Podcast
The podcast where the world’s most interesting thinkers, entrepreneurs, and leaders unpack the decisions that actually shaped their success… and how they found the courage to miss out on the rest.
Created and hosted by bestselling author and keynote speaker Patrick J. McGinnis.
SEASONS & EPISODES
Season 15
Season 14
Ep 36 - Emily Tisch Sussman
Ep 35 - Marcus Buckingham
Ep 34 - Geoff Cook
Ep 33 - Brandon Webb
Ep 32 - Max Marchione
Ep 31 - Eric Ries
Ep 30 - Laura L. Rubin
Ep 29 - Claude Silver
Ep 28 - Charlie O’Donnell
Ep 27 - Jon McNeill
Ep 26 - Rob Snyder
Ep 25 - Liz Tran
Ep 24 - Tracy Anderson
Ep 23 - Florence Shaffer
Ep 22 - Matt Beall
Ep 21 - Chris Wharton
Ep 20 - Nir Eyal
Ep 19 - Daniel Coyle
Ep 18 - Sahil Bloom – Part 2
Ep 17 - Sahil Bloom – Part 1
Ep 16 - Jimmy Wales – Part 2
Ep 15 - Jimmy Wales – Part 1
Ep 14 - Anthony Passalacqua
Ep 13 - Goldie Chan
Ep 12 - Ranjay Gulati
Ep 11 - Mo Edjlali
Ep 10 - Byron Loflin
Ep 09 - Mark Barrocas
Ep 08 - Caroline Hirsch
Ep 07 - Morgan Housel
Ep 06 - Gregg Renfrew
Ep 05 - Isabelle Boemeke
Ep 04 - Jon Levy
Ep 03 - Katina Mountanos
Ep 02 - Nancy Twine
Ep 01 - Dr. David Fajgenbaum
Season 13
Ep 26 - Cathy Heller
Ep 25 - Lori Rosenkopf
Ep 24 - Ankur Gopal
Ep 23 - Hannah Koizumi & Hugh Jones
Ep 22 - Dean Carignan
Ep 21 - Firat İşbecer
Ep 20 - Kass & Mike Lazerow
Ep 19 - Oliver Burkeman
Ep 19 - Neil Parikh
Ep 17 - Romain Kapadia
Ep 16 - Josh Wyatt
Ep 15 - Olga Khazan
Ep 14 - Isabelle Hau
Ep 13 - Kevin Evers
Ep 12 - Nayeema Raza
Ep 11 - Topaz Adizes
Ep 10 - Frederik Pferdt
Ep 09 - Tom Turcich
Ep 08 - Ann B. Friedman
Ep 07 - Andrew Brodsky
Ep 06 - Maura Duggan
Ep 05 - Molly Sonsteng & Jeremy Redleaf
Ep 04 - William Green
Ep 03 - Alison Wood
Ep 02 - Colleen Pelly
Ep 01 - Keith Ferrazzi
Season 12
Claudia Glass’s Journey from Teacher
to Women’s Sportswear Founder
Caroline Adams Miller on The Science
of Setting -and Achieving- Goals
Best Of: Mike Ott on How Recovering
from Paralysis Changed His Perspective
Mitul Desai:
Is Executive Coaching Worth It?
