*☑️ Start with friends *

The speaker's experience of being on the show is very meta, as they were first inspired to pursue podcasting as a career after listening to the Tim Ferriss show in their 20s. Tim Ferriss has interviewed a number of influential figures on his show, such as LeBron James, Bob Iger, and Ed Catmull from Pixar. In the beginning, Tim Ferriss focused on removing uncontrolled variables from his interviews and practiced with friends first before interviewing people like Ed Catmull.