This week’s conversation is with Herbert Wigwe, a Nigerian banker, entrepreneur, and the Managing Director/CEO of Access Bank. He is an Alumnus of Harvard Business School’s Executive Management Programme. From his early 20’s, Herbert began what would become a successful career in banking and finance, and his first entrepreneurial venture, would be his most successful. In 2002, Herbert and his long-time partner were presented with the prospect of acquiring a small-scale commercial bank, Access Ba...
Jan 09, 2019•1 hr 13 min
This week’s conversation is with Scott Kriens, chairman and former CEO of Juniper Networks. Scott has been in the technology industry for more than 35 years. Holding early roles at Burroughs Corp and Tandem, Scott moved to EVP of Sales and Operations at StrataCom before helping found Juniper Networks in 1996. During his tenure, he served as chairman and CEO, growing the company to more than 10,000 employees in over 100 countries worldwide and $4 billion in revenue, and remains chairman today. In...
Jan 02, 2019•1 hr 37 min
This week’s conversation is with Annabel Anderson, the world #1 female SUP athlete from 2012-2017. Annabel has won the biggest titles in the sport of stand up paddling multiple times – She’s a 5x world champion, has beaten the best men in the sport, and orchestrated the campaign that resulted for equal pay and opportunities for female athletes globally. She is also an elite cyclist & mountain biker, skier, sailor, and surfer. If there was ever anyone who lived up to the moniker of versatile ...
Dec 26, 2018•1 hr 36 min
This week’s conversation is with Brian Mackenzie, an expert in the development and application of custom protocols to optimize human health and performance. His work harnesses and integrates respiratory, movement, strength and endurance-based training approaches to elicit positive results. His protocols have been used to accelerate and raise both mental and physical performance in world-class Olympic and professional athletes, top executives, and elite military operators, as well as to improve t...
Dec 19, 2018•1 hr 24 min
This week’s conversation is with bestselling author, Dr. John Ratey, an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an internationally recognized expert in Neuropsychiatry. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, and 11 books published in 17 languages, including the groundbreaking ADD-ADHD “Driven to Distraction” series with Ned Hallowell. With the publication of "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain," Dr. Ratey has established hims...
Dec 12, 2018•1 hr 45 min
This week’s conversation is with Bobbi Brown, a beauty industry titan, world-renowned makeup artist, best-selling author and serial entrepreneur. As a professional makeup artist, Bobbi created 10 simple lipsticks that evolved into a global beauty empire. At a time when stark contours and shiny red lips were in fashion, Bobbi designed cosmetics to highlight a woman’s natural look, and introduced Bobbi Brown Essentials in 1991. This line of color cosmetics revolutionized the industry. In 1995, Bob...
Dec 05, 2018•53 min
This week’s conversation is with Forrest Griffin, a retired mixed martial artist and a UFC Hall of Famer. A former Georgia Police Officer, Forrest got his shot at UFC Stardom on the first season of the Ultimate Fighter. He won the first season in a fight against Stephan Bonnar that helped put MMA on the map. The Ultimate Fighter Finale was a wild success and brought a lot of new attention to the UFC at a time when the sport was at a make or break point. Forrest went on to become a UFC Light Heav...
Nov 28, 2018•1 hr 37 min
On the 6th episode of "The Process," Alex shares how Mike's interview on the last episode shaped their investment decision and why creating the right culture at a company is vital to its longterm success. Alex and Mike also discuss Kairos' upcoming K50 event and what to look for when assessing if an entrepreneur has the right mindset to go the distance. _________________ Subscribe to our Youtube Channel for more powerful conversations at the intersection of high performance, leadership, and mean...
Nov 23, 2018•47 min
This week’s conversation is with Brendan Kane, a business and digital growth strategist for Fortune 500 corporations, brands, and celebrities. Brendan’s greatest strength is unlocking value. He transforms complexity into simplicity with tools and methods that amplify growth and enable execution. He thrives on helping his clients systematically find and engage new audiences. Brendan's success stories include massive global brands like Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Jason Statham, Katie Couric, MTV, Vice,...
Nov 21, 2018•1 hr 22 min
This week’s conversation is with Marty Callner, an award winning Producer and Director. His diverse resume includes specials starring Chris Rock, The Rolling Stones, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Bette Midler, Jerry Seinfeld, Will Ferrell, Garth Brooks, Diana Ross, Britney Spears, and Robin Williams, to name a few. He is also the creator of the immensely popular and Emmy award winning HBO series, Hard Knocks, which gives viewers a look into the inner workings of NFL training camp....
