The Tim Ferriss Show

Joe Gebbia ( @jgebbia ) is a designer, entrepreneur, and global explorer. He is the co-founder and CPO of Airbnb , which has changed the way the world travels and how people connect in more than 190 countries. In this wide-ranging and hilarious interview, Joe delivers the details on his path to Airbnb, and he shares the decisions, hardship, failures, and successes that prepared him for Airbnb. Enj...

Jack Kornfield ( @JackKornfield ) trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma, shortly thereafter becoming one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974. Jack has had a profound and direct impact on my life, and I'm thrilled to finally have him on the podcast to share our history,...

In this episode, I answer the most up-voted questions from subscribers to 5-Bullet Friday, the free newsletter I send out every week. In this Q&A, I reveal: The top five health markers I check and watch regularly. Strategies to prevent or minimize binge eating during times of stress. The most valuable skills for securing financial freedom.  My philospophy on having children. Productivity...

Dr. Gabor Maté ( @DrGaborMate ) is a physician who specializes in neurology, psychiatry, and psychology. He's well known for studying and treating addiction. Dr. Maté has written several books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction . His work has been published internationally in 20 languages, and he's received the Hubert Evans Prize for Literar...

Bob Metcalfe ( @BobMetcalfe ) is an MIT-Harvard-trained engineer-entrepreneur who became an Internet pioneer in 1970, invented Ethernet in 1973, and founded 3Com Corporation in 1979. About 1.2B Ethernet ports were shipped last year — 400M wired and 800M wireless (Wi-Fi). 3Com went public in 1984, peaked at $5.7B in annual sales in 1999, and after 30 years became part of HP last year. Bob was a pub...

Many of you have asked me how I have built a popular blog and podcast. I've contemplated writing a long post about this, and then Mari Takahashi ( @atomicmari ) -- a successful ballerina, gamer, and content creator -- sent me some very good questions that I decided to answer in this episode. The Tim Ferriss Show has almost 300 million downloads and is the first business interview podcast to cross...

My first book, The 4-Hour Workweek,  recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. Thousands of you have asked me how I would update it today -- and many have asked why I haven't updated it since 2009. For this episode, I discuss common questions and misperceptions, and how I would adjust certain chapters and recommendations. As always, thank you for listening! This episode is brought to you by W...

This episode sets a new record with five guests -- each considered among the best in their field. It features Adam Robinson   ( @IAmAdamRobinson ), Debbie Millman   ( @debbiemillman ), Neil Strauss   ( @neilstrauss ), Scott Belsky   ( @scottbelsky ), and Veronica Belmont ( @Veronica ). This roundtable discussion covers topics including best investments, favorite failures, and b...

Catherine Hoke ( @catherine_hoke ) is the founder of Defy Ventures , a national nonprofit organization that "transforms the hustle" of currently and formerly incarcerated people. Defy's vision is to end mass incarceration by using entrepreneurship as a tool to transform legacies and human potential. Cat was named a  #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change by WIRED and Nokia for being one of 17 Global...

This is a special episode of the podcast, which features three guests: author  Soman Chainani ( @SomanChainani ), author Susan Cain ( @susancain ), and East Rock Capital co-founder and investor Graham Duncan . All three are featured in my latest book, Tribe of Mentors , and all three share something in common: they're experts at mitigating risk. I don't view them as a throw-caution-to-the-win...

Welcome to another edition of The Tim Ferriss Radio Hour, where I share the habits and patterns of world-class performers revealed over nearly 300 interviews. In this episode, we'll explore fear. Specifically, how to manage, mitigate, and overcome fear, which is something I've battled for decades. This has been such a focal point of my life that my last TED Talk focused on an exercise called...

Gretchen Rubin is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Four Tendencies , Better Than Before , The Happiness Project , and Happier at Home . She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold three million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. On her popular weekly podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin , she discusses goo...

After reading Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentor s, many of you have asked me how I process all of the information I receive. This episode will help you manage information overwhelm, recommend a few techniques for dealing with social media, and answer a few questions that have been frequently asked about building a world-class network and writing books. I hope this information strengthens the sig...

