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FOMO Sapiens with Patrick J. McGinnis

Patrick J. McGinniswww.fomosapiens.com
FOMO Sapiens is the podcast for anyone who wants to make smarter decisions, take action, and thrive in an unpredictable world. Hosted by Patrick J. McGinnis—the guy who coined FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)—this show brings you insights from world-class entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders who’ve mastered the art of navigating uncertainty. Each episode is packed with real-world strategies, powerful stories, and actionable advice to help you cut through the noise, take control of your choices, and build a life you actually want—without the fear of missing out. Listen now and start making decisions on your own terms.
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Episodes

3. Chris Hutchins Reveals All the Hacks

Have you been looking for new hacks to optimize your life, work, and travel? This week our guest Chris Hutchins, host of All the Hacks reveals some of his expert financial, travel, and shopping hacks and talks about his own struggles with FOBO and optimization. Patrick and Chris also discuss the ethical line between hacks and deception. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 07, 202136 minSeason 6Ep. 3

FOMOndays: FOMO Venture Capital & Willy Wonka

This is FOMOnday, the snackable companion to FOMO Sapiens that starts your week with hot takes, life hacks, listener mail, and even some FOMO therapy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 04, 202115 min

2. Ian Schrager on Creativity and Disobedience

We’re back for the second half of the season premiere interview with the legendary Ian Schrager, who has been innovating in the hospitality industry since the 1970s. In this episode, Ian talks about his newest hotel projects, EDITION and PUBLIC and Ian shares the secrets of his creative process. Plus, we answer listener-submitted questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 30, 202137 minSeason 6Ep. 2

FOMOndays: How to Escape the Trough

This is FOMOnday, the snackable companion to FOMO Sapiens that starts your week with hot takes, life hacks, listener mail, and even some FOMO therapy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 27, 202115 min

1. How Ian Schrager Generates FOMO

For over 5 decades, since the 70s, Ian Schrager has achieved international recognition for concepts that have revolutionized the entertainment, hospitality, food and beverage, retail and residential industries. Few people, if any, have had the impact on popular culture that Ian Schrager has. He was the creator of Studio 54 and then invented the boutique hotel category. In today’s episode of FOMO Sapiens, Schrager reveals how he continues to create FOMO all these years later. Learn more about you...

Sep 23, 202136 minSeason 6Ep. 1

And We're Back! Here's What's on Tap.

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 20, 202115 min

Best of Female FOMO Sapiens: Ask for More with Alexandra Carter

Professor Alexandra Carter, director of Columbia Law School’s Mediation Clinic, explains how to overcome FOMO when negotiating for work and in everyday life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 09, 202129 minSeason 5Ep. 44

Best of Female FOMO Sapiens: Cathy Heller of Don't Keep Your Day Job

Podcast host, author, and business coach Cathy Heller discusses her own journey from identifying her passions to taking the action to transform those ventures into a successful career change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 02, 202135 minSeason 5Ep. 43

What's Up With the Great Resignation?

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 23, 202114 min

Best Of: How to Make Better Decisions with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin, 5-times New York Times Best-Seller, an award-winning podcaster, and speaker, discusses her latest book, "The Four Tendencies." This episode explores the four personality profiles identified in her book: the upholders, the questionnaires, the obligers, the rebels, and how they respond to their inner and outer expectations. By understanding your profile, you can improve your productivity, your life, and the lives of those around you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

Aug 19, 202134 minSeason 5Ep. 41

Is There a "Perfect" Morning Routines?

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 16, 202113 min

40. Sergey Young on How to Live to 200

The prospect of living to 200 years old isn’t science fiction anymore. Sergey Young, a leader in the emerging field of longevity offers his perspective on what cutting-edge breakthroughs are on the horizon, as well as the practical steps we can take now to live healthily to 100 and beyond. He also demystifies the longevity landscape, cutting through the hype and showing readers what they can do now to live better for longer, and offering a look into the exciting possibilities that await us. By v...

Aug 12, 202137 minSeason 5Ep. 40

Best Of Alex Carter

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Aug 12, 202127 min

Beware FOMO Investing

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 09, 202115 min

39. The Art of Charm on How to Be Social Now

Have you been a little awkward in your first attempts to be social post-vaxx? If you have, don't feel bad. We're all off of our game right now and figuring out what to say, how to safely socialize, and how to regain social momentum is one of the biggest challenges we face right now. But, we called in the perfect guests to help with that problem. In today's episode, AJ Harbinger and Johnny Dzubak from The Art of Charm, share their secrets, backed by science, on how to be social in 2021. Their hit...

