Best True Responsive Design Podcasts (2026)

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Michelle Gielan: How Small Shifts in Communication Create Big Changes in Happiness and Resilience 45:22

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In this powerful conversation, former CBS news anchor and positive psychology researcher Michelle Gielan unpacks how we can rewire our communication habits to shape more resilient, empowered, and optimistic lives — both personally and collectively. Drawing on research from her book *Broadcasting Happiness*, Gielan shows how small shifts in the way …

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2025 Listener Favorite: Becoming Shatterproof with Tasha Eurich 29:17

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Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. As we approach the end of the year, I'm pausing to look back and celebrate all of the wonderful guests that I had the honor of speaking to on the show. And based on your feedback, many of these guests resonated with you as well so we're giving you another chance to revisit the stories, insights…

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Breaking Free from the Plan: How Decision Engineering Can Transform Your Life with Michelle Florendo 43:51

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Michelle Florendo shares her journey from following the immigrant dream of Stanford, an MBA, and a "good job" to discovering she was miserable and needed to chart her own path. As a decision engineering expert, she reveals the three essential elements of every decision (options, objectives, and information), explains why we confuse decision quality…

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The Space Between 29:39

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In June of 1966, an eleven-year-old girl struggles to breathe in a Pittsburgh living room. Help is called. Transport arrives. Care does not. Her death exposes something medicine had not yet learned how to see... the most dangerous moments are often not the ones inside the hospital, but the minutes before anyone is trained or permitted to act. In th…

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2025 Listener Favorite: The Future of AI with Steve Lucas 28:45

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Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. As we approach the end of the year, I'm pausing to look back and celebrate all of the wonderful guests that I had the honor of speaking to on the show. And based on your feedback, many of these guests resonated with you as well so we're giving you another chance to revisit the stories, insights…

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Scam Prevention in 2026: Moving from Recommendations to Urgent Execution, A Conversation with Ken Palla, Former Cybersecurity Executive at MUFG Union Bank 53:31

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In the final Scam Rangers episode of 2025, Ayelet Biger-Levin is joined by industry veteran Ken Palla for a deep year-in-review of the global scam prevention landscape. This conversation examines what actually happened in 2025 across regulation, enforcement, and industry action, and why 2026 must move decisively from research and recommendations to…

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Outrunning Death 39:44

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In the late 1960s, trauma surgeon R. Adams Cowley became obsessed with a question that refused to leave him alone: why were patients still dying even when everything seemed to be done “right”? By tracking cases minute by minute, Cowley uncovered a brutal truth. The most lethal enemy in trauma care wasn’t always the injury itself, but the time lost …

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Justin McRoberts: Mortality, Meaning, and Giving Away Everything You've Got 48:13

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Justin McRoberts, musician, pastor, and author of "It's What You Make of It," shares how confronting death early in life shaped his approach to creativity and faith. Having attended over 20 funerals by age 25, McRoberts explains why understanding mortality is essential to living fully and why the cultural narrative of imperviousness keeps people fr…

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2025 Listener Favorite: A Fresh Approach to Strategy with Seth Godin 29:45

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Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. As we approach the end of the year, I'm pausing to look back and celebrate all of the wonderful guests that I had the honor of speaking to on the show. And based on your feedback, many of these guests resonated with you as well so we're giving you another chance to revisit the stories, insights…

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When I Have Your Wounded 33:47

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As unarmed helicopters flew into active combat zones, pilots and medics made a radical commitment: they would go wherever the wounded were, no matter the danger. At the center of that promise was Major Charles Kelly, commander of the 57th Medical Detachment, whose final radio transmission... “When I have your wounded”... became the creed of Dustoff…

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Heck Vs Hell Ep 81 - Mitigated Responsibility 20:11

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-Welcome #RDDC and #FDS Familianz! You are now tuning to #HeckvsHell, #MitigatedResponsibility There are certain laws God has put in place within the Spiritual and the Physical that either our flesh must comply with or that are the foundations of Life as we know it. One of those is the Law of Freewill which makes it to where God will not tamper wit…

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PMHX: NoFX - Episode 4 26:01

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In this week’s aftershow, we take you behind the creation of The Scalpel in the Storm and into the world of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey in a way the main episode didn’t have room for. This is a bit of a deeper push into the wild details, the human moments, and the medical drama you won’t believe is real. Plus, a bit of the showrunner's thoughts and crea…

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Building Magnetic Communication Skills with Lynn Smith 35:24

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Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. I'm excited to welcome Lynn Smith to the show this week. She is a media and communications expert who helps high-level leaders turn pressure into presence. A former anchor for NBC News, MSNBC, and CNN Headline News, she now coaches Fortune 500 executives, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs to b…

