The Next Big Idea Daily

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  How to Get Rich in America 05.10.2026 20min

  When you picture the very rich, do you see a tech billionaire—or the owner of your local car dealership? In The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There, economists Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick explore the surprisingly ordinary businesses behind extraordinary American fortunes. Then, in As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West, historian Guido Alfani takes the longer view: how have wealthy people justified their place in society, and what happens when their communities need help? From Main Street to the Medicis, we’re asking how fortunes are built—and what wealth buys beyond a bigger house.⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠notion.com/daily⁠ Skylight — Families are better when they're working together. Go to ⁠myskylight.com/daily ⁠for $30 off your 15 inch Calendar Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at ⁠shopify.com/daily⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠quince.com/nbid⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns
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  How to Say the Right Thing 02.10.2026 32min

  The right words can open doors—but the best negotiators know that language works only when it creates genuine connection. In Magic Words: What to Say to Get Your Way, Wharton professor Jonah Berger explains how subtle shifts in language can make us more persuasive, creative, and confident.⁠⁠ Then Mori Taheripour, author of Bring Yourself: How to Harness the Power of Connection to Negotiate Fearlessly, argues that successful negotiation begins with self-knowledge, empathy, and presence.⁠⁠ Together, they reveal how to communicate more effectively without pretending to be someone you’re not. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠notion.com/daily⁠ Skylight — Families are better when they're working together. Go to ⁠myskylight.com/daily ⁠for $30 off your 15 inch Calendar Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at ⁠shopify.com/daily⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠quince.com/nbid⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns
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  The Art of Passionate Living 01.10.2026 29min

  What would happen if you stopped rushing, paid closer attention, and let yourself take up a little more space? In Alex Durand and Tom Carles’s Pardon Our French: The Parisian Way to a Happier Life, the French art of living offers lessons in curiosity, unhurried pleasure, and quality over quantity.⁠⁠ Then Jack Parlett’s Flamboyance: The Power of Living Boldly reclaims flamboyance as a force of imagination, passion, resistance, and freedom.⁠⁠ Together, these books make the case for a life that’s both more attentive and more expressive—one where happiness isn’t postponed until the next achievement, and burning brightly isn’t something you need to apologize for. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠notion.com/daily⁠ Skylight — Families are better when they're working together. Go to ⁠myskylight.com/daily ⁠for $30 off your 15 inch Calendar Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at ⁠shopify.com/daily⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠quince.com/nbid⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns
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  How to Be Reasonable in an Age of Contempt 30.09.2026 25min

  What does it take to stay reasonable when politics rewards contempt? Utah Governor Spencer Cox, author of Off Ramp: How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt, argues that disagreement isn’t the real threat—treating opponents as enemies is. Then, Stanford philosopher Krista Lawlor, author of Being Reasonable: The Case for a Misunderstood Virtue, asks us to rethink reasonableness itself: not as cold logic, but as the ability to see what matters and respond accordingly. Together, they offer a practical and philosophical guide to navigating conflict without surrendering conviction—and suggest that the way out of polarization begins with curiosity, proportion, and choosing relationships over the thrill of being right.⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠notion.com/daily⁠ Skylight — Families are better when they're working together. Go to ⁠myskylight.com/daily ⁠for $30 off your 15 inch Calendar Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at ⁠shopify.com/daily⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠quince.com/nbid⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns
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  What Freud Got Right About the Mind 29.09.2026 30min

  Sigmund Freud’s reputation has taken a beating, but neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Mark Solms argues that some of his biggest ideas were decades ahead of their time. In The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing, Solms revisits the unconscious, memory, emotional needs, and why talking may do more than quiet symptoms. Then psychiatrist Paul Conti shifts the focus from what’s broken to what’s already working. In What’s Going Right: A Powerful New Method for Optimizing Your Mental Health, he explains how recognizing your strengths, balancing your deepest drives, and becoming a better friend to yourself can help you build a healthier mind. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠notion.com/daily⁠ Skylight — Families are better when they're working together. Go to ⁠myskylight.com/daily ****⁠for $30 off your 15 inch Calendar Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at ⁠shopify.com/daily⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠quince.com/nbid⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns
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  Why We Cheat: The Science of Infidelity 28.09.2026 26min

