In difficult times it helps to remind yourself that every day there are good things happening in the world. This week we highlight how some entrepreneurs are taking the opportunity to rapidly innovate and address the problems caused by this crisis head on. We also talk about the importance of being grateful for the positive things that happen throughout your day while trying to avoid the negativity of the daily news cycle. We end the episode by highlighting some of the happy moments we experienced this week which will hopefully help you remember your own.
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- Episode 221: How freeCodeCamp Is Creating Thousands Of Programmers With Only 12 Employees
- Episode 220: What’s Next For The Mentors
- Episode 219: How a SpaceX Engineer Launched a Rapidly Growing Consumer Health Startup
- Episode 218: What You Should Learn Before Starting A Company
- Episode 217: The Power of Small Actions and an update to The Story of A Homeless Neuroscientist
- Episode 216: How To Have A Strong Sense Of Self Worth
- Episode 215: The Story Of A Homeless Neuroscientist
- Episode 213: How Andrew Clark Turned A Small College Into A $120 Million Online Learning Public Company, Zovio
- Episode 212: How Great Entrepreneurs Learn To Be Great Writers
- Episode 211: The Fastest Way To Resolve Conflict
- Episode 210: Why There’s No Growth Without Delegation
- Episode 209: Why Starting Over In Your Career Can Be A Good Thing
- Episode 208: How Real Change Happens
- Episode 207: Why Your Competition Matters Less Than You Think
- Episode 206: Why We Need To Approach Our Careers Differently In Uncertain Times
- Episode 205: From Running Three Companies At Once To Finding A Singular Passion With Michael Fenchel Of Paradox Ventures
- Episode 204: How To Overcome Limiting Beliefs and Labels
- Episode 203: How To Handle Self Doubt As An Entrepreneur
- Episode 202: Should You Be Fundraising During The Pandemic?
- Episode 201: How A College Dropout Ended Up Running A Sales Team At Google
- Episode 200: How Darrell Silver Of Thinkful Taught Himself How To Build Companies Part II
- Episode 199: Finding Focus During A Time Of Crisis
- Episode 198: How Darrell Silver Of Thinkful Taught Himself How To Build Companies Part I
- Episode 197: What Can Happen When You Set Audacious Goals
- Episode 196: How Entrepreneurs Are Responding To The Crisis
- Episode 195: Getting To Millions Of Users Through Word Of Mouth With Vu Van Of ELSA
- Episode 194: What We’re Working On During The Quarantine – Announcing School16
- Episode 193: From A 7-Figure Event Business To A Global Leadership Training Company, With Claudia Chan of S.H.E. Summit Part II
- Episode 192: Why It’s The Perfect Time To Start A Company
- Episode 191: From A 7-Figure Event Business To A Global Leadership Training Company, With Claudia Chan of S.H.E. Summit Part I
- Episode 190: What Happened When Our Venue Canceled On The Morning Of Our Event
- Episode 189: How To Build A Fashion Marketplace With Billions In Transactions, With Mona Bijoor
- Episode 188: How To Get Influencers And Celebrities To Support Your Work With Heneka Watkis-Porter
- Episode 187: How To Create An Unfair Advantage
- Episode 186: Fundraising 201: When To Walk Away
- Episode 185: Why Adversity Breeds Entrepreneurs
- Episode 184: 3 Questions Entrepreneurs Are Afraid To Ask Part II
- Episode 183: How To Decide When You Have Too Many Options
- Episode 182: How To Get Someone On Your Side When You’ve Made A Mistake
- Episode 181: How One Experiment Uncovered A Huge Opportunity In Insurance With Natalie Gray of Cover
- Episode 180: How To Know If You Found Your Calling
- Episode 179: How To Get Press For Your Startup
- Episode 178: How To Avoid Golden Handcuffs
- Episode 177: How Ishveen Anand Is Scaling Sports Sponsorships For The Biggest Athletes In The World – Part II
- Episode 176: The Virtue of Discipline and Empathy Learned In The South Korean Special Forces
- Episode 175: How Ishveen Anand Is Scaling Sports Sponsorships For The Biggest Athletes In The World – Part I
- Episode 174: The Secret To Greatness From Barcelona’s Most Celebrated Architect
- Episode 173: Why Cheat Days Work
- Episode 172: The Four Stages Of Becoming An Expert
- Episode 171: How To Turn A No Into A Yes
- Episode 170: Fundraising 101: Closing The Round
- Episode 169: Can Empathy Be Learned?
