Welcome to Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Jane Chen. Jane is a deeply reflective leader shaped by resilience, loss, and an unrelenting drive to make a difference. As the co-founder of Embrace, she helped pioneer a radically affordable infant warmer that has saved [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Jonathan Haidt. Jonathan is a social psychologist who has spent years studying morality, culture, and the unseen forces shaping human behavior. His latest work focuses on a crisis unfolding in real time: the sudden rise of [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Maya Shankar. Maya Shankar is a leading voice on how humans adapt when life veers off course. Her work spans Stanford, Oxford, Yale, the White House, and now a widely acclaimed podcast, A Slight Change of [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We’re on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Toby Stuart. Toby is a leading authority on innovation, entrepreneurship, and the hidden status systems that shape opportunity. His research challenges the comforting fiction that success is purely merit-based, revealing how pedigree, networks, and institutional choices [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We’re on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Erin Nance. Erin Nance is no ordinary orthopedic surgeon. She’s treated elite athletes, musicians with million-dollar hands, and everyday patients whose pain was ignored for years. But beyond the operating room, Erin has become a leading [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We’re on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Lynne Olson. A master of overlooked history, Lynne uncovers the truth behind The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück—a powerful account of French women imprisoned in Hitler’s largest concentration camp for women. There, amid starvation and brutality, they formed [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We’re on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode are Richard Thaler and Alex Imas. Thaler and Imas aren’t your average economists—they’re the minds redefining how we understand human behavior. Thaler, a Nobel Laureate and pioneer of behavioral economics, and Imas, a professor at the University [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We’re on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Dara Treseder. Dara is a standout leader who navigates fast-moving environments with clarity and conviction. As the Chief Marketing Officer of Autodesk, she leads teams across industries with a people-first mindset. Dara believes leadership begins with [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Ann Wolbert Burgess. Ann is no ordinary researcher; she is a trailblazer in the world of forensic nursing and criminal profiling. Her work with the FBI helped develop the behavioral science unit, which forever changed the [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We’re on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Baratunde Thurston. Baratunde brings a steady, thoughtful perspective to a moment defined by acceleration and division. As an author, technologist, and host of Life With Machines and America Outdoors, he reflects on what it means to [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We’re on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Rebecca Bloom. Rebecca is a force for fairness in a healthcare system that too often fails women. A former attorney and longtime advisor to patients, she’s seen firsthand how bureaucracy, bias, and burnout shape the care [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Brené Brown. Brené is a cultural force reshaping how we talk about leadership, courage, and vulnerability. Her groundbreaking work has inspired millions to trade perfection for authenticity and fear for grounded confidence. With her new book [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We’re on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Erica Chenoweth. Erica Chenoweth is no ordinary scholar; they are one of the world’s foremost experts on nonviolent resistance and democratic resilience. As a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and co-director of the Nonviolent Action Lab, [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We’re on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Barry Diller. Barry is no ordinary executive; he’s a force who’s reshaped industries from the silver screen to the search bar. As the former chairman of Paramount Pictures and Fox, and now the leader of IAC [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Dave Whorton. Dave is no ordinary venture capitalist; he's a reformed Silicon Valley insider who dared to question the system. His journey took him from Hewlett Packard's foundational culture through the venture capital world, where he [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Jocelyn Benson. Jocelyn is no ordinary public servant; she is a fearless guardian of democratic principles who has faced threats that would make most people retreat. Her career spans from undercover journalism investigating hate groups to [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Francis Collins. Francis is no ordinary scientist; he is a towering figure who has shaped modern medicine and genomics. His groundbreaking work includes leading the Human Genome Project, discovering the genetic causes of cystic fibrosis and [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Sharon McMahon. Sharon is no ordinary educator; she is America's most trusted government teacher who transformed political discourse through social media. Her nonpartisan explanations of complex political issues have earned her millions of followers across platforms. [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Todd Rogers. Todd is revolutionizing how we think about written communication. His research at Harvard Kennedy School has transformed everything from political campaigns to corporate communications. But that's not all – he's also the co-founder of [...]
Welcome to Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Jamil Zaki. Jamil is no ordinary psychology professor; his groundbreaking work on empathy, trust, and cynicism has revolutionized our understanding of social psychology. But that's not all – he's also the author of multiple acclaimed books, [...]