What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

David Cote was formerly Chairman and CEO of industrial giant Honeywell and is currently Executive Chairman of Vertiv Holdings Co. During 16 years as CEO and/or Chairman of Honeywell, he grew the company's market capitalization from around $20 billion to nearly $120 billion, delivering returns of 800 percent and beating the S&P by nearly two and a half times. Cote was named CEO of the Year by Chief...

On What Got You There's milestone 200th episode Sean talks with Chris Fussell who 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...

Maria Konnikova is a Harvard and Columbia educated psychologist, author and, in recent years, professional poker player. Over the last year Maria stepped away from her job and entered into the world of poker to write her new boo k about poker and the balance of skill and luck in life called   The Biggest Bluff .   The Biggest Bluff  follows Maria's immersion in the world of poker, from novice to p...

Dr. Marcus Elliott is a Harvard trained physician specializing in performance enhancement and the development of elite athletes. As Founder and Director of P3, he is dedicated to applying cutting edge science for optimal athletic achievement. He has trained some of the world's best athletes including those at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, the New England Patriots, stars of the NBA, and many mo...

David Taylor, widely known as The Magic Man, is one of the most decorated American wrestlers of all time. David is a World Champion, US Champion, 2 X NCAA Champion   a 4x NCAA All-American, 4x BIG 10 Champion, and he's hoping to add Olympic Champion in the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. On this episode David goes deep on his championship mindset, what it takes to be great and what he's learned fro...

Andrew Roberts is a Bestselling author, historian and journalist. He is a visiting professor at the Department of War Studies, King's College London, and also has positions at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Lehrman Institute at the New York Historical Society. On this episode Andrew discusses some of the great leaders he's written about such as Winston Churchill and Napoleon...

Daniel Gross is the founder of Pioneer , a fully remote accelerator that backs brilliant founders from all over the world. Pioneer is changing the way companies are formed and Pioneer has already has backed more than 100 founders. Daniel's origin story begins in Israel and when he was 18, he was accepted into YCombinator, being the youngest founder ever at the time. He founded a company called Cue...

Matt Ridley is the bestselling author of books such as The Rational Optimist, The Evolution of Everything, and his new book How Innovation Works and Why It Flourishes in Freedom! Matt has also been an editor and writer for the Economist, The Times and the Wall Street Journal. On this episode Matt discusses   the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject. He talks...

Berit (Brit) Brogaard is a Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Brogaard Lab for Multisensory Research at the University of Miami. Her educational background includes a medical degree in neuroscience and a doctorate in philosophy. Her areas of research include perception, synesthesia, blindsight, consciousness, neuro-psychiatry and emotions. On this episode Professor Brogaard takes us i...

Stephen M. R. Covey is a New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal best-selling author of The SPEED of Trust—The One Thing That Changes Everything. He is the former CEO of the Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership development company in the world. Stephen personally led the strategy that propelled his father's book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits...

Over the past 30 years few people if any have as impressive of a resume in the culinary world as world renowned Chef Daniel Boulud. A native of Lyon, France Chef Boulud is considered one of America's leading culinary authorities and one of the most revered French chefs. Chef Boulud has also embraced the entrepreneurial spirit owning more than 15 restaurants all over the world and knows the inns an...

Joel Peterson is the chairman of JetBlue Airways and the founding partner of Peterson Partners , a Salt Lake City-based investment management firm. Joel has a long history of successful growth capital investments in a variety of industries. He currently teaches Entrepreneurial Management at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, is the Chairman of the Board of Overseers at the Hoover Institution...

On this episode Sean is the one being interviewed by his wife Kelsey and he discusses his thoughts and frameworks during these difficult times. Sean dives deep on the following topics during the episode *Managing stress *Handling uncertainty  *Daily routine  *Finding new opportunities  *Books & other things he's reading  Checkout my Newsletter Connect with us!  Whatgotyouthere Exclusive opportunit...

Scott Barry Kaufman is a humanistic psychologist exploring the depths of human potential. He has taught courses on intelligence, creativity, and well-being at Columbia University, NYU, the University of Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. If that wasn't enough he has also been named one of the "50 Groundbreaking Scientists who are changing the way we see the world" by Business Insider.  On this episode S...

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. For listen...

Sergey Young is a longevity investor and visionary. His mission is to help one billion people extend their healthy lifespans by making longevity affordable and accessible for everyone. Sergey Co Founded the $100 million Longevity Vision Fund in 2019 –which is one of the first longevity-focused funds, dedicated to Sergey's mission: to identify, fund, and accelerate the most promising breakthroughs...

Ann Druyan is a Peabody and Emmy-award winning writer, producer and director specializing in the communication of science. Druyan served for ten years as the elected Secretary of the Federation of American Scientists and was the Creative Director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message and Program Director of the first solar sail deep space mission, launched on a Russian ICBM in 2005. She is perhap...

Jeremy Gutsche is the CEO of Trend Hunter, a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning innovation expert, and "one of the most sought-after keynote speakers on the planet".  Trend Hunter is the world's #1 innovation website with 200,000 idea hunters and 3 billion views from 150,000,000 visitors. Prior to Trend Hunter, Jeremy grew a $1 billion portfolio for a bank, and today, over 600 bra...

When we think of Renaissance men or polymaths todays guest certainly fits that mold. Jim Cantrell was on the founding team at   Elon Musks' SpaceX and was on the   founding team of Moon Express. Jim is the founder of several entrepreneurial start-ups, including Vector Space, StratSpace and Vintage Exotics Competition Engineering.  If that wasn't enough Jim speaks four languages and spent several y...

James Carse is the author of Finite and Infinite Games and was a Professor and Director at NYU for 30 years. In his book he discusses the two types of games- "One could be called finite; the other infinite." Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end, but infinite games are more mysterious. Their object is not winning, but en...

Adnan Durrani is Chief Executive Officer of American Halal/Saffron Road Foods and President of Condor Ventures, Inc., a firm devoted to strategic investing in natural food companies. Prior to his current endeavors, he served as an investment professional for almost 30 years and most recently was a partner at Blue Chip Venture Co. which led   a number of media and technology ventures. On this episo...

Tom Golisano is the self made billionaire who started the payroll processing company Paychex. With just $3,000 and a credit card to start Tom grew Paychex to a $28 billion company with more than 600,000 employees. If you want to know what it takes to be an entrepreneur who makes dreams happen then this is the episode for you! Checkout my Newsletter Connect with us!  Whatgotyouthere Exclusive oppor...

W. Brian Arthur is an economist and complexity thinker. He is best known for his work on network effects locking markets in to the domination of a single player. He is also one of the pioneers of the science of complexity—the science of how patterns and structures self-organize. He is a member of the Founders Society of the Santa Fe Institute and in 1988 ran its first research program. He has serv...

Ryan Hawk is a keynote speaker, author, advisor, and the host of The Learning Leader Show , which Forbes called "the most dynamic leadership podcast out there". Featuring interviews with hundreds of bestselling authors and world-renowned corporate, athletic, and military leaders, the show has millions of listeners in more than 150 countries. A lifelong student of leadership, Ryan rose to roles as...

Stephanie Mehta is editor-in-chief of Fast Company. Her career so far has   taken her from the Wall Street Journal to Fortune, Bloomberg and Vanity Fair, where she was deputy editor. Now, she oversees Fast Company's editorial and design vision with the aim of recognizing "the human side" of business. Whether she's investigating the prodigious rise of Silicon Valley, the domino effect of technology...