815: James Cantor | Exploring the Complexities of Sexual Orientation
Clinical psychologist and sexologist Dr. James Cantor joins us to discuss the factors that play into sexual orientation, pedophilia, and paraphilias.
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814: Matt Frederick & Ben Bowlin | Stuff They Don't Want You to Know
Matt Frederick & Ben Bowlin of the Stuff They Don't Want You to Know podcast join us to discuss why people believe totally bonkers conspiracy theories!
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813: The Oscars | Skeptical Sunday
Do you care about the Academy Awards (aka The Oscars)? And do they truly reward the best, or just whoever buys the best press? Welcome to Skeptical Sunday!
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812: Your Ex is Your Boss: Is Your Career Lost? | Feedback Friday
What comes next when your boss is your ex? If you happen to grumble, will your career crumble? We'll find answers to this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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811: Jan Broberg | The True Crime Story of a Young Girl Abducted
Jan Broberg hosts The Jan Broberg Show and is the author of The Jan Broberg Story: The True Crime Story of a Young Girl Abducted.
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810: Nita Farahany | Thinking Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
Duke University's Nita Farahany joins us to discuss her book The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.
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809: Crystal Healing | Skeptical Sunday
To the tune of over $1 billion per year, people are obsessed with the healing power of crystals. But what does the science say? Welcome to Skeptical Sunday!
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808: Felonious Fellow is Harshing Your Mellow | Feedback Friday
A felonious neighbor has you worried about the money you've spent on making your dream house into a home. What should you do? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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807: Siddharth Kara | How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Siddharth Kara joins us to discuss how miners in the Congo die daily to supply cobalt for lithium-ion batteries that power our phones, laptops, and cars.
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806: Neil Woods | Undercover in the UK's Most Vicious Drug Gangs
After spending 14 years undercover in the UK's war on drugs, Neil Woods joins us to discuss why he now advocates for reform from a different angle.
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805: Diet Pills and Supplements | Skeptical Sunday
Are the diet pills and supplements you take to offset that midnight chalupa habit doing you any favors? Welcome to Skeptical Sunday with David C. Smalley!
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804: Beau's Bad Bets Bust Beloved's Bank | Feedback Friday
Your gambling addict boyfriend has put you $70,000 in debt. While the house always wins, the girlfriend doesn't. Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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803: Martin Seligman | Flourishing in an Uncertain Future
Psychologist Martin Seligman joins us to discuss Tomorrowmind: Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity, and Connection?Now and in an Uncertain Future.
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802: Michael Santos | Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term
Michael Santos survived 26 years in prison, hosts the Prison Professors podcast, and is the author of Earning Freedom!: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term.
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801: Circumcision | Skeptical Sunday
Whether done for religious, cultural, or health reasons, is circumcising newborns before they're old enough to consent wrong? Welcome to Skeptical Sunday!
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800: Can Therapy Wreck a Background Check? | Feedback Friday
Will seeking therapy for your own issues result in denial of security clearance for a government job? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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799: Marina Nemat | Surviving Inside an Iranian Prison
Human rights activist Marina Nemat is the author of Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman's Story of Survival Inside an Iranian Prison.
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798: Forrest Galante | A Wild Life of Rediscovery
Wildlife explorer Forrest Galante joins us to discuss rare discoveries, exotic destinations, and the art of creating documentaries Listen here!
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797: Ouija Boards | Skeptical Sunday
How did Ouija boards come to be taken seriously by millions as a way to talk to the dead/invite demonic possession? Welcome to Skeptical Sunday!
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796: Pervert-in-Law Scammer Belongs in the Slammer | Feedback Friday
How can you hold your brother-in-law accountable for trying to blackmail you with explicit photos when the cops won't call back? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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795: Alastair Smith | The Dictator's Handbook Part Two
NYU's Alastair Smith joins us to discuss The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics. Hear part two of two here!
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794: Alastair Smith | The Dictator's Handbook Part One
NYU's Alastair Smith joins us to discuss The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics. Hear part one of two here!
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793: Death | Skeptical Sunday
Are you wrong to trust the funeral industry in catering to your best interests when it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil? Welcome to Skeptical Sunday!
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792: Red Flags Making You Rethink Your Shrink | Feedback Friday
A number of red flags have you rethinking the effectiveness of your shrink. Is it time for you to shop for a newer, better one? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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791: Mark Manson | Giving a F*ck About What Really Matters
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck author Mark Manson joins us to crush clichés about the self-help industry and point you in a more helpful direction.
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790: Florence Williams | The Science of Heartbreak
Florence Williams joins us to discuss the science of heartbreak, how it can devastate the body and the mind, and what you can do to heal from its trauma.
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789: Chocolate | Skeptical Sunday
If chocolate's your guilty pleasure but you don't feel quite guilty enough, David C. Smalley is here to help you get there on this Skeptical Sunday!
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788: His Love Is Bona Fide, Not a Mail-Order Bride | Feedback Friday
Is it really on you to dispel negative stereotypes people are bound to assume when you bring your true love from abroad home? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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787: Mitch Lowe | Lessons in Disruption Part Two
Mitch Lowe joins us to discuss his book Watch and Learn: How I Turned Hollywood Upside Down with Netflix, Redbox, and MoviePass?Lessons in Disruption. [Part 2/2]
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786: Mitch Lowe | Lessons in Disruption Part One
Mitch Lowe joins us to discuss his book Watch and Learn: How I Turned Hollywood Upside Down with Netflix, Redbox, and MoviePass?Lessons in Disruption. [Part 1/2]
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785: Living with Aplomb in Spite of a Monstrous Mom | Feedback Friday
You're a successful adult, but how can you live your life with aplomb when you've been raised by a monstrous, narcissistic mom? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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784: Ramy Romany | Unwrapping the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt
Ramy Romany is an Emmy Award-winning director, a world-renowned Egyptologist, and the co-author of Conspired: The Evil One Shall Not Live Again.
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783: Apolo Ohno | Embracing Change and Finding Purpose
Short-track speed skater and eight-time Olympic medalist Apolo Ohno joins us to discuss his book Hard Pivot: Embrace Change. Find Purpose. Show Up Fully.
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782: Death of Mother Could Trigger Ballistic Brother | Feedback Friday
Skip mother-in-law's funeral to avoid the risk of violence by unhinged brother-in-law with an unhealthy attachment to her? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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781: Peter Zeihan | Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
Geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan rejoins us to discuss his new book, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.
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780: Chris Fenton | China's Harrowing Hold Over Hollywood
How does China exert its influence over Hollywood, the NBA, and American business? Feeding the Dragon author Chris Fenton joins us here to connect the dots!
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779: Almonds | Skeptical Sunday
How do the environmental costs of producing almonds outweigh their nutritional benefits? Allow us to count the ways here on Skeptical Sunday!
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778: Custody Depends on Testimony Against Old Friend | Feedback Friday
A custody battle may be tipped by your testimony against an old friend. Where does loyalty lie when legality is on the line? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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777: Kevin Dutton | The Wisdom of Psychopaths Part Two
Psychologist Kevin Dutton joins us to challenge traditional beliefs about psychopathy and explore how it can sometimes lead to success. [Part 2/2]
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776: Kevin Dutton | The Wisdom of Psychopaths Part One
Psychologist Kevin Dutton joins us to challenge traditional beliefs about psychopathy and explore how it can sometimes lead to success. [Part 1/2]
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775: Bridezilla's Vanity Tests Bestie's Sanity | Feedback Friday
Your bestie has transformed into a demanding Bridezilla. Should you still participate in her wedding? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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774: Jonah Berger | The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior
Jonah Berger joins us to discuss how understanding social influence helps us exercise more control over our own behavior and make informed decisions.
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773: David Lieberman | Deciphering What People Really Want
Human behavior expert David Lieberman shows us how to interpret language, detect hidden meanings, and communicate clearly in everyday situations.
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772: Energy Drinks | Skeptical Sunday
Is an energy drink that gives you wings (or other new appendages) to be blamed when you fly too close to the sun? Welcome to Skeptical Sunday!
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771: Sarah Edmondson & Nippy Ames | Surviving NXIVM Part Two
Sarah Edmondson and Nippy Ames are former NXIVM cult members turned whistleblowers. They join us here to share their story. [Part 2/2]
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770: Sarah Edmondson & Nippy Ames | Surviving NXIVM Part One
Sarah Edmondson and Nippy Ames are former NXIVM cult members turned whistleblowers. They join us here to share their story. [Part 1/2]
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769: Narcissist’s Antics Make Parents Go Frantic | Feedback Friday
Is it possible to reconcile with your 20-year-old narcissistic son, or is it time to just cut your losses and move on? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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768: Chase Hughes | The Behavioral Table of Elements
Ex-military interrogation expert Chase Hughes shows us ways to understand nonverbal human behavior in order to detect deception and hack authority.
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767: Sohom Das | Decoding Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, and Anna Delvey
What makes people like Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, and Anna Delvey so remorselessly able to exploit people who trust them the most? Dr. Sohom Das explains.
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766: Banned Foods | Skeptical Sunday
Why are some foods allowed in the US, but banned in other parts of the world? We'll investigate with David C. Smalley here on Skeptical Sunday!
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765: Fella Fretting from Furtive Front Seat Fellatio | Feedback Friday
You're ashamed to tell your wife about being sexually assaulted by another man when you were just 21. Is now the time to share? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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764: Nick Bilton | Hunting the Dark Web's Silk Road Kingpin
Nick Bilton is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and author of American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road.
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763: Laowhy86 | China Uprising | Out of the Loop
Laowhy86 joins us to share his Westerner's perspective on the uprisings going on in China right now with those of us who find ourselves out of the loop.
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762: Where on Earth Is Sibling Abducted at Birth? | Feedback Friday
Did your brother die at birth per "official" East German records, or was he abducted and sold to a family of party insiders? Willkommen to Feedback Friday!
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761: Bradley Steyn | Undercover with Mandela's Spies Part Two
Bradley Steyn joins us to discuss his time as a double agent working for Nelson Mandela during the dying days of South African Apartheid. [Part 2/2]
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760: Bradley Steyn | Undercover with Mandela's Spies Part One
Bradley Steyn joins us to discuss his time as a double agent working for Nelson Mandela during the dying days of South African Apartheid. [Part 1/2]
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759: Can Mom Cease As Family Man's Side Piece? | Feedback Friday
When your mother is the other woman in some other family's affair, how do you compel her to do the right thing and walk away? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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758: David Buss | The Evolution of Desire
Want to know how to select a good long-term mate as well as how to become a good long-term mate? Listen to this conversation from the vault with David Buss!
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757: Annie Duke | The Power of Knowing When to Quit
World Series poker champion and shrewd decision-maker Annie Duke rejoins us to discuss her latest book, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away.
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756: Seeking Reconciliation After Abusing a Relation | Feedback Friday
An older sibling abused you as a child, and you turned around and abused your younger sibling. Can you ever reconcile? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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755: Dr. Sohom Das | Rehabilitating the Criminally Insane
Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Sohom Das joins us to discuss what goes into rehabilitating the mentally ill offenders who society has given up on. Listen here!
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754: Miki Mistrati | The Dark Side of the Chocolate Industry
Award-winning documentary director Miki Mistrati joins us to expose how forced child labor fuels the multi-billion dollar chocolate industry.
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753: A Clandestine Crossdresser's Conundrum | Feedback Friday
Should you bury evidence of your crossdressing life and an affair you had with a man before your wife discovers it when you die? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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752: Angela Duckworth | How to Grow Your Grit
What is grit, how does it override the myth of innate talent, and how can you grow your grit to achieve great things? Angela Duckworth joins us to discuss!
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751: General Robert Spalding | China's Playbook for Global Domination
What advantage does the United States have against China's designs on global domination? We know its playbook. General Robert Spalding joins us to discuss!
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750: Can You Help Friend Shake His Psychotic Break? | Feedback Friday
Is there hope you can help your friend recover from a psychotic break that has him immersed in paranoid delusions? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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749: Yasmine Mohammed | How the West Empowers Radical Islam Part Two
Human rights activist Yasmine Mohammed joins us to discuss what the Western world gets wrong about — and how it empowers — radical Islam. Part 2/2!
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748: Yasmine Mohammed | How the West Empowers Radical Islam Part One
Human rights activist Yasmine Mohammed joins us to discuss what the Western world gets wrong about — and how it empowers — radical Islam. Listen here!
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747: Would a Girlboss Wife Ruin Your Boyboss Life? | Feedback Friday
Would marrying your type-A "girlboss" special lady friend cramp that type-A "boyboss" lifestyle you've been rocking? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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746: Yass Alizadeh | Iran Protests | Out of the Loop
NYU clinical assistant professor Yass Alizadeh joins us to discuss the protests going on in Iran right now for people who may be a bit out of the loop.
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745: Dave Farina | Debunking Junk Science Myths
Dave Farina joins us to discuss his new book, Is This Wi-Fi Organic?: A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online (Science Myths Debunked).
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744: Heinous Bro Needs the Old Heave-Ho | Feedback Friday
You need your human carbuncle of a brother out of your family's life for good. How can you morally and legally make it happen? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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743: Dr. Ramani | How to Protect Yourself from a Narcissist Part Two
Want to learn how to protect yourself from a narcissist? Join us for part two of our discussion with clinical psychologist Doctor Ramani here!
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742: Dr. Ramani | How to Protect Yourself from a Narcissist Part One
Psychologist Dr. Ramani joins us to discuss her book "Don't You Know Who I Am?": How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility.
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741: Is Marriage Impaired by Emotional Affairs? | Feedback Friday
While it never turns physical, does your husband's tendency to get emotionally involved with young women endanger your marriage? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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740: Ryan Holiday | Discipline is Destiny (Live from Los Angeles)
Bestselling author and The Daily Stoic podcast host Ryan Holiday joined us live at The Venice West in L.A. to talk about his latest book and more!
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739: Matthew Campbell | Examining Global Shipping’s Grim Underbelly
Award-winning reporter Matthew Campbell joins us to discuss the book Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy.
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738: "Perfect" Pastor is a Predatory Disaster | Feedback Friday
What do you do when the married pastor you've known your whole life as a pillar of the community propositions you on Grindr? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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737: Winston Sterzel | Don't Lose Your Bacon in a Pig-Butchering Scam
Winston Sterzel (aka SerpentZA) joins us to discuss the insidious "pig-butchering scam" from China and how you can avoid becoming its latest victim.
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736: Ian Bremmer | The Power of Crisis to Change the World
Political scientist Ian Bremmer joins us to discuss his book The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats — and Our Response — Will Change the World.
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735: Reputation's Been Bruised Since Wrongly Accused | Feedback Friday
Your reputation's been bruised since you were wrongly accused of sexual assault. Will it ever heal? Answers to this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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734: Scott Galloway | Course Correcting an America Adrift
Author Scott Galloway joins us to discuss what we can guess about America's future by studying its past as detailed in Adrift: America in 100 Charts.
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733: Maya Shankar | Adapting to a Slight Change of Plans
A Slight Change of Plans host Maya Shankar explains how we can best adapt to life's inevitable uncertainties instead of regretting what might have been.
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732: Low-Key Beguiler is a Cheating Butt-Dialer | Feedback Friday
Your wife of 11 years has butt-dialed you twice in conversation with another man. Are you right to be worried? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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731: Why We Owe People Honesty | Deep Dive
Jordan and Gabe take a deep dive into how honesty is a core element of all healthy relationships, and why we owe it to others — as well as ourselves.
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730: Nury Turkel | A Witness to China's Uyghur Genocide
How do three million people just disappear? Nury Turkel joins us to discuss his book No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs.
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729: Sexsomnia Guilt-Free After PTSD? | Feedback Friday
Waking to your sexsomniac partner's advances triggers PTSD and makes you feel guilty for engaging in nonconsensual sex. Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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728: Maria Konnikova | The Confidence Game
Confidence Game author Maria Konnikova shows us how we can defend ourselves against would-be con artists and use the same principles for positive results.
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727: Neil deGrasse Tyson | Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
The one and only Neil deGrasse Tyson rejoins us to discuss his latest book, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization.
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726: Helping a Guy Whose Wife's an Escort on the Sly | Feedback Friday
Is your 10-year marriage worth saving when you just discovered your wife has been working as an escort behind your back? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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725: Paul Holes | Solving America's Cold Cases
Paul Holes, the detective who found the Golden State Killer, joins us to discuss his book Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases. Listen here!
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724: Bill Nye | The End is Nye
Science champion Bill Nye joins us to discuss climate change consequences and solutions as featured on his new Peacock TV series The End Is Nye.
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723: Should I Relive the Drama of Childhood Trauma? | Feedback Friday
Is it worth dredging up repressed memories of childhood abuse in therapy, or should such trauma stay buried and forgotten? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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722: Brian Brushwood | Scam Your Way into Anything
Brian Brushwood joins us to discuss his book Scam School: Your Guide to Scoring Free Drinks, Doing Magic, and Becoming the Life of the Party.
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721: Jason Feifer | Build for Tomorrow
Jason Feifer joins us to discuss his book Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career.
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720: Should You Confess You Know He's Not Your Dad? | Feedback Friday
You just found out the man who abusively raised you isn't your biological father. Should you tell him that you know the truth? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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719: Reid Hoffman | Adaptability Is the New Stability
LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman joins us to explain how the job market has changed in recent years and what you can do to stay relevant. Listen here!
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718: Barbara F. Walter | How Civil Wars Start (And How to Stop Them)
How do civil wars start, and what can we do to stop them? Political science professor Barbara F. Walter joins us with the answers.
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717: Coming Out as Polyamorous to My Family | Feedback Friday
In the most fulfilling relationship of your life, how do you let your family know it's not what they'd consider traditional? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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716: Jo Marchant | Placebos and the Science of Mind over Body
Exploring the power of placebo with award-winning journalist Jo Marchant and her book Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind over Body.
