10,000 NOs

Richard Schiff is possibly most famous for his Emmy Award-winning turn as White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler on "The West Wing" but he seems to be just about everywhere in film, TV and theater these days.    He's an Actor's actor.  Sitting down with him was a reminder of not only the intensity and intelligence required to portray characters so deeply, but the thirst f...

  In this special episode, Matt riffs raw from his car... 17 minutes, no music, no fanfare... just honest observations about the positive effects of taking a leap and creating something from scratch that hopefully leaves the world a little better than you left it.  Special thanks to EVERY guest, listener, encourager, helper (Sound Editor James Ede and Intern Eleanor Song) who has made this adventu...

At age 11 Maria Sansone quickly earned the title, "The Youngest Reporter in the History of Network Television" and soon found herself interviewing sports legends like Michael Jordan when most kids her age had yet to hit puberty.  Her meteoric rise put some strain on her adolescent years, causing her to leave the business through High School.  But junior year of college, she won a Nation-wi...

  Nicky Weinstock is a player in Hollywood.  But, more than that, he's a good human who's genuine love of writing and helping to craft stories has led him to collaborate closely with such giants as Ben Stiller (he currently runs Red Hour Films with Stiller), Judd Apatow, Rupert Murdoch and Peter Chernin.  He's also helped shape shows like How I Met Your Mother and films like Pineapple...

Authors Heather Turgeon & Julie Wright came onto the Parenting book scene strong with their successful book, The Happy Sleeper.  Demand for their parenting tips led to a second book deal with the recently published, Now Say This.  Psychotherapists with specialization in babies, families and sleep, their work has been published in the New York Times & The Washington Post among other publica...

My guest today, Heather Hayward is a results coach who is responsible for getting some of the brightest minds in business, law, surgery and the arts into their peak states of focus to not only perform at the highest levels, but also find fulfillment while doing so.  There are so many takeaways from our conversation, but my favorite may be her 3-minute reset, using breathing techniques to get our h...

Lawrence Trilling is the Directing Producer and Showrunner of the critically-acclaimed Amazon Original Series, Goliath, starring Billy Bob Thornton.  Prior to Goliath, Lawrence was a major creative force on many hit shows, including Parenthood, Scrubs and Alias as well as the upcoming Condor for AT&T. Prior to that, he was delivering pizzas and teaching English as a Second Language.  Can't...

My guest today is High Impact Coach and founder of Sh*t You Don't Learn in College, Zander Fryer's story is one of risk for the sake of following one's soul.  He left a decent job in the corporate world when he realized that he only gets one go in this world and decided he'd rather spend his time doing what he really wanted to do.  Turns out his decision not only brought him more f...

Boston College Women's Lacrosse Head Coach, Acacia Walker's accolades are so vast we can't begin to scratch the surface:  at 15, she was the youngest member of the World Championship U-19 Team that won Gold in Perth, Australia.  As a collegiate player herself, she was an All-American at the University of Maryland where she won the coveted James H. Kehoe Award.  As an assistant coach at...

Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman & Liev Schreiber have just a few of the Superhero physiques for which Super Trainer Don Saladino is responsible.  But, while that's all very cool, we talk about much more:  strategy, mindset, surprisingly doing LESS than you think you need to do to make massive changes in your results.  Don gives us the pillars of his social media strategy that have morphed him...

Writer/Director/Actor/Producer Mark Duplass, along with his brother Jay, has managed to jump the gap from indie darling to major Hollywood player, creating series like HBO's Room 104 and Togetherness as well as a massive slate of indie films, studio films and even documentaries like the wildly successful Wild, Wild Country for Netflix.  As of May 8th, Mark and Jay can now add "Author"...

Nutritionist and cleanse expert Elissa Goodman is the author of Cancer Hacks: A Holistic Guide to Overcoming Your Fears and Healing Cancer.  I know it sounds serious, but we had some laughs while also hearing how she combined holistic alternatives with traditional treatments to beat cancer and how losing her husband to cancer prematurely led to her mission to save others from suffering the same fa...