- Episode 168: Fundraising 101: The Investor Pitch
- Episode 167: Jerry Seinfeld On Creativity And The Value Of Always Experimenting
- Episode 166: Fundraising 101: Getting Investor Meetings
- Episode 165: The Opportunity In Reversing The Flow
- Episode 164: Better Late Than Never
- Episode 163: Fundraising 101: When To Approach Investors
- Episode 162: How To Get On A National TV Show
- Episode 161: The Art And Science Of Being Happy With Nataly Kogan Of Happier – Part II
- Episode 160: How To Capitalize On Inspiration
- Episode 159: The Art And Science Of Being Happy With Nataly Kogan Of Happier – Part I
- Episode 158: How The Bullseye Framework Can Help You Choose A Marketing Strategy
- Episode 157: The Systems And Habits Of Digital Marketers With Matt And Joe Of Evergreen Profits
- Episode 156: How To Impress Important People
- Episode 155: How A Team Of College Students Launched A Rocket Into Space
- Episode 154: How To Turn Anyone Into An Ally
- Episode 153: How To Choose Your Hero
- Episode 152: Sales For Founders 101: Closing The Deal
- Episode 151: How Quickly Things Can Change
- Episode 150: Sales For Founders 101: Getting Meetings
- Episode 149: The Power Of Now
- Episode 148: Sales For Founders 101: Introduction
- Episode 147: What’s Wrong With Starting A Lifestyle Business?
- Episode 146: How To Accelerate Your Career Like Kal Penn Of Harold And Kumar
- Episode 145: Why The Future Of Mobile Payments Is In Audio With Rodney Williams Of LISNR, Part II
- Episode 144: How To Define Your Own Success
- Episode 143: Why The Future Of Mobile Payments Is In Audio With Rodney Williams Of LISNR, Part I
- Episode 142: What Mindhunter And Watergate Taught Us About Being An Innovator
- Episode 141: When To Seek Legal Help For Your Startup With David Postolski Of Gearhart Law
- Episode 140: How To Use Your Existing Skills To Find Opportunities In A New Industry
- Episode 139: Reducing Plastic Waste By Dominating The Sustainable Paper Straw Market, With The Founders Of SeaStraws
- Episode 138: How To Know If It’s Okay To Give Up On Your Idea
- Episode 137: How To Build A Billion Dollar Company And Start All Over, With Nigel Eccles Of FanDuel And Flick – Part II
- Episode 136: How To Become The One That Creates The Rules
- Episode 135: How To Build A Billion Dollar Company And Start All Over, With Nigel Eccles Of FanDuel And Flick – Part I
- Episode 134: The Power Of Saying Yes And Other Lessons From Improv Class
- Episode 133: What We Learned From The Founder Of Draw Something
- Episode 132: Stumbling Into Greatness
- Episode 131: How To Create Opportunities Like A Russian Oligarch
- Episode 130: How A Food Scientist Invented A New Type Of Bread With Tristaun LeClaire of Simple Kneads
- Episode 129: How To Stop Coming Up With Excuses
- Episode 128: How This Award Winning Industrial Designer Is Reinventing Navigation, With Kevin Yoo Of WearWorks – Part II
- Episode 127: How To Get Started In The Competitive Beauty Industry
- Episode 126: How This Award Winning Industrial Designer Is Reinventing Navigation, With Kevin Yoo Of WearWorks – Part I
- Episode 125: The Truck Driver That Retired On A Caribbean Island
- Episode 124: 3 Questions Entrepreneurs Are Afraid To Ask
- Episode 123: The Inside Story Of How Foursquare Was Started
- Episode 122: How The CEO Of A Global PR Firm Got His Start, With James Wright Of Red Havas
- Episode 121: You Don’t Have To Be The Next David Letterman
- Episode 120: Our First Assembly And Keeping The Attention Of 500 Eighth Graders
- Episode 119: Chernobyl, The First Days After The Disaster
- Episode 118: How Two Moms Bootstrapped A Children’s Product To Millions, With The Co-CEOs of Slumberkins
- Episode 117: Memorial Day And Our History With The Red Army
