Best-selling author Whitney Johnson (“Disrupt Yourself”) explores her passion for personal disruption through engaging conversations with disruptors. Each episode of this podcast reveals new insights about how we work, learn, and live.
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My general thoughts on 3D printing, the maker world, technology and disrupting the world yourself! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/disruptityourself/support
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373 Nathan Tanner: Are You Neglecting Your Internal Game To Succeed At The External Game?
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Self-fulfilling prophecies – and falling into their trap – are part and parcel of being human. From ancient Greek tragedies to television like Breaking Bad, they’ve popped up time and time again. We just can’t escape our flaw of telling ourselves stories about the future, and then making them reality. But what if it… wasn’t a flaw? What if there wa…
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372 Michael Bungay Stanier: How You Can Turn Coaching Into An Automatic Reflex
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Today, we wanted to bring back a conversation I had with Michael Bungay Stanier back in 2018, where we explored what it really means to be a coach. His self-published book The Coaching Habit had only been out for two years, and it had already sold 300 thousand copies. Bringing the philosophy of coaching into our lives can be one of the most persona…
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371 Eduardo Briceno: When You’re Not Seeing Growth, Learn To Change How You’re Changing
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So much of what we talk about on here is change – navigating change, embracing change, creating change. I think it’s fair to say that if you’re listening, change of some form is on your mind. We’re no strangers when it comes to figuring out how to get from A to B. But what happens when we have to change… how we’re changing? What happens when we pla…
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370 Roger L. Martin: How To Turn Around A Failing Business School – Without Doing A Whole Lot Of Anything
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This week we’ve got a special episode, a longer one than we normally do. But when you have an opportunity, to talk to the person who built the Rotman School of Management into the powerhouse it is today, you have to use every minute you get. Roger L. Martin was told that the Toronto’s Rotman School wasn’t worth his time, that it was a quote – cessp…
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369 Ruth McKeaney: To Make A House A Home, Tailor Your Family Systems With Intention
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Ask a thousand people how to make a house a home, and you might get a thousand different answers. Some will say it’s family; others say it’s all in the interior decor – neighborhood pride, or a furry friend, maybe. Regardless of how you answer the question, you can’t just sit back and wait for it to become a home – everyone agrees that something ne…
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368 Cal Newport: Why The Factory Model Of Work Doesn’t Work In The Modern Age
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How many of us have mastered the skill of looking busy, at some point in our professional lives? It’s an art, really – moving from one tab to another with lightspeed, peering at the screen and making that face that you think communicates determination, drive, intent. Our guest today says that it’s nothing to feel bad about. When a portion of the po…
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367 Chris Dixon: (Re)learning The Streets And Signs Of Our Virtual City
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Many of us feel comfortable navigating a city. Whether it’s New York or Kyoto, the rules remain mostly the same. Count the amount of blocks you’ve walked, remember that the E train runs express to Manhattan, if you see the Duane Reade, you’ve gone too far. We can get lost, for sure, but there’s a joy in knowing that you have the freedom to get lost…
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366 Brooke Romney: Falling Into The Comparison Trap (And How To Get Out)
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In this episode, we wanted to bring you a redux of a conversation I had back in 2022. As a new mom, Brooke Romney left behind her roots on Capitol Hill to move to a new community, new friend –– a new S Curve. But instead of making new connections, a normally extroverted person, Brooke found herself withdrawing from the community. Why? Well, she was…
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365 Donald Miller: How To Write Your Own Story With Intention
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What makes a good story? Characters, plot, setting, sure – you can boil it down to those elements – but what makes a good story? Is it the moment where you’re up all night burning the midnight oil, because you’re dying to find out how it ends? Is a good story one you believe in? Our guest today believes in the power of stories. Donald Miller is the…
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364 Jerry Colonna: It’s Not Enough To Be An Ally – You Have To Be A Co-Conspirator
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“True transformation, begins with a broken heart.” It’s something you’ll hear our guest today say a couple of times, this idea that a real crucible moment begins when something inside you breaks. When a force fundamental to you and your soul says – no more. Jerry Colonna has taken that message and run with it throughout his entire career, from the …
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363 Peter Sims: A Practical Guide To Sparking Your Humanity “In An Inhuman Time”
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When’s the last time you felt out of place? I’m sure a lot of us have sat with that feeling, whether that’s professionally or personally. It can hit you just as easily in a boardroom meeting as when you’re out with friends. So now that you feel like an alien that’s crash-landed, what do you do? Our guest today has built his career around finding co…
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362 Carol Fishman Cohen: Disrupting Yourself When You’ve Been Disrupted
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At DA, we’re all about discovering and harnessing disruption, but sometimes, disruption finds you. It’s a fact of life – our car skids on ice we didn’t see on the road up ahead. Your boat hits a reef at night. A business deal falls through out of nowhere, and there’s nothing you can or could have done. Now that your car’s in a snowbank, what’s next…
