Elevate with Robert Glazer

Lenore Skenazy⁠ is the president and co-founder of ⁠Let Grow⁠, the nonprofit she started with Jonathan Haidt, Peter Gray, and Daniel Shuchman to make childhood independence easy, normal, and legal again. In 2008, she let her 9-year-old son ride the New York City subway home alone, wrote a column about it, and was promptly dubbed "America's Worst Mom" by the national media. She turned that firestor...

On a classic edition of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and Joey Coleman discuss the beautiful ones. They talk about a 1968 mouse utopia experiment that collapsed despite having every need m:et, why removing every hardship also removes the reason to show up, and where comfort may have quietly replaced challenge in our own lives, and why all of this makes you stand...

Annie Duke is an author, speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space, as well as Special Partner focused on Decision Science at First Round Capital Partners. Annie’s is the bestselling author of multiple books, most notably Thinking In Bets and Quit. Annie was previously a championship winning poker player, having amassed over $4 million in tournament winnings, won a World Series of Poker...

Molly Graham⁠ has spent nearly two decades inside companies during their fastest and messiest years of growth. She started at the Council on Foreign Relations and as a wilderness instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School before moving into technology, where her team at Google went from 25 people to 125 in nine months. She then spent nearly five years at Facebook building the culture, c...

On a classic episode of Weekend Conversations on ⁠⁠the Elevate Podcast⁠⁠, host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan discuss a unique approach to countering harmful and hateful beliefs, championed by educator and author Irshad Manji. Robert and Mick dig into why arguing with people we disagree with doesn't work, and why it's much more effective to seek understanding--even when it feels impossible....

Mike Michalowicz⁠⁠ was declared as one of the contenders for patron saint of entrepreneurs by Simon Sinek. He is a serial entrepreneur who started several multi-million-dollar companies and uses his businesses to test and perfect ideas other entrepreneurs can use to excel. He is the author of the bestselling Entrepreneurship Simplified book series, which includes hits like Profit First, Clock...

Dr. Aliza Pressman, a developmental psychologist, Associate Clinical Professor at Mount Sinai, co-founding director of the Mount Sinai Parenting Center. Dr. Pressman is also the host of the award-winning Raising Good Humans podcast, and author of the New York Times bestselling book The 5 Principles of Parenting. Dr. Aliza Pressman joins host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss The 5 Pr...

On this episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and co-host Joey Coleman discuss being bored. They talk about why we reach for distraction over discomfort, what System 1 and System 2 thinking have to do with your phone habit, and why your best ideas show up when you let yourself be bored, and why all of this makes you stand out. Read the post referenced in this...

Taki Moore is the author of Million Dollar Coach and the creator and is the brains behind some of the largest coaches and coaching organizations in the world. Since 2004, he's on a mission to eliminate cold-calling, ambulance-chasing, and high-pressure selling from the coaching industry, and elevate coaches who actually want to help people get better. Taki Moore joined host Robert Glazer on the El...

Jill Schulman is a former U.S. Marine Corps officer turned leadership development expert, and the founder and CEO of Breakthrough Leadership Group. After five years on active duty as a combat engineer officer and a decade in sales leadership, she earned her Master's from the University of Pennsylvania and turned her career toward studying the science of bravery, resilience, and peak perf...

On this episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and co-host Brittany Hodak discuss closing doors. They talk about the two ways doors close (on you, or by your choice), why the hardest door to close is the one that still works, how to tell whether you're staying out of persistence or out of fear, and how endings make room for what comes next, and why all of this...

Charles Duhigg⁠⁠ is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and the bestselling author of three books: The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and his latest, Supercommunicators, which was published this year. Charles is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards, and he currently writes for The New Yorker and several other publicat...

Jess Ekstrom is a social entrepreneur, Forbes Top-Rated Speaker, and bestselling author. She is the founder of Headbands for Hope company that has now donated millions of headbands to kids facing serious illnesses, partnered with the NBA and WNBA, and is sold nationally at Kohl's. She's also the founder of Mic Drop Workshop, which helps more women become paid public speakers and authors, and she's...

