young men up mountains, down rivers, and across frozen lakes. Along the way he absorbed and learned a ton about the process of mentoring and what it me...
Houston Kraft: How To Practice Deep Kindness
March 14, 2020 06:25 - 1 hour - 134 MBHouston Kraft is a professional speaker, leadership consultant, and kindness advocate who speaks at schools, conferences, and events internationally. He has spoken to nearly a half a million people at 500 engagements and counting. He is the co-founder of CharacterStrong - trainings and curriculums that create more compassionate cultures in schools and communities. He has been featured on the Huffington Post and highlighted by the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation. His messages about charact...
Justin McLeod: From Likes to Love - Overcoming Addiction and Creating Meaningful Connection in a Digital World
February 27, 2020 22:49 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBJustin McLeod is Founder and CEO at Hinge, the immensely popular dating app that is designed to be deleted. He grew up in Louisville, KY and studied at Colgate University. After a few years in management consulting, he attended Harvard Business School and decided to follow his passion for connecting people. Justin founded Hinge in February 2011 with a mission to create real-life connections. As a romantic and the protagonist of a real-life love story, he was upset by the negative hookup cu...
John O'Connor: The Art of Being With What Is...and Using It For Good
February 07, 2020 01:19 - 1 hour - 158 MBJohn O’Connor is a father, husband, Executive and Performance Coach living in New York. Many people think of him as the Fortune 500's best ket secret. Professionally, John has worked with thousands of clients over the past decade, working with top-performing CEO’s, entrepreneurs and people on a mission to create change in the world. He is a Certified Master Coach and Certified NLP and Brain Based Leadership Trainer. He leverages his unique multi-disciplined approach utilizing the unconscious...
Priya Parker: The Art of Gathering and Meaningful Conversation
January 29, 2020 15:23 - 1 hour - 93.8 MBPriya Parker is helping us take a deeper look at how anyone can create collective meaning in modern life, one gathering at a time. She is a master facilitator, strategic advisor, and acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters. Parker has spent 15 years helping leaders and communities have complicated conversations about community and identity and vision at moments of transition. Trained in the field of conflict resolution, Parker has worked on race relations on ...
Emily Fletcher: Stress Less and Accomplish More With Mindfulness, Meditation and Manifesting
January 18, 2020 22:28 - 1 hour - 95.8 MBEmily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva Meditation and the leading expert in meditation for extraordinary performance. Her book Stress Less, Accomplish More debuted at #7 out of all books on Amazon. The New York Times, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Vogue and ABC News have all featured Emily’s work. She’s been named one of the top 100 women in wellness to watch, has taught more than 20,000 students around the world and has spoken on meditation for performance at Apple, Google, Harvard ...
Peter Singer: How To Do The Most Good - An Intro To Applied Ethics and Effective Altruism.
January 09, 2020 18:58 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBPeter Singer is an Australian ethical and political philosopher best known for his work in bioethics and his role as one of the intellectual founders of the modern animal rights movement, as well as the Effective Altruism movement. Author of Animal Liberation and The Life You Can Save, Singer has devoted much of his time and effort (and a considerable portion of his income) to social and political causes, most notably animal rights but also famine and poverty relief, environmentalism, and re...
Barry Zito: The Secret To Flow and Fulfillment from A Cy Young Winner
January 03, 2020 22:28 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBBarry Zito is a Cy Young Award winner and two-time World Series champion who pitched primarily for the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants throughout his Major League Baseball career. After retiring from baseball, Barry settled in Nashville with his wife, Amber, and their two sons. Already well into his second career as a musician and songwriter, Zito recently released his debut EP, “No Secrets.”
Bob Roth: A Science Backed Introduction To Transcendental Meditation.
December 17, 2019 18:29 - 1 hour - 86.1 MBBob Roth is one of the most respected and sought after meditation teachers in America. Bob is the author of the New York Times bestseller, “Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation,” the CEO of the David Lynch Foundation, which has provided scholarships for over 1 million at-risk youth to learn to meditate, and president of the Center for Health and Wellness which brings TM to companies, government organizations, and nonprofit charities.
Rich Litvin: How To Avoid The Hidden Traps That Successful People Fall Into
December 05, 2019 22:04 - 1 hour - 95.3 MBRich Litvin runs a leadership consultancy for world leaders, celebrities and the extremely successful people in Los Angeles and London. The methodology is deep coaching. Bespoke. Not time-based. Ultra-successful people – people you would assume don’t need a coach – are the ones who call Rich. His clients include Olympic athletes, Presidential candidates, Hollywood film directors, Special Forces operatives and serial entrepreneurs. Rich is also the author of a best-selling book on coaching ...