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361 Paul Allen: How AI Can Supplement Our Humanity Instead Of Supplanting It
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When we talk about robots, machines, artificial intelligence, it’s usually within the context of something theorists call the singularity. That’s the moment when AI figures out how to upgrade itself, and leaves us in the dust. After all, it can learn a library in an instant – the AI doesn’t need to stop for a snack and a nap. In the world of the Te…
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360 Sam Cooprider: Leave Behind Your Ego And Pave Your Own Path
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“If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” Famous words by Bruce Lee, sure, but when we’ve felt like a stone our whole lives, what does becoming water actually look like? How do we l…
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359 Dr. Michael Gervais: Why We Betray Ourselves For The Approval Of Others
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After 49 days fasting under the Bodhi tree, Siddhartha Guatama was struck by an idea. We suffer because we are attached to things, to people, to desires. When we can’t have it, we feel an emptiness. But what if we never wanted it in the first place? Guatama taught his philosophy for the next few decades, and centuries after that his followers would…
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358 Robert Sutton: How To Spot Bad Friction And Create Good Friction In Your Workplace
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When’s the last time a customer service phone menu left you… genuinely angry? We build these systems to make things easier, layer systems on top of other systems, but who’s doing the gardening and pruning – the upkeep? Our guest today calls this phenomenon friction. Robert Sutton has taught at Stanford since 1983, in that time covering everything f…
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357 Gov. Spencer Cox: Lessons On Inclusive Leadership, From The Farm To The Governor’s Mansion
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What does it take, day in and day out, to lead a group of people effectively? It’s not easy, that’s for sure. On a very granular level, leading is balancing a thousand decisions, huge and small, every day. So what guides your hand? Republican Governor of Utah Spencer Cox is an anomaly in a time of waning bipartisanship. His vice chair in the Nation…
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356 Keith Allred: Meeting Folks Halfway Is A Virtue, Not A Weakness
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We find ourselves compromising every day – it’s how things get done in a society where we all want something else. But what’s the root of compromise? Isn’t it this idea that solving the issue, whatever it is, is more important than checking off everything we want? It can seem that those ideals have been left by the roadside in the past couple years…
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355 Ashley Smith: The Hidden River Of Energy Flowing Through All We Do
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In middle school physics, we learned that an object at rest has potential energy – an amount of currency it has to spend, if it wants to move. When you pull back an arrow, the potential energy flows from your muscles, to the bow, to the string, and then the string pays all that money in one go to propel the arrow – turning potential into kinetic en…
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354 Chip Conley: On Finding Your Love Of Life, Even In Midlife
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Do you know that feeling when you’re cooking, and you’ve got all your ingredients chopped and ready to go, spices measured, oven pre-heated? All that’s left is for you to spin your magic as a cook. In the kitchen, the French call it mise en place, everything in its place. In that same vein, to disrupt yourself, your strategy and support need to be …
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353 ENCORE Tara Swart: Your Neurons Are Much More Nimble Than You Realize
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Isn’t it frustrating when we feel like a passenger to our own thoughts and actions? In Buddhist thought, we’re supposed to watch our thoughts pass by like clouds in the sky… but that’s the ideal, after all. It’s a hard truth to swallow, that the human mind is much more mysterious than we’d hope it to be. So for today’s episode, we wanted to bring b…
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352 Ken Woolley: Saving Space In Your Career For Trust And Love
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What does it mean to have a friend? What does it mean to be a friend? Someone you can rely on. Someone who understands you, not just the “you” that you project into the world. A friend is someone who knows they can rely on you, too. How many times a week, a day, do you lean on your friends when you feel like you can’t stand on your own? Our guest t…
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351 Jennifer McCollum: How Can Women In The Workplace Find Their Own Voice?
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When’s the last time you got caught in the expectations others had for you? One person wants one thing, one version of you – another needs you to be someone else entirely… And who do you want to be? Do you even have time to think about that? The things people expect from us has a profound effect on how we act – we are social beings, after all. We a…
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350 Scott K. Edinger: Ask Yourself, 'Would You Pay For Your Own Sales Call?'
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There’s an allure around the idea of sales. It’s the same allure they packaged so neatly in the show Mad Men, all confidence and charisma. But take it from the other perspective – have you ever had such a pushy car salesman, that you just left the lot? Our guest today says that’s because charisma isn’t a sales strategy. There’s no room for building…
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349 Alex Osterwalder: Finding The Beauty In Your Company's Organizational Chart
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Growing your people to grow your organization – it makes sense, right? But what about approaching the problem from the other direction – growing your organization, to grow your people? When’s the last time you looked at the state of your org chart? And how willing are you to experiment with it? Today, I want to bring back an old episode. In 2020, w…
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