Author of The 4-Hour Workweek, deconstructing world-class performers' tools, books and routines.
Affirm and PayPal cofounder Max Levchin on marriage, cycling, fighting socialism, building buy-now-pay-later, and his ob
Strand Therapeutics CEO Jake Becraft on RNA genetic medicines, melanoma breakthroughs, FDA reform, and why the US is los
Virta founder Sami Inkinen on reversing type 2 diabetes with individualized nutrition, his daily routine, endurance trai
A young man with cerebral palsy is coached like an athlete by an Olympic weightlifting trainer and transforms his life.
Olympic coach Jerzy Gregorek explains how weightlifting micro-progressions transformed a man with cerebral palsy from le
Elad Gil maps the AI frontier: compute bottlenecks, oligopoly labs, when founders should sell, and how to spot the rare
Cathy Lanier on rising from teen mom to DC police chief to NFL security head through accountability and problem-solving.
Broke in his dad's basement, Brian Dean used The 4-Hour Workweek to build and sell two companies.
YouTube creator Michelle Khare on building Challenge Accepted, fear-setting, cold emails, and choosing the hard path tha
Tim Ferriss answers listener questions on the AI tsunami, arguing offline, relational, and in-real-life advantages matte
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose riff on Zen retreats, vagus nerve stimulation, supplements, balance training, and Alzheimer
Jim Collins joins Tim Ferriss to explore his new book on cliffs, fog, encodings, and getting a return on luck across a w
Tim Ferriss on quieting his ruminative OCD mind, the traps of self-help, and learning to say no in an AI-flooded world.
Children's book author Tish Rabe on Sesame Street, writing for Dr. Seuss, the craft of rhyme, and starting a compan
Survivalist Jordan Jonas tells Tim Ferriss how living with Siberian reindeer nomads shaped his win on Alone season 6.
Tim McGraw tells Tim Ferriss how songs, surgeries, sobriety, and the father he barely knew shaped a 35-year career.
Dr. Tommy Wood explains how lifestyle prevents most dementia, plus tactics for brain injury, exercise, sleep, and cognit
Biologist Michael Levin explains how cellular bioelectricity stores rewritable anatomical memories, reframing cancer, re
NFL MVP Steve Young on conquering victimhood and anxiety, mastering transitions, and building a 30-year private equity c
Dr. Dom D'Agostino explains how ketosis calms the mind, protects the brain, and the surprising risks of cheap exoge
Arthur Brooks and Tim Ferriss on the meaning of life, mood management, transcendence, suffering, and why marriage and lo
Bill Gurley on the AI bubble, why China is misunderstood, and chasing the career you actually love.
AI godmother Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet's origins, spatial intelligence, World Labs, and why people belong at the cente
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose riff on accelerated brain stimulation, the AI race, Alzheimer's prevention, gift gear, a
Tim Ferriss opens up about childhood abuse and survival, then maps the bioelectric and metabolic frontiers of mental hea
KneesOverToesGuy walks Tim Ferriss through his full pain-free, knee-and-back-rehab workout using sleds, split squats, an
KneesOverToesGuy Ben Patrick tells Tim Ferriss how backward sleds, deep squats, and Charles Poliquin's lessons fixe
Roblox CEO David Baszucki on saving his son's bipolar with ketogenic therapy, the science of ketosis, and building
Jack Canfield tells Tim Ferriss how Chicken Soup for the Soul beat 144 rejections, plus his success principles on respon
Lion tracker Boyd Varty tells Tim Ferriss wild African stories and explains how nature's wordless intelligence driv
Comic legend Frank Miller on craft, killing your darlings, the Sin City breakthrough, and getting sober.
Nobel laureate Richard Thaler explains how behavioral economics overturned the myth of the perfectly rational agent.
James Nestor on breathing as a foundational health function: nasal breathing, mouth taping, CO2 air quality, and coheren
David Senra explains how studying 400+ entrepreneur biographies revealed the patterns, archetypes, and obsessions that s
Hacker-turned-inventor Pablos Holman on why hacking everything, sequencing energy first, and funding deep tech beats bui
Tim Ferriss answers listener Q&A solo on elbow surgery recovery, his current supplement stack, AI medical-research w
Dr. Dom D'Agostino on ketones, fasting, and metabolic therapy for Alzheimer's, cancer, and psychiatric disorde
Neurosurgeon Kevin Tracy explains how stimulating the vagus nerve can switch off runaway inflammation, with the first FD
Stanford eye scientist Dr. Jeffrey Goldberg on why vision restoration, not just slowing eye disease, is about to arrive.
