

What's the Big Idea with Andrew Horn
Andrew Horn
A podcast for the smartest, most creative thinkers on the planet to distill the single idea or piece of insight that will help you to live a better life.
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Dec 17, 2019 • 1h 3min
Bob Roth: A Science Backed Introduction To Transcendental Meditation.
Bob Roth is one of the most respected and sought after meditation teachers in America. Bob is the author of the New York Times bestseller, “Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation,” the CEO of the David Lynch Foundation, which has provided scholarships for over 1 million at-risk youth to learn to meditate, and president of the Center for Health and Wellness which brings TM to companies, government organizations, and nonprofit charities.

Dec 5, 2019 • 1h 9min
Rich Litvin: How To Avoid The Hidden Traps That Successful People Fall Into
Rich Litvin runs a leadership consultancy for world leaders, celebrities and the extremely successful people in Los Angeles and London. The methodology is deep coaching. Bespoke. Not time-based.
Ultra-successful people – people you would assume don’t need a coach – are the ones who call Rich. His clients include Olympic athletes, Presidential candidates, Hollywood film directors, Special Forces operatives and serial entrepreneurs.
Rich is also the author of a best-selling book on coaching and he runs a program for 40 of the world’s most successful consultants and coaches. In my opinion, he is the smartest voice out there on how to coach for maximum impact, while also maximizing your bottom line.
Whether you are already "successful" or on the way there, this episodes is MUST listen. Full of insight on what you can do to avoid the pitfalls and "traps" of success.

Nov 25, 2019 • 1h 16min
Cindy Gallop: We Need To Talk About Porn. Here's How We Do It.
Cindy Gallop is the founder and CEO of www.makelovenotporn.com, which she launched with a viral TED talk in 2009 – ‘Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference’. In 2013 she turned MakeLoveNotPorn into the world’s first user-generated, human-curated social sex video sharing platform https://www.makelovenotporn.tv/ socializing and normalizing sex in order to make it easier to talk about, to promote consent, communication, good sexual values and good sexual behavior. MakeLoveNotPorn is spearheading the Social Sex Revolution https://socialsexrevolution.com/ (the revolutionary part isn’t the sex, but the social). Cindy is raising the world’s first sextech fund http://www.alltheskyholdings.com/ . She speaks at conferences globally and consults, describing her approach as ‘I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.’

Nov 14, 2019 • 1h 16min
Wednesday Martin: Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust and Infidelity Is Wrong
Dr. Wednesday Martin is a feminist cultural critic and #1 NYT bestselling author. Her latest book, UNTRUE: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free was a Kirkus Review “Best Books of the Year” selection. Wednesday is also the co-host of the iTunes top-100 podcast "True Sex and Wild Love."

Nov 6, 2019 • 58min
James Maskell: The Power of Functional Medicine and Community to Transform Healthcare
With the soul of an advocate and the mind of an entrepreneur, James Maskell has spent the past decade sparking debate innovating at the cross section of functional medicine and community. To that end, he created the Functional Forum, the world’s largest integrative medicine conference with record-setting participation online and growing physician communities around the world. His organization and best selling book of the same name, Evolution of Medicine, prepares health professionals for this new era of predictive, preventive medicine. He is also the Founder of KNEW Health, and affordable alternative to health insurance. He is an in demand speaker and impresario, being featured on TEDMED, HuffPostLive and TEDx, as well as lecturing internationally. He lives in Sacramento, CA with his wife and daughter.

Oct 29, 2019 • 1h 18min
Sara Ness: The Power of Authentic Relating and Social Technologies
Sara Ness is the Founder and Chief Instigator of Authentic Revolution. She began teaching Authentic Relating in 2012, founding a thousands-strong learning community in Austin, Texas and going on to train over 350 leaders and help found 30+ other communities worldwide. Sara is passionate about exposing the joy of human connection and exploring our creative potential through relationship. She has facilitated at schools, companies, yoga studios, a funeral, Burning Man, and more, bringing playful social technology into the mainstream and the non-mainstream.

Oct 16, 2019 • 1h 19min
Aaron Rose - The Essential Link Between Personal Transformation and Social Justice
Aaron Rose is a transformational coach for public figures, inclusive culture consultant, motivational speaker and human being committed to changing and enjoying the world at the same time. He is devoted to healing our crisis of separation and political polarization by designing radically inclusive community cultures, facilitating individual recovery from trauma and isolation, and empowering the next generation of changemakers to lead the way.
Aaron has facilitated cultural transformation across multiple industries, from wellness and spirituality to tech and finance, using a unique mix of restorative justice, neuroscience, metaphysics, and meditation. His clients have included McKinsey & Co, Columbia University, Greenpeace, T-Mobile, and more. As a transformational coach and energy worker, Aaron helps public figures transcend their fears of criticism and embrace their unique role in building a better world. Having experienced both violent discrimination and unfounded privilege during his journey as a transgender man, Aaron is a champion of a world where we are celebrated for our unique incarnations while also transcending the labels that keep us divided.

Oct 1, 2019 • 48min
Arjuna Ardagh: The Life Changing Mindset Shift from Acquisition to Contribution
Arjuna is a writer, public speaker and executive coach, who has trained more than 2000 coaches over the last 25 years.
He is the author of nine books, including the 2005 #1 National Bestseller The Translucent Revolution. His latest book, Radical Brilliance, is the anatomy of how and why people have original ideas which change the world.
He has been a speaker at conferences all over the world, including at Google and the United Nations. He lives with his wife, Chameli in Nevada City, California. They have two grown sons and two mischievous kittens.

Sep 24, 2019 • 59min
Michael Ventura: Applied Empathy - The New Language of Leadership
Michael Ventura is the CEO and founder of Sub Rosa, a strategy and design firm that has worked with some of the world's largest and most important brands: from Johnson & Johnson, Pantone, and Adobe to the TED Conference, Delta Airlines and The Daily Show.
While he wears many hats in his professional life, Michael can boil all his roles down to helping people and corporations overcome their most vexing challenges when it comes to personal development and understanding the obstacles when connecting with other people.
Michael has served as a board member and advisor to a variety of organizations, including Behance, the Burning Man Project, Cooper-Hewitt, and the U.N.'s Tribal Link Foundation. He is also a visiting lecturer at institutions such as Princeton University and the United States Military Academy at West Point.
In addition to these pursuits, Michael leads a thriving indigenous medicine practice, where he helps patients address illness and injury of all types on the road to better well-being. Applied Empathy, his first book, was published by Simon & Schuster in May 2018.

Sep 16, 2019 • 51min
Nir Eyal - How to become Indistractable in an Overwhelming World
Nir Eyal, a prominent behavioral economist and author of 'Indistractable,' shares his journey from creating addictive tech to teaching others how to regain their focus. He reveals that distraction often stems from internal triggers rather than devices. Eyal debunks the myth of phone addiction, emphasizing intentional attention management instead. He discusses practical strategies for enhancing workplace productivity and self-control, advocating for introspection and a supportive culture to combat the overwhelming distractions of modern life.