Dan Shapero: Stepping Back to Grow
Dan Shapero’s team was a rocket ship. When he stepped in as leader of LinkedIn’s recruiting business, annual revenue was around $40 million. By 2014, it was [...]
Live Coaching Episode: Ryan Gottfredson
The launch point of a learning curve can feel like a slog. There is so much to learn, and just keeping your head above water requires tremendous [...]
Encore Episode: Donald Miller – The Importance of Creating Clarity
I have shared on here before that I am a recovering perfectionist when it comes to my podcasts, and I have yet another confession: sometimes I make [...]
Bethany Quam: Staying in Growth
When we’re feeling stagnate or trapped in our job, jumping ship altogether often seems like the best option for disruption. However—and this is a big one—what if [...]
James Clear: Just One Percent Better
“Disruption,” as a word, has always had an explosive sound to me. Disruption causes your world to shift and change—an earthquake in the making. However, every once [...]
Donna Hicks: Guardians of Dignity
Israel and Palestine. Northern Ireland. Colombia. Libya. These are more than just countries to Donna Hicks. Notorious for their political upheaval and turmoil, within their borders, Donna [...]
Asheesh Advani: Removing Obstacles
On the podcast today I am pleased to introduce Asheesh Advani, the CEO of Junior Achievement. Junior Achievement (or JA) is an organization that provides children and [...]
2018 in Review: Reveling in the Sweet Spot
I have a confession: I am a recovering perfectionist. Up until very recently I have been completely unable to listen to a single “Disrupt Yourself” podcast. I [...]
Keith Krach: Transformational Leadership
Keith Krach collects people. It’s not that he’s a comic book villain, mind you—Keith simply has a knack for finding people, discovering what they’re interested in, and [...]
Mike McDerment: Be Your Best Competitor
Thinking about the competition often keeps business owners up at night. Will someone else find a way to copy your product? Will they lure customers away? Will [...]
Talia Milgrom-Elcott: Stepping Up
When President Kennedy announced in 1961 that he wanted to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, it was a longshot. Some believed [...]
Dave Hollis: Abandoning Certainty
When his eight-year-old son asked Dave Hollis what his biggest fear was, no doubt he anticipated an answer along the lines of “tarantula” or “scorpions.” Instead, he [...]
Q&A Episode: My Learning Curve
As I say at the beginning of every episode, I think, write, speak, and live all things disruption. I take this responsibility very seriously, so while each [...]
Diane Dietz: Making Everyone Better
Diane Dietz would have happily spent her career working in marketing at Proctor & Gamble, but as we all know, life can be unpredictable. When she found [...]
Saul Kaplan: Innovation Junkie
When Saul Kaplan produced his carefully compiled spreadsheet of how he planned to host a two day summit on innovation, the last thing he expected his friend to [...]
Lisa Kay Solomon: Designing Conversation
Being the host of a podcast, I’ve had my share of great conversations, but I’ve also had some that were…not. Whether the blame should be placed on [...]
Dr. Bob Nelson: Sincere, Specific Praise
As children, we are taught to say “please” and “thank you,” but oftentimes, as adults, these habits are not reinforced in the workplace. We are not asked [...]
Disrupt Your Self Today
Before you can be an agent of disruption, you first become its subject by disrupting yourself. Keeping this in mind, today’s podcast is a bit different. If you’ve [...]
Shawn Askinosie: It's Not About the Chocolate
My guest today is Shawn Askinosie, the founder and CEO of Askinosie Chocolate and author of the number one Amazon best selling book, Meaningful Work: The Quest [...]
Margaret Busse: Step Up and Do Something
This year on the Disrupt Yourself Podcast we have had musicians, writers, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and even a mountain climber as guests on the show, but I must [...]
Beth Comstock: The Call of the Unknown
My guest today is Beth Comstock, former vice-chair of GE, a member of the Board at Nike, and author of the new book Imagine It Forward, a [...]