Nov 14, 2018•1 hr 22 min
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness and her latest book Dare to Lead, which is the culmination of a s...
Nov 07, 2018•57 min
This week’s conversation is with John Brenkus, who has spent the last decade studying and popularizing the unique characteristics of the world’s greatest athletes. A co-founder of BASE Productions, he is best known as the on-air host, co-creator and executive producer of ESPN’s Emmy Award-winning show Sport Science, appearing in and producing over 1500 segments that have been featured on ABC and ESPN's enormous sports platform. John has been featured in coverage of The Super Bowl, Monday Night F...
Oct 31, 2018•1 hr 54 min
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Daniel Chao, co-founder of Halo Neuroscience. Dr. Chao’s whole life has been dedicated to understanding the brain and its function — specifically, how electrical stimulation can help the brain more rapidly improve performance, cognitive function, and overall happiness. As some of you are already probably aware, we recently partnered with Halo Neuroscience because I’m bullish on their technology, Halo Sport , which accelerates movement based learning through t...
Oct 24, 2018•1 hr 5 min
This week’s conversation is with John Donovan, CEO of AT&T Communications. He’s responsible for the bulk of AT&T’s global telecommunications and video services businesses, including AT&T’s Business, Entertainment, and Technology & Operations groups. AT&T is a global leader in telecommunications with 100 million U.S. consumer connections and millions of businesses, from the smallest companies to nearly all of the Fortune 1000. John manages over 250,000 people. Think about that...
Oct 17, 2018•1 hr 29 min
This week’s conversation is with Matt Jacobson, Head of Market Development at Facebook. In this role, he focuses on strategic partnerships that connect people to some of the world's most recognized brands. Facebook may be one of the world’s largest companies today, but it wasn’t when Matt joined as employee number 8 over 13 years ago. He took a leap of faith at the time – he believed in their mission and their founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and began working for no salary, only equity. You could say ...
Oct 10, 2018•1 hr 10 min
This week’s conversation is with Michael Murphy, co-founder and chairman emeritus of the board of the world famous Esalen Institute, tucked away on the coast of Big Sur, in California. Michael and Esalen have been ground zero for the human potential movement: exploring everything from consciousness, Eastern philosophies meeting Western frameworks, the birth place of Gestalt therapy, to generating scores of mind body interventions. In 1950, Michael was a premed student at Stanford and wandered in...
Oct 03, 2018•2 hr 3 min
This week’s conversation is with Javier Gómez, a Spanish triathlete. Since 2006, Javier has accumulated one of the best records in triathlon history. Javier is a 5x International Triathlete Union (ITU) World Champion, 2x Ironman 70.3 World Champion, a 9 time world ITU number 1, and won a Silver medal for Spain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in men's triathlon. Simply put, he is a legend in the sport. Javier is currently in the final stages of training for the Ironman World Championship, which will ...
Sep 26, 2018•54 min
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Mark Goulston, a Board Certified Psychiatrist, a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former UCLA Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. Mark has specialized in psychotherapy for more than thirty years focusing on suicide prevention, death and dying, depression, anxiety, personality disorders, PTSD and marital therapy. After a recent string of high-profile suicides in America, death by suicide is a topic that's on a lot of our minds. Most...
Sep 19, 2018•52 min
This week’s conversation is with Mark Healey, a professional big-wave surfer, award-winning spear-fisherman, free-diver, photographer, filmmaker, and part-time Hollywood stuntman. Mark’s made no shortage of major achievements in his career as a waterman. Earning his first surf sponsorship at age 13 and going pro at 17, the 31-year-old has racked up victories at big-wave events like Todos Santos and—in 2008—nabbed the Spearfishing World Cup. While he’s encountered his share of close calls—from sh...
Sep 12, 2018•1 hr 40 min
After taking a break for summer, “The Process” is back! Alex and Mike discuss the latest with Kairos: how their recent investments have fared and what’s in store for their upcoming K50 event in late November. The K50 program is a global recognition of the 50 most-innovative startups from around the world, with young founders tackling global challenges. Companies are awarded at the top of the World Trade Center in front of 100 of the most influential CEOs, investors, media, and leaders of today. ...
Sep 07, 2018•53 min
This week’s conversation is with Aaron Bruno, best known as the founder and lead singer of AWOLNATION. Formed in 2010, AWOLNATION crafted one of the most influential songs in years with the chart-topping, record-breaking track “ Sail .” The first single off the gold-certified full-length debut Megalithic Symphony , “ Sail ” was certified 6x platinum in the US and holds the record for the most weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart by an independent artist, the second longest for any artist. Sail h...