Kevin Rose hits 100 days sober as he and Tim Ferriss trade hacks on fasting, ketones, home defense, vibe coding, and the
Exploding Kittens CEO Elan Lee walks Tim Ferriss through designing, testing, and selling their card game Coyote and what
Rhonda Patrick and Tim Ferriss on fasting, exercise, supplements, saunas, microplastics, and alcohol for brain and heart
Charisma on Command's Charlie Houpert traces his journey from broke consultant to multimillion-dollar online course
Elite powerlifter and movement coach Nsima Inyang teaches Tim Ferriss how rope flow, breathing, sleds, and regressions b
Points expert Chris Hutchins helps Tim Ferriss decide what to do with 15.5 million accumulated credit card points and mi
ONE Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong on building the world's largest martial arts league from poverty, luck, and
Tim Ferriss fields community Q&A on his three life commandments, AI, stoicism, writing, and the future of his fictio
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose swap health gadgets, sobriety strategies, Japan/Taiwan travel, brain stimulation, genomics, a
Olympic archer Jake Kaminski walks Tim Ferriss through archery 101: gear, stance, anchor, aiming, and the beginner mista
Olympic archer Jake Kaminsky on hyper-precision, rebuilding his form, affirmations, and coaching Tim Ferriss to compete
Therapist Terry Real on why taking sides, repair, and male depression matter more than being right in relationships.
Philosophize This! creator Stephen West tells Tim Ferriss how a homeless dropout warehouse worker built a beloved philos
Expedia and Zillow founder Rich Barton on taking big swings, spinning out companies, and his provocation-marketing playb
Philosopher Philip Goff makes the case for panpsychism, explores consciousness and quantum mechanics, and shares his ret
Robert Rodriguez returns to share fear-forward filmmaking, identity labels, working with his kids, and why journaling me
Craig Mod returns to detail his epic solo walks across Japan, his rules for radical presence, and a life-changing reunio
Craig Mod tells Tim Ferriss how a working-class kid from Connecticut became a Japan-based bookmaker, writer, and walker.
Ev Williams on strategic quitting, why greatness can't be planned, and building Mosy as an actual social network.
Wētā Workshop founder Richard Taylor and artist Greg Broadmore on creativity, craft, and the lessons behind Lord of the
Tendon scientist Keith Baar explains why isometric loading, not eccentrics or rest, repairs tendons and rebuilds connect
Philosopher L.A. Paul explains why life-changing decisions like having kids can't be calculated rationally, and whi
Brandon Sanderson breaks down how he built a fantasy publishing empire through writing habits, magic systems, and a reco
Seth Godin reframes strategy as a philosophy of becoming built on systems, time, games, and empathy.
Chris Sacca on raising resilient kids, saying no, the analog-craving backlash to AI, and betting on clean energy and com
Naval Ravikant and Dr. Aaron Stupple make the case for raising kids without coercive rules, replacing them with creativi
Greg McKeown returns to unpack essentialism, effortless systems, and finding meaning in suffering through radical gratit
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose riff on 2025 predictions, longevity training, crypto, AI devices, meditation, ethical hunting
Dr. Becky Kennedy unpacks sturdy leadership, boundaries, repair, and the myth of maternal instinct in parenting.
Inventor Danny Hillis and Kevin Kelly join Tim Ferriss to explore invention, AI, the 10,000-year clock, and the entangle
Poet David Whyte on writing anywhere, the conversational nature of reality, Zen as heartbreak, and reciting his essays a
Angel investor Cyan Banister on going from homeless teen to backing Uber, Niantic, and SpaceX, plus dice-rolling and a s
Tim Ferriss answers a small group's questions on parenthood, identity diversification, joy, grief, AI-proofing care
Derek Sivers explains why deliberately reversing his strongest prejudices made the past year the happiest of his life.
Mentalist Derren Brown unpacks hypnosis, cold reading, skepticism, and making peace with life's difficulty through
Jon Batiste tells Tim Ferriss how mistakes, suspense, and surrender fuel originality, and why he may stop performing.