  Why do we commit—and why do some of us break that commitment? Psychologist Glenn Hutchinson explores the unconscious impulses, clashing brain systems, and limits of self-control behind infidelity in Unfaithful Minds: The Science and Psychology of Infidelity. Then historian Stephanie Coontz challenges our nostalgia for “traditional” relationships in For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage, revealing how marriage has continually evolved—and why today’s more equal partnerships can be both more fulfilling and more demanding. Together, they offer a bracing look at love, loyalty, and the complicated psychology of staying together.⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠notion.com/daily⁠ Skylight — Families are better when they're working together. Go to ⁠myskylight.com/daily for $30 off your 15 inch Calendar Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at ⁠shopify.com/daily⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠quince.com/nbid⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns
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  How Great Leaders Help People Thrive at Work 25.09.2026 24min

  Work can be a source of energy—or the thing that drains it. In Leading for Wellness: How to Create a Team Culture Where Everyone Thrives, industrial/organizational psychologists Dr. Patricia Grabarek and Dr. Katina Sawyer argue that healthy workplaces are built through everyday leadership, not just perks and wellness programs. Then, in Wellbeing at Work: How to Build Resilient and Thriving Teams, Gallup’s Jim Clifton and Jim Harter explore how managers can help people thrive across career, social, financial, physical, and community wellbeing. Together, these books ask a deceptively simple question: What would change if leaders treated employee wellbeing as central to performance—not separate from it? 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at notion.com/daily Skylight — Families are better when they're working together. Go to myskylight.com/daily for $30 off your 15 inch Calendar.  Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com/daily Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.
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  How Much Time Tax Are You Paying? 24.09.2026 31min

  Paperwork is never just paperwork when you’re already stretched thin. In The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time―and How to Fix It, Annie Lowrey shows how administrative burdens consume time, deepen inequality, and make everyday government feel like an obstacle course. In Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America, Jeff Hobbs follows a working mother and her children navigating homelessness in Los Angeles, revealing what survival looks like when every minute—and every safe place—matters. Together, these books ask who gets protected by our systems, who gets pushed to the margins, and how much invisible labor we expect families to absorb. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you used code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com/daily FODZYME — Finally, you can enjoy your favorite foods without the pain. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠icaneatagain.com/daily ⁠for 30% off your first order. Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.
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  Why Starting a Family Feels Impossible to Many 23.09.2026 27min

  Why does starting a family feel out of reach—and sustaining one feel so exhausting? In Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty, journalist Anna Louie Sussman traces falling birth rates to the housing, childcare, healthcare, and economic pressures that make parenthood feel increasingly precarious. Then, in Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women’s Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours, Wharton economist Corinne Low uses hard data to show how unequal demands at home and work squeeze women’s time, energy, and happiness. Together, the books reveal the hidden systems making family life harder—and what it might take to build something better. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com/daily FODZYME — Finally, you can enjoy your favorite foods without the pain. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠icaneatagain.com/daily ⁠for 30% off your first order. Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.
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  The Art of Getting Unstuck 22.09.2026 25min

  Why do some problems yield to effort while others only tighten into knots? In The Knot: Problems Can Be Solved, Seth Godin reveals the invisible assumptions, borrowed scorecards, and sunk costs that keep us stuck. Meanwhile, Amy E. Herman’s Fixed: How to Perfect the Fine Art of Problem Solving turns the artist’s process into a practical toolkit: embrace the unfamiliar, ask why, look carefully, and know when to stop tinkering. Together, these books suggest that solving a stubborn problem isn’t always about pushing harder. Sometimes it starts with seeing more clearly—and deciding which baggage you can finally put down. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you used code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com/daily FODZYME — Finally, you can enjoy your favorite foods without the pain. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠icaneatagain.com/daily ⁠for 30% off your first order. Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.
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  How to Get Paid Forever 19.09.2026 32min

