Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People

Ronnie Lott is one of the best football players in the history of the NFL. After a successful college football career at USC he was the first round draft pick of the SF 49ers in 1981. Over his fourteen year career, he played for the 49ers, Los Angeles Rams, New York Jets, and Kansas City Chiefs. In his rookie year he helped the 49ers win Super Bowl XVI. He played on three more 49er teams that won...

This episode’s remarkable guest is Katherine Maher. Until April 2021 she was chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation—and she did a remarkable in this remarkable position. She has a bachelor’s degree from New York University as well as extensive education in the Middle East. She worked for UNICEF, National Democratic Institute, World Bank, and Access Now. She was...

Listen in as Guy Kawasaki interviews Jo Boaler, math evangelist, respected researcher, and Stanford Professor. Jo believes our current methods for math instruction are broken and is on a mission to get rid of timed mathematics and rote memorization. She is a leading voice for a wholly different pedagogy where speed is out, depth is in, and the journey to an answer can be as important as the destin...

On this week's Remarkable People podcast: Martin Lindstrom. Martin is the founder and chairman of Lindstrom Company, a global branding & culture transformation firm, operating across five continents and more than 30 countries. TIME Magazine has named Lindstrom one of the “World’s 100 Most Influential People,” and for three years running, Thinkers50, has selected Lindstrom to be among the world’s t...

Join Guy Kawasaki on this week's Remarkable People podcast with guest Jeff Hawkins. Jeff a Silicon Valley veteran often credited with starting the entire handheld computing industry. He is a serial entrepreneur, scientist, engineer, and inventor. He also founded two mobile computing companies, Palm and Handspring, and is the architect of many computing products such as the PalmPilot and Treo smart...

Rich Benoit is a remarkably funny guy and he single-handedly turned junked Teslas into a seller's market. He creates content for a YouTube channel called Rich Rebuilds. This features his adventures rebuilding and repairing cars. His automotive saga took off in 2016. At the time Rich “needed” to own a Tesla, but Teslas were $100,000 new and $70,000 used. He was too cheap to buy one. Loved talking a...

A massive update to one of my favorite books, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Dr. Robert Cialdini spurred a return visit to Remarkable People. At the time I recorded, he was the only return guest but then Dr. Jane Goodall snuck in for Earth Month. If you're into marketing, influencers, evangelism, sales, or influencing people, don't miss this episode!

Hoping to help others change or to kick-start change yourself? This podcast with Katy Milkman, author of How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, will help you get some ideas on implementing change. This week on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast, Dr. Katy Milkman.

Next on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast, Mark Manson. Mark is the author of two New York Times best-sellers: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, and Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope. In total, more than 13 million copies of these books have sold. Don’t let the profanity get in the way of the gravity and practicality of his thinking. Mark is fundamentally a philosopher with valuabl...

A conversation about conservation with Dr. Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 60-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960, where she witnessed human-like behaviors amongst chimpanzees. Now she...

Celebrated NYT best-selling author Paul Theroux on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast. Paul has lived an extraordinary life traveling the globe writing many highly acclaimed books. His novels include The Lower River and The Mosquito Coast, and his renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and Dark Star Safari and the upcoming book about Hawaii and surfing, Under the Wave...

This week on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People is Nikhil Kamath, the co-founder of India’s largest stock brokerage, Zerodha. For what it’s worth, he’s in his early thirties and a billionaire based on his stake in the company. His “made for movies” story is that he dropped out of high school to play chess, worked at a call center answering support questions, started a stock brokerage, and became a b...

This remarkable guest is soccer legend Brandy Chastain. She represents the highest level of achievement in sports. Her accomplishments are truly remarkable. Brandi won a gold medal in the 1996 Olympics for women's soccer and World Cup championships in 1991 and 1999. She was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame and the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame. She may be best remembered for a remarka...

This interview with Dr. Sheila Nazarian changed my preconceived notions about plastic surgeons. Dr. Sheila Nazarian is a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, California currently transforming lives on Netflix’s Skin Decision: Before and After. The Netflix series captures how Dr. Sheila Nazarian and her assistant, Jamie Sherrill (aka Nurse Jamie), help patients improve appearances marred by abusive re...

Meet Melissa Bernstein, half of the team behind Melissa and Doug. Melissa & Doug is a half-billion-dollar success story, its products a cheerful presence in toy stores and on children’s bedroom floors everywhere. Far less known are the real people behind the company: Melissa and Doug Bernstein, a married couple and parents of six, who are the founders, architects, and entrepreneurial force behind...

You'll be inspired by this resilient entrepreneur. Suzy Batiz is the founder and CEO of Poo-Pourri and is on Forbes list of America’s richest self-made women and she faced many struggles and challenges along her journey. This episode is more about spiritual evolution than business success.

You'll get a kick out of this remarkable person. I know I did. Luvvie Ajayi Jones is an award-winning author, podcast host, and sought-after speaker who thrives at the intersection of comedy, justice, and professional troublemaking.

Colin Bryar coauthored "Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon," which is a first-person account of how Amazon created and implemented the principles and processes that have made it successful. We also take you in the room and show how these principles and practices were used to create four key Amazon business: Kindle, Amazon Prime, Prime Video, and Amazon Web Service...

This episode’s remarkable guest is Lauren Kunze--plus we have a second guest, Kuki, an artificial-intelligence chatbot. Lauren is currently the CEO of Pandorabots, a platform that powers conversational chatbots. Our second guest is Lauren’s chatbot, Kuki. Here are some stats about Kuki: More than 25 million users More than 1 billion messages exchanged An average of 64 messages per session There ar...

In this episode, you’ll hear one of the most insightful pieces advice ever on this podcast from Angela Duckworth: when to quit something. And if that’s not enough, two powerful ways to change your behavior. Angela Duckworth is a MacArthur “genius” grant winner, researcher, and author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.

Humor in business? Absolutely! This week on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People, Guy spoke with the co-authors of Humor, Seriously: Why Humor is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (and how anyone can harness it. Even you.) Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas. They shared their stories and research based on their popular class at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. The pair believe that humor is a...

Dr. Jonah Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and internationally bestselling author of Contagious, Invisible Influence, and The Catalyst. He received a BA from Stanford University in Human Judgment and Decision Making, and a PhD from Stanford in Marketing. Dr. Berger is a world-renowned expert on change, word of mouth, influence, consumer behavi...

Rick Smolan has lived a life traveling around the world documenting with his camera for National Geographic, Time, and Life magazines. He famously photographed Robyn Davidson on her 1,700 solo trek across the Australian desert with four camels and a dog in 1977 which earned a cover story on National Geographic, became a best selling book with Rick's photos, and was turned into a movie called Track...

This week on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast Guy chats with Julia Cameron. Julia has written forty books including best-seller The Artist's Way, plays, musicals, and screenplays. She is a creative guidepost for millions of people, including Elizabeth Gilbert, who use her processes to unleash their ideas and creativity. You'll be enchanted with Julia's stories and she shares details of how...

A special episode of Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People that involves not one but nine remarkable people. They are experts in the fields of such as psychology, history, decision sciences, and human behavior. They agreed to participate in this special project in order to help combat the coronavirus. I asked them to assume that we figured out the development, manufacturing, and logistics of vaccinatio...