Peter Webster & Kyle Robertson: Founders of iCare There is a major social revolution taking place right now thanks to social media and mobile technology. For the first time in history, it is easier to get one million people to donate $1 than it is to get one person to donate $1 Million. On top... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dr. Mollie Marti – lawyer, author, psychologist, professor It’s funny how, as a child, you are amazed at how much other people know. Whether it be your older sibling, a neighbor, or your parents, the things they know are astounding. But as we grow older, something funny happens. We tend to focus our attention inward... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brian Dunning – Skeptoid podcast producer, professional myth-buster, author, entrepreneur. Did you know that 98% of all statistics are made up? Did you know I just made THAT statistic up? In an age of information overload, it’s very hard to sift through it all. For every question, I can find you two very convincing answers, with... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fran Hawthorne – Author of Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love There’s a reason why the largest corporations also have the largest marketing budgets. With all of the competition out there today, a company’s image is just as important as the products that it sells. For example, hear the word Lexus... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Linda McQuaig – Prolific journalist, critic, and author of “Billionaires’ Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality” Don’t forget to use our amazon link for all of your cyber Monday (and future) purchases. Click here to go straight to amazon and get your shop on! How about a few fun facts, just to... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Richard Fine – CEO of Help Remedies/drug dealer (don’t worry, it’s legal). I had a long day at the office today and it left me with a raging headache. I sauntered to the nearest pharmacy, stood in the painkiller aisle, looked at the plethora of choices, and you know what happened…my headache got worse. What... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dr. James Serpell – Expert on human-animal interaction, author, Professor, Director of the Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society. If you own a dog, I can almost guarantee that at one point you have found yourself having an entire conversation with them. You have sat down with your dog, just as if you... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mark Malkoff – Filmmaker, adventurer, comedian We all know that guy. The ideas guy. The non-action guy. The guy that say’s things like “Dude, I KNEW I should have bought Apple stock when it was at $60,” or “I can’t believe that business stole my idea,” or “as soon as work slows down I’m going... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dr. Richard Davidson – Harvard educated professor, expert in emotions, author and long time friend of the Dalai Lama. Do you know how long “meditate daily” has been on my to-do list? Probably twice as long as “go to the dentist” has been on yours. For me, the act of meditation represents everything that is... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ann Louise Gittleman – “The First Lady of Nutrition” Consider your typical day. You cook in your microwave, you call people on your cell phone, you work all day on your laptop – wirelessly connected to the world of the interwebs, you read books on your kindle, you listen to the radio in the car,... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reggie Freeman – Fire Chief, Emergency Management, CEO & President of The Freeman Group, LLC Catastrophe is all around us. Massive snow storms, excessive heat waves, floods, power outages and hurricanes are all part of life on earth. Whether you call it climate change, the zombie apocalypse or the end of the Mayan calendar, it is... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Arun Chaudhary – First ever official White House Videographer This podcast is recorded exactly 6 miles from the White House. My day job office building is literally a pitching wedge away from the front steps of the President’s home. And yet, every time I pass those huge white pillars and that rolling green lawn, I... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jonathan Haidt – morality, emotion and politics: “Morality binds people together into teams that seek victory, not truth, and it closes hearts and minds.” Taking the moral high ground is considered noble. Being morally sound is an admirable trait. But who determines if your moral stance is correct? Ultimately you do…don’t you? I mean, as this week’s guest points... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Shannon Kaiser – travel writer, inspirational author, motivational speaker Sometimes here at SPP, we judge a book by it’s cover…literally. We will see the most recent NY Times Bestseller and we fawn over the author. The more designations, recommendations, and accolations (hey, it’s a word in Urban Dictionary) a person has, the more insight they... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dr. Brian Wansink – Director of the Cornell Food & Brand Lab, marketing guru, author and MUCH more. The Boston Medical Center indicates that approximately 45 million Americans diet each year and spend $33 billion on weight-loss products in their pursuit of a trimmer, fitter body. I’d be willing to bet, if you are reading... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Creativity is like a fire hose. Once you turn it on it’s hard to control, it spews out haphazardly, and if you don’t have a firm grasp on it, it can whip you in just about any direction. The power that it yields is immense; however, one small malfunction can completely stop the flow and... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For most of us, our high school textbooks were nothing more than a paper weight. Maybe if we would have actually opened them, we wouldn’t need to rely on talking to smart people, but that’s neither here nor there. The main reason we didn’t care what was inside those massive bound bundles of boring (yay... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week we cover some seriously heavy topics. What plays a bigger role in who you are, your experiences or your genetics? Are emotions strictly a biological response to an event, easily defined by the chemical that they are related to? Are we born as moral beings, or is even morality subject to circumstances? What... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s not the first time we’ve talked about it, and it won’t be the last. The human brain is plain ol’ amazing. For example, have you ever thought about where a memory is stored? Give it a real long ponder. Somewhere in your 3 pound ball of spongy tissue, memories from decades past are filed... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2. Don’t wait until you know who you are to get started. 3. Write the book you want to read. 4. Use your hands These are just 3 of the 10 pieces of wisdom that this week’s guest, Austin Kleon, wants to pass along. But wait…where is #1? Ahhh, good question. The first piece of... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Do you know what astrophysics is? I’m not going to lie, I had to wikipedia it. This week we speak with the guy who Invented Astrophysics! ….Ok, not really, that guy has been dead for like centuries, BUT we basically get to talk to the next best thing in Dr. Charles Pellerin. Dr. Pellerin is... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome back everyone to our first official episode of Season 2!. We are glad to see you back and we look forward to another year of awesomeness. Our twenties are supposed to be the time of our lives, right? A time where you can do whatever you want and use the excuse, “I’m just trying... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If you’re anything like me (Chris) and nothing like the other host (Jon) you absolutely hate surfing the internet to find the next big thing. I mean, by the time I learned about Myspace, there was a movie being made about Facebook. But let’s face it, the web is where it’s at people. Not understanding the inner workings of... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Craig Koslofsky, author, Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois . Can you imagine a time without electricity and modern technology? First of all, HOW would you download this podcast? In Craig Koslofsky’s book, Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe, Craig discusses “the history of night” and what it... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dr. Srini Pillay – Neuroscientist, Psychiatrist, Executive Coach…amazing. The human brain is a miracle, no one can question that. The brain is the source of all of our cognition. It stores our memories, it creates our identity and it interprets the world in which we live. It’s also a mechanism that can be exercised and fine tuned... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Drew Dudley takes a few minutes after his interview to speak on bipolar disorder. He discusses how it helped him become who he is today. It was very enlightening and we thank Drew for discussing such matters! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Drew Dudley – Leadership and Motivation Expert: Be prepared to look at leadership in a new light after this one. According to this week’s guest Drew Dudley, leadership is no longer a description reserved for kings, presidents, and executives. It’s something we all possess and we need to use it to change the world. Drew... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dr. Richard Alley – Geologist & Climate Change Specialist: It is no longer a matter of if, how or how long…it’s real & it’s happening. The amount of greenhouse gasses within Earth’s atmosphere are increasing at an alarming rate which is causing a continuous and unsustainable rise in the Earth’s climate. This is not alarmist, I’m not... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Klein – Technologist & Computer/Life Hacker: Many of today’s systems and organizations still operate on the same processes that became popular during the industrial revolution, but no longer prove relevant. Think about it, a company decides they want to be innovative and productive. They need their employees to be creative and forward thinking. So... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We got the chance to sit down with Debra Benfield to discuss nutrition and the concept of mindful and intuitive eating around healthy food choices. You’ll also get a look into some of our weird eating habits! Debra is a Master’s Level Nutritionist (M.Ed.), a (Registered Dietitian (R.D.) AND a Licensed Dietitian/ Nutritionist (L.D.N.) with over 25 years of... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