Cindy Gallop: We Need To Talk About Porn. Here's How We Do It.
November 25, 2019 22:31 - 1 hour - 104 MBCindy Gallop is the founder and CEO of www.makelovenotporn.com, which she launched with a viral TED talk in 2009 – ‘Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference’. In 2013 she turned MakeLoveNotPorn into the world’s first user-generated, human-curated social sex video sharing platform https://www.makelovenotporn.tv/ socializing and normalizing sex in order to make it easier to talk about, to promote consent, communication, good sexual values and good sexual behavior. MakeLoveNotPorn is spear...
Wednesday Martin: Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust and Infidelity Is Wrong
November 14, 2019 19:38 - 1 hour - 104 MBDr. Wednesday Martin is a feminist cultural critic and #1 NYT bestselling author. Her latest book, UNTRUE: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free was a Kirkus Review “Best Books of the Year” selection. Wednesday is also the co-host of the iTunes top-100 podcast "True Sex and Wild Love."
James Maskell: The Power of Functional Medicine and Community to Transform Healthcare
November 06, 2019 16:56 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MBWith the soul of an advocate and the mind of an entrepreneur, James Maskell has spent the past decade sparking debate innovating at the cross section of functional medicine and community. To that end, he created the Functional Forum, the world’s largest integrative medicine conference with record-setting participation online and growing physician communities around the world. His organization and best selling book of the same name, Evolution of Medicine, prepares health professionals for th...
Sara Ness: The Power of Authentic Relating and Social Technologies
October 29, 2019 17:57 - 1 hour - 107 MBSara Ness is the Founder and Chief Instigator of Authentic Revolution. She began teaching Authentic Relating in 2012, founding a thousands-strong learning community in Austin, Texas and going on to train over 350 leaders and help found 30+ other communities worldwide. Sara is passionate about exposing the joy of human connection and exploring our creative potential through relationship. She has facilitated at schools, companies, yoga studios, a funeral, Burning Man, and more, bringing playfu...
Aaron Rose - The Essential Link Between Personal Transformation and Social Justice
October 16, 2019 02:07 - 1 hour - 108 MBAaron Rose is a transformational coach for public figures, inclusive culture consultant, motivational speaker and human being committed to changing and enjoying the world at the same time. He is devoted to healing our crisis of separation and political polarization by designing radically inclusive community cultures, facilitating individual recovery from trauma and isolation, and empowering the next generation of changemakers to lead the way. Aaron has facilitated cultural transformation ac...
Arjuna Ardagh: The Life Changing Mindset Shift from Acquisition to Contribution
October 01, 2019 17:13 - 47 minutes - 65.5 MBArjuna is a writer, public speaker and executive coach, who has trained more than 2000 coaches over the last 25 years. He is the author of nine books, including the 2005 #1 National Bestseller The Translucent Revolution. His latest book, Radical Brilliance, is the anatomy of how and why people have original ideas which change the world. He has been a speaker at conferences all over the world, including at Google and the United Nations. He lives with his wife, Chameli in Nevada City, Cali...
Michael Ventura: Applied Empathy - The New Language of Leadership
September 24, 2019 17:45 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBMichael Ventura is the CEO and founder of Sub Rosa, a strategy and design firm that has worked with some of the world's largest and most important brands: from Johnson & Johnson, Pantone, and Adobe to the TED Conference, Delta Airlines and The Daily Show. While he wears many hats in his professional life, Michael can boil all his roles down to helping people and corporations overcome their most vexing challenges when it comes to personal development and understanding the obstacles when con...
Nir Eyal - How to become Indistractable in an Overwhelming World
September 16, 2019 20:53 - 51 minutes - 41 MBNir Eyal is one of the leading behavioral design experts on the planet. Nir is best known of author of the bestselling book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, which sold over a quarter million copies and is a Silicon Valley must-read. After writing the book and consulting for some of the top tech companies in the world (twitter, facebook etc) he realized that he had helped to create a monster. Technology companies were using these strategies so effectively that people were losing...
AJ Harbinger - How To Build Meaningful Connections, One Conversation at a Time
September 09, 2019 16:41 - 1 hour - 122 MBFor over a decade, AJ Harbinger has been helping people build confidence, deepen relationships, and create social capital. AJ has become one of the world’s top relationship development experts, and his company, the Art of Charm has become a leading training facility for top performers that want to overcome social anxiety, develop social capital and build relationships of the highest quality. Following the path set out for him by his family, AJ studied biology in college and went on to pursu...
Nyla Rodgers - We Need to Disrupt Traditional Philanthropy
September 05, 2019 21:13 - 57 minutes - 44 MBNyla Rodgers is an activist, futurist, and non-profit leader with a passion for merging social impact with technology. She creates and runs organizations that transform communities, foster social entrepreneurship around the world, and advocates for greater generosity and partnership between the tech and non-profit worlds. Nyla began her non-profit work in 2007 when she founded Mama Hope, a grassroots training program that equips social entrepreneurs with the tools to raise funding and buil...
Lauren Bille - We live in a culture of systematic racism and patriarchy. We must talk about it to move forward.
August 18, 2019 23:02 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBLauren Billie is a force. She is currently designing an unprecedented future of racial, gender and economic equity through enterprise - instead of non-profits. She spends most of her time building and leading Allbodies, "the new way to do healthcare." Through a digital platform, they make make the patient experience easy, informative, holistic and empowering. They are starting with reproductive and sexual health, one of the most underserved and relevant health sectors; and serving millennia...
Radha Agrawal - How to Build Community for Personal Happiness and Professional Impact
August 05, 2019 04:02 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBRadha is a community building savant. She is the co-Founder, CEO and Chief Community Architect of Daybreaker, the early morning dance and wellness move-ment that currently holds events in 25 cities and over a dozen college campuses around the world with a community of almost half a million people. She is a successful entrepreneur (Co-Founder THINX, LiveItUp), author, globe trotting speaker, DJ, inventor, and investor. Her new book BELONG answers the questions, "how the heck do I find my peo...
Sam Horn - How to Pitch, Present and Make People Care About What You Do
July 26, 2019 17:59 - 49 minutes - 39.8 MBSam has trained the world’s top entrepreneurs (e.g. EO, YPO, TLC) and executives (e.g. Intel, Cisco, Boeing) how to communicate more clearly, compellingly and convincingly. Her pioneering POP! book, endorsed by Seth Godin, Ken Blanchard, Mark Sanborn and marketing guru Jeffrey Gitomer (who calls it “a rocket ship to your success”) introduces an innovative step-by-step system for creating first-of-their-kind titles, taglines, pitches, brand messages, positioning and marketing copy that get y...
Biet Simkin - Why pain, sadness and suffering are your friends.
July 19, 2019 13:55 - 1 hour - 48.3 MBBiet is this completely unique Spiritual Teacher with a rare Rock & Roll sensibility who was raised by an awakened Shaman who cured himself from near death in the woods of Russia. With that said, I think what makes her story even more special is the amount of adversity she has overcome. Losing most of her family to death as a young child growing up in NYC, tragedy turned into music and she got signed to Sony Records at 18, after that she had a near death experience, lost her 4 month old daug...
Max Stossel: There’s Another Way To Look At It - The Power Of Perspective
July 11, 2019 13:38 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBMax Stossel is an award-winning poet + filmmaker named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year. His performances across five continents, from Lincoln Center in NY to the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, have been described as mind expanding, profound, emotive, and hilarious all at once. His work has been translated to fourteen languages, won multiple film festivals, and has been viewed over 20 million times online. Max Stossel is also the Head of Education for the Center for Humane...
Lauren Zander - You're a Liar. How to Tell the Truth and Redesign Your Life
July 03, 2019 19:02 - 54 minutes - 42.2 MBLAUREN HANDEL ZANDER is a life coach, university lecturer, public speaker, and the Co-Founder and Chairwoman of Handel Group®, an international corporate consulting and private coaching company based in New York City. Lauren is also the author of Maybe It’s You: Cut the Crap, Face Your Fears, Love Your Life (Published by Hachette Book Group, April 2017), a no-nonsense, practical manual that helps readers figure out not just what they want out of life, but how to actually get there. She has s...
Jesse Israel - The Art of Keeping it Real To Build Community and Lead People
June 25, 2019 14:52 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBJesse is a social entrepreneur, community builder and meditation teacher on a mission to light up the leader in everyone. As a sophomore at NYU Jesse co-founded Cantora Records, where he signed multi-platinum bands like MGMT, advised The Wu Tang Clan’s GZA and spearheaded the label’s tech investment fund. After experiencing debilitating anxiety and panic attacks, Jesse discovered meditation. The practice was so transformative for him that he went on to found The Big Quiet - a movement that g...