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715: Cindy Otis | Spotting Fake News Like a CIA Analyst
Former CIA analyst Cindy Otis joins us to discuss her book True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News.
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714: How "Real" Is a Dad Who Denies You Exist? | Feedback Friday
Should you force the biological father who denies your existence to confront you in person and confess all to his family? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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713: Marion Nestle | How Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
Nutrition and food studies professor Marion Nestle joins us to discuss her book Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat.
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712: Brad Klontz | Harnessing the Power of Financial Psychology
We're joined by Dr. Brad Klontz — co-author of Money Mammoth: Harness The Power of Financial Psychology to Evolve Your Money Mindset, Avoid Extinction, and Crush Your Financial Goals.
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711: Prankster Precariously Pushing Partner's Patience | Feedback Friday
Got a prankster partner precariously pushing your patience by habitually heaping his hazardously humorless hijinks on you? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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710: Sebastian Junger | How War and Crisis Create a Tribe
In this one from the vault, Sebastian Junger joined us to discuss his book Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging and what he learned while covering war for 20 years.
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709: John Abramson | How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care
Join us with Dr. John Abramson here as we discuss his latest book, Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It!
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708: Familiarizing Family with Your Felonious Fella | Feedback Friday
On this Feedback Friday, we'll try to help you find the best way to familiarize your family with the felonious fella you favor without ruffling feathers.
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707: Johann Hari | Why You Can't Pay Attention—And What to Do About It
Why do you have trouble paying attention, and what can you do about it? Stolen Focus author Johann Hari brings the answers here!
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706: Tessa West | How to Deal with Jerks at Work
New York University social psychology professor Tessa West joins us to discuss her book Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to Do About Them.
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705: Gabe’s Front-Row Seat to Florid Psychosis | Feedback Friday
On this Feedback Friday, Gabe relays the tragic story of a paranoid schizophrenic neighbor that illustrates just how destabilizing unchecked mental illness can be for family members, friends, neighbors, and the patients themselves.
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704: Robert Greene | The Emotions Behind Success, Mastery, and Power
This was our first interview with The 48 Laws of Power author Robert Greene, and we hope you'll revisit it with us here and let us know what you think!
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703: Benjamin Hardy | How to Be Your Future Self Now
The wise Dr. Benjamin Hardy returns to the show to discuss his latest book: Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation.
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702: Atheist Teen Stressed by Mom's Church Scene | Feedback Friday
As a bi teen atheist, how do you come out to your churchgoing mother when she won't even take your depression seriously? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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701: Ioan Grillo | How America Arms Gangs and Cartels Part Two
New York Times writer and crime specialist Ioan Grillo joins us to discuss his latest book, Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels. Part two of two!
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700: Ioan Grillo | How America Arms Gangs and Cartels Part One
New York Times writer and crime specialist Ioan Grillo joins us to discuss his latest book, Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels. Part one of two!
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699: Can An Open Marriage Be Anxiety-Free? | Feedback Friday
An open marriage has brought you and your wife closer, but it triggers her anxiety and depression. Is this a failed experiment? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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698: Sam Harris | Rationally Confronting the Irrational
We revisit this Sam Harris episode from the vault to discuss how we can rationally confront the irrational haze that passes for today's discourse.
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697: Peter Santenello | Inspecting Perspectives the Media Neglects
Peter Santenello is a videomaker, traveler, and entrepreneur whose videos shine a light on the world the media fails to capture — without a political angle.
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696: You Can't Part from His Cheatin' Heart | Feedback Friday
When your spouse's cheating heart betrays, should you go or should you stay? Please allow us, if we may, to seek a solution on Feedback Friday!
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695: Malcolm Gladwell | Imperfect Puzzles and Mismatched Demeanors
Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell revisits us to discuss the evolutionary benefits of trust and why imperfect puzzles make the best stories.
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694: Carole Hooven | How Testosterone Dominates and Divides Us
Harvard's Dr. Carole Hooven joins us to discuss her book T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us.
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693: Lottery | Skeptical Sunday
Millions of people play the lottery every day. But is it just a harmless game, or something more insidious? Welcome to Skeptical Sunday!
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692: Self-Defense Against Ex Led to Unjust Arrest | Feedback Friday
Your faith in the justice system has been shaken because you were arrested for defending yourself against a gun-wielding ex. Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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691: Shaquille O’Neal | Circling Back on Flat Earth Theory
Shaquille O'Neal joins us to discuss everything from superheroes to law enforcement to business to sports to podcasting to — yes — the Flat Earth Theory.
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690: Jane McGonigal | How to See the Future and Be Ready for Anything
Jane McGonigal joins us to discuss her latest book, Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything ? Even Things That Seem Impossible Today.
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689: Her Beau is Faux, But She Doesn't Know | Feedback Friday
Your friend is smitten with a phony beau. How can you get her to see through the lies he spins before it's too late? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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688: A-Rod | Still Having a Ball After All
Baseball legend A-Rod (aka Alex Rodriguez) joins us to discuss his post-game careers as an investor, business mentor, and committed father.
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687: Amy Webb | Changing Lives with Synthetic Biology
Future Today Institute CEO Amy Webb joins us to discuss the pros and cons of synthetic biology and how it's poised to rewrite life as we know it.
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686: An Abuser's Dead: Get Him Out of Your Head | Feedback Friday
Your uncle's about to die and you don't want to go to his funeral because he abused you when you were very young. What to do? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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685: Steve Rambam | The Real Life of a Private Investigator
Pallorium, Inc. CEO Steve Rambam joins us to share the juicy details about what life as a private investigator is really like!
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684: Desmond Shum | Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in China
Desmond Shum joins us to discuss his book Red Roulette: An Insider’s Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today’s China.
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683: Mad Lad Hates Dad and Treats Whole Family Bad | Feedback Friday
Can you reconcile with an estranged son who hates the way his father treated him as a kid and takes it out on the whole family? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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682: Hustle Culture | Deep Dive
Join us on this deep dive into the toxic cesspool of hustle culture and emerge with better alternatives for writing yourself a meaningful success story!
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681: Bill Browder | Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
Bill Browder has lived with a target on his back ever since crossing Vladimir Putin. Here, he revisits the show to discuss his latest book, Freezing Order.
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680: Recycling | Skeptical Sunday
How much of an impact on the health of the planet does recycling really have? Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, where we'll weigh the pros and cons of recycling!
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679: Mom's Bigotry Makes Romantic Future Hard to See | Feedback Friday
How do you get your significant other to address the reality that their mom's bigotry makes a future together hard to see? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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678: Chris Voss | Hostage Negotiation Tactics for Everyday Life
Former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss joins us to discuss how we can use the tactics he learned on the job to navigate our everyday negotiations.
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677: Sam Cooper | How the West Was Infiltrated by Its Enemies
Journalist Sam Cooper joins us to discuss how a network of narcos, tycoons, and CCP agents infiltrated and works to undermine the West.
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676: The Olympics | Skeptical Sunday
When athletes train their whole lives to see but a pittance of the profits the games bring in, we ask: are the Olympics a sham? Welcome to Skeptical Sunday!
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675: A Tenant, Psychotic, Makes Your Life Chaotic | Feedback Friday
Should you keep renting a room to a friend who had a psychotic break, or does your family's safety come first? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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674: Ken Croke | Undercover in an Outlaw Biker Gang Part Two
Retired ATF agent Ken Croke joins us to discuss what it was like spending two years infiltrating the notorious Pagan's [sic] biker gang. [2/2]
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673: Ken Croke | Undercover in an Outlaw Biker Gang Part One
Retired ATF agent Ken Croke joins us to discuss what it was like spending two years infiltrating the notorious Pagan's [sic] biker gang.
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672: Toothpaste | Skeptical Sunday
Is the toothpaste you're using every day a health hazard? If you're curious, nine out of 10 dentists (might) recommend this episode of Skeptical Sunday!
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671: Cheating Husband Caught in His Own Clap Trap | Feedback Friday
Though he denies infidelity, there's evidence of an STI on your husband's latest medical summary. What should you do? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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670: Vanessa Van Edwards | The Science of Succeeding with People
Vanessa Van Edwards joins us to discuss the science of popularity and offer practical exercises we can use to maximize our social attractiveness today!
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669: Dallas Taylor | The Psychology of Sound Design
Twenty Thousand Hertz host and Defacto Sound Creative Director Dallas Taylor joins us to discuss the narrative power of sound.
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668: Tipping | Skeptical Sunday
Tipping is a shameful institution that encourages racism, sexism, harassment, and exploitation. Is there a better alternative? Welcome to Skeptical Sunday!
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667: Friend's Sicko Spouse Keeps Infecting Our House | Feedback Friday
Your friend's perpetually ill spouse seems to get a sick kick out of infecting your family. How can you keep her cooties at bay? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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666: How to Ask for a Promotion | Deep Dive
Asking for a promotion and making it land may seem like an impossible dream, but embracing the principles in this deep dive will bring it closer to reality!
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665: Luis Navia | 25 Years Inside the Narco Cartels
How did Georgetown scholar Luis Navia survive 25 years as one of the biggest drug smugglers on Earth? Listen in on our conversation here to find out!
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664: Reiki Healing | Skeptical Sunday
Is Reiki healing a legitimate way to treat an assortment of ailments, or is it more of a costly placebo? Find out here on Skeptical Sunday!
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663: Thinking of Another Dude: Is Marriage Screwed? | Feedback Friday
Is your marriage screwed because you've been having thoughts about another dude on your second anniversary? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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662: Daniel J. Levitin | How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era
News make brain hurt? Cognitive psychologist Daniel J. Levitin joined us to discuss his book Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era.
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661: Rachel Zoffness | Managing Pain In Your Body and Brain
Pain psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness joins us to discuss what pain actually is and how we can manage it in ways that don't exacerbate the opioid epidemic.
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660: Chemtrails | Skeptical Sunday
Curious about those chemtrails of dihydrogen monoxide crisscrossing their way across the sky? Listen to this Skeptical Sunday as we unlock the mystery!
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659: Her Spouse Raped You. Can Friendship Stay True? | Feedback Friday
Can your friendship with the woman whose husband raped you on their wedding day ever recover? We'll seek answers to this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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658: Shanna Swan | The Reproduction Crisis and Humanity's Future
Count Down author Dr. Shanna Swan joins us to discuss how our modern world is altering reproductive development and imperiling the future of humanity.
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657: Josh Peck | Happy People Are Annoying
Actor Josh Peck joins us to discuss the highs and lows of growing up in the public eye, and how he managed to avoid becoming another Hollywood casualty.
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656: Your Stalker's Sister is Dating Your Brother | Feedback Friday
What do you do when confronted with a romance like no other: your stalker's sister is dating your brother? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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655: David Eagleman | How Our Brains Construct Reality
Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman joins us to talk about shared realities, inventing new senses, intellect augmentation, and other cool brain stuff!
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654: Chris Miller & Brandon Wheeler | News from Ukraine's Warfront
Former SECDEF Chris Miller and FRF's Brandon Wheeler join us after meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's top general and intelligence officers to share fresh perspectives from the front.
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653: Ear Candling | Skeptical Sunday
Is ear candling a good way to remove earwax? If you have a burning desire to discover the truth, listen to this installment of Skeptical Sunday!
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652: Sad About Dad's Sexist Thoughts Re: Assault | Feedback Friday
How do you make your father understand why you're upset about sexist remarks he made regarding a sexual assault survivor? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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651: Anja Shortland | How Kidnap Insurance Works
Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business author and King's College, London professor Anja Shortland joins us to discuss the sordid economics of kidnapping.
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650: Brian Klaas | The Corruptible Influence of Power
Why does absolute power tend to corrupt absolutely? Brian Klaas, author of Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us is here to weigh in!
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649: Arranged Marriage Threatens Lesbian Couple | Feedback Friday
Parental plans for an arranged marriage threaten a lesbian couple's future. Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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648: Susan Cain | Introverts Unite for a Quiet Revolution
Quiet author Susan Cain joins us to explain why being introverted is not a disadvantage, nor is it an excuse for shying away from social situations on one’s own terms.
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647: Karim Hijazi | When Cyber War Goes Kinetic
Cyber intelligence professional Karim Hijazi joins us to discuss the dangers of insufficient cyberinfrastructure in the 21st century.
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646: Expiration Dates | Skeptical Sunday
How concerned should you be about expiration dates stamped on items you buy from the grocery store? Find out here on Skeptical Sunday!
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645: Is a Bridesmaid Fight Worth a Disinvite? | Feedback Friday
Feedback Friday: After a brawl twixt two bridesmaids at the bachelorette bash, the bride now has to disinvite one to the wedding. But who should she choose?
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644: Laowhy86 | How the Chinese Social Credit Score System Works Part Two
Laowhy86 joins us to share the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of living for 10 years as an American in China. Part 2/2.
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643: Laowhy86 | How the Chinese Social Credit Score System Works Part One
Laowhy86 joins us to share the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of living for 10 years as an American in China. Part 1/2.
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642: Living In Fear of the Fiend Who Lurks Near | Feedback Friday
On Feedback Friday: How do you keep your family safe from the violent maniac who lives in your neighborhood when the long arm of the law seems short-handed?
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641: How to Quit Your Job the Right Way | Deep Dive
Moving on in your career doesn't mean you have to burn the bridges you've built so far. Listen here to discover how to quit your job the right way!
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640: Peter Zeihan | Why the World Should Care About Ukraine
Geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan joins us to discuss the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and why you should care about how it plays out.
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639: Dealing with Your Darling's DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) | Feedback Friday
What can you do to empower your significant other as she struggles with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder)? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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638: Yuriy Matsarsky | Fighting for Ukraine
Yuriy Matsarsky is a journalist turned civilian fighter against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and host of the daily podcast Fighting for Ukraine.
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637: Bill von Hippel | Where the Social Leap Lands
Bill von Hippel joins us to discuss his book The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy.
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636: Is It Wrong to Decline Guardianship of Family? | Feedback Friday
Are you wrong to decline your brother-in-law's request to assume guardianship over his children should the unthinkable happen? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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635: Joe Barone | Living in Dread Between the Mob and the Feds Part Two
Joe Barone was born into a life of crime, became the FBI's longest-running mafia informant, and now lives in hiding from people in both camps.
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634: Joe Barone | Living in Dread Between the Mob and the Feds Part One
Joe Barone was born into a life of crime, became the FBI's longest-running mafia informant, and now lives in hiding from people in both camps. Part 1/2!
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633: Finding Work Fast with a Criminal Past | Feedback Friday
Getting your record expunged after earning a DUI can take years. So how can you find work fast when you have a criminal past? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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632: Jon Acuff | Give Yourself the Gift of Done
Jon Acuff is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including his Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller, Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done.
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631: Amanda Catarzi | Overcoming Cult Life and Sex Trafficking
Amanda Catarzi survived a cult-dominated childhood and abuse at the hands of sex and labor traffickers. Since then, she's helped save countless victims.
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630: When the Law Puts You In a Catch-22 | Feedback Friday
Is it wrong to seek loopholes for a state law that would hurt the family it's intended to help? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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629: Getting Your Foot In The Door | Deep Dive
Here's a deep dive into what you should do if you're looking for a new job or relationship and you want to know how to get your foot in the door -- while avoiding the mistakes that are liable to get that door slammed in your face.
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628: Amanda Montell | Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Language scholar and Cultish author Amanda Montell joins us to discuss how cults co-opt the words we use in order to control us and affect our behavior.
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627: Would I Be Insane to Report from Ukraine? | Feedback Friday
You're an American working in Ukraine, considering a pivot to war reporting should the situation with Russia escalate. Good idea, or great idea? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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626: Adam Grant | Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
Wharton’s top-rated professor Adam Grant joined us to discuss his book Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success.
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625: Dan Pink | The Power of Regret
Don't regret skipping this episode! Daniel Pink rejoins us to discuss his latest book: The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us.
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624: Is She Moving Abroad for a Friend or a Fraud? | Feedback Friday
Can you convince your daughter she may be making a huge mistake by moving abroad to be with the Bahrain beau she's never met? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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623: Ludacris | Fast & Philanthropic
Ludacris is a Grammy-winning rapper, a SAG award-winning actor, and the philanthropic founder of Kid Nation and The Ludacris Foundation.
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622: Ishmael Beah | Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah joins us to discuss his past as a child soldier in Sierra Leone who grew up to become a NYT bestselling author and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
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621: Are You at Fault for Being Sexually Assaulted? | Feedback Friday
Were you sexually assaulted by the "friend" who kept trying to make out with you one drunken night, or are you somehow at fault? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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620: Richard Clarke | Warnings, Cassandras, and Catastrophes
Former US National Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Richard Clarke joins us to discuss his book Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes.
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619: Danny Gold | Breaking News from the Underworld
Journalist Danny Gold co-hosts (with Sean Williams) the Underworld podcast, which covers organized crime around the world -- from Balkan warlords to Brooklyn wiseguys.
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618: Prescription for Friction: Marry into Addiction | Feedback Friday
Should you get married when your fiance refuses to quit her weed habit even when she knows it triggers your own addiction? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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617: Daniel Levin | Finding a Missing Person in the Middle East
Daniel Levin joins us to discuss the wild story behind his latest book, Proof of Life: Twenty Days on the Hunt for a Missing Person in the Middle East.
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616: Martin Kove | Kicking It in the Cobra Kai Dojo
Prolific actor Martin Kove joins us to talk about bringing evil sensei John Kreese to life in the Karate Kid trilogy and Netflix's Cobra Kai series.
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615: Need Wedding Free from Dad's Drunken Spree | Feedback Friday
How can you politely request that your over-tippling dad take a break from the sauce and stay sober for your wedding? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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614: Shawn Achor | Leveraging the Happiness Advantage
Shawn Achor joins us to discuss how rewiring our brain for happiness helps us achieve more in careers and relationships as students, leaders, and parents.
