Podcasts by Whats the Big Idea with Andrew Horn

Jayson Gaddis - ”Getting to Zero” - How to master conflict resolution in your important relationships from 2023-11-14T17:12:49

These days, I only fire up the podcast for people who I believe to be truly world-class at what they do.

@jaysongaddis is one of those people. Listen

Valter Longo - An introduction to Intermittent Fasting from 2023-03-10T13:23:23

Valter Longo is an Italian-American biologist and gerontologist who is a professor of gerontology and biological science at the University of Southern California. He is the director of the USC L...

The Founder of 1800 Flowers on cultivating Human Connection in the Digital Age from 2021-08-03T11:48:03

Jim McCann is the business leader, author, and philanthropist who founded 1-800-Flowers.com and grew the business from its roots as a single flower shop in Manhattan into the world's largest flo...

44. Adam "Smiley" Poswolsky - The Power of Friendship in the Age of Loneliness from 2021-05-05T09:54:15

How have your friendships changed since COVID began?    How did your community shrink or expand?    Do you have more depth with less people?    If you want some help exploring these types of questi...

Michael Hebb: Talk About Death So You Can Live A Better Life from 2020-09-22T11:20:56

Michael Hebb is an innovative and influential cultural figure, entrepreneur and activist, described by the New York Times as an “underground restaurateur, impresario and provocateur.” He believe...

CROSSPOST - Andrew on the Art of Charm Podcast. Emotional Mastery and Social Flow from 2020-05-25T13:05:41

The Art of Charm Podcast is one of the most popular lifestyle podcasts on the planet with nearly 2.5M monthly downloads. You'll learn our top strategies to improve your career, confidence, lifes...

Thom Bond: Compassion - An Intro To Non-Violent Communication from 2020-05-17T13:26:46

Thom Bond is a thought leader, author, peace educator and mediation consultant. He is best known as the creator and leader of The Compassion Course, a comprehensive online training, that has ser...

Eldra Jackson III: Hurt People Hurt People. Healed People Heal People. from 2020-04-20T21:19:35

Eldra Jackson III is a spiritual warrior who lives a passion of "saving lives one circle at a time." After living most of his life devoid of emotions and coming face-to-face with the reality of ...

Justin Faerman and Jackie Knechtel: An Introduction To Flow Consciousness from 2020-04-08T00:15:14

Jackie Knechtel, M.A., is an executive coach/consultant, behavioral therapist, international speaker and pioneer in the area of flow. She is the co-founder of the Flow Consciousness Institute wh...

Dan Doty: What The World Needs from Men from 2020-03-31T12:18:32

Co-Founder of Evryman, Dan works with men to help them connect with those in their lives and help them lead more successful, fulfilling lives. Dan’s career has been wide ranging, but his core of...

Houston Kraft: How To Practice Deep Kindness from 2020-03-14T01:25:28

Houston Kraft is a professional speaker, leadership consultant, and kindness advocate who speaks at schools, conferences, and events internationally. He has spoken to nearly a half a million peo...

Justin McLeod: From Likes to Love - Overcoming Addiction and Creating Meaningful Connection in a Digital World from 2020-02-27T17:49:59

Justin McLeod is Founder and CEO at Hinge, the immensely popular dating app  that is designed to be deleted. He grew up in Louisville, KY and studied at Colgate University. After a few years in man...

John O'Connor: The Art of Being With What Is...and Using It For Good from 2020-02-06T20:19:46

John O’Connor is a father, husband, Executive and Performance Coach living in New York. Many people think of him as the Fortune 500's best ket secret. Professionally, John has worked with thousa...

Priya Parker: The Art of Gathering and Meaningful Conversation from 2020-01-29T10:23:12

Priya Parker is helping us take a deeper look at how anyone can create collective meaning in modern life, one gathering at a time. She is a master facilitator, strategic advisor, and acclaimed a...

Emily Fletcher: Stress Less and Accomplish More With Mindfulness, Meditation and Manifesting from 2020-01-18T17:28:17

Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva Meditation and the leading expert in meditation for extraordinary performance. Her book Stress Less, Accomplish More debuted at #7 out of all books on Amazo...

