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Big Questions with Cal Fussman

Curiosity Media

As a bestselling author, speaker and one of the greatest interviewers of this generation, Cal Fussman has sat down with some of the world"s most influential individuals: Muhammad Ali, Mikhail Gorbachev, Serena Williams, Jeff Bezos, Jack Welch, John Wooden, Al Pacino and hundreds of others, digging deep into their hearts and delivering their wisdom to the rest of the world. Now, in Big Questions, Cal continues his journey. Uncovering the heart, head, and soul of his guests in thoughtful, deep and

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30:22

Great Takeaways From Women

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/12/17

Cal looks back at some of the best nuggets of wisdom he’s received from women on Big Questions over the last two years, and passes them on to you. A holiday gift for every day of the week. Here are the moments we're including in today's episode. You can share these gifts with the people you care about by sending them an AirrQuote link. Anyone can click on the link and instantly listen to that particular moment. The first is from Bruce Lee’s daughter. Gift from Shannon Lee: Break with Tradition The

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21:49

Cal Tells The Legendary Santa Suit Story

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/12/10

Listeners of Big Questions who first heard Cal tell stories on Tim Ferriss’s podcast often reach out to Cal and ask him to tell more stories. Cal’s Santa Suit story goes back almost a quarter of a century and is timed perfectly to the season. There’s plenty of laughs and merriment, along with a takeaway that if you wait out a string of bad luck, there will be prosperous days ahead.

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37:48

Larry King: Happy 86th Birthday!

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/12/03

Cal sits with his pal after a party thrown by the Friars Club commemorated a birthday that many thought Larry might not be around to celebrate. For many months, Larry battled a series of major illnesses that nearly took his life. But Larry’s indomitable will kept him going. Now he’s out of the hospital, and working again. A look back at an extraordinary evening becomes Cal’s most memorable podcast.

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38:31

Gator Vs. The Hurricane

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/11/26

Cal catches up with his pal, Gator Halpern, months after 200-mile-an-hour winds and a 25-foot tidal wave by the name of Hurricane Dorian whipped into The Bahamas and destroyed the coral farm Gator established to save the reefs that protect the shores. Part of the reason we’re seeing this storm damage year after year is the weakening of our barrier reefs – which Gator is fighting to fend off. He’s developed a technology to grow coral 50 times faster than it would ordinarily, and he can put it through

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01:09:38

Tom Junod: Lessons From Mr. Rogers

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/11/19

Cal sits with his old pal, Tom Junod, after they see a preview of the upcoming movie about the children’s television host that stars Tom Hanks. A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood is based on the Esquire Magazine cover story that Junod wrote in 1998, and Junod’s friendship with Mr. Rogers in the years that followed. While the film creates a tortured relationship between Junod and his dad to advance the plot, there was actually tremendous tension in Tom’s life as a writer for Esquire when the story

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49:39

Summit: Make No Small Plans

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/11/12

Summit events have impacted countless lives through the power of connection – as they’ve grown from a gathering of 20 entrepreneurs back in 2008 into a community of 20,000 today. Billion-dollar companies have gotten off the ground because of friendships made at Summit events. Academy-award winning films have been created out of bonds formed at Summit. The collaborative spirit became fully apparent to Cal when he was invited to give a talk at a Summit event four years ago. That talk changed Cal’s

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25:10

Charles Schwab: How To Own Your Tomorrow

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/11/05

Cal sits with investment guru Charles Schwab on the stage at the Money 2020 conference in Las Vegas to discuss the philosophies behind his success and how all of us need to look at retirement in an age when we may live 20 years longer than we expected. Plenty of takeaways from the man who’s gotten through a series of stock market bubbles while increasing the value of his company 21,000 percent over the last three decades. You read that right. Twenty-one thousand percent!

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01:11:45

Why Are Physicians Burning Out?

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/10/29

Cal gets together with Dr. Reagan Anderson for a look at the difficulties of being a doctor in this day and age. This is a conversation that everyone in America needs to hear. On average, one doctor commits suicide in the United States every day – which is the highest suicide rate of any profession. Reagan served as a surgeon for the U.S. military in Iraq and is now a dermatologist with a clinic in Colorado Springs – and he senses some profound overlaps. Even as health care provides daily miracles,

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01:04:42

How To Defeat Your Internal Saboteurs

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/10/22

While doing a storytelling workshop, Cal meets Shirzad Chamine, the chairman of CTI, the largest coach and training company in the world. CTI has trained execs and managers at most of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as faculty at Yale and Stanford Business Schools. Cal is immediately enthralled with the way Shirzad uses positive energy to lift the workshop. He inquires and learns that Shirzad has a program that enables people to locate their inner saboteurs and defeat them. Cal takes the short

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44:28

Trump, Video Games and . . . Cal???

