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538 episodes transcribedGuy Kawasaki learned how to sell through "hand-to-hand combat" in sales while working for a jewelry manufacturer. His valuable sales skills then trans...
At a pool party, little Lori Harder got up on the diving board only to hear her peers chanting “Whale!” And she went from a bubbly child to one who hi...
Gabor George Burt, a top expert on the influential Blue Ocean Strategy, found that many organizations struggled to put it into practice. The thought o...
A happy child, Kristen Butler didn’t realize she was poor until other kids in school pointed it out. As a result, she decided to change her circumstan...
David Meltzer knows how to play to win. Having led the world’s most iconic sports marketing and management firms, he has spent his career mastering th...
David Meltzer was determined to get rich so he could buy his mom the house and car she never had. While in college, he seized an opportunity in the em...
Even while working full-time, Hala Taha was already planting the seeds for something much bigger. What started as a side hustle, Young and Profiting p...
Peter Norvig was an AI hipster before it was cool. Curious about getting computers to understand English, he went to his teachers, but they admitted t...
Mark Batterson had his sights set on a legal career, but he followed his true calling into pastoral work. Going in with a bold entrepreneurial approac...
Despite leading a talented team, Patrick Lencioni realized they struggled with innovation because he was the only one with the “invention” working gen...
As a young child in kindergarten, Jim Kwik was rushed to the emergency room for a traumatic brain injury that would cause him to struggle in school fo...
For two decades, Patrick Lencioni bounced between excitement and frustration at work. Driven to understand the root of his frustration, he discovered...
Starting as an actor in New York, Ryan Serhant quickly pivoted to real estate to make ends meet. What began as a backup plan evolved into a billion-do...
Fed up with the stranglehold of the two-party system and its close ties to big corporations, Dr. Jill Stein decided to take action. She wanted to offe...
Robert Cialdini was once an easy target for salespeople, often saying yes to things he didn’t want. Intrigued by the psychological factors behind his...
Cal Fussman declined Jeff Bezos's offer to sell his children's book on Amazon, balking at a 50% profit split. Before long, it dawned on him that he ha...
Despite managing 30 employees and earning $100,000 monthly from her business, Hala Taha was reluctant to leave her stable job. But once she took the l...
“Are you happy to be the president?” asked 7-year-old Cal Fussman in a letter to President Lyndon B. Johnson after JFK’s assassination. Six months lat...
Dandan Zhu’s family worked as babysitters for rich folks. Determined to maximize the opportunity, she learned how rich people behaved and carved her o...
Believing that "pressure makes diamonds," Dr. Aditi Nerurkar endured grueling 80-hour weeks as a medical resident. One day, she felt a sudden pain lik...