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613: Ray Dalio | Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Investor and entrepreneur Ray Dalio rejoins us to discuss how he tells the future by peering into the past as outlined in his book The Changing World Order.
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612: Cautioning Creepy Dad's Current Clan | Feedback Friday
How can you prevent your predatory ex-stepdad from abusing his new family? We'll explore this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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611: Reid Hoffman | Surprising Entrepreneurial Truths
Reid Hoffman is the host of Masters of Scale and co-author of Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs.
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610: Bill Sullivan | Pleased to Meet Me
We're joined by science professor Bill Sullivan to discuss his book Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are.
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609: Evicting a Boarder with a Dangerous Disorder | Feedback Friday
How do you handle the mentally unstable boarder who makes you feel unsafe in your own house? We'll tackle this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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608: Jocko Willink | The Winning Example of Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink joins us to discuss discipline, responsibility, and next-level leadership as outlined in Extreme Ownership: How US Navy SEALs Lead and Win.
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607: Dwyane Wade | A Life Bigger Than Basketball
Retired NBA All-Star Dwyane Wade joins us to discuss transcending boundaries established by others and why parenthood is his most important job.
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606: David Rubenstein | Patriotic Philanthropy and Leading Large
David M. Rubenstein is a co-founder of The Carlyle Group, host of The David Rubenstein Show, and author of The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream.
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605: Aaron Levant | NTWRK Shopping with Culture's Creators
Aaron Levant is the founder and CEO of NTWRK, the curated livestream shopping company some have called "QVC for the YouTube Generation."
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604: Put Your Best Foot Fetish Forward | Feedback Friday
No one should judge you for your foot fetish until they've walked a mile in your shoes (just ask Quentin Tarantino). Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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603: Mike Rowe | Dirty Jobs and Peripatetic Moments
Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs and The Way I Heard It joins us to discuss the skills gap, authenticity, and life experiences outside the comfort zone.
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602: Tom Wright | Billion Dollar Whale
Award-winning journalist Tom Wright joins us to discuss what it’s like at the forefront of investigations that agitate the world's most rich and powerful.
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601: Should I Marry My Dying Girlfriend? | Feedback Friday
Your significant other is only expected to live three more years. Should you propose and hope for a miracle? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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600: Metta World Peace | Mettaphorically Speaking
Metta World Peace is a former NBA All-Star, author of No Malice: My Life in Basketball, and host of the Mettaphorically Speaking podcast.
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599: Spencer Roberts | The Dirty Truth About Corporate Greenwashing
Spencer Roberts is an ecologist, engineer, musician, and writer who specializes in exposing corporate science propaganda and greenwashing.
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598: Gently Sequestering a Questionable Counselor | Feedback Friday
Is there a guilt-free way to collect proof that your therapist colleague is no longer mentally capable of caring for others? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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597: Gary Vaynerchuk | Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness
In this rebroadcast, Gary Vaynerchuk joined us to talk about his book #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness.
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596: Andrew Gold | Exorcisms On the Edge
Award-winning journalist Andrew Gold interviews the world's most controversial and inspiring figures in his On the Edge with Andrew Gold podcast.
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595: My Bi Guy: Am I Enough to Satisfy? | Feedback Friday
Can you ever really give your bisexual boyfriend everything he needs to be satisfied in a relationship? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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594: Joshua Fields Millburn | Love People, Use Things
Minimalist Joshua Fields Millburn joins us to discuss his (and Ryan Nicodemus') latest book: Love People, Use Things: Because the Opposite Never Works.
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593: Steven Pinker | Why Rationality Seems Scarce
Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker joins us to talk about his latest book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters.
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592: Do the Math: Am I a Psychopath? | Feedback Friday
Weighing the evidence for and against, you really want an answer to this: "Am I a psychopath?" We'll try to find out here on Feedback Friday!
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591: Chase Jarvis & Jordan Harbinger | Your Network Insurance Policy
Jordan digs into what it takes to push past the mental boundaries that keep you from realizing your full potential on The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show.
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590: Andy Norman | The Search for a Better Way to Think
Philosopher Andy Norman joins us to discuss his book Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think.
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589: Persevering Past Paranoid Parental Persecution | Feedback Friday
Cutting off your parents is the only way you can think of to protect your family against their paranoid delusions. Is it enough? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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588: Sammy "The Bull" Gravano | Mafia Underboss Part Two
Sammy "The Bull" Gravano helped bring down the Gambino crime family and lived to tell the tale here in part two of this two-part episode!
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587: Sammy "The Bull" Gravano | Mafia Underboss Part One
Sammy "The Bull" Gravano helped bring down the Gambino crime family and lived to tell the tale here in part one of this two-part episode!
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586: Guarding Grandpa from a Grubby Grift | Feedback Friday
How can you guard your grandpa against what seems to be a classic young woman marrying older man for his life savings grift? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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585: Timothy Snyder | Twentieth-Century Lessons on Tyranny
Yale history professor Timothy Snyder joins us to discuss the warning signs of fascism as outlined in On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.
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584: Anderson Cooper | The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Broadcast journalist Anderson Cooper joins us to discuss his latest book, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty.
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583: Mentor-Mentee Fantasy Can Only End In Misery | Feedback Friday
You know a romantic mentor-mentee fantasy you've entertained could only end in misery, so what can you do to put it to rest? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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582: Robert Greene | The Daily Laws Part Two
Power and strategy expert Robert Greene rejoins us to discuss The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature. [2/2]
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581: Robert Greene | The Daily Laws Part One
Power and strategy expert Robert Greene rejoins us to discuss The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature. [1/2]
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580: Seeking Relief from Your Unending Grief | Feedback Friday
How can you move forward from the grief of losing a sibling before being fired for low performance? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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579: Yeonmi Park | A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom Part Two
Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and activist whose experiences are chronicled in her book In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom. [Part 2/2]
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578: Yeonmi Park | A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom Part One
Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and activist whose experiences are chronicled in her book In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom. [Part 1/2]
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577: I Wish It Were Cheaper to Be My Sister’s Keeper | Feedback Friday
Your sister thinks nothing of borrowing thousands of dollars from you to invest in every scam that comes her way. What to do? Welcome to Feedback Friday!
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576: General Michael Hayden | American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Former NSA and CIA Director General Michael Hayden joins us to discuss his book Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.
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575: Benjamin Hardy | Minding the Gap and the Gain
Organizational psychologist Benjamin Hardy rejoins us to discuss The Gap and the Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success.
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574: Can There Be Merit in the Extramarital? | Feedback Friday
Your old flame's marriage and motherhood is a bit of a downer. Can there be merit in pursuing something...extramarital? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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573: David Buss | When Men Behave Badly
David Buss (@profdavidbuss) is considered the worlds leading scientific expert on the evolutionary psychology of human mating strategies. He is the author of several books on the subject, most recently When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots o
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572: Tamer Elnoury | Undercover with a Muslim FBI Agent
Longtime elite counterterrorism undercover agent Tamer Elnoury joins us to discuss American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent.
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571: Pastor Past Makes You An Outcast | Feedback Friday
Honesty got you kicked out of the clergy, and the seculars seem turned off by your pastor past. Who will hire you now? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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570: Marc Fennell | Cracking California's Nut Jobs
Marc Fennell is an award-winning journalist and the author and narrator of Nut Jobs: Cracking California's Strangest $10 Million Dollar Heist.
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569: Rick Ross | How to Boss Up and Build an Empire
Rapper, artist, and author Rick Ross joins us to talk about his latest book, The Perfect Day to Boss Up: A Hustler's Guide to Building Your Empire.
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568: Sugar Daddy's Ambition is a Savory Transition | Feedback Friday
After a sugar daddy phase, you're ready for regular dating. Should you disclose your past if a relationship gets serious? This and more on Feeback Friday!
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567: Kai-Fu Lee | Ten Visions for Our Future with AI
How will artificial intelligence change our world in the next 20 years? AI expert Kai-Fu Lee rejoins us to find out!
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566: Brian Chesky | Lessons Airbnb Learned to Survive the Pandemic
Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky joins us to discuss what the company learned while surviving the trials of the pandemic and what's in store for the future.
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565: My Manipulative Sister: How Can We Resist Her? | Feedback Friday
Should you cut a manipulative sister out of your life, or should you keep trying to bond with her for your father's sake? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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564: A.J. Jacobs | It’s All Relative
New York Times best-selling author A.J. Jacobs joins us to talk about that time he went on a quest to help build the biggest family tree in history!
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563: Bobby Hall (aka Logic) | This Bright Future
Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling recording artist, actor, producer, and author Bobby Hall (aka Logic) joins us to discuss his wild past and bright future.
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562: Old Ex-Con Mister Eloped with My Young Sister | Feedback Friday
How can you make sure your 23-year-old sister is safe now that she's eloped with a 62-year-old ex-con? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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561: Charles Duhigg | The Secrets of Being Smarter Faster Better
Pulitzer prize-winning writer Charles Duhigg joins us to discuss his book Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business.
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560: Dan Carlin | Apocalyptic Moments in Hardcore History
Hardcore History's Dan Carlin joins us to discuss his book The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses.
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559: How to Say Yes to Post-Traumatic Success | Feedback Friday
How do you find your way back to high achievement when coping with trauma keeps you low? We'll try to find an answer to this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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558: Jack Schafer | Flipping the Like Switch Part Two
Retired FBI special agent Jack Schafer rejoins us to discuss The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over. [2/2]
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557: Jack Schafer | Flipping the Like Switch Part One
Retired FBI special agent Jack Schafer rejoins us to discuss The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over.
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556: How Can I Expunge the Family Sponge? | Feedback Friday
What can you do to expunge the family sponge who eats your food, doesn't pay rent, and makes messes galore? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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555: Jessica Tracy | Why Pride is the Deadly Sin of Success
UBC psychology professor Jessica Tracy joins us to discuss how the "deadly sin" of pride is also the key to success — in the right dosage.
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554: Laurie Santos | Practical Lessons from The Happiness Lab
The Happiness Lab's own Dr. Laurie Santos joins us to discuss how to develop the mindset, behavior, and skillset to become more happiness prone.
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553: Is Friend's Fiancé Despotic or Simply Erotic? | Feedback Friday
Is your best friend really being controlled by a domineering fiancé, or is this just part of a consensual kink? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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552: Will Storr | Understanding Social Position and the Status Game
Award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author Will Storr joins us to talk about The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It.
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551: T-Pain | You Can't Auto-Tune Your Way to Happiness
T-Pain is a rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer known for popularizing auto-tune in modern music, and host of the Nappy Boy Radio podcast.
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550: Conscience Contorted by Dad’s Abuse Unreported | Feedback Friday
How can you stop hating yourself for not calling the police on your abusive dad years ago? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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549: Mickey Royal | A Pimp's Secrets of Mind Manipulation Part Two
Mickey Royal is a former drug dealer, pimp, enforcer, and author of The Pimp Game: Instructional Guide and The Pimp Guide: Secrets of Mind Manipulation. [2/2]
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548: Mickey Royal | A Pimp's Secrets of Mind Manipulation Part One
Mickey Royal is a former gangster, drug dealer, pimp, mob enforcer, and bestselling author of The Pimp Game: Instructional Guide and The Pimp Guide: Secrets of Mind Manipulation. [Part 1/2]
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547: Stopping a Swami from Swindling Our Mommy | Feedback Friday
You worry that your mom's "swami" friend may be trying to take advantage of her grief and vulnerability since your stepfather's recent passing. How can you keep her safe from his less-than-altruistic intentions?
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546: Scott Adams | Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
Scott Adams of Dilbert fame revisits us to discuss his book Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter.
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545: Rachel Nuwer | Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking
Award-winning freelance journalist Rachel Nuwer joins us to discuss her book Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking.
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544: Psycho Scammer Landlord Alert | Feedback Friday
Can you legally warn potential tenants about a violent, paranoid landlord scamming renters out of their deposits? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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543: R. Douglas Fields | Understanding Why We Snap
Neurologist R. Douglas Fields joins us to discuss why the rage circuit in our brains can make us snap and how we can control it. [Note: This is a previously broadcast episode from the vault that we felt deserved a fresh listen!]
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542: Nicole Perlroth | Who's Winning the Cyberweapons Arms Race?
Cybersecurity journalist Nicole Perlroth joins us to talk about her book This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race.
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541: Spare the Pity Party; My Life is Just Restarting | Feedback Friday
How can you move on from a past tragedy when everyone you meet wants to throw you a pity party? We'll explore this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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540: Daryl Davis | A Black Man's Odyssey in the KKK Part Two
How does a black man convince at least 200 KKK members to hang up their robes for good? Musician Daryl Davis shares his secrets here! [Part 2/2]
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539: Daryl Davis | A Black Man's Odyssey in the KKK Part One
How does a black man convince at least 200 KKK members to hang up their robes for good? Musician Daryl Davis shares his secrets here!
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538: Already Dreading Your Abusive Brother's Wedding | Feedback Friday
Should you speak at the wedding of your brother who sexually abused you when you were eight? We'll try to help you find an answer here on Feedback Friday.
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537: Kevin Kelly | 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Kevin Kelly is the founding editor of Wired magazine and author of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future.
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536: Julia Galef | Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
Julia Galef is the host of the Rationally Speaking podcast, co-founder of The Center for Applied Rationality, and author of The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't.
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535: Should Siblings Unite to Confront Abusive Parents? | Feedback Friday
Is it worth trying to unite your siblings for a confrontation with your abusive parents to gain a sense of closure? We'll get into this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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534: Greg McKeown | How to Make What Matters Effortless
Essentialism champion Greg McKeown joins us to talk about his latest book, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most.
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533: Tristan Harris | Reclaiming Our Future with Humane Technology
Former Google design ethicist and Your Undivided Attention co-host Tristan Harris joins us to talk about using humane technology to reclaim our future.
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532: A Veteran Fights to Be Free from Smack and PTSD | Feedback Friday
A veteran returns from war to fight a new battle on two fronts: heroin and PTSD. We'll try to help him find a way through it here on Feedback Friday.
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531: Bob Arno | Schooled by the Professor of Pickpocketry Part Two
Pickpocket King Bob Arno joins us to talk about the psychology of a pickpocket -- what they're looking for in an ideal victim and what you can do to ensure you're not that victim. [Part 2/2]
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530: Bob Arno | Schooled by the Professor of Pickpocketry Part One
Pickpocket King Bob Arno joins us to talk about the psychology of a pickpocket -- what they're looking for in an ideal victim and what you can do to ensure you're not that victim.
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529: Qualms about QAnon Mom and Her Starseed Schtick | Feedback Friday
Your QAnon-believing Mom thinks she's a half-alien starseed, and you've had enough. Is there room in your life for her? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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528: Ulrich "The Mole" Larsen | Undercover in North Korea Part Two
Ulrich "The Mole" Larsen is a family man from Denmark who spent 10 years undercover in North Korea infiltrating its illicit arms trade. [Pt. 2 of 2]
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527: Ulrich "The Mole" Larsen | Undercover in North Korea Part One
Ulrich "The Mole" Larsen is a family man from Denmark who spent 10 years undercover in North Korea infiltrating its illicit arms trade. [Pt. 1 of 2]
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526: What to Do When Your Teen Attempts Suicide | Feedback Friday
Your teenager's attempted suicide came as a heartbreaking shock. What can you do to make sure she doesn't try again? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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525: Robert H. Frank | The Myth of Meritocracy
Cornell's Robert H. Frank joins us to talk about the oft-downplayed role of luck in success and how we can maximize its effects.
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524: Nicholas Christakis | Pandemic Impacts and Contagious Behavior
We're joined by Yale's Nicholas Christakis to discuss the enduring impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and how social networks make our very behavior contagious.
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523: Defusing the Drama Around Your Intoxicated Mama | Feedback Friday
Is there anything you can do to defuse the drama around your alcoholic mama? We'll try to find answers to this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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522: Daniel Pink | To Sell Is Human
Daniel Pink is the author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, which offers a fresh look at the art and science of sales.
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521: Neil deGrasse Tyson | Cosmic Queries for the Acutely Curious
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson rejoins us to discuss his latest book, Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going.
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520: Medical Meddling's Wack from Bipolar Hypochondriac | Feedback Friday
Your bipolar hypochondriac mom won't stop meddling in your medical affairs. How can you get her to back off? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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519: Dacher Keltner | The Power Paradox
UC Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner joins us to talk about his book The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence. [Note: this is a rebroadcast from the vault.]
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518: Daniel Kahneman | When Noise Destroys Our Best of Choices
Celebrated psychologist, economist, and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman joins us to discuss his latest book, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment.
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517: Trouble Runs Deep with the Neighborhood Creep | Feedback Friday
How can you prove that the pedophile psychopath who lives across the street is a danger to you and your community? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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516: Mike Massimino | Unlocking Science Secrets with an Unlikely Spaceman
Astronaut Mike Massimino sent the first tweet from space and wrote Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe.
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515: James Jani | Repelling the Law of Attraction Myth
Documentary YouTuber James Jani joins us to dismantle the law of attraction myth and other woo woo tom-foolery disguised as self-improvement.
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514: Distancing from Junkie Sibling's Self-Jinxing | Feedback Friday
Tough love is tough from all sides. How can you distance yourself from your junkie sibling's self-jinxing relapses? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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513: Charlamagne Tha God | The Opportunities of Black Privilege
In this episode from the vault, Charlamagne Tha God joins us to talk about his book Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It.
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512: Michio Kaku | The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku joins us to talk about his latest bestseller, The Quest for a Theory of Everything.