On this episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer joins David Burkus, organizational psychologist, Columbia University professor, and bestselling author of five books on business and leadership, who has worked with leaders at organizations like PepsiCo, Fidelity, Adobe, and NASA. They dig into the fall of Jason Arday, the celebrated Cambridge professor whose story...

David Gelles⁠ is an award-winning New York Times reporter and bestselling author. He has extensive experience as a business reporter in particular and has reported extensively on, among other topics, Boeing’s safety issues, Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme, and the life and leadership of GE CEO Jack Welch. He’s the bestselling author of three books, including The Man Who Broke Capitalism, ab...

Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology and neuroscience at Boston College. A Columbia-educated researcher with a PhD in biological sciences from Rockefeller University, he has published widely across developmental psychology, anthropology, and education, and authored a college introductory psychology textbook now in its eighth edition. He is the co-founder of Let Grow, the nonprofit...

On today's episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and Joey Coleman discuss building rapport, using Robert's experience trying to retrieve a delayed laptop delivery from a UPS distribution center as the jumping-off point. They talk about the difference between showing up as a complaint versus showing up as a person, why leading with kindness often opens doors th...

Dr. Klaus Kleinfeld⁠ is one of the only leaders in history to have served as CEO of two Fortune 500 companies on different continents: ⁠Siemens⁠ in Germany and ⁠Alcoa⁠ in the United States. Today, Klaus is the founder of K2Elevation, where he invests in tech and biotech firms, and he has served on boards ranging from advanced industrial startups to global cultural initiati...

Dr. Caroline Webb, a behavioral scientist, former McKinsey partner, and author of Leadership Intelligence. Drawing from her background at the Bank of England and McKinsey, she specializes in translating behavioral science into practical tools for working life. Her new book, Leadership Intelligence, is out now. Dr. Caroline Webb joined host Robert Glazer to talk about Leadership Intelligence, Behav...

On todays episode of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and Brittany Hodak discuss what true character looks like under pressure, using U.S. soccer player Folarin Balogun's response to a controversial red card at the World Cup as the jumping-off point. They talk about the discipline of separating what you feel from how you act, why leaders are always setting an exampl...

Ed Latimore⁠ is a former professional heavyweight boxer, a competitive chess player, sobriety advocate, physics graduate, U.S. Army National Guard veteran, and a bestselling author of Not Caring What Other People Think Is a Superpower and Sober Letters to My Drunken Self. He grew up in Pittsburgh’s housing projects and fought poverty, addiction, and trauma with the discipline of boxing and the cla...

Patrick Leddin is a leadership expert, disruption strategist, and the founder of The Disruption Project at Vanderbilt University. An army veteran, he led paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne Division as an infantry officer and U.S. Army Master Parachutist. He also advised senior executives at KPMG Consulting and FranklinCovey, and co-founded Wedgewood Consulting Group. His latest book, Disrupt E...

On a classic edition of Weekend Conversations on the Elevate Podcast, host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan discussed a ridiculous, almost funny, series of errors and incidents Robert experienced on a recent trip to Nashville and Austin. Robert and Mick discuss the uniquely infuriating facets of air travel, and why it is important to keep your head, and your sense of humor, even when nothing...

Jeffrey Shaw is a gifted creator. He is an accomplished portrait photographer and business leader who is an expert on branding and marketing. He has taken portraits of supermodels, sports icons and too many C-suite executives to name, and his work has been featured on Oprah, CBS News and in the halls of Harvard University. He's also the bestselling author of multiple books and the host of the hit...

Rory Vaden is the co-founder of Brand Builders Group, a firm that helps clients identify their voice, tell their story and share their unique message. He is a world-class speaker who has competed in the World Championship of Public Speaking, and he has given a TEDx Talk, How To Multiply Time, which has been viewed over 4 million times. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of three book...