Peter Singer: How To Do The Most Good - An Intro To Applied Ethics and Effective Altruism. from 2020-01-09T13:58

Peter Singer is an Australian ethical and political philosopher best known for his work in bioethics and his role as one of the intellectual founders of the modern animal rights movement, as wel...

Barry Zito: The Secret To Flow and Fulfillment from A Cy Young Winner from 2020-01-03T17:28:39

Barry Zito is a Cy Young Award winner and two-time World Series champion who pitched primarily for the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants throughout his Major League Baseball career. Aft...

Bob Roth: A Science Backed Introduction To Transcendental Meditation. from 2019-12-17T13:29:11

Bob Roth is one of the most respected and sought after meditation teachers in America. Bob is the author of the New York Times bestseller, “Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Med...

Rich Litvin: How To Avoid The Hidden Traps That Successful People Fall Into from 2019-12-05T17:04:49

Rich Litvin runs a leadership consultancy for world leaders, celebrities and the extremely successful people in Los Angeles and London. The methodology is deep coaching. Bespoke. Not time-based....

Cindy Gallop: We Need To Talk About Porn. Here's How We Do It. from 2019-11-25T17:31:27

Cindy Gallop is the founder and CEO of www.makelovenotporn.com, which she launched with a viral TED talk in 2009 – ‘Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference’. In 2013 she turned MakeLoveNot...

Wednesday Martin: Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust and Infidelity Is Wrong from 2019-11-14T14:38:56

Dr. Wednesday Martin is a feminist cultural critic and #1 NYT bestselling author. Her latest book, UNTRUE: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the...

James Maskell: The Power of Functional Medicine and Community to Transform Healthcare from 2019-11-06T11:56:16

With the soul of an advocate and the mind of an entrepreneur, James Maskell has spent the past decade sparking debate innovating at the cross section of functional medicine and community. To that e...

Sara Ness: The Power of Authentic Relating and Social Technologies from 2019-10-29T12:57:08

Sara Ness is the Founder and Chief Instigator of Authentic Revolution. She began teaching Authentic Relating in 2012, founding a thousands-strong learning community in Austin, Texas and going on...

Aaron Rose - The Essential Link Between Personal Transformation and Social Justice from 2019-10-15T21:07:05

Aaron Rose is a transformational coach for public figures, inclusive culture consultant, motivational speaker and human being committed to changing and enjoying the world at the same time. He is...

Arjuna Ardagh: The Life Changing Mindset Shift from Acquisition to Contribution from 2019-10-01T12:13:38

Arjuna is a writer, public speaker and executive coach, who has trained more than 2000 coaches over the last 25 years. 

He is the author of nine books, including the 2005 #1 National Best...

Michael Ventura: Applied Empathy - The New Language of Leadership from 2019-09-24T12:45:53

Michael Ventura is the CEO and founder of Sub Rosa, a strategy and design firm that has worked with some of the world's largest and most important brands: from Johnson & Johnson, Pantone, and Ad...

Nir Eyal - How to become Indistractable in an Overwhelming World from 2019-09-16T15:53:52

Nir Eyal is one of the leading behavioral design experts on the planet.

Nir is best known of author of the bestselling book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Form...

AJ Harbinger - How To Build Meaningful Connections, One Conversation at a Time from 2019-09-09T11:41:32

For over a decade, AJ Harbinger has been helping people build confidence, deepen relationships, and create social capital. AJ has become one of the world’s top relationship development experts, ...

Nyla Rodgers - We Need to Disrupt Traditional Philanthropy from 2019-09-05T16:13:53

Nyla Rodgers is an activist, futurist, and non-profit leader with a passion for merging social impact with technology. She creates and runs organizations that transform communities, foster socia...

Lauren Bille - We live in a culture of systematic racism and patriarchy. We must talk about it to move forward. from 2019-08-18T18:02:39

Lauren Billie is a force. She is currently designing an unprecedented future of racial, gender and economic equity through enterprise - instead of non-profits. She spends most of her time build...

