The Tim Ferriss Show

Andrew Weil, M.D. ( @DrWeil ) is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. Dr. Weil received a degree in biology (botany) from Harvard College in 1964 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1968. After completing a medical internship at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, he worked a year with the National Institute of Mental Health, then wrote his first book, T...

This episode represents the first time that LeBron James has been interviewed alongside his very below-the-radar, some might say top-secret, athletic trainer about details of training, recovery, diet, and even how much longer he hopes to play in the NBA. LeBron James ( @KingJames ) is widely considered one of the greatest athletes of his generation and regarded by some as the best basketball playe...

"Slow down. Do it again." — Dave Elitch Dave Elitch (IG: @daveelitch ) first garnered attention with his band Daughters of Mara's debut album I am Destroyer in 2007, but his time touring with the American progressive rock band The Mars Volta in 2009-2010 is what really put him on the map. He has since worked with Miley Cyrus, Justin Timberlake, M83, The 1975, Juliette Lewis, Big Black Delta, as we...

"I realized people were not having LSD experiences; they were having experiences of themselves. But they were coming from depths that psychoanalysis didn't know anything about." — Stanislav Grof Stanislav Grof, M.D., ( stanislavgrof.com ) is a psychiatrist with more than 60 years of experience in research of "holotropic" states of consciousness, a large and important subgroup of non-ordinary state...

"Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option." — James Cameron James Cameron ( @jimcameron ) is a filmmaker and deep sea explorer. He is writer, director and producer of The Terminator , Aliens , The Abyss , Terminator 2 , True Lies , Titanic , and Avatar . Both Titanic and Avatar (the highest grossing film of all time) won the Golden Globe for Best Director and Best Pictur...

Doug McMillon (IG: @dougmcmillon ) is president and chief executive officer of Walmart, a company that, if it were a country, would be the 25th largest economy in the world. Walmart serves 265 million customers weekly in 27 countries across more than 11,000 stores and online, and the company employs roughly 2.2 million associates worldwide, which would equate to the second largest army in the worl...

A.J. Jacobs ( @ajjacobs ) takes over the show for a special episode. A.J. is a kindred guinea pig of self-experimentation who chronicles his shenanigans in books that seem to keep winding up as New York Times best sellers. The Know-It-All was about his quest to learn everything in the world. In The Year of Living Biblically , he tried to follow all the rules of the Bible as literally as possi...

Seth Godin  ( @thisissethsblog ,  seths.blog ) is the author of 18 bestselling books that have been translated into more than 35 languages. He was inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame in 2013 and has founded several companies, including Yoyodyne and Squidoo. His  blog  (which you can find by typing “Seth” into Google) is one of the most popular in the world. Seth wri...

This is a companion episode to episode #342 ("Sam Harris, Ph. D. — How to Master Your Mind"), and it features guided meditations and lessons from Sam's meditation app Waking Up . Please note that it includes bonus content not found in the longer episode. Enjoy! *** If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider  leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts /iTunes?  It takes l...

Sam Harris ( @SamHarrisOrg ) received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph. D in neuroscience from UCLA. Sam is the host of the Waking Up podcast , and he is the author of multiple books including  The End of Faith , Letter to a Christian Nation , The Moral Landscape , Free Will , Lying , Waking Up , and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). This experimen...

Nick Kokonas (IG: @nkokonas , TW: @NickKokonas ) is the co-owner and co-founder of The Alinea Group of restaurants, which includes Alinea, Next, The Aviary, Roister, and The Aviary NYC. He is also the founder and CEO of Tock, Inc , a reservations and CRM system for restaurants with more than 2.5M diners and clients in more than 20 countries. Alinea has been named the Best Restaurant in America and...

Paul Stamets ( @PaulStamets ) is an intellectual and industry leader in the habitat, medicinal use, and production of fungi. Part of his mission is to deepen our understanding and respect for the organisms that literally exist under every footstep taken on this path of life. Paul is the author of a new study in Nature's Scientific Reports , which details how mushroom extracts—specifically extracts...