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511: Does a Reformed Abuser Deserve a Second Chance? | Feedback Friday
Does a reformed abuser deserve a second chance? If so, how does he prove he's really changed? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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510: Rob Reid | Why the Future is a Good Kind of Scary
After On's Rob Reid joins us to discuss a future where both viruses and their vaccines will be printable on demand and why that's a good kind of scary.
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509: Sam Harris | Making Sense of the Present Tense
We're joined by neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris to discuss Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity.
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508: Shaking an Unsuitable Stalking Suitor | Feedback Friday
How can your sister best protect herself from a stalker ex-boyfriend's deranged threats to ruin her life? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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507: Robert Cialdini | A New Look at the Science of Influence
Godfather of influence Robert Cialdini joins us to talk about his revisited classic, Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion.
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506: Tim Grover | The Unforgiving Race to Greatness
Legendary trainer to the stars Tim Grover joins us to discuss the heart of his latest book, Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness.
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505: Special Needs Son Seduced by Psycho Siren | Feedback Friday
How can you pry your special needs son away from marriage with a legitimate psychopath (and convicted murderer) before it's too late? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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504: Lt. Col. Oliver North | Lessons from the Tragedies of War
We're joined by Lt. Col. Oliver North to discuss what the Iran–Contra affair looks like after 30+ years in the rearview mirror and much more.
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503: Cal Newport | Reimagining Work in a World without Email
Productivity maestro Cal Newport joins us to help debuzz modern society's hyperactive hive mind as detailed in his latest book, A World without Email.
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502: How Do I Tell Daughter Her Dad Is Dying? | Feedback Friday
The father of your eight-year-old daughter has been given six months to live. How much do you tell your daughter -- and how soon? This and more here on Feedback Friday.
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501: Ed Calderon | Survival Secrets of a Drug War Veteran Part Two
Ed Calderon is a security specialist with over 10 years of experience in organized crime investigation and public safety on the US-Mexico border.
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500: Ed Calderon | Survival Secrets of a Drug War Veteran Part One
Ed Calderon is a security specialist with over 10 years of experience in organized crime investigation and public safety on the Mexican border.
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499: Preparing a Polyamorous Protection Plan | Feedback Friday
On this Feedback Friday, we'll help you prepare a polyamorous protection plan should your love triangle get bent out of shape!
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498: Rob Dyrdek | Manufacturing Amazing with the Dyrdek Machine
Reality show personality and entrepreneur Rob Dyrdek joins us to talk about optimizing outcomes with his venture creation studio Dyrdek Machine.
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497: David Kilgour | The Heartless Art of Forced Organ Harvesting
It sounds like an urban myth, but prisoners are being harvested for their organs in China. Former Canadian Parliament member David Kilgour joins us to share the terrible details.
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496: Schizophrenic Mother a Duty Like No Other | Feedback Friday
How can you ensure your schizophrenic mother gets the care she needs without taking on a burden that eclipses your entire life? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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495: Jon Acuff | The Surprising Solution to Overthinking
NYT bestselling author Jon Acuff joins us to discuss his latest book, Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking.
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494: Rutger Bregman | Humankind: A Hopeful History
Daily headlines bringing you down? Take heart by listening to our conversation with Humankind: A Hopeful History author Rutger Bregman here!
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493: Should You Sue Uncle Sam for Allegation Sham? | Feedback Friday
Your military career was derailed by accusations of misconduct proven untrue, but you've been denied back pay or promotions due. Should you sue?
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492: Michael Shermer | Why We Believe Weird Things
Famed skeptic Michael Shermer joins us to make sense of a question as old as our most distant ancestors: why do we believe weird things?
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491: Ray Dalio | The Changing World Order
Legendary investor Ray Dalio returns for a history lesson as outlined in his latest book, The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail.
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490: Boo's Rightful Vexation Over Frightening Fixation | Feedback Friday
You're addicted to the thrill of randomly startling your fiancée even though she hates it. Is this a common problem? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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489: Frank Bourassa | The World’s Greatest Counterfeiter Part Two
Frank Bourassa joins us to talk about how he counterfeited and sold $250 million in fake US currency until he was nabbed in an undercover operation.
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488: Frank Bourassa | The World’s Greatest Counterfeiter Part One
Frank Bourassa joins us to talk about how he counterfeited and sold $250 million in fake US currency until he was nabbed in an undercover operation.
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487: Connect with Cult Father, or Don't Even Bother? | Feedback Friday
After "rebelling" against the cult in which you were raised, should you try to reconnect with your estranged father? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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486: Nina Schick | Deepfakes and the Coming Infocalypse
Nina Schick specializes in how technology is transforming geopolitics and society. She is the author of Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse.
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485: Leah Remini | Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
Leah Remini is an actor, producer, co-host of podcast Scientology: Fair Game, and co-author of Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology.
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484: Give Bridesmaid the Boot for Political Dispute? | Feedback Friday
Your BFF bridesmaid insufferably loves to argue politics; should you even invite her to your wedding? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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483: Drew Binsky | Vicarious Trips and Travel Tips
Drew Binsky has been to 194 countries, shares his prolific adventures on YouTube, and hopes to inspire us all to become better world travelers. Take in the vicarious trips and travel tips with him here!
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482: Adam Grant | The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Wharton’s top-rated professor Adam Grant revisits the show to discuss his latest bestseller, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know.
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481: Custody Battle Rattles Disproven Dad | Feedback Friday
Can a dad who's raised a daughter as his own win custody after a court-ordered test disproves his paternity? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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480: Roger Atwood | Stealing History
Listen here as Stealing History author Roger Atwood tells us where priceless antiquities are buried, who is digging them up, and who is fencing and buying them!
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479: Lisa Feldman Barrett | Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Revolutionary research neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett joins us to discuss her new book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.
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478: Will Suing Abusive Father Bring Mother Peace? | Feedback Friday
Should your mother sue her father 30 years after he abused her? Will telling her story bring her peace if not justice? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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477: Peter Diamandis | Creating a Future Bold in Abundance
XPRIZE honcho Peter Diamandis joins us to discuss the advances humanity can look forward to — if we're able to overcome the hindrance of linear thinking.
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476: Dan David | Putting Muscle on the China Hustle
Activist short-seller and I Hung Up On Warren Buffett Podcast host Dan David joins us to talk about massive fraud brought to light in The China Hustle.
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475: Is It Possible to Assuage Narcissistic Rage? | Feedback Friday
This Feedback Friday: What to do when your significant other ruins your stuff in fits of narcissistic rage but breaking up is logistically difficult!
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474: David Eagleman | The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman joins us to talk about
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473: Scott Galloway | From Crisis to Opportunity Post Corona
What will the post-pandemic world and workplace look like? Scott Galloway, the author of Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity, joins us with answers.
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472: When Your Employee Defrauds the Government | Feedback Friday
If your employee brags about defrauding the government of COVID relief, how much does he respect your company's resources? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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471: Steven Hassan | The #iGotOut Guide to Quitting QAnon
#iGotOut founding collaborator Steven Hassan joins us to explain how the QAnon conspiracy became so pervasive and how to get your loved ones to quit it.
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470: Bruce Sackman | A Glimpse Behind the Murder Curtain
Bruce Sackman is an investigator and co-author of Behind the Murder Curtain: Special Agent Bruce Sackman Hunts Doctors and Nurses Who Kill Our Veterans.
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469: Should a Cheater Get a Second Chance? | Feedback Friday
Should the ex you cheated on give you a second chance? We'll tackle this timeless question and more here on Feedback Friday!
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468: Jack Schafer | Getting People to Reveal the Truth Part Two
Jack Schafer is a retired FBI special agent and co-author of The Truth Detector: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide for Getting People to Reveal the Truth.
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467: Jack Schafer | Getting People to Reveal the Truth Part One
Jack Schafer is a retired FBI special agent and co-author of The Truth Detector: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide for Getting People to Reveal the Truth.
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466: How to Cope with a Dying, Narcissistic Parent | Feedback Friday
Should you reconcile with your dying, narcissistic parent before it's too late? We'll try to find an answer to this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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465: Thomas Erikson | How to Protect Yourself from Psychopaths
Thomas Erikson is a behavioral expert and author of Surrounded by Psychopaths: How to Protect Yourself from Being Manipulated and Exploited in Business.
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464: Ramit Sethi | I Will Teach You to Find Your Dream Job
I Will Teach You to Be Rich author Ramit Sethi shows us how to apply similarly no-nonsense principles to our careers in his latest program, Find Your Dream Job.
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463: Saying Sayonara to Sister's Swindling Sweetie | Feedback Friday
What's the surest way of saying sayonara to your sister's swindling sweetie? We'll tackle this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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462: Linda Carroll | Unlocking Lasting Love Skills
Love is a feeling; loving is a skill set. Linda Carroll rejoins us to discuss how we can improve these skills per her latest book, Love Skills: The Keys to Unlocking Lasting, Wholehearted Love.
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461: Erik Vance | The Curious Science of the Suggestible You
Science writer Erik Vance joins us to discuss his book Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal.
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460: Why Did Your Adopted Child Leave? | Feedback Friday
Your adopted child turned 18 and moved out without warning, asking you not to contact him. What to do? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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459: Steve Madden | How a Cobbler Disrupted an Industry
Designer Steve Madden joins us to talk about everything from fashion to failure as outlined in his book The Cobbler: How I Disrupted an Industry, Fell From Grace, and Came Back Stronger Than Ever.
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458: John Brennan | An Undaunted Fight Against America's Enemies
Former CIA Director John Brennan joins us to discuss his new book, Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, At Home and Abroad.
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457: Help! I Married a Conspiracy Theorist! | Feedback Friday
Can you and your conspiracy theory-believing hubby ever inhabit the same reality again? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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456: Laura Nirider | Anatomy of a False Confession
Laura Nirider is the co-director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and the co-host of the Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions podcast.
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455: Matthew McConaughey | Following Life's Greenlights to Success
Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey joins Jordan to talk about his #1 New York Times Bestseller Greenlights.
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454: Dodging Criminal Liability For Erotic Roleplaying | Feedback Friday
You unknowingly engaged in online erotic roleplay with a minor; should you be worried about criminal repercussions? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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453: Javier Peña and Steve Murphy | Taking Down Pablo Escobar
Javier Peña and Steve Murphy are former DEA agents dramatized on Netflix's Narcos and authors of Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar.
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Welcome to Stereo Sunday, a little Stereo app-sponsored experiment we did live in front of a studio audience of you! This time around, we answered questions from listeners. It went a little something like this... Full show notes and resources can be
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452: Fessing Up to Security Clearance Sex Lies | Feedback Friday
You were asked not to disclose a past affair for security clearance reasons; should you come clean? This and more on 2020's last Feedback Friday!
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451: Jason Silva | Origins of a Performance Philosopher
"Performance philosopher" Jason Silva is a futurist, filmmaker, and host of National Geographic’s Brain Games and Origins: The Journey of Humankind.
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450: Frank Maderal | The Dirty Money Behind Illicit Gold Smuggling
Litigator Frank Maderal walks us through the illicit gold mining and smuggling operations that wreak environmental, social, and economic havoc on a global scale.
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449: How to Cope with Your Partner's Manic Mind | Feedback Friday
How do you cope with your partner's bipolar-fueled manic episodes while staying sane yourself? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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448: Srdja Popovic | Blueprint for Revolution
Srdja Popovic joins us to talk about how we can all make life Hell for dictators and their lackeys as outlined in his book Blueprint for Revolution.
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447: Stephen Schwarzman | Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen Schwarzman is the CEO of The Blackstone Group and the author of What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence.
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446: How to Help Your Suicidal Partner | Feedback Friday
How do you help your suicidal partner when this year has been even harder on them than the rest of us? We'll try to find answers here on Feedback Friday.
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445: Seth Godin | Shipping Creative Work
Seth Godin joins us to talk about the latest of his 20 (or so) international bestsellers: The Practice: Shipping Creative Work.
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444: Jordan & Gabe | Kidnap Me Twice, Shame on Me
How did Jordan find himself in a position to get kidnapped in Serbia in 2004? Jordan goes into all the gory details here with Gabe Mizrahi!
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443: Kidnap Me Once, Shame on You | Stereo Sunday
How did Jordan find himself in a position to get kidnapped in Mexico back in 2000? We'll go into all the gory details here on Stereo Sunday!
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442: Sextortion Scam Security for Naive Nudes | Feedback Friday
A sextortionist is threatening to send your nude selfies to family, friends, and employer if you don't pay! Now what? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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441: Russell Brand | Finding Freedom from Our Addictions
Russell Brand joins us to personalize the experiences contained within his fine book Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions.
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440: David Michaels | Dark Money and the Science of Deception
Dr. David Michaels joins us to talk about his latest book, The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception.
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439: Going to North Korea: Part Two | Stereo Sunday
Welcome to our third Stereo Sunday! Here, Gabe and Jordan continue their discussion about visiting the mysterious dystopia of North Korea.
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438: How to Straighten Out Your Crooked Boss | Feedback Friday
As a new, proud firefighter, you're wondering how to straighten out your crooked boss before his malfeasance brings the whole department down or gets someone killed. We have thoughts on this Feedback Friday!
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437: Charles Koch & Brian Hooks | Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
Koch Industries' Charles Koch and Stand Together CEO Brian Hooks join us to discuss their book Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World.
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436: Stuart Ritchie | The Science Fictions Undermining Facts
Stuart Ritchie joins us to talk about his latest book, Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth.
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435: Going to North Korea: Part One | Stereo Sunday
Welcome to our second Stereo Sunday! Here, Gabe and Jordan talk about what they've learned on their many visits to the mysterious dystopia of North Korea.
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434: Helping My Coworker Escape from Abuse | Feedback Friday
What can you do to help a coworker who's clearly suffering potentially life-threatening abuse from her partner? We'll look into this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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433: Larry Lawton | From Jewel Thief to Honorary Cop Part Two
Larry Lawton continues to share his stories as chronicled in Gangster Redemption: How America's Most Notorious Jewel Robber Got Rich, Got Caught, and Got His Life Back on Track.
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432: Larry Lawton | From Jewel Thief to Honorary Cop Part One
Larry Lawton shares his stories as chronicled in Gangster Redemption: How America's Most Notorious Jewel Robber Got Rich, Got Caught, and Got His Life Back on Track.
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431: The Redefining Power of Resilience | Stereo Sunday
Welcome to our first Stereo Sunday! Here, we'll talk about resilience: what it is, why it's important, and how to cultivate it.
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430: Setting Boundaries with a Bipolar Parent | Feedback Friday
How can you set boundaries with your bipolar parent when they don't take them seriously? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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429: Greg McKeown | The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown is the host of the What's Essential podcast and author of the New York Times bestseller Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.
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428: Jenny Radcliffe | Cat Burglar for Hire
Jenny Radcliffe is an ethical social engineer hired to smash security measures using psychology, and is the host of The Human Factor podcast.
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427: Sister’s Neo-Nazi Boyfriend Raises Red Flags | Feedback Friday
How do you get your sister to see why her neo-Nazi boyfriend raises a big, red (probably quite literal) flag? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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426: Anthony S. Luciano Raimondi | The Mob Enforcer Part Two
Anthony S. Luciano Raimondi was born into the world of organized crime, spent much of his life as a mob enforcer, has played part in heists and assassinations, and is the author of When the Bullet Hits the Bone.
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425: Anthony S. Luciano Raimondi | The Mob Enforcer Part One
Anthony S. Luciano Raimondi was born into the world of organized crime, spent much of his life as a mob enforcer, has played part in heists and assassinations, and is the author of When the Bullet Hits the Bone.
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424: Bypassing Putrid Pop's Repulsive Proclivities | Feedback Friday
What can you do to discourage your foul father's frightening fecal forays? We'll tackle this (from a distance) and more here on Feedback Friday!
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423: Celeste Headlee | How to Have Conversations That Matter
Celeste Headlee is the host of On Second Thought and the author of We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter.
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422: Billy McFarland | From Fyre Fest Fiasco to Federal Prison
Billy McFarland co-founded the ill-fated 2017 Fyre Festival, and is currently serving six years in federal prison for defrauding investors of $27.4 million.
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421: Sorting Out My Secret Lesbian Love Life | Feedback Friday
What can you do to come to terms with your secret lesbian love life before it wrecks your marriage? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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420: Renee DiResta | Dismantling the Disinformation Machine
Renee DiResta joins us to discuss the role that tech platforms and curatorial algorithms play in the proliferation of disinformation.
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419: David Shimer | 100 Years of Covert Election Interference
David Shimer is a historian, foreign policy analyst, and author of Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference.
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418: How to Deal with Unsolicited Underage Nudes | Feedback Friday
How much trouble can a minor get in for receiving unsolicited nude pictures from another minor? We tackle this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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417: Dan Ariely | The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations
Dan Ariely is a behavioral economist at Duke University and the bestselling author of Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations.
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416: John Perkins | New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins is an economist who has advised the World Bank, United Nations, Fortune 500 corporations, and the US government. He is the author of The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
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415: Should I Dodge a Debt to the Mafia? | Feedback Friday
How can you keep your family safe when your father-in-law took out a loan from the mafia that's now due? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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414: Jonah Berger | How to Change Anyone's Mind
Jonah Berger is a world-renowned expert on social influence and consumer behavior. His latest book is The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind.
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413: Mark Edward | True Confessions of a Fake Psychic
Mentalist Mark Edward joins us to talk about the dangers of trusting so-called psychics; he's the author of Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium.
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412: Breaking Up with My Narcissistic Grandma | Feedback Friday
How do you go about breaking up with your narcissistic grandma without feeling terrible? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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411: Oliver Stone | Writing, Directing, and Surviving the Movie Game
Oliver Stone joins us to talk about his book Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game.