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Jeff Wald: Navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Why Personal Responsibility Defines the Future of Work 51:27

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Jeff Wald, author of The End of Jobs and CEO of WorkMarket, examines how robots and AI are creating the fourth industrial revolution—a massive power shift from workers to companies that mirrors past technological upheavals. Drawing from labor history, on-demand platforms, and regulatory battles like California Prop 22, Wald reveals why the lifetime…

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The Scalpel in the Storm 32:28

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Before he became one of the most influential surgeons in modern history, Michael DeBakey was just a fourteen-year-old boy in New Orleans holding the wrist of a dying neighbor and learning how fast life can slip away. That moment became the engine that drove him through lecture halls, operating rooms, and eventually into the largest war the world ha…

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Jeff Spencer: The Champion Blueprint and the Eight Inevitable Steps to Peak Performance 42:41

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Jeff Spencer, former Olympic cyclist and performance coach to Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, and Olympic gold medalists, breaks down the precise architecture of champion-level achievement. From losing his father at age 10 to competing in the Munich Olympics to coaching nine Tour de France victories, Jeff reveals the eight sequential steps every prol…

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Heck Vs Hell Ep 80 - Unrighteous Wars 20:42

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Welcome #RDDC and #FDS Familianz! You are now tuning to #HeckvsHell, #UnrighteousWars The world is full of roads and avenues we can take with the freewill of life. It’s very easy to get on the wrong path, or even the path that may be right, yet not the intended one that God meant for our life; but there’s those that are completely unrighteous. “For…

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Jason Naylor: The Psychology of Color and Why Bright Hues Unlock Positivity, Memory, and Human Connection 49:27

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Jason Naylor, artist and author of Live Life Colorfully, shares how growing up as the second of seven children in a Mormon family in Salt Lake City shaped his caretaker personality and his eventual escape to New York where he discovered creative liberation. Naylor reveals the symbiotic relationship between color and messaging in his work—the more p…

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RELOAD: Disrupting the Old, Building the New with Mitch Lowe 33:06

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Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am excited to share a replay of a conversation I had with Mitch Lowe. Mitch was one of the early pioneers in the movie rental industry opening video rental stores in the early 1980's. In the late 90's Mitch joined Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings at Netflix as the video industry expe…

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Jacob Sager Weinstein: The Memory Palace Method and Why You Cannot Synthesize What You Do Not Remember 51:29

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Jacob Sager Weinstein, comedy writer for Dennis Miller and author of How to Remember Everything, shares how growing up in privileged Washington DC where the vice president's daughter was in his debate club gave him confidence to walk into any room but delayed his understanding that not everyone has equal access to opportunity until he reached Princ…

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PMHX: NoFX - Episodes 1-3 19:54

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PMHX: No FX is the official aftershow for Past Medical History: The Story of EMS. Each week, creator and co-hosts Sophie, Evan, and some occasional special guests break down the episode in a raw, unscripted conversation about the story, the research, the decisions, and the creative process behind the scenes. No sound design. No effects. Just the hu…

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Hillary Weiss: The Danger of Just Mindset and Why Imitation Is a Trap for Finding Your Golden Thread 53:21

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Hillary Weiss, brand strategist and positioning coach, reflects on growing up in suburban South Florida where attending the same school for 14 years meant everyone remembered who peed their pants in pre-K yet created lifelong friendships that watched her evolve from emo to punk rock to professional white woman. Weiss challenges the dangerous mindse…

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After The Guns Fall Silent 35:24

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When the guns stop firing, the dying doesn’t end. In this episode, we follow the story of a wounded Union lieutenant left to perish on the field at Second Bull Run. He is abandoned not by fate, but by a broken system. That single tragedy may have become the turning point for a quiet, analytical surgeon named Jonathan Letterman. From the coal-smoked…

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Heck Vs Hell Ep 79 - By Design 7:29

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Welcome #RDDC and #FDS Familianz! You are now tuning to #HeckvsHell, #Satan’s Failed Attack There’s many animals that you can hear the name of, and know their characteristics. For example, if you think of a lion, you think of the King of the Jungle, sheep, you think of harmless and helpless livestock animals, snakes you think of some sort of danger…

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Gautum Mukunda: The Paradox of Leader Selection and Why Unfiltered Presidents Are a Dangerous Gamble 58:48

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Gautum Mukunda, Harvard professor and author of Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, reveals the paradox at the heart of leadership selection: the more effort you put into picking a leader, the less it matters who you pick. Drawing from decades of presidential history, Mukunda introduces the concept of filtered versus unfiltered leaders—Georg…

