What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

Scott Lynn is the founder of Masterworks . Masterworks is an investing platform that for the first time ever, investors can purchase and trade shares in multi-million dollar works of art by artists like Picasso, Monet, and Warhol. Scott's entrepreneurship journey started when he was just 15 where he built what became the most popular game on the internet during the dot com boom. He didn't stop the...

Read The Distillation of Bruce Lee Watch on YouTube The Distillery is a once a month deep dive breakdown extracting the timeless wisdom from someone that has had a meaningful impact on my life and from whom I've learned a great deal. The Distillery will be uncovering their philosophies, thinking processes, key lessons, and frameworks they've used to achieve high levels of mastery so others can lea...

Josh Waitzkin, author of The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance , is an eight-time national chess champion, a two-time world champion in Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands, and the first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt under nine-time world champion Marcelo Garcia. This distillation of Josh Waitzkin is the discussion of the learning process and performance psychology, drawing from Josh'...

Mike Sarraille is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer and a former enlisted Recon Marine and Scout-Sniper. Mike is the founder and CEO of Talent War Group, a leading management consulting and executive search firm, delivering leadership solutions to business problems. He is co-author of the bestselling business book, 'The Talent War: How Special Operations and Great Organizations Win on Talent,' and...

James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book,  With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage . He completed his Ph. D. at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and has been a member of the faculty of The Ohio State University as well as President of Logistics Systems, Inc. Since 2000, h...

Jack Schwager is a the author of the Market Wizards series which distills down the strategies and mindsets of the world's best investors. On this episode Jack talks about many of the lessons he's learned studying some of the greats over the past 30 years. Mr. Schwager has written extensively on the great traders in all financial markets. He is perhaps best known for his best-selling series of inte...

Jean-Paul (JP) O'Brien is CEO and Managing Director at Black Lab , is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and community builder. O'Brien is on a mission to inspire, activate, and hyper-enable scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, elite athletes, and creatives to design and build a beautiful future for all of humanity. Black Lab builds and invests in HumanTech ventures, with themes centered around Lon...

Antonio Damasio is one of world's leading neuroscientists, Professor of Psychology, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California; he is also an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.  Damasio has made seminal contributions to the understanding of brain processes underlying, emotions, feelings, decisio...

Today Sean is joined by Liz Wiseman was first on episode #56 of What Got You There. Liz is A former executive at Oracle, she worked over the course of 17 years as the Vice President of Oracle University. Currently Liz  is the President of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm with clients including -Apple, Disney, Facebook, Nike, Salesforce.com, and Twitter. Liz has been li...

Toto Wolff is the CEO, Team Principal and co-owner of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 Team. With Toto as Team Principal, the Mercedes Formula One team has achieved an unprecedented seven consecutive World Championship doubles to become the most successful team in F1 history and most successful sports team in the world based on consecutive world championships. Beyond Formula One, Toto is also a...

Chris Sparks is a professional poker player and peak performance expert who coaches executives on high performance and decision making. Chris is exceptional at teaching people how to think like a poker player which is applicable to everyone no matter what domain you're performing in. This is a fascinating and wide ranging conversation covering strategy, mindsets, pursuing mastery and high performa...

Kevin Kelly is the person Tim Ferriss called The Real Most Interesting Man in the World and on this episode we're going to dive deep into the curious mind of Kevin Kelly! Keven co-founded Wired Magazine in 1993. He also co-founded the All Species Foundation, a non-profit aimed at cataloging and identifying every living species on earth. He serves of on the board of Long Now Foundation is a non-pro...

Kenny Werner  has been a world-class pianist and composer for over forty years. In 1996 he wrote his landmark book,  Effortless Mastery, Liberating The Master Musician Within . Kenny uses his own life story and experiences to explore the barriers to creativity and mastery of music, and in the process reveals that "Mastery is available to everyone," providing practical, detailed ways to move toward...

Dr. Lia DiBello is the CEO, President, and Director of Research of WTRI (Workplace Technology Research Inc). She has a Ph. D. in cognitive psychology and has been a pioneer in understanding and speeding up learning in the workplace! DiBello is best known for the development of a particular kind of activity-based "strategic rehearsal" approach that has been shown to greatly accelerate learning thro...

Gary Klein is a research psychologist famous for pioneering in the field of  Naturalistic Decision Making .   Klein developed a Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model to describe how people actually make decisions in natural settings.   The RPD model has been incorporated into Army doctrine for command and control.   He also developed methods of Cognitive Task Analysis for uncovering the tacit kn...

Dr. Michael Gervais is a high performance psychologist working in the trenches of high-stakes environments with some of the best in the world, training the mindset skills and practices essential to pursuing and revealing one's potential. His clients include world record holders, Olympians, internationally acclaimed artists and musicians, MVPs from every major sport and Fortune 100 CEOs. His fresh...

Today's guest is Dorie Clark who is an expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives. Dorie Clark has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, and was recognized as the #1 Communication Coach in the world by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards.  Clark, a consultant and keynote speaker, teaches executive education at Duk...

Sean thinks todays guest is one of the most interesting people in the world and if you're going to listen to one episode of What Got You There this could be it. Todays guest is Nick Kokonas.   Nick Kokonas is co-owner and co-founder of Alinea , Next, Roister, and the Aviary. He manages the marketing, business development, and strategy for current and future operations. Alinea has been 3 times name...

Jim Dethmer is a coach, speaker, author, and founding partner at The Conscious Leadership Group .   He has personally worked  with over 150 CEOs and their teams to integrate conscious leadership into their organizations. This is a deep and wisdom filled conversation which is to be expected when Jim is behind the microphone!   Sean and Jim explore how to be fully alive, developing self awareness,  ...

William Digby is a former Green Beret Commando with the Australian Army Special Forces and now a growth capital investor and entrepreneur.   This conversation dives deep into the lessons he's learned in the most extreme environments, how he makes and improves his decision making process, how to achieve mastery in multiple domains and so much more.   If you're into high performance and becoming a v...

Matteo Franceschetti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eight Sleep , the world's leading sleep enhancement company. This conversation dives into Matteo's decision making frameworks, how he's enhancing sleep performance, and what it takes to build a fast growing company!   Get ready to bring your health to another level! Eight sleep  is revolutionizing what a great night of sleep means. Receive $150 off...

Today Sean sits down with legendary Value Investor Guy Spier . T hey have a wide ranging conversation discussing things like his lunch with Warren Buffett, how he cultivates his environment to suit his investing style, how he's compounded good will by writing thousands of thank you notes, and what he's uncovered on his inner journey!   Guy is the Founder and Managing partner of the Aquamarine Fund...

This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep : Get $150 off your new mattress by going to eightsleep.com/sean or use code "Sean" at checkout. Grant Williams is a legend in finance and media where he's carved out his niche over the last 35 years.   On this episode Grant distills down some of the most insightful wisdom he's learned a long his journey.   That journey includes co founding the financi...

Chris Fussell spent 15 years on U.S. Navy SEAL Teams and is a Partner at the McChrystal Group Leadership Institute. He is the author of  One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams , and a co-author of the New York Times bestseller  Team of Teams . Chris also served as Aide-de-Camp to Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal during McChrystal's final year commanding a Joint Special Operations Task...

For generations, we've been taught there are two ways to succeed—either from talent or practice.   But on today's episode Dr. Ron Friedman describes a powerful third path—one that has quietly launched icons in a wide range of fields, from artists, writers, and chefs to athletes, inventors, and entrepreneurs: called reverse engineering.   This interview shows you how to   Learn to spot hidden patte...