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410: H.R. McMaster | The Fight to Defend the Free World
Lt. General H.R. McMaster was the 26th National Security Advisor and author of Dereliction of Duty and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World.
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409: When Your Deranged Dad Calls the FBI on You | Feedback Friday
How do you deal with your deranged dad who threatens to call the FBI on you for offenses that only exist in his head? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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408: Chris Hadfield | An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Chris Hadfield is a retired astronaut, the first Canadian to walk in space, and author of An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth and The Darkest Dark.
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407: Mosab Hassan Yousef | The Green Prince of Hamas
Mosab Hassan Yousef is the author of Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Unthinkable Choices and is featured in the documentary The Green Prince.
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406: My Custody Battle with an Escort Ex | Feedback Friday
How can you prevail in a custody battle with your wealthy escort-turned-madam ex when legal fees are bankrupting you? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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405: Harri Hursti | The Cyber War on America's Elections
Ethical Hacker Harri Hursti joins us to explain who is hacking our elections, how vulnerable our voting machines are to tampering, and the ultimate goal of our enemies in this interference.
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404: Guy Raz | How I Built This
Guy Raz joins us to talk about his book How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs.
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403: My Best Friend’s Cheating Ex | Feedback Friday
How can you still be supportive of the friend you love when they're still trying to work things out with a cheating ex you'd like to strangle? We'll look into this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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402: Cheryl Strayed | Creativity, Meltdowns, and Leaving It All Behind
Cheryl Strayed co-hosts the Dear Sugars podcast and is the author of several books, including Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.
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401: Robert Wittman | The Undercover Hunt for Stolen Art
Robert Wittman created the FBI's national art crime team and is the author of Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures.
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400: The Doggy Doo-Doo Debacle | Feedback Friday
What better way to let your neighbor know he's in the doghouse than a pawsive-aggressive campaign of terrier? Retriever the answer here on Feedback Friday!
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399: Jennifer L. Eberhardt | The Science of Why We're Biased
Stanford's Jennifer Eberhardt joins us to discuss her book Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do.
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398: Danny Trejo | Inmate #1
Danny Trejo is an actor and producer with a resume that includes hard time and battling addiction. His latest project is Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo.
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397: My Future vs. My Special Needs Sister | Feedback Friday
How can you overcome the guilt of leaving your mom and special needs sister to move on with your own life? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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396: Dr. Anders Ericsson | Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
In this interview, Dr. Anders Ericsson explains why deliberate practice, not natural talent, is the key to developing expertise.
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395: How to Avoid Scams | Deep Dive
Gabriel Mizrahi joins us for this deep dive into common scams to watch out for, why even the smartest among us get suckered into falling for scams, and what we can do to help ourselves and others break free of scams for good.
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394: Was I Unknowingly a Sugar Daddy? | Feedback Friday
Your girlfriend broke things off after living with you rent-free to go through school. Were you unknowingly a sugar daddy? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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393: Joaquin "Jack" Garcia | Undercover in the Mafia Part Two
How did Joaquin "Jack" Garcia almost become a made man by the Gambino crime family while working undercover for the FBI? Join us for part two of this two-part episode to find out!
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392: Joaquin "Jack" Garcia | Undercover in the Mafia Part One
Joaquin "Jack" Garcia survived three years as an undercover mobster, as detailed in his book Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family.
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391: Help! My Ex Hacked My Entire Home! | Feedback Friday
Your ex hacked all of your electronics when you were together, and now they spy on you from inside your own house! What can you do about it? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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390: Ray Dalio | Principles of an Investing Pioneer Part Two
Legendary investor Ray Dalio joins us for part two of this two-part episode to continue our discussion about life-guiding principles, radical transparency, cycle prediction, and more!
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389: Ray Dalio | Principles of an Investing Pioneer Part One
Ray Dalio is the founder of powerhouse hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, and author of New York Times bestseller Principles: Life and Work and the upcoming The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail.
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388: Should I Bail Out My In-Laws? | Feedback Friday
Should you co-sign a loan for your in-laws' business when they've always been bad with money? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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387: Tom Wainwright | How to Run a Drug Cartel
Tom Wainwright of The Economist shares the harrowing and sometimes grisly experiences he endured while writing Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel.
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386: Amanda Knox | The Truth About True Crime
Convicted twice and exonerated for a murder she didn't commit, Amanda Knox joins us to discuss the truth about true crime.
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385: Can I Date a White-Collar Criminal? | Feedback Friday
Should you go on a first date with someone you googled as having a white-collar criminal history? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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384: Aimen Dean | Nine Lives of a Spy Inside Al-Qaeda Part Two
Follow Aimen Dean as he leads us through the events of his gripping autobiography Nine Lives: My Time as the MI6’s Top Spy Inside Al-Qaeda!
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383: Aimen Dean | Nine Lives of a Spy Inside Al-Qaeda Part One
Follow Aimen Dean as he leads us through the events of his gripping autobiography Nine Lives: My Time as the MI6’s Top Spy Inside Al-Qaeda!
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382: Should I Move In with My Father-in-Law? | Feedback Friday
Can you stay sane living and working on a foldout bed in your father-in-law's dining room to help him through a long, tough time? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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381: Neal Brennan | Comedy's Triple Threat
Neal Brennan is the co-creator of Chappelle's Show, host of the How Neal Feel podcast, and stars in his own live standup solo show 3 Mics at Netflix.
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380: Blake Mycoskie | Made for Entrepreneurship
Guest Blake Mycoskie founded TOMS Shoes, and now he's co-founded wellness program Madefor (get 20 percent off by using code MFJORDAN)!
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379: How to Deal with a Cheating Dad | Feedback Friday
How do you deal with your cheating dad in a way that won't destroy what little cohesion your family has left? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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378: Steven Johnson | How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Farsighted author Steven Johnson helps us make smarter decisions with options that extend beyond the results of an archaic pros and cons list.
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377: Randolph Nesse | Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
What possible purpose do anxiety, depression, and anger serve from an evolutionary standpoint? Dr. Randolph Nesse clues us in here!
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376: How to Fire Someone You Care About | Feedback Friday
Now that times are especially difficult, how do you fire someone you care about? We'll tackle this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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375: Bob Sutton | The A-hole Survival Guide
Bob Sutton is a Stanford Business School professor and New York Times bestselling author of books that teach us how to deal with people who treat us like dirt.
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374: Kelly McGonigal | The Upside of Stress
Research psychologist Kelly McGonigal joins us to talk about cultivating the right mindset for stress to be a call to action rather than a reason to shut down.
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373: How Do I Keep My Mother-in-Law Alive? | Feedback Friday
How can you get your spouse more involved in maintaining your mother-in-law's health? We'll tackle this and much more here on Feedback Friday!
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372: Bob Saget | How Comedy Continually Changes His Life
Bob Saget is a comedian, actor, director, host of the Bob Saget's Here For You podcast, and author of Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian.
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371: Maria Konnikova | Pulling Off the Biggest Bluff
Author and poker champ Maria Konnikova joins us to discuss her latest book, The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win.
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370: My Life as a Secret Love Child | Feedback Friday
You were the result of an affair. Is it right for you to be kept a secret from your father's other family? We'll tackle this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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369: Tim Ballard | Putting a Stop to Child Sex Trafficking
Operation Underground Railroad founder Tim Ballard gives us the shocking facts about the modern slave trade and how he's helping put a stop to child sex trafficking.
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368: Coffeezilla | How to Expose Fake Guru Scams
Coffeezilla is a YouTuber who exposes fake guru scam artists and alerts would-be victims to the tactics used to part them from their hard-earned money.
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367: How to "Fix" Your Relationship without Nagging | Feedback Friday
Your significant other picked up bad habits while self-quarantining; how can you fix your relationship without nagging? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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366: Bill Nye | Radical Curiosity Saves the World
Joining Jordan here is Bill Nye, the lifelong champion of science who is determined to teach you something today that you didn't know yesterday!
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365: Benjamin Hardy | How to Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs
Benjamin Hardy revisits us to discuss his new book Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story.
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364: Can You Stop a Racist from Becoming a Doctor? | Feedback Friday
As a medical student, should you do what you can to prevent a racist classmate from becoming a doctor? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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363: Mick West | How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories
Mick West joins us to talk about his new book: Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect.
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362: Mark Cuban | Tales from the Shark Side
Famed Shark Tank investor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban joins us to talk about how he's responding to these unprecedented times.
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361: From Self-Help Cultist to Sex Offender | Feedback Friday
You were a self-help cult follower, which led to you becoming a registered sex offender. How did things go so wrong, and what can you do now? This and more here on Feedback Friday.
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360: Garry Kasparov | Deep Thinking for Disordered Times
Garry Kasparov joins us to chat about chess, decision making, Putin and other 21st century authoritarians, and supercomputers vs. superhumans!
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359: Justin Ramsdell | How to Detect and Disarm Pseudoscience
Forensic psychologist and veteran pseudoscience detector Justin Ramsdell joins us to separate real science from fake science.
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358: Is My Friend Blowing Her IVF Money on Gifts? | Feedback Friday
Is your friend blowing the money she could be using for IVF on expensive gifts for everyone else? We'll tackle this and more here on Feeback Friday!
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357: Robin Dreeke | Sizing People Up
Robin Dreeke used to catch spies for the FBI; now he writes books like Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction!
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356: How to Make the Most of Quarantine | Deep Dive
Gabriel Mizrahi joins us for this deep dive exploring the ups and downs of COVID-19 pandemic life and how to make the most of quarantine.
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355: My Roommate Tried to Kill Me! | Feedback Friday
An unstable roommate tried to kill you, then convinced everyone it was the other way around. Time to get a lawyer? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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354: ZDoggMD | Debunking Plandemic COVID-19 Pseudoscience
ZDoggMD (aka Dr. Zubin Damania) is the host of the ZDoggMD Show, and he's here to help us debunk the pseudoscience "documentary" Plandemic.
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353: Jordan Harbinger | A Darknet Diaries Origin Story
This is the one where Jordan shares the seedy underbelly of his origin story with Jack Rhysider of Darknet Diaries!
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352: My Spouse Controls My Online Life! | Feedback Friday
When you're a grownup and your spouse controls your online life, is it just one red flag among many? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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351: General Martin Dempsey | No Time For Spectators
We're joined by General Martin Dempsey, author of No Time for Spectators: The Lessons That Mattered Most from West Point to The West Wing.
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350: Dan Heath | Solving Problems from Upstream
Dan Heath joins us to talk about his latest book, Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen.
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349: How to Pick Your Battles Without Being a Doormat | Feedback Friday
With everyone so on edge lately, how do you choose your battles without being a doormat? We'll tackle this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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348: Thomas Kostigen | Hacking Planet Earth
Thomas Kostigen joins us to talk about his latest book, Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Help Us Reimagine the Future!
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347: Brian Keating | Losing the Nobel Prize
We're joined by Dr. Brian Keating, host of the Into the Impossible podcast and author of Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor.
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346: Did Coronavirus Kill My Relationship? | Feedback Friday
Did you get dumped because you got coronavirus, or were they just looking for an excuse to end it? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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345: Jim Kwik | How to Upgrade Your Brain's Limitless Potential
Jim Kwik hosts the Kwik Brain podcast and is the author of Limitless -- Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, Unlock Your Exceptional Life.
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344: Jonna Mendez | The Moscow Rules
We're joined by Jonna Mendez, former CIA disguise chief and co-author of The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War.
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343: Is My Little Brother a Lost Cause? | Feedback Friday
Blacking out on drugs and alcohol to soothe his depression, is your little brother a lost cause? This and more here on Feedback Friday.
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342: David Epstein | Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Range author David Epstein joins Jordan to discuss why generalists triumph in a specialized world -- generally. Listen, learn, and enjoy!
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341: Julie Gerberding | Answering Your COVID-19 Questions
Former CDC director Julie Gerberding joins Jordan to answer your most pressing questions about the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
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340: What Jobs Will Exist in the New Economy? | Feedback Friday
As the world rapidly changes, what skills should you level up, and what jobs will exist in the new economy? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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339: Michele Rigby Assad | My Secret Life in the CIA
Jordan debriefs Michele Rigby Assad, author of Breaking Cover: My Secret Life in the CIA and What It Taught Me about What's Worth Fighting For.
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338: Ozan Varol | How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist
Jordan has a smart chat with Ozan Varol, author of Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life.
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337: COVID Clearly Crushing Careers | Feedback Friday
COVID-19 is clearly crushing careers, so Gretchen Rubin ensures we can be productive, and Dorie Clark helps a teen come out as gay here on Feedback Friday!
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336: Kevin Systrom | Life Lessons from an Instagram Founder Part Two
Jordan sat down to chat (pre-quarantine!) with Kevin Systrom, a computer programmer and entrepreneur who co-founded Instagram in 2010 with Mike Krieger.
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335: Kevin Systrom | Life Lessons from an Instagram Founder Part One
Jordan sat down to chat (pre-quarantine!) with Kevin Systrom, a computer programmer and entrepreneur who co-founded Instagram in 2010 with Mike Krieger.
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334: I Was Supposed to Die Five Years Ago | Feedback Friday
This Feedback Friday: Is it wishful thinking to start long-term planning when the brain tumor that was supposed to kill you 5 years ago has reduced by 50%?
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333: Isaac Lidsky | Eyes Wide Open
Isaac Lidsky is a former child actor and the author of Eyes Wide Open: Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities in a World That Can't See Clearly.
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332: Rachael Denhollander | What Is a Girl Worth?
Rachael Denhollander is the author of What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics.
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331: How to Work from Home Effectively | Feedback Friday
Since the Feedback Friday team knows how to work from home effectively, we'll do our best to help you get through this COVID-19 pandemic alone, together!
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330: Gavin de Becker | The Gift of Fear Part Two
Gavin de Becker is a celebrated security pioneer and the author of The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence.
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329: Gavin de Becker | The Gift of Fear Part One
Gavin de Becker is a celebrated security pioneer and the author of The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence.
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328: How Should I Spend My Inheritance? | Feedback Friday
How should you spend your inheritance in a way that would make you happy and your father proud? This and more here on Feedback Friday!
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327: Neil deGrasse Tyson | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson is the host of StarTalk Radio and author of New York Times bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.
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326: Austin Meyer | Slaying the Patent Scam Trolls
Austin Meyer is the software developer of flight simulator X-Plane, an entrepreneur fighting against the unjust incursion of patent trolls, and producer of the documentary The Patent Scam.
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325: My Mother-in-Law Is a Monster! | Feedback Friday
How can you shut down your monster mother-in-law's constant rude commentary without causing a scene? This and more on Feedback Friday here!
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324: Tony Hawk | How Did I Get Here?
Tony Hawk is a vertical skateboarding legend who enjoys household name status these days, but as we learn in this discussion, the journey’s been far from easy.
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323: Laura Gassner Otting | Living Your Limitless Life
Laura Gassner Otting is a motivational keynote speaker and the author of Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life.
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322: Mislead an Employer for a Foot in the Door? | Feedback Friday
Is it ever worth it to mislead a potential employer to get a foot in the door? We'll try to find answers to this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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321: How to Ask for Advice | Deep Dive
Soliciting advice the right way (and then processing and putting it to good use) is the difference between ignorance and understanding, failure and success. Here's how!
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320: Dennis Carroll | Planning an End to the Pandemic Era
Dr. Dennis Carroll works with The Global Virome Project to proactively identify, prepare for, and stop viral threats (like coronavirus) before they become pandemics.
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319: Should We Shut Down Our Business? | Feedback Friday
Should you shut down your business that's in the red to focus on renting out the spare room through Airbnb for reliable income? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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318: Christian Picciolini | Breaking Hate Part Two
We discuss the mainstreaming of extremism with Christian Picciolini, author of Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism.
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317: Christian Picciolini | Breaking Hate Part One
We discuss the mainstreaming of extremism with Christian Picciolini, an Emmy-winning television producer and founder of the Free Radicals Project.
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316: How to Get a Job If You're a Sex Offender | Feedback Friday
How do you get a job if you're a registered sex offender who's done your time, and do you deserve a second chance? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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315: Admiral William H. McRaven | That's So McRaven
Admiral William H. McRaven masterminded and executed the mission that brought down Osama bin Laden, and is the author of Make Your Bed.
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314: Michael Yon | China's Big Trouble in Little Hong Kong
Award-winning independent war correspondent Michael Yon joins us to explain what's going on between Hong Kong and mainland China right now and what it means to the world at large.
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313: My Boyfriend’s Flirty Friend | Feedback Friday
Should you call out your boyfriend's close female friend for flirting with him directly in front of you, or should you keep your cool? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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312: John Tierney | Harnessing the Power of Bad
John Tierney is an award-winning science writer and the co-author of The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
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311: Susan David | How to Improve Your Emotional Agility
Susan David helps us navigate the emotions that factor into our decisions as outlined in her book Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life.
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310: Should I Fudge My Age in Dating Apps? | Feedback Friday
When you look 10 years younger, is it okay to fudge your age in dating apps so you don't get filtered out of searches? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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309: Laila Ali | Finding Strength, Spirit, and Personal Power
Jordan digs deep into resilience with Laila Ali, a world-champion boxer, entrepreneur, and author of Reach! Finding Strength, Spirit, and Personal Power.
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308: Kris Buckner | Who Does Counterfeiting Really Hurt?
Kris Buckner of Investigative Consultants joins Jordan to explain why the trillion-dollar counterfeiting industry should concern you.
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307: Help! I'm Too Physically Attractive! | Feedback Friday
You're an attractive demisexual who gets attention from all the wrong people. Can you find compatibility? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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306: BJ Fogg | Tiny Habits That Change Everything
Today we're joined by BJ Fogg, director of Stanford's Behavior Design Lab and author of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything.
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305: Shaka Senghor | Writing My Wrongs
Jordan sits down with Shaka Senghor, the bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison.
