The Fred Pinto Podcast

Dr. Yoram Hazony is the President of the Herzl Institute, Chairman of the Edmond Burke Foundation, and the award-winning author of The Virtue of Nationalism and The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture. (00:00:00) In this episode (00:01:28) Chapter 1: The Cultural Revolution in the 21st Century (00:24:20) Chapter 2: The Old Testament as Philosophy (00:32:38) Chapter 3: Learning through Metaphors (00:47:...

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist, public speaker, and author of The Science Delusion and Science and Spiritual Practices, among other books. (00:00:00) In this episode (00:00:19) Intro (00:03:47) Chapter 1: One Free Miracle (00:11:45) Chapter 2: Living in a Material World (00:17:10) Chapter 3: A Trinitarian Metaphysics (00:26:33) Chapter 4: Nature’s Purposes (00:40:10) Chapter 5: Why Does Spiri...

Coleman Hughes is a writer, podcast host and musician. He is the author of The End of Race Politics , and is a regular contributor to The Free Press. (00:00:00) In this episode (00:00:22) Intro (00:05:50) Chapter 1: Making Sense (00:11:14) Chapter 2: The New Race Politics (00:36:18) Chapter 3: Identity: Race or Values? (00:46:05) Chapter 4: Race Politics in Corporate America (01:02:41) Chapter 5:...

Dr. Steven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, whose books include The Language Instinct, The Blank Slate, Enlightenment Now, and Rationality. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World.  (00:00:00) In this episode (00:00:11) Intro (00:03:17) Chapter 1: Revisiting...

Dr. Jean Twenge is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, and the best-selling author of The Narcissism Epidemic and Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents – and What They Mean for America’s Future. (00:00:00) In this episode (00:00:12) Intro (00:05:36) Chapter 1: Today’s Mental Health Epidemic (00:13:51) Chapter 2: The Rise of In...

Dr. Michael Mannino teaches at the Institute for Data Science and Computing at the University of Miami and is the Chief Science Officer at the Flow Research Collective. (00:00:00) In this episode (00:00:06) Intro (00:04:30) Chapter 1: Neuroscience and Philosophy (00:18:40) Chapter 2: Mind Body Connection (00:28:26) Chapter 3: Levels of Embodied Consciousness (00:46:17) Chapter 4: The Cognitive Ben...

Steven Kotler is a New York Times best-selling author, an award-winning journalist, and the executive director of the Flow Research Collective . His books include Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, and The Art of Impossible .  - Chapters -  (00:00:00) In this episode  (00:00:11) Intro (00:02:58) Chapter 1: What is Flow?  (00:24:11) Chapter 2: Calibrating Challenges  (00:33:47) Chapter 3: Purpose...

James Altucher is an entrepreneur, investor, best-selling author, and host of The James Altucher Show. - Chapters -  (00:00:00) In this episode… (00:00:15) - Intro (00:06:27) Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship: a Series of Experiments (00:23:21) Chapter 2: Reinvention and Problem-Solving (00:46:49) Chapter 3: The Spokes and Wheel Approach (01:02:02) Chapter 4: AI’s Creativity Revolution (01:11:03) Chapte...

Claude Silver is the Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX. - Chapters -  (00:00:00) In this episode… (00:00:16) Intro (00:02:31) Chapter 1: Queen of Hearts (00:16:32) Chapter 2: Caring with High Standards (00:28:18) Chapter 3: Purpose and Grit (00:38:05) Chapter 4: Empathetic truth-telling (00:43:43) Chapter 5: Of Chops and Culture (00:54:08) Chapter 6: The Balanced Life For more podcasts, check out htt...

Jonathan Pageau is a religious iconographer, public speaker, and host of The Symbolic World podcast. - Chapters -  (00:00:00) In this episode… (00:00:07) Intro (00:01:44) Chapter 1: The First Purpose (00:04:49) Chapter 2: Art and Meaning (00:14:40) Chapter 3: The Indifferent Universe (00:34:20) Chapter 4: On Miracles (00:43:44) Chapter 5: Fundamentalisms, Old and New (00:55:01) Chapter 6: Religion...

Dr. Daniel A. Yudkin is a Fellow in Social and Behavioural Science at the Wharton School and Director of Research at More in Common .  - Chapters- (00:00:00) In this episode… (00:00:42) Chapter 1: Exiting Academia (00:17:10) Chapter 2: Hidden Tribes (00:50:49) Chapter 3: Society and Morality (01:14:10) Chapter 4: Diversity and Shared Norms (01:23:32) Chapter 5: Future Projects For more podcasts, c...

Glenn Greenwald is an award-winning journalist, author and constitutional lawyer. His reporting on the global surveillance programs won a Pulitzer Prize for The Guardian . He hosts the daily show System Update on Rumble.  - Chapters -  (00:00:00) In this episode… (00:00:20) Intro (00:02:57) Chapter 1: The political spectrum (00:07:24) Chapter 2: Journalism and knowledge of the law (00:13:23) Chapt...

Ariel Helwani is a sports journalist and the host of the MMA Hour. He’s won MMA Journalist of the Year at the World MMA Awards every year since 2010. - Chapters -  (00:00:00) In this episode… (00:00:33) Chapter 1 - Back to Montreal (00:13:20) Chapter 2 - Journalistic Ethics (00:21:30) Chapter 3 - Truth vs Spectacle (00:33:16) Chapter 4 - The Future of the UFC (00:42:53) Chapter 5 - Thicker Skin Fo...

Dr. Bjørn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus , the best-selling author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Best Things First , and a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He’s been named one of the top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines and was listed among TIME ’s 100 most influential people in the world.  - Chapters -  (00:00:00) In this...

Tom Bilyeu is a unicorn entrepreneur, award-winning screenwriter, and the founder of Impact Theory , a media company dedicated to positively impacting lives through empowering educational content. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack . 

Mitch Joel is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and co-founder of ThinkersOne , a platform that provides premium, bite-sized thought leadership. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack . 

Jesse Itzler is a serial entrepreneur, recording artist, coach, co-owner of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks , and the New York Times best-selling author of Living with a SEAL and Living with the Monks .  For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack . 

For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast. Subscribe to Fred's  Substack at https://fredpinto.substack.com/ and get a copy of the PDF with the studies referenced in this episode.  For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack . 

Ido Portal is a world-renowned expert and thinker on human movement. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack . 

Dr. Richard Weikart is an award-winning historian and emeritus professor of history at Cal State University Stanislaus, a Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and the author of several thought-provoking books, including From Darwin to Hitler , and The Death of Humanity .  For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack . 

Dustin “The Diamond” Poirier is a decorated UFC fighter, and the co-founder of The Good Fight Foundation , a non-profit dedicated to helping underserved communities. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack . 

Is well-being best achieved in accepting what is, or in passionately engaging in what is yet to be? Technology lawyer and writer Fred Pinto links counterintuitive findings from philosophy, wisdom studies, and psychology to tease out the idea that finding ourselves comes as a result of losing our firmly held ideas of ourselves first. In a modern world that encourages self-obsession, this talk is fo...

Robert Greene is the multiple-time #1 NYT best-selling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, The Art of Seduction, The 50th Law (with 50 Cent), The Laws of Human Nature, and The Daily Laws. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack . 

The Hon. Justice Michael P. Donnelly is the 160th justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He’s the recipient of multiple awards, including the Public Service Award from the Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys, and served as chair of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Commission on Professionalism.  For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack . 

Ryan Holiday is a multiple-time NYT #1 bestselling author, whose books include Trust me, I’m Lying, The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Discipline is Destiny . He is the host of the Daily Stoic Podcast , and the owner of The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas.  For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack .