Why challenging your beliefs helps inoculate you against manipulators

Surprising entrepreneurial truths from a LinkedIn co-founder If you want to get a front-row seat to understanding the mind of a venture capitalist, LinkedIn co-founder, Reid Hoffman is your guy. He’s an investor at Greylock Partners and co-author of several b...

How to Boss Up and Build an Empire {AUDIO} What does it take to be a boss? In this episode, we are delighted to have with us, the one and only Rick Ross, the multi-platinum-selling, multi-Grammy-nominated rapper, artist, songwriter, investor...

This is how untrained brains are ruining America In this age and era, its rather unfortunate that we often can’t tell the difference between genius and stupidity, and we are often guessing about how to interpret situations based on our own view of...

How to Follow Life's Greenlights to Success Matthew McConaughey joins us in this episode to talk about the sobriety of grief, why having kids changes a parent’s perspective about everything and much more...

How to Improve Your Emotional Agility Do you let your self-doubts, failure, shame, fear, or anger hold you back, or can you be determined, persevering toward key life goals with the insight and courage to recognize when these goals are no...

How Actress Leah Remini survived post-Scientology life and more... In this episode, we talk to actress and former Scientologist Leah Remini, someone who knows first-hand how far the Church of Scientology will go to wreck the lives of those who defect from its ranks.

How to make the most of your bipolar superpowers If most superheroes had their abilities diagnosed as disorders and suppressed by giving them some regular dosage of medicine, can you imagine how that story would have played out? Who would save the w...

Why Rationality Seems Scarce and Why it Matters {Audio} Have you noticed that the representatives of every generation between 'The Flintstones" great-grandparents and our own will, at some point, shake their wise old heads at the folly of youth and procla...

Most common scams and how to avoid them Are you aware of some of the most common scams to watch out for? Why is it that even the smartest among us get suckered into falling for scams? What can we do to help ourselves break free of scams for...

How to Have Conversations That Matter Did you know that there are ways s to correct the bad advice you’ve picked up about having good conversations? What about the surprising ways your smartphone affects the quality of your conversa...

Dirty Jobs and Peripatetic Moments - Mike Rowe {AUDIO} Did you know our guest on today's episode, Mike Rowe of Discovery Channel series Dirty Jobs started his show business career in opera — to get women? That's right. Apparently, Mike has seen some s...

How the 'What the Hell' effect keeps us making bad decisions Did you know that the "What the Hell' effect can keep us making bad decisions even when we know they’re bad? Are we ever truly rational, unbiased, or impartial? Most of the time, we may think of ou...

How to find bliss from suffering When searching for purpose, most of the time, the path isn't always obvious or direct. It might be filled with obstacles, wrong turns that never make sense or it might just be a seemingly endless cir...

Why Helping Others Drives Our Success The Beatles knew that the love you take equals the love you make. Similarly, the economics of relationships runs on a counterintuitive currency — the more you give, the more you get. But how do you ...

How to free yourself from self-limiting beliefs If you’ve been suckered into believing that your life is controlled by the tarot cards you've been dealt, better listen to this...

Why sometimes the only way to do something right is to do some things wrong Sometimes the journey to finding ourselves can be short and direct, with a clear line taking us from point A to point B. Then there are those times when it’s a meandering trail that winds through th...

How to solicit for advice the right way One of the most important skills to master in life is asking for advice the right way. This is an asset that sharpens our instincts, guides our way, and brings us closer to our goals, our abilities, ...

How hormonal birth control affects women's brains Much as hormonal birth control pills have their positives, they also come with a hefty assortment of negatives. These not only affect a woman’s reproductive system but her whole body. Even though we...

Where the Social Leap Lands Even when you are a human being, trying to explain why you do the things you do can be a bit of a mind-bender. Do you work hard toward elusive goals only to be thwarted by happiness when every metric ...

The Search for a Better Way to Think Just as our bodies have immune systems designed to fend off diseases that can incapacitate or kill us, our minds and cultures have similar processes in place to keep us safe from bad ideas and stop th...

How to protect yourself from violence (part 1) Violence is built into the human mind. Have you ever imagined being violated by another human being in the most grisly way? Now, if you can imagine it in the first place, it’s likely that you hav...

