HeyJaredThe Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner
Your ambition is costing you something. This show is about getting it back.The Grateful Podcast is a top 2.5% global podcast hosted by Jack Wagoner, entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, and creator of The Duality of Gratitude and Ambition framework.
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ADHD Expert: Nobody Should Touch a Phone Before 18 (This Happens When They Do) | Michael Mcleod - 157 (opens the original)
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The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner Episode 157 with Michael McLeodMichael McLeod thinks nobody should own a phone before 18. Not 16, not 14. Eighteen, the same way we handle alcohol and driving.He has worked with kids and teens since 2005 and watched valedictorians, athletes, and artists lose interest in everything inside a year of getting one. He also thinks history will look back on the last fifteen years of school and call it the great mistake.Later in the conversation he explains why emp
Social Expert: Why You Can't Connect with Others - Nicholas Epley | 156 (opens the original)
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The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner Episode 156Nicholas Epley studies why people struggle to connect for a living. He says the reason isn't what you're saying, it's what you're assuming before you even open your mouth.We go deep on why pessimism about how people will respond to you becomes self-fulfilling, the commuter train study that disproves what busy people assume about "wasted" time, and why connection outweighs income for daily happiness by seven times over.If connection has felt harde
Success is a Trap Unless... | Ken Rusk - 155 (opens the original)
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The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner Episode 155He runs a company with 250 people. Every Monday morning he plans his workouts and his family time before he plans a single hour of work. Ken Rusk started digging ditches at 15 through a hole in his high school fence, opened franchises across the Midwest before he was 23, and built his own company from six employees to 250. He has never worn the 80 hour week as a badge of honor, and he explains exactly why the people who do end up with the least t
150 Interviews: The Only 6 Rules for Life | 154 (opens the original)
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The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner Episode 154 Two years ago I sent 200 cold emails and got zero replies. This week I turned down offers from two of the biggest podcast networks in the world. The distance between those two things is 150 conversations with founders, psychologists, behavioral researchers, and authors. I went in looking for tactics. I came out with six rules, and they are the only six I still follow. One of them I fought for a long time. Alex Hormozi says confidence is a stack
Reading in The AI Age: The Part Nobody Says with #1 Book Reviewer Alex & Books | 153 (opens the original)
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The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner Episode 153 Guesting Alex Wieckowski, known online as Alex & Books @AlexandBooks Subscribe for more deep conversations with thinkers, seekers, and soulful creators.Alex Wieckowski has read over 750 books and built an audience of more than a millionpeople teaching other people how to read. So I asked him the question everyone isquietly asking right now: why not just let AI summarize it?His answer was not what I expected. He did not tell me to read more out o
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