Jimmy Burrows has directed more than one thousand episodes of sitcom television and has earned eleven Emmy Awards and five Directors Guild of America Awards. In 1974 he began his television career directing episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show , The Bob Newhart Show , and Laverne and Shirley . He became the resident director on Taxi and co-created Cheers , directing 243 of the 273 episodes, as well as all 246 episodes of Will and Grace . He has directed the pilots of multiple episodes of Frasie...
Sep 11, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Marshall Goldsmith has been recognized as the world’s leading executive coach and has advised more than 200 major CEOs and their management teams. He is the New York Times bestselling author of many books, including What Got You Here Won’t Get You There , Mojo , and Triggers . His latest book is titled: The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment . Some interesting insights from this episode: Basing success strictly on results is a fool’s game. The Buddhist term for this is The Hungry Ghost...
Aug 28, 2022•49 min
Bertrand Piccard is a psychiatrist and explorer and made history by accomplishing two aeronautical firsts – flying around the world non-stop in a balloon, and more recently in a solar-powered airplane without fuel. As Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation, he has succeeded in his mission to select 1000 profitable solutions to protect the environment and support clean growth. Some interesting insights from this episode: Meeting the astronauts as a kid opened his eyes that anyone with a passion...
Jul 17, 2022•55 min
Gary White is the cofounder and CEO of Water.org and WaterEquity. In 1991 he launched WaterPartners International, the nonprofit that would later become Water.org. Today the organizations he leads are creating market driven solutions to the global water crisis, driving innovations in the way the world funds water and sanitation projects. His new book that he co-authored with Matt Damon is titled: The Worth of Water: Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World’s Greatest Challenge. Some interesti...
May 23, 2022•58 min
Chef Andre Rush is a retired decorated combat Veteran known worldwide as the White House chef with the 24-inch biceps and for his advocacy for military service, as well as suicide prevention, which is why he does 2,222 push-ups a day: to bring awareness to the ongoing epidemic of mental health and suicidal ideation. His new book is titled: Call me Chef, Dammit!: A Veteran’s Journey from the Rural South to the White House. . Some interesting insights from this episode: “I don’t care what I have d...
May 09, 2022•51 min
Joaquin “Jack” Garcia is the former undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Gambino crime family of Cosa Nostra in New York for nearly three years, resulting in the arrest and conviction of 32 mobsters. He worked on over 100 major undercover investigations over his 26 year career. He wrote a New York Times bestseller called Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family . Some interesting insights from this episode: Being a good undercover is not something you can learn....
May 02, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Rob O’Neill is a Navy SEAL combat veteran with decorations which include two Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars with Valor, a Joint Service Commendation Medal with Valor, three Presidential Unit citations, and two Navy/Marine Corps Commendations with Valor. He is a public speaker, TV personality, philanthropist, and cofounder of the Special Operators Transition Foundation, a charity supporting special operations military personnel making the difficult transition from the battlefield to the boardroo...
Apr 04, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Barry Sonnenfeld is a director, producer and writer who broke into the film industry as the cinematographer on the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple , Raising Arizona , and Miller’s Crossing . He was the director of photography on Throw Momma from the Train , Big , When Harry Met Sally , and Misery . Barry made his directorial debut with The Addams Family and has directed several other films including Addams Family Values , Get Shorty , and the Men in Black trilogy. His television credits include Push...
Mar 07, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Monica Aldama is the cheerleading coach at Navarro College. She is one of the most successful athletic coaches in the country, having led Navarro to 14 national championships. She and her team are the subject of a hit Netflix show called Cheer which is now entering its second season. She has a new book out which is entitled: Full Out: Lessons in Life and Leadership from America’s Favorite Coach Some interesting insights from this episode: Her lifelong dream was to become a Wall Street banker but...
Jan 24, 2022•49 min
Eileen Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and United States Air Force colonel . She was the first female pilot and first female commander of a Space Shuttle . Eileen has been recognized by Encyclopædia Britannica as one of the top 300 women in history who have changed the world. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall Of Fame and the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame . Her new book is called Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command...
