The Nick Standlea Showhttps://nickstandlea.com/Long-form conversations with authors, entrepreneurs, creators, and brilliant experts. 64% of AI citations come from editorial coverage on other sites, not your own websitehttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/where-ai-gets-its-answers-brett-farmiloe.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/where-ai-gets-its-answers-brett-farmiloe.html2026-10-13Everyone wants to be the answer an AI gives. Almost nobody knows where those answers come from. Brett Farmiloe does, because he owns the pipeline — HARO… Under threat about 80% of your blood goes to skeletal muscle leaving roughly 5% for the brainhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/nobody-pushed-him-thats-why-he-got-this-far.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/nobody-pushed-him-thats-why-he-got-this-far.html2026-10-06Dave Rabin was ten years old, having nightmares, and both his parents were doctors. He bought a dream catcher at a flea market with his dad, hung it over his… Outsourcing your writing to AI costs you trust with the 150 to 250 people in your real circlehttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/ai-was-supposed-to-replace-writers-joe-lazer.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/ai-was-supposed-to-replace-writers-joe-lazer.html2026-09-16In 2023 every consulting firm published the same forecast: AI was coming for writers first. Joe Lazer went the other way. He took paternity leave, went down… 10 emails from constituents were enough to get a Member of Parliament to join an AI risk campaignhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/superintelligence-is-the-goal-max-winga-control-ai.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/superintelligence-is-the-goal-max-winga-control-ai.html2026-09-08The AI companies say it out loud: their goal is superintelligence, systems more capable than humans at everything, and by their own admission it carries a… Gen Z is the first generation on record to be having less sex than the one before ithttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-sex-recession-is-real-dr-jenn-gunsaullus.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-sex-recession-is-real-dr-jenn-gunsaullus.html2026-08-25Dr. Jenn Gunsaullus is a sociologist who has spent 33 years studying sex, intimacy and how people actually talk to each other. She says every stuck… The world is short about 6 million healthcare workers today, heading for 11 million by 2030https://nickstandlea.com/episodes/can-medicine-survive-without-ai.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/can-medicine-survive-without-ai.html2026-08-17Dr. Bertalan Meskó — The Medical Futurist, a physician-futurist who has spent two decades scoring his own predictions in public — opens with arithmetic, not… AI will take fewer jobs than predicted because LLMs still hallucinate one out of 20 timeshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/igor-pogany-the-3-levels-of-ai-mastery.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/igor-pogany-the-3-levels-of-ai-mastery.html2026-07-29Igor Pogany — creator of The AI Advantage, one of YouTube's most-followed AI channels — lays out the framework he's refined across hundreds of thousands of… Making AI work inside a company is 40% technology and 60% human, not a model problemhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/guru-ceo-not-without-human-experts.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/guru-ceo-not-without-human-experts.html2026-07-01Rick Nucci — CEO of Guru and founder of Boomi (acquired by Dell) — argues the hard part of AI at work isn’t the models, it’s context. Today’s models are… Most people are confident they can tell AI-generated content from real and most of them are wronghttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/can-truth-survive-ai.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/can-truth-survive-ai.html2026-06-18Nick sits down with Steve Rosenbaum — documentary filmmaker, author, and longtime media entrepreneur — to ask whether truth can survive in a post-ChatGPT… From jail John Meehan ordered a hit on the two officers who arrested him, $10,000 for eachhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-detective-who-took-down-dirty-john-meehan.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-detective-who-took-down-dirty-john-meehan.html2026-06-03Detective Julia Bowman, the cop who arrested John 'Dirty John' Meehan, tells Nick Standlea the inside story — the stalking case nobody else pursued, the… Dario Amodei puts the chance that superintelligence goes catastrophically badly at 25%https://nickstandlea.com/episodes/ai-safety-ceo-the-treaty-to-stop-the-race-to-super-intelligence.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/ai-safety-ceo-the-treaty-to-stop-the-race-to-super-intelligence.html2026-05-19Malo Bourgon, CEO of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), walks Nick through why today's chatbots are only a stepping stone toward systems… Zapier's one-week AI hackathon took daily AI use from under 10% of staff to north of 50%https://nickstandlea.com/episodes/ai-knows-your-business-better-than-you-do.