Psychiatrist Dr. Bruce Greyson shares 50 years of near-death experience research, including verified out-of-body cases t
Historian Andrew Roberts on Napoleon, Churchill, the craft of writing history, and why nations must stay proud of their
Elizabeth Gilbert on two-way prayer, fierce boundaries, the 'relaxed woman' as revolution, and trading purpose
Tim Ferriss answers fan questions on reinvention, parenting, dating, intuition, archery, and why doing things in real li
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose riff on podcast sabbaticals, modern dating, longevity science, mediums, and ketamine therapy
A 10-year anniversary 'super combo' episode pairing Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler on risk, failure, iden
A 10-year anniversary combo episode pairing Anne Lamott on radical self-care with Josh Waitzkin on flow, learning, and p
Tim Ferriss 10-year anniversary combo: Hugh Jackman on intuition, meditation and craft, plus Esther Perel on desire, mon
Arnold Schwarzenegger on vision, psychological warfare, and dealmaking, plus Ann Miura-Ko on debate, world-class effort,
Tim Ferriss 10-year anniversary combo: Derek Sivers and Kevin Kelly on saying no, voluntary simplicity, mastery, and lon
Tim Ferriss 10-year anniversary combo: Terry Crews on courage and reframing failure, Richard Koch on the 80/20 principle
A 10th-anniversary super-combo episode pairing Elizabeth Gilbert on grief, intuition, and saying no with Jack Kornfield
Tim Ferriss combo episode pairs Neil Gaiman on writing discipline with Debbie Millman on rejection, design, and her life
Tim Ferriss 10-year anniversary combo: Michael Lewis on writing and ambition, Martine Rothblatt on science, transhumanis
Two strength legends, Pavel Tsatsouline and Christopher Sommer, explain why strength is a skill and patience builds bodi
Tim Ferriss 10-year combo episode pairing marketer Seth Godin on doing meaningful work with Dr. Sue Johnson on the scien
Tim Ferriss revisits two favorite interviews on the craft of creating: Jerry Seinfeld on writing discipline and Maria Po
A 10-year-anniversary super combo: Rick Rubin on creativity and a 135-pound transformation, and Mary Karr on trauma, sob
Tim Ferriss revisits two favorite conversations: Jocko Willink on leadership and discipline, and Sebastian Junger on war
A 10th-anniversary super-combo: Jane Goodall on chimpanzees and hope, plus Cal Fussman on a lifetime mastering the art o
A 10-year anniversary combo episode pairing Tony Robbins on daily priming and asymmetric investing with Jerry Colonna on
A 10-year anniversary super-combo where Jim Collins and Ed Zschau share lifelong systems for creative discipline, purpos
A best-of compilation pairing Greg McKeown on essentialism and saying no with Diana Chapman on conscious leadership and
A 10-year anniversary super-combo pairing Brene Brown on self-acceptance and armor with Edward Thorp on beating Vegas an
A Tim Ferriss anniversary super-combo pairing trauma expert Dr. Gabor Mate with hospice physician Dr. BJ Miller on heali
Tim Ferriss 10-year anniversary super combo: Naval Ravikant on honesty, habits, and happiness, plus Nick Kokonas on asym
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings unpacks culture, candor, the keeper test, and his uncrowded ski venture Powder Mountain
Former Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger on why TikTok is a CCP weapon and how to deter China from taking
Filmmaker Craig Foster on tracking, underwater intimacy, the octopus that filmed him back, and reconnecting modern life
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose mark 10 years of the Random Show live, covering crypto retirement accounts, accelerated TMS b
Martha Beck on tracking joy in the body, her year of zero lies, and how curiosity defeats anxiety.
Greg McKeown and Tim Ferriss take a walk-and-talk on purpose, essentialism, secure attachment, and protecting relationsh
Stanford psychiatrist David Spiegel explains how hypnosis reframes pain, trauma, and addiction, and demonstrates real-ti
Legendary actor Scott Glenn, 85, on building a 60-year career, marriage, and elite fitness through tenacity, presence, a
Seth Godin walks with Tim Ferriss explaining how to write short, ship daily, and beat creative resistance.
Hugh Howey tells Tim Ferriss how Wool became a self-publishing phenomenon and shares hard-won lessons on writing, rights
Barbara Corcoran tells Tim Ferriss how shock-value PR, sales systems, and refusing to feel sorry for herself built a rea
Stripe's former COO Claire Hughes Johnson on radical ownership, saying hard truths, renegotiating commitments, and
Cal Newport unpacks slow productivity, obsessing over quality, and resisting algorithm-driven attention economies in fav
Negotiation legend William Ury teaches Tim Ferriss how to defuse impossible conflicts by going to the balcony, building
Fantasy author Soman Chainani talks creative flow, ketamine therapy, worst-case worrying, cross-collar dating, and reinv
Noah Kagan and Tim Ferriss break down launching a million-dollar business in a weekend through asking, presales, and che
Andy Galpin coaches Tim Ferriss through a personalized, science-driven plan for sleep, hydration, nutrition, supplements
Ad veteran Chris Beresford-Hill breaks down creativity, persuasion, and how cold emails, fast decisions, and 'getti
Stanford's Nolan Williams explains accelerated TMS and ibogaine as rapid-acting, durable treatments for depression,
Matt Mullenweg on open-source freedom, an AI-shaped future, his first-ever sabbatical, and tools for life's darkest
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose share 2024 resolutions, advising tips, AI, and candid stories on ketamine therapy, caffeine,
Domain mogul Andrew Rosener on going from frozen-scallop arbitrage to brokering eight-figure .com domains, leasing as VC
Steve Jang explains, from Seoul, how Korea engineered its global soft-power surge through Han, conglomerates, and an exp
Neuroscientist Willoughby Britton explains how meditation can backfire, the symptoms it triggers, and how to practice an
Tim Ferriss answers fan questions on AI companions, weight training for longevity, writer's block, low-back pain, a
Harvard's Sheila Heen teaches Tim Ferriss how to receive and give hard feedback, then applies it to dating, conflic
Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte tells Tim Ferriss how a busker built a billion-dollar entertainment empire from t
Morgan Housel on betting on what never changes, social debt, raising unspoiled kids, and writing for an audience of one.
