The Arik Korman Show

Neil Pasricha is the New York Times bestselling author of the Book of Awesome series, which has been published in ten countries, spent more than five years on various bestseller lists and sold more than a million copies. He is a Harvard MBA, one of the most popular TED speakers of all time and the Director of the Institute for Global Happiness. Neil has dedicated the past fifteen years of his life...

Darel Allwine is the winemaker for Washington state’s Col Solare winery on Red Mountain. He spent 20 years traveling the world for the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command, including a stint in Germany where he first became interested in wine after touring the Mosel and the Rheingau. Col Solare is part of the Grand Tasting at this weekend’s Taste Washington, Seattle’s premier wine and food event featu...

Rebecca Traister is a writer at large for New York Magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. She has written about women in politics, media and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation, The New York Observer, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, Glamour and Marie Claire. Rebecca’s first book, Big Girls Don’t Cry, a...

Sonia Shah is an investigative journalist and author of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books on science, human rights, and international politics. Previous works include The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years, The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World’s Poorest Patients and Crude: The Story of Oil. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Scientific...

Adam Grant has been recognized as Wharton’s top-rated teacher for four straight years and one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers and 40 best business professors under forty. His first book, Give and Take, was a New York Times bestseller translated into 27 languages and named one of the best books of 2013 by Amazon, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Busin...

John Donvan is a contributing correspondent to ABC News, where, in a three decade long career, his postings have included Chief White House Correspondent, Chief Moscow Correspondent, Amman Bureau Chief, Jerusalem Correspondent, London Correspondent, Eastern Europe Correspondent, and, most recently, a regular correspondent for Nightline. He is also host/moderator of the Intelligence Squared U.S. De...

Rick Shenkman is an award-winning investigative reporter, a New York Times bestselling author, and the publisher and editor of the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. Rick Shenkman’s new book is Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics. See him speak Thursday night at...

Kara Platoni teaches reporting and narrative writing at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Journalism Award and the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists. Kara’s new book is We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians and Scientists are Transforming Human Perception, One Sense at a Time...

Juliana Rambaldi has earned international acclaim for leading roles with major opera companies across the United States and abroad, including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, Seattle Opera and many more. Juliana stars in Hollywood Nights, now playing at Seattle’s Teatro Zinzanni through January 31st. Info at Zinzanni.com and JulianaRambaldi.com

Alex Honnold is a world-class American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls. He has broken a number of speed records, most notably the only known solo climb of the Yosemite Triple crown. Alex is the author of Alone on the Wall, a collaboration with David Roberts that shares his climbing adventures. He was in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, presented by Town H...

Cheryl Strayed is a memoirist, novelist and essayist. Her second book, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, has been translated into more than thirty languages. The Oscar-nominated movie adaptation of Wild stars Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl and Laura Dern as Cheryl's mother, Bobbi. Cheryl's essays have been published in The Best American Essays, the New York Times, the Washington Po...

Jerry Kaplan is a computer scientist, author, futurist, and serial entrepreneur. He is the founder GO Corporation, whose technology was used to develop the first smartphone and tablet PC, and the co-founder of OnSale, the first B2C online auction site launched in 1994, five months before eBay. He is currently a Fellow at the Center for Legal Informatics at Stanford University and teaches ethics an...

Chris Cosentino is a celebrity chef and reality television personality known as the winner of Top Chef Masters, a competitor on The Next Iron Chef and for his appearances on Iron Chef America. In 2015 Chris opened Cockscomb to rave reviews in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood. In addition to serving as chef/owner of Cockscomb, he is also the co-creator and chef of Boccalone artisanal salumeria and...

Lisa Randall is a theoretical physicist and leading expert on particle physics and cosmology. She is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Physics at Harvard University. Her research includes elementary particles and fundamental forces and she has studied a wide variety of models, including about extra dimensions of space. Her most recent research is about dark matter, also the subject of her new b...

Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor are the co-Founders of Vega Factor, a consulting firm that measures the strength of an organization’s culture and quantifies the return on investment of building a great culture. Neel and Lindsay’s new book is Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation. They also happen to be married. To each-other. Learn...

Robert Reich is a political economist, professor, author, and political commentator. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. Secretary Reich is currently Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a political commentator on programs including H...

John Seabrook is a journalist who writes about technology and popular culture. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993 and is the author of Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace, Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing and the Marketing of Culture, and Flash of Genius and Other True Stories of Invention. A feature film based on Flash of Genius was released in 2008, starring Greg Kinne...

Pedro Domingos is a professor of computer science at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a winner of the SIGKDD Innovation Award, the highest honor in data science. Professor Domingos is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and his new book is The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World. Info at pedrod...

Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis is the brave and resourceful young teacher who piled her 15 first-grade students into a tiny bathroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and hid there with them during what is now known as the worst mass murder of schoolchildren in the United States. She is the founder of the nonprofit organization Classes 4 Classes Inc., which teaches compassion, caring...

Jane McGonigal is the director of game research and development at the Institute for the Future and the author of the New York Times bestseller Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World. Her work has been featured in The Economist, Wired, The New York Times and on MTV, CNN and NPR. Her TED talks on games have been viewed more than ten million times. Jane's new b...

Daniel Levitin is a cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, best-selling author, musician and record producer. Professor Levitin is best known for three #1 best-selling books: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature, and his newest work, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload...

Jerome and Laura Tisserand are principal dancers with the Pacific Northwest Ballet and are husband and wife. Jerome Tisserand is from Lyon, France. He trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School, with Pascale Courdioux in Lyon, and at the School of American Ballet. Jerome joined Miami City Ballet as an apprentice in 2006 and moved west to Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in...

Sir Salman Rushdie is a novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981. His work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, was the center of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries. Death threats were made against h...

Ana Popović is a Memphis-based Serbian blues guitarist and singer. She was born in Belgrade, where her father introduced her to the blues, and she started to play guitar at age 15. Ana toured with the band Hush in 1995, formed her own band in 1999 and since then has played with Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Bootsy Collins, John Hiatt, Susan Tedeschi, Gary Clark Jr., Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Joe Bonamassa....

Pat Mills is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor, whose feature film debut “Guidance” was featured at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival. Pat is a former child actor who appeared on the TV series "You Can't Do That on Television." "Guidance" is in theaters now. Info at GuidanceTheFilm.com and SIFF.net