Radha Agrawal - How to Build Community for Personal Happiness and Professional Impact from 2019-08-04T23:02:01

Radha is a community building savant. She is the co-Founder, CEO and Chief Community Architect of Daybreaker, the early morning dance and wellness move-...

Sam Horn - How to Pitch, Present and Make People Care About What You Do from 2019-07-26T12:59:19

Sam has trained the world’s top entrepreneurs (e.g. EO, YPO, TLC) and executives (e.g. Intel, Cisco, Boeing) how to communicate more clearly, compellingly and convincingly.

Her pioneering...

Biet Simkin - Why pain, sadness and suffering are your friends. from 2019-07-19T08:55:18

Biet is this completely unique Spiritual Teacher with a rare Rock & Roll sensibility who was raised by an awakened Shaman who cured himself from near death in the woods of Russia. With that said...

Max Stossel: There’s Another Way To Look At It - The Power Of Perspective from 2019-07-11T08:38:07

Max Stossel is an award-winning poet + filmmaker named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year. His performances across five continents, from Lincoln Center in NY to the Hordern Pa...

Lauren Zander - You're a Liar. How to Tell the Truth and Redesign Your Life from 2019-07-03T14:02:46

LAUREN HANDEL ZANDER is a life coach, university lecturer, public speaker, and the Co-Founder and Chairwoman of Handel Group®, an ...

Jesse Israel - The Art of Keeping it Real To Build Community and Lead People from 2019-06-25T09:52:54

Jesse is a social entrepreneur, community builder and meditation teacher on a mission to light up the leader in everyone. As a sophomore at NYU Jesse co-founded Cantora Records, where he signed ...

Connor Beaton - Facing Our Darkness as a Path to Purpose, Freedom, and Peace from 2019-06-18T21:28:13

Connor Beaton is the founder of ManTalks, an international organization focused on mens health, wellness, success and fulfillment.

Connor is also an international speaker, podcast host an...

Daniel Schmactenberger - Understanding evolution and the crucial next step for humanity from 2019-06-02T14:38:36

Daniel’s central interest is civilization design: developing new capacities for sense-making and choice-making, individually and collectively, to support conscious sustainable evolution...to bri...

Tom Gilovich - The Power of Investing in Experiences vs. Material Possessions from 2019-05-20T15:22:02

Thomas Gilovich is the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology at Cornell University and co-director of the Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research. He specializes ...

John Gray - The Real Difference Between Men and Women from 2019-05-08T08:19:26

There are relationship experts...and then there is John Gray. The author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus – and sixteen other books on relationships and personal growth, John’s wisdom ...

Alex Ebert - The Reverse-Rebellion of "Cool" from 2019-04-10T11:18:26

Alex Ebert is a musician, filmmaker, and activist. He founded the band Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros in 2008 and won a Golden Globe for best original score in 2014. He founded Big Sun Fou...

Miki Agrawal - The Importance of Disruptive Thinking (for business success and personal growth) from 2019-04-07T19:58:57

Miki Agrawal (www.mikiagrawal.com) is a serial social entrepreneur. She was the recipient of The Tribeca Film Festival’s “Disruptive Innovation Award”, ...

Layla Martin - The Big Thing That Men (and most people) Misunderstand About Sexuality from 2019-04-01T21:07:38

Sexuality both fascinated and scared Layla Martin from a very young age and she’s always been obsessed with it. She studied human sexuality at Stanford and then spent the next 10 years in the ju...

Alex Banayan - The #1 Reason People Don't Go After Their Dreams from 2019-03-26T15:57:37

Alex Banayan is a USA Today bestselling author and global keynote speaker who dropped out of USC at the ripe age of 18 to track down some of the most successful people on the planet. Out of shee...

Warren Farrell - The Boy Crisis / A New Perspective On The Patriarchy from 2019-03-07T13:08:42

Dr. Warren Farrell is an educator, activist, and NYT best-selling author author, who has been described as the intellectual father of the men’s movement. While he has been concerned about men an...