Tech and innovation lovers - this one's for you! Listen in as Guy Kawasaki interviews Chris Messina, inventor of the hashtag and star of The Social Dilemma, about being the number one Hunter on Product Hunt and how he feels about open source technology. So many interesting nuggets!

Silicon Valley expert Robert Chesnut teaches that companies that do not think seriously about a crucial element of corporate culture--integrity--are destined to fail.

He has written a book called Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution. It provides a six-step process to foster and manage a culture of integrity in organizations.

This week on Remarkable People, Guy speaks with Robert Chesnut, General Counsel at AirBnb, about ethics and responsibility.

Do you struggle for time to be creative and just think in your day? This interview with Juliet Funt, author of Time to Think, is here to give you more space, enhance your creativity, and help you be more productive. She's worked with teams of big companies to help them be more successful. You'll be inspired to find more white space in your day after this interview on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast with Juliet Funt.

“Public health saved your life today―you just don’t know it,” is a phrase that Dr. Leana Wen likes to use. You don’t know it because good public health is invisible. It becomes visible only in its absence, when it is underfunded and ignored, a bitter truth laid bare as never before by the devastation of COVID-19.

Leana Wen―emergency physician, former Baltimore health commissioner, CNN medical analyst, and Washington Post contributing columnist―has lived on the front lines of public health, leading the fight against the opioid epidemic, outbreaks of infectious disease, maternal and infant mortality, and COVID-19 disinformation. Listen to Dr. Leana Wen on this episode of Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast.

Adam Curry was one of the VJs (video jockeys) of MTV back in the 1980s. In this position, he “interviewed” some of the most popular musicians of the time including Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney. Adam is an early tech adopter and pioneer because he embraced the web and ...

Hollywood Storyteller Jon M. Chu, director of Crazy Rich Asians and In the Heights, is this week's guest on Remarkable People podcast. He shares how his passion for creating video started and his love for Macs, much to Guy's delight. Jon also talks about the cultural importance of Crazy Rich Asians and In the Heights. A must-listen for creatives, storytellers, and movie lovers! Tune into Remarkable People and enjoy!

Mark Schulman has performed for more than a billion people in his 30 plus year career. He’s been the drummer for some of the greatest musical artists in history, including P!nk, Foreigner, Cher, Billy Idol, Stevie Nicks, Beyoncé, Tina Turner, and many more. In his first book, Conquering Life’s Stage Fright, through entertaining stories and innovative exercises, Mark reveals three core concepts that you can immediately employ to transform your anxieties — no matter what type of presentation, communication or performance is causing them — into a confident, world-class performance. You'll love this interview by Guy Kawasaki on this week's Remarkable People podcast!

Erica Dhawan is an internationally recognized leading authority, author and advisor on 21st century teamwork, collaboration and innovation. Named by Thinkers50 as the “Oprah of Management Thinkers”, she is the author of two books Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language. This week on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People, Guy talks with Erica about how to be more thoughtful and communicate better in the digital age. You'll be communicating better in tone, message, and emojis after this podcast.

You'll be blown away with this interview with speechwriter Cody Keenan, former Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama. President Obama said he relied “on Cody not just to share my vision, but to help tell America’s story.”

“He’s a brilliant writer," Mr. Obama added. “He’s relentless.” Listen in as Guy Kawasaki talks to Cody about his years working at The White House this week on the Remarkable People Podcast.

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be an author and publish a book? You'll get to find out in this episode's interview with Hugh Howey. His two dreams were to publish a book and to sail around the world and he’s been wildly successful at both. You’ll learn about self-publishing, writing, and how Hugh reached his dreams on this week’s episode of the Remarkable People podcast with host Guy Kawasaki.

Jodi Kantor is prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times and a best-selling author who broke the Harvey Weinstein story with Megan Twohey and Ronan Farrow. They broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s decades of alleged abuse towards women winning a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service which kicked off the #metoo movement. Ms. Kantor’s investigations into conditions at Starbucks and Amazon prompted national debates and policy changes at both companies.

