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Reasonably Happy with Paul Ollinger

Comedian Paul Ollinger wants you to be happy but let’s not go crazy here, okay? In his new show, Reasonably Happy: the Skeptic’s Guide to Achievable Contentment (fka Crazy Money), Paul will help you find authentic fulfillment through candid conversations with comedians, authors, celebrities, and other remarkable guests who share their failures and foibles, anxiety and addiction, and their grand vision of life that keeps them pushing forward.

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56:43

House of Gucci author, Sara Gay Forden - Ep 135

Reasonably Happy with Paul Ollinger ·

2022/02/01

Sara Gay Forden is the author ofHouse of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed,on which director Ridley Scott based his star-studded film.The Economist named House of Guccione of its best books of the year, adding that it reads “like a novel,” which it totally does. The book is much more comprehensive story about the Gucci legacy than the movie, but both culminate in the murder of Maurizio Gucci, former Gucci CEO and grandson of Guccio Gucci, founder of the iconic fashion

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54:33

Raising Successful Kids with Julie Lythcott-Haims -...

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2022/01/26

Julie Lythcott-Haims is passionate about raising self-sufficient kids and helping them find their unique path into adulthood. The former Dean of Freshman at Stanford University, Julie is the author of several books including How To Raise An Adult and Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, both of which we discuss today. In this amazing, smart, and no B.S. conversation, Julie and I discuss: What success means and how we can model it for our children Why affluent parents are more likely to over-parent. Why

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41:34

Zen Money with Ken Honda - Ep 133

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2022/01/19

When it comes to money, there are two approaches: love or fear.” That’s what Ken Honda writes in his latest work, Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with your Money. Ken’s books on money have sold over 8 million copies worldwide. On today’s show, we talk about how we can: Feel worthy of money Say Arigato (thank you) to money How to make money work in your marriage Make peace with our childhood money experiences Ken was 29 when he first “retired” to welcome his newborn daughter in

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54:23

Over-thinking and What to do About It with Jon Acuff...

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2022/01/11

Overthinking is so deeply ingrained in humanity that it shows up as a theme in Buddhism, Stoicism, Shakespeare, and the songs of Barenaked Ladies. Jon Acuff joins us today to discuss his book, Soundtracks, The Surprising Solution To Overthinking. Jon is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books whom Inc. included on their list of Top 100 Leadership Speakers. His writing has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has appeared in Reader’s Digest, Fast Company, The Harvard

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46:36

From the Trailer Park to the Comedy Big Time with...

Reasonably Happy with Paul Ollinger ·

2021/12/21

Comedian Rocky Dale Davis grew in a trailer park in Brookwood, Alabama. His single mom worked hard to keep him fed and on the straight-and-narrow. After eight years doing comedy, Rocky is headlining all over the country and experiencing his first taste of financial success. So it’s that much more fun to watch me cringe as Rocky tells me that he tries to get rid of money as soon as it comes in and that he doesn’t have health insurance. Rocky has appeared on This week at the Comedy Cellar and Kevin

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48:21

Life After Public Failure with Warwick Fairfax - Ep 130

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2021/12/14

Today we are going to talk about public mistakes: big, flagrant, public mistakes that might best be described as “failure” and earn the derision of the press and cost your family hundreds of millions of dollars. Warwick Fairfax was the heir apparent to run John Fairfax, Ltd, an Australian newspaper and media conglomerate that ownedThe Sidney Morning Herald,The Agein Melbourne, and The Australian Financial Reviewand other valuable properties. In 1987, with corporate raiders lurking, Warwick took on

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57:16

$50 Million Mistakes with Ali Partovi - Ep 129

Reasonably Happy with Paul Ollinger ·

2021/12/07

Ali Partovi is an Iranian-Americanentrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of Code .org, iLike, and LinkExchange. He was an early investor in Airbnb, Dropbox, Facebook, and Uber. Ali grew up in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, attended Harvard, and sold his first startup, LinkExchange, in 1998. On this episode, Ali and I discuss: The GIANT MISTAKE he made in a meeting with Steve Jobs The not-quite as terrible mistake he made when meeting with Jerry Yang of Yahoo! The

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52:04

What HBO's Succession Tells us about Wealth with...

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2021/11/30

Today we will be discussing the enthralling HBO series, Succession and all it tells us about wealth, dysfunctional family dynasties, ambition, and greed with three great panelists, including Meredith Blake from the Los Angeles Times, Dave Lenok from WealthManagement .com, and James Andrew Miller, author of the new book Tinderbox: HBO’s Relentless Pursuit of New Frontiers. (**Please rate and review Crazy Money here.**) In case you’ve been asleep for the past three years, here’s a brief synopsis of

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23:24

Thanksgiving Essays - Ep 127

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2021/11/27

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73:41

Investing for Good with Judith Rodin, Joan Salwen,...

