Smart People Podcast

Marc Ostrofsky: Author of Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work and Play, and NY Times best seller Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet, entrepreneur, online business mogul, venture capitalist. Some people just have the itch, the drive, the absolute need to create... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Adam Grant – Author of Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, youngest tenured professor at Wharton, one of BusinessWeek’s favorite professors, and one of the world’s 40 best business professors under 40. According to Professor Adam Grant, at work we all fall into one of the following 3 categories: Takers, Givers, and... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jay Baer – Author of Youtility: Why Smart Marketing is About Help Not Hype (NY Times Bestseller), marketing consultant, entrepreneur (started 5 multi-million dollar businesses from scratch!), named one of America’s top 3 social media consultants. After speaking with Jay this week, we quickly realized how much the world of connecting and marketing has come.  Now... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dorie Clark – Author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future, former presidential campaign spokeswoman, professor at Duke University WHERE was this book 10 years ago and why didn’t anyone give me this advice.  Our guest this week, Dorie Clark, hits home with a powerful episode about becoming the person you want to... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Blank – Author of The Startup Owner’s Manual and The Four Steps to the Epiphany, serial entrepreneur, professor. This week we talk to a true pioneer in an industry filled with innovators.  Our guest, Steve Blank, created the “Lean Startup” model that helped facilitate the launch of over 10,000 companies.  This model states that startup... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Louie Schwartzberg – Director, producer, cinematographer. Movingart.com Well, we did it.  We made it to 100.  We joined the century club.  We want you to know, that we couldn’t have done it without you.  100 episodes is something that we never envisioned – hell, I didn’t think I would want to sit in the same... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicco Mele: Author of The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath, entrepreneur, angel investor, and consultant to Fortune 1000 companies. At first glance, you might look at the title of this post, or the author we have on and think, “We get it! The Internet makes us connected.  Welcome to the... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Schwartz – President & CEO of TheEnergyProject.com, Author of, Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys To Transforming the Way We Work and Live If you have listened to the show for any length of time, you probably know about the origins of Smart People Podcast.  Jon and I had been in the corporate world... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lauren Sandler: Journalist, author of One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child and the Joy of Being One Roach wouldn’t willingly admit it in the interview, and perhaps this is presumptuous, but I think we all have a negative bias towards only children…unless, of course, you are one.  I’m not saying it’s a huge... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christine Clapp – Presentation and communications expert, founder of Spoken With Authority The ability to communicate through language is what separates man from ape (and all other mammals for that matter).  The spoken word is a defining trait of homo sapiens,  and as such, is our main method of communication.  It shouldn’t surprise anyone then, that... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices