Welcome to episode #709 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #709 - Host: Mitch Joel. Ryan Hawk is a keynote speaker, author, advisor, and the host of The Learning Leader Show, a podcast (like this one), where he goes deep with some of the world's biggest brains on how to optimize business and thinking. A lifelong student of leadership, he rose to roles as a professional quarterback and then went on to a VP of Sales. Currently, as head of Brixey & Meyer’s leadership advisory practice, Ryan speaks regularly for many large organizations, works with teams and players in the NFL, NBA, and NCAA, and facilitates Leadership Circles that offers structured guidance and collaborative feedback to new and experienced leaders. Most recently, he published the book, Welcome To Management - How To Grow From Top Performer To Excellent Leader. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 57:48. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Ryan Hawk. Welcome To Management. The Learning Leader Show. Follow Ryan on Instagram. Follow Ryan on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #708 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #708 - Host: Mitch Joel. The bestselling author, David Meerman Scott, wants businesses to focus more on developing fans than customers. He would know. He is a fan of live music, collecting artifacts from space, and so much more. He also happens to be a marketing strategist who has written eight books (all of which have done exceedingly well). He may be best known for The New Rules of Marketing & PR, but his body of work also includes, The New Rules of Sales and Service, Real Time Marketing and PR, Marketing The Moon, Marketing Lessons From The Grateful Dead, Eyeball Wars and World Wide Rave. Most recently, he published the book, Fanocracy - Turning fans into customers and customers into fans. For this book he worked with a co-author (who also happens to be his daughter), Reiko Scott. Let’s dive into how brands can think differently about their customers, and debate whether or not all businesses are worthy of having fans. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 59:06. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with David Meerman Scott. Reiko Scott. Fanocracy. The New Rules of Marketing & PR. The New Rules of Sales and Service. Real Time Marketing and PR. Marketing The Moon. Marketing Lessons From The Grateful Dead. Eyeball Wars. World Wide Rave. Follow David on Instagram. Follow David on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #707 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #707 - Host: Mitch Joel. Rishad Tobaccowala is a Senior Adviser to the Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s largest marketing, communications and advertising network with 80,000 employees. Most recently, Rishad served as its Chief Growth Officer and Chief Strategist, where he helped acquire and grow the business through brands like Sapient, Epsilon, Leo Burnett and so many others. Rishad’s key skill is getting people to see, think and feel differently about how to grow themselves, their teams and their company. He does this through distilling forty years of global learning and wisdom and communicating in a way that is provocative, pragmatic and inspirational. Most recently, Rishad (finally) published his first book, Restoring the Soul of Business - Staying Human in the Age of Data. If you have not followed his writing on his blog, Re-Inventing, you do not know what you're missing. If you are trying to better understand brands, advertising, technology, and what trends will affect your business today (and tomorrow)? I consider Rishad one of the oracles. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 59:25. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Rishad Tobaccowala. Restoring the Soul of Business - Staying Human in the Age of Data. Re-Inventing. Publicis Groupe. Follow Rishad on Instagram. Follow Rishad on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #706 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #706 - Host: Mitch Joel. He is one of my best friends, which always makes the "formal" conversation a little challenging. Scott Stratten and I (along with Ron Tite) have been texting, supporting and being there for one another on daily basis for years. With that, it doesn't change the fact that Scott is one impressive, caring and giving human being. Some have called him one of the ultimate sales and marketing truth slayer. Scott is a famed (in fact, hall of fame) professional speaker and co-author (with his wife, Alison Stratten). Scott helps organizations see their business through a new lens with his unconventional “unmarketing” views and vanguard approach to building and maintaining real customer relationships. They have authored six bestselling books. Most recently, they published, The Jackass Whisperer - How to deal with the worst people at work, at home and online ― even when the Jackass is you. Spoiler Alert: We are all jackasses. This is a conversation about online habits, mean people and how we can all stop, think and try to be a little less jackassy. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 54:54. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Scott Stratten. The Jackass Whisperer - How to deal with the worst people at work, at home and online ― even when the Jackass is you. Scott and Alison’s books. Follow Scott on Instagram. Follow Scott on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #705 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #705 - Host: Mitch Joel. If you want to better understand how your business might be impacted by trends that are happening today (and growing bigger and bigger), you should pay attention to the work of Rohit Bhargava. Rohit is on a mission to help the world be more open-minded by teaching others how to be non-obvious thinkers. He is the founder of the Non-Obvious Company and an entertaining, original and “non-boring” keynote speaker on innovation and trust. He previously spent 15 years in leadership roles at two renowned ad agencies: Leo Burnett and Ogilvy. Rohit is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of many bestselling books (including Personality Not Included, Likeonomics, Always Eat Left Handed and many more). Rohit is a popular Adjunct Professor of storytelling at Georgetown University and also writes a monthly column for GQ magazine in Brazil. His Non-Obvious book series is an annual look at the trends that are our shaping the world today (and tomorrow). He just published his tenth (and last) edition of the series, Non Obvious Megatrends. His work isn’t just about the trends, but how anyone can be better at spotting and curating them. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 56:50. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Rohit Bhargava. Non Obvious Megatrends. Personality Not Included. Likeonomics. Always Eat Left Handed. Non-Obvious Company. Sign up for Rohit’s amazing newsletter. Follow Rohit on Twitter. Follow Rohit on Instagram. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #704 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #704 - Host: Mitch Joel. When it comes to small businesses thinking big, I always think of John Jantsch. John is a marketing consultant, speaker and best selling author of Duct Tape Marketing, Duct Tape Selling, The Commitment Engine, The Referral Engine, and SEO for Growth. He is the creator of the Duct Tape Marketing System and Duct Tape Marketing Consulting Network that trains and licenses small business marketing consultants around the world.​ Most recently, my old friend published a really interesting book called, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur - 366 Daily Meditations to Feed Your Soul and Grow Your Business. The book is organized as a daily devotional with 366 entries, one for each day of the year, including Leap Year. Each day starts with a reading from a transcendentalist era author, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Willa Cather, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry David Thoreau, followed by a reflection and application by the author for today’s entrepreneur. It’s a real pleasure of a book to dig into, and the perfect book to launch this new year of the Six Pixels of Separation Podcast. Welcome to 2020. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 57:22. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with John Jantsch. The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur - 366 Daily Meditations to Feed Your Soul and Grow Your Business. Duct Tape Marketing. Duct Tape Selling. The Commitment Engine. The Referral Engine. SEO for Growth. Duct Tape Marketing System. Duct Tape Marketing Consulting Network. Follow John on Instagram. Follow John on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #703 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #703 - Host: Mitch Joel. He's an old friend and someone who has experienced a tremendous amount of success in the technology and startup world. While many know his name... most do not. Let's change that. Brett Hurt is the CEO and co-founder of data.world (of which I am an advisor), a Public Benefit Corporation focused on building the modern catalog for data and analysis as well as the world's largest collaborative public data catalog. data.world helps you tap into more of your company’s collective brainpower—everyone from data scientists to nontechnical experts—so you can achieve anything with data, faster. Brett is also the co-owner of Hurt Family Investments (HFI), alongside his wife, Debra. HFI are involved in 72 startups and counting, mostly based in Austin. HFI are also invested in 21 VC funds and multiple philanthropic endeavors. Brett founded and led Bazaarvoice as CEO from 2005-2012, through its IPO (it hit over one billion dollars), follow-on offering, and two acquisitions (PowerReviews and Longboard Media). Prior to Bazaarvoice, Brett founded and led Coremetrics, which was rated the #1 Web analytics solution by Forrester Research and, like Bazaarvoice, expanded into a global company and category leader. Coremetrics was acquired by IBM in 2010 for around $300m. A three time winner in the startup and entrepreneurship world, Brett is also the author of the freely available, The Entrepreneur's Essentials. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 1:05:14. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Brett Hurt. The Entrepreneur's Essentials. data.world. Hurt Family Investments. Follow Brett on Instagram. Follow Brett of Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #702 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #702 - Host: Mitch Joel. Here's a question that I often think about: Can you learn something really well in a short amount of time? I am not alone. Scott H. Young has also been thinking about what is the best way to learn. Scott believes that learning is the key to living well. This pursuit led him to take on two year-long experiments in learning: The MIT Challenge, where he learned MIT’s 4-year computer science curriculum without taking classes, and The Year Without English, where he went with a friend to learn four languages in one year. Mission accomplished. He did it. He started writing his blog before his 18th birthday, because he was interested in behavior change, which led to how we learn, which led to self-mastery and career development. His first book is called, Ultralearning - Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career. There's something here. From the book: "In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner." Happy Holidays! Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 54:35. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Scott H. Young. Ultralearning - Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career. The MIT Challenge. The Year Without English. Follow Scott on Instagram. Follow Scott on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #701 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #701 - Host: Mitch Joel. What brands should you pay attention to in the coming year? Denise Lee Yohn is the go-to person when it comes to thinking about branding. Recently, she published her list of Brands To Watch In 2020. In her Forbes article, Denise names one brand per letter of the alphabet. The list includes Amazon and Facebook (of course), as well as non-tech sector newsmakers like Nike and LVMH. Within the article are some unconventional takes on brands in the areas of privacy, mobility, and even masculinity. Denise's last business book, Fusion – How integrating brand and culture powers the world’s greatest companies, came out in 2018, and it followed her work on what it takes to not only stand out, but constantly deliver a great brand experience for customers. When it comes to brands doing things right – constantly and consistently – I always think of the work that Denise Lee Yohn is doing. From her first book, What Great Brands Do – The Seven Brand-Building Principles That Separate The Best From The Rest, to the article she authored for the Harvard Business Review titled, Start-Ups Need a Minimum Viable Brand, then came Extraordinary Experiences, that profiled seven popular, powerful retail and restaurant brands. Denise is a brand thinking juggernaut. Brands have changed dramatically... and will continue to evolve. Enjoy the conversation… Running time: 58:26. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Denise Lee Yohn. Brands To Watch In 2020. Fusion – How integrating brand and culture powers the world’s greatest companies. What Great Brands Do – The Seven Brand-Building Principles That Separate The Best From The Rest. Extraordinary Experiences. Start-Ups Need a Minimum Viable Brand. Follow Denise on Instagram. Follow Denise on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #700 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #700 - Host: Mitch Joel. I’m not one to mark milestones. It’s just not who I am (and it’s not what I’m about). Birthdays, anniversaries, etc… I don’t like attention or making a big deal out of things. That was my attitude going into this week’s episode. Still, 700 podcasts is a big deal. Beyond Leo Laporte and TWiT, I am not sure if there is a longer running and consistently published podcast in the world of business. Maybe I am wrong? I don’t know. Still, every Sunday since May 22nd, 2006, I have published a podcast here. It was actually a no-brainer when I thought of who (and what) I would like to discuss for this week’s 700th episode. I wanted to discuss podcasting, and I wanted to discuss it with the one and only Seth Godin. I’ve known Seth for a long time. He’s been a guest on this show more than ten times over the years. If you want to know how much I love Seth, please read this article from April 2012: Dear Seth Godin. For more than thirty years, Seth has been showing up, doing the work and has been shipping ideas. Drip. Drip. Drip. He's been blogging daily for over a decade (free Seth Godin thinking? Yes please!) and he is the author of close to twenty bestselling (and must read) books like Purple Cow, Linchpin, The Dip, and his most recent, This Is Marketing. It's hard to not list out every book that he has written, because I love, share and gift all of them (he's just that good). In 2015, he created the altMBA, a life-changing 30 day workshop that is changing the face of education. More than 60,000 people have taken his online courses, including The Marketing Seminar and several others on Udemy. Along with doing five TED talks, Seth has a top-rated podcast, Akimbo, and has built The Podcasting Fellowship to help others start a show of their own (he’s got some other great workshops as well). Enjoy the conversation...   Running time: 55:39. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Seth Godin. Akimbo. The Podcasting Fellowship. altMBA. This Is Marketing. The Marketing Seminar. Purple Cow. Linchpin. The Dip. Sign up to get Seth’s blog. Follow Seth on Instagram. Follow Seth on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #699 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #699 - Host: Mitch Joel. These are the hard conversations to have (from a professional standpoint). Ron Tite and I are very close friends. It’s rare that a day goes by without some point of connectivity (a train of texts, a call, etc…). I’ve admired his work, his thinking, his humor and his ideas from the day that we first met. Ron has been an award-winning advertising writer and creative director for some of the world’s most respected brands. He is Founder and CEO of Church+State (originally The Tite Group), a  content marketing agency and publisher of, This is That Travel Guide to Canada – a best-selling, award-winning satirical book from the creators of CBC Radio’s hit show, This Is That. His past work includes being Executive Producer & Host of the award-winning comedy show, Monkey Toast, in addition to writing for a number of television series, penning a children’s book, and writing, performing, and producing the play The Canadian Baby Bonus. In demand as a speaker on innovation, branding and content marketing, Ron continues to speak to leading organizations all over the world about “The Expression Economy” – his take on modern business. His first book, Everyone’s An Artist (Or At Least They Should Be), was published in 2016. His latest (and greatest) book is Think Do Say, looks at how consumers now vote with their wallet and their time. He even has a podcast of his own, and it’s call, The Coup. Always filled with interesting perspectives, this is a show that you do not want to miss. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 54:54. