Smart People Podcast
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Smart People Podcast is a biweekly, interview-based podcast that features today's most well respected thought leaders engaging in authentic, insightful conversation for the benefit of the listener. The host, Chris Stemp, and his co-host/producer Jon Rojas, utilize their insatiable curiosity and relatable charm to provoke their guests into giving the interview of a lifetime. Every single guest has achieved a high level of recognition within their arena and in doing so has collected a wealth of experiences and insights that are brought to life in this top ranked podcast. Show topics include: psychology, leadership, education, technology, entrepreneurship, relationships, and much more.
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Jul 28, 2013 • 50min
Steve Blank
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...
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Jul 23, 2013 • 37min
Louie Schwartzberg
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...
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Jul 14, 2013 • 51min
Nicco Mele
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...
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Jul 7, 2013 • 42min
Tony Schwartz
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...
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Jul 1, 2013 • 40min
Lauren Sandler
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...
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Jun 23, 2013 • 39min
Christine Clapp
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...
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Jun 17, 2013 • 35min
David Kadavy
David Kadavy: Author of Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty, design guru. If you know anything about the show, you know that Jon loves his weird stuff. So leave it to him to find a guy who focuses on design. What does that even mean? I was pretty sure this conversation wouldn’t apply to my life...
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Jun 9, 2013 • 40min
Jamie and Maren Showkeir
Maren and Jamie Showkeir – Authors of Yoga Wisdom at Work: Finding Sanity Off the Mat and On the Job, Yoga Instructor As you might know by now, Jon and I like to focus on how terrible work is – perhaps it’s because misery likes company. We get emails from many of you out in...
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Jun 3, 2013 • 41min
Susan Schorn
Susan Schorn – Author of Smile at Strangers: And Other Lessons in the Art of Living Fearlessly, writer, teacher, martial arts instructor, and dual black belt. “If you’re going for a groin strike, you want to attack from the bottom up, rather than from the front, to inflict maximum damage.” This may be my favorite...
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May 21, 2013 • 43min
Kevin Smokler
Kevin Smokler – Literary enthusiast, speaker, author of Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 books you Haven’t Touched Since High School. When you hear the name Holden Caulfield, does it trigger any memories? Perhaps you get a nervous, jittery sensation that runs down your spine as you reminisce about an old book report gone...
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