Samin Nosrat ( @ciaosamin ) is a writer, chef, and teacher who is masterful at turning complexity into simplicity. Her first book, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking , is a New York Times bestseller, was a James Beard Award-winner for Best General Cookbook , was named as Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and is soon to be a...

Howard Marks ( @howardmarksbook ) is co-chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management , a leading investment firm with more than $120 billion in assets. He is the author of the new book Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side , and his previous book on investing, The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor , was a critically acclaimed bestseller....

Hamilton Morris  (TW:  @hamiltonmorris , IG:  @hamiltonmorris ) is a writer, documentarian, and scientific researcher who currently studies the chemistry and pharmacology of tryptamines at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. His writing has been featured in  Harper’s Magazine ,  Playboy , and  Vice , and he is the creator of the television series  Ham...

Scott Belsky ( @scottbelsky ) is an entrepreneur, author, investor, Chief Product Officer of Adobe, and venture partner with venture capital firm Benchmark. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006 and served as CEO until Adobe acquired the company in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent across the creative industries. Scott is an early inv...

Doris Kearns Goodwin ( @DorisKGoodwin ) is a biographer, historian, and political commentator who found her curiosity about leadership sparked more than half century ago as a professor at Harvard. Her experiences working for LBJ in the White House and later assisting him on his memoirs led to her first book, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream . She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning No...

"Write an interesting story, not a perfect story." — Drew Houston Drew Houston ( @DrewHouston ) is co-founder and CEO of Dropbox . Since founding the company in 2007 with Arash Ferdowsi, Drew has led the company's growth from a simple idea to a service used by 500 million people around the world. Drew received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006. A...

Serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, eagle scout, and all around wild and crazy guy Kevin Rose ( @KevinRose ), rejoins me for another episode of The Random Show. We discuss Kevin’s new diet obsession that may just save his life for many decades to come, fatherhood, minimalism, lifetime learning, ways to dial back alcohol consumption, lessons learned from Tony Robbins, most recommended books,...

Coach George Raveling ( @GeorgeRaveling ) is an 80-year-old living legend and Nike's former Director of International Basketball. Coach Raveling was the first African American head basketball coach in the PAC-8 (now PAC-12), and he is often referred to as the "Human Google." Coach Raveling has held head coaching jobs at Washington State, The University of Iowa, and USC. Following a prolific basket...

Ann Miura-Ko ( @annimaniac ) has been called "the most powerful woman in startups" by Forbes and is a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford. The child of a rocket scientist at NASA, Ann is a Palo Alto native and has been steeped in technology startups from when she was a teenager. Prior to co-founding Floodgate , she worked at Charles River Ventures and McKinsey and Company . Some of Ann's inve...

This episode is a rare exception to the rule — unlike my usual long-form interviews, this is a drunk-dialing Q&A with you guys, which I’ve done a few times in the last few years, including for the celebration of  the 100th episode  of this podcast. In preparation for this episode, I solicited phone numbers from listeners who wanted to receive a call from me, and then I started drinki...

Jason Fried ( @jasonfried ) is the co-founder and CEO at Basecamp , and the co-author of Rework , Remote: Office Not Required , and Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application . The upcoming It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work will be out later this year. Jason writes a regular column for Inc. magazine and is a frequent contributor to Basecamp's popular blog...

This episode of The Tim Ferriss Show showcases two chapters from Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown ( @GregoryMcKeown ), one of my favorite books of the past few years. The first chapter explains how to say "no" gracefully (and why most of us have trouble doing this in the first place), and the second one gives us ways to cut our losses and uncommit in the aftermath of a...

Aisha Tyler (@aishatyler on Twitter , Instagram , and Vimeo ) is an award-winning director, actor, comedian, bestselling author, podcaster, and activist. She’s amazing. If you enjoyed my episodes with Brandon Stanton , Debbie Millman , or Adam Robinson , among others, you will love this one. Whether you do any type of creative work, want to be too complex to categorize, or want to overcome re...