Former CDC's Julie Gerberding Answering Your COVID-19 Questions [Audio] In today's episode, we present former CDC director Julie Gerberding to answer the questions asked on social media. Here, we’ll go through some of those questions to get the straight dope and bust so...

Understanding the art of human connection Joining us on this episode is Academy Award-winning producer and Co-founder of Imagine Entertainment, Brian Grazer, discussing what 'imposter syndrome' is all about in Hollywood and how he transforme...

Why crooks and thieves rule the world! In this show journalist, Oliver Bullough talks about his latest book, "Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back". He is also a regular contributor to The Guardian. ...

Why people believe weird things {AUDIO} We all have our beliefs. Chances are at some point in your life you have believed in things that you can’t really explain logically. Whether it's religion, conspiracy theories, or unquestioning adhe...

A Pimp's Secrets of Mind Manipulation - Part 2 {AUDIO} Joining us for the second part of the Pimp's Secrets of Mind Manipulation is Mickey Royal is a former gangster, drug dealer, pimp, and mob enforcer, someone who not only survived under what mainstream...

How to protect yourself from violence (part 2) Joining us again is author of The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence and MOSAIC Threat Assessment Systems developer Gavin de Becker to continue with the second part ...

The Power of Regret Regrets? Frank Sinatra had a few. We all do. But Ol’ Blue Eyes seemed to excel at dwelling on that regret only as far as he needed to. Then he faced it all, stood tall, and did it his way. And if NY...

Lessons from Dwayne Wade's Bigger-Than-Basketball Life {AUDIO} Photo by: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com A lot of celebrities fall into the trap of being defined by the one thing that made them famous, often undergoing a crisis of identity — if not a complet...

Is He Cheating on You with Porn? The man you were dating agreed to stop watching porn when your relationship was still young. What a relief! But after dating for a few years and everything’s otherwise great, you can’t help but ge...

How to get people to reveal the truth (Part 1) They say that a person will attract more flies with honey than with vinegar. One is more effective than the other. Well, that analogy applies too when the FBI wants someone to fess up to the part the...

Can You Stop a Racist from Becoming a Doctor? {LISTEN} One of your fellow medical students is openly racist, misogynistic, and homophobic. Do you have a duty to report this terrible person in hopes it prevents him from ever becoming a doctor with marginal...

The daily laws of living you NEED to have access to - Part 1 {AUDIO} Can you name anyone who doesn't want to be more powerful... more in control... who wants to be the best at what they do? I can't. Joining us in this episode is Power and strategy expert Robert Greene...

Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness When this interview was conducted, Belarusian-boy-done-good Gary Vaynerchuk had just come out with his book "#AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur’s Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness". In...

How to deal with A-holes who treat you like dirt Everywhere you look, there will always be some A-hole who is disrespecting and demeaning others, doing so much damage to others’ mental and physical health and to the productivity and creativity of ...

The Winning Example of Extreme Ownership In the civilian world, about as close as most of us get to a life or death situation is the rush hour commute to and from work. But there are lessons we can learn from those who have had to make tough...

How to Make What Matters Effortless {AUDIO} Do you want 10x the results of any endeavor without putting in 10x the effort? , Do you find yourself procrastinating on a project because it’s not perfect enough to your liking? Did you know that â...

How to make billions Do you have a way to access the most creative part of yourself? Do you acknowledge your secret dream and chase it with rigor, or do you neglect that dream and let it turn toxic inside of you? On this...

How to wrestle with failure without succumbing to its impact There is a lot of abundance these days. However even with the highest ever rates of longevity, wealth, and education, we still have the highest ever rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide. The prob...

How to use ultralearning to rise to the top Do you want to know how Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel Laureate physicist Richard Feynman used ultralearning to master great skills, outsmart competition and rise to the...

How to solve problems before they happen Spotting and solving problems before they happen is almost always the best solution hence the cliche that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If this has even the slightest truth in it, w...

Ludacris - Fast and Philanthropic Rapping since he was just nine years old, Ludacris is a multi-platinum-selling artist with three Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award under his belt. But, not content to rest on his laurels, he...