David Blake: Championing Lifelong Learning
When David Blake asks people about their education, 99 times out of 100 they tell him where they went to college. Culturally, this is what is expected—an [...]
Karla Ballard: It's What We Do That Matters
My guest today is Karla Ballard, the CEO and co-founder of YING, a peer-to-peer skill sharing platform that allows you to trade time rather than money for [...]
Shachar Orren: Leaping at a Chance
For most graduates, a steady job is a dream come true (bonus points if it comes with good pay). When Shachar Orren completed her two-year mandatory service [...]
Harold O'Neal: Music as a Mirror
My guest today is Harold O’Neal, a Tanzanian-born American pianist, film score composer, and record producer who has worked with the likes of U2, Jay-Z and Disney. I [...]
Tiffani Bova: Experience is the Product
My guest today is Tiffani Bova, speaker, author, thought-leader, and Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. Her book, Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices That Will [...]
Orson Scott Card: Embracing Constraints
In today's episode, we will be discussing just one of the seven points of personal disruption: embracing constraints. All too often we find ourselves saying, "If only [...]
Benjamin Spall: The Power of Routine
Benjamin Spall keeps his phone in the kitchen at night. As co-author of the book My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired, and mymorningroutine.com, Benjamin [...]
Peter Bregman: Willing to Feel Everything
Peter Bregman has never met a ski slope he didn’t like. While his weekdays may be filled with writing and speaking engagements, this CEO advisor openly admits [...]
Caroline Webb: Creating Opportunity
If Caroline Webb looks a little tired or stressed, there is a good chance that someone will eventually turn to her and ask (with their tongue in [...]
Carine Clark: Tougher Than We Know
My guest today is Carine Clark, CEO of Banyan, a company that helps medical practices engage with their patients. A three-time CEO, she's been awarded the Ernst [...]
Philip Sheppard: The Pressure of Glorious Failure
My guest today is Philip Sheppard, composer, cellist, inventor, and a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. How do I unpack everything from this [...]
Live Coaching Episode: Michelle Seymour Smith
As I say at the beginning of every episode, I think, write, speak and live all things disruption. In that spirit, the next two months of the show [...]
Zach Obront: Solve a Problem
Today’s guest is Zach Obront, co-founder of Scribe (formerly Book in a Box), a company that helps entrepreneurs and innovators turn their ideas into a book. When [...]
Nate & Vanessa Quigley: Something to Hold Onto
Today is a minor disruption of our “Disrupt Yourself” formula—instead of one fascinating guest, we have two! We are pleased to welcome Nate and Vanessa Quigley, the [...]
Sloane Davidson: Start Small, Start Anywhere
When Sloane Davidson graduated from college, there was a plan. Having just completed a post-college trek around Europe, Sloane was excited to leave Pittsburgh and start her new [...]
Chester Elton: Cheering For Others
My guest today is Chester Elton, the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Carrot Principle, which has sold over 1.5 million copies to date. He has been [...]
Laura Vanderkam: Time is Elastic
My guest today is Laura Vanderkam, an expert on time management who's 2016 TED Talk "How to Gain Control of Your Free Time" has been viewed over 5 [...]
Pat Flynn: Always Serve First
Takeaways from this episode: -Always serve first. When you serve others and help them they’re going to look for ways to repay you (often in ways other than [...]
June Cohen: Decide, Decide, Decide
Our guest today is June Cohen, a pioneer in the web industry for her work at HotWired (the web division of Wired magazine), author of “The Unusually Useful [...]
Jonathan Bush: The Joy of the Fight
In 1988, college student Jonathan Bush climbed on top of a pile of wooden slats in the middle of an unfinished housing development and looked out over a [...]
Becky Douglas: Someone Able To Do Something
A silly little thing that takes over the world—to me, this is the simplest definition of a disruptor. My guest today is Becky Douglas, and her “silly little [...]