Victoria Watters on Building a Media Empire
in the Alcohol-Alternative Space
The Power of Purpose: Nick Grono’s
Lessons in Non-Profit Leadership
Mastering the Art of
Hiring with Jordan Burton
Seth Godin on the Art of
Long-Term Strategy
Change your Mindset to Gratitude
in 5 Minutes with Alex Ikonn
Maha Abouelenein’s Journey to
Self-Reliance and Personal Branding
Reading Between the Lines: Nonverbal
Cues in Business with Blake Eastman
Navigating Leadership Changes:
Esther Dyson’s Advice for Long-Tenured CEOs
Simon Shaw, The Man Who Sold
The Scream for Over $100 million
Unlocking Every Child’s Math
Potential with Shalinee Sharma
How Anna Harman Revolutionized
the Ear-Piercing Experience with Studs
Leading with Love: Payam Zamani on
Building a Purpose-Driven Business
LOVO Chocolate: Courtenay Vuchnich on
Starting a Plant-Based Chocolate
Freddy Vega de Platzi sobre el
Éxito de las Startups en América Latina
Freddy Vega of Platzi on
Startup Success in Latin America
How Michael Wolf is Redefining
Hospitality at ResortPass
Guy Kawasaki on Overcoming Challenges
and Achieving Success
Season 11
Improve Your Sleeping
Habits with Michael Breus
Master Your Emotions, Transform Your
Leadership with Ricardo Sunderland
The Future of Sustainable Products:
Lessons from Grove CEO Jeff Yurcisin
Mastering Mindfulness and
Stress Management with Zee Clarke
Leadership Excellence with Dr. Marshall
Goldsmith: AI and the Future of Coaching
How Suzy Welch Teaches Others
to Author Their Own Lives
Chip Conley on Eradicating the Midlife Crisis
Resilience Rewarded: Tom Conrad’s Journey from Quibi to Zero
The Algebra of Wealth: Scott Galloway’s
Guide to Financial Freedom
Frank McCourt on How To Protect Your
Personal Data in the Cyber World
Navigating Earth’s Urgent Wake-Up Call with Bill Weir
FOMO Sapiens LIVE: Rappi’s Caroline Merin
on Making the Leap to Founder
Decoding the Neuroscience of
Effective Marketing with Pranav Yadav
Raina Kumra on Launching a Health
Startup Out of Her Kitchen
Mastering Time Management
with Nick Sonnenberg
NYTimes Bestseller Bruce Feiler on
Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World
Founding Brothers: Building the
Cult Hat Startup, Varsity Headwear
NYT Bestseller Charles Duhigg
Talks SuperCommunicators
Social Media’s Most Followed
Plastic Surgeon, Anthony Youn, on Aging Better
TikTok Career Expert Anna Papalia
on How to Interview Better
The Founders of SlooMoo Institute
on Building a Slime Empire
Talking Dogecoin FOMO with the Team
Behind “This Is Not Financial Advice” – Part II
Talking Dogecoin FOMO with the Team
Behind “This Is Not Financial Advice” – Part I
In Conversation with the
Master of Decision-Making, Barry Schwartz
Season 10
Best Of: News Not Noise with Jessica Yellin
Best Of: The Neurobiology of
Peak Performance with Steven Kotler
Best Of: Vision Science:
If you See Success Are You More Likely to Attain It?
Unveiling the Secrets of
Mental Health Advocacy with Andrew Frawley
Nita Farahany on Safeguarding Your Brain
in the Age of Neurotechnology
Nushama, the Ketamine Wellness Startup
Tristan and Jordan Mace:
How Innovation Can Fix the Organ Transplant System
Tristan and Jordan Mace:
The Story of an Emergency Heart Transplant
Reboot’s Jerry Colonna on
Cultivating Empathy
Melinda Arons on How Media
Can Change Minds
Michael Gervais on FOPO
Fear of Other People’s Opinions
Cómo Gaby Pérez Millón enfrenta el FOMA
al mercadear la industria de la belleza
How Zameer Kassam
is redefining the jewelry experience
From fintech to legal tech
How Carlos Hernandez is empowering small business owners
Jill Stoddard on
overcoming Imposterism
Suneel Gupta on
discovering your everyday Dharma
Matt Abrahams on
How to Think Faster and Talk Smarter
The Founders of theSkimm
on Building a Company People Want to Work For
Jennifer Wallace
on Toxic Achievement Culture
The Performance Paradox
with Eduardo Briceño
MIT’s Zeynep Ton
on How to Create Good Jobs
Homaira Kabir on
Beating Back Imposter Syndrome
103-year old Doctor Gladys McGarey
on the Secrets to a Well-Lived Life
Athletic Brewing’s Bill Shufelt
on Building A Non-Alc Brewery
Agapi Stassinopoulos
on Conversing with the Cosmos, Part II
Agapi Stassinopoulos
on Conversing with the Cosmos, Part I
Olympic Racer Kara Goucher’s
True Endurance Journey, Part II
Olympic Racer Kara Goucher’s
True Endurance Journey, Part I
Season 9
Best of FOMO SAPIENS
Less Is More: The Power of Essentialism with Greg McKeown
Best of FOMO SAPIENS
We Have The Technology: Jamie Metzl and Building Better Humans
Best of FOMO SAPIENS
Finding the Courage to Monetize Your Talents
Scaling a Startup in Asia
Is Ethical AI Even Possible?