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Ron Tite. Think Do Say. Everyone’s An Artist (Or At Least They Should Be). Church+State. The Coup. Follow Ron on Instagram. Follow Ron on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #698 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #698 - Host: Mitch Joel. If you asked me who is one of the smartest people in the world on the topic of disruption, innovation and technology, it would be Charlene Li. For the past two decades, Charlene has been helping people see the future. She’s the bestselling author of six books, including her newest, The Disruption Mindset - Why Some Businesses Transform While Others Fail. With that, many first heard of her when she co-authored the massive book, Groundswell and followed it up with Open Leadership. Charlene founded Altimeter Group, a disruptive industry analyst firm that was acquired by Prophet in 2015. She continues working at Prophet as a Senior Fellow. She was also a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, worked in online newspaper publishing, and was a consultant with Monitor Group. Let's discuss disruption. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 57:29. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Charlene Li. The Disruption Mindset - Why Some Businesses Transform While Others Fail. Groundswell. Open Leadership. Altimeter Group. Follow Charlene on Instagram. Follow Charlene on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #697 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #697 - Host: Mitch Joel. I'm a very lucky human being. I get to call Neil Pasricha my friend. Neil is the author of six books. Let's start with, The Book of Awesome, a spinning rolodex of simple pleasures based on his 100-million-hit, award-winning blog, 1000 Awesome Things. Then there’s, The Happiness Equation, originally written as a 300-page love letter to his unborn son on how to live a happy life. After that was, Awesome Is Everywhere, an interactive introduction to guided meditation for children. He then published, How To Get Back Up, a memoir of failure and resilience released as an Audible Original. He is a publishing juggernaut. His books are New York Times and #1 international bestsellers, and have sold millions of copies across dozens of languages. He also speak to groups (a lot). His first TED talk, The 3 A’s of Awesome, is ranked as one of the 10 Most Inspiring of all time, and his second is called, How do you maximize your tiny, short life?, an artistic side-project called the world’s first TED Listen, composed entirely of questions. His podcast is a personal favorite as well. It's called 3 Books, and it's a 15-year-long mission to uncover and discuss the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each of the 333 chapters unpacks the 3 most formative books of an inspiring individual like Judy Blume, Chris Anderson of TED, the world’s greatest Uber driver, or David Sedaris. His latest book is titled, You Are Awesome - How to navigate change, wrestle with failure and live an intentional life. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 1:02:36. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Neil Pasricha. You Are Awesome - How to navigate change, wrestle with failure and live an intentional life. The Book of Awesome. 1000 Awesome Things. The Happiness Equation. Awesome Is Everywhere. How To Get Back Up. 3 Books. Follow Neil on Instagram. Follow Neil on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #696 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #696 - Host: Mitch Joel. Nancy Duarte is a communication expert. Hard stop. That's not hyperbole. She is an expert... maybe even THE expert in how to tell great stories and present them in a compelling way. Her firm, Duarte, is the global leader behind some of the most influential visual messages in business and culture. As a persuasion expert, she cracked the code for effectively incorporating story patterns into business communications. She’s written five best-selling books (including the must-have Slide:ology, Resonate and Illuminate), four of which have won major book awards. Her company is one of the top woman-owned businesses in North America. Nancy has won several awards for communications, entrepreneurship, and her success as a female executive. On the list of top 250 Women in Leadership, Nancy ranks #67 and on World’s Top 30 Communication Professionals for 2017, Nancy ranks #1. She is also a professional speaker at and has many more speakers in her firm’s clientele. Her TEDx talk has had over two million views (The secret structure of great talks). Her latest book, DataStory looks at how to inspire action and story through a company's data. You don't want to miss this chat. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 57:48. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Nancy Duarte. DataStory. Duarte. Slide:ology. Resonate. Illuminate. Follow Nancy on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #695 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #695 - Host: Mitch Joel. Long before Marcus Sheridan became one of the most sought-after speakers and trainers in the world, he was just some dude I saw speak on a small stage in front of an unsuspecting audience. Sometimes, you just know it when you see it. That day, I saw it. The "it factor" in Marcus. Speaking, teaching and training audiences to think differently (and better) about their sales and marketing in one of the most captivating ways. Since then, I have watched Marcus' massive ascent. From just another pool salesperson, into what he is now. He is the author of the bestselling book, They Ask, You Answer. As I alluded to, Marcus’ story didn’t begin on the stage. It started with a business created and run out of the back of a beat-up pickup truck. Marcus’ experience of saving his swimming pool company, River Pools and Spas, from the economic collapse of 2008 has been featured in multiple books, publications and university case studies from around the world. From its humble beginnings as a three-person company to one of the largest manufacturers and installers in the country, River Pools and Spas has the most visited pool website in the world. From there, he built his sales and marketing consultancy, The Sales Lion, and in early 2018 that company merged with Impact, where they are now building a leading sales and marketing agency. With that, he recently updated and revised his book, They Ask, You Answer. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 54:00. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Marcus Sheridan. They Ask, You Answer. Impact. River Pools and Spas. Follow Marcus on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #694 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #694 - Host: Mitch Joel. Before it was even a thing, Diane Mulcahy created the first course in the United States on the gig economy and teaches it in the MBA program at Babson College. The course gained immediate traction and was named by Forbes as one of the Top Ten Most Innovate Business School Courses. Out of that course grew a book. Diane is the author of The Gig Economy. She also walks her talk. She works independently, remotely and flexibly in the gig economy as a consultant, advisor, speaker, writer and teacher. Diane has been an investor for the past fifteen years. She is an Advisor to the Kauffman Foundation, where she manages the private equity and venture capital portfolio. She is also the author of We Have Met the Enemy …and He Is Us, a widely read report on the VC industry. In this episode we dig deep into the future of work, if the gig economy is tenable for our society, and the evils of the big market caps and over-promising based on the gig economy (Uber and WeWork much?). Enjoy the conversation...  Running time: 52:18. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Diane Mulcahy. The Gig Economy. We Have Met the Enemy …and He Is Us Follow Diane on Twitter. Follow Diane on Instagram. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #693 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #693 - Host: Mitch Joel. He's back! Google's Digital Marketing Evangelist, bestselling author (Web Analytics - An Hour A Day and Web Analytics 2.0), powerful writer (Occam's Razor), friend and business big brain, Avinash Kaushik. His articles may as well be business books, and his insights into what should really count today for business leaders is refreshing. He's got an attitude, he is full of passion, and he has some ideas about what we all need to be thinking about, in this day and age. Avinash has an incredible newsletter titled, The Marketing-Analytics Intersect (you best sign up for it), and we're back to discuss the power of analytics, why we have too much data, why brands should stop their social media posts, and whether all of this tech hate is well placed. In a world of measuring what matters, trust me, you will need to hear what Avinash thinks (and wants you to do). Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 1:03:56. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Avinash Kaushik. The Marketing-Analytics Intersect. Stop All Social Media Activity (Organic) - Solve For A Profitable Reality. The power of machine learning at Google. Web Analytics - An Hour A Day. Web Analytics 2.0. Follow Avinash on Twitter. Follow Avinash on Instagram. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #692 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #692 - Host: Mitch Joel. In case you have not noticed, I could not be more bullish on the power of Smart Audio. From smart speakers and Alexa to Google’s voice assistant technology, chatbots and artificial intelligence. This space has been looked at analyzed in the book, Talk To Me - How voice computing will transform the way we live, work and think by James Vlahos. James is a journalist (who has written for the New York Times, Popular Science, The Atlantic and Wired). He wrote a cover story in 2017 for Wired , which was all about his startup (now called HereAfter), which - at the time - was really a chronicle of how he programmed his own AI chatbot to resemble his late father. This program, called DadBot, has evolved. The smart audio space continues to evolve. When people ask me what the future of technology is, Smart Audio is at the top of my list. So let’s dive in deep, and see what’s got everyone talking. Enjoy the conversation…  Running time: 56:14. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with James Vlahos. Talk To Me - How voice computing will transform the way we live, work and think. HereAfter. Follow James on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #691 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #691 - Host: Mitch Joel. There are some books that hit my desk and captivate me. That was my reaction to Paul Skinner's book, Collaborative Advantage - How collaboration beats competition as a strategy for success. This is Paul's antidote to competitive advantage, and a new perspective in how to think about your brand and the future of business. Paul works at Agency of the Future, and is also the founder of the social enterprise, Pimp My Cause. Pimp My Cause brings together marketers and good causes to create transformational pro bono projects for social good. Paul often describes Pimp My Cause as a living laboratory of collaborative advantage in action. The Cabinet Office named Paul as one of the UK’s leading social entrepreneurs. He is an advisory board member for the Museum of Brands and an advisor for the Future Strategy Club. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 53:58. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Paul Skinner. Collaborative Advantage - How collaboration beats competition as a strategy for success. Agency of the Future. Pimp My Cause. Follow Paul on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #690 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #690 - Host: Mitch Joel. I’m on mission to add different types of audio content to this show. Last week, I was asked to moderate at session at the InfoPresse event, Platforms (here in Montreal). I had the chance to speak with Blake Sabatinelli about the state of media, the news and his growing organization, Newsy. Blake is CEO of Newsy. Prior to joining the organization, Blake oversaw video strategy at Newsy's parent company, The E.W. Scripps Company. Blake has a long history in both news and digital strategy. A native Texan, he started his career as a digital producer at ABC Action News in Tampa, and was later promoted to executive producer, managing a team of producers and overseeing editorial operations. Blake later led the digital strategy and operations at WJLA and News Channel 8 in Washington, D.C. For those who are not familiar, Newsy is quickly becoming the source for concise, unbiased video news and analysis covering the top stories from around the world. With persistent curiosity and no agenda, Newsy strives to fuel meaningful conversations by highlighting multiple sides of every story. Newsy prides itself on delivering the news and perspective you need without the hype and bias common to many news sources. With that, Newsy streams a 24-hour network that is focused on over-the-top environments (OTT). This includes Newsy’s apps for connected TV platforms such as Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku, as well as distribution deals Newsy has signed with streaming pay-TV services such as Sling TV and YouTube TV. In you look around, many in the media see Newsy as one of the fastest growing news companies in the world. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 32:25. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Blake Sabatinelli. Newsy. InfoPresse. Follow Blake on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #689 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #688 - Host: Mitch Joel. I purchased the book, Because Internet - Understanding the New Rules of Language, because... well... it didn't take much to get me excited beyond the title. It had me at "hello," as they say. Then Karen Wickre (who was on the show to promote her book, Taking The Work Out of Networking, a ways back) made the intro to Gretchen McCulloch (the author of Because Internet). It turns out that Gretchen and I both live in Montreal (small world!). Gretchen McCulloch is an internet linguist: she explores the language of the internet for the people of the internet. Gretchen writes the Resident Linguist column at Wired and has also written for Slate, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Mental Floss, and The Toast. She has a master’s in linguistics from McGill University and is interested in bridging the gap between linguistics and the general public. McCulloch is the creator of the daily linguistics blog, All Things Linguistic, and the co-creator of Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics. So, don't have FOMO, I hope you LOL and love this show. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 1:01:11. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Gretchen McCulloch. Because Internet - Understanding the New Rules of Language. All Things Linguistic. Lingthusiasm. Follow Gretchen on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #688 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #688 - Host: Mitch Joel. He's one of the more interesting thinkers and authors that I have had the pleasure to get to know over the years. Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. The M.I.T. Technology Review dubbed Nir, “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.” Nir founded two tech companies since 2003 and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. He is the author of the bestselling book, Hooked - How to Build Habit-Forming Products and his latest, Indistractable - How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Nir is also an active investor in habit-forming technologies. Some of his past investments include Eventbrite, Product Hunt, Anchor.fm and many more. In this episode we discuss his latest book, Indistractable, how he shot down a lot of Malcolm Gladwell's thinking (and why Gladwell loved it), and how he can write a book about habit-forming technology, and then write a book about why that's a problem. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 49:32. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Nir Eyal. Indistractable - How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Hooked - How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Follow Nir on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'. Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #688 - Host: Mitch Joel.

Welcome to episode #686 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #686 - Host: Mitch Joel. Marga Hoek wants to change the world... for the better. She believes that business for good is good business. As an international strategist on sustainable business and capital, Marga is internationally recognized as a seasoned business leader, professional speaker and writer. She recently published The Trillion Dollar Shift, a business book on the sustainable development goals, which was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It is the first and only business book on The Global Goals, addressing how business and capital can make positive use of these goals, while strengthening their company and business proposition. Through her work, Marga was added to the prestigious Thinkers50 network this year. She has been CEO of multiple private and public companies, and has been CEO and Chairman of the Dutch Sustainable Business Association. Marga is fluent in Dutch, Spanish and English, and is here to discuss this massive shift in business. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 50:13. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Marga Hoek. The Trillion Dollar Shift. The Global Goals. Thinkers50. Follow Marga on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'. Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #686 - Host: Mitch Joel.