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304: How to Avoid Addiction to Study Drugs | Feedback Friday
How can you avoid becoming addicted to study drugs when Adderall has really been helping you focus? We'll tackle this and more on Feedback Friday here!
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303: Megan Phelps-Roper | Unfollowing Westboro Baptist Church Part Two
Megan Phelps-Roper joins us to discuss the true story behind her first book, Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. (This is part two of a two-part episode.)
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302: Megan Phelps-Roper | Unfollowing Westboro Baptist Church Part One
Megan Phelps-Roper joins us to discuss the true story behind her first book, Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. (This is part one of a two-part episode.)
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301: How to Fight an Out-of-State Speeding Ticket | Feedback Friday
Ever wondered how to fight an out-of-state speeding ticket, but you're unsure of your legal options? We'll tackle this and more on Feedback Friday!
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300: Simon Sinek | How to Play the Infinite Game
Simon Sinek returns to discuss his latest offering, The Infinite Game, which offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset in a limitless world.
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299: Steve Elkins | Finding the Lost City of the Monkey God
Guest Steve Elkins is a real-life Indiana Jones whose exploits of discovery are chronicled in The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston.
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298: My Dad Is a Pedophile | Feedback Friday
How do you keep ties with your family for the sake of your sister who still lives at home when your dad is a pedophile? This and more on Feedback Friday.
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297: Eric Thomas | Success Secrets of The Hip Hop Preacher
Known as The Hip Hop Preacher, Breathe University Director Eric Thomas sits with Jordan to dish out his mindset-blowing success secrets right here on The Jordan Harbinger Show!
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296: Tasha Eurich | The Surprising Truth About Insight
Tasha Eurich sits down with Jordan to talk about her NYT bestselling book Insight: The Surprising Truth About How Others See Us, How We See Ourselves, and Why the Answers Matter More Than We Think.
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295: Shep Gordon | Interview with the Supermensch
Shep Gordon is a talent manager, producer, and author of They Call Me Supermensch: A Backstage Pass to the Amazing Worlds of Film, Food, and Rock’n’Roll.
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294: Should I Expose a Sexually Abusive Nephew? | Feedback Friday
How do you warn a mother-to-be that her boyfriend (your nephew) has a history of being sexually abusive? This and more on the latest Feedback Friday.
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293: Zak Dychtwald | How Young China Will Change the World
Zak Dychtwald takes a person-first approach to exploring China in his book Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World.
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292: My Wife Wants Another Kid, But I Don't | Feedback Friday
You're content with two kids, but your spouse wants a third. How do you break the news you're not of like mind? We'll tackle this and more on the latest Feedback Friday!
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290: He's Wasting Inheritance on Pyramid Scheme | Feedback Friday
How can you keep your relative from wasting his inheritance on a pyramid scheme? This and more on the latest Feedback Friday!
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289: Akshay Nanavati | Fearvana: Finding Bliss from Suffering
Akshay Nanavati discusses suffering well as detailed in his book Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear into Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
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288: Erik Weihenmayer | A Blind Man Sees No Barriers
Erik Weihenmayer talks to Jordan about climbing Everest, kayaking 277 miles down The Grand Canyon, and summiting every continent's tallest mountain ?— blind.
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287: How to Stop Taking Feedback So Personally | Feedback Friday
How can you stop taking feedback so personally -- especially when it's delivered by loved ones? We'll explore this and more on the latest Feedback Friday!
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286: Jack Barsky | Deep Undercover with a KGB Spy in America Part Two
Jack Barsky joins us to discuss his book Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America.
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285: Jack Barsky | Deep Undercover with a KGB Spy in America Part One
Jack Barsky joins us to discuss his book Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America.
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284: Should I Secretly Test My Kid's Paternity? | Feedback Friday
Your youngest looks suspiciously like your wife's ex's kid. Should you discreetly test your kid's paternity? This and more on the latest Feedback Friday!
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283: Brian Koppelman | How to Make Billions
Billions showrunner and co-creator Brian Koppelman talks to Jordan about expensive life lessons, undeniable artistry, and choosing hard work over the bluster of hustle.
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282: Ken Perenyi | The Secret Life of an American Art Forger
Caveat Emptor author Ken Perenyi spent 34 years forging paintings that passed muster among experts in the world's major auction houses and galleries. In this conversation with Jordan, he tells us how he got away with it and lived to tell the tale!
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281: My Wife Thinks I'm Hiding Money | Feedback Friday
You don't want to give your shopaholic wife access to your business account, but what happens to the money should you perish unexpectedly? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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280: Sarah Hill | This Is Your Brain on Birth Control
Dr. Sarah Hill, author of This Is Your Brain on Birth Control, has a frank discussion with Jordan on the ups and downs of hormonal birth control that scientists are only recently beginning to understand.
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279: Dennis Quaid | Sharks, a Bear, and a Banjo
Dennis Quaid joins Jordan for a candid discussion on everything from the acting process to piano lessons from Jerry Lee Lewis to motivational fear to landing dad jokes.
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278: My Mother Lied About Our Father's Death | Feedback Friday
You only recently discovered your mother lied about your estranged father's death. How do you handle it? This and more on the latest Feedback Friday!
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277: Neil Pasricha | You Are Awesome
You Are Awesome author Neil Pasricha sits down with Jordan for a conversation about building resilience against hardship in an age of relative prosperity.
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276: Admiral James Stavridis | The Voyage of Character
Admiral James Stavridis sits down with Jordan to discuss the intersection of leadership and character examined in his book Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character.
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275: The Case of the Mysterious Hotel Panties | Feedback Friday
Is there any surefire way to know if a significant other is cheating? We'll try to unlock this and more on the latest Feedback Friday!
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274: Darren Prince | Hitting Bottom at the Top
Darren Prince joins Jordan to dish about his new book, Aiming High: How a Prominent Sports and Celebrity Agent Hit Bottom at the Top.
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273: Scott Adams | How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America
Dilbert creator Scott Adams joins us to talk about his latest book, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America.
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272: How to Sue Your Parents for Identity Theft | Feedback Friday
On this Feedback Friday, we help you figure out not only if, but how to sue your parents for identity theft when they take out a loan in your name.
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271: Ryan Holiday | Stillness Is the Key
Ryan Holiday joins us for a casual, free-form conversation while he's on tour to promote his latest book, Stillness Is the Key.
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270: Ben Horowitz | What You Do Is Who You Are
Andreessen Horowitz founding partner Ben Horowitz joins us to discuss his latest book: What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture.
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269: My Stepdaughter's Mom Is A Sex Worker | Feedback Friday
Word is out that your stepdaughter's mom is a sex worker. Should you tell her before she finds out from her classmates? This and more on Feedback Friday!
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268: Robert Spalding | How China Took Over America
On this episode we go to The Pentagon to interview Robert Spalding about his book Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept.
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267: Brian Grazer | The Art of Human Connection
Jordan sits down with Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer to discuss curiosity, networking, and his book Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection.
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266: Should I Tell My Friend He's a Horrible Person? | Feedback Friday
You're wondering, "Should I tell my friend he's a horrible person?" On this Feedback Friday, we'll try to help you make the right decision!
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265: Moran Cerf | Hacking into Our Thoughts and Dreams
Jordan's mind is blown by Moran Cerf, a neuroscientist striving to understand the underlying mechanisms of human psychology, behavior changes, emotion, decision making, and dreams.
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264: Mike Rowe | The Way I Heard It
Jordan has a first-take chat with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs, Somebody's Gotta Do It, The Way I Heard It Podcast, and Returning the Favor. His new book, The Way I Heard It, is out now.
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263: How Can I Win Back My Spouse's Respect? | Feedback Friday
If your spouse has zero respect for you, how can you win back your spouse's respect? We'll try to answer this and much more on the latest Feedback Friday!
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262: Tip "T.I." Harris | ExpediTIously Expressive
Jordan interviews T.I., award-winning rapper, actor, entrepreneur, family man, philanthropist, author, activist, and host of expediTIously on PodcastOne.
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261: Mubin Shaikh | Up Close with an Undercover Jihadi
Mubin Shaikh is a former Islamic extremist who became an undercover counter-terrorism operative instrumental in exposing a plot to hold Canada's Parliament hostage and behead the Prime Minister. He is the co-author of Undercover Jihadi: Inside the To
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260: How to Quit Your Prostitute Problem | Feedback Friday
When your proclivity for prostitutes is a problem, perhaps this Feedback Friday can help put this pricey, precarious, and pointless pursuit out to pasture?
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259: Jolene Brighten | Finding Balance Beyond the Pill
Jordan interviews Dr. Jolene Brighten about her book Beyond the Pill: A 30-Day Program to Balance Your Hormones, Reclaim Your Body, and Reverse the Dangerous Side Effects of the Birth Control Pill.
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258: Dennis Rodman | The Worm Is Back
Dennis Rodman (aka The Worm) is one of the greatest rebounders ever to play professional basketball, with five NBA championships under his belt. He's arguably just as well-known for his off-court antics, and his resume includes stints as an author, a
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257: Overcoming Accidental Accomplice to Fraud | Feedback Friday
Overcoming accidental accomplice to fraud is a tall order, but not impossible. What can you do? We'll answer this and more on this Feedback Friday!
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256: Malcolm Gladwell | What We Should Know about Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell joins us to explain why the tools we use when we talk to our friends betray us when we talk to strangers -- and what we can do about it.
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255: Tommy Caldwell | The Push for the Path Upwards
Tommy Caldwell has been called "arguably the best all-around rock climber on the planet" by National Geographic, and is the author of The Push: A Climber's Search for the Path.
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254: Is Exposing a Cheater the Right Thing to Do? | Feedback Friday
Is exposing a cheater the right thing to do even if it may ruin a friendship? We'll dig into this and more right here on Feedback Friday!
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253: Jamie Metzl | Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
Hacking Darwin author Jamie Metzl joins us for this look into how genetic engineering will shape the future and redefine what it means to be human.
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252: Chase Jarvis | Cultivating Your Creative Calling
Chase Jarvis joins us to talk about his book Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life.
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251: Help! I Have Two Years Left to Live. | Feedback Friday
The doctor says you have two years left to live. How do you make the most of the time you have left? We'll try to wrap our heads around this heavy question and much more on the latest Feedback Friday.
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250: Nir Eyal | Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Jordan interviews Nir Eyal, author of Indistractable, about how to get the best of technology without letting it get the best of us.
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249: Kobe Bryant | Dissecting the Mamba Mentality
NBA legend Kobe Bryant brings his famous tenacity to Granity Studios, a multimedia company devoted to creating new ways to tell stories around sports. His latest project is Legacy and the Queen with Annie Matthew.
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248: How to Navigate Around a Hostile Coworker | Feedback Friday
A hostile coworker undermines you before management at every opportunity. We'll show you how to navigate around a hostile coworker on this Feedback Friday!
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247: Chris Bailey | Hyperfocus Secrets for Better Productivity
Chris Bailey is a productivity expert, host of the Becoming Better Podcast, and the bestselling author of two books about productivity: Hyperfocus, and The Productivity Project. In the time it's taken you to read this, he's probably written another.
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246: Wendy Behary | Disarming the Narcissist
How do you identify a real narcissist? Jordan interviews Wendy Behary, author of Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed.
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245: Is Your Boyfriend Cheating on You with Porn? | Feedback Friday
Is your significant other cheating on you with porn? This Feedback Friday, we'll see if we can gain some perspective that's fair to both parties!
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244: Rob Reid | Synthetic Biology for Medicine and Murder
Jordan interviews Rob Reid about the potential for synthetic biology to be leveraged for the good of humanity or its very extinction.
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243: Mark Geragos | How Celebrities Stay out of Jail
Jordan interviews Mark Geragos, a criminal defense lawyer who has represented high-profile clients like Michael Jackson, Winona Ryder, Gary Condit, Susan McDougal, Chris Brown, and Scott Peterson.
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242: How to Make Your Mark on the World at 50 | Feedback Friday
You've made it to 50 and you're afraid you haven't done enough to make your mark on the world, so we'll help you figure out how on this Feedback Friday!
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241: Scott Young | Ultralearning Your Way To Skill Mastery
Jordan picks up a slew of new tools from Scott Young, author of Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career.
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240: Richard Clarke | Defending Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
Jordan interviews national security insider Richard Clarke about his latest book, The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats.
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239: How to Ensure Your Authority Is Respected | Feedback Friday
How do you get your boss to clarify your leadership role? On this Feedback Friday, we'll try to show you how to ensure your authority is respected.
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238: Steven Hassan | Combating Cult Mind Control Part Two
Jordan interviews ex-Moonie Steven Hassan, who has been educating the public about mind control, brainwashing, and destructive cults since 1976.
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237: Steven Hassan | Combating Cult Mind Control Part One
Jordan interviews ex-Moonie Steven Hassan, who has been educating the public about mind control, brainwashing, and destructive cults since 1976.
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236: How to Quit Your Dream Job Gracefully | Feedback Friday
Because you're moving out of town to preserve your sanity and you've never left a job -- let alone one you love -- before, we'll try to show you how to quit your dream job gracefully on this Feedback Friday!
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235: David Roeske | The View from the Top Is Breathtaking
Jordan interviews David Roeske, a plant-powered portfolio manager and a serial Mount Everest climber who eschews the assistance of supplemental oxygen.
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234: Seth Godin | Shining in the Light of One-Star Reviews
By popular request, Jordan interviews the one and only Seth Godin in the privacy of his native habitat about wabi-sabi, Miles Davis, feedback, and more!
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233: How to Keep an Abusive Ex out of Your Life | Feedback Friday
What can you do to keep an intrusive, abusive ex out of your life forever? Check out the latest Feedback Friday to hear our take on this and much more!
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232: Daniel Goleman | A Logical Look at Emotional Intelligence
Jordan chats with Daniel Goleman about emotional intelligence, technology's influence on human connection, PTSD, Internet trolls, and more!
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231: Mike Abrashoff | It's Your Ship -- Here's How to Shape It
Jordan interviews Mike Abrashoff, who, as the most junior commanding officer in the Pacific fleet, turned one of its worst-performing ships into its best.
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230: How to Small Talk with Big Results | Feedback Friday
FEW is an acronym for Facts, Emotions, Why -- a foolproof formula for leading small talk that can yield big results. Find out how in this Feedback Friday!
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229: Cameron Herold | Making the Most of Your Bipolar Superpowers
Jordan interviews CEO whisperer Cameron Herold about harnessing ADHD and bipolar disorder as entrepreneurial superpowers and navigating their ups and downs.
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228: Oliver Bullough | Why Thieves and Crooks Rule the World
Oliver Bullough joins Jordan to discuss the global kleptocracy and his book Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back.
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227: How to Communicate with Stinkers and Deadbeats | Feedback Friday
When you've got coworkers who literally stink and deadbeat roommates who won't pay rent, you need to listen to this Feedback Friday!
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226: Justin Paperny | Lessons From Prison
Justin Paperny was a successful stockbroker who made some bad decisions and served 18 months in prison for violating securities laws. Now he helps others prepare for time behind bars and after. He's the author of Lessons From Prison.
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225: Kim Scott | Care Personally, Challenge Directly with Radical Candor
Jordan talks to Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity author Kim Scott about the merits of caring personally and challenging directly.
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224: How to Delete Facebook Without Falling off the Planet | Feedback Friday
Is it possible to delete Facebook without falling off the planet? Jordan and Jason aim to find out here on the latest Feedback Friday!
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223: Bryan Johnson | A Plan for the Future of the Human Race
Bryan Johnson is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and founder and CEO of Kernel, a company developing advanced neural interfaces, and OS Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage science and technology companies.
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222: Matt McCarthy | The Race to Stop a Superbug Epidemic
Jordan interviews Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic author Matt McCarthy about antibiotic resistance, anti-vaxxers, and profit-driven pharmaceuticals.
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221: How to Meet the Parents Without a Meltdown | Feedback Friday
On this Feedback Friday, we offer some tried-and-true advice for how your significant other can meet your parents on an upcoming vacation together without a meltdown.
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220: The Right Way to Cultivate Abundance | Deep Dive
Gabriel Mizrahi joins us for this deep dive into what it takes to cultivate the mindset of abundance that seemingly makes generosity possible, and how to overcome the evolutionary blips in our programming that make it so counterintuitive.
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219: Adam Savage | Every Tool's a Hammer
Adam Savage is a special effects designer, educator, actor, former cohost of MythBusters, current host of Savage Builds (both on Discovery Channel), and author of Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It.
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218: How to Renegotiate with a Bait-and-Switch Employer | Feedback Friday
How do you renegotiate terms when your new employer has axed a policy that was key in your decision to take the job in the first place? We'll tackle this and more on this Feedback Friday!
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217: Matthew Schrier | How to Survive in a Secret Syrian Terrorist Prison
Matt Schrier is an American photographer who survived seven months as an Al-Qaeda captive in Syria before escaping, and the author of The Dawn Prayer: A Memoir.
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216: Chelsea Handler | Life Will Be the Death of Me
Chelsea Handler is a writer, comedian, producer, TV host, activist, and the author of five consecutive New York Times bestsellers -- her latest is Life Will Be the Death of Me...And You Too!
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215: How to Invest Wisely and Crush Student Debt | Feedback Friday
There's lots of stuff in this one about investing wisely and eradicating debt -- especially student debt -- thanks to some professional help from our all-star, money-ninja accountant Matt Rzepka, along with the usual questions about everything else w
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214: Gabriel Weinberg | How Mental Models Boost Super Thinking
Gabriel Weinberg is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, founder of privacy-protecting search engine DuckDuckGo, and coauthor of Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models.
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213: LeVar Burton | Storytelling the Enemies of Education Off
LeVar Burton is an award-winning actor famous for iconic roles from Kunta Kinte in Roots to Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the host of long-running PBS series Reading Rainbow and the LeVar Burton Reads podcast.
