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Karin Adoni Ben-David is a certified nutritionist and the founder of Clean Diet by Karin. Over the past 20 years she's worked with more than 50,000 clients and impacted millions of people through her content and programs. Her whole approach is that you don't need extreme rules or a rigid plan to get healthy. You need simple habits you can actually stick with. She helps people tune out the conflicting nutrition trends and figure out what really works for them.

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➡️ Talking Points

00:00 – Intro

04:34 – Big Food’s Dirty Secret

09:52 – The Blue Zone Blueprint

14:24 – Healthy Eating Isn’t Expensive

19:57 – What Health Really Means

22:02 – Sponsor Break

24:24 – Her Battle With Eating Disorders

29:41 – Choosing Life Over the Disease

32:19 – The Mental Prison of Food

34:11 – Healing Your Relationship With Food

35:53 – Why She Made It Out

37:14 – When Ambition Becomes an Obsession

38:50 – Turning Pain Into Purpose

43:04 – Sponsor Break

46:20 – Why Success Doesn’t Fix Food

55:18 – Pregnancy Starts Before Pregnancy

58:18 – The Silent Cost of Stress

59:40 – Why Entrepreneurs Neglect Health

1:03:25 – What Feeling Healthy Really Feels Like

1:07:01 – Give Yourself More Space

1:10:06 – Living for Your Kids

1:13:07 – The Health Industry’s Biggest Lie

1:15:03 – Seed Oils, Sugar & Alcohol

1:16:09 – The Best Diet Advice

1:17:22 – The One Lesson for Her Kids

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Koya Webb is a former Olympic-hopeful track athlete turned holistic wellness expert. She founded Get Loved Up, an international yoga school and wellness community, and has built a following of more than one million on Instagram. She's the author of Let Your Fears Make You Fierce and Wellbeing Rituals, and her work has been featured in Forbes, Goop, NBC, and on The Steve Harvey Show. Her clients have included Stevie Wonder and Les Brown. Today she helps high achievers see what constant striving costs them, and how to build sustainable wellbeing instead of burning out.

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➡️ Talking Points

00:00 – Intro  

04:22 – When Your Identity Gets Taken Away  

06:58 – How to Rebuild After Life Breaks You  

10:42 – Breathwork: Your Nervous System Remote  

13:00 – Why You Need Time to Process  

15:34 – Why Spirituality Comes First  

17:09 – The Wellness Trap for High Achievers  

22:40 – Sponsor Break  

25:01 – Stop Consuming, Start Implementing  

31:20 – How Trauma Puts You in Survival Mode  

34:18 – The Signs You’re Not Okay  

37:47 – You’re Not a Victim, You’re a Creator  

40:57 – Breathe, Cry, Release  

43:20 – Why We’re Afraid to Feel  

45:21 – Sponsor Break  

48:36 – Build a Life You Actually Want  

57:15 – Stop Living for Everyone Else  

1:04:22 – Use Fear as Your Compass  

1:07:53 – Why You Have to Lean Into Fear  

1:12:35 – Koya’s Message for a Better Life  

1:15:02 – Koya’s Advice to Her 20-Year-Old Self

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In this "Lessons" episode, Vanessa Van Edwards, founder of Science of People and author of Captivate and Cues, breaks down the science behind charisma and what makes people trust, like, and connect with us. She explains why warmth and competence are the two key traits behind strong first impressions, how small communication cues influence the way others perceive us, and why balancing passion, credibility, and reliability is essential for building trust. Vanessa also explores practical ways to signal warmth and competence through words, body language, voice, and visual presentation, offering actionable strategies for becoming more charismatic in professional and personal interactions.

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In this "Lessons" episode, Theresa Payton, the first female White House CIO and CEO of Fortalice Solutions, shares her insights into the evolving world of cybersecurity and the threats facing governments, businesses, and critical infrastructure. Drawing from her experience protecting the White House, she explains why cyberattacks are a constant threat, how malicious actors target intellectual property and critical systems, and why organizations need to think beyond traditional security risks. Theresa also explores the emerging dangers of quantum computing and its potential to undermine modern encryption, highlighting the importance of preparing several steps ahead of the threats that are still taking shape.

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Rick Rosenfield is the co-founder of California Pizza Kitchen, the $1 billion restaurant brand he built with his law partner, Larry Flax, after the two left careers as federal prosecutors to open a single pizza restaurant in Beverly Hills in 1985. Funded with second mortgages and $300,000 from friends, that one location grew into a public company with more than 265 restaurants and roughly $1 billion in annual revenue. In 2011, they sold CPK to Golden Gate Capital for approximately $470 million. Credited with pioneering California-style pizza, Rosenfield chronicled the journey in The California Pizza Kitchen Story and continues to invest in and advise new restaurant concepts through his venture firm.