Pickpocket Apollo Robbins reveals how attention, misdirection, and deception work, from stealing from the Secret Service
Sports super-agent Rich Paul on negotiating, building athlete infrastructure, his Cleveland roots, and his memoir Lucky
Arnold Schwarzenegger tells Tim Ferriss how a botched heart surgery, a brutal upbringing, and thinking big shaped his li
Shane Parrish unpacks how positioning, automatic rules, and writing beat raw intelligence at making better decisions and
Levels CEO Sam Corcos gives Tim Ferriss a tactical guide to delegation, async work with EAs, and calendar-based time man
Harvard happiness professor Arthur Brooks explains why satisfaction comes from wanting less, and how unhappiness is esse
Nassim Taleb and journalist Scott Patterson on tail risk, the precautionary principle, and how traders profit from crisi
Tim and Kevin swap affordable luxuries, brain-stimulation experiments, books, supplements, gear, and AI investing ideas
Identical-minded brothers who share one identity recount Moscow hustles, Snap, and their bet on turning individual incom
Magic champion turned game designer Justin Gary on creativity as process, testing assumptions, fear-setting, and buildin
Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz on managing energy as an introverted founder, conscious leadership, effective altruism, and t
Legendary physical therapist Shirley Sahrmann diagnoses Tim Ferriss's low-back pain live, arguing movement habits,
Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield on reducing anxiety, the nature of consciousness, love over enlightenment, and finding c
Tim Ferriss tells Bill Gurley how a bootstrapped startup, a burnout book, and angel bets built his creator empire.
DOOM co-creator John Romero on a brutal childhood, teaching himself code at 11, and inventing high-speed 3D gaming at id
Richard Koch revisits the 80/20 Principle, applying it to venture investing, happiness, toxic beliefs, and a new Oxford
World-champion magician Simon Coronel on winning magic's Olympics, neurodivergence, the Magic Castle, and what make
Jake Muise on managing Maui's invasive axis deer into the most nutrient-dense, humanely harvested wild venison on E
Tim Ferriss breaks down his system for spotting future trends, learning fast, psychedelic philanthropy, and the personal
A roundtable of five thinkers each defend a personal heresy, from listening and constitutions to animal communication an
David Maisel, the founder of Marvel Studios, on cold-calling Mike Ovitz, inventing the shared-universe model, and sellin
Eric Cressey explains why MRIs mislead on back pain and how a movement diagnosis beats a medical one.
Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains sensory augmentation, why we dream, consciousness, memory, and his Lazy Susan met
NIDA director Dr. Nora Volkow on the fentanyl crisis, psychedelics, brain stimulation, and the possibility of curing add
Streetwear founder Bobby Hundreds tells Tim Ferriss how community, scarcity, and collaboration built The Hundreds into a
Seth Godin tells Tim Ferriss that attitude is the one thing we choose, and meaning beats hustle.
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose riff on rare beer, affordable luxuries, AI companions, Balaji's $1M Bitcoin bet, Zen, an
Kevin Kelly on optimism, AI as universal personal interns, sabbaticals, raising kids through travel, and being the only.
Derek Sivers walks Tim Ferriss through escaping the cloud, the unoptimized life, and his radical-skepticism worldview of
Neuroscientist Gul Dolen explains how psychedelics may be a master key that reopens the brain's critical periods fo
Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer on hospitality, hiring, firing, killing the tipping system, and learning your business.
Mobility coach Kelly Starrett gives Tim Ferriss simple at-home vital signs and base camp habits that build a durable, mo
David Deutsch and Naval Ravikant unpack epistemology, the four strands of reality, AGI, optimism, and why humans are cen
Peter Attia unpacks the longevity science behind Outlive: muscle, VO2 max, glucose, cancer screening, and emotional heal
Andrew Huberman walks Tim Ferriss through his weekly training split, supplement stack, and the five daily foundations of
Michael Mauboussin breaks down how great investors decide: base rates, wisdom of crowds, decision biases, and complex ad
CEO coach Matt Mochary live-coaches Tim Ferriss through fear, anger, hiring, firing, energy audits, and the pain hiding
Cognitive scientist John Vervaeke unpacks four ways of knowing, flow, wisdom, and how an ecology of practices addresses
Sleep scientist Matthew Walker on sex and sleep, why melatonin disappoints, sleep restriction therapy, lucid dreaming, a
Exploding Kittens founder Elan Lee on game design, his record-breaking Kickstarter, and building an end-to-end gaming co
Anthropologist Wade Davis on vanishing cultures, coca versus cocaine, Haitian zombies, psychedelics, optimism, and autho
Legendary VC Bill Gurley on mental models, network effects, the brutal valuation reset, open source as corporate strateg
Sleep scientist Matthew Walker explains how deep sleep clears Alzheimer's proteins, plus caffeine, cannabis, and sl
Legendary producer Rick Rubin unpacks creativity as a way of being, sharing the philosophy behind his book The Creative
James Clear breaks down the habit systems, identity shifts, and methodical launch strategy behind Atomic Habits' 10
Mark Manson tells Tim Ferriss the unglamorous truth behind his mega-bestseller, his decade of quiet iteration, and his p
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose trade 2023 resolutions, fitness gear, meditation, the yearly delete, AI's impact on art,
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt on antifragility, moral pluralism, why universities and kids are breaking, and gettin
Spawn creator Todd McFarlane on Stan Lee, beating toy giants, dealmaking, and the mindset that built a multi-medium empi
Steven Pressfield and Tim Ferriss dig into resistance, ambition, momentum, and trusting the creative muse to escape self
Todd McFarlane on surviving 300+ rejections, reinventing Spider-Man, accidentally creating Venom, and founding Image Com
Stephen Wolfram on computational physics, the ruliad, the nature of time and consciousness, and his decades-long product
Jason Calacanis tells Tim Ferriss his rise from a Brooklyn bar to media and venture success, plus the craft behind All-I
Historian Niall Ferguson argues we've already entered Cold War II with China, with Taiwan as the new Cuba-style fla
Harvard psychiatrist Chris Palmer argues mental illnesses are metabolic brain disorders, and the ketogenic diet can trea
Tim Ferriss curates standout podcast clips on sleep, leadership, drama-free living, and mental toughness from six top th
LionTree founder Aryeh Bourkoff on becoming media's hottest dealmaker, negotiation, time mastery, and where podcast
Tim Ferriss fields a solo live Q&A on PR, marketing, launching products, selling to the affluent, time dilation, and
A curated podcast buffet where four friends of Tim Ferriss share favorite clips on presence, Stoic questions, reading, a
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on building crypto, making unpopular leadership calls, and funding longevity science.