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/ai-knows-your-business-better-than-you-do.html2026-05-06Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO of Zapier, traces his unlikely path from a conservative Midwest upbringing to building one of the most widely used automation… A single AI answer is compiled from 10 to 30 channels queried at once, not one ranked list of linkshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/how-to-get-recommended-by-chatgpt-gemini-claude.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/how-to-get-recommended-by-chatgpt-gemini-claude.html2026-04-22Ross Simmonds joins Nick to explain how the shift from Google-only search to AI-powered discovery is reshaping what it means to be visible online. Ross breaks… ChatGPT produced the same cancer treatment plan as the oncologist in 7 secondshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/how-ai-is-already-changing-medicine.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/how-ai-is-already-changing-medicine.html2026-04-07Dr. Peter Weir is a family physician and population health officer at the University of Utah who has been actively using AI in clinical practice. He walks… Daily posting for 14 months brought about 2,000 followers, while one niche video brought 200,000 viewshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/posting-daily-didn-t-work-for-14-months-then-this-did-t-d-orel.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/posting-daily-didn-t-work-for-14-months-then-this-did-t-d-orel.html2026-03-24Fantasy author T.D. Orel did exactly what the internet tells aspiring creators to do: he posted every single day, without missing one, for 14 months. It got… Pricing for value instead of billing hours produces an 85% proposal acceptance ratehttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/alan-weiss-stop-selling-hours-ai-will-kill-that-model.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/alan-weiss-stop-selling-hours-ai-will-kill-that-model.html2026-03-16Alan Weiss — author of over 50 books on consulting, including The Seven-Figure Consultant — has spent decades teaching one idea: stop billing for time and… Graduating seniors with a 4.0 GPA or higher went from about 17% to over 60% in about 20 yearshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/how-to-future-proof-your-kid-in-the-age-of-ai-ceo-ryan-kiick.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/how-to-future-proof-your-kid-in-the-age-of-ai-ceo-ryan-kiick.html2026-02-11Nick Standlea sits down with Ryan Kiick, CEO of Revolution Prep, to unpack what it actually means to future-proof a student in the age of AI. Ryan opens with a… Science has had no room for consciousness since Galileo took it out 400 years agohttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/why-your-brain-doesn-t-create-consciousness-it-s-always-been-there-ft.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/why-your-brain-doesn-t-create-consciousness-it-s-always-been-there-ft.html2026-01-29Philosopher Philip Goff joins Nick to argue something most people find either obvious or absurd depending on the hour: consciousness isn't produced by the… Big sport is about 15 years ahead of big business in investing in human capabilitieshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-single-mindset-shift-that-unlocks-mastery.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-single-mindset-shift-that-unlocks-mastery.html2026-01-15Dr. Michael Gervais — the high-performance psychologist who has coached Super Bowl champions, Olympic gold medalists, world-record adventurers, and Fortune 50… 80% of AI use cases drive only 20% of the results, so start with the strategic use casehttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/this-one-shift-makes-ai-10x-smarter.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/this-one-shift-makes-ai-10x-smarter.html2025-12-30Geoff 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 for writing better emails… AI company leaders themselves put the odds of catastrophe at 10 to 25%, and that is too high to accepthttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/ex-microsoft-insider-ai-isn-t-here-to-replace-your-job-it-s-here-to-re.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/ex-microsoft-insider-ai-isn-t-here-to-replace-your-job-it-s-here-to-re.html2025-12-10Nate Soares, Executive Director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, makes a chilling case that… What humans want most is not reward but control over their environment, and AI erodes ithttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/ex-google-deepmind-scientist-the-real-ai-threat-is-losing-control-chri.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/ex-google-deepmind-scientist-the-real-ai-threat-is-losing-control-chri.html2025-11-26Christopher Summerfield — Oxford cognitive neuroscientist, former Google DeepMind researcher, and research director at the UK AI Safety Institute — argues that… Sam Altman said AGI will do 95% of marketing as we know it today within three to five yearshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/sam-altman-says-95-of-marketing-is-going-to-ai-here-s-what-that-means.