Hello Results May Vary listeners, it’s Tracy! I’m excited to share this very special episode featuring a panel conversation on the topic of Psychedelic Medicine and Design. I recently co-hosted this live event at the Stanford University Hasso P

RMV 34 Katie Love: How To Design Your Love Life

Oct 19th, 2021 35m

The pandemic has taken its toll on many people's romantic relationships. How can passion thrive as the world starts to rebuild? Katie Love is a life designer and expert on the human heart. The RMV chat to her about how to build a co-creative re

RMV 33 Ashley Jablow: How To Strike A Balance Between Work & Life

Oct 12th, 2021 25m 23s

The pandemic is forcing us to rethink how we work but how can you separate the home and the office if they're both the same place? Chris and Katia chat with life designer Ashley Jablow about how to overcome a toxic culture of excessive work. Th

RMV 32 Mollie Amkraut Mueller: How To Design Your Career

Oct 5th, 2021 27m 27s

Life's too short to not love what you do but how should you approach that dream job? Mollie Amkraut Mueller founded the career-coaching company Crew to answer just that. Tracy and Katia chat to Mollie about incorporating life design into the jo

RMV 31 Gabrielle Santa-Donato: The Quiet Power of Grace

Sep 28th, 2021 30m 45s

Gabrielle recently joined the Learning Team at Airbnb to create and deliver innovative learning experiences that help foster connection, unlock creativity and inspire action. Katia and Chris talk with Gabrielle about the fundamentals of life de

RMV 30 Lee Kim: Rediscovering The Wonder of Play

Sep 21st, 2021 29m 2s

In early 2017 Lee Kim forgot her friend Tracy's birthday. What would be a moment of fleeting regret for many of us, instead sparked a creative journey for Lee and @wearabletracy was born. Every day Lee would wear a different birthday crown made

RMV 29 Alyssa Chang: How Can Neuroscience Change Your Life

Sep 14th, 2021 45m 4s

Wellness expert Alyssa Chang talks to Chris and Tracy about the power of neuroscience. Based in sunny Honolulu, Alyssa's journey into brain-based coaching stems from a past career as a collegiate volleyball player. In the first episode of Seaso

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RMV 28 Bonus Episode! You Can Design Life After Vaccination

Feb 26th, 2021 18m 46s

Dare to dream beyond the pandemic as Chris, Katia and Tracy guide you through life design in the age of Covid-19. In this bonus episode of the podcast, the team talk about how the vaccine offers a glimmer of light from fatigue and exhaustion. A

RMV 27 Season 2 Finale: Ask Us Anything!

Dec 18th, 2020 38m 47s

Today we are excited to wrap up our Results May Vary podcast relaunch with the sixth and final episode of Season 2! To celebrate, we’re switching up the format a bit by inviting our talented producer, Jenny Luna, to ask us the life design quest

RMV 26 Purin Phanichphant: You Can Design Tiny New Rituals To Spark Joy Throughout Your Day

Dec 4th, 2020 33m 52s

Today we are delighted to welcome artist, designer, and educator Purin Phanichiphant. With his roots in Northern Thailand, where he spent part of his life as a Buddhist monk, combined with his background in designing innovative products in Sili

RMV 25 Dr. Kyra Bobinet: You Can Design An Iterative Mindset

Nov 20th, 2020 45m 16s

Today we are excited to welcome our first Results May Vary repeat guest, and author of Well-Designed Life, Dr. Kyra Bobinet. Kyra’s specialty is combining brain science & design thinking to serve the health of whole populations of people, and t

RMV 24 Sasha Sagan: You Can Design Rituals To Celebrate Our Unlikely Existence

Nov 6th, 2020 45m 26s

Today we’re thrilled and honored to welcome Sasha Sagan. Raised in a secular household by the astronomer Carl Sagan and writer and producer Ann Druyen, Sasha was taught that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of profound beauty, and tha

RMV 23 BJ Miller: You Can Design an Adventurous Life Inspired by Death

Oct 23rd, 2020 40m 48s

Today we are excited to welcome physician, author, speaker, and friend, Dr. BJ Miller. As a practicing hospice and palliative care doctor, BJ is best known for his TED Talk, "What Really Matters at the End of Life," and recently co-authored A B

RMV 22 Introducing Katia Verresen, Our New Co-Host: You Can Design An Abundance Advantage

Oct 9th, 2020 27m 58s

"Your mindset is like glasses. It's the lens through which you see the world."In this episode of Results May Vary, Chris and Tracy welcome new co-host Katia Verresen, an executive coach and dubbed "the fairy godmother of Silicon Valley." Katia'

RMV 21 Saeeda Hafiz: You Can Design Healing Out Of Childhood Chaos

Sep 11th, 2020 52m 28s

Saeeda Hafiz is a yoga teacher, author, and wellness expert. As a holistic health educator with the San Francisco Unified School District, she focuses on sharing her knowledge of physical and mental wellness within the school system. On this ep

RMV 20 Barbara Knickerbocker Beskind: You Can Design Aging

Sep 11th, 2020 40m 40s

Barbara has been designing her life for almost a century, with a stint at global design firm IDEO starting when she was just 93-years-old. After seeing founder David Kelley featured on an episode of 60 Minutes, Barbara wrote to the company offe

Surprise, Listeners...Results May Vary is Back!

Sep 11th, 2020 2m 31s

Surprise, listeners! It’s been quite awhile since our last episode, but that doesn’t mean you’ve heard the last of me and Chris, or the amazing individuals we’ve met who have been intentionally designing their own lives. In fact, we dug into th

RMV 19 Kristen Berman: You Can Design Your Behavior

Sep 11th, 2020 43m 2s

Kristen Berman spends a lot of time thinking about human behavior. As a behavioral economist, she helps people make the changes that they want in the long term, but are hard to implement in the short term. On this episode of Results May Vary, K

RMV 18 Stanford d.school Civic Innovation Fellows: You Can Design Impact at Scale

Apr 17th, 2017 1h 14m

In our last episode, community architect Sandra Kulli talked to us about fostering human connection through the design of extraordinary places. Today we are excited to share this very special episode of Results May Vary. We’re featuring this y

RMV 17 Sandra Kulli: You Can Design Community

Mar 6th, 2017 58m 45s

In our newest episode, we introduce you to Sandra Kulli, a community architect, dedicated to creating extraordinary places that focus on fostering human connection. As she practices the business and art of placemaking, Sandra is an advocate of

RMV 16 Dr. Mick Smyer: You Can Design Climate Action

Jan 2nd, 2017 37m 1s

On the newest episode of Results May Vary, we introduce you to aging and climate change expert, Dr. Mick Smyer, and his Graying Green movement, which aims to engage more older adults in taking impactful action on climate change. Among his many

RMV 15 Jenny Jin: You Can Design For College (and Beyond)

Oct 20th, 2016 49m 55s

Today we introduce you to designer, Jenny Jin, whose motto is “always be learning!” A graduate of Stanford and MIT, she recently worked at the Alicia Foundation, founded by world renowned chef of El Bulli, Ferran Adria, to promote healthy eatin

RMV 14 Aaron Sklar: You Can Design Healthcare

Jul 15th, 2016 50m 52s

As the U.S. healthcare system undergoes a technology revolution, the impact on us as patients, and for providers, often falls short of the promises made. In our newest episode, we ask healthcare innovator, Aaron Sklar, how we can fix our broken

RMV 13 Story Musgrave: Should You Really Try To Design Your Life?

May 7th, 2016 1h 5m

What CAN'T you say about Story Musgrave? He holds 7 graduate degrees in math, computers, chemistry, medicine, physiology, literature and psychology, and has been awarded 20 honorary doctorates. He was a part-time trauma surgeon during his 30 ye

RMV 12 Ela Ben Ur: You Can Design An Intuitive Compass

Mar 17th, 2016 1h

Have you ever wanted a fast and reliable way to make changes in your life? In our newest episode of Results May Vary, we orient ourselves with Ela Ben Ur and her Innovators' Compass, a simple tool that allows you to take swift action on any opp