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#Broken to Becoming 13:21

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Welcome back to The Real Double Dose Channel- aka S&M ELEVATION! Hello Familianz & New Coming Friends! We hope and pray that all is being, doing, and going well with you all! Thank you all for joining us! Welcome to another amazing episode, growing within even more expansion! We live in a world that loves to diagnose you, label you, box you, and te…

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Breaking the Scam Spell: From Grooming to Intervention with Martina Dove, Scam psychology expert 47:03

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In this powerful episode of Scam Rangers, Ayelet Biger-Levin sits down with scam psychology expert Martina Dove to dive deep into the psychology of scams. Martina shares her insights on the psychological tactics used by scammers and the most effective methods for prevention and intervention. The conversation dives deep into the origins of Martina's…

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Cal Newport: Why Social Media Is Big Tobacco Not Big Oil and the Steam Whistle Theory of Attention 1:06:33

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Cal Newport, computer science professor and author of Digital Minimalism, argues that the better analogy for social media is not big oil that must be broken up because it's vital to society but big tobacco that must be culturally rejected because it's unhealthy and dispensable—people don't care if you tell them to leave Facebook for six months but …

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The Doctor Who Refused To Wait 24:41

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In 1793, the French Revolution burned across Europe. Amid the chaos, a young surgeon named Dominique Jean Larrey refuses to stand idle as wounded soldiers bleed and die where they fall. Against orders and tradition, he builds a system that will change the fate of the injured forever... a flying ambulance that brings care to the battlefield itself. …

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Cal Newport: Cognitive Athleticism and Why Elite Performers Protect Their Attention 1:06:33

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Computer science professor and bestselling author Cal Newport explains why cognitive fitness matters as much as physical fitness for elite performance. Drawing from his work with NBA teams and hedge fund managers, Newport breaks down the connection between attention control and exceptional achievement. He challenges the myth that social media grows…

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Ethan Kross: Mastering Your Inner Voice Before It Masters You 55:06

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Psychologist and bestselling author Ethan Kross breaks down the science of *chatter*—the internal voice that can either empower or paralyze us. Drawing on decades of research in neuroscience and emotion regulation, Kross explains how introspection, while powerful, can often backfire, leading to rumination, anxiety, and impaired performance.In this …

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#The Masterpiece of the Body 11:01

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Welcome back to The Real Double Dose Channel- aka S&M ELEVATION! Hello Familianz & New Coming Friends! We hope and pray that all is being, doing, and going well with you all! Thank you all for joining us! Welcome to another amazing episode, growing within even more expansion! Our flesh is a wonderful masterpiece of a design that correlates beautifu…

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Eric Barker: The Science of Relationships and Why Playing Well with Others Matters More Than You Think 1:21:50

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Eric Barker, bestselling author of Barking Up the Wrong Tree and Plays Well with Others, reveals what decades of social science research says about relationships, friendship, love, and meaning. From his journey through Hollywood screenwriting to the video game industry to running one of the most-read personal development blogs, Eric explains his ob…

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Culture as a Competitive Advantage with Richard Fain 31:31

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Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. I'm excited to welcome Richard Fain to the show this week. He served as Royal Caribbean Group CEO for over three decades, leading its transformation from a small Norwegian company with three ships that held just over 700 passengers each into one of the world's largest and most profitable cruise…

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Brea Starmer: Redefining Work Around Highest and Best Use, Not Hours Logged 45:18

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Brea Starmer, founder of Lions and Tigers, challenges the outdated workplace model that measures face time over impact. Drawing from her experience as a mother of three running a company during COVID-19, she introduces the concept of "highest and best use"—a real estate framework adapted to human potential that prioritizes outcomes over hours logge…

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Dylan Beynon: Building Mindbloom and the Science of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy 54:09

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Dylan Beynon, founder of Mindbloom, shares the deeply personal story behind building the first at-home ketamine therapy platform. After losing his mother and sister to severe mental illness, Dylan became determined to bring psychedelic medicine into mainstream healthcare. He explains the neuroscience of how ketamine creates neuroplasticity—allowing…

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#The Push 13:08

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Welcome back to The Real Double Dose Channel- aka S&M ELEVATION! Hello Familianz & New Coming Friends! We hope and pray that all is being, doing, and going well with you all! Thank you all for joining us! Welcome to another amazing episode, growing within even more expansion! Within each and everyone one of us, we all have a purpose and there is so…

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Douglass Vigliotti: Wrestling with Conviction and Why Creative Work Demands Uncomfortable Honesty 57:05

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Douglass Vigliotti, author and creative, explores the tension between doubt and conviction that defines the creative process. Drawing from his parents, his father relentless drive and his mother empathy, Douglass reflects on what it means to pursue creative work when society constantly asks if you want more. This conversation examines the uncomfort…