Bozoma Saint John ( @badassboz ) is the Chief Brand Officer at Uber. Until June 2017, she was a marketing executive at Apple Music after joining the company in its acquisition of Beats Music. In 2016, Billboard named her Female Executive of the Year , she appeared on Fortune's 40 under 40 , and Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People . Bozoma was featured in Tribe of Mentors , but this conversatio...

Terry Crews  ( @terrycrews ) is an actor and former NFL player (Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers, Washington Redskins, and Philadelphia Eagles). His wide-ranging credits include the original viral Old Spice commercials, television series such as  The Newsroom, Arrested Development, and Everybody Hates Chris , and films including  White Chicks , the  Expendables  franch...

Mike Maples, Jr. ( @m2jr ) is the man who taught me how to invest. He's one of my favorite people and a personal mentor. He is a partner at  Floodgate , a venture capital firm that specializes in micro-cap investments in startups. He has been on the  Forbes  Midas List since 2010 and named one of  Fortune  magazine's " 8 Rising VC Stars."  Before becoming a full-...

M. Sanjayan ( @msanjayan ) is a global conservation scientist specializing in how nature preserves and enhances human life. He serves as CEO for  Conservation International , having joined CI in 2014 as executive vice president and senior scientist. He has led several key divisions including Oceans, Science, Development, Brand and Communications and Strategic Priorities. Sanjayan holds a doct...

This is an unusual episode. Instead of the typical interview format where I ask other people questions, I did what thousands of you have requested; I answered the 11 questions that are the foundation of Tribe of Mentors (and add in a few bonus answers). From beliefs that have changed my life to how I cope with feelings of overwhelm, I go into depth on all of my answers. I also recorded some of the...

Tim Urban  ( @waitbutwhy ) is the author of the blog  Wait But Why and has become one of the Internet's most popular writers. According to  Fast Company , Tim has "captured a level of reader engagement that even the new-media giants would be envious of." Wait But Why  receives more than 1.5 million unique visitors per month and has over 550,000 email subscribers. Tim has gained...

This is a special episode of the podcast. In writing Tribe of Mentors, I reached out to many people to be featured in the book. More than 130 people said yes -- but many others said no. This episode covers rejection, and -- more specifically -- how to reject other people and opportunities (even if they seem great). How you can you say no to seemingly burdensome "obligations," and say yes to the cr...

Stewart Brand ( @stewartbrand ) is the president of The Long Now Foundation , established to foster long-term thinking and responsibility. He leads a project called Revive & Restore , which seeks to bring back extinct animal species such as the passenger pigeon and woolly mammoth. Stewart is very well known for founding, editing, and publishing The Whole Earth Catalog (WEC), which changed my l...

Alice Little ( @thealicelittle ) is considered the #1 top-earning legal sex worker in the United States. She is a 4'8" legal sex worker at Nevada's world famous Moonlite Bunny Ranch . This episode is definitely not suitable for work (NSFW). In this wide-ranging episode, we cover a lot of ground, including: Technical sex tips How Alice puts people at ease, including adult virgins BDSM and powe...

Brian Grazer ( @BrianGrazer ) is an Academy Award-winning producer and New York Times bestselling author ( A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life , with Charles Fishman) who has been making movies and television programs for more than 25 years. Grazer and his longtime friend and business partner Ron Howard began their collaboration in 1985 on the hit comedies Nightshift and Splash, and in 198...

Tim O'Reilly ( @timoreilly ) is one of the most fascinating polymaths I've ever encountered. Wired has called him "the trend spotter" in the world of tech and macrotrends. Tim is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc . His original business plan was pretty simple: "interesting work for interesting people," and that's worked out pretty well. His company has generated hundreds of millions of do...

Sharon Salzberg ( @SharonSalzberg ) is a central figure in the field of meditation, a world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author of Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program . Sharon has played a crucial role in bringing meditation and mindfulness practices to the West and into mainstream culture since 1974, when she first began teaching. She is the co-founder of...