Ben Odell recently produced the successful comedy, How to Be a Latin Lover, which starred his producing partner, Eugenio Derbez alongside Salma Hayek, Rob Lowe, Kristen Bell and Michael Cera. And they are releasing a remake of the classic comedy, Overboard April 13th of 2018 where Eugenio stars alongside Anna Faris and Eva Longoria. Here, Ben opens up with stories of his journey, which take us fro...

"I call it... I'm a 'can't-notter', like... 'I can't not do this'." Traver Boehm has a riveting TED talk entitled "Make Pain Your Guru".  While I highly recommend it, I loved our much lighter conversation just as much, if not more. Maybe "light" isn't the right word, as we delved into the pain he experienced when his wife walked out on him sh...

"You know, I really do believe in the power of grit. And perseverance." In her past life, Suze was wildly successful as a fashion editor for decades and Executive Editor at Large of Glamour Magazine for almost 10 years.  The New York Times has referred to her as a "fairy godmother" for her makeover abilities.  She's been featured all over the press - The Today Show, Good Mornin...

"You can lose your Twitter account, you can lose your website, you can lose your email list but if you have your relationships, you're gonna be just fine. Even though you don't necessarily believe it." Jordan Harbinger is the former co-creator/host of the wildly popular podcast, The Art of Charm, which he recently left to venture on his own with The Jordan Harbinger Show, which is...

"Cause I'm a firm believer that anyone can get their foot in any door now... the trick is to be so irresistible that that person doesn't want you to leave." Steve Sims simply doesn't hear the word "No". His company, Bluefish, gets people like Elan Musk and Richard Branson experiences that mere money can't buy. Find out why Forbes magazine called him "the guy wit...

"Any difficult experience, tragedy, time in your life, I do believe it brings amazing opportunity." Maggie Neilson has impacted the world in a large way, helping people around the world with everything from Hurricane relief to Civil Rights to Sex Trafficking. And even though she works with some of the world's largest stars and business leaders, she has remained humble and never forgott...

"I'd just finished Grad School and I was like, 'Okay, I'm gonna be a screenwriter. And then, I got this letter and I was like, 'I'm gonna get a 'real job' and be an editor for ESPN because I need to pay off these loans." Hear what it's like to have your words spoken by The Rock, Kevin Hart, Mindy Kaling and Chris Messina... and what it's like to eat late...

"So after September 11th happened, I had every accessibility to the bottle and... life just got really tough, Matt, it really did." In November of 2005, having become an Ironman just months before, Matt Long finished the New York City Marathon with the 4th fastest time among all NYC Firefighters, qualifying for Boston the following Spring. A month later, he was impaled on his bicycle in Ma...

"What's the difference between wannabe entrepreneurs versus real entrepreneurs? What's the shift, ya know? Really, the real question is, how do you go from dreamer to doer ?" ## Benjamin Hardy has been successfully blogging for years, but he's also studying toward his PhD in Business Psychology, speaking on big stages, and raising three foster children with his wife. Much of hi...

"When you're open, about your own life, that's sometimes when the best things happen." Not many people can boast about working in the real White House and the fictitious one on Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing, but Eli's journey to both was unplanned. It was the result of a big, fat "No" in the form of possibly the most disputed Presidential campaign in the history of o...

How does one get to shoot the biggest names in Hollywood (and sports) as well as the biggest brands in the world? He packs up his car and drives to Telluride, Colorado where he learns to snowboard and fly fish and teach others to do the same for ten years. Then he moves to LA and works his arse off for some of the most demanding photographers in the world before he goes out on his own. Most import...

From Zimbabwe to South Central, Marshall Tuck has been making an impact on young people's lives through public education. If all goes well, he'll move the needle even more as California's next State Superintendent of Public Instruction ## If you like what you hear, please Subscribe, leave an iTunes review and spread the word. You can also listen to all episodes at www.10000nos.com Host...

"And when I finally got pregnant, it was like... 'Okay, be calm!' 'But really, this is stressful!' 'But, be calm! Don't be so stressful I have to deal with this!!'" A lot of us remember where we were on July 16, 1999 when John F. Kennedy Jr. died tragically. Emily Raiber was a college kid, doing a summer News Internship out of Colgate University when she went in...