Carter Cast: The Five Archetypes of Derailment
My guest today is Carter Cast, former CEO of Walmart.com, professor of management at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business, and the author of The Right—and Wrong—Stuff: How Brilliant Careers [...]
Build an A-Team
Disrupting yourself is a way of life around here, so it’s only natural that it is my turn to be disrupted. Today is Launch Day for my new [...]
Tom Peters: Excellence Found
Today’s guest is Tom Peters, best-selling author of the groundbreaking book In Search of Excellence, which changed the way the world viewed the connection between corporate culture and [...]
David Meltzer: Living an Attitude of Gratitude
My guest today is David Meltzer, entrepreneur, speaker, author, and CEO of Sports 1 Marketing. His personal objective in life is to “make a lot of money, help [...]
Marisa Thalberg: The Power of Connection
My guest today is Marisa Thalberg, Chief Marketing Officer of Taco Bell, founder of ExecutiveMoms.com, and listed as one of the top 25 Most Influential CMOs in the [...]
Nick Gray: One Person Can Change Your Life
Nick Gray thought museums were boring. As a business-minded individual, he couldn’t understand why anyone would be fascinated by the contents and just wanted the physically (and emotionally) [...]
Alison Levine: Standing (Or Climbing) Out From The Crowd
Today’s guest is Alison Levine, a former investment advisor-turned-mountain climber who has climbed the highest mountains on every continent. She’s the author of the NY Times bestselling book [...]
Eric Ries: Transforming Companies Through Continuous Innovation
Today’s guest is Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, a book that has sold over a million copies. He’s also the author of The Startup Way, a [...]
Patty McCord: Creating a Powerful Culture
My guest today is Patty McCord, former Chief Human Resources Officer at Netflix, author of the unabashedly bold book, “Powerful,” and a rocket ship of a disrupter. [...]
Benjamin Hardy: Use Your Distinctive Strengths to Grow
Takeaways: Environment influences behavior, so if you have a behavior you want to change then you need to create an environment where the change can occur. For example, [...]
Richie Norton: Using the Power of Stupid to Get Unstuck
Some Takeaways from Today's Episode: Some of the greatest innovators in history had ideas that were considered “stupid” because they were outside of the generally perceived realm of [...]
Kare Anderson: The Power of Connection
Kare Anderson is a powerful public speaker—a surprising accomplishment for someone who grew up with a stutter. I can personally attest to this power, as a year and [...]
Michael Bungay Stanier: Build Stronger Teams Through Coaching
Focus. And be lazy. Seemingly incongruous, these two ideas permeate Michael Bungay Stanier’s disruption of the professional coaching model. Michael is the founder of Box of Crayons, a [...]
Karen S. Carter: Disrupting Herself for Over Two Decades in the Same Company
Sometimes the story is so good that I can’t resist a second helping. This podcast is the second time that I’ve interviewed Karen S. Carter, a well-respected motivator [...]
Vala Afshar: Going From Customer to Evangelist
Vala Afshar, my guest on the Disrupt Yourself podcast, is here to answer the burning question: What is a Chief Digital Evangelist? For starters, that’s the role Vala [...]
Solo Q&A Episode: Disrupting Myself With An Experiment
Experiment. Disruption. Grab bag. The current episode of the Disrupt Yourself podcast is all three. For the first time, I am hosting a podcast interview with myself—so to [...]
Daniel Pink: Everything is Timing
Big Takeaways from this Episode: Timing is an art and a science. The passage of time and timing of some events in our lives can feel chaotic [...]
Deb Dugan: Stepping Back to Grow
Everybody knows I’m an advocate for the step back to grow. That’s the counterintuitive career move we make that opens up future opportunity rather than providing immediate gains [...]
Peter Sims: The Power of Collaboration
Some people seem to have points A to Z figured out straight out of the gate—from college to grad school to how they want to start their career [...]
