Nina Barber, is an executive and CEO coach & matchmaker. In 2 years, she is billing $2,500 – $10,000/month per client for her coaching services. She is also the founder of Prismaticco, a matchmaking service for startup executives to find coaches. Nina has also cofounded a social enterprise, Nika water that brings clean water to more than 40,000 people every day. In this conversation, we spoke about:

  • Why Nina spends $50,000 a year on self-development
  • The emotional journey of founding, operation to closing a $3 million dollar start-up
  • How did Nina built her coaching practice in record speed

Listen to the podcast on Apple PodcastsSpotifyOvercast, or your favorite podcast platform. You can watch the interview on YouTube here.

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Connect with Nina Barber: 
Website | Linkedin 

Dr Stephen Snyder is a sex and couple therapist for over 30 years. His goal, to help you have great sex. 

He is also the author of Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship.

Stephen is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine.

In this conversation, we spoke about:

  • Why you should be sexually selfish
  • How the idea of “desire” can mess up your sex life
  • Why our thinking brain is stopping us from having “great sex” and how to “turn it off”

If you’ve only got 2 minutes, here’s a short video.

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Connect with Dr Stephen Snyder:
Website 

Love Worth Making By Dr Stephen Snyder
Flibanserin (female Vigra) 

Derek Sivers, is a kind of a reluctant entrepreneur, circus-clown musician turned author.

In 1998, Derek created CD Baby by helping his friends sell their CDs. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100 million in sales for 150,000 musicians.

In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22 million, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. He went to speak at the TED Conference, for 3 times in 2010 (which is unheard of), with more than 18 million views of his talks. Since 2011, he has published 34 books, including “Anything You Want,” which I love so much. 

In this conversation, we spoke about:

  • What Derek loves about Singapore 
  • Things he learnt about sex 
  • How and when to use “feeling” when making decisons
This is one of my favourite interview, enjoy!
 

If you’ve only got 2 minutes, here’s a short video.

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Ali Abdaal, is a YouTuber and junior doctor in the UK. His YouTube channel has more than 30 millions view and 500K subscribers. 

He is also the founder of 6med, the largest medical exam preparation crash course in the world. 

Ali holds a doctorate from Cambridge University.

In this conversation, we spoke about:

  • Ali’s battle tested learning techniques
  • How to choose your doctors 
  • How to grow a YouTube while having a 50 hours/workweek doctor gig
  • and much more!

If you’ve only got 2 minutes, here’s a short video 

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Connect with Ali Abdaal:
Website | YouTubeInstagram | Twitter | Facebook

Penn & Teller: Fool Us
Michael Vincent
Wayne Houchin
Guy Hollingworth
Gregory Wilson
Garrett Thomas
Ambitious Card Routine
Life is a Video Game by Mark Manson
Grand Theft Life, with Tim Urban 
Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us About Life by Jonathan Kay & Joan Moriarity 
NHS, UK
Medline, US
Medscape
NICE (National Institute of Medical Excellence) 
Uptodate.com
BMJ (Best practice)
BSSH (British Society for Surgery of the Hand)
BAAPS (British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeon)
Babylon Health App
BNF (British National Formulary)
Drugs.com
On Caring by Nate Soares
The Giving What We Can Pledge
Will MacAskill
Frame.io
The Great CEO Within by Matt Mochary
The Game by Neil Strauss
The Mystery Method by Mystery
Models: Attract Women Through Honesty by Mark Manson
The Art of Seduction by Robert Green
Red Pill (Reddit)

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Michelle Florendo, is a coach for Type-A professionals and executives. She has served on the inaugural coaching team for Seth Godin’s altMBA, guest-taught on Stanford’s famous Design Your Life course, and is a founding member of the Forbes Coaches Council. Michelle is also a mother of 2, admits these achievements.

Her coaching philosophy is a blend of decision engineering, design thinking, and lean startup principles.

Michelle holds a bachelor from Stanford University, and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

In this conversation, we spoke about:

  • Michelle’s evolution as a coach
  • What is travel roulette?
  • Hard truth about being a coach
  • and much more!

If you’ve only got 2 minutes, here’s a short video 

Links Mentioned

Connect with Michelle Florendo:
Website | Linkedin 

Question to consider before to be a coach (Google doc)
Ask A Decision Engineer Podcast
Del Monte Food
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
Designing Your Life by
by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans 
AltMBA
Umami
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Franklin
Akimbo Workshop
Forward Link

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