Nov 18, 2021•49 min
Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy. She is also the Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law and Paul W. Horn Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University. She has been named a United Nations Champion of the Earth and one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People. She holds a PhD in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois. Her latest book is titled: Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided Wor...
Sep 27, 2021•53 min
Maya Gabeira is a Brazilian big wave surfer. She is most known for having surfed a 73.5 ft high wave in Nazaré, Portugal in February 2020, recorded by Guinness World Records as the biggest wave ever surfed by a female. It was also the biggest wave surfed by anyone that year. She has received numerous accolades including the ESPY award for Best Female Action Sports Athlete and is considered one of the best female surfers in the world as well as one of the most influential female surfers of all ti...
Aug 02, 2021•53 min
Howard Shore is a musical composer and has won three Academy Awards for his score to The Lord of the Rings as well as four Grammys and three Golden Globes. He has scored over 90 films and collaborated with many well known directors including Peter Jackson, Martin Scorsese, David Cronenberg, and Tim Burton. Some interesting insights from this episode: He was in a jazz fusion band called Lighthouse and opened for Jimi Hendrix while touring with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. He was the ...
Jun 02, 2021•51 min
Erin Brockovich is the president of Brockovich Research and Consulting and the founder of the Erin Brockovich Foundation which educates and empowers communities in their fight for clean water. She was the driving force behind the largest medical settlement lawsuit in United States history. She has a newsletter called The Brockovich Report and her latest book is titled: Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We The People Can Do About It . Some interesting insights from this ep...
May 18, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Ed Stafford is a British explorer. He holds the Guinness World Record for being the first person to walk the length of the Amazon River. He has been one of the National Geographic Adventurers of the Year and was also the European Adventurer of the Year. He has written multiple books on his quests and now hosts an adventure reality show on the Discovery Channel called Ed Stafford: First Man Out . Some interesting insights from this episode: His insecurity as an adopted child drove his ambition. H...
Mar 23, 2021•53 min
Francis Collins is the Director of the National Institutes of Health, the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world. Francis is a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the international Human Genome Project. Francis is an elected member of both the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science. In 2020, he was elected as a Fo...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Robert Lefkowitz is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who is best known for showing how adrenaline works via stimulation of specific receptors. He was trained at Columbia, NIH, and Harvard before joining the faculty at Duke University and becoming an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In addition to being a researcher, Bob is a cardiologist as well as a cardiac patient. His book is titled: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm: The Adrenaline-Fueled Adventures of an Acci...
Feb 22, 2021•55 min
BJ Fogg is the founder and director of the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University. In addition to his research, BJ teaches industry innovators how human behavior really works. He created the Tiny Habits academy to help people around the world. His book is called Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything . Some interesting insights from this episode: The Fogg Behavior Model suggests that a behavior is driven by three things: motivation, ability, and a prompt. Motivation is the des...
Feb 08, 2021•46 min
Jim McKelvey is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, philanthropist, and artist. He cofounded the mobile payments company Square and sits on the Board. He also founded Invisibly, a digital content company, LaunchCode, a nonprofit that teaches technology literacy, and a glass art studio. His book is called The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time . Some interesting insights from this episode: He has never had a life plan and because of that, he’s become very comf...
Jan 12, 2021•51 min
John Mackey is the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market and co-founder of the nonprofit Conscious Capitalism. He is a co-author of the book Conscious Capitalism as well as his latest book called Conscious Leadership : Elevating Humanity Through Business. Some interesting insights from this episode: He had a food consciousness awakening when he moved into a vegetarian coop in his 20s. He learned that food could affect the way you feel, your health, vitality, and overall intelligence. Early on...
Dec 14, 2020•51 min
Jimmy Wales is the founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and co-founder of the privately owned Wikia, Inc. including its entertainment media brand Fandom. Wales serves on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit charitable organization he established to operate Wikipedia. In 2019, Jimmy launched WT Social - a news focused social network. In 2006 Jimmy was named in Time magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’ for his role in creating Wikipe...