Sep 05, 2018•1 hr 15 min
This week’s conversation is with Tom Bilyeu, the co-founder of Quest Nutrition — a unicorn startup valued at over $1 billion — and the co-founder and host of Impact Theory. Why did I want to sit down with Tom? Tom is driven to help people develop the skills they need to improve themselves and the world. It’s not every day that we get to learn from someone who created a billion dollar business. I wanted to understand his mindset, his approach to leadership, and what he’s most hungry for. Tom is v...
Aug 29, 2018•1 hr 21 min
This week’s conversation is with Michael Rosenbaum, actor, producer, and comedian. The diverse actor has worked in over twenty films, such as Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2, Hit and Run, Urban Legend, Sweet November, Bringing Down The House, Pool Hall Junkies and Sorority Boys. Michael has worked with everyone from Bradley Cooper and Sylvester Stallone to Christopher Walken and Clint Eastwood. He portrayed Lex Luthor on the smash hit Smallville for seven years and voiced The Flash on the hit a...
Aug 22, 2018•1 hr 44 min
This week's conversation is with Erik Vendt - a 3x USA swimming Olympian. He won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics in the 400-meter individual medley. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Vendt won a gold medal as a member of the U.S. 4×200-meter freestyle relay team. This is a fantastic conversation that shines light on some of the core themes that have emerged from Finding Mastery. Erik grew up loving swimming - so much so that he pushed all his chips in - and was...
Aug 15, 2018•1 hr 9 min
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Marco Cardinale , the Head of Sports Physiology of Aspire Academy in Doha (Qatar). He started his career in sports science as a Strength and Conditioning Coach and went on to lead the sports science activities for the preparation of Team Great Britain at the Beijing, Vancouver and London Olympic Games. He has been an advisor to various companies (e.g. Polar Electro, Medisport and Technogym), government agencies (e.g. the European Space Agency) and professiona...
Aug 08, 2018•1 hr 22 min
This week’s conversation is with Bob Wright, who served as vice chairman of General Electric and president, CEO, and chairman of NBC and NBC Universal from 1986 to 2007. Prior to that, he served as president of General Electric Financial Services and before that as president of Cox Cable Communications. Bob’s had a diversified career in law, general management, marketing, and television and has been inducted into the Advertising, Broadcasting and Cable Halls of Fame. He is also the co-founder of...
Aug 01, 2018•54 min
This week’s conversation is with Rich Froning Jr., dubbed the Fittest Man in History after winning four back-to-back individual CrossFit Games championships (2011-2014). He also won the worldwide Open for three consecutive years (2012-2014), and when he retired from individual competition after the 2014 season, he captained his affiliate’s team, CrossFit Mayhem Freedom, to two back-to-back Affiliate Cup championships in 2015 and 2016. When I mentioned to a couple of my friends that Rich was comi...
Jul 25, 2018•1 hr 11 min
This week’s conversation is with Bob Hurley, founder and chairman of the global apparel brand, Hurley. Something I love about these Finding Mastery conversations is we get to learn from people at all stages, across unique fields of expertise. And in this conversation we get to learn from someone who built a globally recognized brand, which was acquired by Nike in 2002. Bob has made his work his play from the beginning. He started as a surf shop kid in Huntington Beach, shaping surf boards before...
Jul 18, 2018•1 hr 8 min
This week’s conversation is with Andrew Zimmern, a four-time James Beard Award-winning TV personality, chef, writer and teacher. Andrew is regarded as one of the most versatile and knowledgeable personalities in the food world. As the creator, executive producer and host of the Bizarre Foods franchise on Travel Channel, The Zimmern List and Andrew Zimmern’s Driven by Food, he has explored culture through food in more than 170 countries. He has built a multi-faceted empire that promotes impactful...
Jul 11, 2018•1 hr 32 min
This week’s conversation is with Reid Priddy, a 4 time Olympian for the USA Men’s indoor volleyball team, winning Gold in 2008 and Bronze in 2016. Over the past 16 years, Reid has competed at the highest level in indoor volleyball - both on the US National Team as well as on foreign Pro teams in domestic leagues all across the globe. In 2014, Reid suffered a torn ACL during competition, which required double knee surgery. In his late thirties, he defied the odds and worked his way all the way ba...
Jul 04, 2018•1 hr 20 min
