The Tim Ferriss Show

Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks, explores time and limits; Elizabeth Gilbert, the Eat, Pray, Love author, brings a creative and spiritual lens; Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism, champions less; and Chip Conley, entrepreneur and founder of Modern Elder Academy, shares hard-won perspective. They tackle reinvention, clutter, mental overload, saying no, inbox boundaries, and why even simplicity can become complicated.

Kevin Ryan, entrepreneur, investor, and founder of AlleyCorp, helped build DoubleClick, MongoDB, Business Insider, and more. He discusses spotting decade-long trends, second-order opportunities, and why deep tech offers powerful moats. He shares stories from Gilt Groupe and DoubleClick, explains AlleyCorp’s company-building model, and explores nuclear energy, psychedelics, robotics, recruiting, failure, and designing a sustainable life.

Tania de Jong, an Australian social entrepreneur, philanthropist, singer, and co-founder of Mind Medicine Australia, shares the playbook behind Australia’s landmark psychedelic policy shift. She discusses building a grassroots movement, winning over regulators, recruiting scientific allies, training clinicians, funding patient care, and scaling access. They also explore integration, group therapy, treatment costs, dosing, resilience, and the global future of psychedelic medicine.

Niels Hoven, founder and CEO of Mentava and a former Cloudflare, ClassDojo, and Pocket Gems executive, joins a candid working session on accelerated learning. They explore toddlers reading early, game-inspired motivation, wasted formative years, parent messaging, testimonials, pricing, scholarships, and reaching families before they realize their child could learn much faster.

Terry Crews, actor and former NFL player; Tim McGraw, Grammy-winning musician; Cathy Lanier, NFL security chief; Janna Levin, cosmologist and author; and Boyd Varty, lion tracker and author, share powerful stories of setbacks and reinvention. They explore missed shots, failed albums, career collapse, hardship, uncertainty, and the surprising paths that emerge when plans fall apart.

Esther Perel, psychotherapist focused on intimacy and infidelity; Brené Brown, researcher on vulnerability and wholehearted living; Dr. Sue Johnson, creator of Emotionally Focused Therapy; Jim Dethmer, conscious leadership teacher; Diana Chapman, relationship transformer. They talk about practical rituals, repair moves, shifting complaints into requests, differentiating facts from stories, and how to consciously reshape long-term partnerships.

Matthew McConaughey, Oscar-winning actor who reshaped his career, and Martine Rothblatt, biotech founder who taught herself biology to save her daughter. Samin Nosrat, James Beard–winning chef-turned-writer, and Suleika Jaouad, Emmy-winning writer rebuilding life after cancer. They share bold reinventions, quitting comfortable success, learning new skills, and inventing fresh rituals for a radically different next chapter.

Seth Godin, marketer and bestselling author, urges doing the work despite fear. Brandon Sanderson, prolific fantasy novelist, explains daily word-count habits and productivity. Mary Karr, memoirist, describes ruthless revision and cutting pages. Jerry Seinfeld, comedian and writer, shares fixed-session systems to train creativity. Anne Lamott, author and writing teacher, champions small steps and embracing imperfect first drafts.

Wide-ranging Q&A on reinvention in midlife, enduring meta-skills for the age of AI, and how to test big life pivots. A deep dive into male friendship dynamics and building lasting bonds through shared projects. Practical talk on strength training, sleep fixes, walking for creativity, privacy in a public life, and the value of mini-retirements.

Dr. Andrew Huberman, Stanford neuroscientist and author focused on neuroplasticity and human performance. He explores training routines, neck work, and conditioning. He discusses psychedelics, inducing plasticity and the need for integration. He demystifies peptides, sleep hacks, AI and wearables, and previews practical protocols for optimizing cognition and recovery.