The Brain Vault: Where Science Meets Success

What if the biggest threat to your performance as a leader isn’t in your business at all? What if it’s inside your body, long before you ever feel sick? Dr. Gregory Burzynski is a board-certified internal medicine physician and the founder of Houston Concierge Medicine. He grew up the son of two physicians, watched his father work on both the standard of care and what else could be done for a pati...

What if the supplements, the tracking, and the protocols you rely on to live longer are quietly draining the life out of you? My guests today are Ramona Roemer and Andreas Heigl, co-founders of Vimed Cell, a private longevity clinic in Switzerland and Germany. They've spent more than twenty years working with people who are already doing everything right for their health, and they're the co-author...

Why can intelligent, successful leaders see everything in the room except the one thing holding their company back? My guest this week is Nicolas Pokorny. He trained in neurobiology and neuroscience, then spent more than 30 years leading teams in global business. He's the best-selling author of The Mammoth in the Room and the founder and CEO of Mammoth Leadership Sciences. Nicolas looks at leaders...

What if engagement isn't the goal? Dave Garrison says buy-in is a much higher standard, and most leaders are optimizing for the wrong one. Dave Garrison holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and has spent more than 30 years helping CEOs, senior leaders, and organizations create meaningful buy-in across their teams, with executive leadership experience and board roles including Ameritrade. He i...

Sam Shriver and Suzie Bishop join Larry Olsen from the Center for Leadership Studies, the home of the original Situational Leadership model. Sam brings more than 45 years of experience and has designed and delivered over 200 leadership and coaching programs. Suzie is Vice President of Product Development at the Center and has spent more than a decade adapting the model for today's modern learner....

What if the biggest threat to your business right now is not moving too slowly? It is moving boldly in the wrong direction. Michael Hofer is a CFO, transformative executive, author, and advisor with 40 years in finance. He has led more than 30 mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring transactions worldwide, giving him a front-row seat to what happens when bold strategy works and when it turns into...

What if the reason your business cannot scale is not your team, your strategy, or your market. It is you. Rajesh Nagjee is a business physicist. Over more than 30 years, he has worked with over 350 CEOs across 15 countries to solve what he calls the founder bottleneck. That moment when a company is ready to scale but still depends on the founder for decisions, clarity, and stability. He is also th...

What if the body you're living in right now is already sending you signals you've been trained to ignore? Dr. Sofia Din is a board-certified MD and anti-aging specialist who spent decades watching what happens when those signals go unanswered. Today she's doing something about it. In this episode, she breaks down the hormonal shifts most people never hear about, why aging is now being treated as a...

What if the real threat of AI isn't that it replaces your job — but that it slowly replaces you? In this electrifying episode of The Brain Vault Podcast, Larry sits down with Derek Rydall — bestselling author, founder of the Whole New Human Movement, and host of the globally recognized Emergence podcast — for one of the most expansive conversations we've ever had about human potential, identity, a...

Why do high-performing men lose their identity in midlife? After 35 years on the front lines of emergency medicine and over 170,000 patients treated, Dr. Kenneth Ro stepped back and named something he was seeing repeatedly. The men coming through his ER weren't just breaking down physically. They were losing their identity, their edge, and their sense of purpose. In this conversation, Larry Olsen...

What if the only real limit is the story your brain keeps accepting? Kyle and Brent Pease — co-founders of the Kyle Pease Foundation and veteran Ironman competitors — have completed over 150 races together, including multiple Ironman events, with Kyle racing from his wheelchair. But this isn't a story about disability. It's about what becomes available when you decide to see possibility where othe...

200 episodes. 31 countries. Hundreds of conversations with high-performing leaders, 200 episodes. 31 countries. Hundreds of conversations with high-performing leaders, executives, coaches, and entrepreneurs from around the globe. In this milestone episode of the Brain Vault Podcast, Larry Olsen sits down with his wife of 28 years and COO Diane Olsen to reflect on the journey, the biggest lessons l...

What if nothing in your leadership changes—not because you're not capable, but because you're still thinking like the person who created the problem? Anna Barnhill has spent 16+ years asking one question most leaders don't even realize they should be asking: why do high performers hit invisible ceilings? In this conversation, she introduces the concept that reshapes the entire leadership developme...

What if the key to your next level of leadership isn't another strategy — it's accessing a better state? In this episode of The BrainVault Podcast, Larry sits down with Grace Najean — transformational leadership strategist, former Tony Robbins master coach, and creator of the Soul Fluence Awakening — who has guided over 5,000 executives and high performers to lead with greater clarity, alignment,...

What if your best chapter isn't behind you — it's the one you finally have time to write?   Michael Fors spent decades in sales, knocked on thousands of doors, and heard more nos than most people ever will. Then he retired. And instead of slowing down, he did what most people only talk about — he acted on an idea he'd been sitting on for years, got a patent, and built something entirely new.   In...

You hit every target. You show up for everyone. You're the person others rely on. But underneath the achievement, there's a quiet exhaustion you can't explain. What if the pattern draining your energy isn't a flaw, but a brilliant childhood survival strategy that's long past its expiration date?   EPISODE OVERVIEW: In this episode, Larry Olsen sits down with Beatriz Victoria Albina, a UCSF-trained...

What if the next level of your business is already within reach — and the only upgrade needed is in you? Dr. Fleet Maull, founder of HeartMind and creator of Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness, has spent more than 50 years mastering the science of human performance — and he brings an edge no traditional business advisor can match. From building an Inc. 5000 company to pioneering the world's first prison ho...

What if the leadership that got us here is the very thing standing in the way of our survival? In this episode of The Brain Vault, Larry Olsen sits down with global powerhouse Maria Brinck to expose the "outdated mindsets" quietly failing our organizations and our planet. From the boardrooms of Europe to the indigenous circles of the Congo Basin, Maria has witnessed a transformation that most lead...

You're disciplined. You're committed. You show up every day and put in the work. But what happens when effort and motivation aren’t delivering the results you know you're capable of?   Santiago Brand is an international educator and consultant in brain mapping and neurofeedback who uses real brain data to reveal what's actually happening when people perform, stall, or burn out. Trained as both a s...

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In this episode of The Brain Vault Podcast, Larry sits down with Louisa Loran, leadership advisor and author of Leadership, Autonomy and Motion, for a conversation that redefines how leaders create change. Not through more programs or strategies—but through behavior, presence, and motion. Louisa shares why listening creates movement, why autonomy unlocks momentum, and why clarity matters even when...

What if uncertainty isn’t something to fear… but one of the greatest advantages you have as a leader? In this episode of The BrainVault Podcast, Larry Olsen sits down with Scott Stirrett — best-selling author of The Uncertainty Advantage, founder of Venture for Canada, and a rising force in modern leadership. Scott’s journey from leaving Goldman Sachs at 22 to building a national organization reve...

What if the success you’re after isn’t somewhere “out there”… but already built into you, simply waiting to be activated? In this energizing episode of The BrainVault Podcast, Larry welcomes Wei Houng, co-founder of HumanOp Technologies, whose groundbreaking work reveals how every one of us carries a natural blueprint for clarity, flow, and high performance. This isn’t motivation—it’s measurable s...