Aug 05, 202136 minSeason 5Ep. 39

I Got Hypnotized - Here's What Happened

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 02, 202115 min

38. Hypnosis: The Facts, The Fiction, & The Benefits

What comes to mind when you think of hypnosis? Some poor fool in a spotlight quacking like a duck who will have no memory of it later in the night? Or guided meditation with a specific outcome in mind? Brooklyn-based hypnosis and regression therapist Daniel Ryan explains the stark contrast between meaningful hypnotherapy and flashy stage show hypnotism and how, as the son of a clinical psychologist trained in hypnotism by the US military in the 1950s, he spent a lifetime learning to spot the dif...

Jul 29, 202135 minSeason 5Ep. 38

Listener Mail: Let's Talk Languages & Travel

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 26, 202115 min

37. Rebecca Minkoff & Ali Wyatt’s Female Founder Collective

Rebecca Minkoff built a successful lifestyle brand over two decades but as her success grew as a founder, she noticed more and more the gaps in support and mentorship for female entrepreneurs and the lack of resources available. Determined to make a change, in 2018, Minkoff created the Female Founder Collective and teamed up with Ali Wyatt, a media specialist whose resume boasts such brands as InStyle, The Knot, Refinery29, and even Goop. Together Minkoff and Wyatt struck out to create a communi...

Jul 22, 202132 minSeason 5Ep. 37

My Stress Dream & The Best Way to Intro Yourself

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 20, 202116 min

36. Cultivating Influence with Jon Levy

Behavioral scientist and author of the new book Cultivating Influence Jon Levy explains how one of the most effective strategies for success is making meaningful connections with people who can positively impact you, your life, and the things that mean the most to you. By building deep and meaningful connections based on shared community, interest, or values, you can create an influential network capable of great impact. Jon discusses creating vulnerability loops as an opportunity to build trust...

Jul 15, 202132 minSeason 5Ep. 36

My Life Motto & Listener Mail

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 12, 202115 min

35. Permission to Dream with Chris Gardner

Entrepreneur, public speaker, and best-selling author Chris Gardner discusses his new book Permission to Dream, and how an inspirational declaration from his mother as a small child empowered him to dream, persevere, and eventually succeed to such heights he inspired an award-winning film about his life starring Will Smith. Inspired by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to be the best he could be, Chris shares how his unwavering dedication to dream big paved the way for his hard work to ma...

Jul 08, 202136 minSeason 5Ep. 35

HOORAY! It's Episode 100!

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 05, 202117 min

Best of FOMO Sapiens: How To Preserve and Monetize Community-Driven Free Expression

Reddit COO Jen Wong steers one of the largest social networks on the internet, and the one you probably hear about the least. Despite not being a media darling, Reddit is probably one of the largest, if not the largest, repositories of discussion in the digital world. Reddit cleaves to old-school Internet values of free expression and user anonymity, balanced by the moderated forums that are its backbone- a model that has made it a place for robust engagement for both community members and adver...

Jul 01, 202138 min

The Best Entrepreneurs Do This to Find Great Ideas

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 28, 202114 min

33. Stacy’s Pita Chips Founder's Unconventional Path to Success

Stacy’s Pita Chip and BeBOLD Bars founder Stacy Madison, who evolved from food cart owner to a household name, shares insights on the key to building a successful food brand, how to scale growth, and, how sometimes, you have no other choice but to learn the hard way.From packing to transportation, from vendor procurement to order fulfillment, Stacy and her partner learned quickly as their business grew that selling and shipping a food product has its own set of complexities that not every entrep...

Jun 24, 202134 minSeason 5Ep. 33

A Scammer Just Used FOMO Against Me!

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 21, 202114 min

32. Jim McKelvey on Building a Business that Can’t be Beat

Have you ever been faced with a problem and there wasn’t a ready-made solution? Have you ever been frustrated trying to complete a project and couldn’t find a video or article online for guidance or support? These are challenges that require innovative thinking and novel invention, but they also create some of the best entrepreneurs. Serial entrepreneur, inventor, author, and billionaire philanthropist Jim McKelvey discusses his new book The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One ...

Jun 17, 202134 minSeason 5Ep. 32
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