#25. Running For Your Life--Charlie Engle
Charlie Engle is a world renowned endurance and adventure athlete, known for incredible accomplishments like running across the Sahara Desert, and winning numerous ultra marathons.
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#24. Book Recs: American Prometheus & The Code Breaker
Two books on vital technologies, providing us Mutually Assured Destruction and Individually Designed Creation.
#23. Where's your Gravitas?
Lisa Sun is a former management consultant turned fashion entrepreneur who wants to change the way we talk about confidence in the workplace.
#22. Alone On The Wall with Augy Cohn
Free Solo, The Dawn Wall, Meru and the barrage of climbing documentaries continue to captivate audiences around the world.
#21. Everyday Dharma--Suneel Gupta and Finding Spiritual Duty.
What makes Suneel special are not his vast accomplishments, which we’ll cover in the conversation…but the openness with which he discusses his personal and professional failures. He talks more openly about his failures than pretty much any successful person I know. And through that openness, he’s become a role model and coach for me.
#20. The Boring Brilliance of Index Funds: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C Bogle
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#19. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World with Jack Weatherford
Mongolia is not a country one often thinks about when considering the influences of world power.
#18. The Arab Spring 12 Years Later--Catherine Manfre discusses "Not There Yet" with special guest Dr. Gregory Gause of Texas A&M.
12 years ago, Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries experienced one of the most dramatic acts of civil unrest in history.
#17. How Not To Die: Dr. Michael Greger of NutritionFacts.org on corporate influence in food choice
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# 16. What does it take to be President? Nasdaq's "World Reimagined" podcast host, Gautum Mukunda, on Picking Presidents
With all the humor we extract out of Presidential elections, you might forget that we are picking literally the most powerful person in the world!
#15. You're Sentenced to Life In Prison...now what? Chris Wilson and The Master Plan
At the age of 17, Chris Wilson was sentenced to natural life in prison.
#14. Doug Stanton--Author of 12 Strong, and In Harms Way
Doug Stanton is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, lecturer, screenwriter.
#13. Moneyball My Life: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on using data to make better life choices
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz has used data from the internet -- Google, social media, and even pornography searches -- to get new insights into the human psyche.
#12. David Gergen--CNN Senior Political Analyst--on 99pages
David Gergen has been in public service for the better part of 50 years.
#11. Mad Man--The Future of Advertising with Jeff Rosenblum
Jeff Rosenblum is a born storyteller.
#10. Beers In Baghdad--The Civil-Military Divide with Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Few reporters covered the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan with a nuanced critical eye like Rajiv Chandrasekaran.
#9. Get That Dirt of Your Shoulder--Jay Z and HipHop's Influence on the World
Jay Z made $470 million in 2021.
#8. PayPal's Founders & The Entrepreneurs who Shaped Silicon Valley--with Jimmy Soni
Tesla, Yelp, YouTube, Meta, Palantir, Affirm, SpaceX, LinkedIn, and countless other Silicon Valley companies were founded or seeded by alumni of a single company founded in the mid 1990s: PayPal.
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