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/sam-altman-says-95-of-marketing-is-going-to-ai-here-s-what-that-means.html2025-11-18Andy Sack — co-founder of Forum3 and co-author of “AI First” — joins Nick to share the “holy shit moment” behind the book: Sam Altman telling him that 95% of… Automation could absorb up to 30% of all work hours by 2030, exceeding the 25% unemployment of 1932https://nickstandlea.com/episodes/is-ai-making-us-dumber-can-teachers-save-us.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/is-ai-making-us-dumber-can-teachers-save-us.html2025-11-10Nick tackles three listener questions about AI, cognition, and education. The central argument: AI isn't making us dumber — it's eliminating the mental… Expertise shows up at 1,500 and 2,500 hours, so the 10,000-hour rule is an arbitrary numberhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/10-000-hours-is-a-myth.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/10-000-hours-is-a-myth.html2025-10-30NFL and NBA performance psychologist Dr. Alex Auerbach joins Nick Standlea to challenge the assumptions most people carry about elite performance. Drawing on… Viruses already circulating in bats can spread like COVID and kill 20 to 35% of those infectedhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/dr-michael-osterholm-the-pandemic-clock-is-ticking.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/dr-michael-osterholm-the-pandemic-clock-is-ticking.html2025-10-22Dr. Michael Osterholm — director of CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota and advisor to every U.S. president since Reagan — joins Nick Standlea for a… Napkin math puts AI's potential value at $700 trillion, which makes a $20 trillion market cap plausiblehttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-ai-revolution-is-an-ownership-problem-not-a-tech-problem-economist.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-ai-revolution-is-an-ownership-problem-not-a-tech-problem-economist.html2025-10-07Justin Wolfers — University of Michigan economist, a regular on Scott Galloway’s Prof G Markets, and one of the most-cited economists in the world — joins Nick… An emotion takes 90 seconds to fully process in the body, and most people cannot sit with it that longhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/is-emotional-intelligence-the-competitive-edge-in-the-age-of-ai-therap.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/is-emotional-intelligence-the-competitive-edge-in-the-age-of-ai-therap.html2025-09-30Therapist and coach Hannah Lord joins Nick to make the case that emotional intelligence—not data or code—is the defining human edge as AI takes over repetitive… AI lowers real wages and raises the return to capital, so abundance or mass misery is a political choicehttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/jeffrey-sachs-ai-and-geopolitics.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/jeffrey-sachs-ai-and-geopolitics.html2025-09-09Jeffrey Sachs opens with a four-decade career arc — from ending Bolivia's hyperinflation and advising Poland's post-communist transition to serving three UN… The country's 6 or 7,000 universities sit empty 90% of the time and should become lifelong learning centershttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/howard-gardner-rethinking-college-in-the-age-of-ai.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/howard-gardner-rethinking-college-in-the-age-of-ai.html2025-08-29Howard Gardner — Harvard developmental psychologist and creator of the theory of Multiple Intelligences — sits down to reflect on a long career challenging the… A first summer course of 18 students raised SAT scores by an average of 376 pointshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/perfect-sat-score-shark-tank-deal-w-mark-cuban.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/perfect-sat-score-shark-tank-deal-w-mark-cuban.html2025-08-12Dr. Shaan Patel is a board-certified dermatologist, a Shark Tank success story, and Nick's direct competitor in test prep — which makes this an unusually… Sleeping six hours or less after age 45 makes a heart attack or stroke 200% more likelyhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/science-of-sleep-think-sharper-age-slower-and-feel-better-dr-paul-retu.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/science-of-sleep-think-sharper-age-slower-and-feel-better-dr-paul-retu.html2025-07-23Dr. Paul Rohdenburg — an ER physician who went from sleeping four or five hours a night to treating sleep as non-negotiable — returns to make the case that… Learning only the next step turned a $19.99 ebook into almost $8,000 in its first monthhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/pat-flynn-build-faster-learn-leaner-pat-flynn-s-secrets-for-action-tak.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/pat-flynn-build-faster-learn-leaner-pat-flynn-s-secrets-for-action-tak.html2025-06-19Pat Flynn — creator of Smart Passive Income and author of Lean Learning — opens with the story that started the book: an ant invasion in his son's San Diego… Social media algorithms reward a victimhood identity over positivity and growth contenthttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/dr-scott-barry-kaufman-sbk-your-trauma-doesn-t-define-you.