Long-form conversations with authors, entrepreneurs, creators, and brilliant experts.
▶Jun 3, 2026 · 7 key moments
Detective Julia Bowman, the cop who arrested John 'Dirty John' Meehan, tells Nick Standlea the inside story — the stalking case nobody else pursued, the freezer 'kill kit,' the jailhouse hit on her life, and why stalking is a crime to take seriously.
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▶May 19, 2026 · 6 key moments
Malo Bourgon, CEO of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), walks Nick through why today's chatbots are only a stepp…
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▶May 6, 2026 · 6 key moments
Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO of Zapier, traces his unlikely path from a conservative Midwest upbringing to building one of the…
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▶Apr 22, 2026 · 6 key moments
Ross Simmonds joins Nick to explain how the shift from Google-only search to AI-powered discovery is reshaping what it means to b…
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▶Apr 7, 2026 · 6 key moments
Dr. Peter Weir is a family physician and population health officer at the University of Utah who has been actively using AI in cl…
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▶Mar 24, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min
If you’ve ever been told “just post every day and you’ll eventually blow up”… T.D. Orel is living proof that advice can be wildly…
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▶Mar 16, 2026 · 6 key moments
Alan Weiss — author of over 50 books on consulting, including The Seven-Figure Consultant — has spent decades teaching one idea: …
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▶Feb 11, 2026 · 6 key moments
Nick Standlea sits down with Ryan Kiick, CEO of Revolution Prep, to unpack what it actually means to future-proof a student in th…
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▶Jan 29, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min
In this conversation with philosopher Dr. Philip Goff, we dive into one of the deepest questions in science and philosophy: what …
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▶Jan 15, 2026 · 8 key moments
Dr. Michael Gervais — the high-performance psychologist who has coached Super Bowl champions, Olympic gold medalists, world-recor…
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▶Dec 30, 2025 · 7 key moments
Jeff Woods, author of the #1 AI book The AI-Driven Leader, joins Nick to fix the way most people use AI: as a glorified assistant…
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▶Dec 10, 2025 · 6 key moments
Nate Soares, Executive Director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Die…
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▶Nov 26, 2025 · 6 key moments
Christopher Summerfield — Oxford cognitive neuroscientist, former Google DeepMind researcher, and research director at the UK AI …
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▶Nov 18, 2025 · 52 min
Sam Altman told him that 95% of marketing as we know it will be done by AI within 3–5 years. That single sentence became the “hol…
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▶Nov 10, 2025 · 4 key moments
Nick tackles three listener questions about AI, cognition, and education. The central argument: AI isn't making us dumber — it's …
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▶Oct 30, 2025 · 6 key moments
NFL and NBA performance psychologist Dr. Alex Auerbach joins Nick Standlea to challenge the assumptions most people carry about e…
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▶Oct 22, 2025 · 6 key moments
Dr. Michael Osterholm — director of CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota and advisor to every U.S. president since Reagan — join…
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▶Oct 7, 2025 · 7 key moments
Justin Wolfers — University of Michigan economist, a regular on Scott Galloway’s Prof G Markets, and one of the most-cited econom…
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▶Sep 30, 2025 · 6 key moments
Therapist and coach Hannah Lord joins Nick to make the case that emotional intelligence—not data or code—is the defining human ed…
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▶Sep 9, 2025 · 6 key moments
Jeffrey Sachs opens with a four-decade career arc — from ending Bolivia's hyperinflation and advising Poland's post-communist tra…
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▶Aug 29, 2025 · 6 key moments
Howard Gardner — Harvard developmental psychologist and creator of the theory of Multiple Intelligences — sits down to reflect on…
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▶Aug 12, 2025 · 56 min
What happens when you earn a perfect SAT score, write a book that gets rejected by 100 publishers, and then turn that failure int…
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▶Jul 23, 2025 · 8 key moments
Dr. Paul Rodenberg — an ER physician who went from sleeping four or five hours a night to treating sleep as non-negotiable — retu…
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▶Jul 5, 2025 · 4 key moments
Growth mindset gets a lot of praise — and rightly so. But Nick argues that in our rush to celebrate it, we've overlooked somethin…
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▶Jun 19, 2025 · 51 min
Feeling overwhelmed by too much info and not enough action? In this episode of The Nick Standlea Show, Pat Flynn—best-selling aut…
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▶May 22, 2025 · 6 key moments
Nick Standlea sits down with psychologist and Columbia professor Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman to dig into his book Rise Above: Overcom…
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▶May 14, 2025 · 7 key moments
Nick sits down with Professor Thomas Seager, co-founder of Morozko Forge — fresh out of his own cold plunge — to unpack the scien…
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▶Apr 14, 2025 · 6 key moments
Neuroscientist Dr. Tali Sharot joins Nick to unpack the science behind why life loses its luster — even when everything looks gre…
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▶Mar 11, 2025 · 6 key moments
Jay Baer, world-renowned marketing strategist and bestselling author, opens with a deceptively simple lesson: persuasion works wh…
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▶Feb 13, 2025 · 8 key moments
Micha Shaw is a mindfulness coach and former elite athlete who competed in open water swimming, winning the US Olympic Trials in …
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▶Jan 20, 2025 · 6 key moments
Albert Puig, former director of FC Barcelona's legendary La Masia academy, and his APFC co-founder Bernat Franquesa join Nick Sta…
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▶Jan 7, 2025 · 4 key moments