Dave Winer is considered to be the father of blogging and the RSS feed AKA Really Simple Syndication. He's been connecting the dots and closing parentheses in Silicon Valley since the beginning of the tech industry. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School and NYU, entrepreneur, started two Silicon Valley tech companies. Winer has been given "credit for the invention of the podcasting model." Many of the things we do on the internet have Dave's fingerprints on it. Great conversation between David Winer and Guy Kawasaki on this week's Remarkable People Podcast!

Meet Haben Girma, the disability rights attorney, who became the first deafblind woman to graduate from Harvard Law School in 2013. Haben has made it her mission to advocate for equal opportunities for people with disabilities. Inspiring episode of Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast!

Have you ever wondered what it's like to run a start up or be in Silicon Valley? You'll get to find out with this episode's interview of Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast with Steve Blank. Blank's customer development methodology is a cornerstone of the lean startup movement, popularized by Eric Ries whom Blank states was "the best student I ever had."
Steve and I talked about:
What should a young entrepreneur supposed to put in his pitch?
Startups are about leadership and culture
Entrepreneurs and technology lovers- this one's for you!

Ronnie Lott is one of the best football players in the history of the NFL. After a successful college football career at USC he was the first round draft pick of the SF 49ers in 1981.

Over his fourteen year career, he played for the 49ers, Los Angeles Rams, New York Jets, and Kansas City Chiefs.

In his rookie year he helped the 49ers win Super Bowl XVI. He played on three more 49er teams that won the Super Bowl. And was subsequently inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame on July 29, 2000.
In this episode we talk about:
Surrounding yourself around great people
What makes creates a legendary athlete
Professor at Cornell used to play football
How Ronnie transitioned from sports to business
So many nuggets of wisdom in this episode of Remarkable People with Ronnie Lott!

This episode’s remarkable guest is Katherine Maher. Until April 2021 she was chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation—and she did a remarkable in this remarkable position.

She has a bachelor’s degree from New York University as well as extensive education in the Middle East.

She worked for UNICEF, National Democratic Institute, World Bank, and Access Now. She was chief communications officer of Wikimedia from 2014 until 2016 when she became the interim executive director. Listen in as Guy Kawasaki interviews Katherine Maher for this week's Remarkable People podcast.

Listen in as Guy Kawasaki interviews Jo Boaler, math evangelist, respected researcher, and Stanford Professor. Jo believes our current methods for math instruction are broken and is on a mission to get rid of timed mathematics and rote memorization. She is a leading voice for a wholly different pedagogy where speed is out, depth is in, and the journey to an answer can be as important as the destination. Learn how she fought back against academic bullying from male colleagues and won. Jo Boaler is the author of Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers. Another fantastic episode of Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast!

On this week's Remarkable People podcast: Martin Lindstrom. Martin is the founder and chairman of Lindstrom Company, a global branding & culture transformation firm, operating across five continents and more than 30 countries. TIME Magazine has named Lindstrom one of the ...

Join Guy Kawasaki on this week's Remarkable People podcast with guest Jeff Hawkins. Jeff a Silicon Valley veteran often credited with starting the entire handheld computing industry. He is a serial entrepreneur, scientist, engineer, and inventor. He also founded two mobile computing companies, Palm and Handspring, and is the architect of many computing products such as the PalmPilot and Treo smartphone. Jeff is the cofounder of Numenta, a research company focused on brain theory and AI. Previously, he founded the Redwood Neuroscience Institute, a scientific institute focused on understanding the neocortex. The Redwood Institute is located at U.C. Berkeley. Jeff recently published his second book, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence.

Rich Benoit is a remarkably funny guy and he single-handedly turned junked Teslas into a seller's market. He creates content for a YouTube channel called Rich Rebuilds. This features his adventures rebuilding and repairing cars.

His automotive saga took off in 2016. At the time Rich “needed” to own a Tesla, but Teslas were $100,000 new and $70,000 used. He was too cheap to buy one. Loved talking about his journey on this week's Remarkable People podcast.

