Kelly talks to Muriel Wilkins, host of the award-winning Harvard Business Review podcast, Coaching Real Leaders. Her latest book is called “Leadership Unblocked: Break Through the Beliefs That Limit Your Potential.” 

“Lasting change comes from within.” 

“I want to be clear that coaching is not a substitute for therapy.” 

“Our reluctance to engage in self-reflection is often also rooted in fear.” 

Kelly celebrates the release of Anne Libera’s new book on comedy, “Funnier.” They talk in front of a live audience at The Second City. 

“Don’t waste your time following gurus.”

“We need to value risk.”

“True irony is deeper than simple opposition. It is opposition mixed with justice of a sort.”

Kelly welcomes Richard Thaler, the 2017 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, to the podcast along with his co-author, Professor Alex Imas, to talk about their updated version of Thaler’s seminal book “The Winner’s Curse.”

“Rationality is an assumption in economics, not a demonstrated fact.” 

“People are not thinking enough about what everyone else is thinking.” 

“Roughly speaking, losses hurt us about twice as much as gains.”

Kelly welcomes the always provocative Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic back to the podcast to talk about his new book: “Don’t Be Yourself: Why Authenticity is Overrated (and What to Do Instead).”

“By all means, keep it real – just don’t make everyone else suffer for it.”

“Everybody loves change until they have to do it themselves.” 

“Most of us inhabit multiple selves.” 

Kelly connects with Berkely Professor Toby Stuart to discuss his fascinating new book, “Annointed: The Extraordinary Effects of Social Status in a Winner-Take-Most World.” 

“Many of us resent where we sit in the food chain.” 

“Status begets status.” 

“Luck is enshrined in social hierarchies.” 

Kelly welcomes the always-inspiring Morgan Housel back to the podcast to discuss his new book, “The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life.”

“All behavior makes sense with enough information.”

“Be careful judging how other people spend their money.” 

“The best measure of wealth is what you have minus what you want.” 

Kelly welcomes Professor Colin Fisher back to the podcast to discuss his new book, “The Collective Edge: Unlocking the Secret Power of Groups.”

“We’re living in an age of unprecedented individualism.” 

“Groups that look outward adapt faster to an ever-changing world.”

“Tolerated deviants can’t dissent on every issue.”

Kelly talks to Maryellen MacDonald, a cognitive scientist with a focus on psycholinguistics, the study of how we comprehend, produce, and learn languages. Her new book is called, “More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World.”

“Both researchers and the popular media don’t talk much about talking.” 

“Talking doesn’t just let us communicate. It tunes our brains.” 

“New knowledge fades away unless we do something with it.” 

Kelly talks to Martin Dubin, a clinical psychologist, serial entrepreneur, business coach, and adviser to C-suite executives and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, about his new book: “Blindspotting: How to See What’s Holding You Back as a Leader.”

“Things go well until they don’t.” 

“We are not as self-aware as we believe.” 

“Your identity is the least fixed part of you.” 

Kelly talks to educator Maya Smart about her new book “Reading for Our Lives: The Urgency of Early Literacy and the Action Plan to Help Your Child.”

“Alarms ring; they don’t teach. And often when an alarm rings for too long, we tune it out.” 

“Spoken words are the precursor of all precursors to reading.” 

“Praise the process.”