Alecia Lawyer: Practice to Remove Your Limitations, Not to Get It Right
Alecia Lawyer is an oboist who went from a small East Texas town to Juilliard, hit the wall of an audition circuit where you wait for someon...
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20 of 1,781 episodesAlec Torelli: What Poker Teaches You About Taking Real Risks
Professional poker player Alec Torelli walks through how he thinks about risk: separating life-altering risks from recoverable ones, managin...
Alberto Savoia: Build the Right It Before You Build It Right
Alberto Savoia spent a decade at Google and ran two startups - one acquired for $100 million, the other burning through $25 million in Sequo...
Albert-László Barabási: Your Performance Is About You, Your Success Is About Us
Network scientist Albert-László Barabási explains the five laws behind his book The Formula, a data-driven account of why success is decided...
Albert Flynn DeSilver: The Night a Single Line of Poetry Changed Everything
Poet and memoirist Albert Flynn DeSilver traces the path from a failing photography student to a writer with a multi-decade career, built on...
Alastair Humphreys: You Do Not Have to Cycle the World to Live Adventurously
Alastair Humphreys spent four years cycling around the world, largely to prove a point to the people he went to high school with. He talks w...
Al Pittampalli: Why Being Persuadable Beats Being Persuasive
Al Pittampalli is the author of Read This Before Our Next Meeting and Persuadable. He makes the case that most recurring meetings exist only...
Akshay Nanavati: Why You Have to Go Into Hell to Come Out the Other Side
Akshay Nanavati came back from Iraq with survivor's guilt, drinking a bottle of vodka a day, and a plan to return to war to justify being al...
Akshay Nanavati: Why You Have to Go Into Hell to Come Out the Other Side
Akshay Nanavati is a former Marine who served in Iraq, came home with survivor's guilt and a bottle-of-vodka-a-day drinking problem, and now...
AJ Jacobs: Treat Your Problems Like Puzzles, Not Battles
AJ Jacobs spent a year inside the world of puzzles - crosswords, corn mazes, the unsolved Kryptos code at CIA headquarters, and the World Ji...
AJ Jacobs: What a Musket and a Quill Pen Taught Me About Democracy
AJ Jacobs spent a year living by the original text of the Constitution - carrying an 18th-century musket around the Upper West Side, writing...
Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic: Why You Can't Separate Your Art From Your Identity
Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has shown at MoMA and who has collaborated with Kenzo, Nike, and Kanye West....
Adrienne Dorison: Why You Cant Save Your Way to Wealth
Business operations consultant Adrienne Dorison talks about growing up with an absent mother and a feast-or-famine household, and how that s...
Adii Pienaar: Why Your Business Should Profit Your Whole Life
Adii Pienaar built and sold WooThemes and Conversio, then nearly lost his marriage and his health chasing the next milestone. He talks about...
Abigail Clarke: The Body Has the Answers Your Mind Is Looking For
Abigail Clarke is a somatic teacher and writer who rebuilt her own body after a spinal injury doctors said would leave her in permanent pain...
Greg Hartl: When You Have to Explain Yourself, You are Misbranded
Srini and co-host Greg Hartl walk through why Blogcast fm became The Unmistakable Creative: the show had outgrown the word blog, and the wro...
Matthew Cook & Laura Foster: 36 Questions and the Mystery of Love
Srini hands the microphone to his roommate Matthew Cook and his girlfriend Laura Foster, who work through Mandy Len Catron's 36 questions th...
Holly Shaw: Discovering Your Creative DNA and the Magic of Performance
Holly Shaw, performer and coach, discusses how she discovered her creative DNA through a lifelong relationship with performance—from childho...
Bret Lockett: Why Tom Brady Outperforms Athletes With More Natural Talent
Former NFL player Bret Lockett breaks down the mindset gap between athletes who flame out and those who build sustainable careers, using Tom...
Andrew Thorp King: Why Safety Is an Illusion and Failure Is the Point
Andrew Thorp King, author of Failure Rules, shares how losing everything multiple times taught him that safety is an illusion and failure is...