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2021/11/09

This week I speak to three distinguished guests about how money can be used to make the world a better place and how investors large and small can influence corporations to be more responsible global and local citizens. Up first is Dr. Judith Rodin, former President of both The Rockefeller Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania where she was the first woman to permanently lead an Ivy League Institution. Judith is the author ofThe Power of Impact Investingand Making Money Moral: How a new

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57:48

That Voice in Your Head with Ethan Kross - Ep 125

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2021/11/02

That voice in your head isn’t all bad. Sure, it sometimes tells you you’re not good enough or that Bob from Accounting is plotting to get you fired, but your inner dialog can be your friend if you take the time to get to know it. Dr. Ethan Kross is the author of Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It. A Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind, Ethan studies our internal chatter and

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49:24

Preppy Handbook Author, Lisa Birnbach - ENCORE EPISODE

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2021/10/26

Lisa Birnbach is the author of over 20 books, includingThe Official Preppy Handbook, which became a cultural phenomenon in the early 1980’s. The book sold more than a million copies, has been cited as an inspiration to the founder of J. Crew and is thought to have boosted the growth of LL Bean. InT.O.P.H., Birnbach celebrated, skewered, and democratized the concept of preppiness with writing the The New York Times described as “affectionate but acerbic.” Upon re-visiting the book, I found her

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50:35

Buckhead v. Atlanta - Ep 124

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2021/10/19

What would happen if the richest neighborhood in your town declared itself its own municipality, taking with it the tax dollars of the richest 20% of citizens? That is what might happen here in Atlanta where a well-funded group is petitioning to carve the wealthy neighborhood of Buckhead (coincidentally, where I live) away from Atlanta, into its own city. This initiative has gained traction and has a very real chance of making it to the ballot in November of 2022. Not that Buckhead residents don’t

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53:23

Your Brain on Money with Daniel Crosby - Ep 123

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2021/10/12

Educated at Brigham Young and Emory Universities, Dr. Daniel Crosby is a psychologist and behavioral finance expert who studies and writes about the intersection of financial markets and the human brain. A New York Times best-selling author, Daniel has published several books, including The Laws of Wealth and The Behavioral Investor, which we discuss in this episode. His ideas have appeared in the Huffington Post and Risk Management Magazine, as well as his monthly columns for WealthManagement.com

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57:33

From Iraq to Dancing with the Stars with J.R....

Reasonably Happy with Paul Ollinger ·

2021/10/05

J.R. Martinez joined the Army to give back to the country that accepted his immigrant, single mother and to earn money for college. As a 19-year-old, handsome Infantryman, he quickly deployed to Iraq. One bad day, his Humvee hit a roadside bomb, trapping J.R. inside where burning fuel literally melted the skin from his face and consumed one of his ears. J.R.’s buddies pulled him clear but not before he suffered third-degree burns over almost half body, broken ribs, damaged lungs and physical

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51:24

Stevie Van Zandt takes it all in - Ep 121

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2021/09/28

Stevie Van Zandt is best-known as guitarist and founding member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, and for playing Silvio Dante on HBO's The Sopranos and Frank Tagliano on Netflix's Lilyhammer. But as he shares in his new memoir, Unrequited Infatuations, Stevie has done so much more with his time on this earth, even if it all didn’t go exactly as he might have hoped. As a producer, songwriter, and arranger, Stevie has helped countless artists make beautiful music. His songs have been performed

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55:44

Net fulfillment v. Net worth with Bill Perkins -...

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2021/09/21

(originally posted Sept, 2020) Would you consider yourself a success if you died with $1 million? How about $10 million? Well, what if you died with $0.00? In his new book, Die With Zero: Getting All you Can from Your Money and Your Life, Bill Perkins challenges you to flout conventional wisdom and spend your money not just before you’re dead, but while you’re still young enough to enjoy it. That’s right, instead of maximizing your net worth at death, he wants you to die having lived a life rich in

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57:37

Gianni Le Nguyen: mom, entrepreneur, Vietnamese...

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2021/09/14

(Originally posted June, 2019) Gianni Le Nguyen fled Vietnam at the age of 5. Late one night in the early 1980s, her father wrapped his two young daughters in a fishing net, then rowed a basket boat out to meet a more seaworthy vessel a quarter mile offshore. They spent five days battling storms, illness and pirates who took everything Gianni’s dad possessed, including his official papers. Thus began a beauracratic mess that left her family in refugee camps for over two years before they finally

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64:21

Luck v. Hard Work with Robert H. Frank- Ep 120

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2021/09/07

Robert H. “Bob” Frank teaches economics at Cornell and is the author of a dozen books, including the one that caught my eye for this week’s topic: Luck and Success: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy. Bob cares a great deal about recognizing luck’s role in our success because doing so, he argues, would make us all more grateful, happy, and generous. He also cares because without the “lucky” proximity of an ambulance one cold November morning, he wouldn’t have survived the heart attack that

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53:35

Are Smart People Less Happy? with Raj Raghunathan- Ep...

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2021/08/31

Is there something about being successful that makes you less happy? Do smart people’s over-active brains fill their heads with negative thoughts? If so, how can you calm these voices? These are topics we address today with Raj Raghunathan, the author of the book If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy? and the creator of the wildly successful Coursera course called A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment. Raj is also a professor of Marketing at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas

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