- Episode 116: How To Start Solving The Student Debt Crisis, With David Chang Of Gradifi
- Episode 115: What Happens After Shark Tank
- Episode 114: From Field Sales At P&G To President At A Public Company, With Becky Frankiewicz Of ManpowerGroup
- Episode 113: How To Talk To A Billionaire
- Episode 112: From Introvert To CEO Of A Global 100 Law Firm With Andrew Glincher Of Nixon Peabody
- Episode 111: What I Learned From Meeting RZA Of The Wu-Tang Clan
- Episode 110: Starting A Gaming Company While Getting A PhD In Neuroscience At NYU, With Wayne Mackey of Statespace – Part II
- Episode 109: How To Convince Other People That You’re Not Crazy
- Episode 108: Starting A Gaming Company While Getting A PhD In Neuroscience At NYU, With Wayne Mackey of Statespace – Part I
- Episode 107: How To Win A Nobel Prize
- Episode 106: Building A Successful Travel App In A Competitive Market With Gillian Morris Of Hitlist – Part II
- Episode 105: How To Get Past Embarrassing Public Moments
- Episode 104: Building A Successful Travel App In A Competitive Market With Gillian Morris Of Hitlist – Part I
- Episode 103: Why You Should Organize An Event
- Episode 102: How Darius Baxter Built A 25 Person Non-Profit, GOODProjects, To End Gun Violence And Poverty In Washington
- Episode 101: How This Founder Is Building The Netflix Of Africa
- Episode 100: The Best Moments From 100 Episodes Of Our Show
- Episode 99: What To Do When You Got 99 Problems
- Episode 98: How To Pitch Anyone In 30 Seconds
- Episode 97: How To Reach Your Big Vision By Listening To The Market
- Episode 96: LeVar Burton and Alicia Levi – From Reading Rainbow to Partnering With RIF
- Episode 95: Behind The Scenes Of The Mentors – Getting Great Guests
- Episode 94: SXSW EDU: From 0 To 8,000 Attendees, With Founder Ron Reed
- Episode 93: How To Get Motivated By Using Reframing And The Release Of Our Second Parody
- Episode 92: Why World Champion Dancer Olga Nesterova Thinks Corporations Should Teach Their Employees To Dance
- Episode 91: From A GMAT Prep Business To Running For President
- Episode 90: Why Everything Is Negotiable
- Episode 89: What We Learned From This 17 Year Old Entrepreneur
- Episode 88: How Getting Bullied Made Us Stronger
- Episode 87: The Importance Of Being Yourself And The Debut Of Our First Parody Song
- Episode 86: How PathSpot Built A Hardware Business With Just A 3D Printed Prototype
- Episode 85: How To Keep Pushing Even If You’re Uncomfortable
- Episode 84: How To Reduce Work Related Stress
- Episode 83: How To Create Your Own Destiny
- Episode 82: Lessons Learned From Two Weeks Of Talking To Customers
- Episode 81: Getting 51 Meetings In 9 Days – Live Interview At A Bar
- Episode 80: How Four Brothers Got A Deal On Shark Tank For Their Skincare Brand, Nardo’s Natural
- Episode 79: How To Get What You Want By Letting Others Win
- Episode 78: Going From Employee To Entrepreneur With Author Steve Glaveski
- Episode 77: Why Keeping Your Network Is More Important Than Growing It
- Episode 76: How To Stick With Your New Year’s Resolution
- Episode 75: 2018 Lessons From Our Top 5 Episodes
- Episode 74: How Micah Brown Sold Two Companies And Started A Neuroscience Fund – Part II
- Episode 73: How A Trend Can Become A Big Business
- Episode 72: How Micah Brown Sold Two Companies And Started A Neuroscience Fund – Part I
- Episode 71: Remembering Colin Kroll And How To Deal With The Struggles Of Entrepreneurship
- Episode 70: How To Capitalize On Your Failures
- Episode 69: Why We Spent $300 At A Russian Bathhouse
- Episode 68: How To Think Big While Starting Small With Praful Mathur
- Episode 67: What I Said When The CEO Of Sprint Picked Up The Phone
- Episode 66: Can Entrepreneurship Be Learned?
