In this special edition of Forcing Function Hour, Chris Sparks is interviewed by Justin Peters of The Struggle is Real. Chris shares the key inflection points of his poker career, illustrating how to install systems for continuous improvement.B

Forcing Function Hour Best of 2022

Jan 6th, 2023 30m 4s

This is the “Best of 2022” episode, highlighting five of our favorite moments from the past year. Lots of stellar guests on Forcing Function Hour this year so it was really tough to limit down to just five. Listen for insights from a World Cham

Unleash Your Creative Fury with ELEW

Dec 23rd, 2022 1h 9m

Eric Lewis, known as ELEW, is a multi-talented artist with a career that spans the worlds of music performance, composition, and film production. Eric started his music career as a jazz and concert pianist playing with Wynton Marsalis and the L

Master Non-Verbal Communication with Poker Tells Expert Blake Eastman

Nov 18th, 2022 1h 23m

Blake Eastman is the founder of The Nonverbal Group, a long-time professional poker player, and the creator of "Beyond Tells," the largest behavioral study ever conducted on poker players. Blake’s passion is using visual feedback to teach leade

What Games Can Teach Us with Frank Lantz

Nov 4th, 2022 1h 13m

Frank Lantz is a game designer, writer, and educator. Frank co-founded the experimental game studio Area/Code which was acquired by Zynga. His games span genres and include favorites such as Hey Robot, Drop7, Babble Royale, and Universal Paperc

Maximize Your Leverage with Eric Jorgenson

Oct 14th, 2022 1h 17m

Eric Jorgenson is the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and an early-stage investor as a GP in Rolling Fun. Currently, Eric teaches the Life of Leverage course, hosts his podcast, Jorgenson's Soundbox, and is writing his second book, The

Redefine Normal with Team USA Triathlete Cameron Schiller

Sep 30th, 2022 1h 14m

Cameron Schiller is an award-winning content & brand marketer, Founder of RYOT Media, co-chair of the Young Leadership Council of the Brooklyn Museum, and an elite skydiver and wingsuit flyer. Cameron recently became a competitive triathlete, g

From Novice to Expert with Scrabble World Champion David Eldar

Sep 16th, 2022 1h 31m

David Eldar is a real estate investor better known as Australia’s top-ranked Scrabble player, a title he has held since 2014. David was the 2017 Scrabble World Champion and the 2019 World Runner-Up and is consistently rated among the top five S

Success by Design with Daniel Scrivner

Sep 2nd, 2022 1h 27m

Daniel Scrivner is an award-winning designer working with many brands such as Apple, Nike, Square, Disney, and Target, and is the host of the podcast Outlier Academy. Today, Daniel is a design-centric venture capitalist, serving as General Part

Break Down Barriers to Creativity with Kenny Arnold

Aug 19th, 2022 1h 15m

Kenny Arnold is a multidisciplinary industrial designer exploring the intersection of play and sustainability. Kenny is most known for his award-winning designs of toys, playgrounds, and other educational tools. When he’s not tinkering, Kenny t

Visualize Like Gymnastics World Champion Kristin Allen

Aug 5th, 2022 1h 5m

Kristin Allen is a two-time World Champion in the sport of acrobatic gymnastics and a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame. After leaving competitive sport, Kristin performed with Pippin on Broadway, Cirque du Soleil, and the Kellogg’s Tou

Take Your Business to the Next Level with Brian Tate

Jul 15th, 2022 1h

Brian Tate spent a decade as a professional high-stakes poker player, competing against poker legends in the largest mixed games in the world. Brian left poker in 2016 to start creating homemade oatmeal. Under Brian’s leadership, Oats Overnight

Leveraging Your Brand with Scott Norton

Jul 1st, 2022 1h 13m

Scott Norton co-founded the successful condiment brand Sir Kensington's, acquired by Unilever in 2017. Prior to Sir Kensington’s, Scott worked at Lehman Brothers in Tokyo and traveled across Asia on a folding bicycle.Today, Scott is the founder

How to Throw a Great Party with Superhost Nick Gray

Jun 17th, 2022 1h 11m

Nick is the author of The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, a step-by-step handbook that teaches you how to build big relationships by hosting small gatherings. Nick started and sold two successful companies and over 75,000 people have watched his TEDx ta

Performance Under Pressure with Emergency Physician Dan Dworkis

Jun 3rd, 2022 1h 23m

Dan Dworkis, MD PhD, is an emergency physician, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, and the author of The Emergency Mind: Wiring Your Brain for Performance Under Pressure. Dan’s work at The Emergency M

Accelerated Learning with Polyglot Dominic Zijlstra

May 20th, 2022 1h 1m

Dominic Zijlstra is an edtech entrepreneur and polyglot. He helps professionals learn faster and remember more using science-based learning methods. His obsession with learning better started in 2017, when he’d spent a year studying Mandarin bu

Making It in the Music Industry with Artist Manager Milan Ackerman

Apr 22nd, 2022 1h 22m

Milan Ackerman is a serial entrepreneur and investor, best known as the artist manager for rap superstar Russ. Milan discovered Russ on SoundCloud in 2014 and helped propel him to multi-platinum status with several Billboard Top 100 singles. To

Cultivate Your Charisma with Super-Connector Bryan Talebi

Apr 1st, 2022 1h 17m

Bryan Talebi was born in a tiny village with no running water and no electricity in the southeastern desert of Iran. He began his career working as an Aerospace Engineer at NASA at the age of sixteen. Bryan started his first company while in co

The Art of Storytelling with Emmy-Nominated Filmmaker Abby Fuller

Mar 11th, 2022 53m 32s

Abigail Fuller is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work includes five seasons on the Emmy-nominated series Chef’s Table, Dear Oprah for Apple TV+, and the feature documentary Do You Dream in Color? Her work has twice premiered at th

Walking the Pathless Path with Author Paul Millerd

Feb 25th, 2022 1h 11m

Paul Millerd is an independent writer, creator, and consultant. He has been self-employed for almost five years after spending many years working in consulting. He recently published a book, The Pathless Path, about his experiments with desig

Awaken Your Inner Writer with Author Sasha Chapin

Feb 11th, 2022 59m 20s

Sasha Chapin is an award-winning writer, writing coach, and recovering chess enthusiast. Sasha is the author of All The Wrong Moves; he publishes on Substack and has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, BuzzFeed, and Hazlitt.Is writing a p

Playing Positive Sum Games with Poker Legend Hac Dang

Jan 28th, 2022 1h 4m

Hac Dang was ranked in the top 10 for all-time-biggest winners for online poker. Since then, he's co-founded Happy Endings Hospitality, a restaurant group in the Northern Virginia area with 6 restaurants and counting.Hac joins Chris Sparks to

Become a Time Billionaire with Khe Hy

Jan 14th, 2022 1h 2m

Khe Hy is the founder of RadReads, a community dedicated to transforming our relationships with time, work, money, and ourselves. Khe joins Chris to discuss why true wealth is measured in time, not money and to share systems and practices for l

Operating Systems for Building High-Performance Teams with Thanh Pham

Dec 31st, 2021 56m 47s

Thanh Pham is the founder of Asian Efficiency, a company that has helped over 15,000 people live productive lives through online courses, programs, and workshops. Thanh is the co-host of The Productivity Show, a weekly podcast with ten million

Minimum Viable Testing for Startup Founders with Gagan Biyani

Dec 10th, 2021 53m 35s

Gagan Biyani is the co-founder of Maven, which empowers experts to offer cohort-based courses directly to their audience. Gagan is a serial entrepreneur; he previously co-founded Udemy and Sprig, a food delivery company. Gagan is an investor a