Thinking With Mitch Joel

Welcome to episode #674 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #674 - Host: Mitch Joel. Gretchen Rubin is one of today's most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. She's known for her ability to distill and convey complex ideas with humor and clarity, in a way that's accessible to a wide audience. She's the author of many books, including the The Four Tendencies, Better Than Before, and The Happiness Project. She recently published her latest, Outer Order, Inner Calm. She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. On podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, she discusses happiness and good habits with her sister Elizabeth Craft. Gretchen Rubin started her career in law and was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor when she realized she wanted to be a writer. In this episode we discuss the challenge of happiness (destination vs. a journey) and how to clean up all of the junk in our lives (not just our stuff). Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 46:19. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Gretchen Rubin. Outer Order, Inner Calm. The Four Tendencies. Better Than Before. The Happiness Project. Happier with Gretchen Rubin,. Follow Gretchen on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #673 - Host: Mitch Joel. I'm super excited to welcome back to the show my good friend (and sales trainer extraordinaire), Ian Altman. Organizations call Ian Altman for his modern sales approach to grow business with integrity. As a CEO for over two decades, Ian founded and grew his own business-services and technology companies from zero to over $1 billion in value. This business success, backed by years of researching how customers make decisions, established Ian as a leading authority on sale acceleration and business growth. He synthesized his thinking into the bestselling book, Same Side Selling. We're here (again), because Ian just published a newly updated second edition of Same Side Selling (which he co-authored with Jack Quarles). Ian has hugely popular podcast of his own also titled, Same Side Selling, and had written hundreds of articles for Inc., Forbes and beyond. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 56:30 Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Ian Altman. Same Side Selling. Follow Ian on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #672 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #672 - Host: Mitch Joel. Like millions of other people, YouTube is the new TV in my life. I subscribe to channels on YouTube, and every night I watch what I subscribed to. It's an amazing mess of interests, hobbies, music, news, information and more. I love it. Thousands of YouTube creators who seem to know exactly what I like (from magic and heavy metal to fountain pens and keynote speakers). Brands still want their videos to pop, and they want their content to go viral. The bigger idea is to create and build a sustainable (and impressive) YouTube channel. Too many are focused on a video… and not the channel opportunity. I've had the pleasure of knowing Carlos Pacheco for many years. Currently, he is the COO at Truly (a marketing agency), but he is also an excellent resource on how to build a successful YouTube channel. He doesn't just talk about it, either… he has done it. For brands like Just For Laughs (which moved from 300k to over 3 million subscribers in over a year) and many others. Carlos has close to twenty years of experience in marketing optimization, audience development and paid media strategy. He is also the co-host of The Video Insiders Podcast that deconstructs YouTube in great depth. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 59:57 Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Carlos Pacheco. Truly. The Video Insiders Podcast. Follow Carlos on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #671 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #671 - Host: Mitch Joel. David Burkus is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, and former business school professor. In 2017, he was named as one of the world's top business thought leaders by Thinkers50. His books are Friend of a Friend, Under New Management and The Myths of Creativity. David is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and has been both a personal friend and guest on this show many times over the years. David's views on leadership have earned him invitations to speak to leaders from a variety of Fortune 500 companies. His TED talk (Why you should know how much your coworkers get paid) has been viewed over two million times. Today we had a conversation on thought leadership. How to think about it, how to create content to position yourself (or your brand) in this manner, and what it takes to get content (articles, media appearances, podcasts, speaking engagements and beyond) heard in such a noisy environment. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 54:45. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with David Burkus. Friend of a Friend. Under New Management. The Myths of Creativity. Why you should know how much your coworkers get paid. Follow David on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #670 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #670 - Host: Mitch Joel. The book Limitless is now a bestseller. It is time to have Laura Gassner Otting back on the show. Laura inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo. She challenges her clients to think bigger and take on greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief. She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares us all to find our true voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life opportunities. Laura's entrepreneurial edge has been well-honed over a 25-year career that started as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton's White House, where she helped shape AmeriCorps. She left a leadership role at the respected nonprofit search firm, Isaacson, Miller, to expand the startup ExecSearches.com. Laura also founded and ran the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, which partnered with the full gamut of mission-driven nonprofit executives, from start-up dreamers to scaling social entrepreneurs to global philanthropists. In 2015, Laura sold NPAG to the team that helped her build it, because she was hungry for the next chapter. Along the way, while serving on Hillary Clinton's National Finance Committee, she was asked to do a TEDx talk which became so popular that it launched a speaking career. Laura's new book is Limitless - How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 57:12. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Laura Gassner Otting. Limitless. Follow Laura on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #669 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #669 - Host: Mitch Joel. There are just a handful of formative thinkers that help me shape, think and rethink what I believe to know about digital, culture and the Internet. They are my oracles. I follow their every word, and I am susceptible to being highly influenced by their work. David Weinberger is one of those oracles. He melds philosophy, practical marketing experience, academic research and an unrivaled curiosity about what technology is... and what it's doing to us. There is no one with David's perspective, because no one has had a journey like his: philosophy professor, marketing VP at early Web startups, co-author of the seminal Cluetrain Manifesto, senior researcher at the leadings Harvard Internet center, co-director of a Harvard innovation lab, a writer with innumerable publications in Wired, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American, and many more. If that were not enough, Dr. Weinberger has been the marketing VP at one of the first Web search engine sites, a tech policy adviser to presidential campaigns, a Franklin Fellow at the US State Department, a writer in residence at a Google AI research group, and for seven years was a gag writer for Woody Allen's comic strip. He is as remarkable as his career path. The author of several books (Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Everything Is Miscellaneous, and Too Big To Know), he is back with a brand new one, Everyday Chaos. This book is all about possibility, and how us humans are doing in the complexity of what technology has brought. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 57:15. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with David Weinberger. Everyday Chaos. Cluetrain Manifesto. Small Pieces Loosely Joined. Everything Is Miscellaneous. Too Big To Know. Follow David on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #668 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #668 - Host: Mitch Joel. In short: Todd Herman is a fascinating human being. Over the years, he has helped thousands of people become more resilient, creative, confident and courageous. He has clocked over 15,000 hours in the field, working one-on-one with people from all backgrounds to help them develop an impenetrable mindset. He knows the mental performance game better than anyone. His execution and mindset strategies and systems are used by businesses, entrepreneurs, entertainers, and athletes. He's also lived through some insanely hard stuff, and he understands that the things that drive people are often complex and nuanced. While he's known to be brutally honest and tough on his clients, he's also deeply empathetic and compassionate. His first book, The Alter Ego Effect, is about creating a heroic alter ego to activate when the chips are down. There's only one person in the way of you untapping your capabilities: You. There's also one person who can move you out of the way so you can perform at your peak. That person is already inside of you. You just need to unlock them. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 1:00:09. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Todd Herman. The Alter Ego Effect. Follow Todd on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #667 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #667 - Host: Mitch Joel. After a long and successful career at L'Oréal, Minter Dial returned to his entrepreneurial roots to become an author, consultant and speaker. Minter has spent ten years helping senior management teams and boards to adapt to the new exigencies of the digitally enhanced marketplace. Minter's focus is on brand strategies, technology integration and digital tools. He is the author of three books, producer of one award-winning documentary film, as well as numerous white papers, eBooks and contributions to countless media outlets. Minter's newest book is Heartificial Empathy - Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence. Shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2019, this book looks at why and how to embed empathy into your organisation and AI initiatives. His second book (co-written with Caleb Storkey) was Futureproof - How to get your business ready for the next disruption (back in 2017). In 2016, Minter wrote and produced the award-winning book and documentary, The Last Ring Home. It's a moving personal story that returns our focus on the important values of love, courage and honor. The film has won ten prizes. Minter is a true renaissance man with penchant for making business better. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 54:20. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Minter Dial. Heartificial Empathy - Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence. Futureproof - How to get your business ready for the next disruption. The Last Ring Home. Follow Minter on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #666 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #666 - Host: Mitch Joel. If we're going to always talk business here on this show, I needed something with music in it to celebrate episode #666 (number of the beast, etc…). We're in luck. Clive Thompson is not just a computer geek (like me), or a passionate journalist (like me), he also writes, records, and performs music in the band The Delorean Sisters. Still, most know him for his writing in the science and technology space for the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Smithsonian magazine and many others. He wrote the book Smarter Than You Think and more recently published his sophomore effort, Coders - The Making of a New Tribe and Remaking of the World. The book explores the fascinating world of computer programmers - the people who run today's world (and the world of tomorrow). What do these people want from technology? What will these people program for us? How will these algorithms play out? How do we ensure that they're the right people to be coding our future? Let's rock out with Clive. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 56:01. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Clive Thompson. Coders - The Making of a New Tribe and Remaking of the World. Smarter Than You Think. Follow Clive on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #665 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #665 - Host: Mitch Joel. Cal Newport is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. In addition to researching cutting­ edge technology, he also writes about the impact of these innovations on society. Cal is the author of six books, including the recently published bestseller, Digital Minimalism and (a personal favorite) Deep Work, which argues that focus is the new I.Q. in the modern workplace. Cal's work has been published in over 20 languages and has been featured in many major publications. He's also a frequent guest on NPR. In this episode, we did deeper into his work, and why we must all be more selective of the technologies that we bring into our personal and professional lives. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 57:36. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Cal Newport. Digital Minimalism. Deep Work. So Good They Can't Ignore You. Cal's other books. Cal's not on Twitter, so here's a link to his blog. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.