Hosted by Lisa Nicole Bell · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 273 episodes
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Behind the Brilliance is the go to podcast for the intellectually curious and relentlessly ambitious. The show features weekly long form interviews with innovative and culture-shaping leaders in art, culture, technology, business, lifestyle, and personal development along with Lisa's inspiring and funny advice on life, creativity, and entrepreneurship.
Lisa Nicole Bell hosts Behind the Brilliance, a society show with 273 episodes published.
This recap episode distills the core ideas from this season of Behind the Brilliance with fresh perspective on building a meaningful life and career without burning out, numbing out, or deferring fulfillment to "someday.
In this expansive conversation, Lisa talks with executive coach and author Eric Nehrlich. His career path reads like a masterclass in strategic pivoting: physics PhD dropout turned software engineer, product manager, Goo
Board-certified sleep specialist Dr. Michael Breus returns to Behind the Brilliance for a wide-ranging and deeply practical masterclass on the three biological essentials that keep most people from thriving: sleep, hydra
SUMMARY Kate O'Neill is a strategist, futurist, and author who helps leaders navigate the intersection of technology and humanity. After building her career in Silicon Valley—including as one of Netflix's early employees
SUMMARY Actress, author, and Inner Fitness Project founder Tina Lifford returns to Behind the Brilliance for a follow up years after her crowd-pleasing interview in episode 115. Fresh off the release of her new book The
SUMMARY Physician and author Jordan Grumet joins Lisa for a wide-ranging, deeply reflective conversation about what happens when the life you worked toward no longer defines who you are. Jordan shares his personal journe
In this special year-end episode of Behind the Brilliance, Lisa presents six evidence-based strategies for designing a year that feels good while you're living it. Moving beyond traditional goal-setting advice, this epis
Season 15 of Behind the Brilliance delivered a mix of leading voices in psychology, entrepreneurship, and life design. This special recap distills the most powerful insights into one place highlighting big ideas and usef
Chris Guillebeau, bestselling author and creator of The Art of Nonconformity, joins Lisa to explore what it really takes to build a self-directed life. He shares his unconventional path from high school dropout and aid w
THE SHOW In this episode of Behind the Brilliance, entrepreneur and investor Sieva Kozinsky joins the show to share his journey from first-generation immigrant beginnings to co-founding Enduring Ventures, a holding compa
THE SHOW What happens when you build the company of your dreams, only to realize the dream came with tradeoffs you didn't see coming? In this candid conversation, Rand Fishkin — cofounder of Moz and SparkToro — shares th
Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant is a wildlife ecologist, storyteller, and nature show host whose path to success defies every traditional metric of merit. In this candid conversation, Rae shares how she went from struggling in math a
THE SHOW Most of us are running on autopilot, checking boxes, chasing goals, and pushing toward some imagined finish line without stopping to ask if this is how we really want to spend our lives. In this conversation, Jo
Elaine Pofeldt, former Fortune Small Business editor, uncovered a hidden economy of one-person businesses quietly earning 7 figures and spent years interviewing the entrepreneurs behind them. In this conversation, she re
THE SHOW Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, Harvard-trained psychologist and author of multiple bestsellers including Happier, joins Lisa to explore the psychology and habits that lead to happiness in modern times. He uncovers the myth
SUMMARY Anne-Laure Le Cunff, founder of Ness Labs and author of Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World, joins Lisa to reveal her unconventional career journey from Google engineer to startup founde
THE SHOW Ahad Khan, CEO of Kajabi, shares how his Midwestern roots shaped his approach to building software for "regular people," his experiences navigating investment banking, startup acquisitions, and the creator econo
THE SHOW In this episode of Behind the Brilliance, Dr. Ellen Hendriksen, clinical psychologist and author of How to Be Enough, joins the show to explore the nuances of perfectionism—from its seductive productivity perks
Lisa summarizes Season 14, Defying the Odds, with reflections on the strategies shared and helpful recaps. 240 – Dr. Andrew Newberg 241 – Cin Fabre 242 – Tyler Denk 243 – Jim Fielding 244 – Dr. Valerie Daniels-Carter 245
THE SHOW Kevin Kelly is a modern creative pioneer. He was a polymath before it was cool. His career as a writer, founder, photographer, and editor extends across industries and continents. A world traveler and lifelong l
Tina Lifford
Actress, author, Interior Fitness Project founder
2 appearances on this show
Dr. Jordan Grumet
hospice physician, personal finance expert, author of The Purpose Code · Unity Hospice
2 appearances on this show
Dr. Michael Breus
Clinical Sleep Specialist, Clinical Psychologist
2 appearances on this show
Eric Nehrlich
Executive coach and former Google Chief of Staff
2 appearances on this show
Kate O'Neill
Tech Humanist, CEO at KO Insights · KO Insights
2 appearances on this show
Kate O'Neill
Tech Humanist · KO Insights
2 appearances on this show
Dr Rae Wynn Grant
Dr · Wildlife Ecology
2 appearances on this show
Elaine Pofeldt
author of "Tiny Business, Big Money" and "The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business" · null
2 appearances on this show
Ellen Hendriksen
clinical psychologist and author of How to Be Enough · Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University
2 appearances on this show
Rand Fishkin
Serial entrepreneur and SEO expert · SparkToro
2 appearances on this show
Jodi Wellman
author of the book, You Only Die Once; founder of Four Thousand Mondays · Four Thousand Mondays
2 appearances on this show
Tal Ben-Shahar
Harvard-trained psychologist and author · Harvard
2 appearances on this show
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