  Retirement security isn’t just about making your money last. It’s also about planning for care, autonomy, and meaning as life changes. In The Forever Paycheck: The New Retirement Strategy to Spend More, Worry Less, and Never Run Out of Money, HerMoney founder and longtime Today show financial editor Jean Chatzky explains how turning part of a nest egg into dependable income can ease financial fear and make spending easier. MacArthur Fellow and elder-justice expert M.T. Connolly broadens the lens in The Measure of Our Age: Navigating Care, Safety, Money, and Meaning Later in Life, examining broken care systems, financial vulnerability, family caregiving, and the tension between safety and independence. Together, the books ask how we can prepare not merely to live longer, but to live those extra years with confidence, protection, choice, and purpose. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you used code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com/daily FODZYME — Finally, you can enjoy your favorite foods without the pain. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠icaneatagain.com/daily ⁠for 30% off your first order. Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.
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  What Peak Performance Really Demands 18.09.2026 30min

  Greatness doesn’t come with a tidy checklist. In Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness, performance coach Tim Grover—whose clients included Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwyane Wade—explores the fear, focus, and “good selfishness” required to stay at the top. Then Steven Kotler offers a complementary playbook in The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer, showing how motivation, learning, creativity, and flow can turn seemingly unreachable goals into repeatable progress. Together, they reveal that peak performance is less about following a formula than training yourself to meet the next challenge. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you used code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com/daily FODZYME — Finally, you can enjoy your favorite foods without the pain. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠icaneatagain.com/daily ⁠for 30% off your first order. Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.
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  You’re Not Too Sensitive—You’re Paying Attention 17.09.2026 29min

  What if being “too sensitive” doesn’t mean you’re weak—but that your nervous system is picking up information other people miss? Psychiatrist Sasha Hamdani draws on Too Sensitive: Rejection, Resilience, and the Science of Feeling Deeply to explain why criticism, conflict, and subtle social shifts can hit some people especially hard—and how regulation can transform sensitivity into emotional intelligence. Then physicist and science writer Leonard Mlodinow shares ideas from Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking, revealing why emotions aren’t the enemy of rational thought. They help us set priorities, make decisions, and find the motivation to act. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com/daily FODZYME — Finally, you can enjoy your favorite foods without the pain. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠icaneatagain.com/daily ⁠for 30% off your first order. Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.
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  Before You Lead Others, Learn to Lead Yourself 16.09.2026 25min

  Great leadership isn’t just about having the right strategy—it begins with understanding the person making the decisions. In Manage Yourself to Lead Others, Margaret Andrews argues that self-awareness is the foundation for leading with clarity, confidence, and empathy. Then, The Journey of Leadership, by Dana Maor, Hans-Werner Kaas, Kurt Strovink, and Ramesh Srinivasan, draws on McKinsey’s work with hundreds of CEOs to explore the inner transformations that make leadership sustainable. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com/daily FODZYME — Finally, you can enjoy your favorite foods without the pain. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠icaneatagain.com/daily ⁠for 30% off your first order. Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.
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  A Better Kind of Financial Freedom 15.09.2026 28min

  What if freedom didn’t have to wait until retirement? In Time Freedom: Rethink Your Work and Money to Create a Life You Love Now, author, speaker, and financial advisor Brian Herriot argues that the goal isn’t necessarily to stop working forever—it’s to build a life where work, money, and time actually fit together. Later, entrepreneur and SaaS Academy founder Dan Martell shares ideas from Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire, including how to hand off low-value tasks and protect the work that matters most. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com/daily FODZYME — Finally, you can enjoy your favorite foods without the pain. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠icaneatagain.com/daily ⁠for 30% off your first order. Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.
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  Do Leaders Even Matter? 14.09.2026 27min