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/dr-scott-barry-kaufman-sbk-your-trauma-doesn-t-define-you.html2025-05-22Nick Standlea sits down with psychologist and Columbia professor Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman to dig into his book Rise Above: Overcome a Victim Mindset. Kaufman… Doctors thought adults had no brown fat until 2007, when PET scans found it in 5% of people scannedhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-cold-truth-ice-baths-brown-fat-and-professor-seager.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-cold-truth-ice-baths-brown-fat-and-professor-seager.html2025-05-14Nick sits down with Professor Thomas Seager, co-founder of Morozko Forge — fresh out of his own cold plunge — to unpack the science and philosophy of… Resort vacationers were happiest 43 hours into the trip, and less happy from then onhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/dr-tali-sharot-are-you-bored-stuck-or-just-not-excited-by-life-anymore.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/dr-tali-sharot-are-you-bored-stuck-or-just-not-excited-by-life-anymore.html2025-04-14Neuroscientist Dr. Tali Sharot joins Nick to unpack the science behind why life loses its luster — even when everything looks great on paper. The culprit is… For every 100 dissatisfied customers only five complain, so each complaint stands for 19 silent oneshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/jay-baer-stop-wasting-time-marketing-on-social-media-do-this-instead.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/jay-baer-stop-wasting-time-marketing-on-social-media-do-this-instead.html2025-03-11Jay Baer, world-renowned marketing strategist and bestselling author, opens with a deceptively simple lesson: persuasion works when you make it about the other… Only 1.3% of US high school athletes receive a full or partial athletic scholarshiphttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/mindfulness-and-coaching-mental-skills-with-micha-shaw.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/mindfulness-and-coaching-mental-skills-with-micha-shaw.html2025-02-13Micha Shaw is a mindfulness coach and former elite athlete who competed in open water swimming, winning the US Olympic Trials in the event before a… Only four of about 100 players in La Masia's famed 87 generation reached the professional gamehttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/inside-fc-barcelona-s-la-masia-academy-with-albert-puig-how-messi-xavi.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/inside-fc-barcelona-s-la-masia-academy-with-albert-puig-how-messi-xavi.html2025-01-20Albert Puig, former director of FC Barcelona's legendary La Masia academy, and his APFC co-founder Bernat Franquesa join Nick Standlea for a wide-ranging… Naval Ravikant rated his own happiness a 2 out of 10 while already very wealthyhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/almanac-of-naval-ravikant-by-eric-jorgenson-distilled-seek-wealth-not.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/almanac-of-naval-ravikant-by-eric-jorgenson-distilled-seek-wealth-not.html2025-01-07Naval Ravikant treats wealth the same way he treats happiness — as a learnable skill, not a birthright. Nick unpacks Naval's viral "how to get rich without… A 1% daily improvement compounds to 3,700% better in a year, not 365% betterhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/atomic-habits-distilled-how-tiny-habits-yield-exponential-results.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/atomic-habits-distilled-how-tiny-habits-yield-exponential-results.html2024-12-23Nick distills the core lessons of James Clear's Atomic Habits, zeroing in on the counterintuitive math of compounding: a 1% daily improvement doesn't add up to… IV ketamine infusions work 83% of the time across more than 30,000 infusions at one Los Angeles clinichttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/ketamine-therapy-saves-lives.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/ketamine-therapy-saves-lives.html2024-12-15Nick Standlea sits down with Sam Mandel, co-founder and CEO of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles, to unpack the truth behind ketamine therapy and the media frenzy… The average 18-year-old is on pace to spend 312 of their 334 free months looking at a screen non-productivelyhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/how-social-media-hijacks-your-time-and-what-you-can-do-about-it.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/how-social-media-hijacks-your-time-and-what-you-can-do-about-it.html2024-11-17Dino Ambrosi, founder of Project Reboot, shares how a spiral of chronic stress and phone dependency during his freshman year at UC Berkeley drove him to study… Making the Tower Records documentary took the better part of seven years of learning on the jobhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/colin-hanks-i-ll-be-acting-until-i-die.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/colin-hanks-i-ll-be-acting-until-i-die.html2024-10-28Actor and documentary filmmaker Colin Hanks sits down with longtime friend Nick Standlea for a wide-ranging conversation about craft, discomfort, and the long… Strategy is choosing which game to play, not learning to win the game you are already inhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/seth-godin-what-they-don-t-teach-you-about-strategy.