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Sukhinder Singh Cassidy - How to Take Calculated Risks and Win at Your Career Aug 18, 2021

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Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is a leading digital CEO and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of leadership experience founding, scaling, and advising companies including Google, Amazon, StubHub, Yodlee, and more.

Sukhinder served as the leader of StubHub, the premier global consumer ticketing marketplace for live entertainment, which she and her team sold for $4 billion in February 2020. Sukhinder has an undergraduate degree from the Ivey School of Business Administration at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Find out more about Sukhinder's book at choosepossibility.com.

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Mike Zani - Olympic Coach on Being Happy and Productive at Work Aug 03, 2021

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Mike Zani is the CEO of The Predictive Index, a talent optimization platform that uses over 60 years of proven science and software to help businesses design high-performing teams and cultures, make objective hiring decisions, and inspire greatness in people. Its 8,000+ clients include Bain Capital, Blue Cross Blue Shield, DoorDash, LVMH, Nissan, Omni Hotels, and VMware.

Mike is also the co-founder and partner at Phoenix Strategy Investments, a private investment fund. An avid sailor, he was coach of the 1996 US Olympic Team. He holds a BS from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Alex Bezzerides - Why Our Bodies Break Jul 19, 2021

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Alex Bezzerides is a professor of biology at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho where he teaches a wide range of classes from Human Anatomy and Physiology to Entomology. He earned degrees from Colorado State University and Cornell University. He has published a number of scientific articles about the chemical ecology of insects. His first book is about the aches and pains of the body and how they evolved. Alex's book, Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't), is available now.

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Annie Murphy Paul - How to Overachieve with our Limited Brain Jul 05, 2021

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Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and The Best American Science Writing. She is the author of Origins, selected by the New York Times Book Review as a “Notable Book,” and The Cult of Personality. Her TED Talk has been viewed more than 2.6 million times. Annie is a recipient of the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship, the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship, and the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellowship at New America.

You can learn more about Annie at: anniemurphypaul.com.

Annie's book, The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, is available now.

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Tim Grover - Never Forget, Winning is Everything Jun 22, 2021

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Tim Grover is the CEO of ATTACK Athletics, Inc. Tim is known all around the world for his work with champions and Hall of Famers, including Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and hundreds other athletes.

Tim's book, Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness, is available now.

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Rebecca Schwarzlose - How Your Brain Interprets Your Reality Jun 08, 2021

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Rebecca Schwarzlose is postdoctoral scholar researching brain development in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. Rebecca received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from M.I.T. and served as the editor of the scholarly journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences for three years.

Rebecca's book, Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain―And How They Guide You, will be available on June 15, 2021.

Brainscapes was supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology.

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Guy Perelmuter - The Coming Deep Tech Revolution May 25, 2021

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Guy Perelmuter is the founder of GRIDS Capital, a deep tech venture capital firm focusing on artificial intelligence, robotics, life sciences, and technological infrastructure. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering in 1994 and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1996, both from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Guy has 20 years of experience in risk Management, asset allocation and venture capital.

Guy's newest book is Present Future: Business, Science, and the Deep Tech Revolution and is available now.

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Scott Miller - How to Brand Yourself for Success May 11, 2021

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Scott Miller built a 25-year career at the FranklinCovey Company serving in nearly every role imaginable. Scott currently serves as the Special Advisor on Thought Leadership for the FranklinCovey Company and is the host of their weekly podcast series, On Leadership with Scott Miller. Scott's newest book is Marketing Mess to Brand Success: 30 Challenges to Transform Your Organization's Brand (and Your Own).

You can read more about Scott at: scottjeffreymiller.com.

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Paul English - Networking and Storytelling are the Keys to Success with Kayak Founder Apr 27, 2021

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Paul is the Founder and CTO of Lola.com, the easiest way for businesses to manage their employee travel. Previously, Paul was CTO of KAYAK, a travel company he co-founded in 2004, took public in 2012, and sold to Priceline in 2013. Paul is also the founder of GetHuman, a service created to give consumers excellent customer service at any company, Intermute, a security software company, and Boston Light, a small business ecommerce startup he sold to Intuit.

Paul is the subject of Tracy Kidder’s book A Truck Full of Money, published by Random House in September 2016.

You can read more about Paul at: paulenglish.com.

Check out Paul's upcoming Podcast app at moonbeam.fm.

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Melissa Bernstein - Billionaire Founder Talks Truth About Entrepreneurship Apr 16, 2021

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Melissa Bernstein is the co-founder of Melissa & Doug, the toy company committed to nurture children's imaginations. She is also the author of, LifeLines: An Inspirational Journey from Profound Darkness to Radiant Light.

You can read more about Melissa and her book at: lifelines.com/about-melissa.

Check out the toys at www.melissaanddoug.com!

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