Living A Life In Full
by Dr Chris Stout; Best Selling Author | Adventurer | Angel Advisor | (Acciden
"Living a Life in Full" is the conversation you always wanted to have with that person who gave an amazing TED talk, or the author of one your favorite books, or that inspirational Olympian you always wanted to know more about. This show is for the intellectually curious. You want to not just know more about the interesting and the innovative, but also what makes them tick, and maybe even what makes them laugh. It's graduate-level conversations with those making a difference in the world and the lives of others. This show brings you new ideas and approaches so you can live a life in full. The show is equal parts information and inspiration, but without the aphorisms and pablum. We cover a wide range of topics in an engaging way—from Burning Man to The Renaissance Weekend, from the United Nations to top universities, Nobel Laureates to astronauts—we have an amazing Rolodex. Interviewees are a who's who of high performance athletes, bestselling authors, high-caliber leaders, worl
Episodes
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Peter Kowey, MD, on Healthcare's Real Crisis
Why do so many people feel lost in today's healthcare system—even with all the incredible advances in modern medicine? In this episode, I welcome renowned cardiologist Dr. Peter Kowey to discuss his eye-opening book, Failure to Treat. Together we explore why communication between doctors and...
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Why Cars Matter: Greg Stanley on Automotive Culture and Collecting
Why do cars matter? In this episode of Living a Life in Full, Greg Stanley—collector car specialist, Ferrari judge, host of The Collector Car Podcast, and author of The Enthusiast's Guide To Collector Cars—joins the conversation to explore why automobiles are far more than machines. From Enzo-era...
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Jamie Metzl on the Paradox of Using AI to Build a More Human Future
In this episode, I sit down with futurist, author, and policy expert Jamie Metzl, PhD, JD, to explore one of the defining questions of our time: how can we use artificial intelligence to build a future that is not less human, but more so? Our conversation moves beyond simplistic visions of AI as...
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Cracking "The Purpose Code"- Dr. Jordan Grumet's Lessons on Meaning, Money, and Mortality
In this episode of Living a Life in Full, I sit down with Dr. Jordan Grumet — hospice physician, author of The Purpose Code, and host of Earn & Invest — to explore what it really means to live a life of meaning rather than mere achievement. Drawing from his years at the bedside of patients…
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Push with Purpose: Motivation, Movement, and the Science of Living Longer with Jordan Metzl, MD
In this episode I'm joined by Jordan Metzl, MD, renowned sports medicine physician, endurance athlete, and bestselling author, to explore the deeper psychology behind movement, motivation, and longevity. Anchored in Dr. Metzl's latest book, Push: Unlock the Science of Fitness Motivation to…
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Daniel Coyle's Masterclass in Humanity: Exploring the Foundations of Meaning, Joy, and Fulfillment
Daniel Coyle's book, Flourish: The Art of Building Meaning, Joy, and Fulfillment, explores the profound question of what it truly means to live a meaningful life. Rather than offering quick fixes, Daniel encourages readers to engage with the core inquiries of fulfillment: How do we move from mere...
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At the Intersection of High Performance and Fulfillment: A Conversation with Alisa Cohn
In this episode I sit down with Alisa Cohn, one of the world's most respected executive coaches to founders and CEOs navigating the high-stakes transition from early success to sustainable leadership. Drawing from decades of experience coaching startup founders, Fortune 500 executives, and...
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From High Performance to Fulfillment: Lessons in Inner Mastery with Jim Murphy
What does it mean to perform at an elite level without sacrificing your inner life? In this episode, Jim Murphy—former professional athlete, high-performance coach, and author of Inner Excellence—to explore the often-overlooked interior dimensions of sustained success. Drawing from decades of…
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Paul Shapiro on Ethical Capitalism and the Business of Doing Good
Join us for a fascinating conversation with Paul Shapiro, CEO and co-founder of The Better Meat Co. Paul is a visionary leader at the forefront of sustainable food innovation, leveraging fermentation and cellular agriculture to create protein-rich, eco-friendly meat alternatives. With a career...
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Michelle McLean's Journey from Miss Universe to a Life of Global Impact, Philanthropy, and Visionary Leadership
In this episode we explore the remarkable journey of Michelle McLean, whose rise from Miss Universe 1992 to Namibia's Goodwill Ambassador has defined a life of purpose and lasting impact. Michelle's dedication to children's rights, women's empowerment, and conservation has led her to become a...
