The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Paul Rosolie is a conservationist, author and founder of Jungle Keepers, who has spent years exploring and protecting some of the most remote areas of the Amazon rainforest.

In this moment, Paul shares the unbelievable journey that led him deep into the Amazon, where rumours of an uncontacted tribe became something far more real. He shares the emotions when coming face to face with those living separate from the modern world… and what this encounter taught him.

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What happens when the relentless pursuit of adrenaline leads to losing your soul in the process? Shawn Ryan reveals the hidden psychological toll of ambition, the dark side of psychedelics, and the ultimate price of true alignment.

Shawn Ryan is a former U.S. Navy SEAL, CIA contractor, and the creator of The Shawn Ryan Show, one of the most influential and widely watched independent podcasts. After transitioning from elite military service and dangerous covert operations into media, he has built an expansive platform known for raw unfiltered conversations. 

In this episode, he explains:
■ The Adrenaline Trap: How former elite operators often suffer from severe post-service depression because normal civilian life cannot replicate the neurological highs of combat.
■ The Psychedelic Nightmare: Why an intensive ibogaine treatment designed to optimize his mental state instead opened a terrifying portal to the spiritual realm and severe supernatural oppression.
■ The Cost of Alignment: Genuine personal transformation demands going through a shedding phase, in which you consciously step away from profitable ad deals, social networks, and short term incentives to stay true to your values.
■ The Illusion of the Herd: Authentic, lasting achievement relies entirely on nurturing a unique voice anchored in personal belief, while imitating results in creative paralysis.
■ The Ultimate Priority: Chasing ambition eventually demands sacrificing family time, demonstrating that no amount of business success can make up for absence in your children's lives.

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:02:26 What Made Shawn Ryan?
• 00:03:38 What Separates a Navy SEAL From the Rest of the Military
• 00:06:09 What Really Happened During Operation Red Wings
• 00:08:44 How Becoming a Navy SEAL Changed Him
• 00:09:54 Are Podcasters Being Compromised by Planted Guests?
• 00:18:25 Did He Endorse Trump?
• 00:20:19 Has His Opinion on Trump Changed?
• 00:21:20 How the Military Feels About Deployment to Iran
• 00:22:30 Would America Be Better Off If Democrats Had Won?
• 00:29:19 Why the 2028 Election Matters to Him
• 00:32:48 Why He Deletes Podcast Episodes
• 00:37:20 Ads
• 00:39:47 Why He Moved to Colombia After Contracting
• 00:39:58 Did He Get Involved With Drug Networks in Colombia?
• 00:42:04 What Happened With the Police in Colombia?
• 00:46:49 Was Colombia Enough to Make Him Get Clean?
• 00:47:46 The Turning Point That Changed Everything
• 00:49:56 Why Going to Therapy Was So Difficult
• 00:51:02 Why He Turned to Psychedelic Therapy
• 00:54:14 What Is Ibogaine and Why Did He Take It?
• 00:57:16 The Hell He Experienced During Ibogaine
• 01:00:01 What Happened During His Psychedelic Experience
• 01:00:59 How That Experience Changed His Life
• 01:08:23 Ads
• 01:09:32 What Is an Exorcism and What Actually Happens?
• 01:11:44 How His Experiences Affected His Family
• 01:19:23 Had Supernatural Things Happened Before?
• 01:21:34 What He Thinks About Sponsors Walking Away
• 01:34:36 What Is Glacier and Why Does It Matter?

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Are you chasing material success to fill an emotional void from your childhood? Adam Neumann speaks about the psychological lessons and spiritual frameworks that he learned after the most publicized corporate collapse in modern history. 

Adam Neumann is the visionary entrepreneur who cofounded WeWork, growing it into a $47 billion global empire before stepping down amid unprecedented public scrutiny. He is now partnered with legendary venture firm a16z, and founder of Flow; an innovative residential real estate company designed to solve the modern loneliness epidemic by fostering genuine community. 

In this episode, he explains:
■ The Ego Trap: How a massive $4.2 billion investment offer in the back of a taxi instantly derailed WeWork's mission, showing rapid financial success can blind founders to their core values.
■ The Foundation of Failure: Why experiencing a traumatic childhood or public business collapse is not a curse, but rather the exact mechanism required to build unbreakable psychological resilience.
■ The Technology Shabbat: Why disconnecting from all electronic devices for 24 hours every week is a necessary practice to break addiction, quiet noise, and discover yourself.
■ The True Measurement of Partners: Why you must evaluate your investors, friends, and life partners solely by how they treat you on your absolute worst day.
■ Influence vs. Control: The counterintuitive leadership principle that true power requires leading from the bottom up.