A massive update to one of my favorite books, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Dr. Robert Cialdini spurred a return visit to Remarkable People. At the time I recorded, he was the only return guest but then Dr. Jane Goodall snuck in for Earth Month. If you're into marketing, influencers, evangelism, sales, or influencing people, don't miss this episode!

Hoping to help others change or to kick-start change yourself? This podcast with Katy Milkman, author of How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, will help you get some ideas on implementing change. This week on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast, Dr. Katy Milkman.

Next on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast, Mark Manson. Mark is the author of two New York Times best-sellers: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, and Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope. In total, more than 13 million copies of these books have sold.

Don’t let the profanity get in the way of the gravity and practicality of his thinking. Mark is fundamentally a philosopher with valuable thoughts about how to manage your life.

Some of the topics we cover include:

Why you should look for sh@t sandwiches
How people can give a f*ck about only two to four things
How actions create passion, not vice versa

He writes life advice that is science-based, pragmatic, and non-bullshitty - a.k.a., life advice that doesn’t suck.

A conversation about conservation with Dr. Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 60-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960, where she witnessed human-like behaviors amongst chimpanzees. Now she's leading global change for conservation and animal welfare issues. She's a one-of-a-kind treasure and you'll love this warm, witty conversation with Guy Kawasaki, host of The Remarkable People podcast.

Celebrated NYT best-selling author Paul Theroux on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast. Paul has lived an extraordinary life traveling the globe writing many highly acclaimed books. His novels include The Lower River and The Mosquito Coast, and his renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and Dark Star Safari and the upcoming book about Hawaii and surfing, Under the Wave at Waimea.

“Theroux’s work is like no one else’s.” –Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review

You’ve probably also heard of The Mosquito Coast. This book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981, and it was made into a movie in 1986 directed by Peter Weir starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, and River Phoenix. It’s now inspired a new Apple TV+ series starring Justin Theroux, who is coincidentally the author’s nephew which will be out at the end of April.

This week on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People is Nikhil Kamath, the co-founder of India’s largest stock brokerage, Zerodha.

For what it’s worth, he’s in his early thirties and a billionaire based on his stake in the company.

His “made for movies” story is that he dropped out of high school to play chess, worked at a call center answering support questions, started a stock brokerage, and became a billionaire. Kind of a Queen’s Gambit meets Slumdog Millionaire meets Charles Schwab.

But the actual storyline is not as Bollywood as you might think.

This remarkable guest is soccer legend Brandy Chastain. She represents the highest level of achievement in sports.

Her accomplishments are truly remarkable. Brandi won a gold medal in the 1996 Olympics for women's soccer and World Cup championships in 1991 and 1999. She was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame and the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame. She may be best remembered for a remarkable moment in the 1999 World Cup. She shares how she recovered from a crucial mistake on the field and the lesson she learned about the power of teamwork and positive thinking.

This interview with Dr. Sheila Nazarian changed my preconceived notions about plastic surgeons. Dr. Sheila Nazarian is a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, California currently transforming lives on Netflix’s Skin Decision: Before and After. The Netflix series captures how Dr. Sheila Nazarian and her assistant, Jamie Sherrill (aka Nurse Jamie), help patients improve appearances marred by abusive relationships, traumas, and other difficulties. She's created an organic skincare products, runs her practice, has built a fantastic online presence on YouTube and Instagram as well as being on shows like The Doctors and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. In short, she is both a doctor, influencer, and entrepreneur. We discuss the relationship of confidence, self-esteem, and beauty.

Meet Melissa Bernstein, half of the team behind Melissa and Doug. Melissa & Doug is a half-billion-dollar success story, its products a cheerful presence in toy stores and on children’s bedroom floors everywhere. Far less known are the real people behind the company: Meli...

You'll be inspired by this resilient entrepreneur. Suzy Batiz is the founder and CEO of Poo-Pourri and is on Forbes list of America’s richest self-made women and she faced many struggles and challenges along her journey. This episode is more about spiritual evolution than business success.