“Living a Life in Full” is the conversation you always wanted to have with that person who gave an amazing TED talk, or the author of one your favorite books, or that inspirational Olympian you always wanted to know more about. This show is for the intellectually curious. You want to not just know more about the interesting and the innovative, but also what makes them tick, and maybe even what makes them laugh. It’s graduate-level conversations with those making a difference in the world and ...
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A Candid Conversation with the Wildly Courageous Jenny Wood
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1:19:48What if I told you that the traits you need to get ahead are the exact opposite of what you’ve been told most of your life? What if instead, I told you that in order to be successful you need to be Weird, Selfish, Shameless, Obsessed, Nosy, Manipulative, Brutal, Reckless, and Bossy? Well, that’s what former Google leader and top career coach, Jenny…
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Bert terHart’s Knack for Knocking Off the Impossible: The Transformative Power of Doing Hard Things
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1:30:59Imagine logging 50,000 miles of solo sailing adventures, including a non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, and a 7800 km paddling journey across Canada from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Or, maybe you’re more interested in entrepreneurship and making an impact in the lives of others using technology and artificial intelligence? Or, perhaps you hav…
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The Unforgettable Lorraine K. Lee on How to Become the CEO of Your Own Career
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1:26:16Are you an ambitious industrious worker and a high achiever who always delivers, but you feel stuck or unseen, and you struggle to move up in your career? Or maybe it’s your peers who seem to get all the recognition and advance, while you're wondering why you’re being left behind. And that is where Lorraine K. Lee can lend a hand. Lorraine is an aw…
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Dean Karnazes: A Life in (Full) Motion
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1:25:24Dean Karnazes is a force of nature and an inspiration. He’s raced across the globe in support of various causes and modeled unparalleled perseverance and going beyond perceived limitations that serve to unlock an inner strength in others to also attain extraordinary results. He shares real-life examples that explore the topics of dealing with adver…
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Racing for Her Life: The Amazing Story of Ironman World Champion and All-American Sara Fix
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1:12:41Sara Fix is a powerhouse. A mother of three, a small business owner, and a woman who’s navigated life’s highs and lows—all while completing 28 Ironman races across the globe, but her biggest challenge is being diagnosed with stage 4 neuroendocrine cancer, yet, she refuses to let her diagnosis define her. She continues to train, compete, and inspire…
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Daniel Kraft, MD, on Predicting the Future of Technology and Healthcare - and Helping to Create It
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1:12:28Prescription medications are fairly controversial these days – cost, insurance coverage, efficacy, and too often, medications are dosed incorrectly, cause toxic side effects or just don't work. But what if we could change how we prescribe drugs, what if there was a 3D printer that could design pills that adapt to an individual’s needs, and maybe pr…
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Jodi Wellman on How to Live More Fully and Intentionally
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1:28:28How many Mondays do you have left? Statistically, we all get about 4,000 Mondays in our lifetime, so if you're halfway through your life, you might have roughly 2,000 Mondays to go. The good news is that you are in charge of how you spend those days, the question is will you be toiling away at a job that you hate, or will you be creating a career t…
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Drs. Randy Brazie and Geoffrey VanderPal on the New Science of Decision Making
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1:06:44I suspect that there are times you may feel overwhelmed by the sheer number and complexity of nonstop decisions you need to make. To further complicate matters, you may believe that some decisions require rational (brain) decision making, while others call for you to "go with your gut." But what if you could integrate the two - your brain and your …
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Scott Young on Mastering How to Get Better at Anything
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1:29:25Life depends on learning. We spend decades in school acquiring an education. We take pride in mastering a craft, or a sport, or a game. The things we do in our careers or even just for fun are enjoyed to a large extent because we feel we are capable of getting better at them. We yearn for mastery. But learning can be elusive. We may spend hours stu…
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John Marks’ Journey from Provocateur to Peacemaker
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1:06:10It seems that almost everywhere in the world, there is conflict, distrust, and unrest – Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, and even here in the US. Oftentimes, any kind of diplomacy, cooperation, agreement, detente or finding a common ground seems impossible. But what if there was a different way? What if there was an organization that holds as its mission, “to…
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Ben Guttmann on the Power of Simplicity
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1:18:08We are not as smart as we think we are. We're busy and distracted in a world that is incentivized to continually make us more of both. The only things that work, the only messages that cut through the noise, are sharp, clear, and direct. We’ve all been advised to “not judge a book by its cover,” to “not count your chickens before they hatch,” and t…
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Daniel Goleman, PhD, on Emotional Intelligence and Optimal Performance on
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45:01You have likely seen moments of peak performance—perhaps an athlete plays a perfect game or a business that has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. Perhaps you have experienced something similar – playing a musical piece perfectly, making a faultless shot, or perhaps acing a final. But these moments are often elusive, and for every amazing d…