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:02:11 Growing Up on a Kibbutz
• 00:03:11 How His Mother’s Behaviour Shaped Him
• 00:03:58 Why He Struggled at School as a Child
• 00:09:08 The Childhood Experiences That Left a Lasting Impact
• 00:13:46 Why He No Longer Sees Trauma the Same Way
• 00:15:35 Why Money Isn’t His Definition of Success
• 00:18:40 How Failure Changed His Definition of Success
• 00:21:48 Why the Idea of “We” Became So Powerful
• 00:27:20 Why You Have to Dream Bigger Than Feels Possible
• 00:30:45 What Kept Him Going at His Lowest Point
• 00:34:24 How to Overcome Self-Doubt
• 00:34:35 The Self-Doubt Behind Building WeWork
• 00:43:52 Why Hard Work Still Matters
• 00:47:13 Ads
• 00:52:37 What Makes a Great Team Member?
• 00:54:55 What Happened When He Met Masayoshi Son
• 00:55:34 How to Build Strong Foundations Before You Scale
• 01:14:19 Ads
• 01:15:01 How to Find the Signal in the Noise
• 01:15:29 Who Should You Listen to When Everyone Has an Opinion?
• 01:35:09 Why Focus Is Essential for Success
• 01:51:06 What Went Wrong at WeWork
• 02:02:30 The Advice From His Wife That Changed His Perspective
• 02:10:15 The 5 Biggest Lessons He Learned
• 02:11:25 The Letter Ben Horowitz Sent When Everything Fell Apart
• 02:12:29 His Final Message to Entrepreneurs

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What if the right work-life balance looks completely different at every stage of your life

Nicola Kilner is the Co-Founder and CEO of DECIEM, the company behind The Ordinary, one of the world’s most disruptive and successful beauty brands.

In this moment, Nicola Kilner reveals what the earliest days of building DECIEM really looked like, why the traditional rules of work-life balance didn’t always apply, and how an intense startup culture helped shape the company it became. She also explains why knowing exactly what you’re not good at can be one of a leader’s greatest strengths and the lesson she learned when the skills that helped build a startup were no longer enough to lead it at scale.

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How do you transform childhood trauma and crippling doubt into a relentless drive for greatness? Druski reveals the psychological forces behind comedy, life, and self-belief to help you break past rejection and master your ultimate purpose.

Druski is a cultural phenomenon, megastar comedian, and the creator of an independent production empire who has rapidly ascended to the top of the entertainment industry. He breaks down how humor was used to navigate a traumatic childhood and manifest his current success. His insights provide a playbook for silencing external noise, overcoming avoidant attachment, and betting everything on yourself.

Trigger Warning: Please note there are mentions of child abuse and violence within this conversation.

In this episode, he explains:
■ The Trauma of Humor: How growing up in a high stress, physically abusive household forced him to use comedy as a tool to read the room and defuse tension.
■ The "No Plan B" Strategy: Why facing the barrel of a gun during a street scam triggered a radical mental shift, empowering him to commit entirely to his vision.
■ The Avoidant Attachment Trap: The reasons why successful individuals often struggle with romantic trust, and how a lack of a healthy parental relationship creates deep rooted intimacy fears.
■ The Power of Silence: Why discovering your true calling requires the painful, counter intuitive act of isolating yourself in total silence.
■ Bypassing the Gatekeepers: The exact mindset required to overcome corporate rejection by self-funding your own creative projects.

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:02:24 What My Childhood Tapes Meant To Me
• 00:06:45 When He Knew He Wanted to Be an Entertainer
• 00:09:25 Healing From Childhood Trauma
• 00:12:23 Why Letting Go of Grudges Matters
• 00:18:41 How Childhood Trauma Shaped His Fear of Commitment
• 00:22:49 Why Druski Dropped Out of College
• 00:28:06 Druski Opens Up About Depression
• 00:29:54 How Comedy Changed His Life
• 00:33:34 Ads
• 00:35:56 The Video That Changed Me
• 00:38:50 How Druski Got His Start in Comedy
• 00:55:07 What It Really Takes to Be Successful
• 00:57:56 What Greatness Really Means
• 00:59:58 How Long Does Success Really Take?
• 01:04:25 Ads
• 01:05:34 Proving My Mum I Was Right
• 01:11:23 Why Relationships Matter in Business
• 01:14:52 How Druski Protects His Brand
• 01:18:40 Trump-Duski Moment
• 01:24:03 How Netflix and Amazon Rejected Druski
• 01:29:21 When He Realized How Big He Had Become
• 01:35:39 What’s Next for Druski?
• 01:39:04 What He Would Tell His Younger Self

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Discover the spiritual and psychological creative process that legendary producer Rick Rubin uses to help the world's biggest artists transcend and achieve greatness.

