Dr. Russell Kennedy – Reduce Stress, How to Get the Most from Your Brain & Optimizing Your Default Mode Network Dr Russell Kennedy is a medical doctor and anxiety expert, certified yoga teacher, neuroscientist, a corporate speaker with National Speakers Bureau and has toured with the Yuk Yuks comedy chain as a stand-up comedian (no joke). He’s researched the brain for over thirty years, from academic institutions in North America to living and studying at a temple in India. He’s taken medications from Ayuhausca to Zoloft in an effort to understand and treat his own anxious mind and understand mental illness from both the inside out and the outside in. He is also a Dog lover, a semi-pro worrier, quite mechanically disinclined, and loves short cuts. He has infinite patience for people but gets ragey and starts throwing stuff if anything from IKEA isn’t coming together the way it looks on the box.
Psychedelics and the Collective Unconscious Are we able to handle the massive effect of Psychedelics? Connor jams on this and the Collective Unconscious in this week’s mini-episode.
Srinivas Rao – Reclaiming Your Creativity Srinivas Rao is the host and founder of the popular podcast, the Unmistakable Creative, where he’s interviewed over five hundred creative people. Former guests on the show include Seth Godin, Elle Luna, Tim Ferriss, Gretchen Rubin, Simon Sinek, Adam Grant, and Danielle LaPorte. His self-published book The Art of Being Unmistakable was a Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Mini-Episode: What Is Intimacy and How Do You Deepen It A question that has come up recently at events Connor has been hosting, and seems to be misunderstood, what is intimacy? Connor jams on this in this week’s mini-epsiode.
Cameron Brown – How to Be a High Performer in the Digital Age Cameron Brown is an international keynote speaker, high performance coach and has just returned from delivering the closing talk at Italy’s largest TEDx event. He loves helping people step up to their next level of excellence and showing what’s possible when we tap into our limitless potential.
Mini-Episode: How To Leverage Uncertainty Our brains like to keep us safe, they’ve been designed to do that, unfortunately, that means our brains don’t like uncertainty. But can we take control of uncertainty and use it to our advantage? Connor jams on this in this mini-episode.
Alex Banayan – How the Most Successful People Launched Their Careers The day before his freshman year final exams, ALEX BANAYAN hacked The Price Is Right, won a sailboat, sold it, and used the prize money to fund his quest to learn from the world’s most successful people. Since then, Banayan has been named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list and Business Insider’s “Most Powerful People Under 30.” He has contributed to Fast Company, the Washington Post, Entrepreneur, and TechCrunch, and has been featured in major media including Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek, Billboard, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and CBS News. An acclaimed keynote speaker, Banayan has presented the Third Door framework to business conferences and corporate leadership teams around the world, including Apple, Google, Nike, IBM, Snapchat, Salesforce, Disney, Harvard, and countless others.
Mini-Episode: How To Stop Half-Assing Anything Are you half-assing it? Are you just trying? Connor jams on what we can do to really achieve the results that we want to.
Warren Farrell – The Boy Crisis, Fatherhood & The Evolution Of Feminism Warren Farrell, PhD, is the author of books published in 17 languages. They include two award-winning international bestsellers: Why Men Are the Way They Are plus The Myth of Male Power. Dr. Farrell has been chosen by the Financial Times as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders and is currently the Chair of the Commission to Create a White House Council on Boys and Men. He is the only man in the US to have been elected three times to the board of the National Organization for Women in New York City. He started more than 300 men and women’s groups, including ones joined by men from John Lennon to John Gray. Dr. Farrell has appeared repeatedly on Oprah, TODAY, and Good Morning America, and been the subject of features on 20/20, in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, People, Parade, and the New York Times. He lives with his wife in Mill Valley, California.
Mini-Episode: Understanding The Masculinity Of Donald Trump A question that Connor has been asked a lot is about Donald Trump. Well, today Connor breaks down some masculine archetypes of Donald Trump.