  We love to credit the person at the top when things go right—and blame them when they don’t. But how much power does one leader really have? In Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Matter?, Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond draws on politics, business, religion, and sports to show why timing and decision-making power can matter more than charisma. Then leadership professor Amanda Goodall makes the case for leaders who truly know the work. In Credible: The Power of Expert Leaders, she explains why hospitals, companies, universities, and teams often perform better—and keep people happier—when experts are in charge. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you used code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com/daily FODZYME — Finally, you can enjoy your favorite foods without the pain. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠icaneatagain.com/daily ⁠for 30% off your first order. Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.
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  Authenticity, Skepticism, and a Better Way to Live 11.09.2026 25min

  What if being true to yourself isn’t about discovering a hidden “real you,” but actively creating the person you’ll become? In How to Be Authentic, philosopher Skye Cleary draws on Simone de Beauvoir to explore freedom, responsibility, and why authenticity is an ongoing adventure—not a fixed identity.⁠⁠ Then, in The Great Guide, Julian Baggini turns to David Hume for a healthy dose of skepticism about grand theories, pure reason, and the pursuit of perfect serenity.⁠⁠ Together, these books offer a practical philosophical compass: choose your life boldly, but hold your biggest ideas lightly.🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you used code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠Sponsored By:Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com/dailyFODZYME — Finally, you can enjoy your favorite foods without the pain. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠icaneatagain.com/daily ⁠for 30% off your first order.Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.
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  Confidence Is a Team Sport 10.09.2026 25min

  Why do some teams rise under pressure while others struggle despite having plenty of talent? Organizational psychologist André Martin argues that success starts with two kinds of alignment: believing in the group and understanding how you work best. In Collective Confidence: The Winning Formula of the World’s Best Teams, he reveals how shared belief helps teams adapt, recover, and perform. Then, in Wrong Fit, Right Fit: Why How We Work Matters More Than Ever, he explains why a prestigious job can still leave you drained—and how to recognize the culture where you’ll actually thrive. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you used code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com/daily FODZYME — Finally, you can enjoy your favorite foods without the pain. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠icaneatagain.com/daily ⁠for 30% off your first order. Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.
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  How to Read the Room, and Why You Should 09.09.2026 29min

  The higher the stakes, the harder it becomes to read the room. Stress narrows our attention, confidence disguises bad assumptions, and familiar body-language “tells” often tell us very little. Pamela Meyer, a Certified Fraud Examiner and expert in deception detection, joins us with ideas from How to Read the Room: The Art and Science of Social Observation. She explains why perceptive people prepare before important interactions, how to interpret behavior using baselines and context, and what human judgment can still see that AI misses. Then Vanessa Van Edwards shares insights from Cues: Master the Secret Language of Charismatic Communication, revealing how subtle signals—from vocal inflection to posture—shape whether others see us as warm, trustworthy, and capable. Together, these books offer a practical guide to understanding what people are communicating—and becoming more intentional about the signals you send. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you used code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com/daily FODZYME — Finally, you can enjoy your favorite foods without the pain. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠icaneatagain.com/daily ⁠for 30% off your first order. Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.
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  Being Smart Isn’t Enough: 5 Science-Backed Habits of Better Leaders 08.09.2026 26min

  AI may be everywhere, but good leadership still depends on deeply human skills: sound judgment, adaptability, and the ability to stay steady under pressure. In Leadership Intelligence: Science-Backed Strategies for Mastering 21 Everyday Management Challenges, executive coach and economist Caroline Webb turns behavioral science into practical tools for managers. Then McKinsey veteran Jacqueline Brassey draws on Deliberate Calm: How to Learn and Lead in a Volatile World to explain how leaders can remain aware, flexible, and grounded when uncertainty pushes them toward old habits. Together, they offer a smarter way to lead through whatever comes next. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you used code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Shopify — Nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com/daily FODZYME — Finally, you can enjoy your favorite foods without the pain. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠icaneatagain.com/daily ⁠for 30% off your first order. Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.