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/seth-godin-what-they-don-t-teach-you-about-strategy.html2024-10-21Seth Godin joins Nick to unpack the idea at the center of his book This Is Strategy: “We mistakenly spend more time figuring out how to win the game we're in… The share of Americans calling their life very happy has held at 30% since 1956 while income nearly tripledhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/how-to-find-flow-and-unlock-creativity.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/how-to-find-flow-and-unlock-creativity.html2024-09-24Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — known to Nick as simply "Mike" during their six years working together — traces his lifelong quest to understand happiness back… One AP class's exam pass rate went from 20% to 60% after the teacher switched to retrieval practicehttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/make-it-stick-the-science-of-effective-learning.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/make-it-stick-the-science-of-effective-learning.html2024-09-19Nick sits down with Mark McDaniel and Roddy Roediger — the cognitive scientists behind the bestseller Make It Stick — to dismantle how most of us actually… 15 years of depression took a 155-pound college soccer player to 365 poundshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-weight-of-depression-jason-magee-s-story-of-struggle-and-hope.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-weight-of-depression-jason-magee-s-story-of-struggle-and-hope.html2024-09-04Jason Magee and Nick played college soccer together, and have texted nearly every day for twenty years since. In this conversation Jason talks openly about… His books were optioned in Hollywood for more than 40 years before any of them reached the screenhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/thomas-perry-author-of-the-old-man.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/thomas-perry-author-of-the-old-man.html2024-08-05Thomas Perry has written 31 novels, won an Edgar for his first, and watched one of them become a television series starring Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow. He… Moving from the lowest to the highest strength group tracks with a 200% decrease in all-cause mortalityhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/dr-paul-health-influencers-are-liars.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/dr-paul-health-influencers-are-liars.html2024-07-10Nick sits down with Dr. Paul Rohdenburg, an ER physician, to call out health influencer misinformation. Dr. Paul names the telltale signs (superlatives… Perception is a controlled hallucination, built from the brain's predictions rather than raw sensory inputhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/consciousness-anil-seth-on-ai-reality-perception-and-psychedelics.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/consciousness-anil-seth-on-ai-reality-perception-and-psychedelics.html2024-06-04Neuroscientist Anil Seth opens with a personal reflection — he dedicated his Royal Society Faraday Prize lecture to his ailing mother — before diving into the… Etiquette is social and emotional intelligence; dining made up only 30% of the finishing coursehttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/modern-etiquette-with-myka-meier-it-s-social-emotional-intelligence.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/modern-etiquette-with-myka-meier-it-s-social-emotional-intelligence.html2024-05-13Myka Meier founded Beaumont Etiquette, built the finishing program at The Plaza Hotel, and has written two bestselling books — and she spends most of this… The teen suicide rate nearly doubled from 2007 to 2019 and tripled among 10 to 14 year oldshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/losing-a-body-part-hank-wise.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/losing-a-body-part-hank-wise.html2024-04-23World-record open-ocean swimmer and Stanford NCAA champion Hank Wise returns to the show for his most personal conversation yet: the loss of his left eye, and… Raising an ACT score from 25 to 31 earned one student a $112,000 merit scholarshiphttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/jenn-curtis-optimize-for-college-admission-steps-for-9th-10th-11th-and.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/jenn-curtis-optimize-for-college-admission-steps-for-9th-10th-11th-and.html2024-04-01Jenn Curtis, founder of FutureWise Consulting and co-author of The Parent Compass, joins Nick with a grade-by-grade roadmap: 9th grade is exploration, 10th… Two-thirds to three-quarters of PTSD patients no longer qualify for the diagnosis after MDMA therapyhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/brad-burge-psychedelic-therapy.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/brad-burge-psychedelic-therapy.html2024-03-25Brad Burge — former communications director at MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) and founder of Integration Communications — joins… Depression, anxiety and eating disorders among girls are 65% higher than they were 10 years agohttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/ca-assembly-josh-lowenthal-shaping-tomorrow-bold-ideas-on-government-j.