Relax…Vibe Out
Talks and long conversations for the commute, the gym, or the hour before you send the thing. Every pick carries a reason — not a category.
Our Boy Ted
Twelve talks, and the test each had to pass is narrower than inspiring: does it change what you do on a Tuesday? A talk that makes you feel briefly excellent and leaves nothing behind is entertainment. These have a position on hiring, money, nerve or how a career actually gets built — the same arguments the rest of this app is having with numbers.
- Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume
Regina Hartley · 10:21 · 2015
The closest thing to this app's founding argument said out loud by somebody who hired for a living. A tidy résumé is a record of an easy road, not of capability, and the gap on yours may be the most useful thing on the page.
- Know your worth, and then ask for it
Casey Brown · 8:12 · 2015
Nobody will pay you what you are worth; they will pay you what they think you are worth. Watch this before the salary conversation, not after it.
- Color blind or color brave?
Mellody Hobson · 14:01 · 2014
An investor's case that refusing to discuss race in hiring rooms is not neutrality, it is a decision with a cost. Direct, specific, and unusually unafraid of the room it was delivered in.
- The power of believing that you can improve
Carol Dweck · 10:10 · 2014
The research behind the word "yet". Ten minutes, and it reframes every skill this app tells you is missing as a thing you do not have yet, rather than a thing you are not.
- The puzzle of motivation
Dan Pink · 18:22 · 2009
Why the bonus scheme at your job probably makes the work worse. Useful for reading a compensation package as a statement about what a company thinks people are.
- How to speak so that people want to listen
Julian Treasure · 9:44 · 2013
Mechanics rather than confidence: register, pace, timbre, prosody. The one on this list you can practise tomorrow and hear the difference by Friday.
- Embrace the near win
Sarah Lewis · 11:27 · 2014
About the offer you nearly got. Mastery is pursuit rather than arrival, and the near miss is the part that does the work — which is worth hearing when a search is long.
- Grit: The power of passion and perseverance
Angela Lee Duckworth · 5:59 · 2013
Six minutes, and honest about its own limits — she says plainly that the science is thin on how to build it. Here for the question rather than the answer.
- The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed
Bill Gross · 6:30 · 2015
He ranked five factors across two hundred companies and the winner is timing, not the team and not the idea. Read it as a note about when you move, not only about what you build.
- The surprising habits of original thinkers
Adam Grant · 15:15 · 2016
Procrastination and doubt as ingredients rather than defects. A corrective to every piece of career advice that treats hesitation as a character flaw.
- Why 30 is not the new 20
Meg Jay · 14:35 · 2013
The decade that compounds hardest, argued from clinical practice. On the list because this app is about the value of a move made now rather than later, and this is that case in plain language.
- What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
Robert Waldinger · 12:37 · 2015
Seventy-five years of following the same men, and the finding is relationships rather than salary. Here as a counterweight: this app is about getting paid, and it should be honest that the money is not the whole account.
The Lounge
Conversations long enough to actually get somewhere. Episodes play from the audio file the show itself publishes — the same file any podcast app fetches, so their numbers still count. Nothing here loads a player from anybody else.
Earn Your Leisure
iHeartPodcasts
Two men who talk about equity, ownership and cash flow in the register people actually speak in. The nearest thing to this app's whole thesis in podcast form.
- 🚨THE TAX CODE WAS BUILT TO HELP YOU AVOID TAXES! | 100% CAR WRITE-OFF, LLC SECRETS & $40K DEDUCTIONAug 13, 2026 · 43:42
Taxes can be one of the biggest expenses for entrepreneurs and investors—but understanding the tax code can completely change the game. In this episode, we sit down with Ms. Business to break do…
- The Cheat Code to ConnectionsAug 11, 2026 · 11:59
In this video, hosts Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings welcome special guests from Eastside Golf to discuss how golf has become a powerful tool for building connections in the business world. They explor…
- The AI Billionaire Who Lost $30 Billion Before His WeddingAug 11, 2026 · 11:57
Subscribe and watch more videos here: https://www.youtube.com/@EarnYourLeisure Join the EYL community for deeper training and a more detailed approach: https://www.eyluniversity.com Join the number on…
Black Tech Green Money
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
Founders and operators who are Black and in tech, on what the room was actually like. The specifics of access, capital and getting in the door.
- Who Writes the Rules on AI? Inside the Room with Rep. Christian MenefeeAug 11, 2026 · 42:47
Christian Menefee is the U.S. Representative for Texas's 18th District in Houston. He now sits on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Follow Will Lucas on Instagram: @willlucas Foll…
- They're Destroying Books to Build AIAug 4, 2026 · 32:52
Millions of books got scanned for AI training, then discarded. The real question isn't legal, it's civilizational. Will Lucas on the difference between information and history, why AI only knows what …
- What the Biggest Brands Think about Marketing, Consumers, and Culture with Derek Lewis, Former President at PepsiCo North AmericaJul 29, 2026 · 38:13
Derek Lewis is a strategic thought leader and transformational executive, and was the first-ever President of Multicultural Business and Equity Development at PepsiCo North America. He also has a new …
Worklife with Molly Graham
TED
TED's own show about the psychology of work — teams, feedback, why the meeting is bad. Practical rather than motivational.