Naval Ravikant treats wealth the same way he treats happiness — as a learnable skill, not a birthright. Nick unpacks Naval's vira…
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▶Dec 23, 2024 · 4 key moments
Nick distills the core lessons of James Clear's Atomic Habits, zeroing in on the counterintuitive math of compounding: a 1% daily…
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▶Dec 15, 2024 · 6 key moments
Nick Standlea sits down with Sam Mandel, co-founder and CEO of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles, to unpack the truth behind ketamine …
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▶Nov 17, 2024 · 6 key moments
Dino Ambrosi, founder of Project Reboot, shares how a spiral of chronic stress and phone dependency during his freshman year at U…
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▶Oct 28, 2024 · 6 key moments
Actor and documentary filmmaker Colin Hanks sits down with longtime friend Nick Standlea for a wide-ranging conversation about cr…
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▶Oct 21, 2024 · 43 min
Seth Godin, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and thought leader, joins Nick to discuss his new book "This is Strategy." Seth sha…
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▶Sep 24, 2024 · 4 key moments
Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — known to Nick as simply "Mike" during their six years working together — traces his lifelong quest …
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▶Sep 19, 2024 · 7 key moments
Nick sits down with Mark McDaniel and Roddy Roediger — the cognitive scientists behind the bestseller Make It Stick — to dismantl…
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▶Sep 4, 2024 · 1 hr 0 min
In today's episode, I sit down with Jason Magee, who shares his 15-year struggle with depression and weight loss, and then takes …
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▶Aug 27, 2024 · 4 min
Why does regulating social media for kids remain an unresolved challenge? This episode discusses the significant age gap in congr…
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▶Aug 21, 2024 · 1 min
If you like to ask questions, dive beneath the surface, and learn about fascinating individuals, you’ve found your home. Join Nic…
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▶Aug 5, 2024 · 51 min
Delve into the creative world of Thomas Perry, the bestselling author behind 31 novels, including the "Jane Whitefield" series an…
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▶Jul 10, 2024 · 2 hr 44 min
In this episode, we dive deep into the world of health influencers and the truth behind their promises. Nick Standlea is joined b…
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▶Jun 4, 2024 · 6 key moments
Neuroscientist Anil Seth opens with a personal reflection — he dedicated his Royal Society Faraday Prize lecture to his ailing mo…
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▶May 13, 2024 · 1 hr 6 min
Myka Meier, a trailblazer in modern etiquette and the founder of Beaumont Etiquette shows us that etiquette isn’t just about fork…
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▶Apr 23, 2024 · 50 min
In this episode of The Nick Standlea Show, Olympic swimmer Hank Wise, a world-record holder, takes us on an emotional journey rec…
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▶Apr 1, 2024 · 1 hr 24 min
Optimize the college application process. We provide actionable steps for each year of high school, 9th to 12th grade, to help st…
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▶Mar 25, 2024 · 6 key moments
Brad Burge — former communications director at MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) and founder of Integr…
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▶Mar 7, 2024 · 6 key moments
California Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal brings rare firsthand perspective to the Israel-Palestine conflict — as a proud Jewish A…
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▶Feb 19, 2024 · 6 key moments
Donald Hoffman, cognitive scientist and professor emeritus at UC Irvine, opens with a radical claim backed by evolutionary game t…
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In recent years, the relevance of SAT and ACT tests in college admissions has been questioned, prompting some colleges to switch …
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🎙️✨ Louis CK's hilarious take on flight delays hits close to home because, let's admit it, we've all been there. Complaining abou…
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A short story about my kids that demonstrated how context is everything. We often think we know where everyone is coming from, wh…
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▶Jan 8, 2024 · 8 min
College rankings are an illusion. Despite the power they hold in popular culture, they were made up by a magazine that was going …
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This episode is on the future of college admissions. I’m with with Johnny Rastello, the Director of College Counseling and Dean o…
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▶Dec 18, 2023 · 7 min
Two priests are driving down the highway... This is the beginning of a joke I told at my grandfather's funeral. It was a risk, a …
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▶Dec 1, 2023 · 1 hr 57 min
Today I’m speaking with world champion jujitsu competitor Leo Vieira. He’s known as the Yoda of Jujitsu because of his ability to…
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▶Nov 6, 2023 · 1 hr 45 min
Dr. Paul Rohdenburg answers questions on the fat loss drug Ozempic (semaglutide, Ozempic, and Wegovy) and then dives deep into wh…
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▶Oct 30, 2023 · 0 min
Nick is a curious guy. He likes to talk to interesting people. If you’re not curious, this show isn’t for you. But if you like to…
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▶Oct 3, 2023 · 1 hr 9 min
Jim O’Brien is the co-owner of Cleobella, an artisan clothing line for women, a former pro surfer, serial entrepreneur, creator o…
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▶Aug 30, 2023 · 1 hr 25 min
Hank Wise holds the world record for the fastest male swim from Catalina to the Mainland (20 miles!), is a national champion Stan…
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▶Jul 31, 2023 · 46 min
Jodi Okun is the founder of College Financial Aid Advisors. She has successfully helped thousands of families navigate the financ…
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▶Jul 31, 2023 · 1 hr 3 min
Deren Finks is the former Dean of Admission and Financial Aid at Harvey Mudd College (one of the five Claremont Colleges) and a c…
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