Yale psychiatrist John Krystal, who discovered ketamine's rapid antidepressant effect, explains how it works, optim
Travel writer Rolf Potts returns to discuss vagabonding, attention, slow travel, marriage later in life, and filling the
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose reunite in person for a Random Show on podcasting, psychedelics, Zen retreats, fiction, films
Psychopharmacologist Dr. Suresh Muthukumaraswamy explains ketamine, classical psychedelics, and the first randomized LSD
UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten tells wild Pancrase and Pride stories and breaks down self-defense and breathing training.
Trauma physician Gabor Maté explains how a sick culture disconnects us from ourselves, and why healing means reconnectin
Sequoia's Roelof Botha on goal-setting rituals, founder problem fit, pre-mortems, power-law investing, and daring t
A curated buffet of standout podcast clips from five top thinkers on dopamine, focus, leadership, self-acceptance, and w
Andrew Weil returns to discuss the 4-7-8 breath, rehabilitating demonized plants, matcha, Okinawan longevity, and psyche
Tim Ferriss answers live and pre-submitted listener questions on wealth, money's limits, book recommendations, skil
Economist Russ Roberts on why life's biggest decisions can't be solved with cost-benefit analysis, and what ma
Philosopher Will MacAskill explains longtermism, existential risks from AI, pandemics and war, and why the vast future i
Aging biologist Matt Kaeberlein on rapamycin, why most longevity hype (resveratrol, sirtuins, NAD) fails the data, and h
Poker champion Liv Boeree on game theory, learning poker, emotional control under pressure, and unexplainable metaphysic
Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin interviews chemist Hamilton Morris on the history, chemistry, and conservation of psychoactiv
Legal scholar Noah Feldman dissects the rationality of the Ukraine war and the looming collision between free speech and
Duolingo's CEO on monetizing free education, metric-based teams, going public, catching cheaters, and expanding bey
Balaji Srinivasan explains the network state: how online communities with shared moral premises could crowdfund territor
Investor Ed Thorp on long-term thinking, numeracy, avoiding risks, and aging well at 89.
Comedian Bill Burr tells Tim Ferriss how getting booed, bombing, and staying self-employed shaped his fearless approach
Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield guides Tim Ferriss through working with anger, hypervigilance, despair, death, and culti
PayPal-era finance leader Jason Portnoy candidly traces his secret porn and sex addiction, marriage near-collapse, and t
An experimental compilation of favorite segments from Tim Ferriss's friends: Sam Harris on meditation, Peter Attia
Primatologist Isabel Behncke on wild bonobos, the evolution of play, niche construction, and what their playful societie
Anthony Bourdain's longtime director-cinematographer Morgan Fallon on 10 years of Parts Unknown, high standards, hu
Math professor Edward Thorp explains how he beat blackjack, roulette, and Wall Street, plus lessons on risk, longevity,
Cal Newport interviews Tim Ferriss about how The 4-Hour Workweek warned of unsustainable knowledge work fifteen years ea
Psychologist and magician Richard Wiseman on the science of luck, lying, dreams, the paranormal, and why so many famous
Ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna on psychedelic admixtures, fungi that zombify insects, plant conservation, mortality,
Tony Fadell on his book Build, storytelling-first product design, managing small teams, and the climate technologies he
Author A.J. Jacobs explains how adopting a puzzle mindset—less furious, more curious—improves thinking, conflict resolut
Terry Crews tells Tim Ferriss how addiction, therapy, and rejecting revenge taught him real strength and true power.