Rick Rubin is the co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, and the author of the philosophical bestseller The Creative Act: A Way of Being. Having collaborated with icons like Jay-Z, Johnny Cash, Adele, Tom Petty, and Kanye West, Rubin does not rely on commercial metrics or audience testing to guide his workflow. He shares practical strategies for dismantling the prisons of identity, harnessing the power of "indefensible" ideas, and cultivating a state of pure creative freedom.

In this episode, he explains:
■ The "Indefensible" Act: Why the greatest artistic breakthroughs defy logic and market research.
■ The Vacuum Strategy: How walking away from obligations that no longer serve you creates an energetic void, allowing the universe to present massive unexpected opportunities.
■ The Audience Trap: Why focusing on commercial incentives and audience expectations completely undermines the creative process.
■ Deconstructing the Greats: The psychological traits that separate good musicians from generational icons.
■ The Trauma of Success: Rubin opens up about his crippling depressive episode at age 33 after a corporate restructuring at Def Jam.

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:02:38 Rick Rubin’s "Indefensible" Rule
• 00:05:24 How a Meme Became Rick Rubin's "The Way of Code"
• 00:10:34 Why Risk Beats "More of the Same"
• 00:16:43 How Jay-Z's 99 Problems Was Made
• 00:20:47 Transcendental Meditation & Finding What You Love
• 00:29:00 Is Creativity Innate?
• 00:33:51 Stop Comparing Yourself
• 00:35:47 The "Lazy Workaholic" & Avoiding Deadlines
• 00:38:23 The 4 Phases of Creativity
• 00:41:04 Should You Quit Your Job to Chase Your Dream?
• 00:48:15 How Rick Rubin Knows an Artist Will Be Great
• 00:54:15 Feeling Boxed In? The “Reset Button" for Your Life
• 00:57:50 Ads
• 00:59:47 Your Identity Is the Trap: How to Start Over
• 01:07:39 My Depressive Episode at 33 and What It Taught Me
• 01:17:11 How to Be More Original
• 01:27:52 Is AI Dangerous?
• 01:29:24 Can AI Be Creative?
• 01:35:09 What Makes a Great Artist in the AI Era?
• 01:40:27 Studio Miracles
• 01:46:45 When the World Rejects Your Work
• 01:54:24 The Ace of Spades Story: Why Jay-Z Walked Away From Cristal
• 02:01:00 Ads
• 02:02:24 What If Your Art Isn't Good?
• 02:07:03 What Made Jay-Z Different: Inside His Writing Process
• 02:17:35 What Makes Kanye Brilliant + Were Great Artists Born Great?
• 02:22:51 The Artists Who Changed Rick Rubin
• 02:31:50 Why Rick Rubin Made the Jay-Z Documentary
• 02:42:18 Who Would You Thank?

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Is buying a home still the smartest financial decision you can make?

David Bach is a bestselling author, financial expert and creator of The Automatic Millionaire, one of the most influential personal finance books of the last two decades.

In this moment, David Bach challenges one of the biggest debates in personal finance: whether owning a home is still worth it. He explores the decisions that quietly shape long-term wealth, why some people struggle to build financial security, and the difference between simply earning money and actually keeping it.

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Ed Zitron, Roman Yampolskiy, Nate Soares and Andrew McAfee discuss the risk of AI. This debate brings together four distinct voices at the forefront of the artificial intelligence revolution:

Ed Zitron - A prominent tech critic and CEO of EZPR
Andrew McAfee - Principal research scientist at MIT and Cofounder and Codirector of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy 
Nate Soares - President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and author of *If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies*
Roman Yampolskiy - Computer scientist pioneer in the field of AI safety, cybersecurity and digital forensics

In this debate, they explain:
■ The Sandbox Breakout: How a recent swarm of AI agents bypassed security restrictions, cheated on their evaluations, and actively attempted to delete their own log files to hide their tracks from human overseers.
■ Recursive Self-Improvement: The structural mechanics behind the "fast takeoff" theory, detailing how an AI capable of automated research could exponentially upgrade its own intelligence and architectures in a matter of days.
■ The Illusion of Control: Why attempting to contain an artificial superintelligence is comparable to placing a digital Einstein in a jail cell with an internet connection.
■ The Alignment Trap: How the process of training AI to predict human text inherently forces it to become smarter than the humans providing the data.
■ Present Harms vs. Future Extinction: The ideological divide over whether we must immediately halt AI research to prevent a rogue superintelligence, or increasingly regulate the massive compute expenditures of tech monopolies to address economic and security threats.

