Spread Great Ideas: The Podcast

I'm pleased to welcome my dear friend David Newell to the show. David wears many hats—writer, philosopher, consigliere, and more. He knows more about myths, the collective unconscious, and Carl Jung's works than anyone I know. And, as he put it: "The meaning and morality of One's life comes from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self-expansion by experimenting and by living dangerou...

Please welcome Bo Bink to the show. Bo is the "kraamzorg" who supported our family following the recent birth of our second child. What's a "kraamzorg," you ask? In the Netherlands, it's part of a system called " kraamverzorgster ," a unique form of in-home care provided to every new mother in the days after childbirth. Think of it as a blend of medical checkups, emotional support, breastfeeding g...

Please welcome my friend Allen Brouwer.  Allen is a father of two, an accomplished entrepreneur, a boat and nature lover, and a wicked combination of both good-looking and charming.   We chat about his old company, BestSelf Co., which he co-founded. It was the only company to win both Shopify's Build-a-Business and Build-a-Bigger-Business. And his new company, WithLove, which he also co-founded, o...

Please welcome my friend Taylor Pearson to the show.  Taylor is a fellow father and entrepreneur, the author of  The End of Jobs , an essayist with his  Interesting Times  newsletter, a fellow Tennessean, one of the founders of a long-volatility and tail-risk hedge fund, and a former college football player, where he played offensive line.  He's spent the last decade researching and writing about...

Please welcome my friend Janwillem de Kwaasteniet to the show.  He's the founder of Bright Horizon, which he started after visiting Medellin, Colombia. He's got a great entrepreneurial story to share. We go over how he started his first company, what it's like being a long-term adventurer, and yes, why I jokingly call him an underwear model. Honestly, to me, he's the Dutch version of Tim Ferriss....

Please welcome my friend Julio Froment Castellvi to the show. Julio is the "brains and brawn" behind Picking Nuggets , one of my favorite YouTube channels that is just about to crack 150k subs. And " The Little Almanack ", a weekly newsletter where he shares timeless ideas (from influential doers) with handmade infographics to 16,000 plus subscribers. His three defining values are curiosity, truth...

Please welcome my friend Shawn Wells to the show.  He's known as "The Most Trusted Voice in Supplements" after formulating over 1000+ supplements and having patented 40 unique compounds.  He's also known for the catchphrase "Caffeine is Dead," which we'll get into, especially as it relates to his energy drink company, Update. When Shawn and I met in 2018, he was living outside of Dallas, TX and in...

Please welcome my thoughtful and thought-provoking friend, Schalk Dormehl.  Schalk is an aspiring polymath and a fellow lover of liberty and action-based philosophy. We jam on the past, present, and future political landscape of South Africa, personal sovereignty (one of my favorites), and civic responsibility in today's world. Lastly, we touch on entrepreneurship, crypto, and AI in the context of...

Please welcome John Wang to the show. John is a leadership coach to the Asian American community, a corporate speaker, and host and writer of the Big Asian Energy podcast and upcoming book of the same title.  He's the founder of Mastery Academy and has coached Asian American clients from Google, Apple, AmEx, Goldman Sachs, and other Fortune 500 companies.  He's also a celeb on TikTok, making video...

Please welcome my adventurous and curious friend, Gareth Hermann.  Gareth is an entrepreneur, an "ops nut" like I am, an expat, a fellow lover of travel and "steel ponies," and an aspiring overseas real estate mogul.  Most recently, he built and sold a seven-figure digital marketing agency pioneering impact marketing.  Nowadays, he splits his time between Nosara, Costa Rica, and Boulder, Colorado....

Please welcome my handsome and talented friend, Billy Bosch.  He's a long-time health entrepreneur, a travel aficionado, a real estate investor, and, as far as this podcast goes, he is someone rare in that he's reduced his "Biological Age" by ten years as he's gotten into the best shape of his life and started to really dial in his healthspan, not just his lifespan.  We'll be talking about his new...

Roman is an entrepreneur, incredibly curious, an engineer, a father of two, and, as it relates to this podcast, he's the co-founder of HasData.com — a brand that I've personally invested in.  We're going to be talking about his entrepreneurial journey, what HasData is, who uses it, who should use it, and what's next for the brand. If you're an SEO geek, a digital entrepreneur, or you own a marketi...

