Bounce! Conversations with Larry Weeks

"We've all had that experience of expressing something with certainty…and someone says "wanna bet?" and immediately it brings to the fore the fact that whenever you declare something you believe to be true, or a prediction, that there's risk in that – Annie Duke All decisions have tradeoffs, risk vs. reward. We have to make choices that have costs yet, many factors involved in making those choices...

This is a podcast about training how you want to exist in the world. Your training how to do this everyday. If you're existing in a consistently negative state  - angry, fearful, stressful - that's the habit you're unconsciously training. There is a better way.  My guest is Jeff Warren. Jeff is an author and meditation teacher and referred to as the meditation MacGyver. He's the author of "The Hea...

Rory Sutherland is  one of the most admired and influential intellects in advertising. He is also one of the most interesting and witty people I've had the privilege talking to.  Rory is Vice Chairman of Ogilvy and Mather group and co-founder of Ogilvy Change, a behavioral science practice were he co-heads a team of psychology graduates who look for "butterfly effects" in consumer behavior - these...

"The important thing is never stop questioning" - Albert Einstein  What's possible, medically, mentally and physically, is the topic of this podcast. And the power of persistence.  What would you do if your child was diagnosed with a debilitating autoimmune disease and every treatment protocol was not working? The medications prescribed are not only ineffective but come with even worse negative ph...

My guest on this episode is Marisa Peer. Marisa is a best selling author, motivational speaker and a pioneering therapist in the UK. Marissa was named best British therapist by Men's Health magazine and is featured in Tatler guide to Britain's 250 best doctors. Over the last 25 years Marissa has spent time with an extensive client list that includes rock stars, actors, royalty, professional and Ol...

"The problem of disrespectful, demeaning, and downright mean-spirited behavior is worse than ever" - Robert Sutton I'm sure everybody listening to this podcast has dealt with or is currently dealing with, a jerk, and this is most likely some work situation as you can't always choose who you work with and often due to the power position - it's a boss. But it could be someone you have to live with o...

Dr. Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times best-selling author of  "Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life Tasha has thoroughly studied the science of self-awareness and has helped thousands of people improve their personal and professional effectiveness. Tasha believes that hei...

My guest is this episode is Caroline Miller. Author of  Getting Grit (2017) For almost three decades has been a pioneer with her ground-breaking work in the areas of goal setting, accomplishment, grit, happiness and success.   She is recognized as one of the world's leading positive psychology experts on this research and how it can be applied to one's life for maximum transformation and growth. I...

NOTE: This is part two of a series on the subject of failure. On this episode, we talk with Ashley Good on how companies can fail intelligently. Part one is with Ryan Babineaux. How does a company deal with failure?   Can companies "fail well" and use failure as a catalyst for innovation? Ashley Good is the CEO and Founder of Fail Forward  – the world's first failure consultancy – that supports pe...

This is part one of a two part series on the subject of failure. On this episode we talk with Ryan Babineaux the author of "Fail Fast, Fail Often" on the importance of making mistakes and learning from them to discover what works and more importantly - what makes you happy.   What if your biggest mistake is that you're not making enough mistakes? I don't mean in the sense of purposely screwing thi...

To say James Altucher is an interesting guy may be a gross understatement. He's a computer programmer, venture capitalist, former hedge fund manager, successful author, financial journalist, serial founder (20 companies), CEO, publisher, popular podcaster, chess master. He doesn't own anything, lives exclusively in AirBnBs, does stand-up bits on subway trains. He's been described as the "minimalis...

What we're trying to do is figure out what leads us to the edge of happiness cliff that point at which we have a maximum productivity, maximum happiness without going over the edge - Amy Blankson There is no doubt that technology in the 20th century has brought advances unimaginable in previous eras. In the US gross domestic product per capita quintupled from 1950 to 2016. Things that were once lu...

At the age of 36 and as a mother of three with a busy solo practice in internal medicine Wendy Harpham M.D. was diagnosed with stage three non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and just like that, the Doctor became the patient. Now, from both sides of the stethoscope, Wendy uses her unique perspective to help patients become  healthy survivors,  survivors who get good care and live as fully as possible. Dr. Wen...

If you haven't noticed, Stoicism is getting popular these days. Google it and a raft of influencer and popular thought leader articles appear touting the philosophy's benefits. As Nassim Taleb ascribes to the stoic sage in his book The Black Swan: "Someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking." I want that. I talked with sc...

Is everything you know about "success" wrong?   Well, maybe not everything but a hell of a lot of what we've been taught about achievement is, at best, simplistic and at worst, just wrong. ERIC BARKER is the creator of the blog Barking Up the Wrong Tree. Almost 300,000 subscribers. His work has been mentioned in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Time Magazine, The...

On the 31st of May in 2014, on a public holiday in New Zealand, Lucy Hone's 12 yr old daughter, Abi, was killed in a tragic car accident along with her best friend Ella and Lucy's best friend Sally.   Lucy said her life was smashed, as she put it ... " I mean your entire life scheme - your life story your identity - has been smashed to smithereens…It's like someone had taken a mallet like a croque...

Dr. David Burns, MD is the author of the best-selling, "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy," which has sold more than five million copies worldwide. Feeling Good is the book most frequently "prescribed" for depressed patients by psychiatrists and psychologists in the United States and Canada. Surveys indicate that American mental health professionals rate Feeling Good as the #1 book on depression,...

When you open Scott's book you get this: " WARNING! No one should attempt any of these methods or practices without appropriate experience, training, fitness level, doctor approval and supervision… " You quickly learn why. The book contains examples of people practicing techniques in extreme conditions that push physical limits and Scott, an investigative journalist, is out to prove that the man (...

Isaac Lidsky's TED talk was viewed more than a million times in its first 20 days. It has a mid preso reveal I'll spoil for you here - he is blind, and when revealed, it's a surprise, if you didn't know Isaac. He looks and presents like he's seeing you, but make no mistake, he is not. Isaac was diagnosed with a blinding eye disease when he was 12 years old and he slowly lost his sight over the nex...

In times of extreme upheaval, why do some people, communities, companies and systems thrive, while others fall apart? Andrew Stolli answers that question and more.  Andrew is the author of the best-selling book "Resilience, Why Things Bounce Back" published by Simon and Schuster in the U.S., and in many other languages and territories around the world. The books is his research on the dynamics of...

An undefeated mind isn't one that never feels discouraged or despairing; it's one that continues on in spite of it - Alex Lickerman Over the last twenty years Dr. Alex Lickerman has watched thousands of patients struggle with sickness and issues from colds to cancers. He has extensive experience treating the sickest of the sick at a renowned academic medical center located in the heart of one of t...

How difficult would your day-to-day tasks become if you were missing just one of your arms? How about both? What if you were missing all four limbs? Now, after you surmount your everyday challenges regarding getting dressed, feeding yourself, typing etc (without prosthetics mind you), go compete in football, excel at wrestling, then go climb (check that, bear crawl) up a mountain, wait, make it Mt...