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/ca-assembly-josh-lowenthal-shaping-tomorrow-bold-ideas-on-government-j.html2024-03-07California Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal brings rare firsthand perspective to the Israel-Palestine conflict — as a proud Jewish American who lived in Israel… Evolution shapes perception for fitness payoffs, not truth, and 99% of the field disagreeshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/donald-hoffman-consciousness-the-true-nature-of-reality-and-the-interc.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/donald-hoffman-consciousness-the-true-nature-of-reality-and-the-interc.html2024-02-19Donald Hoffman, cognitive scientist and professor emeritus at UC Irvine, opens with a radical claim backed by evolutionary game theory: organisms that see… Test scores beat high school grades at predicting student success across the UC system's nine collegeshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-importance-of-sat-and-act-in-college-admissions.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-importance-of-sat-and-act-in-college-admissions.html2024-01-29Nick Standlea draws on research from Forbes and The New York Times to argue that SAT and ACT scores are the fairest—not the least fair—tool in admissions… The same four colleges ranked top in 1983 have never left the US News top six 40 years laterhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/college-rankings-are-an-illusion.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/college-rankings-are-an-illusion.html2024-01-08Nick Standlea traces college rankings to their origin: a 1983 US News list invented to save a failing magazine. The same four schools—Stanford, Harvard, Yale… With UCLA at 8.6% and Michigan at 8%, the admissions essay is now the last variable that decideshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/johnny-rastello-the-future-of-college-admissions.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/johnny-rastello-the-future-of-college-admissions.html2024-01-01Johnny Rastello, director of college counseling and dean of 12th grade at Tarbut V’Torah Community Day School in Newport Beach, joins Nick to examine why the… Telling his grandfather's last joke at the funeral was an act of authenticity, not disrespecthttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/two-priests-are-driving-down-the-highway.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/two-priests-are-driving-down-the-highway.html2023-12-18Nick Standlea eulogized his grandfather with a dirty joke — and he’s not sorry about it. This episode traces a 30-year Christmas tradition of joke-telling that… Surviving 10 minutes against Mark Kerr while nearly 100 pounds lighter mattered more than the titlehttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/leo-vieira-lessons-from-jiu-jitsu-for-life.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/leo-vieira-lessons-from-jiu-jitsu-for-life.html2023-12-01Leo Vieira grew up between two worlds in Rio de Janeiro — too “playboy” for the favela kids at his school, too working-class for the wealthier kids on his… In semaglutide trials 50% of people lost 15% of their body weight on a 500-calorie-a-day deficithttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/dr-paul-fat-loss-drugs-fitness-nutrition-longevity.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/dr-paul-fat-loss-drugs-fitness-nutrition-longevity.html2023-11-06Dr. Paul Rohdenburg — ER doctor and former 340-pound college football player — joins Nick to cut through the hype on fat-loss drugs, glucose tracking, and what… Protecting white space on the calendar, not hustle, is what makes a designed life possiblehttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/jim-o-brien-design-your-life.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/jim-o-brien-design-your-life.html2023-10-03Jim O'Brien—pro surfer, Cleo Bella co-founder, and world traveler—joins Nick to explore what designing your own life actually requires. Jim traces the… The fastest male Catalina Channel crossing stands at 7 hours, 55 minutes and 6 secondshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/hank-wise-open-ocean-swimming-world-record-holder.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/hank-wise-open-ocean-swimming-world-record-holder.html2023-08-30Hank Wise holds the fastest male Catalina Channel crossing (7:55:06) and has made the 20-mile open-ocean swim more times than anyone alive. He walks Nick… Under the new FAFSA a grandparent-owned 529 no longer counts against a student's aidhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/jodi-okun-college-financial-aid-and-scholarships.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/jodi-okun-college-financial-aid-and-scholarships.html2023-07-31Jodi Okun, founder of College Financial Aid Advisor and author of Secrets of a Financial Aid Pro, joins Nick to demystify the college funding process. Her… Any given student could be happy at 50 to 300 of the 2,000 plus four-year US collegeshttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/deren-finks-college-admission-strategies.htmlhttps://nickstandlea.com/episodes/deren-finks-college-admission-strategies.html2023-07-31Deren Finks — former dean of admission at Harvey Mudd College and longtime independent counselor — pulls back the curtain on what actually happens inside a…