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose riff on books, men's therapy groups, frugal habits, and the realities of investing in NF
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues evolution hid objective reality, space-time is doomed, and consciousness is fu
Investor Bo Shao traces his path from food-rationed Shanghai to managing billions, and his turn toward inner work, paren
Susan Cain explains how bittersweetness, longing, and sorrow can be transformed into creativity, connection, and emotion
Mark Zuckerberg talks fencing, classics, long-term metaverse bets, Meta's new company values, his partnership with
Stewart Copeland on The Police, scoring films, the purpose of music, productive anger, and saying yes.
Futurist Jane McGonagall on how a 2010 game eerily predicted COVID, plus practical habits to imagine and prepare for any
Tim Ferriss and Matt Mullenweg record from a tent on an Antarctic glacier, sharing personal reflections on grief, mortal
Morgan Housel unpacks why endurance, independence, and behavior matter far more than intelligence or returns when it com
Margaret Atwood talks creative process, poetry vs. prose, dystopias, and her practical-Utopias project with Tim Ferriss.
Marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Tim Ferriss explore using awe, humor, and solutions to catalyze climate act
Anne Lamott on taming the inner critic, radical self-care, writing badly on purpose, recovery, prayer, and turning pain
Lion tracker and author Boyd Varty on using wilderness tracking as a model for trauma healing and living moment to momen
ESPN founder Bill Rasmussen tells Tim Ferriss how a firing and a $34,167/month satellite gamble built 24-hour sports tel
Cal Newport on building a deep life through slow productivity, digital minimalism, craft, and contemplation in an age of
Tim Ferriss records inside a tent on the Antarctic sea ice with wildlife photographer Sue Flood about penguins, polar be
Economist John List explains clawback incentives, the science of scaling ideas, optimal quitting, and lessons from Uber,
Michael Schur on the Harvard Lampoon, SNL's brutal lessons, learning to write from Greg Daniels, and turning moral
Sarah Silverman talks depression, learning to be her own best friend, bombing as a craft, therapy, and grabbing joy.
Performance psychologist Michael Gervais on extinguishing fear, building a philosophy, mindfulness, and creating high-pe
Physicist Michio Kaku on string theory, time travel, parallel universes, consciousness, and reading the mind of God.
Rich Roll on getting sober at 31, reinventing himself as an ultra-endurance athlete at 40, and the tools behind lasting
Zen master Henry Shukman guides Tim Ferriss through a 20-minute somatic calming practice, then unpacks koans, kensho awa
Tim Ferriss answers live and submitted Q&A on sleep, parenting, fear, mood, psychedelics, learning, and travel.
Kyle Maynard, born a congenital quadruple amputee, on wrestling, mountaineering, fear, and refusing to be seen as helple
Executive coach Jerry Colonna and Tim Ferriss explore how sabbaticals, rest, and facing discomfort help you reboot and f
Teacher and author Jessica Lahey on raising self-sufficient kids, preventing addiction, her own sobriety, and learning t
Therapist Dr. Sue Johnson explains how attachment science and Emotionally Focused Therapy let couples repair bonds, impr
TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie tells Tim Ferriss how a serial entrepreneur turned an Argentina shoe drive into a one-for-on
Andreessen Horowitz GP Andrew Chen unpacks growth, network effects, the metaverse, and modern startup investing with Tim
Tim Ferriss's recovered 2007 SXSW talk that launched The 4-Hour Workweek, laying out lifestyle design before the bo
Chef Marco Canora and Tim Ferriss riff on simple cooking, blood-sugar self-experiments, bone broth, food processing, and
David Blaine talks fear, fasting, breath-holding, and how magic connects people, in a live conversation with Tim Ferriss
Legendary VC John Doerr on OKRs, picking Google early, and his data-driven action plan to solve the climate crisis.
Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant explain Web3, NFTs, tokens, and DAOs as a user-owned internet revolution with Tim Ferriss
Eric Schmidt explains why AI rivals the Renaissance, the perils of AGI and AI-driven warfare, and how to coexist with ma
Harvard polyglot Noah Feldman on learning 10+ languages, hyper-productivity without caffeine, drafting Iraq's const
Executive coach Alisa Cohn shares frameworks on 360 feedback, founder prenups, self-talk, and word-for-word scripts for
Tim Ferriss breaks down how he built a 700M-download podcast, covering gear, guests, prep, monetization, and growth with
Diana Chapman teaches Tim Ferriss how to leave the drama triangle, trust the body's whole-body yes, and take radica
Retired General Stanley McChrystal explains why the greatest risk we face is ourselves and how to build a 'risk imm
Michael Dell tells Tim Ferriss the raw story of taking Dell private, beating Carl Icahn, and building a company that pla
Psychiatrist Paul Conti explains how trauma reshapes the brain, fuels shame, and how validation, connection, and the rig
Harvard negotiation expert Sheila Heen breaks down the anatomy of difficult conversations, effective apologies, and mana
Zen teacher Henry Shukman tells Tim Ferriss how meditation, koans, and a spontaneous beach awakening reshaped his life,
Inventor Sir James Dyson on turning a clogging vacuum bag into an empire through 5,127 prototypes, persistence, and lear
Couples therapist Sue Johnson explains the attachment science behind love, the 'hold me tight' bonding convers
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on its dot-com-crash genesis, the failed Nupedia precursor, and designing healthier online
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose riff on crypto, NFTs, Dogecoin, biohacking, sleep, and a year of Zen practice.