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The Unstoppable Missions of Noëlle Demole – From Battling Injustice to Setting World Records
From Swiss Banking to Indian Orphanages—One Woman's Relentless Pursuit of Justice. What does it take to dismantle systems of injustice while building hope—one child, one case, one project at a time? Meet Noëlle Demole, born in Geneva, a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree who juggles fighting white-collar...
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Ben Mattingly, MD, on How to Live, Learn, and Explore the World
(NOTE regarding this episode: Ben and I both live in semi-remote areas with not the best internet connectivity, and this shows here-and-there in this episode with some audio-oddities. I am very sorry about that, but nevertheless, listeners can contextually understand Ben's points when the hiccup...
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Ethics, Influence, and Intrigue in Investigative Journalism by the Emmy Award Winning Peter Klein
Bribe, Inc., a documentary film exposing a significant bribery scandal within the global oil industry, focusing on the Unaoil company and the Ahsani family. It highlights the collaborative efforts of an anonymous whistleblower, investigative reporter Nick McKenzie, prosecutor Tom Martin, and...
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Darryl "DMC" McDaniels on Legacy, Vulnerability, and the Transformative Power of Art and Music
As one third of the legendary rap group Run-DMC, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels—aka Legendary MC, The Devastating Mic Controller, and the King of Rock—had it all: talent, money, fame, prestige. While hitting #1 on the Billboard charts was exhilarating, the group's success soon became overwhelming. A...
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David Kelly, MD, on the Adventure of a Lifetime: The Great World Race
I know that many listeners of my podcast, Living a Life in Full, are athletes, and many of them are runners – from 5ks to ultras and everything else in between. I also know that a lot of my audience members are travelers – local, global, adventure – you name it. Imagine if those interests...
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A Candid Conversation with the Wildly Courageous Jenny Wood
What if I told you that the traits you need to get ahead are the exact opposite of what you've been told most of your life? What if instead, I told you that in order to be successful you need to be Weird, Selfish, Shameless, Obsessed, Nosy, Manipulative, Brutal, Reckless, and Bossy? Well, that's...
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Bert terHart's Knack for Knocking Off the Impossible: The Transformative Power of Doing Hard Things
Imagine logging 50,000 miles of solo sailing adventures, including a non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, and a 7800 km paddling journey across Canada from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Or, maybe you're more interested in entrepreneurship and making an impact in the lives of others using...
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The Unforgettable Lorraine K. Lee on How to Become the CEO of Your Own Career
Are you an ambitious industrious worker and a high achiever who always delivers, but you feel stuck or unseen, and you struggle to move up in your career? Or maybe it's your peers who seem to get all the recognition and advance, while you're wondering why you're being left behind. And that is…
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Dean Karnazes: A Life in (Full) Motion
Dean Karnazes is a force of nature and an inspiration. He's raced across the globe in support of various causes and modeled unparalleled perseverance and going beyond perceived limitations that serve to unlock an inner strength in others to also attain extraordinary results. He shares real-life...
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Racing for Her Life: The Amazing Story of Ironman World Champion and All-American Sara Fix
Sara Fix is a powerhouse. A mother of three, a small business owner, and a woman who's navigated life's highs and lows—all while completing 28 Ironman races across the globe, but her biggest challenge is being diagnosed with stage 4 neuroendocrine cancer, yet, she refuses to let her diagnosis...
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Daniel Kraft, MD, on Predicting the Future of Technology and Healthcare - and Helping to Create It
Prescription medications are fairly controversial these days – cost, insurance coverage, efficacy, and too often, medications are dosed incorrectly, cause toxic side effects or just don't work. But what if we could change how we prescribe drugs, what if there was a 3D printer that could design...
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Jodi Wellman on How to Live More Fully and Intentionally
How many Mondays do you have left? Statistically, we all get about 4,000 Mondays in our lifetime, so if you're halfway through your life, you might have roughly 2,000 Mondays to go. The good news is that you are in charge of how you spend those days, the question is will you be toiling away at a...