2017 in Review: Lessons from the Podcast Learning Curve
It's almost time to bid another year farewell. A time to look forward toward more opportunities to disrupt and a time to look back at the trajectory of [...]
Maureen Chiquet: Lessons From a Discovery-Driven Career
Maureen Chiquet, Former CEO, Chanel and now a speaker and author of Beyond the Label: Women, Leadership and Success on Our Own Terms, is my guest on the [...]
Donald Miller: The Importance Of Creating Clarity
Donald Miller, CEO of StoryBrand and author of the new book Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen is my guest on the latest episode [...]
Luvvie Ajayi: Disrupting the World through Humor
Privilege. What is it really, who has it and who does not? This was a subject I explored with Disrupt Yourself Podcast guest Luvvie Ajayi. Ajayi is a [...]
Scott Pulsipher: Disruptive Leadership in Higher Education
Scott Pulsipher, my guest on the Disrupt Yourself Podcast, is the President of Western Governors University, a fully online institution of higher learning established 20 years ago by [...]
Claude Silver: Creating a Culture With Heart
Something I occasionally do on the Disrupt Yourself Podcast is challenge my guest to do something they’ve been thinking about, dreaming about, but haven’t yet made time [...]
Susan McPherson: Rising Above Disruptive Forces
Susan McPherson, like all the guests on my Disrupt Yourself Podcast, has a story to share of personal disruption. But in addition to her professional and career journey, [...]
Walter O'Brien: Hiring a Genius to Solve Your Problems
Walter O’Brien, famous for being a genius and for Scorpion Computer Services and for Scorpion, the television series, has a new business: ConciergeUp.com. It’s not as famous as [...]
Feyzi Fatehi: Scaling Personal and Professional Summits
“I’ve climbed Mt. Whitney multiple times and sometimes you go for 10, 15 hours without seeing another person, so it’s nice to come across someone in the journey.” [...]
Karen Walrond: Thriving (and Disrupting) Out Loud
Karen Walrond is an accomplished photographer, blogger, author, speaker and, in a previous life, successful corporate attorney working in the world of oil and gas. Really. Today, she [...]
Alden Mills: Going Beyond Personal Limits
Our limits are rarely what we think they are. And seldom what others tell us they are. Alden Mills is my guest on the Disrupt Yourself Podcast, a [...]
Stacy Olsen DiStefano: Live Coaching Episode
Some of my followers on different media platforms asked that I consider recording a live coaching session, and air it on the Disrupt Yourself Podcast. I was intrigued [...]
Lee Caraher: Inspiring Loyalty in Millennial Employees
One of the most delightful statements that has emerged in my Disrupt Yourself Podcast interviews thus far came from Lee Caraher, guest on episode 24: “I started my [...]
Lolly Daskal: Leading with Competence and Capability
My guest on the Disrupt Yourself Podcast is Lolly Daskal, a top-notch executive coach to Fortune 500 CEOs and the like, business strategist and author of the newly [...]
Wendy Sachs: Stepping Back To Slingshot Forward
One of the seven accelerants of personal disruption that I have elaborated in my work is the ‘step back to grow.’ Avoiding stagnation, battling entitlement or simply positioning [...]
Patrick McGinnis: How to Be a 10% Entrepreneur
Patrick McGinnis—venture capitalist and author of The 10% Entrepreneur—is my guest on the Disrupt Yourself Podcast, Episode 21 . He’s on a mission to ensure that anyone who [...]
Kara Goldin: There's A Lot To Be Learned From Unbelievers
In an age of constant invention, it amazes me that people still say, “If it could’ve been done, it would’ve been done.” But that’s what Kara Goldin heard [...]
Adda Birnir: The Disruptive Power of Mentorship
I’ve recently been emphasizing the importance of mentors—and the reciprocal imperative to recognize and appreciate these people and the tremendous asset they are to us. Adda Birnir is [...]