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/10/15

Cal sees a report that the President has just joined the live-streaming video platform Twitch and senses that it’s time to air the podcast he did with a man who advised him to jump into the future of video games. Scott Novis, formerly Vice President and General Manager of Disney Interactive, founded a company called GameTruck to bring video game parties to millions of kids. Scott tells Cal he should pay attention to the new form of communication practiced by these gamers, and Cal realizes that Scott

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59:13

Brendan Kane: One Million Followers In 30 Days

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/10/08

Cal heard about the growth hacker who’s worked with Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Michael Strahan, and also built a 7-figure social media following for himself in one month. And he figured it might be a good thing to get a glimpse of this world. But this podcast didn’t turn out quite like Cal figured, as Brendan posed questions that made Cal think about what he actually wanted to do with those followers. In the end, Cal doesn’t get a lesson in hauling in a million followers. He’s pointed toward

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Brendan Kane: One Million Followers In 30 Days

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/10/08

Cal heard about the growth hacker who’s worked with Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Michael Strahan, and also built a 7-figure social media following for himself in one month. And he figured it might be a good thing to get a glimpse of this world. But this podcast didn’t turn out quite like Cal figured, as Brendan posed questions that made Cal think about what he actually wanted to do with those followers. In the end, Cal doesn’t get a lesson in hauling in a million followers. He’s pointed toward

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01:09:30

What An Ideal Partnership Can Do

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/10/01

Cal learns what can be accomplished when the right two people come together as he gets to the essence of his sponsor: Sportiqe. Matt Altman and Jason Franklin, two guys who grew up thousands of miles apart, trace the backstory of their clothing company with moments that touch back on Tupac Shakur, Jay-Z, the great Chicago Bulls teams with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Phil Jackson, and much more. So many serendipitous moments are woven together, and they all seem to prove that when passion, the

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36:46

Double Your Productivity With Tim Campos

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/09/24

Tim Campos doubled productivity for Facebook while he was Chief Information Officer between 2010 and 2016. Now, Tim tries to do the same for Cal by introducing him to his latest project: Woven. Woven is a state-of-the-art digital calendar that we can all use to get the most out of our time while studying the analytics behind how we’re using our most precious resource. Tim’s company in the testing phase and Woven is free for all who want to give it a test drive. Old school Cal puts the pedal to the

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01:16:41

Amanda Slavin: Getting To The Next Level

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/09/17

The CEO of CatalystCreativ was the spark for a huge change in Cal’s business and life — and this conversation gets to finding the essence in yourself and using it to be your best. It also applies to companies. Amanda has worked on projects with WeWork, Coca Cola, The Raiders and The Nature Conservancy, and designed a strategy that transforms businesses through meaningful engagement with customers and employees. The recipe to her company’s secret sauce is detailed in her upcoming book: The Seventh

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01:06:00

Jason Harris: The Power of Persuasion

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/09/10

Cal learns he can be way more persuasive than he ever thought when he sits at The Big Table in the office of Jason Harris, the CEO of Mekanism. Jason’s company has been named the small agency of the year by Ad Age. It has famously linked up with the White House under President Obama to create the “It’s On Us” campaign to raise awareness of sexual assault on college campuses. And Jason’s got a book out called The Soulful Art of Persuasion that a Harvard business professor has called the modern

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55:53

Marc Roberge: Business Lessons From A Rock Band

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/08/27

The lead singer of O.A.R. clues Cal in to the business philosophies that have kept Of A Revolution thriving for nearly a quarter of a century. Any stereotype of dreamy artists is swiftly put to rest as Marc explains the constant vigilance all the band members throw into their work to keep the seats filled and their loyal fans coming back year after year after year. These lessons are applicable not only to Cal’s new business helping companies tell their stories. But they apply to anybody on the job

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47:43

Nir Eyal: How To Be Indistractable

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/08/20

Cal gets tips on getting all those dings, notifications and technological distractions out of his life from a man who has spent much of his career making people yearn for more technology. Many takeaways in this conversation with the author of the upcoming book, Indistractable, are about controlling your attention and leading a clearer and more focused life. It’s just the advice Cal needs now that he’s a CEO. Everyone who listens will come away a winner.

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55:48

What If You Never Had To Work Again?

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/08/13

Cal poses the question after hearing the wondrous story of Dr. Sabrina Kay – who came to the U.S. from South Korea while in college without speaking English, started out as a janitor and began an entrepreneurial journey that took her to the cover of Fortune Magazine. By the time she’d reached her 30s, Sabrina had amassed enough wealth so that neither she – nor any of her family members – ever needed to work again. But that was only the beginning. Sabrina went on to get a master’s degree at USC and

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26:11

The Walk and Richard Branson

Big Questions with Cal Fussman ·

2019/08/06

Cal looks back on the most amazing thing he’s ever seen in his life, August 7, 1974, when a French street performer named Philippe Petit secretly rigged a wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and walked on it 1,300 feet above the ground. There are many lessons to be learned from Philippe’s feat, which took place 45 years ago, and Cal has mined for them through at least a dozen viewings of the documentary Man on Wire and the feature film called The Walk. The British mogul Richard

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