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➡️ Talking Points

00:00 – Intro  

04:28 – From Prosecuting the Mob to Pizza  

07:02 – Why the Mafia Didn’t Scare Him  

08:40 – Why Lawyers Opened a Restaurant  

10:33 – The Birth of California Pizza Kitchen  

11:45 – From Pasta to Pizza  

13:04 – They Bet Their Homes on CPK  

14:50 – The Barbecue Chicken Pizza Breakthrough  

18:06 – When Should You Quit?  

21:26 – Sponsor Break  

23:47 – Why Failure Makes You Better  

25:15 – When Grit Becomes a Weakness  

27:22 – The Founder–Operator Partnership  

28:44 – How to Take Calculated Risks  

33:52 – How Much Risk Success Requires  

36:33 – Sponsor Break  

40:24 – How CPK Became a Household Name  

44:07 – Raising Money From Friends  

47:46 – How Rick and Larry Divided the Work  

50:55 – Taking CPK Public  

52:27 – Why They Passed on Fast Growth  

56:12 – The Deal That Changed CPK  

58:03 – Why Rick Sold the Company  

1:00:23 – Sponsor Break  

1:04:49 – The Hardest Part of Letting Go  

1:07:35 – The CPK Disaster Nobody Saw Coming  

1:13:11 – How Bad Leadership Damages a Brand  

1:18:37 – The Brand Lesson Most Founders Miss  

1:19:47 – Why Culture Is Everything  

1:24:20 – Building a Company People Believe In  

1:29:12 – What Rick Is Building Now  

1:33:18 – Why He Wrote His Story  

1:35:59 – Who the Book Is Really For  

1:39:39 – Rick’s Biggest Lesson  

1:40:19 – The Advice He’d Give His Younger Self 

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In this "Lessons" episode, Brian L. Strom, former Rutgers Chancellor and public health researcher, examines why trust in healthcare has declined as medicine has become increasingly corporate and transactional. Drawing on his experience as a physician and healthcare leader, he explains how financial incentives can prioritize treatment over prevention, why doctors have less time to build meaningful relationships with patients, and how better use of nurses, physician assistants, and other healthcare professionals could improve care. Brian also explores the shift from fee-for-service medicine toward population-based healthcare and why aligning incentives around keeping people healthy could transform the way healthcare is delivered.

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In this "Lessons" episode, Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project, explains how understanding personality tendencies can reveal why people approach expectations, habits, and motivation so differently. She breaks down the four tendencies—Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, and Rebel—and explores how each comes with its own strengths and challenges. Gretchen also explains why self-awareness is more useful than trying to change your natural tendencies, how to build systems that work with the way you are wired, and why external accountability can be especially powerful for some people. This episode offers practical insights for creating better habits, improving relationships, and finding approaches to personal growth that actually work for you.

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Anthony Scaramucci is the founder of SkyBridge Capital, a global alternative investment firm that has managed as much as $9.5 billion in assets, and the creator of the SALT Conference, a global forum that has drawn heads of state, billionaire investors, and Fortune 500 CEOs to stages from Las Vegas to Abu Dhabi since 2009. A Harvard Law graduate, seven-year Goldman Sachs veteran, and author of eight books, he is perhaps best known publicly for his 11-day stint as White House Communications Director, an experience he's turned into one of the most candid cautionary tales in modern politics. He now co-hosts three podcasts, sits on the Council on Foreign Relations, and remains one of finance's most unfiltered voices.

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00:00 – Intro

04:30 – The Many Lives Behind His New Book

05:18 – 9-to-5 vs. Entrepreneurship

11:59 – The 3 Mistakes That Broke America

20:21 – Why 100 Million Americans Don’t Vote

21:52 – Sponsor Break

24:16 – Why You Can’t Ignore Politics

28:24 – How Ego Leads to Bad Decisions

33:02 – Ambition vs. Ego

35:13 – Why Self-Forgiveness Is a Superpower

40:31 – Sponsor Break

43:44 – The Silver Lining of Working for Trump

49:04 – Is the American Dream Still Alive?

52:47 – Less Hate, More Humility

54:02 – Anthony’s Advice to His 20-Year-Old Self

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In this "Lessons" episode, Chase Jarvis, founder of CreativeLive and author of Creative Calling, explores why consuming endless content can become a form of self-sabotage and why taking action is essential for making meaningful progress. He breaks down his DEAR framework—deconstruct, emulate, analyze, and repeat—to explain how studying successful people can reveal useful patterns while still encouraging individuals to build their own path. Chase also discusses the importance of directing your attention, experimenting to discover what truly aligns with your goals, and developing the ability to trust your intuition when making decisions about your life and work.

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In this "Lessons" episode, Micha Kaufman, Fiverr Co-Founder & CEO, shares the lessons he has learned from building and repeatedly reinventing one of the world's leading freelance marketplaces. He explains why companies must challenge their own strategies and disrupt themselves before someone else does, how staying curious and embracing new waves of innovation can prevent complacency, and why even successful businesses need to continually evolve. Micha also discusses his approach to failure, emphasizing the importance of learning quickly, recovering from mistakes, and turning setbacks into lessons that strengthen both entrepreneurs and teams.

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