This episode marks the end of Season 1 of Famous Failures.
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Orthogon Partners Investment Management Luci McKean Cathy Cheng Tony Martignetti Bill Brent Ramesh Kumar Fred Slete James D. Kirk Timothy Chips Wendy Horng Brawer Tim Oslovich Doug Claffey Christina Guthier Julian Olin Hans Schulte Amy Luo Renu Sharma Ben Creo Laolu Awogbade Jeff McGrathNadya Okamoto on the Value of Being Unapologetically You
Christine Carter on the Science of Happiness and Escaping the "Busy" Trap
Tiago Forte on Building a Second Brain
How SpaceX Bounced Back from the Brink of Disaster
Ryan Levesque on Giving Up "Good" for "Great"
Khe Hy on Taming Self-Doubt and Overcoming the Scarcity Mindset
Tali Sharot on Our Power to Change Others
Susan Cain on Overcoming Failure and Unleashing the Power of Introverts
Rob Walker on the Art of Noticing
Julian Guthrie on Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things
Sahil Lavingia on Failing to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
Julie Zhuo on Becoming a Facebook Manager at 25, Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome, and Staying in the Discomfort Zone
Amy Edmondson on Psychological Safety and How Companies Can Learn from Failure
Rachel Simmons on Helping Girls and Women Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success
Maren Kate Donovan on Zirtual's Meteoric Rise to Overnight Failure
Jennifer Dulski on Being Too Stubborn to Fail and Becoming Head of Facebook Groups
Selina Tobaccowala on Creating a Company Culture Where People are Willing to Fail
Dina Kaplan on Finding Her Path and Overcoming Failure Through Meditation
Matilda Ho on Revolutionizing the Chinese Food Industry and Learning from Failure
Erica Ariel Fox on Winning From Within
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