Designer-turned-filmmaker B. Jeffrey Madoff on Ralph Lauren, scratching your own itch, perseverance through rejection, a
Mycologist Giuliana Furci on discovering new fungi, getting fungi into Chilean law, Jane Goodall's blessing, and wh
Ramit Sethi shares the questions, exercises, and psychology shifts couples need to align on money and play offense.
Ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna on 500+ ayahuasca sessions, the science of plant medicines, and preserving Amazonian
Anne Lamott on writing badly to write at all, recovery, dark nights of the soul, and turning pain into medicine.
Stanford neurobiologist Andrew Huberman on using light, breathing, and the body to control sleep, stress, and performanc
Michael Pollan explores caffeine, opium, and mescaline, the history and politics of the drug war, and the future of psyc
Tim Ferriss answers fan questions on his morning and exercise routines, holotropic breathwork, self-compassion, meaning,
Peter Attia and Tim Ferriss go deep on longevity drugs, cancer screening, zone two training, psilocybin research, and ho
Writer Suleika Jaouad on surviving leukemia, a 15,000-mile solo road trip, journaling rituals, and learning to live in t
NBA champion Chris Bosh on reinventing himself after blood clots ended his career, leadership, learning, and his book Le
Lululemon founder Chip Wilson on building brands, future-spotting trends, goal setting, the Landmark-based culture he cr
Sebastian Junger on surviving a near-fatal aneurysm, fatherhood, warriorhood, and how people throughout history fight to
Acumen founder Jacqueline Novogratz tells Tim Ferriss how patient capital, moral imagination, and betting on character c
Hamilton Morris and Tim Ferriss explore iboga ritual, 5-MeO-DMT toad sustainability, xenon anesthesia, and the ethics of
Greg McKeown joins Tim Ferriss to explore doing the right things the easier way, gratitude, and a wrenching family healt
Mindfulness coach George Mumford on how meditation transformed Michael Jordan, Kobe, and his own recovery from heroin ad
Neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley on FDA-cleared video game medicine and launching a UCSF psychedelic research division with
Balaji Srinivasan lays out a sweeping thesis on crypto, decentralized media, life extension, network states, and a decli
Elizabeth Lesser on founding Omega Institute, intentional communities, grief, and rewriting the myths that shape how wom
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, interviewed by Naval Ravikant, explains Ethereum, scaling, DeFi, tokens, public goods,
Walter Isaacson on CRISPR, Jennifer Doudna, gene editing's promises and perils, and the coming biotech revolution.
Jordan Peterson and Tim Ferriss explore morality, resentment, psychedelics, biblical stories, order and chaos, and findi
Steven Pressfield on resistance, the artist's journey, the muse, shadow careers, and why finishing your first big w
For episode 500, Kevin Rose turns the tables and interviews Tim Ferriss in a loose, candid, fan-question-driven Random S
Former federal prosecutor Katie Haun on the Silk Road's corrupt agents, prosecuting gangs, and why blockchain crack
Josh Waitzkin turns the tables on Tim Ferriss, probing gating questions, the entanglement of genius and wounds, surrende
Prolific author Joyce Carol Oates on writing energy, revision, running for ideas, avoiding distraction, and writing with
Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph on testing bad ideas fast, walking away from 98% of revenue, and refusing to sell to Am
Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein on building a private equity giant, mastering fundraising, advising Carter, an
Swimming legends Michael Phelps and Grant Hackett on elite training, competitive drive, and their raw, mutual journey th
Richard Schwartz explains Internal Family Systems therapy and leads Tim Ferriss through a live IFS session on his own an
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose riff on Bitcoin, 2021 resolutions, favorite books, lucid dreaming, nature, couples therapy, a
Powerlifting world-record holder Stefi Cohen breaks down strength training, back-pain science, mindset, and the case for
Performance psychologist Jim Loehr on mental toughness, managing energy over time, the private inner voice, and characte
Zen Habits founder Leo Babauta on rebuilding his life one habit at a time, simplicity, contentment, unschooling, and bef
Polymath Martine Rothblatt on building United Therapeutics to save her daughter, manufacturing organs, digital conscious
Shopify COO Harley Finkelstein on building the entrepreneurship company, lessons from law school, the Build-A-Business c
Jerry Seinfeld breaks down his writing systems, daily routines, gamification, and the brutal craft of surviving stand-up
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek shares the habits, mental models, and leadership systems behind his focus, energy, and decision-ma
Jim Collins returns to discuss mentors, the power of small gestures, light vs. dark motivation, the Stockdale Paradox, a
Steven Rinella debunks survival fantasies and explains the simple, unglamorous preparation that actually keeps you safe
ABC anchor turned meditation evangelist Dan Harris on panic attacks, training the mind, and becoming 10% happier.