Naveen Rajdev: Bridging Leadership and Management
When I was in college, a speaker at the university’s weekly forum addressed the subject of leadership versus management. He referred to the shift from the former to [...]
Chrysula Winegar: Harnessing the Disruptive Power of Motherhood
Give yourself (or your favorite mom) a Mother’s Day gift — episode 17 of the Disrupt Yourself Podcast! My guest is Chrysula Winegar, Senior Director for Communications and Special [...]
Paula Froelich: Travel Alone and Take a Gap Year
Paula Froelich is the go-to guru of world travel, especially for women who may want/need to travel solo. The former editor-in-chief of Yahoo Travel and headliner of the [...]
Asi Burak: Changing the Game for Games
Asi Burak is CEO, Power Play; and Chairman, Games for Change. He has also been named one of the “Digital 25: Leaders in Emerging Entertainment” by the Producers [...]
Susan Cain: Unlocking The Disruptive Power Of Introverts
How do you sell two million copies of your book? You write a disruptive book, one with a revolutionary thesis that talks about a topic no one else is talking [...]
Garry Ridge, CEO of WD-40: The Boss We All Want to Be
My guest on episode 13 of the Disrupt Yourself Podcast, Garry Ridge, CEO of WD-40 Company, is a leaders’ leader; not only the kind of boss we all wish we [...]
Marco Rosamilia: Need a Metaphor for Disrupting Yourself, Try the Flying Trapeze
My guest on Episode 12 of the Disrupt Yourself Podcast is Marco Rosamilia. Together with his brother, Anthony, Marco is the founder, owner and operator of I Fly Trapeze, a [...]
Meredith Kopit-Levien: On the Front Line of Journalism
Once upon a time, a newspaper was a newspaper was a newspaper. News was gathered, organized, edited and printed. The finished product was then sold—daily, weekly, occasionally monthly—at bookstores and [...]
Patrick Pichette: How This Former CFO of Google Disrupted Himself
The former CFO of Google, Patrick Pichette, is my guest on the 10th episode of the Disrupt Yourself Podcast. I think you’ll find, as I did, that Patrick has valuable [...]
Stacy London: Getting Fired Was Just What She Needed
Stacy London, television fashion guru and bestselling author, is my guest on Episode 9 of the Disrupt Yourself Podcast. Early in her career she spent four years at Mademoiselle magazine. [...]
Bernie Swain: Sometimes You Can't Justify The Risk, But You Do It Anyway
Bernie Swain, Chairman and Founder of Washington Speakers Bureau, is my guest on episode 8 of the Disrupt Yourself Podcast. He is a little older than my previous [...]
Sarah Feingold: Disrupt at the Intersection of Your Creative Passion
Find ONE thing you love to do–and do it! That's the secret to a successful career. But what if you can't decide? […]
James Altucher: Disruption in the Face of Failure
What do you do when you fail and fail again? […]
Coss Marte: From Prison Inmate to Legitimate Entrepreneur
Coss Marte is the founder of ConBody, a gym headquartered in NYC. […]
Isha Johansen: How A Philanthropic Project Became A Premier Soccer Team
Isha Johansen, hero of the Disrupt Yourself podcast’s fourth episode, knows well the power of constraints. She's a native of Sierra Leone. After a civil war that shattered her country, [...]
Brian Moran: An Entrepreneur With the Gift of Learning From Failure
Brian Moran is a business consultant who has the gift of learning from failure. Here's one of the most interesting insights from our conversation–Brian has learned the ‘right’ way [...]
Raju Narisetti: Don't You Kind Of Wish He Were Your Boss?
Raju Narisetti immigrated from India as a young man. He had little more than the clothes on his back. He subsequently rose to become the Managing Editor of The Washington Post, [...]
Michelle McKenna-Doyle: Disrupting the NFL
I’m thrilled to announce the debut of the Disrupt Yourself Podcast, a project I’ve been disrupting myself with these past few months. Our first episode features a conversation with the [...]