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212: How to Live with Unwashed Loved Ones | Feedback Friday
Are you a germaphobe if it creeps you out when your spouse and in-laws don't wash their hands after using the bathroom, or is your disgust actually reasonable and justified? If getting divorced and burning down the house aren't options, we'll tell yo
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211: Arthur Brooks | How Loving Your Enemies Can Save America
Arthur Brooks is a social scientist, Washington Post columnist, president of the American Enterprise Institute, and author of Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt.
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210: Howie Mandel | A Conversation About Mental Health, Talent, and Perseverance
Howie Mandel is a comedian, actor, host of Deal or No Deal, judge on NBC’s America's Got Talent, and coauthor of Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me.
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209: How to Trick Your Teenager into Following Good Advice | Feedback Friday
Why are teenagers so stubbornly opposed to parental wisdom? We can't say for sure, but we do have some tricks for making them follow good advice against their own bratty proclivities on this Feedback Friday!
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208: Reid Hoffman | Mastering Your Scale for the Unexpected Part Two
Reid Hoffman is a cofounder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock Partners, host of the podcast Masters of Scale, and coauthor of Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies and The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future,
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207: Reid Hoffman | Mastering Your Scale for the Unexpected Part One
Reid Hoffman is a cofounder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock Partners, host of the podcast Masters of Scale, and coauthor of Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies.
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206: How to Disappear from an Unstoppable Stalker | Feedback Friday
In this Feedback Friday, we'll try to show you how to disappear from an unstoppable stalker without escalating an already bad situation.
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205: What to Do When Your Purpose Starts to Suck | Deep Dive
Gabriel Mizrahi joins us for this deep dive into how even the most driving purpose can wear you down, why meaning doesn't always align with happiness, and what you can do to recalibrate your purpose when you're discouraged by the obstacles you face i
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204: Scott Galloway | Solving the Algebra of Happiness
Scott Galloway cohosts Pivot with Kara Swisher, publishes the No Mercy/No Malice newsletter, is a professor at NYU Stern School of Business, and is the author of The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning.
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203: How to Be a Good Mentor | Feedback Friday
Knowing how to find a mentor is something we've covered in depth on this show, but what advice do we have for those of you who are answering the call and want to know how to be a good mentor? In this Feedback Friday, we'll try to give this excellent
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202: Shane Snow | Cognitive Self-Defense Against Intellectual Dishonesty
Shane Snow is an award-winning entrepreneur and journalist, author of Dream Teams and Smartcuts, and the blogger who wrote How to Debate and Make Progress by Curbing Intellectual Dishonesty.
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201: Eric Schmidt | How a Coach Can Bring out the Best in You
Eric Schmidt is Technical Advisor and Board Member to Alphabet Inc., former Google CEO, and co-author of Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell.
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200: How to Deal with Retroactive Jealousy | Feedback Friday
You're having issues with retroactive jealousy regarding your significant other's past. In this Feedback Friday, we'll try to lend a helping hand!
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199: Ramit Sethi | I Will Teach You to Be Rich
Ramit Sethi is the author of I Will Teach You to Be Rich, now in its second edition with over 80 pages of new material, new insights, and new tools for mastering money and living your rich life.
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198: Mark Manson | Channeling Hope, Choosing Problems, and Changing Values
Mark Manson is a blogger, entrepreneur, and author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life and his latest, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope.
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197: How to Stop Fearing Entrepreneurial Risks | Feedback Friday
Many people don't pursue their true creative, entrepreneurial, career interests because it feels too risky. Vadim and Sergei Revzin from The Mentors Podcast join us to talk about how you can intelligently evaluate that risk and confidently make progr
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196: Moby | What to Do When Success Makes You Miserable
Moby is a musician, singer, songwriter, producer, animal rights activist, and author of Then It Fell Apart.
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195: Leon Logothetis | Surviving on the Kindness of Strangers
Leon Logothetis is a global adventurer, motivational speaker and philanthropist, host of Netflix's The Kindness Diaries, and author of Go Be Kind: 28 1/2 Adventures Guaranteed to Make You Happier.
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194: How to Be the Best Podcast Guest in the West | Feedback Friday
Being a podcast host has its own set of dos and don'ts, but what does it take to be the best podcast guest in the west -- and east and all points in between? We've recruited our friend Bobbi Rebell of The Financial Grownup Podcast to give us the skin
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193: Mimi Ikonn | What the Life of an Influencer Is Really Like
Mimi Ikonn is a serial entrepreneur best known for Luxy Hair and Intelligent Change, a YouTube influencer with 2.8+ million subscribers, and the author of The Bingo Theory: A Revolutionary Guide to Love, Life, and Relationships.
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192: Rick Hanson | The Science of Hardwiring Happiness and Resilience
Rick Hanson is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, co-host of The Being Well Podcast, author of Hardwiring Happiness, and co-author of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happi
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191: How To Deal With a Friend Who Dominates Conversations | Feedback Friday
Outing a psycho ex who once violently assaulted you might seem like a mission of personal vindication that you'd like to feel is beneath you. But what if you've recently encountered them working in close proximity with people you care about? Is it yo
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190: Guy Kawasaki | Life Lessons from a Wise Guy
Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, was once the chief evangelist for Apple, and is the author of many paperbound books -- his latest is Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life.
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189: Humble The Poet | 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life
Humble The Poet -- aka Kanwer Singh -- is a rapper, spoken-word artist, poet, and author of Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life.
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188: How to Get out of Credit Card Debt | Feedback Friday
Ever wondered how to get out of credit card debt? Ramit Sethi helps show you how get out of credit card debt more easily than you probably think possible.
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187: Hal Elrod | Fulfill Your Goals with The Miracle Equation
Hal Elrod has overcome two near-death experiences, is the bestselling author of The Miracle Morning, and his latest book, The Miracle Equation: The Two Decisions That Move Your Biggest Goals from Possible, to Probable, to Inevitable, is out now.
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186: David Smalley | Why You Should Challenge Your Beliefs
David Smalley is an actor, comedian, and host of the Dogma Debate podcast, in which he -- as an atheist -- regularly discusses religion and politics with preachers, pastors, comedians, and people who hold different world views.
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185: How to Get Hired Like a Boss | Feedback Friday
Ever wondered how to get hired like a boss? Ramit Sethi of I Will Teach You to Be Rich joins us for this Feedback Friday to illustrate something called The Briefcase Technique, which you can use to powerfully demonstrate value to connections in your
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184: Naveen Jain | How Moonshot Thinking Will Save the World
Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur driven to solve global grand challenges through innovation. He is the co-author of Moonshots: Creating a World of Abundance.
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183: Lisa Lampanelli | Changing Careers at the Top of Your Game
Lisa Lampanelli recently lost 100 pounds, retired from a Grammy-nominated career in comedy that spanned three decades, and is now a life coach who runs transformational food and body-image workshops and performs issue-oriented storytelling shows.
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182: How to Overcome Your Fear of Driving | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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181: How to Stop Blaming Other People | Deep Dive
Gabriel Mizrahi joins us for this deep dive into why the impulse for blaming other people is a phenomenon familiar to most of us, and how we can curb it in ourselves without defaulting to always taking the fall when it's undeserved.
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180: Zvi Band | Success Is in Your Sphere
Zvi Band is the founder and CEO of Contactually, and author of the upcoming Success Is in Your Sphere: Leverage the Power of Relationships to Achieve Your Business Goals.
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179: How to Really Help a Hoarder | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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178: Michelle Tillis Lederman | Why Relationships Are Our Greatest Assets
Michelle Tillis Lederman is a former finance executive, NYU professor, and author of The 11 Laws of Likability and The Connector's Advantage: 7 Mindsets to Grow Your Influence and Impact.
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177: Beau Lotto | Why You See Differently When You Deviate
Beau Lotto is a world-renowned neuroscientist who specializes in the biology and psychology of perception. He is the author of Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently.
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176: How to Cope with the Burden of Being the Ugly Friend | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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175: Brian Scudamore | How Failure Can Be Your Key to Success
Brian Scudamore pioneered the industry of professional junk removal with 1-800-GOT-JUNK? at age 18, scaled that success into three more home-service brands, and is the author of WTF?! (Willing to Fail): How Failure Can Be Your Key to Success.
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174: A.J. Jacobs | Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey
A.J. Jacobs is a journalist, lecturer, human guinea pig, and best-selling author; his latest book is Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey.
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173: How to Make Life Purposeful for the Terminally Ill | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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172: Clint Watts | Surviving in a World of Fake News
Clint Watts is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Center For Cyber and Homeland Security at The George Washington University, and author of Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hac
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171: Charlamagne Tha God | Turning the Tables on Fear and Anxiety
Charlamagne Tha God cohosts The Breakfast Club and The Brilliant Idiots, and is the author of Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me.
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170: How to Ask Questions Like an Award-Winning Podcaster | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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169: Nathan Latka | How to Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital
Nathan Latka is the principal of private equity firm Latka Capital; executive producer and host of The Top Entrepreneurs Podcast, and author of How to Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital: The Four Rules You Must Break To Get Rich.
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168: Mike Posner | 31 Minutes to the Other Side of Fame
Mike Posner is a musician, poet, record producer, and singer-songwriter responsible for hits like Cooler Than Me and I Took a Pill in Ibiza.
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167: How to Deal with Jerks on a Plane | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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166: Kevin Barrows | Think Like an FBI Interrogator
Kevin Barrows is a former FBI special agent who now conducts traditional corporate fraud investigations, reputation risk and due diligence efforts, and supervises computer forensic and computer crime assignments for Renaissance Associates.
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165: Chris Voss | Negotiate as If Your Life Depended on It
Chris Voss retired as the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the FBI, is CEO of the Black Swan Group, and is the author of the national bestseller Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depended on It.
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164: How to Rescue Your Loved One From an MLM Scam | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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163: Todd Herman | The Alter Ego Effect
Todd Herman is an entrepreneur, coach, mentor, and author of The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life.
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162: Cesar Millan | Seeing the World from a Dog Whisperer's Perspective
Cesar Millan is the internationally renowned master dog trainer known best as the Dog Whisperer, founder of the Dog Psychology Center, and best-selling author of Lessons From the Pack: Stories of the Dogs Who Changed My Life.
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161: How to Support a Friend Suffering from Addiction | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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160: Why Does Self-Help Make You Feel Terrible? | Deep Dive
Gabriel Mizrahi joins us for this deep dive into why a lot of self-help makes you feel miserable by design and what you can do to improve yourself without being suckered by hucksters or succumbing to an existential meltdown.
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159: Cal Newport | Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Cal Newport researches cutting-edge technology and writes about the impact of these innovations on society. He is the author of Deep Work, So Good They Can't Ignore You, and Digital Minimalism.
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158: How to Save Someone from a Self-Help Cult | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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157: John Ruhlin | Ways to Give Gifts That Make a Big Difference
John Ruhlin is the world's leading authority in maximizing customer loyalty through radical generosity. He is author of Giftology: The Art and Science of Using Gifts to Cut Through the Noise, Increase Referrals, and Strengthen Retention.
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156: Jaron Lanier | Why You Should Unplug from Social Media for Good
Jaron Lanier is an early Internet pioneer, computer scientist, visual artist, musician, and author of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.
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155: How to Work with People You Don’t Like or Respect | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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154: Brian Rose | An Honest Look in the Real View Mirror
Brian Rose is the Founder and Host of London Real, a live video talk show that introduces you to the most fascinating people in the world.
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153: Adam Grant | How to Know the Real You Better
Adam Grant has been Wharton's top-rated professor for seven years, is the host of podcast WorkLife with Adam Grant, and is the author of three New York Times Best Sellers: Option B (with Sheryl Sandberg), Originals, and Give and Take.
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152: How to Cope with a Schizophrenic Neighbor | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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151: Dave Asprey | Biohacking the Way to a Bulletproof Life
Dave Asprey is a self-described biohacker, CEO and founder of Bulletproof 360, Inc., host of the Bulletproof Radio podcast, and author of Game Changers, Head Strong, and The Bulletproof Diet.
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150: Derren Brown | Using the Power of Suggestion for Good
Derren Brown is a mentalist, illusionist, magician, artist, photographer, collector of curiosities, and author.
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149: How to Find Balance with so Many Irons in the Fire | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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148: Erik Aude | Imprisoned in Pakistan for a Crime He Didn't Commit Part Two
Erik Aude is an actor, stuntman, professional poker player, and the subject of 3 Years in Pakistan: The Erik Aude Story. This is part two of a two-part episode.
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147: Erik Aude | Imprisoned in Pakistan for a Crime He Didn't Commit Part One
Erik Aude is an actor, stuntman, professional poker player, and the subject of 3 Years in Pakistan: The Erik Aude Story. This is part one of a two-part episode.
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146: How to Make Introductions Without Getting Burned | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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145: Philip McKernan | Why Your Truth Matters and How to Speak It
Philip McKernan is a speaker, filmmaker, and author of One Last Talk: Why Your Truth Matters and How to Speak It and Rich On Paper Poor On Life: 3 Paths To More Meaning (And Money).
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144: Shawn Achor | Why Success and Happiness Aren't Mutually Exclusive
Shawn Achor is one of the world's leading experts on the connection between happiness and success, and is the author of Big Potential, The Happiness Advantage, and Before Happiness.
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143: How to Learn a New Language and Make It Stick | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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142: Jon Taffer | Raising Your Bar and Crushing All Excuses
Jon Taffer is the host of acclaimed reality show Bar Rescue, host of the No Excuses podcast, and author of Don't Bullsh*t Yourself!: Crush the Excuses That Are Holding You Back.
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141: Jason Khalipa | Going from Zero to Hero in the New Year
Jason Khalipa is a CrossFit Games world champion, the founder of NCFIT, and author of As Many Reps As Possible.
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140: How to Warm up Cold Cliques | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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139: Kai-Fu Lee | AI Superpowers and the Future of Humanity
Kai-Fu Lee is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and author of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order.
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138: Forget Finding Your Purpose — Do This Instead | Deep Dive
Gabriel Mizrahi joins us to deep dive into the elusive subject of purpose -- why you’re not finding it as easily as the so-called experts say you should be, and why you should be following meaning to purpose instead of picking a purpose and hoping it
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137: How to Cope with Remorseful Flirtation | Feedback Friday
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136: Spencer Greenberg | Cultivating Clearer Thinking for Cloudy Times
Spencer Greenberg is a mathematician, entrepreneur, and founder of Clearer Thinking, a website that trains people to overcome their own biases and make better decisions rationally.
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135: Joe Navarro | How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People
Joe Navarro is a retired FBI agent, one of the world's leading experts on nonverbal communication, and author of Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People.
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134: How to Create Meaningful Conversations from Scratch | Feedback Friday
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133: Tom Bilyeu | The Secret to Making Powerful Friends
Tom Bilyeu interviewed Jordan on his Impact Theory Podcast earlier this year, and the episode was so well-received that Tom has been kind enough to let us share it here with you!
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132: Andy Molinsky | How to Extend the Reach of Rapport Across Cultures
Andy Molinsky is a professor of organizational behavior and psychology at Brandeis University’s International Business School and author of Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Your Behavior Across Cultures without Losing Yourself in the Process.
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131: How to Know When It’s Time to Start a Side Hustle | Feedback Friday
Entrepreneur on Fire John Lee Dumas joins Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo on this week's Feedback Friday!
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130: Srini Rao | Why You Should Reclaim Your Own Creativity
Srini Rao is the host and founder of the Unmistakable Creative podcast and author of An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake.
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129: Chris Pfaff | The Drama Behind the Young and Reckless
Chris "Drama" Pfaff is a former reality TV personality, host of the Short Story Long Podcast, and founder of streetwear clothing line Young and Reckless.
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128: How to Be a Trustee for the Untrustworthy | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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127: How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome | Deep Dive
Gabriel Mizrahi joins us for this deep dive into identifying and overcoming imposter syndrome -- the sinking feeling that your accolades are unearned, your successes are undeserved, and you'll be discovered for the fraud you (think you) are at any mo
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126: Matthew Walker | Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Dr. Matthew Walker is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California in Berkeley, founder and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science, and author of Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams.
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125: How to Cure PLOM (Poor Little Old Me) Disease | Feedback Friday
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124: Kristen Carney | Why Depression Isn't Just Your Own Battle
Kristen Carney is a comedian, writer, host of the Mentally Ch(ill) and Ask Women podcasts, and someone who publicly copes with -- as many silently do -- depression.
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123: David Buss | Troubleshooting Strategies from the Evolution of Desire
David Buss is considered the world's leading scientific expert on the evolutionary psychology of human mating strategies. He is the author of several books on the subject, most recently The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating.
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122: How to Be a Sustainable Digital Nomad | Feedback Friday
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121: Freeway Rick Ross | Life in the Crack Lane
Freeway Rick Ross managed a billion-dollar drug empire in the age of Iran-Contra, now helps rebuild at-risk communities, and is featured in the Emmy-nominated documentary Freeway: Crack in the System.
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120: Molly Bloom | The One Who Makes the Rules Wins the Game
Molly Bloom is an entrepreneur, speaker, and author of Molly's Game: The True Story of the 26-Year-Old Woman Behind the Most Exclusive, High-Stakes Underground Poker Game in the World.
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119: How to Introduce Yourself to the New Neighbors | Feedback Friday
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118: Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova | How to Read and Riot
Nadya Tolokonnikova is one of feminist art punk collective Pussy Riot's most visible members, and she's the author of Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism.
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117: Robert Greene | Discovering The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene is the author of five New York Times Best Sellers. His highly anticipated sixth book, The Laws of Human Nature, is out now.