Connor Beaton - Facing Our Darkness as a Path to Purpose, Freedom, and Peace
June 19, 2019 02:28 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBConnor Beaton is the founder of ManTalks, an international organization focused on mens health, wellness, success and fulfillment. Connor is also an international speaker, podcast host and works 1-1 with men who are looking to deepen their purpose, radically improve their intimate relationships, and regain confidence. Since founding ManTalks, Connor has spoken on stage at TEDx, with Lewis Howes, Gary Vaynerchuk, Danielle LaPorte, taken ManTalks to over a dozen cities internationally and has...
Daniel Schmactenberger - Understanding evolution and the crucial next step for humanity
June 02, 2019 19:38 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBDaniel’s central interest is civilization design: developing new capacities for sense-making and choice-making, individually and collectively, to support conscious sustainable evolution...to bring about a world commensurate with our highest potentials. He blogs on these topics at https://civilizationemerging.com. He’s also the director of Research and Development at Neurohacker Collective https://neurohacker.com/ethos
Tom Gilovich - The Power of Investing in Experiences vs. Material Possessions
May 20, 2019 20:22 - 52 minutes - 30.2 MBThomas Gilovich is the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology at Cornell University and co-director of the Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research. He specializes in the study of everyday judgment and reasoning, psychological well-being, and self-assessment. In addition to his articles in scientific journals, Dr. Gilovich is the author of How We Know What Isn’t So (Free Press), Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes (Simon and Schuster, with Gary Belsky), Soc...
John Gray - The Real Difference Between Men and Women
May 08, 2019 13:19 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBThere are relationship experts...and then there is John Gray. The author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus – and sixteen other books on relationships and personal growth, John’s wisdom about the inherent differences between men and women as well as what it takes to build lasting, loving relationships have now influenced two generations of men and women. With his books now translated into approximately 45 languages in more than 100 countries, Dr. Gray has appeared many times on Oprah...
Alex Ebert - The Reverse-Rebellion of "Cool"
April 10, 2019 16:18 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBAlex Ebert is a musician, filmmaker, and activist. He founded the band Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros in 2008 and won a Golden Globe for best original score in 2014. He founded Big Sun Foundation, which specializes in facilitating Community Land Trusts. He currently CEO’s the crowd-sourced social radio app Tuners, is writing a book called 'Kingdom Cool', and resides in New Orleans, Louisiana. To find out more about Alex and his work, visit https://www.5amedude.com/
Miki Agrawal - The Importance of Disruptive Thinking (for business success and personal growth)
April 08, 2019 00:58 - 58 minutes - 46.5 MBMiki Agrawal (www.mikiagrawal.com) is a serial social entrepreneur. She was the recipient of The Tribeca Film Festival’s “Disruptive Innovation Award”, she was named “2017 Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum”, “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” by the World Technology Summit, she was one of INC Magazine’s “Most Impressive Women Entrepreneurs of 2016”, Forbes’ “Top 20 Millennials on a Mission”, and made the cover of Entrepreneur Magazine in 2016. Most recently, she was named Fast Compa...
Layla Martin - The Big Thing That Men (and most people) Misunderstand About Sexuality
April 02, 2019 02:07 - 59 minutes - 49.1 MBSexuality both fascinated and scared Layla Martin from a very young age and she’s always been obsessed with it. She studied human sexuality at Stanford and then spent the next 10 years in the jungles of Asia working with Tantric masters. Layla now blends ancient Tantric wisdom with modern science to help detox people's unhealthy relationships with sex. Her Youtube channel has more than 65 million views, Cosmopolitan calls her a ‘sexpert extraordinaire’ and Women's Health Magazine has dubbed ...
Alex Banayan - The #1 Reason People Don't Go After Their Dreams
March 26, 2019 20:57 - 39 minutes - 30.8 MBAlex Banayan is a USA Today bestselling author and global keynote speaker who dropped out of USC at the ripe age of 18 to track down some of the most successful people on the planet. Out of sheer curiosity and purpose, he spent the next 7+ years seeking out and asking these people (Spielberg, Lady Gaga, Maya Angelou, etc.) how they got their first big break. His book titled The Third Door is the culmination of his research on how anyone can turn their dreams into a reality...regardless of wh...
Warren Farrell - The Boy Crisis / A New Perspective On The Patriarchy
March 07, 2019 18:08 - 1 hour - 179 MBDr. Warren Farrell is an educator, activist, and NYT best-selling author author, who has been described as the intellectual father of the men’s movement. While he has been concerned about men and "gender liberation" for well over 30 years, in his most recent book titled The Boy Crisis, he has shifted his attention to the youngest among us.