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Drs. Randy Brazie and Geoffrey VanderPal on the New Science of Decision Making
I suspect that there are times you may feel overwhelmed by the sheer number and complexity of nonstop decisions you need to make. To further complicate matters, you may believe that some decisions require rational (brain) decision making, while others call for you to "go with your gut." But what…
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Scott Young on Mastering How to Get Better at Anything
Life depends on learning. We spend decades in school acquiring an education. We take pride in mastering a craft, or a sport, or a game. The things we do in our careers or even just for fun are enjoyed to a large extent because we feel we are capable of getting better at them. We yearn for…
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John Marks' Journey from Provocateur to Peacemaker
It seems that almost everywhere in the world, there is conflict, distrust, and unrest – Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, and even here in the US. Oftentimes, any kind of diplomacy, cooperation, agreement, detente or finding a common ground seems impossible. But what if there was a different way? What if…
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Ben Guttmann on the Power of Simplicity
We are not as smart as we think we are. We're busy and distracted in a world that is incentivized to continually make us more of both. The only things that work, the only messages that cut through the noise, are sharp, clear, and direct. We've all been advised to "not judge a book by its cover,"…
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Daniel Goleman, PhD, on Emotional Intelligence and Optimal Performance on
You have likely seen moments of peak performance—perhaps an athlete plays a perfect game or a business that has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. Perhaps you have experienced something similar – playing a musical piece perfectly, making a faultless shot, or perhaps acing a final. But…
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Topaz Adizes on How a Single Conversation Can Change a Relationship Forever
Have you ever found yourself in the presence of someone you love dearly and had nothing to say? The silence, not indicative of your care for the other, nor of your desire to connect with them, and yet there were no words you could grasp to articulate the depth or quality of your connection to…
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Rob Schwartz on Life's Greatest Lesson
Over 20 million copies of one of the most famous memoirs of all-time, "Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson" written by Mitch Albom, have been sold since its 1997 publication, and to this day it remains on many a college's required reading list. Twenty-eight...
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Alex Tapscott on the Promise of Digital Disruption
When you think of modern technologies that aren't gadgets and gizmos, you probably think of the Web, and with it, the Internet. If so, you aren't really thinking of modern technologies. We are entering a new age. We've moved from the "Read-only Web," which had little functionality for interacting...
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Mountaineer, Entrepreneur, Guinness World Record Holder, and Mom: Jenn Drummond on Becoming BreakProof
We all have an Everest. Even if you are not an alpinist or mountaineer, we are all on individual journeys, facing ascents and descents as we strive toward our personal and professional peaks. Whether yours is to achieve a big, audacious goal, or to find a way to coexist better with your...
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Octavia Goredema on Doing Work that Matters
How do you get the job, or position, or career, where the work that you do matters - and not just to your employer - but to you? Few experiences in life are as awful as the feeling of being trapped in the wrong career. But how do you find a job that truly resonates with you? And once you've found...
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Creativity and Innovation in Business and Design: Lance Cayko on (re)Inventing Architecture
At the intersection of architecture is art, creativity, design, engineering, sociology, psychology, and inspiration, not to mention survival, sustainability, and comfort. It's been said that architecture is the art we live in. We're all impacted by the communities in which we live, the spaces in...
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Eduardo Briceño on the Performance Paradox: When Practice Doesn't Make Perfect
To succeed in a fast-changing world, individuals and companies know they must create a culture of growth, where experimentation and feedback are encouraged, and learning is integrated into the everyday. Yet we often get stuck in a well-worn pattern of habits that don't move us forward. Why? How…
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The Aesthetic Technologist: Hussain Almossawi on Art, Design and Creativity
How do you become an innovator? What sparks creativity? What goes into creating something that becomes iconic? Instead of predicting the future, what if you could create it? Well, that is pretty much what Hussain Almossawi does. He easily walks between digital and physical worlds as he creates...
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Profitability with Social Responsibility: Deb Crowe on a New Approach to Leadership
Leaders come in a variety of types and approaches. There are the proverbial Chainsaw Al's - those tough-talking executives who are aggressive in their turning around troubled companies by laying off workers and closing factories. There are the Jack Welch types who at first seem like geniuses, but...
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Valerie Plame's Modern Odyssey (and Cautionary Tale) of Speaking Truth to Power
On July 6, 2003, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, Robert Novak revealed in his Washington Post column that Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative. It ended her covert career and…
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Tina Davidson on Composing a Life in Full (Measure)
"I collaborate with the music." Composer Tina Davidson explores in her memoir Let Your Heart Be Broken: Life and Music from a Classical Composer, described as "a lyrical reckoning with what it takes to compose a life of cohesion and beauty, out of shattered bits and broken stories." In Let Your...
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John Zolidis on Making Better Decisions and Recognizing Flawed Mental Models
Investment research created by large banks, mid-sized banks, and even smaller boutiques is frequently muddled by conflicts of interest, and its value diminished by over-distribution. Analysts often feel pressure to have positive ratings to support bankers or to generate corporate access. And the...