- Can AI make you a better manager? with Hilary GridleyAug 11, 2026 · 46:02
Managing people is a deeply human line of work—it requires relational skills, judgement, and deep knowledge of the people you work with. But Hilary Gridley believes that when used properly, AI can not…
- Lessons: What to do when you get “layered” at workAug 4, 2026 · 25:29
If your company is growing faster than you can keep up, your manager might decide to “layer” you—that is, split your job in half or hire someone with more experience to become your boss. This is an ex…
- What pressure can teach you about leadership with Don FaulJul 28, 2026 · 45:07
A good leader is one who anchors and supports their team under pressure—and nowhere are the stakes higher than in the military. Don Faul spent five years as an officer in an elite unit in the Marine C…
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz | Wondery
Long-form origin stories, and the useful part is always the middle: the years where it was not working and nobody had told them to stop.
- Advice Line with Bobbi Brown of Jones Road Beauty (September 2025)Aug 13, 2026 · 48:21
Today's callers: Bob in Chicago looks to promote his cabbage-based muscle and joint rub beyond the walls of his orthopedic practice. Then Abby in Dallas wonders whether her popular social media livest…
- MadeGood: Salma and Nima Fotovat Lost Their First Business. They Grew Their Next One Into a Snack Giant.Aug 10, 2026 · 1:05:43
What do you do when the family business you've spent decades building... gets bought out from under you? That’s what happened to Nima and Salma Fotovat. Devastated, the family rebuilt a new company fr…
- Advice Line: "Strategy Sessions"Aug 6, 2026 · 45:32
Today’s callers: Tony in Michigan is considering bringing on partners to run different parts of his brew pub and theater business. Then Monica in London is exploring the best way to reach style-consci…
Planet Money
NPR
Economics explained as a story with people in it. The best training there is for reading the numbers on THE WORLD without needing anyone to tell you what they mean.
- You bet your life insuranceAug 14, 2026 · 38:43
Some of the biggest firms on Wall Street are, at this very moment, waiting for thousands of strangers to die to reap their returns. Because there’s a market for life insurance policies. And it’s legal…
- Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School)Aug 12, 2026 · 39:24
Just about everyone in Argentina is an expert in inflation and whether they like it or not, economic flexibility. Can we learn from them? Over the years, we at Planet Money have checked in on Argentin…
- Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to?Aug 7, 2026 · 34:03
When workers past retirement age can’t afford to retire — that’s one thing. When they can, and just don’t want to — that’s trickier. It used to be legal to force people to retire when they hit a certa…
Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
Three-hour company autopsies, deeply researched. Put one on for a commute and you will understand an industry's economics better than most people who work in it.
- Disney: The Renaissance and the EmpireAug 10, 2026 · 4:32:56
In 1984, the Walt Disney Company was worth more dead than alive. Disney Animation — the heart of Walt's famous flywheel — had stagnated for years, bleeding away talent while corporate raiders circled,…
- The Walt Disney CompanyJun 22, 2026 · 4:31:29
The Walt Disney Company is the most successful enterprise ever created for monetizing human nostalgia. Today it’s the king of global entertainment, holding the intellectual property rights to the chil…
- VanguardMay 18, 2026 · 3:48:05
Vanguard is the most effective vehicle ever created for participating in the fruits of American capitalism. Today it’s the single largest equity owner of the majority of corporations in the S&P 500, o…
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The newest talks from TED, in the order they released them. Nobody here has vouched for these. They are not filtered, sorted or matched to you — the obvious trick would be to keyword-match this feed into a “motivation” shelf, and keyword matching over long text is exactly how this app once decided a data platform job wanted a journeyman electrician. The recommendation is upstairs and a person wrote it.
- This is what the future of media looks like | Hamish McKenzie
What if the polarizing mess of social media, clickbait headlines and addictive algorithms isn't a breakdown of media but a transition to something better? Substack cofounder Hamish McKenzie explores how independent creat…
- The catastrophic risks of AI — and a safer path | Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio — the world's most-cited computer scientist and a "godfather" of artificial intelligence — is deadly concerned about the current trajectory of the technology. As AI models race toward full-blown agency, Ben…
- How to make climate stories impossible to ignore | Katherine Dunn
In environmental reporting, “it's not always about the big climate story,” says journalist Katherine Dunn. She challenges newsrooms to rethink how they cover climate change, connecting to the things readers love — whethe…
- What if the climate movement felt like a house party? | Matthew Phillips
You’re invited into a bold new vision for the climate movement — a space of trust and honesty, where artists inspire action and everyone has a role to play. Social impact leader Matthew Phillips explores how shared purpo…
- The AI revolution is underhyped | Eric Schmidt
The arrival of non-human intelligence is a very big deal, says former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt. In a wide-ranging interview with technologist Bilawal Sidhu, Schmidt makes the case that AI is wildly underhyped…
- The delicious potential of rescuing wasted food | Jasmine Crowe-Houston
What if solving hunger isn't about growing more food but wasting less of it? Social entrepreneur Jasmine Crowe-Houston has made that idea her mission with Goodr, a platform that reroutes surplus food to people in need. I…
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