Blog Category: Personal Development

Episode 264: ‘Despacito’ Songwriter Erika Ender “Everyone has their own talent,” Erika said. “And my talent is expressing through writing songs and from singing them.” She wrote “Despacito” – the fastest song to hit 3 billion downloads in the history of music. Now it’s past 4 billion. That’s half the planet.  I asked how she […]

Comedy is brutal. If the audience doesn’t know you, they WILL judge you. That’s true for most things (you can’t walk down the sidewalk in New York City without being judged at least a hundred times). Bonnie said you have to know your audience. I wondered “how though?” I gave an example, “Okay so do […]

Episode 261: Discomfort and Curiosity AJ’s about to launch a TV show. A few months ago he started a podcast. He’s 49 years old. And it all started because he decided to write a book on a weird idea he had. “I wonder what it would be like to live the Bible.” It’s especially weird […]

Episode 260: Set a Flag on YOUR Thing Is Gary Vaynerchuk a lunatic? This is what I ask myself every time I sit down to interview him. He’s everywhere. He’s constantly spreading a message I strongly believe in: if you don’t choose yourself, someone else will and the results won’t be good. For Gary, “choosing […]

Episode 259: 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do I don’t like writers. Stop writing advice books if you’ve never lived through it. Just. Stop. That’s why I asked Amy Morin, author of “13 Things Mentally Strong People DON’T Do” on my podcast (released today). Only someone who has been through horror and pain and […]

Episode 258: Becoming Bart Simpson… How To Find The Artist Inside Of Yourself This is what she did in the middle of an audition for the top TV show in the world at that time, Cheers. The script said, say “blah blah blah” (I forget the words) to Carla, the waitress, and then walk off the […]

Episode 257: TLC – The Biggest Girl Band in American History “Life is tough…and it’s also miraculous.” T-Boz and TLC sold 70 million albums, becoming the bestselling girl band ever in America. Along the way they declared bankruptcy, she battled sickle-cell anemia, the death of one of their bandmates and best friends, a brain tumor, […]