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Fun fact about me: I’ve never been drunk. Part of it is because I’m chinese and get the “Asian Flush” (aka I feel terrible after one drink) But the other part is because I really have never had any desire to actually get drunk. Psychedelics, on the other hand, have a slightly different story for me. I’ve never done psychedelics, but I am incredibly curious about them. Tons of my friends and podcas...

Ever heard of a chicken so productive it turns homicidal? Or an NBA player who changed the course of a season… without having impressive stats? Me neither, until I sat down ( again ) with an experience designer I deeply respect, Jon Levy. Fifteen years ago, Jon founded “The Influencers”, a secret dining experience and community, whose participants include more than 4000 leaders across industry, ra...

It was a normal Saturday morning. Alphonso was 17 years old, sitting on his mom's porch in the summer of 1985, eating breakfast and talking about life when a police car rolled up. The officer told his mom it was nothing serious… They were just canvassing the neighborhood and wanted to ask Alphonso a few questions. 12 hours of interrogation later, they slid a document in front of him and said his m...

I told Eric Ries that I felt like puking after reading his new book, Incorruptible . Here's why: In The Matrix , right after Neo takes the red pill from Morpheus, Neo is shown the truth for the first time. Neo's reaction is pure overload and he starts barfing all over the floor. In Incorruptible , Eric shares hard truths about how organizations are built… and why success itself so often turns comp...

It's been just about 3 months since I last published an episode of Beyond Curious… I’ve missed you guys!! This pause has been a beautiful reset for me, there's a LOT going on behind the scenes, including some projects I can't wait to tell you about soon. But today I'm excited to announce that I'm BACK with a few episodes that have made a profound impact on me since I’ve recorded them. Today is a m...

Crazy, but this past Saturday, I turned 30! I’ve been dreaming about how I wanted to celebrate my 30th birthday for ~3 years now. It all started when my friend, Vlad Solovetski, and I were talking about my vision for Beyond Curious, right when I had re-branded. He reacted by saying, “Maybe one day you’re going to have a Curiosity Island.” My response? “FUCK yeah I’m going to have a Curiosity Islan...

👉 Access The 4% Files Treasure Map HERE To Get A Detailed Recap & Summary Of This Series! 👉 Access all of the bonus material from the 4% Files right here This is it. The GRAND Finale. It’s the fireworks show where you THINK it’s over… Then there’s another grand finale on top of the grand finale. For this final episode of the 4% files, I’m curating clips from 25+ episodes and organizing them...

👉 Access The 4% Files Treasure Map HERE To Get A Detailed Recap & Summary Of This Series! 👉 Access all of the bonus material from the 4% Files right here I’d be lying if I told you that I wasn’t a bit star struck when I first met Michael Hauge. Here’s what I knew about him: Will Smith himself had said “No one is better than Michael Hauge at finding what is most authentic in every moment of a...

👉 Access The 4% Files Treasure Map HERE To Get A Detailed Recap & Summary Of This Series! 👉 Access all of the bonus material from the 4% Files right here Have you ever stopped and stared at the beauty of a leaf? One of the first things you’ll notice is the little veins branching off… They look awfully similar to the branches that the leaf came from… They look awfully similar to the roots und...

👉 Access The 4% Files Treasure Map HERE To Get A Detailed Recap & Summary Of This Series! 👉 Access all of the bonus material from the 4% Files right here Back in July 2025, I saw a social media post that made my heart stop: The headline prominently said: Rest in Peace Steve Sims July 1966 - July 2025 Steve Sims was a podcast guest that had a profoundly deep impact in my life.  In c...

👉 Access The 4% Files Treasure Map HERE To Get A Detailed Recap & Summary Of This Series! 👉 Access all of the bonus material from the 4% Files right here . . . Today I’m introducing you to someone I consider to be an alchemist . But the type of alchemy that he practices is far more transformational than turning metal into gold… He’s an alchemist of genius , helping people reorganize their li...

👉 Access The 4% Files Treasure Map HERE To Get A Detailed Recap & Summary Of This Series! 👉 Access all of the bonus material from the 4% Files right here . . . If you asked me: “Brandon, what ideas have most permeated your life?” Of the ideas that I actively use on an almost daily basis and have done so consistently for years, there are really only two of them: The Find Your Four® concept th...