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Nobody is Coming to Save You 19:03

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In 1783, a young merchant’s son lies dying on a frozen Scottish road, his leg shattered, his lifeline severed, and no help in sight. Before ambulances, before medicine as we know it, survival depended on luck, distance, and the kindness of strangers. Through one man’s struggle to survive, Past Medical History: The Story of EMS traces the origins of…

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Donny Jackson: The Internalized Stains of Slavery and Why Empathy Cannot Develop Without Interaction Across Racial Lines 51:58

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Donny Jackson, poet and psychologist, reflects on growing up as a working-class black kid in Pittsburgh where his father was a postal worker for 35 years and his mother was a nurse's aide—parents who instilled work ethic, integrity, and honor while navigating a world not built for young black children. Jackson traces the roots of American racism to…

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#The Clarity of JR 20:03

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Welcome back to The Real Double Dose Channel- aka S&M ELEVATION! Hello Familianz & New Coming Friends! We hope and pray that all is being, doing, and going well with you all! Thank you all for joining us! Welcome to another amazing episode, growing within even more expansion! This is coming from a moment in time of meeting a man in a very unlikely …

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Bjorn Ryan-Gorman: Coming Out as Gay in the Snowboarding World and Reclaiming Masculinity on Your Own Terms 45:23

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Bjorn Ryan-Gorman, professional snowskater and LGBTQ+ advocate, shares his journey from hiding his sexuality behind aggressive board sports to building a life of authenticity in Portland. Growing up in Montana as a sponsored snow athlete, Ryan-Gorman used snowboarding and skateboarding as outlets for self-hatred and denial, pushing himself to dange…

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How to Spark Irresistible Change with Phil Gilbert 28:24

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Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. I'm thrilled to welcome Phil Gilbert to the show today. He is IBM's former General Manager of Design, where he helped transform one of the most traditional companies in the world into a global design thinking powerhouse. In his new book, Irresistible Change, he pulls back the curtain on how he …

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David Epstein: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World 51:45

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David Epstein, author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, dismantles the myth that early specialization is the only path to excellence. Drawing from research on elite athletes, musicians, and scientists, David reveals how individual variability in learning means there is no one-size-fits-all approach to skill development. He r…

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#The Lure of the Unseen 13:42

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Welcome back to The Real Double Dose Channel- aka S&M ELEVATION! Hello Familianz & New Coming Friends! We hope and pray that all is being, doing, and going well with you all! Thank you all for joining us! Welcome to another amazing episode, growing within even more expansion! Today we want to go into the world of the Unseen an take a closer look at…

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Daniel Stillman: The Architecture of Conversations and Why Every Interface Shapes What We Say 1:18:27

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Daniel Stillman, author of Good Talk: How to Design Conversations That Matter, reveals how conversations are designed—whether we realize it or not. Drawing from his background in design thinking and facilitation, Daniel breaks down the components of conversational architecture: openings, turns, power dynamics, and interfaces. He explains why physic…

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Ayelet Fishbach: The Science of Motivation, Why Fantasies Fail, and Balancing Abstract Goals with Concrete Plans 1:07:21

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Ayelet Fishbach, motivation researcher at University of Chicago, dismantles the fantasy-driven approach to New Year's resolutions and goal-setting. Drawing from data spanning multiple years, she reveals that while temporal landmarks like New Year work for initiating goals, only 20% of people still pursue them by November—the difference comes down t…

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Dandapani: Mastering Your Mind as an Operating System, Sexual Energy Transmutation, and the Monastic Path to Unwavering Focus 1:07:07

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Dandapani, former Hindu monk who lived monastically for 10 years, shares teachings from his guru on treating the mind as an operating system that must be understood before it can be mastered. He explains the critical distinction between a focused life (giving undivided attention to whoever/whatever you're engaged with) and a purpose-focused life (w…

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Cal Newport: Slow Productivity, Escaping Pseudo Productivity, and the Three Principles for Sustainable Knowledge Work 1:40:53

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Cal Newport unpacks his framework for Slow Productivity, built on three core principles: doing fewer things, working at a natural pace, and obsessing over quality. He introduces "pseudo productivity"—the toxic heuristic that emerged in mid-20th century knowledge work when visible activity became a proxy for useful effort because traditional product…

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Alan Stein Jr: The Performance Gap Between Knowing and Doing, and What Elite Athletes Teach Us About Execution 1:05:31

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Alan Stein Jr, former basketball performance coach to Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, and other NBA superstars, reveals why knowledge without execution is worthless and how the world's highest performers bridge the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it. Drawing from decades working with elite athletes, Stein explains that performance gaps…