Dax Shepard talks craft of podcasting, his recent opiate relapse, vulnerability, addiction, and favorite books with Tim
Memoirist Mary Karr on the painful craft of memoir, getting sober, prayer, and finding spiritual gifts hidden inside suf
Astronaut Scott Kelly on decision-making under pressure, learning to study, embracing failure, scientific literacy, and
Yuval Noah Harari on meditation, the fictional stories that bind humanity, suffering as a test of reality, and the exist
Seth Godin on shipping creative work, ignoring outcomes, reframing anxiety, and using constraints, generosity, and pract
Matthew McConaughey unpacks the philosophy behind Greenlights: family lessons, journaling, taking risks, and the sabbati
Naval Ravikant returns to discuss happiness, anxiety, meditation, true science, building wealth without luck, and crypto
Hunter-conservationist Steven Rinella explains how hunting funds wildlife and why reconnecting with nature starts in you
Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin on Amazon shamans, real vs fake healers, hallucinogens like yopo and ayahuasca, and preservin
Artist Dustin Yellin recounts a wild, chaotic path from high-school dropout to building Pioneer Works and making monumen
Richard Koch explains the 80/20 principle, his star-business investing method, and the nine landmarks of unreasonable su
Tim Ferriss publicly shares his childhood sexual abuse for the first time, discussing trauma, near-suicide, and the tool
Guy Raz on building 'How I Built This,' managing lifelong depression, the hero's-journey craft of storyte
Surfing legend Kelly Slater on morning routines, painful setbacks, favorite books, longevity, and the future of wave tec
Tim Ferriss is interviewed by two psychedelic-medicine physicians about MDMA trials, treating trauma, funding, and safe
Chuck Palahniuk delivers a masterclass on minimalism, dangerous writing, and using fiction to exhaust your unresolved em
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on faith as hearing music beneath noise, moving society from 'I' to 'we',
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose riff on Zen, pandemic investing, Mike Tyson's comeback, GPT-3, and the world's rare
Mike Novogratz on resilience after public failure, intuition in macro trading, his bitcoin bull case, ayahuasca, and bai
Grandmaster Maurice Ashley traces his path from Brooklyn chess hustles to history-making mastery, plus lessons on focus,
VC Brad Feld tells Tim Ferriss how unplugging rituals, therapy, and openness about depression sustained him through entr
TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie on the inner-work pilgrimage behind his depression: Hoffman Process, ayahuasca, conscious un
Physicist Janna Levin on the finite universe, extra dimensions, time travel, and reframing life's obstacles as the
Hugh Jackman tells Tim Ferriss about his morning reading ritual, meditation, intuition, the 85% rule, and following his
Fine-art photographer David Yarrow traces his path from sports photography and a billion-dollar hedge fund to selling an
Tim Ferriss introduces Tribe of Mentors, then shares profiles of Naval Ravikant, Susan Cain, and Yuval Noah Harari.
Billionaire John Paul DeJoria tells Tim Ferriss how he went from twice-homeless to building Paul Mitchell and Patrón.
Rick Doblin on how MDMA-assisted psychotherapy heals chronic PTSD and a $10M challenge grant to push it through FDA.
Tim Ferriss narrates his Tools of Titans intro plus profiles of Derek Sivers, BJ Miller, and Christopher Sommer.
82-year-old coaching legend George Raveling reflects on race, leadership, and hope amid the George Floyd protests of 202
Madeleine Albright traces her refugee-to-Secretary-of-State path, the art of diplomacy, women in power, fascism warnings
Kevin Hart shares how positivity, relentless improvement, vision, and ownership took him from poverty to global stardom.
Conscious leadership pioneer Jim Dethmer teaches Tim Ferriss how to escape victim consciousness, defuse drama, feel emot
Sam Harris and Tim Ferriss talk fear, mindfulness, and psychedelics through the lens of the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic.
Legendary investor Howard Marks on dollar reserve status, three ways to add portfolio defense, and thinking probabilisti
Elizabeth Gilbert on grief, creativity as spiritual practice, trusting bodily intuition, and saying a clean, guilt-free
Restaurateur Nick Kokonas explains how Alinea and his Tock startup pivoted to record revenue during the COVID-19 shutdow
Michael Lewis on how he became a writer, his creative process, mentors, friendship, ambition, and the craft of coaching.
Australian comedian Jim Jefferies tells Tim Ferriss how he built a global stand-up career from open mics to specials.
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose drink wine and riff on quarantine life, books, investing, anxiety, and binge-watching during
Brian Koppelman on giving and taking feedback, beating creative and personal stuckness, building serendipity, and the ar
Emotion AI pioneer Rana el Kaliouby on teaching machines emotional intelligence, her journey from Cairo to CEO, and embr
Jane Goodall reflects on her wartime childhood, decades studying chimpanzees at Gombe, and why hope and individual actio
Ryan Holiday and Tim Ferriss apply Stoic philosophy to the COVID-19 crisis, choosing alive time over dead time.
Esther Perel joins Tim Ferriss to share practical tactics for navigating relationships, grief, and isolation during COVI