👉 Access The 4% Files Treasure Map HERE To Get A Detailed Recap & Summary Of This Series! 👉 Access all of the bonus material from the 4% Files right here . . . In April 2018, I left the cow poop-smelling college town of Whitewater, Wisconsin (Population 15,000)… And walked into a $25,000/yr mastermind room in Tempe, Arizona, filled with 7-, 8-, and 9-figure impact-driven entrepreneurs. I was...

Today we’re opening up The FOURTH 4% File — part 4 of an 11 part Beyond Curious series where I surface the most powerful, high-impact insights buried inside the 334+ hours of published episodes on this show. In this file, I’m introducing you to someone that has impacted my life in a BIG way… the brilliant Michael Roderick. I could spend several hours telling you about how awesome Michael is. In fa...

Two weeks ago, I launched The 4% Files -- an 11-part series where I'm surfacing the most powerful, high-leverage insights buried inside 334+ hours of Beyond Curious episodes. The First File revealed how to uncover your 4% — the magical zone where your greatest impact meets your greatest joy The Second File revealed an Operating System to help you to architect a game completely based off of your un...

-- To Access All Bonus Material Mentioned In This Series, Visit gobeyondcurious.com/files -- Last week, I released  the FIRST ever 4% File  -- the first of an 11-part series where I'm surfacing the most powerful, high-leverage insights buried inside 334+ hours of interviews with some of the most curious minds out there. Quick recap (if you didn't listen yet, or you want a refresher...

-- To Access All Bonus Material Mentioned In This Series, Visit gobeyondcurious.com/files -- Last week, I announced a new series being released on Beyond Curious® called The 4% Files . In this 11-part series, I’ll surface the most powerful, high-leverage insights buried inside 334+ hours of interviews with some of the most curious minds on the planet. The inspiration? The 80/20 rule… but on steroi...

Two days ago, a question randomly popped into my head: “What if I applied my Find Your Four™ framework to the entire Beyond Curious library?” If you’re new here — Find Your Four™ is a framework I developed inspired by the 80/20 rule (aka Pareto Principle).  At its core, it’s about identifying the smallest actions that create the biggest results. It turns out that if you apply 80/20 on the 20%...

In his 20s, Keith Hodge was the last person you’d ever expect to become a transformational healer. He spent his nights DJing in clubs, his days snowboarding, and followed the well-worn societal script straight into becoming a tax professional.  Life looked “normal” from the outside… until everything collapsed. Within months of starting his corporate career, Keith hit rock bottom after he walk...

I turn 30 in just about 3 months.  As I sat down to reflect on what’s changed my career trajectory the most over the past decade, one thing stood out above everything else. I call it Slipstreaming . It’s a strategy I first used when I was 21 that helped me go from “broke college student” to working side-by-side with one of my mentors, traveling the world, getting flown into $25K mastermind ro...

Five years ago, I hit “publish” on a wild experiment. (If you want a laugh, check out episode #1. I listened to it and was cringing like crazy) It wasn’t called Beyond Curious back then — but the mission underneath it was the same: To explore what it really means to live a rich life… not just financially, but emotionally, spiritually, and consciously. Fast forward to today, and this week marks the...

On August 7th, I had a session with my friend Keith Hodge where he supported me in connecting deeper with my vision and future self. In that session, a new awareness came through: To step into the next level of my vision and impact, I would need to shift my relationship with judgement . (I’ll explain more what I mean by this in a second) A day or so later after that session, I stumbled across a po...

My wife, Leah, turned the big 3-0 yesterday! To celebrate her, we’re doing two things: We’re in Florence, Italy for two weeks eating copious amounts of gelato, pizza, and gnocchi… introducing our 2 year old daughter to our favorite city I’m releasing this episode to share what I love most about her, using some AI music to add an extra little oomph! So this episode is part love letter…  Part r...

Last week, we released part one of a two-part series featuring Marcia Martin — the woman who helped pioneer the self-help empire. In case you missed it… Marcia was one of the original pioneers behind EST (now known as Landmark Forum).  She helped grow it from a 30-person seminar into a worldwide phenomenon with 800,000+ graduates , worked behind the scenes with Tony Robbins, helped catalyze T...

Today, I get to introduce you to someone who fundamentally helped create the personal development industry as we know it. In the 1970s, Marcia Martin was one of the original pioneers behind EST (now known as Landmark Forum). She was there during the very first 30-person seminar… and helped the organization grow to 800,000+ graduates, sparking a movement that would go on to impact 3.5 million peopl...