Felix Salmon on The Phoenix Economy
and the World after COVID
Sebastian Errazuris Decodes AI
Sheena Iyengar on How to Think Bigger
Jonah Berger on the Power of Words
Navigating Life’s Inflection Points
How the Lure of FOMO in Extreme Sports
Can Lead to Extreme Disaster
Steven Kotler
on Aging Like a FOMO Sapiens
Burn the Boats: Unleashing Fearless Entrepreneurship
with Matt Higgins
Morra Aarons-Mele and the Anxious Overachiever
Gallup’s Jon Clifton on Why So Many People Are Unhappy
Susana Saeliu on Building a D2C Pillow Company
Mindy Weinstein on the Power of Scarcity
How to Lead When the Stakes are High
with Carol Kauffman and David Noble
Michael Chernow
on Building Power Through Habit
From Angel Investor to Entrepreneur
With Patrick Schwarznegger
How Brian Levine
is Making Surrogacy Work Better at Nodal
How Zócalo Health Is Building Better Healthcare for Latinos
From the NFL Football to Founder
with Ryan Mundy
Diego Saez-Gil
on Finding Purpose Through Adversity PII
Diego Saez-Gil
on Finding Purpose Through Adversity PI
David Hogg
on Entrepreneurial Activism
Part II
David Hogg
on Entrepreneurial Activism
Season 8
Best Of FOMOSAPIENS
Hypnosis:
The Facts, The Fiction, & The Benefits
Alvaro Silberstein
on Building an Accessible Travel Company
For Explorers Like Him
Mike Ott
on How Recovering from Paralysis
Changed His Perspective
Steve Tidball is Building
The World’s Most Creative Clothing Brand
Ryan Hartman on
Building a Space Travel Company for the Rest of Us
Scholar, writer, producer, and provocateur
Reza Aslan
on a life of Unexpected Entrepreneurship
Investor and Entrepreneur Kathryn Finney
on how to Build Your Business…No Matter What
Famed Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith
on How to Never Give in to Regret
GrubHub Founder Mike Evans
on the Insatiable Hunger You Need
to Succeed as a Founder
How Invisible Technologies’ Francis Pedraza
is Building a Sui Generis Start-Up
CNBC’s Julia Boorstin
on What Happens When Women Lead
Walter Masterson on
What It Takes – and What It’s Like –
to be Huge on TikTok
Amy Gallo on
How to Get Along With Anyone
(Even the Bad People)
Embracing your Wyrd (and your Weird)
with Marcus Buckingham
Alex Amouyel Explains
How The Answer to Solving The World’s Biggest Problems is You
Making Radical Curiosity Your Superpower
with Seth Goldenberg
How to Manage Change
with Entrepreneur’s EIC Jason Feifer
Season 7
BEST OF FOMOSAPIENS: Feeling Stressed?
Here’s How to Think Like a Monk
BEST OF FOMOSAPIENS:
The Monkey Mind vs The Monk Mind
Michelle Segar
on How to Create Lasting Diet and Fitness Goals
Rep. Max Rose
Talks About What It Takes to Serve in Congress
Rep. Max Rose’s
Entrepreneurial Take on Politics
Todd Kashdan
on the Art of Insubordination
Can a wearable device make you calmer?
Kathryn Fantauzzi of Apollo Neuroscience says it can
The Business of Male Fertility
with Khaled Kteily
Former Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aimé
on Disrupting the Game
Outpacing the Competition
with Jim Weber
Beat the Burnout Epidemic
with Jennifer Moss
Radical Adaptability:
Post Pandemic Lessons in Leadership
with Keith Ferrazzi
Can Entrepreneurial Thinking Save Big Tech?
Robert Reich & Jeremy Weinstein Think So.