Dec 07, 2020•55 min
Al Roker is a weatherman and coanchor of NBC’s Today show, an Emmy-award winning journalist, a television producer, and a New York Times bestselling author. He has spent over four decades on television and received 14 Emmy Awards. He has written a number of best-selling books, the latest book is titled: You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success. Some interesting insights from this episode: His father advised him that “you’re going to have to work twice as hard and ...
Nov 30, 2020•40 min
Jim McCloskey is the founder of Centurion Ministries, an organization devoted to exonerating wrongfully convicted prisoners who are serving life or death sentences. To date, the organization has freed 64 innocent people. His new book is titled: When Truth Is All You Have: A Memoir of Faith, Justice, and Freedom for The Wrongly Convicted . Some interesting insights from this episode: Today there are dozens of innocence organizations but Centurion Ministries was the first one. Jim was the father o...
Nov 09, 2020•46 min
Sarah is the founder and CEO of Frey Farms which she founded at the age of 16. The farm grows thousands of acres worth of fruits and vegetables. Dubbed “the Pumpkin Queen of America” by the New York Times , she sells more pumpkins than any other producer in the United States. She is also the owner of Tsamma, a bottled watermelon juice sold in over 1,500 stores all over the country. Her new book is titled The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life – and Saved an American Farm . Some interesting i...
Oct 26, 2020•45 min
Deepak Chopra is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. He is the founder of The Chopra Foundation , a non-profit entity for research on well-being and humanitarianism, and Chopra , a modern-day health company at the intersection of science and spirituality. Deepak is also a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of over 90 books, including numerous New York Times bestsellers, the...
Oct 12, 2020•48 min
Scott Boras is a sports agent specializing in baseball. He is the Founder and President of Boras Corporation, a sports agency that represents roughly 75 professional baseball clients. He has negotiated more than $9B in major league baseball contracts, with 11 of them worth more than $100 million—more than any other agent. Scott has been named the “Most Powerful Sports Agent in the World” by Forbes magazine. Some interesting insights from this episode: He felt it was important to have a backup pl...
Sep 21, 2020•45 min
Alain Robert is the world’s leading free climber and is known all over the world as the “French Spiderman” for free climbing skyscrapers. He has climbed 163 buildings in 70 different countries. He has a documentary on Amazon Prime titled My Next Challenge and is the author of a book With Bare Hands: The True Story of Alain Robert, the Real-Life Spiderman. Some interesting insights from this episode: His insecurity as a child was the early motivation to try something to build confidence and to st...
Aug 31, 2020•38 min
Colin Follenweider is one of the top professional stuntmen in Hollywood. He has performed stunts in Spider-Man, Transformers, Iron Man, X-Men, Captain America, Avatar and Die Hard and has 86 total stunt credits to his name. Some interesting insights from this episode: He is one of Hollywood’s top stuntmen and has performed stunts in dozens of blockbuster films. It’s good to know the direction you’re heading, even if you’re not sure of the ultimate destination. His motto was “Action, Inspiration”...
Aug 04, 2020•55 min
David Fajgenbaum is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the associate director for the Orphan Disease Center. He is also cofounder and executive director of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network and the cofounder of the National Students of Ailing Mothers and Fathers Support Network. He has received numerous awards including the Forbes “30 Under 30” for healthcare and the RARE Champion of Hope Award for science. His memoir is titled Chasing My Cure: A D...
Jul 22, 2020•48 min
Steve Case was the co-founder and CEO of AOL, the largest Internet company at the time, which he took public and eventually merged with Time Warner. Today he is the CEO of Revolution, an investment firm which invests in visionary entrepreneurs focused on building long lasting businesses. He is also the Chairman of the Case Foundation and an author with a New York Times bestselling book called The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future. Some interesting insights from this episode: The...
Jul 13, 2020•54 min