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Michael Bungay Stanier on How to Rescue Difficult Work Relationships and Do Your Best Work
Have you ever had the experience of working with someone and they just didn't "get" you? They do all the things that wind you up, put you off, and drive you nuts. And, have you ever worked with someone, and you just didn't "get" them? You couldn't figure out what made them tick, and you know that...
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An Existential Slap Across the Face: Dean Rickles, PhD, on the Essence of Life's Meaning
Death might seem to render pointless all of our attempts to create a meaningful life. But Professor Dean Rickles argues that only constraints―and death is the ultimate constraint―make our actions meaningful. In order for us to live full lives, Dean believes it is the finiteness and shortness of...
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Nick Gray, The Underdog Wunderkind and Superconnector
Is loneliness the new smoking? A number of studies and polls have recently come out that indicate Americans of all ages, socioeconomic, and geographic locations are more isolated and alone that in any other time in recent history. Some postulate this has been spurred by people isolating…
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The Ever Erudite Michael F. Schein on Secret Societies (and Why You Should Start One)
Freemasons, Skull and Bones, Rosicrucians, the Illuminati, 5 Hertford Street, the Bohemian Club, and more, are all so-called secret societies. Not so much because no one knows about them, but more so the question as to what do they do, who belongs to them, and how do you join? Is membership in…
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Doing the Right Thing: Ella F. Washington, PhD, on Taking The Necessary Journey
Quiet quitting has become quite topical in the media as of late. But perhaps the real story is quiet FIRING. That refers to an employer who doesn't give raises, or doesn't provide promotion opportunities. Or they slight team members and actually diminish or stall their employees' professional...
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Robin Landa on Strategic Creativity, Effective Ideation, and The New Art of Ideas
A great idea presents as a well-formulated thought or plan of action that spurs growth, change, advancement, adaptation, or new insight. Worthwhile ideas move the needle; they can change the playing field altogether. One of the most innovative thinkers in this area is Professor Robin Landa…
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Brad Stulberg on the Paradox of Achievement and Sustainable Success
In this episode, Brad Stulberg shares a healthier, more sustainable model for success. At the heart of this model is groundedness--a practice that values presence over rote productivity, accepts that progress is nonlinear, and prioritizes long-term values and fulfillment over short-term gain. To…
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Asymmetric Creativity and Leadership with CEO and Retired Navy SEAL, Marty Strong
What is the journey like to move from enlisting in the Navy at age 17, being recruited into the SEALs instead of going to law school, then serving as a SEAL Team member for twenty years, leading combat missions and helping to design and test new special operations capabilities while becoming a...
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The Complex Elegance and Constant Contradictions of Derek Sivers
Tim Ferriss says that Derek Sivers is one of his "all-time favorite humans... a philosopher-king, programmer, master teacher, and merry prankster." Derek is an international man of mystery, or maybe contradiction. He's known and loved by millions, done three super-popular TED talks, but he…
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Neil Littman on Bringing Science Fiction to Life and Medicine
Healthcare and medicine have long served as a hotbed of innovation. Perhaps the leading edge these days requires a paradigm shift – think digital therapeutics, Web3, the metaverse, CRISPR, Software as a Medical Device – this is the domain of Neil Littman, Founder & CEO of Bioverge, a highly…
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John Rossman on Innovation, Leadership and Making Better Decisions
I bet you are an Amazon Prime member, not because I'm clairvoyant, but because half of the US is. Half! Did you know that three-quarters of all product searches begin on Amazon, not Google, or a search engine? Or, did you know Amazon is valued at $1.6 trillion, and has become one of the fastest...
About this show
"Living a Life in Full" is the conversation you always wanted to have with that person who gave an amazing TED talk, or the author of one your favorite books, or that inspirational Olympian you always wanted to know more about. This show is for the intellectually curious. You want to not just know more about the interesting and the innovative, but also what makes them tick, and maybe even what makes them laugh. It's graduate-level conversations with those making a difference in the world and the lives of others. This show brings you new ideas and approaches so you can live a life in full. The show is equal parts information and inspiration, but without the aphorisms and pablum. We cover a wide range of topics in an engaging way—from Burning Man to The Renaissance Weekend, from the United Nations to top universities, Nobel Laureates to astronauts—we have an amazing Rolodex. Interviewees are a who's who of high performance athletes, bestselling authors, high-caliber leaders, worl
Hosted by
Dr Chris Stout; Best Selling Author | Adventurer | Angel Advisor | (Acciden