The Mark Divine Show

James Altucher is a well-known business personality. He started off in the creative industries, and is an author and expert on entrepreneurship and investing. He has written many books, including The Power of No: Because One Little Word Can Bring Health, Abundance, and Happiness. Today he talks with Mark about coming back repeatedly to succeed at business. Learn how: James had skills in the '...

Dr. Belisa Vranich is a clinical psychologist and a well-known expert on breathing. She recently released a book called Breathing for Warriors: Master Your Breath to Unlock More Strength, Greater Endurance, Sharper Precision, Faster Recovery, and an Unshakable Inner Game. She talks with Commander Divine today about the importance of proper breathing for managing health and stress.  Learn about: BI...

Panache Desai has been a guest with Oprah's SuperSoul Sunday and is the author of two books on spiritual development: Discovering Your Soul Signature and his most recent book You Are Enough: Revealing the Soul to Discover Your Power, Potential, and Possibility. He talks with Commander Divine today about spiritual development and finding your essential self. Hear how: What you put out into the...

Jayson Gaddis is a psychologist and expert on marriage and relationships. He is the founder of The Relationship School, and is also the host of The Relationship School podcast. Today he talks to Commander Divine about the ongoing challenges of relationships, as well as some of the specific issues around the COVID lockdown. The most important Part of a relationship is mutual growth Shame is self-di...

Today Commander Divine has a solocast to give us advice on how he believes we can be moving forward and overcoming the difficult times created by COVID. One of the first things that he point out is that almost all human times - from prehistory to the present - have been challenging times. That doesn't make the present less challenging, but it has always been this way. And obviously we're...

Susan Scott is a pioneer in coaching business leaders to have honest conversations with their teams. She founded Fierce and is the author of two books: "Fierce Conversations" and "Fierce Leadership." Today she talks to Mark about the importance of communicating honestly with your team, as well as trusting them with problems that you're not sure about. Hear how: You need to...

Daron K. Roberts was a graduate of Harvard Law School turned Football coach. He is a motivational speaker, transition coach and the author of Call an Audible: Let My Pivot from Harvard Law to NFL Coach Inspire Your Transition. He hosts the podcast "A Tribe Called Yes" and today he talks with Commander Divine about how to make your own pivot to change your life. Hear how: Daron planned hi...

In the second part of this interview William Winram talks about his experience of the ocean and diving with Great Whites. William is a free-diving world record holder, an ocean explorer and conservationist, and the founder of the Watermen project, dedicated to helping to conserve the ocean. Sharks are mostly just curious creatures, who might bite out of curiosity Optimizing breathing is the most e...

William Winram is a free-diving world record holder, an ocean explorer and conservationist, and the founder of the Watermen project, dedicated to helping to conserve the ocean. He often dives with sharks, including Great Whites. He talks to Mark today about his experience with Internal Martial Arts, as well as his beginnings and some of his experiences as a freediver. Learn How: Tai Chi is a Marti...

Chadd Wright is an ultra-runner and former SEAL. He is also the co-founder, with his brother, of the 3-of-7 project dedicated to the completion of people through the body, soul and spirit.  Mark and Chadd talk about BUD/S, life after the military and how to make the most of adversity and challenges. They also discuss spirituality and the importance of faith. Hear how The value of actually saying t...

Dr. Brown is world-famous as an expert in melding Tibetan Buddhist philosophy with Western Psychology. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at the Harvard Medical School, and he has also translated a number of Tibetan texts on meditation. He is also one of Mark's teachers of meditation and he talks today to the Commander about the impact meditation practices have on the physiol...

Today, Mark talks to his tribe about how to use this crisis to face down your fear wolf and use this enforced isolation to work on yourself and come out of this stronger. Listen to hear how you can be using the 5 mountains to better deal with the way things are in this VUCA environment.  Learn about Mark's COPE strategy -  Crisis, Opportunity, Plan and Execute How Mark has used previous crise...

Neil Pasricha is an expert on human happiness and the author of several books, including "The Book of Awesome" and most recently "You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life." Today he talks to Mark about how to live with greater intention and resilience. Resiliency starts in the morning with preparing yourself for the day Get a &...

Well-known academic expert on personal Grit, Angela Duckworth is a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance." She talks with Commander Divine today about the importance of Grit for success. Listen now to discover: How your Grit can be a more important trait for success than your ability How understanding your &qu...

This is the final episode of Mark's review of his new book, "Staring Down the Wolf." He talks about how Damien Mander was able to make himself into a very unique leader in service to the good of the planet. He also summarizes the seven commitments that need to be made for effective leadership. Hear what kind of leadership you can find out about when you get the new book.  See Privac...

In this weeks interview, Mark speak with Twitter VP Bruce Daisley about work culture and business leadership. Bruce is the author of "Eat Sleep Work Repeat: 30 Hacks for Bringing Joy to Your Job" and the host of the "Eat, sleep, work, repeat" podcast. When you listen to this podcast, you'll learn several ways to create an exceptional work culture, including: How to embrace...

Commander Divine reads from the final chapter of his soon to be released book, "Staring Down the Wolf" on the Leadership Commitment of Alignment. Getting aligned is of critical importance for an elite leader and team to make sure that their goals are aligned.  When you listen to this podcast, you'll learn: How to have meetings that are productive and useful and don't cause &quo...

Ray "Cash" Care is a former SEAL and a co-host of the podcast "Overcome and Conquer" as well as one of the founders of The LTD Project - a leadership training program for business people. Today he talks with Commander Divine about the importance of failing forward fast. Hear how: We've created a "zero defect society" where we use social media to display perfectio...

Eliot Marshall is best known as a successful MMA fighter, but today he talks to the Commander about his business endeavours and the story behind his first  book "The Gospel of Fire: Strategies for Facing Your Fears, Confronting Your Demons, and Finding Your Purpose." Eliot has repeatedly struggled with depression and anxiety and he tells us how our mind has the power to drive us to accom...

Today Commander Divine has a solocast and continues to read from his soon to be released book, "Staring Down the Wolf." Today he is talking about Resiliency and how to make that commitment as a part of your elite team. Learn more about Resiliency Adaptability - being able to make the most of the situation you're in. Persistence - ability to continue pursuing a goal in spite of obsta...

Kamal Ravikant is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. His most recent book is a brand new edition of "Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It." The original was first self-published in 2013. Kamal initially wrote the book as a response to his own personal disaster.  Hear about: How you can change the context of memories from bad to good How you must recognize that Purpose...

In the second part of Mark's interview with Clint Emerson, retired SEAL, NSA operative, and expert in personal security and preparedness. Mark and Clint discuss his new book "The Right Kind of Crazy: My Life as a Navy SEAL, Covert Operative, and Boy Scout from Hell."  Clint is the only SEAL ever inducted into the International Spy Museum and the real life Jason Bourne.  Listen to th...

Today we have the first part of Mark's interview with Clint Emerson, retired SEAL and the author of "100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation." Clint is an expert in personal security and preparedness. He is also the author of "The Right Kind of Crazy: My Life as a Navy SEAL, Covert Operative,...

John Kim is known as "The Angry Therapist." He is an author, therapist, entrepreneur and podcaster.  His book is "I Used to Be a Miserable F*ck: An Everyman's Guide to a Meaningful Life," and today he talks with Mark about Therapy, coaching and parenting. Hear about: How John is dedicated to being authentic rather than simply being teaching things "at" his client...

For Christmas week, we'll be re-airing the best episodes of 2019. Today we present Mark's interview with Brian Mackenzie and Rob Wilson. In the new year, we'll be starting with new episodes again. In the meantime, enjoy and have a Merry Christmas! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.