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Topaz Adizes on How a Single Conversation Can Change a Relationship Forever
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1:03:32Have you ever found yourself in the presence of someone you love dearly and had nothing to say? The silence, not indicative of your care for the other, nor of your desire to connect with them, and yet there were no words you could grasp to articulate the depth or quality of your connection to them. Or, have you found yourself in the same looped pat…
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Rob Schwartz on Life's Greatest Lesson
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1:39:14Over 20 million copies of one of the most famous memoirs of all-time, “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson” written by Mitch Albom, have been sold since its 1997 publication, and to this day it remains on many a college’s required reading list. Twenty-eight years after Morrie Schwartz passed away, his son Rob S…
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Alex Tapscott on the Promise of Digital Disruption
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1:28:48When you think of modern technologies that aren’t gadgets and gizmos, you probably think of the Web, and with it, the Internet. If so, you aren’t really thinking of modern technologies. We are entering a new age. We’ve moved from the “Read-only Web,” which had little functionality for interacting with content, to the “Read-Write Web,” which offered…
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Mountaineer, Entrepreneur, Guinness World Record Holder, and Mom: Jenn Drummond on Becoming BreakProof
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1:24:02We all have an Everest. Even if you are not an alpinist or mountaineer, we are all on individual journeys, facing ascents and descents as we strive toward our personal and professional peaks. Whether yours is to achieve a big, audacious goal, or to find a way to coexist better with your mother-in-law, how you navigate the journey is up to you. You …
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Octavia Goredema on Doing Work that Matters
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1:16:02How do you get the job, or position, or career, where the work that you do matters - and not just to your employer - but to you? Few experiences in life are as awful as the feeling of being trapped in the wrong career. But how do you find a job that truly resonates with you? And once you’ve found it, how do you develop the confidence to take the ne…
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Creativity and Innovation in Business and Design: Lance Cayko on (re)Inventing Architecture
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1:11:41At the intersection of architecture is art, creativity, design, engineering, sociology, psychology, and inspiration, not to mention survival, sustainability, and comfort. It’s been said that architecture is the art we live in. We’re all impacted by the communities in which we live, the spaces in which we work, along with the places we visit and exp…
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Eduardo Briceño on the Performance Paradox: When Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect
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1:11:48To succeed in a fast-changing world, individuals and companies know they must create a culture of growth, where experimentation and feedback are encouraged, and learning is integrated into the everyday. Yet we often get stuck in a well-worn pattern of habits that don’t move us forward. Why? How do you get better at something? You do a lot of it. Th…
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The Aesthetic Technologist: Hussain Almossawi on Art, Design and Creativity
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1:14:44How do you become an innovator? What sparks creativity? What goes into creating something that becomes iconic? Instead of predicting the future, what if you could create it? Well, that is pretty much what Hussain Almossawi does. He easily walks between digital and physical worlds as he creates futuristic concepts, experiences and objects. Hussain i…
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Profitability with Social Responsibility: Deb Crowe on a New Approach to Leadership
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1:23:45Leaders come in a variety of types and approaches. There are the proverbial Chainsaw Al’s - those tough-talking executives who are aggressive in their turning around troubled companies by laying off workers and closing factories. There are the Jack Welch types who at first seem like geniuses, but are later found to not have created sustainable chan…
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Valerie Plame’s Modern Odyssey (and Cautionary Tale) of Speaking Truth to Power
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1:05:13On July 6, 2003, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, Robert Novak revealed in his Washington Post column that Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative. It ended her covert career and set off a political scandal that rocked the Bush/Cheney…
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Tina Davidson on Composing a Life in Full (Measure)
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1:19:02“I collaborate with the music.” Composer Tina Davidson explores in her memoir Let Your Heart Be Broken: Life and Music from a Classical Composer, described as “a lyrical reckoning with what it takes to compose a life of cohesion and beauty, out of shattered bits and broken stories.” In Let Your Heart Be Broken, Tina juxtaposes memories, journal ent…
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John Zolidis on Making Better Decisions and Recognizing Flawed Mental Models
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1:33:23Investment research created by large banks, mid-sized banks, and even smaller boutiques is frequently muddled by conflicts of interest, and its value diminished by over-distribution. Analysts often feel pressure to have positive ratings to support bankers or to generate corporate access. And the time horizon of most research is typically very short…
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Michael Bungay Stanier on How to Rescue Difficult Work Relationships and Do Your Best Work
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1:28:20Have you ever had the experience of working with someone and they just didn't “get” you? They do all the things that wind you up, put you off, and drive you nuts. And, have you ever worked with someone, and you just didn't “get” them? You couldn't figure out what made them tick, and you know that you were underwhelming, as a manager and leader for …
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