From Startup to Grown Up:
Coaching for Success with Alisa Cohn
Lisa Skeete Tatum
& The Rise of the Risk Taker
The Mystery of the Vanished Instagram Influencer
with Harley Rustad
Reclaiming Your Financial Independence
with MaryRuth Ghiyam
Oso Trava
On Entrepreneurship in Latin America
The Business of Busyness
with Juliet Funt
Magnus Resch:
The Art World’s Most Practical Man
Building Confidence and Income
With Josh Peck
Think (And Act) Like An Entrepreneur
With Josh Peck
Season 6
Disrupt Yourself (And Grow)
With Whitney Johnson
Rejecting Expectations & Creating Success
With ClassPass’s Payal Kadakia
Disrupting Systems & Revolutionizing Services
with Shivani Siroya
Creating a Life that Matters
with Terri Trespicio
Psychedelic Psychotherapy: Innovating the Future
of Mental Wellness with Kelsey Ramsden
Leaning Into
The Lean Startup
How Bearaby’s Dr. Kathrin Hamm
Napped Her Way to a Start-Up Sleep Empire
Building a Unicorn
with Ali Tamaseb
Making a Movie:
Entrepreneurship as an Art
Creative Careers: How to Succeed
without Starving with Jeff Madoff
Two Beats Ahead
with Michael Hendrix
Creating Change
with Robin Bronk
Raging Innovation
with Alec Ross
Danielle Mahfood & Jenny Judson:
Successful Creative Partners
Tom Eisenmann & The Other
F Word (Failure)
Better Listening for Better Relationships
with Dr. Mark Goulston
Taking Smarter Risks with
Sukhinder Singh-Cassidy
Living with Integrity:
Martha Beck
Unexpected Entrepreneurship
with Hyperice’s Anthony Katz
Prompts & Practices for Success
with Marc Champagne
News Not Noise
With Jessica Yellin
Getting Human with
Jason Karp
Master the Long Game
with Dorie Clark
Chris Hutchins Reveals
All the Hacks
Ian Schrager on Creativity
and Disobedience
How Ian Schrager
Generates FOMO
Season 5
Sergey Young on
How to Live to 200
The Art of Charm on
How to Be Social Now
Hypnosis: The Facts,
The Fiction, & The Benefits
Rebecca Minkoff & Ali Wyatt’s
Female Founder Collective
Cultivating Influence
with Jon Levy
Permission to Dream
with Chris Gardner
How To Preserve and Monetize
Community-Driven Free Expression
Stacy’s Pita Chips Founder’s
Unconventional Path to Success
Jim McKelvey on Building
a Business that Can’t be Beat
Where Skill Ends & Chance Begins
with Maria Konnikova
Mastering the Art of Connection
with Susan McPherson
Live More Effortlessly
with Greg McKeown
How to Get People
to Back Your Ideas
How the Harlem
Children’s Zone Navigated COVID
Influence, and the
Psychology of Persuasion
Level Up with
BetterUp
Andrew Yang is Back
& He’s Running for Mayor!
How to use Tech to Take Your
Business to the Next Level
Diversify and Thrive
with Sami Gayle
Did you Know
you Can Hack People?
FOMO
and ADHD
Can’t We All Just
Get Along?
Hate Giving Feedback?
Let’s Fix that Now
Vision Science:
If You See Success Are You More Likely to Attain it?
Die With Nothing
Left on Your To-Do List
The Neurobiology of Peak Performance
with Steven Kotler
How to Not Die
(or Wake Up) Alone
How Entrepreneurs
Can Fix Government
How to Avoid the Trap of Multitasking
to Get More Done
Wondery’s COO
on the Future of Podcasts.
How To Be
a Part-Time Entrepreneur
How the Brothers Behind Super Coffee Put Its Bro Culture on Ice
The Surprising Science Behind
Music’s Biggest Hits
Internet Trolls & Crazy Rich Asians:
The Insane World of Vintage Watch Collectors
Hint Founder Kara Goldin shares
her Entrepreneurial Journey
What will work
look like in 2021?
Getting Things Done
with David Allen
Nothing Unnecessary: How Floyd’s
Founders Design For Simplicity
Magic Spoon’s Founder
on the Power of the Pivot
How to Make Better Decisions
with Gretchen Rubin
Feeling Stressed?
Here’s How to Think Like a Monk
The Monkey Mind
vs The Monk Mind
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