Podcast Episodes

Your Attention Is Being Hijacked. Here’s How to Take It Back.

Does this sound familiar: You sit down to do some real focused work, and within minutes you’ve checked your phone, opened three browser tabs, and men…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

How to Build a Company That Lasts 100 Years

How do you build a company that lasts? It’s certainly not easy. About half of all small businesses fail within five years, and even large companies s…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

What Kind of Mood Are You In?

Check out these big ideas from the 2020 book The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life by Laura Martin.

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

The World’s Changing Fast. Here's How to Keep Up.

It’s easy enough to celebrate “disruptive” technologies, but all that disruption can have a real human cost. Job loss, anxiety, environmental fallout…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Simple Formula for a Longer, Healthier Life

Dr. Tom Frieden has spent his career on the front lines of public health, from leading the CDC during the Ebola crisis to running New York City’s Hea…

3 months ago

How to Live and Lead by Your Core Values

Finding alignment across work, relationships, and community starts with naming the values that steer you. Author, executive coach, and leadership edu…

3 months ago

Multitasking Is a Lie. Delight Is a Superpower.

If you’ve ever caught your mind spiraling at 2 a.m., you know how it can feel to have your brain working against you. But what if you could train it …

3 months ago

Never Not Working

The always-on culture is bad for business. Malissa Clark has a plan to fix it.

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3 months ago

The Hidden Logic of Your Emotions

In his new book, Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want, Marc Brackett shows you how to turn emotional confusion into cl…

3 months ago

The Real Secret to Wealth? Think Long, Not Fast.

If you’ve ever had a few extra dollars lying around, you’ve probably been tempted—wisely, I’d say—to invest it. But where? How? David Gardner has spe…

3 months, 1 week ago