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116: How to Avoid Dining on a Side of Self-Delusion | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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115: Michael Scott Moore | What It's Really like to Be a Pirate Hostage
Michael Scott Moore is a literary journalist and novelist who wrote about being held hostage by Somali pirates in his latest book, The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast.
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114: Michael McFaul | What It's Like to Stand Up to Putin
Michael McFaul is a former US ambassador to Russia, a professor of political science at Stanford University, and author of New York Times Best Seller From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia.
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113: How to Be Taken Seriously as a Young Boss | Feedback Friday
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112: Nilofer Merchant | Make a Difference from Anywhere in the Hierarchy
Nilofer Merchant is one of the world's top-ranked business thinkers, an innovation expert, and the author of The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World.
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111: General Stanley McChrystal | Deconstructing Myths of Great Leadership
General Stanley McChrystal is a retired four-star general, founder of McChrystal Group, and co-author of Leaders: Myth and Reality.
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110: Stop Financially Supporting Deadbeat Friends | Feedback Friday
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109: The Five Keys to Being Unforgettable | Deep Dive
Gabriel Mizrahi joins us for this deep dive into the five keys to being unforgettable — what makes you memorable, common pitfalls that may make you unforgettable for all the wrong reasons, and what you can do to maximize the chance that you’ll be unf
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108: James Clear | Forming Atomic Habits for Astronomic Results
James Clear believes that you do not rise to the level of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems. He is the creator of the Habits Academy and author of Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones.
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107: Stop Your Family from Believing Everything on the Internet | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!
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106: Scott Harrison | How to Quench the World's Thirst with Charity
Scott Harrison pivoted from hard-partying club promoter to life-saving charity founder. His first book, Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World, is out now.
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105: Jennifer Dulski | Improving the World with Purposeful Possibilities
Jennifer Dulski is the Head of Groups and Community at Facebook, former COO of Change.org, and author of Purposeful: Are You a Manager or a Movement Starter?
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104: How to Invite Criticism without Hating Yourself | Feedback Friday
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103: Coss Marte | Staying Out of Prison with Muscle and Conviction
Coss Marte is the founder and CEO of ConBody, a NYC-based fitness studio that hires formerly incarcerated individuals to teach fitness classes, and author of ConBody: The Revolutionary Bodyweight Prison Boot Camp, Born from an Extraordinary Story of
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102: Chase Hughes | Why Authority Is More Influential Than Skill
Chase Hughes is the top behavior profiler in the United States and author of The Ellipsis Manual: Analysis and Engineering of Human Behavior.
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101: How to Stop Your Friend from Texting and Driving | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday!
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100: Jason Calacanis | Advice from the Most Successful Angel Investor
Jason Calacanis is Silicon Valley royalty, the most successful angel investor today, and author of Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups -- Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000.
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99: Todd Garner | Getting Big Stuff Done in a Small Talk Town
Todd Garner is a Hollywood veteran who has overseen 170 films (and counting) -- including Anger Management, xXx, 13 Going on 30, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Black Hawk Down, Punch Drunk Love, Con Air, and Hellboy. He also hosts The Producer's Guide on Podc
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98: How to Make Sure You’re Not That Toxic Person | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter here every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday!
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97: Vince Beiser | Why Sand Is More Important Than You Think It Is
Vince Beiser is an award-winning journalist specializing in social issues, technology, and the places they intersect. His latest book is The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization.
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96: Jane McGonigal | Gaming Your Way to Health and Happiness
Jane McGonigal specializes in designing games that challenge players to tackle real-world problems, and is the bestselling author of Reality is Broken. Her new book is SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver, and Mo
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95: How to Break Free from Covert Narcissists | Feedback Friday
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94: This Is the Vulnerable Truth about Vulnerability | Deep Dive
Gabriel Mizrahi joins us for this deep dive into vulnerability -- what it really is, why it can't be faked, and how to spot it in ourselves and others to make real connections while avoiding manipulation by those who don't always have our best intere
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93: Jocko Willink | Leading on the Line Between Extreme and Reckless
Jocko Willink rejoins us to discuss his latest book, The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win.
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92: How to Find a Mentor with the Generosity Principle | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday!
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91: Isaiah Hankel | The Smart Way to Focus and Grow Successful
Isaiah Hankel is an expert on mental focus, behavioral psychology, and career development. His new book is The Science of Intelligent Achievement: How Smart People Focus, Create, and Grow Their Way to Success.
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90: Jonathan Haidt | The Danger of Good Intentions and Safe Spaces
Jonathan Haidt is considered one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of morality. He is the co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
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89: How to Get a Raise at Your Dream Job | Feedback Friday
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88: Charles Ryu | Confessions of a North Korean Escape Artist Part Two
This is part two of our interview with Charles Ryu, who escaped from North Korea twice and now works with Liberty in North Korea to fight for the rights and freedom of those who have been left behind.
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87: General Michael Hayden | National Security in an Age of Lies
General Michael Hayden (@GenMhayden) is a retired United States Air Force general, former Director of the CIA and NSA, and author of The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies.
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86: How to Handle an Accident in a Rental Car | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday! Corbin Payne makes a cameo appearance in this one to help us cope with a bit of a legal pickle.
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85: Jim Kwik | How to Unlock Your Brain's Secret Superpowers
Jim Kwik is the CEO of Kwik Learning with 22 years of experience teaching speed-reading, memory improvement, and optimal brain performance to top politicians, actors, CEOs, industry shakers, and world leaders.
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84: Charles Ryu | Confessions of a North Korean Escape Artist Part One
Charles Ryu escaped from North Korea -- twice -- and now works with Liberty in North Korea to fight for the rights and freedom of those who have been left behind.
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83: Why Different Is Superior to Better | Feedback Friday
Jordan is joined by Christopher Lochhead for this round of Feedback Friday!
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82: Vanessa Van Edwards | Pumping up the Volume of Nonverbal Communication
Vanessa Van Edwards rejoins us to further discuss components of nonverbal communication. She is the lead investigator at human behavior research lab Science of People and author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People.
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81: Michael Pollan | A Renaissance in the Forbidden Science of Psychedelics
Michael Pollan is a writing professor, a longtime contributor to the New York Times Magazine, and author of many best-selling books -- his latest is How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying,
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80: How to Befriend Celebrities Without Being Awkward | Feedback Friday
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79: Carter Thomas | Top Cryptocurrency Tips for New Kids on the Blockchain
Carter Thomas started as a marketer and strategist in the mobile app space, publishing over 1,500 apps on multiple platforms that have generated 18M+ downloads. Now he educates the curious about cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies via videos a
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78: Cathy Heller | Being Creative in Spite of Your Day Job
Cathy Heller is a DIY musician, licensing guru, and creator and host of popular podcast Don't Keep Your Day Job, on a mission to offer real tools and insight to help others find a sense of purpose and newfound fulfillment in their work.
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Bonus: Dr. Dale Bredesen | How to Make Alzheimer's Just a Bad Memory
Dr. Dale Bredesen is an internationally recognized expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative disorders and is the author of The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline.
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77: Feedback Friday | How to Build Good Financial Habits from the Ground Up
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday!
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76: Alex Kouts | The Secrets You Don't Know About Negotiation Part Three
Alex Kouts is a teacher, adventure technologist, Chief Product Officer of Countable, and -- as you'll soon discover -- quite savvy in negotiation. This is part three of a three-part series. Make sure to check out parts one and two!
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75: Barbara Boxer | The Thrill of the Fight Back
Barbara Boxer served as a US Senator for California from 1993 to 2017 and in the US House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993. She is the co-host (with Nicole Boxer) of podcast Fight Back, and author of The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics a
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74: Feedback Friday | How to Land Your Dream Job in the 21st Century
Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Jason DeFillippo (@jpdef) banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday! ZipRecruiter co-founder and CEO Ian Siegel (@ZipRecruiterCEO) joins us for a brief bonus toward the end of t
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73: Alex Kouts | The Secrets You Don't Know About Negotiation Part Two
Alex Kouts is a teacher, adventure technologist, Chief Product Officer of Countable, and -- as you'll soon discover -- quite savvy in negotiation. This is part two of a multi-part series.
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72: Dr. Drew Pinsky | Give the World the Best You Have Anyway
Dr. Drew Pinsky is a celebrity doctor who has been hosting shows -- from radio to television to podcasts -- for more than 30 years, most well-known for Loveline from 1984 to 2016. His current hosting duties include The Dr. Drew Podcast and The Adam a
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71: How to Be an Introvert in an Extrovert’s World | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday!
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70: Alex Kouts | The Secrets You Don't Know About Negotiation Part One
Alex Kouts is a teacher, adventure technologist, Chief Product Officer of Countable, and -- as you'll soon discover -- quite savvy in negotiation.
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69: Adam Carolla | Why You Should Stop Trading Time for Money
Adam Carolla is a best-selling author, comedian, actor, and host of The Adam Carolla Show -- the Guinness World Record holder for Most Downloaded Podcast.
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68: When Is the Perfect Time to Have Kids? | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo are back to banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday on The Jordan Harbinger Show!
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67: Allen Gannett | You Don't Have to Be a Genius to Be Creative
Allen Gannett is the founder and CEO of TrackMaven, a placeholder on the 30 under 30 lists for both Forbes and Inc., and the author of The Creative Curve: How To Develop The Right Idea, At The Right Time.
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66: Guy Winch | How to Fix a Broken Heart
Guy Winch is a licensed psychologist, leading advocate for integrating the science of emotional health into our daily lives, workplaces, and education systems, and author of How to Fix a Broken Heart.
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65: How to Get out of an Abusive Relationship | Feedback Friday
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64: Sean Young | Changing Your Life for Good with SCIENCE
Sean Young is the Executive Director of the University of California Institute for Prediction Technology and the author of Stick with It: A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing Your Life -- for Good.
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63: Daniel Pink | When Is the Best Time to Get Things Done?
Daniel Pink is the author of New York Times Best Seller When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, which examines the psychology, biology, and economics behind scheduling for optimal effect -- and why your ideal time to get something done may wi
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62: How to Get over Your Significant Other’s Colorful Dating History | Feedback Friday
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61: Shaun T | 7 Transformational Principles for Living the Best Life
Shaun T has become one of the most recognizable fitness trainers in the world while running programs like Hip Hop Abs, Insanity, and Shaun Week. He's also the author of T Is for Transformation: Unleash the 7 Superpowers to Help You Dig Deeper, Feel S
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60: Todd Kashdan | The Bright Truth about Your Dark Side
Todd Kashdan is a Professor of Psychology and Senior Scientist at the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being at George Mason University and co-author of The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self -- Not Just Your "Good" Self -- Drives
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59: How to Make It Clear You Just Want to Be Friends | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo are joined by The Ask Women Podcast's Marni Kinrys for this round of Feedback Friday!
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58: Jason Flom | Why Criminal Justice Reform Matters to the Innocent
Jason Flom is the founder and CEO of Lava Records and host of podcast Wrongful Conviction who champions the underdog and fights for criminal justice reform.
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57: Phil Hellmuth | The Winning Strategies of a Certified Poker Brat
Phil Hellmuth has won the World Series of Poker 14 times, is in the WSOP's Poker Hall of Fame, and is the author of New York Times Best Seller Play Poker Like the Pros and Poker Brat: Phil Hellmuth's Autobiography.
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56: How to Avoid the Psychic Con | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo are back to banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday on The Jordan Harbinger Show!
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55: Mary Lou Jepsen & Rob Reid | The Future of Telepathy and Affordable Healthcare
Mary Lou Jepsen and Rob Reid discuss giant holograms, affordable life-saving medical imaging for all, telepathy, and a future when devices read images directly from our brains.
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54: Barry Katz | How to Make Your Mark in the Funny Business
Barry Katz is a talent manager, producer, and podcaster who has discovered and represented many comedians including Dave Chappelle, Whitney Cummings, Jay Mohr, Bill Burr, Wanda Sykes, Nick Swardson, Tracy Morgan, Darrell Hammond, and Louis C.K. He al
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53: Feedback Friday | How to Stop Being a Victim
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo are joined by "Brutal" Linda Carroll for this round of Feedback Friday!
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52: Cal Fussman | How to Ask Big Questions for Big Answers
Cal Fussman is a writer-at-large for Esquire Magazine known for his interviews with everyone from Mikhail Gorbachev to Muhammad Ali to Jeff Bezos to Barbara Walters to Tom Hanks to Serena Williams. Make sure to check out his weekly podcast: Big Quest
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51: Shane Snow | How to Work Together Without Falling Apart
Shane Snow is an award-winning entrepreneur and journalist, board member of The Hatch Institute, Founder at Large at Contently, and author of Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart.
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50: Feedback Friday | How to Handle Someone with Terrible Manners
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo are joined by Jason Sanderson for this round of Feedback Friday!
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49: Alex Banayan | Why Mentors Are Important and How to Get One
Alex Banayan is the author of The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers, which chronicles his seven-year quest tracking down icons from Bill Gates to Lady Gaga to uncover how they broke th
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48: Nir Eyal | How to Manage Distraction in a Digital Age
Nir Eyal helps teams design more engaging products as demonstrated in his book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, and shows us how we can break away from the distraction of this engagement if it's not serving us.
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47: Feedback Friday | How to Set Boundaries and Stop People Pleasing
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo are back to banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday on The Jordan Harbinger Show!
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46: Fab Morvan | How to Persevere in the Wake of Scandal
Fab Morvan is an inspiringly positive singer and songwriter who, as half of disgraced pop duo Milli Vanilli, understands better than most what it takes to rise above the aftermath of a career-shattering scandal. Also, he hasn't aged in 30 years and m
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45: Ryan Holiday | Solving for What You Really Want from Life
Ryan Holiday is a media strategist, an entrepreneur, and an author who wrote eight books and ghost wrote another six by the time he was 30. His most recent offering is Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue.
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44: Feedback Friday | How to Ease the Pain of Financial Anorexia
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo are joined by Kim Seltzer for this round of Feedback Friday!
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43: George Raveling | Coaching to Win the Championship of Life
Coach George Raveling is a pioneer in transcending the intersections of sports, culture, race, and business. He is also the author of War On The Boards: A Rebounding Manual.
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42: Linda Carroll | What to Do When Good Chemistry Goes Bad
Linda Carroll is a licensed marriage and family therapist, relationship sage, and author of Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love.
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41: How to Charge What You’re Worth | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo are back to banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday on The Jordan Harbinger Show!
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40: Annie Duke | How to Make Decisions Like a Poker Champ
Annie Duke is a World Series poker champion, Ante Up for Africa co-founder, public speaker, and author of Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts.
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39: Ryan Michler | Why Man Is His Own Worst Enemy
Ryan Michler is a husband, father, Iraq combat veteran, founder of Order of Man, and author of Sovereignty: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Men.
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38: The Benefits of Traveling the World Alone | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo are back to banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday on The Jordan Harbinger Show!
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37: Duana Welch | The Science of Jealousy and How to Manage It
Duana Welch is known for applying social science to people's real-life relationship issues at her Love Science blog and in her book Love Factually: 10 Proven Steps from I Wish to I Do.
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36: David Burkus | How to Become a Networking Superconnector
David Burkus is a sought after speaker, business school professor, regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, and author of Friend of a Friend...: Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and Your Career.
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35: Transgender Networking in the Workplace | Feedback Friday
Jordan and Jason are back to banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday on The Jordan Harbinger Show!
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34: Why You Should Be an Amateur | Deep Dive
Gabriel Mizrahi rejoins us to deep dive into why the fresh eyes of an amateur often spot what the professionals miss, and how we can get some of that so-called beginner's luck to rub off on us no matter how experienced we happen to be.
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33: Will Storr | Avoiding Self-Obsession in the Age of the Selfie
Will Storr is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us.
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32: How to Inspire Kids to Excel | Feedback Friday
Jordan and Jason are back to banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday on The Jordan Harbinger Show!
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31: Bob Burg | The Five Secrets of Ultimate Influence
Bob Burg is the co-author of The Go-Giver Influencer: A Little Story About a Most Persuasive Idea, a parable about the power of genuine influence in business and beyond.
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30: Vanessa Van Edwards | How to Captivate with Social Cues
Vanessa Van Edwards is the lead investigator at human behavior research lab Science of People and author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People.
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29: Borrowing and Loaning Money Without Losing Friends | Feedback Friday
Jordan and Jason are back to banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday on The Jordan Harbinger Show!
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28: James Fallon | How to Spot a Psychopath
James Fallon is a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of California, Irvine and author of The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain.
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27: David Eagleman | How Your Brain Makes Sense of the World
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford, host of Emmy-nominated PBS/BBC series The Brain, author and co-author of several books including The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World, and CSO of NeoSensory, a company that specia
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26: Getting Excited without Banking on the Outcome | Feedback Friday
Jordan Harbinger and Jason DeFillippo are back to banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday on The Jordan Harbinger Show!
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25: Joshua Fruth | The War on Money Laundering and Why You Should Care
Joshua Fruth is a military intelligence officer, police captain, financial crime expert, and Director of Anti-Money Laundering Advisory Services at Matrix-IFS who joins us to discuss the war on money laundering and why it matters.
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24: Melissa Dahl | The Not-So-Cringeworthy Truth about Awkwardness
Melissa Dahl is a senior editor covering health and psychology for New York's The Cut. In 2014, she co-founded New York magazine's popular social science site Science of Us. Her first book, Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness, is out now.
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23: The College Guide to Surviving Mean Girls | Feedback Friday
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22: How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Other People | Deep Dive
Gabriel Mizrahi joins us for this deep dive into why we all compare ourselves with other people, the pros and cons that arise from this, and what we can do to filter out the unhealthy comparisons we inevitably make.
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21: Benjamin Hardy | What to Do When Willpower Doesn't Work
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