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Famous Failures

On Famous Failures, I interview the world's most interesting people about their failures and what they learned from them.

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Lindsey Horan on Winning the Women’s World Cup

Lindsey Horan on Winning the Women’s World Cup

In 2012, eighteen-year-old soccer player Lindsey Horan defied conventional wisdom when she turned down a scholarship fro... Read more

10 Sep 2019

37mins

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BJ Fogg on How Tiny Habits Can Spark Big Life Changes

BJ Fogg on How Tiny Habits Can Spark Big Life Changes

BJ Fogg is a behavioral scientist with deep experience in innovation and teaching. At Stanford University he runs the Be... Read more

31 Dec 2019

34mins

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Sahil Lavingia on Failing to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

Sahil Lavingia on Failing to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

Sahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a web platform where creators can sell products directly to consumers ... Read more

9 Apr 2019

41mins

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Laura Vanderkam on Why You Have More Time Than You Think

Laura Vanderkam on Why You Have More Time Than You Think

Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management and productivity books, including Juliet’s School of Possibilit... Read more

17 Dec 2019

34mins

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Neil Pasricha: Ask Me Anything

Neil Pasricha: Ask Me Anything

Neil Pasricha is the author of five New York Times bestsellers including: The Book of Awesome, a catalog of simple pleas... Read more

25 Feb 2020

31mins

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Susan Cain on Overcoming Failure and Unleashing the Power of Introverts

Susan Cain on Overcoming Failure and Unleashing the Power of Introverts

SUSAN CAIN is the author of Quiet: The Secret Strengths of Introverts, and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World Tha... Read more

21 May 2019

38mins

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Whitney Johnson on Disrupting Yourself

Whitney Johnson on Disrupting Yourself

Whitney Johnson is a leading business thinker and expert on disruptive innovation and personal disruption. She covers th... Read more

22 Oct 2019

38mins

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Tali Sharot on Our Power to Change Others

Tali Sharot on Our Power to Change Others

Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and a leading expert on the neural basis of emotion, decision makin... Read more

4 Jun 2019

37mins

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Julie Zhuo on Becoming a Facebook Manager at 25, Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome, and Staying in the Discomfort Zone

Julie Zhuo on Becoming a Facebook Manager at 25, Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome, and Staying in the Discomfort Zone

Julie Zhuo is the Vice President of Product Design at Facebook. As one of Silicon Valley's top product design executives... Read more

26 Mar 2019

37mins

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Khe Hy on Taming Self-Doubt and Overcoming the Scarcity Mindset

Khe Hy on Taming Self-Doubt and Overcoming the Scarcity Mindset

Khe Hy is the founder of RadReads, which is a community of 20,000 professionals seeking to reexamine their relationship ... Read more

18 Jun 2019

44mins

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Rachel Simmons on Helping Girls and Women Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success

Rachel Simmons on Helping Girls and Women Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success

Rachel Simmons is the author of Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live... Read more

26 Feb 2019

36mins

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What to Do When You Make a Mistake

What to Do When You Make a Mistake

This is a short, solo episode of Famous Failures. Instead of doing an interview, I speak about what you should do when y... Read more

3 Dec 2019

7mins

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Julian Guthrie on Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things

Julian Guthrie on Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things

Julian Guthrie is an award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author, and all around adventurer who loves u... Read more

23 Apr 2019

41mins

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Jennifer Dulski on Being Too Stubborn to Fail and Becoming Head of Facebook Groups

Jennifer Dulski on Being Too Stubborn to Fail and Becoming Head of Facebook Groups

Jennifer Dulski is the head of Facebook Groups, a product used by more than 1 billion people. She has more than fifteen ... Read more

29 Jan 2019

37mins

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Dorie Clark on Failure and the Entrepreneurial Journey

Dorie Clark on Failure and the Entrepreneurial Journey

Dorie Clark is a consultant and keynote speaker, and the author of the books Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and S... Read more

24 Mar 2020

32mins

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Tiago Forte on Building a Second Brain

Tiago Forte on Building a Second Brain

Tiago Forte is one of the world’s foremost experts on productivity. He writes and speaks on how knowledge workers can re... Read more

30 Jul 2019

32mins

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Why the "Fail Fast" Mantra is a Recipe for Failure

Why the "Fail Fast" Mantra is a Recipe for Failure

This is a short, solo episode of Famous Failures. Instead of doing an interview, I go on a riff on why the popular “fail... Read more

5 Nov 2019

8mins

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Christine Carter on the Science of Happiness and Escaping the "Busy" Trap

Christine Carter on the Science of Happiness and Escaping the "Busy" Trap

Christine Carter is a sociologist, columnist and speaker. She’s the author of the books Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Ste... Read more

13 Aug 2019

38mins

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Ryan Levesque on Giving Up "Good" for "Great"

Ryan Levesque on Giving Up "Good" for "Great"

Ryan Levesque is the CEO of The ASK Method ® Company, and the #1 national best-selling author of Ask: The Counterintuiti... Read more

2 Jul 2019

42mins

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Rene Denfeld on Healing Trauma and Telling Her Story

Rene Denfeld on Healing Trauma and Telling Her Story

Rene Denfeld is the author of the acclaimed novels The Child Finder, The Enchanted, and The Butterfly Girl. Her literary... Read more

19 Nov 2019

29mins

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