Maggie McClure is a business owner, a mother, a wife, a very funny storyteller, and, for the sake of this podcast — at least, I can attest — that she's a badass at operations and systems optimization. I've first-hand experience working with her, and I'm excited to bring her onto the show today. Please welcome Maggie. Favorite Maggie McClure Quote "You can't keep throwing things in the garage and e...

Please welcome Jayson Gaddis to the show, he is — well — a lot of things.   He's a father, an entrepreneur, an artist, an author, a public speaker, a human behavior specialist, and most importantly, he's a relationship expert.   He's the author of Getting to Zero: How to Work Through Conflict in Your High-Stakes Relationships and is also the founder of The Relationship School .   We've known one a...

Please welcome Ryan Coisson, whom I've known for more than 10 years, to the show. He's a digital business owner, content marketer, outdoor adventurer, and finance whiz. Ryan is a pro at creating high-level processes, including planning and building specific — and I mean very, very specific — actionable steps to achieve the goals around those financial plans. He's also just a nice guy. That's why h...

I dive into the world of decentralized finance with Martin Krung, a prominent figure in the crypto space and a key contributor to Curve Finance . Martin has been an active participant in the crypto community for over a decade, focusing on innovative solutions and technological advancements. As a full-stack developer with a background in art software and innovation engineering, Martin brings a uniq...

I'm happy to have Demian Voorhagen with me, a name synonymous with scaling tech companies and driving substantial growth. Born and raised in Amsterdam, Demian's journey from exploring the realms of management, economics, and law, to becoming a pivotal figure in the startup and scale-up scene, is nothing short of inspiring. As someone deeply interested in AI, finance, and crypto, Demian's perspecti...

Please welcome Vin Armani, also known as Cyprian, a man of many lives and many talents. Originally from Southern California, Vin first made a name for himself as the star of Showtime's "Gigolos" TV series which chronicled his life as a sought-after gigolo in Las Vegas. By day he's been a professional Bitcoin developer since 2014. He's an author, a researcher, an entrepreneur, and now a married man...

Please welcome Guy Smith, a 25-year gun control policy researcher and the founder of the Gun Facts Project.  He's also the author of "Guns and Control", has appeared on Fox News , AlJazeera America , and is a frequent talk radio and podcast guest where he shares his team's learnings from conducting data-based investigations into criminology, public safety, and constitutional law. The slogan for th...

Please welcome Mark Pulliam, an award-winning lawyer, writer, and activist living in East Tennessee.  His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal , the L.A. Times , the Federalist , and many other publications.  He writes regularly at Misrule of Law and is also a contributing editor at Law and Liberty. As a "political refugee" from blue Austin, TX, today he's joining me to discuss the ups and...

On this episode, I invite Phil Craig onto the show. He is the leader of South Africa's Referendum Party — a single-issue party whose goal is to call a referendum on the Western Cape province seceding from South Africa. According to polls , 68% of Western Cape voters support holding a referendum, and 58% support independence. We talk about South African politics and economics, why the Western Cape...

Tom Kineshanko is the co-founder of the Swiss cryptocurrency hedge fund, Protos, which utilizes an interesting (and proprietary!) trading strategy for those HODLers who want to hold a long-term position in the top 10 cryptocurrencies. We talk about his experience in crypto, including the current threats and opportunities, the macro environment we find ourselves living in with QE, MMT, the weaponiz...

James Swanwick is an Australian-American entrepreneur who owns three successful businesses all designed to help people improve their lives, a former ESPN Sportscenter anchor, a fascinating conversationalist, and a well-rounded self-made man with a big heart.   Our chat ran the gamut. We covered relationships, politics (including Trump!), business, philosophy, self-help courses we recommend (and th...

Lavinia Iosub is a fellow expat entrepreneur who originally hails from Romania and now runs a unique combo of a business incubator, remote team management, coworking space, and consultancy service here in Bali called Livit.   (Basically, if you're looking to build a remote team, scale your existing remote team, learn how to properly be a digital nomad, or just get a cool, calm place to work from i...

Andrei Ivanou, a Belarusian native, and I sit down to learn more about the fascinating, oft-forgotten country of Belarus.  Belarus has the dubious honor of being the longest-running European dictatorship thanks to their leader, Alexander Lukashenko, who seized power in 1994 following the power vacuum that was created by the fall of the USSR.  A military man, Lukashenko is often referred to as баць...