Ranked #1
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
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37mins
Ranked #2
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
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34mins
Ranked #3
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
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41mins
Ranked #4
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
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34mins
Ranked #5
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
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31mins
Ranked #6
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
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38mins
Ranked #7
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
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38mins
Ranked #8
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
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37mins
Ranked #9
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
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37mins
Ranked #10
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
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44mins
Ranked #11
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
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36mins
Ranked #12
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
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7mins
Ranked #13
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
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41mins
Ranked #14
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
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37mins
Ranked #15
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
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32mins
Ranked #16
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
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32mins
Ranked #17
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
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8mins
Ranked #18
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
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38mins
Ranked #19
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
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42mins
Ranked #20
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
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29mins