- Episode 65: What I Learned From The Mexican Drug Cartel
- Episode 64: How To Ask For Help
- Episode 63: Why I Didn’t Start Instacart
- Episode 62: Teespring’s Meteoric Rise And What Happened After They Raised $65 Million, with Evan Stites-Clayton
- Episode 61: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – The Shark Tank Episode That Almost Never Aired
- Episode 60: Becoming A Top 100 Comedy Podcaster With Jared Freid
- Episode 59: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – How You Can Build Entrepreneurial Skills Through Community Work
- Episode 58: Growing An Alcohol Delivery Marketplace To 40 Cities With Lindsey Andrews Of Minibar
- Episode 57: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – How To Make Decisions Like A Fortune 500 CEO
- Episode 56: The Three Books That Will Change Your Life
- Episode 55: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – The $30,000 Side Hustle
- Episode 54: Becoming A Venture Capitalist with Diego Berrio
- Episode 53: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – The Making of Jackie Chan
- Episode 52: From Trading Stocks To Building A Pet Care Startup, With Throw Me A Bone
- Episode 51: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – The Email That Got Us The Meeting
- Episode 50: The Reality of Fundraising and How Most Entrepreneurs Get Capital
- Episode 49: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – Creating Your Own Daily Routines
- Episode 48: The Importance Of Saying Fuck It
- Episode 47: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – Update to Testing A New Idea Episode
- Episode 46: Turning a Gelato Shop Into a 16 Store Franchise, With Frost Gelato
- Episode 45: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – The Case For Doing Door To Door Sales
- Episode 44: How Kyle Bergman Sold 6 Figures In Sweatpant Overalls While Working Full Time And Going To School
- Episode 43: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – How I Met Daymond John
- Episode 42: Negotiating Salaries, Speeding Tickets and Used Cars
- Episode 41: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – Testing A New Idea Part 1
- Episode 40: How Food Period Built A Loyal Customer Base To Help Women Have Great Periods Naturally
- Episode 39: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – Starting a Revenue Generating Training Business in 3 Weeks
- Episode 38: How Justin Dent Started A Multimillion Dollar Non-Profit While In College
- Episode 37: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – Sell Before You Build
- Episode 36: How SoaPen Plans To Save 1 Million Children A Year, With Forbes 30 Under 30 Amanat Anand
- Episode 35: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – The Uber Driver Entrepreneur With A Fleet Of 12 Cars
- Episode 34: How To Tell Your Boss You’re Quitting
- Episode 33: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – Superior Auto Steam (Mack)
- Episode 32: The Secret to Finding Big Opportunities, with Carey Smith of Big Ass Fans
- Episode 31: How To Get Recognized On The Streets Of Philadelphia
- Episode 30: How To Make It In America
- Episode 29: What’s The Point Of An Advisor And How Do You Find One?
- Episode 28: How to Do What You Love in a Communist Country – Part II
- Episode 27: Building a National Food Brand With No Investors, with Michael Levine
- Episode 26: How to Land Major Distributors Like Whole Foods by Hustling Door to Door, with Adam Jones of Peloton
- Episode 25: Turning a Hobby Into a Business, The Wandering Bear Coffee Story
- Episode 24: How Julie Smolyansky of Lifeway Became CEO of a Public Company at 27
- Episode 23: How to Quickly Test Any Business Idea Before You Launch
- Episode 22: How to Do What You Love in a Communist Country – Part I
- Episode 21: How Getting Fired Changed My Life
- Episode 20: The Right Way to Outsource Your App Development, with Murtuza Kutub
- Episode 19: Using Word of Mouth to Build a Million Dollar Shoe Brand, with Twin Sisters Jessica and Emily Leung
- Episode 18: How Sufia Hossain Accidentally Made a Hot Sauce That’s Now Sold All Over NYC
- Episode 17: How Max Altschuler Grew SalesHacker From One Conference to a Media Company Serving Millions
- Episode 16: How Bobby Thakkar Built a 6 Figure Business While in High School
- Episode 15: How to Get the Attention of Important People
- Episode 14: Public Speaking Techniques Used by Billionaires, Actors and Presidents
- Episode 13: How to Start a Successful Coffee Shop in One of The Biggest Cities in The World
- Episode 12: Launching Best Sellers, Going Viral, and Avoiding Burnout with Charlie Hoehn
- Episode 11: How to Network Like a Pickup Artist
- Episode 10: Building a Mission Driven E-commerce Brand and Breaking Into Retail with Mera McGrew
- Episode 9: When Should I Quit My Job?
- Episode 8: Building a $90 Million Business After 50, with Larry Petretti
- Episode 7: Becoming Unstuck – How to Finally Get Started
- Episode 6: Olga Nesterova, from the UN to the NBA Playoffs Halftime Show
- Episode 5: Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Boris Revsin
- Episode 4: Entrepreneur & Comedian, Sadiq Samani
- Episode 3: Negotiating Equity and Founder Breakups
- Episode 2: Finding a Business Partner
- Episode 1: Coming Up With Good Business Ideas
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