Welcome to episode #686 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #686 - Host: Mitch Joel. David Epstein is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Range - Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, and of the bestseller, The Sports Gene. He was previously a science and investigative reporter at ProPublica, and prior to that a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, where he co-authored the story that revealed Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez had used steroids. His writing has been honored by an array of organizations, from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, to the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Center on Disability and Journalism, and has been included in the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. His story Following the Trail of Broken Hearts, on sudden cardiac death in athletes, was chosen as one of the top 100 stories of the last 100 years by Columbia Journalism alumni. David has given talks about performance science and the uses (and misuses) of data on five continents; his TED Talk has been viewed over eight million times, and was shared by Bill Gates. Three of his stories have been optioned for films. On this episode, we look at his latest book, Range, and how the world used to think that being a specialist was the path to success, but maybe it's the generalists who rule the day? Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 53:14. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with David Epstein. Range - Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. The Sports Gene. David’s TED Talk. Follow David on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #685 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #685 - Host: Mitch Joel. Simply put: Roger Dooley is a really nice human being. His latest book is Friction - The Untapped Force That Can Be Your Most Powerful Advantage. Prior to that he authored, Brainfluence - 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing  and The Persuasion Slide. He writes at Neuromarketing, and is columnist for Forbes. Roger is the founder of Dooley Direct and co-founded College Confidential, a leading college-bound website. That business was acquired by Hobsons, where he served as VP Digital Marketing after the acquisition. Roger also spent years in direct marketing as the co-founder of a successful catalog firm and also was director of corporate planning for a Fortune 1000 company. In this episode we break down the power of removing friction for business (and why it's so critical). Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 48:50. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Roger Dooley. Friction - The Untapped Force That Can Be Your Most Powerful Advantage. Brainfluence - 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing. The Persuasion Slide. Neuromarketing. Follow Roger on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #684 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #684 - Host: Mitch Joel. One could argue that Gary Shapiro has the coolest job in the world. Gary is president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,200 consumer technology companies and which owns and produces CES - the massive Consumer Electronic Show that descends on Las Vegas every January, and introduces the world to the future of technology and innovation. Gary has testified before Congress on technology and business issues dozens of times and led the industry through its successful transition to HDTV. As chairman of the Home Recording Rights Coalition, Gary led the manufacturers’ battle to preserve the legality of recording technology and consumer fair-use rights and was an early opponent in the fight to defeat SOPA and PIPA in Congress – legislation that would silence free speech online. In 2015, 2016 and 2017, The Hill named him one of the top lobbyists in Washington, DC. Shapiro has also been repeatedly named one of the 100 most influential people in Washington by Washington Life Magazine and a "tech titan" by Washingtonian magazine. Gary is also an author. He wrote the New York Times best-sellers, Ninja Innovation - The Ten Killer Strategies of the World’s Most Successful Businesses, The Comeback - How Innovation will Restore the American Dream, and his latest, Ninja Future - Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation. If you want to better understand the future of technology, electronics and innovation... look no further. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 55:20. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Gary Shapiro. Consumer Technology Association. CES. Ninja Future - Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation. Ninja Innovation - The Ten Killer Strategies of the World’s Most Successful Businesses. The Comeback - How Innovation will Restore the American Dream,. Follow Gary on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #683 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #683 - Host: Mitch Joel. For the past 25 years, Liane Davey has researched and advised teams on how to achieve high performance. Known as the “teamwork doctor,” she’s worked with teams from the frontlines to the boardroom, across a variety of industries, and around the globe from Boston to Bangkok. In working with hundreds of teams, including 26 Global Fortune 500 companies (and counting), she has developed a unique perspective on the challenges that teams face – and how to solve them. Beyond her work in the boardroom, Liane is a New York Times Bestselling author of You First - Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done. More recently she published her sophomore effort, The Good Fight - Use productive conflict to get your team and organization back on track. In short, fights within an organization should not be avoided... they should be embraced (and encouraged). Is your team worth fighting for? Your business? Here's how to fight fair. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 51:27. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Liane Davey. The Good Fight. You First. Follow Liane on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #682 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #682 - Host: Mitch Joel. Steve Susi began his career as a creative in the advertising agencies of yesterday. He then discovered the Internet, and started building digital teams back in 1995. From there he took on major creative roles in some of the nascent digital marketing shops, working on the earliest forms of the commercial Internet. After 16 years, Steve Susi joined Amazon Advertising as its NYC creative director in 2012, where his teams would deliver original brand experiences on behalf of hundreds of advertisers and millions of customers worldwide. In 2014 he became its first group creative director and, two years later, first executive creative director, moving to London to lead creative operations across Europe, Asia, and Canada. In 2016, he received the first Amazon Inventor Award granted to Advertising outside the US for patent-pending innovation. Most recently, he published his first book, Brand Currency - A Former Amazon Exec on Money, Information, Loyalty, and Time. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 56:36. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Steve Susi. Brand Currency - A Former Amazon Exec on Money, Information, Loyalty, and Time. Follow Steve on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #681 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #681 - Host: Mitch Joel. Montreal in the summer is a magical time. From the Festival International De Jazz De Montreal to Montreal ComicCon and Heavy Montreal (coming up this weekend!) to the famed Just For Laughs Comedy Festival (which is happening now). When the line-up was announced for Just For Laughs, I saw that my fellow TEDster, Baratunde Thurston, was going to be coming to town to host (and moderate) a panel called, Political Comedy on Political Change. We had a chance to sit down and record during an incredible day of sunshine, right before his event. For those who don’t know, Baratunde Thurston is an Emmy-nominated writer, activist, and comedian who has worked for The Onion, produced for The Daily Show, advised the Obama White House. He also cleaned bathrooms to pay for his Harvard education. He hosts the iHeartMedia podcast Spit, wrote the New York Times bestseller, How To Be Black, and serves on the boards of BUILD and the Brooklyn Public Library. Baratunde makes media, delivers keynotes, and promotes action with his unique blend of criticism, humor, and optimism. He’s most invested in topics of race, technology, democracy, and climate (because the hard stuff has already been solved). He’s got one of the warmest hearts and biggest brains. Enjoy the conversation… Running time: 1:03:45. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Baratunde Thurston. How To Be Black. Just For Laughs Comedy Festival. Political Comedy on Political Change. Follow Baratunde on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #680 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #680 - Host: Mitch Joel. This past week, Cleveland, Ohio hosted the first-ever Marketing Artificial Intelligence Conference. This event was put on by my good friend, Paul Roetzer, and his Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute. Paul is also the founder of PR 20/20 and the author of two business books, The Marketing Agency Blueprint and The Marketing Performance Blueprint. The Marketing Artificial Intelligence Conference hosted over 300 delegates, and included keynote speaker (and friend), Douglas Rushkoff. I also had the please of delivering my new keynote presentation, Hello Voice, which is all about smart audio and smart speakers. After my keynote, Paul invited me to have a conversation with Kass Dawson. Kass is the Head of Marketing and Strategy for SoftBank Robotics. The session was titled, Advancing Humanity and Business with Robotics. We all agreed that this should be recorded for this week’s episode of Six Pixels of Separation Podcast. And so we did. And here we are. Live from the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Conference this past week… Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 36:29. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Kass Dawson from SoftBank Robotics. Live from Marketing Artificial Intelligence Conference. Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute. PR 20/20. Paul Roetzer. Follow Kass on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #679 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #679 - Host: Mitch Joel. Over a decade ago, Rob Walker was on this show. It speaks to the longevity of the show, but more importantly, it speaks to value and work that Rob Walker brings into our world. I had been following him long before we first recorded back in 2008 (and I have been following him ever since). Rob Walker is a journalist covering design, technology, business, the arts, and other subjects. He writes the Human Resource column for Lifehacker, and has contributed to publications like The New York Times (where he wrote The Workologist column from 2013 - 2018), The New York Times Magazine (his amazing Consumed column ran from 2004 - 2012), Bloomberg, The Atlantic and many others. His first two book, Letters From New Orleans and Buying In (a must-have for anyone in business) were both bestsellers. His latest book, The Art of Noticing - 131 ways to spark creativity, find inspiration and discover joy in the everyday, is amazing. He is on the faculty of the Products of Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts and his newsletter, The Art of Noticing, is one everyone should subscribe to. In this episode we discuss creativity, inspiration and much more. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 54:24. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Rob Walker. The Art of Noticing - 131 ways to spark creativity, find inspiration and discover joy in the everyday. Buying In. Letters From New Orleans. Follow Rob on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #678 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #678 - Host: Mitch Joel. Andrew Tarvin is the world’s first Humor Engineer teaching people how to get better results while having more fun. Through his company, Humor That Works, Drew helps brands to be more productive, less stressed, and happier. Combining his background in business with his experience as an international comedian, his programs are engaging, entertaining, and effective. Prior to starting his company, Drew was a top-rated project manager at Procter & Gamble, managing million dollar projects for a $350 million business. He is also an accomplished comedian, having performed in more than 1,000 shows all around the world. Drew is the best-selling author of Humor That Works - The Missing Skill for Success and Happiness at Work, and his TEDx talk has been viewed close to 5 million times. Drew is good friend, and a fascinating character. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 58:40. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Andrew Tarvin. Humor That Works - The Missing Skill for Success and Happiness at Work. Humor That Works. Follow Drew on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #677 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #677 - Host: Mitch Joel. I have been following her work for a long time. Whitney Johnson is one of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world (Thinkers50) and an expert on disruptive innovation and personal disruption, a framework codified in her two books, Disrupt Yourself - Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work, and Build an “A” Team - Play To Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve. Her framework and diagnostics were developed after co-founding the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen. She is formerly a stock analyst from Wall Street, and a coach for Harvard Business School's Executive Education. In 2019, she was ranked #3 on the Global Gurus' Top 30 Organizational Culture Professionals. In 2017, she was selected from more than 16,000 candidates as a “Top 15 Coach” by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith. Whitney is also the host of the weekly Disrupt Yourself Podcast. In this episode we look at the state of business, leadership, innovation and management today. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 50:05. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Whitney Johnson. Disrupt Yourself - Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Build an “A” Team - Play To Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve. Disrupt Yourself Podcast. Follow Whitney on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #676 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #676 - Host: Mitch Joel. His books are small and square. Don't let the format and design fool you, they are also some of the most satiating books that can (and should) be read over and over again. It's no surprise that millions of people agree. Austin Kleon is The New York Times bestselling author of a trilogy of illustrated books about creativity in the digital age: Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work!, and the recently published, Keep Going. He’s also the author of Newspaper Blackout, a collection of poems made by redacting the newspaper with a permanent marker. In previous lives, he worked as a librarian, a web designer, and an advertising copywriter. He grew up in the cornfields of Ohio, but now he lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and sons. If you don’t get his awesome weekly email (a list of 10 things that are worth sharing), you don’t know what you’re missing. His has very unique thoughts about how to live a more creative and valuable life. The lessons are deep in this chat, and it may wind up changing how you bring yourself to work. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 1:10:33. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Austin Kleon. Keep Going. Steal Like An Artist. Show Your Work!. Newspaper Blackout. Austin’s weekly email. Follow Austin on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #675 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #675 - Host: Mitch Joel. When it comes to performance in business today, you want to take advice from those who truly understand performance when they stakes are high and intense. Well, it doesn't get better than lessons from to the Navy SEALs. Nick Hays served his country proudly as a Navy SEAL for 10 years, where he was awarded the Bronze Star. After the Navy, he worked as a contractor in the Middle East while attending business school at the University of San Diego. After graduating from Harvard Business School Executive Education, Nick became passionate about helping organizations and teams overcome the problems associated with the need for constant innovation. His focus is on providing teams and leaders with the structure necessary to create cultures that are able to thrive at the highest level. His principles have been put to the test with professional and college sports teams, corporations, young presidents organization, school districts, and non profits. He just published the book, Elite - High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL. So, how do you develop effective strategies to motivate, apart and overcome? Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 52:03. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Nick Hays. Elite - High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL. Follow Nick on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #674 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #674 - Host: Mitch Joel. Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. She’s known for her ability to distill and convey complex ideas with humor and clarity, in a way that’s accessible to a wide audience. She’s the author of many books, including the The Four Tendencies, Better Than Before, and The Happiness Project. She recently published her latest, Outer Order, Inner Calm. She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. On podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, she discusses happiness and good habits with her sister Elizabeth Craft. Gretchen Rubin started her career in law and was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized she wanted to be a writer. In this episode we discuss the challenge of happiness (destination vs. a journey) and how to clean up all of the junk in our lives (not just our stuff). Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 46:19. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Gretchen Rubin. Outer Order, Inner Calm. The Four Tendencies. Better Than Before. The Happiness Project. Happier with Gretchen Rubin,. Follow Gretchen on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #673 - Host: Mitch Joel. I'm super excited to welcome back to the show my good friend (and sales trainer extraordinaire), Ian Altman. Organizations call Ian Altman for his modern sales approach to grow business with integrity. As a CEO for over two decades, Ian founded and grew his own business-services and technology companies from zero to over $1 billion in value. This business success, backed by years of researching how customers make decisions, established Ian as a leading authority on sale acceleration and business growth. He synthesized his thinking into the bestselling book, Same Side Selling. We're here (again), because Ian just published a newly updated second edition of Same Side Selling (which he co-authored with Jack Quarles). Ian has hugely popular podcast of his own also titled, Same Side Selling, and had written hundreds of articles for Inc., Forbes and beyond. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 56:30 Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Ian Altman. Same Side Selling. Follow Ian on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #672 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #672 - Host: Mitch Joel. Like millions of other people, YouTube is the new TV in my life. I subscribe to channels on YouTube, and every night I watch what I subscribed to. It’s an amazing mess of interests, hobbies, music, news, information and more. I love it. Thousands of YouTube creators who seem to know exactly what I like (from magic and heavy metal to fountain pens and keynote speakers). Brands still want their videos to pop, and they want their content to go viral. The bigger idea is to create and build a sustainable (and impressive) YouTube channel. Too many are focused on a video… and not the channel opportunity. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Carlos Pacheco for many years. Currently, he is the COO at Truly (a marketing agency), but he is also an excellent resource on how to build a successful YouTube channel. He doesn’t just talk about it, either… he has done it. For brands like Just For Laughs (which moved from 300k to over 3 million subscribers in over a year) and many others. Carlos has close to twenty years of experience in marketing optimization, audience development and paid media strategy. He is also the co-host of The Video Insiders Podcast that deconstructs YouTube in great depth. Enjoy the conversation...  Running time: 59:57 Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Carlos Pacheco. Truly. The Video Insiders Podcast. Follow Carlos on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #671 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #671 - Host: Mitch Joel. David Burkus is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, and former business school professor. In 2017, he was named as one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50. His books are Friend of a Friend, Under New Management and The Myths of Creativity. David is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and has been both a personal friend and guest on this show many times over the years. David’s views on leadership have earned him invitations to speak to leaders from a variety of Fortune 500 companies. His TED talk (Why you should know how much your coworkers get paid) has been viewed over two million times. Today we had a conversation on thought leadership. How to think about it, how to create content to position yourself (or your brand) in this manner, and what it takes to get content (articles, media appearances, podcasts, speaking engagements and beyond) heard in such a noisy environment. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 54:45. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with David Burkus. Friend of a Friend. Under New Management. The Myths of Creativity. Why you should know how much your coworkers get paid. Follow David on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #670 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #670 - Host: Mitch Joel. The book Limitless is now a bestseller. It is time to have Laura Gassner Otting back on the show. Laura inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo. She challenges her clients to think bigger and take on greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief. She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares us all to find our true voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life opportunities. Laura’s entrepreneurial edge has been well-honed over a 25-year career that started as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton’s White House, where she helped shape AmeriCorps. She left a leadership role at the respected nonprofit search firm, Isaacson, Miller, to expand the startup ExecSearches.com. Laura also founded and ran the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, which partnered with the full gamut of mission-driven nonprofit executives, from start-up dreamers to scaling social entrepreneurs to global philanthropists. In 2015, Laura sold NPAG to the team that helped her build it, because she was hungry for the next chapter. Along the way, while serving on Hillary Clinton’s National Finance Committee, she was asked to do a TEDx talk which became so popular that it launched a speaking career. Laura's new book is Limitless - How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 57:12. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Laura Gassner Otting. Limitless. Follow Laura on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #669 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #669 - Host: Mitch Joel. There are just a handful of formative thinkers that help me shape, think and rethink what I believe to know about digital, culture and the Internet. They are my oracles. I follow their every word, and I am susceptible to being highly influenced by their work. David Weinberger is one of those oracles. He melds philosophy, practical marketing experience, academic research and an unrivaled curiosity about what technology is... and what it's doing to us. There is no one with David's perspective, because no one has had a journey like his: philosophy professor, marketing VP at early Web startups, co-author of the seminal Cluetrain Manifesto, senior researcher at the leadings Harvard Internet center, co-director of a Harvard innovation lab, a writer with innumerable publications in Wired, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American, and many more. If that were not enough, Dr. Weinberger has been the marketing VP at one of the first Web search engine sites, a tech policy adviser to presidential campaigns, a Franklin Fellow at the US State Department, a writer in residence at a Google AI research group, and for seven years was a gag writer for Woody Allen's comic strip. He is as remarkable as his career path. The author of several books (Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Everything Is Miscellaneous, and Too Big To Know), he is back with a brand new one, Everyday Chaos. This book is all about possibility, and how us humans are doing in the complexity of what technology has brought. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 57:15. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with David Weinberger. Everyday Chaos. Cluetrain Manifesto. Small Pieces Loosely Joined. Everything Is Miscellaneous. Too Big To Know. Follow David on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #668 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #668 - Host: Mitch Joel. In short: Todd Herman is a fascinating human being. Over the years, he has helped thousands of people become more resilient, creative, confident and courageous. He has clocked over 15,000 hours in the field, working one-on-one with people from all backgrounds to help them develop an impenetrable mindset. He knows the mental performance game better than anyone. His execution and mindset strategies and systems are used by businesses, entrepreneurs, entertainers, and athletes. He's also lived through some insanely hard stuff, and he understands that the things that drive people are often complex and nuanced. While he's known to be brutally honest and tough on his clients, he's also deeply empathetic and compassionate. His first book, The Alter Ego Effect, is about creating a heroic alter ego to activate when the chips are down. There's only one person in the way of you untapping your capabilities: You. There's also one person who can move you out of the way so you can perform at your peak. That person is already inside of you. You just need to unlock them. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 1:00:09. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Todd Herman. The Alter Ego Effect. Follow Todd on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #667 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #667 - Host: Mitch Joel. After a long and successful career at L’Oréal, Minter Dial returned to his entrepreneurial roots to become an author, consultant and speaker. Minter has spent ten years helping senior management teams and boards to adapt to the new exigencies of the digitally enhanced marketplace. Minter's focus is on brand strategies, technology integration and digital tools. He is the author of three books, producer of one award-winning documentary film, as well as numerous white papers, eBooks and contributions to countless media outlets. Minter’s newest book is Heartificial Empathy - Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence. Shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2019, this book looks at why and how to embed empathy into your organisation and AI initiatives. His second book (co-written with Caleb Storkey) was Futureproof - How to get your business ready for the next disruption (back in 2017). In 2016, Minter wrote and produced the award-winning book and documentary, The Last Ring Home. It’s a moving personal story that returns our focus on the important values of love, courage and honor. The film has won ten prizes. Minter is a true renaissance man with penchant for making business better. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 54:20. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Minter Dial. Heartificial Empathy - Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence. Futureproof - How to get your business ready for the next disruption. The Last Ring Home. Follow Minter on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #666 of Six Pixels of Separation.  Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #666 - Host: Mitch Joel. If we're going to always talk business here on this show, I needed something with music in it to celebrate episode #666 (number of the beast, etc…). We're in luck. Clive Thompson is not just a computer geek (like me), or a passionate journalist (like me), he also writes, records, and performs music in the band The Delorean Sisters. Still, most know him for his writing in the science and technology space for the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Smithsonian magazine and many others. He wrote the book Smarter Than You Think and more recently published his sophomore effort, Coders - The Making of a New Tribe and Remaking of the World. The book explores the fascinating world of computer programmers - the people who run today's world (and the world of tomorrow). What do these people want from technology? What will these people program for us? How will these algorithms play out? How do we ensure that they’re the right people to be coding our future? Let's rock out with Clive. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 56:01. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Clive Thompson. Coders - The Making of a New Tribe and Remaking of the World. Smarter Than You Think. Follow Clive on Twitter.  This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #665 of Six Pixels of Separation.  Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #665 - Host: Mitch Joel. Cal Newport is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. In addition to researching cutting­ edge technology, he also writes about the impact of these innovations on society. Cal is the author of six books, including the recently published bestseller, Digital Minimalism and (a personal favorite) Deep Work, which argues that focus is the new I.Q. in the modern workplace. Cal’s work has been published in over 20 languages and has been featured in many major publications. He’s also a frequent guest on NPR. In this episode, we did deeper into his work, and why we must all be more selective of the technologies that we bring into our personal and professional lives. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 57:36. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Cal Newport. Digital Minimalism. Deep Work. So Good They Can’t Ignore You. Cal’s other books. Cal’s not on Twitter, so here’s a link to his blog. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #664 of Six Pixels of Separation.  Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #664 - Host: Mitch Joel. Joseph Jaffe is widely regarded as one of the top marketing thinkers in the world (Jaffe Juice). He is the author of five excellent books (Life After The 30-Second Spot, Join The Conversation, Flip The Funnel, Z.E.R.O.) and his latest, Built To Suck (plus his new company H.M.S. Beagle). A long-time friend (and one of the main inspirations behind the Six Pixels of Separation podcast), we used to record semi-regular conversations, debates and back-and-forths that would dive a little deeper into the business, innovation and marketing landscape. Well, we’re back, so consider this our 35th conversation (or, as I like to affectionately call it, Across The Sound 35.20), and in this episode, we discuss Joe’s brand new book, Built To Suck… and how brands should try (very hard) to suck a lot less. Enjoy the conversation… Running time: 1:00:00. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Joseph Jaffe. Built To Suck. H.M.S. Beagle. Jaffe Juice. Life After The 30-Second Spot. Join The Conversation. Flip The Funnel. Z.E.R.O. Follow Joseph on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #663 of Six Pixels of Separation.  Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #663 - Host: Mitch Joel. One of the most prolific and fascinating business professionals in the area of better brand storytelling and marketing is Bernadette Jiwa. She is a veritable force of nature who creates frequent and compelling prose that are sprinkled with optimism and wisdom. Last September she was on the show to discuss her book, Story Driven – You Don’t Need To Compete When You Know Who You Are, and she’s back with a brand new book called, The Right Story - A Brief Guide to Changing The World. I consider her to be a true business philosopher, because Bernadette delivers the goods. When she not writing books and publishing articles, Bernadette helps companies of all sizes to build a brand to be proud of. Bernadette has a whole bunch of business books that you must read: Hunch, Meaningful, Marketing: A Love Story, Fortune Cookie Principle, Difference and Make Your Idea Matter. It is a thrill to have her back on the show to discuss her latest, The Right Story. Enjoy the conversation…. Running time: 52:02. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Bernadette Jiwa. The Right Story - A Brief Guide to Changing The World. Story Driven – You Don’t Need To Compete When You Know Who You Are. Hunch. Meaningful. Marketing: A Love Story. Fortune Cookie Principle,. Difference. Make Your Idea Matter. Follow Bernadette on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Welcome to episode #662 of Six Pixels of Separation.  Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #662 - Host: Mitch Joel. What kind of business do you want to build? What kind of business do you really want to work for? It's true that we live a world where we can choose to do so many interesting and different things... and we can do them from the comfort of our own home (if we so choose). Paul Jarvis is the author of a great book called, Company of One. I was fortunate enough to be asked to blur this book. Paul thinks differently (very differently) about work (and what it means). He's a designer who likes writing (or vice versa) and has worked for himself since the 90s. His courses —Creative Class and Chimp Essentials — have been taken by more than 13,000 paying students. His writing has been talked about by everyone from Ashton Kutcher to Arianna Huffington. Paul also sends out a weekly newsletter, called Sunday Dispatches (and I love it!). Here has a very different perspective on what "making it” means, and how to live a life with work that matters. Enjoy the conversation. Running time: 54:57. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Paul Jarvis. Company of One. Sunday Dispatches. Chimp Essentials. Creative Class. Follow Paul on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.