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:02:22 How Likely Is AI to Cause Human Extinction?
• 00:04:08 How Could AI Actually Cause Human Extinction?
• 00:09:46 Why AI Safety Became an Urgent Priority
• 00:11:15 Roman’s Case for Taking AI Risk Seriously
• 00:15:04 Can Humans Control an AI Smarter Than Us?
• 00:26:13 How Do You Control Something Smarter Than You?
• 00:29:19 Will AI Intelligence Keep Accelerating?
• 00:41:40 What Are the Real Risks of Superintelligence?
• 00:50:04 When Does AI Become an Existential Crisis?
• 01:00:15 How Much Job Disruption Could AI Really Cause?
• 01:14:57 Why AI Companies Believe They Can Control Superintelligence
• 01:20:30 Should We Give Up AI Ownership to Protect Cybersecurity?
• 01:36:32 What Happens If AI Companies Stay on This Path?
• 01:43:50 What Are AI Logs and Why Do They Matter?
• 01:52:45 Could a Non-Coder Build a Jail for an AI Einstein?
• 02:00:33 How Does the Future of AI Make You Feel?
• 02:06:42 How Soon Could We Reach Superintelligence?
• 02:19:51 Who Should Be Held Accountable for AI-Related Cybercrime?

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Could war and global trade breakdowns trigger a modern Bronze Age collapse? Uncover the hidden geopolitical forces dismantling the American empire and what this shift means for our future.

Professor Jiang Xueqin is a renowned geopolitical analyst and Yale educated scholar who applies rigorous historical patterns and game theory to forecast the world's most catastrophic conflicts. He returns to reveal the hidden vulnerabilities of our modern civilization by mapping the intricate connections between natural resources, military hegemony, and global supply chains. This urgent analysis provides a framework to help everyday people find meaning and resilience amidst the impending global chaos.

In this episode, he explains:
■ The Innovation Equation: Why technological progress is strictly dictated by specialization multiplied by globalization.
■ The Petrodollar Collapse: How the entire global economy relies on US military hegemony and the Middle East. 
■ The Next Geopolitical Flashpoints: How severe water scarcity and shifting demographics in the Global South will trigger mass migration, intense polarization, and potential civil wars across Western societies.
■ The Financial 9/11: Why the next catastrophic terror attack won't target physical buildings, but rather critical financial data servers designed to wipe out bank accounts.

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:02:20 Where Is the World Heading?
• 00:10:26 What Would a Collapse of Civilization Actually Look Like?
• 00:14:13 Who Are the Houthis—and Why Do They Matter?
• 00:16:52 Why This Is Different From the Iraq War
• 00:23:20 Why Is It So Hard to Believe a Collapse Could Happen?
• 00:26:44 Could War Actually Reach American Shores?
• 00:30:07 Ads
• 00:38:52 How Immigration Could Push Politics Further Right
• 00:41:45 What Happens Next With Iran?
• 00:42:47 How Iran Could Disrupt Global Trade
• 00:44:29 The Iran Prediction—and What Happens Next
• 00:46:22 Could This Trigger a Massive Migration Crisis?
• 00:47:47 What Would Trump Do Next?
• 00:48:57 Can Trump Back Out of This War?
• 00:49:57 Prediction #1: Could New York City Face a Siege?
• 00:53:34 When Could This Conflict Actually Happen?
• 00:58:22 Prediction #2: An Attack on U.S. Financial Infrastructure
• 01:02:23 Ads
• 01:03:28 Why Getting Back Into the U.S. Could Become a Problem
• 01:09:56 Prediction #3: Messi Becomes President of Argentina
• 01:12:47 Why China and Japan Could Go to War
• 01:20:57 How Far Would the U.S. Go to Defend Taiwan?
• 01:21:42 Could Russia Invade the Baltics?
• 01:25:32 Can Russia Make a Deal Instead of Going to War?
• 01:26:59 Does Trump Actually Want Ukraine to Win?
• 01:29:13 What Could Stop These Global Conflicts From Spreading?
• 01:35:42 How the Average Person Can Prepare for What’s Coming
• 01:41:03 How AI Changes the Global Power Struggle
• 01:42:46 Why AI Surveillance Could Be the Bigger Threat
• 01:46:33 The Biggest Personal Challenge—and How to Overcome It

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Are you using AI to strengthen your brain - or slowly teaching it not to think for itself?

Dr Daniel Amen is a renowned brain health expert who has scanned the brains of Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, and Kendall Jenner. He is joined by Dr Terry Sejnowski, a pioneer in computational neuroscience and co-creator of the Boltzmann machine with Geoffrey Hinton, a groundbreaking neural network that helped lay the foundation for modern AI.

In this moment, Dr Amen and Dr Sejnowski break down how AI affects memory, learning and critical thinking. They explain why the real risk may not be the fact we’re using chatbots, but how we use them - and reveal the simple ways AI can become something that strengthens your thinking rather than replacing it.

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