Ranked #1
CIP 028. Hammer Optimism into Your Plans: Ernest Shackleton’s Miracle Trip from Elephant Island
CIP 028. Hammer Optimism into Your Plans: Ernest Shackleton’s Miracle Trip from Elephant Island
One of history's greatest sagas of survival, the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew's quest to cross the South ... Read more
22 May 2020
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32mins
Ranked #2
CIP 009. King Yourself: Huey Long’s Campaign for the Poor
CIP 009. King Yourself: Huey Long’s Campaign for the Poor
In this episode of the Classic Influence Podcast, we reveal some of the key lessons we can learn from Huey Long’s 1928 c... Read more
23 Jan 2017
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17mins
Ranked #3
CIP 018. Craft a Compelling Image to Increase Your Influence and Amplify Your Power: Blackbeard Becomes the Dark Lord of the Skull and Crossbones
CIP 018. Craft a Compelling Image to Increase Your Influence and Amplify Your Power: Blackbeard Becomes the Dark Lord of the Skull and Crossbones
Blackbeard remains the most famous pirate in the entire Golden Age of Piracy, and for good reason. In this episode of th... Read more
29 May 2019
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22mins
Ranked #4
CIP 020. Surface Your Submerged Assumptions: President Kennedy and the Curious Consensus for the Bay of Pigs (Part 2 of 2)
CIP 020. Surface Your Submerged Assumptions: President Kennedy and the Curious Consensus for the Bay of Pigs (Part 2 of 2)
John F. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of America’s most popular presidents. On matters of leadership, communication ... Read more
7 Aug 2019
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22mins
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Ranked #5
CIP 027. Adopt the Champion Mindset: Arnold Schwarzenegger Takes the Throne
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In 1970, Arnold Schwarzenegger won both the Mr. Universe and the Mr. Olympia contest making him the greatest bodybuilder... Read more
31 Mar 2020
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16mins
Ranked #6
CIP 024. Cast Off the Culture of Comfort, Convenience, and Ease: Theodore Roosevelt Becomes the Apostle of the Strenuous Life
CIP 024. Cast Off the Culture of Comfort, Convenience, and Ease: Theodore Roosevelt Becomes the Apostle of the Strenuous Life
Writer and explorer, fighter and reformer, scholar, historian, statesman, and sage; Theodore Roosevelt disdained idlenes... Read more
16 Dec 2019
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25mins
Ranked #7
CIP 012. Expand Your Perspective, Effect Strategy to Win the Greater Game: The Supreme Pontiff’s Immaculate Deception
CIP 012. Expand Your Perspective, Effect Strategy to Win the Greater Game: The Supreme Pontiff’s Immaculate Deception
Continuing with the life story of Cesare Borgia, this episode of the Classic Influence Podcast explores Cesare’s approac... Read more
9 Nov 2018
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32mins
Ranked #8
CIP 022. Spurn the Most Treacherous of Emotions, Beware the Ambitions of the Beast: The Hubris of Emperor Nero, Rome’s Original Antichrist
CIP 022. Spurn the Most Treacherous of Emotions, Beware the Ambitions of the Beast: The Hubris of Emperor Nero, Rome’s Original Antichrist
Nero stands out as one of the most monstrous, and universally hated emperors in the long history of the Roman empire. An... Read more
22 Oct 2019
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28mins
Ranked #9
CIP 023. Construct Your Own Heroic Life History: Ragnar Lothbrok, The Everlasting Legend of the Viking Leader
CIP 023. Construct Your Own Heroic Life History: Ragnar Lothbrok, The Everlasting Legend of the Viking Leader
According to legend, Ragnar Lothbrok was the most famous Viking of his age, and he remains one of the greatest heroes of... Read more
15 Nov 2019
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27mins
Ranked #10
CIP 025. Mine the Miners, Create Don't Consume: The Pioneering Producers of the California Gold Rush
CIP 025. Mine the Miners, Create Don't Consume: The Pioneering Producers of the California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush led to the largest mass migration in U.S. history. From all over the world, men came to mine th... Read more
24 Jan 2020
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26mins
Ranked #11
CIP 017. Leverage the Paradox of Self-Reliance: General George Washington Wins the War By First Building Belief and Rapport
CIP 017. Leverage the Paradox of Self-Reliance: General George Washington Wins the War By First Building Belief and Rapport
Surveying the disciplined strategy, transforming leadership, and dogged determination of General George Washington durin... Read more
26 Apr 2019
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20mins
Ranked #12
CIP 015. Develop Deep Self-Belief: Napoleon Bonaparte’s Lucky Star
CIP 015. Develop Deep Self-Belief: Napoleon Bonaparte’s Lucky Star
Drawing on the experience and beliefs of Napoleon Bonaparte and his “lucky star,” this episode of the Classic Influence ... Read more
26 Feb 2019
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19mins
Ranked #13
CIP 014. Aim First for Self-Reliance: The Roots of Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Transportation Empire
CIP 014. Aim First for Self-Reliance: The Roots of Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Transportation Empire
Exploring the roots of Cornelius Vanderbilt’s early success as a budding titan in the transportation industry, this epis... Read more
16 Jan 2019
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17mins
Ranked #14
CIP 013. Dare to Run More and Greater Risks: P.T. Barnum Risks It All on an Unknown
CIP 013. Dare to Run More and Greater Risks: P.T. Barnum Risks It All on an Unknown
Drawing on one of the transforming incidents in the early days of P.T. Barnum’s life as a showman and promoter, in this ... Read more
11 Dec 2018
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19mins
Ranked #15
CIP 021. Milk Your Assets, Face the Brute Facts: The Cunning and Charismatic Cleopatra Assumes the Egyptian Throne
CIP 021. Milk Your Assets, Face the Brute Facts: The Cunning and Charismatic Cleopatra Assumes the Egyptian Throne
Swamped with political ambition and romantic intrigue, the saga of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, Cleopatra VII, has capt... Read more
12 Sep 2019
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22mins
