ongrowth - all things that inspire.

David D. Burns is a psychiatrist and adjunct professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the author of the bestselling books Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy and The Feeling Good Handbook. Burns popularized Aaron T. Beck's cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) when his books became bestsellers during the 1980s. In a January 2021 interview, Burns attributed his rise in notoriety, popularity, and much of his success to an initial appearance in 1988 on the afternoon television talk show, The Phil Donahue Show, in which he was invited by the producer after helping her teenage son with depression. Burns received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1964 and his M.D. from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1970. He completed his residency training in psychiatry in 1974 at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and was certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1976. Burns is the author of numerous research studies, book chapters, and books. He also gives lectures and conducts many psychotherapy training workshops for mental health professionals throughout the United States and Canada each year. He has won many awards for his research and teaching, and has been named "Teacher of the Year" three times by the graduating class of psychiatric residents at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Burns was an early student of Aaron T. Beck, who developed cognitive therapy during the 1960s and 1970s. Cognitive therapy was also based on the pioneering work of Albert Ellis during the 1950s, who popularized the notion that our thoughts and beliefs create our moods. However, the basic concept behind cognitive therapy goes all the way back to Epictetus, the Greek philosopher. Nearly 2,000 years ago he wrote that people are disturbed not by things, but by the views we take of them. In other words, our thoughts (or "cognitions") create all of our feelings. Thus when we make healthy changes in the way we think, we experience healthy changes in the way we feel. A quote by Dr Burns: "Action proceeds motivation" David D. Burns website - https://feelinggood.com/

Summit Series is an ideas festival and is designing experiences that connect and inspire a community of today's brightest leaders.   At Summit, there are 5 different ways that they have people connect, with Summit events including music, talks, culinary experiences, and philanthropic goals. Summit creates a cross-pollination of ideas and is a peer group. Jeremy talk's about the Summits culture of "Make no small plans" approach to building Summit and how that generosity breeds abundance. They aim to create authenticity and Jeremey and the Summit team are looking to have a community that helps leaders grow professionally and personally.   Jermey talks about the history of Summit, including the time's Bill Clinton, Jeff Bezos and Mark Bezos attended.   Tony Hsieh gave the founders advice on how important culture was in the early days of Summit, asking the Summit founders questions like "Is there anyone here who you wouldn't invite back?".   Jeremy talks about how Summit bought a Mountain to create a home for the Summit community called Powder Mountain.   Jeremey can found here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-schwartz-758a0314/   Learn more about Summit Series - https://summit.co/   More about Powder Mountain - https://www.powdermountain.com/

Tim is CEO and co-founder of a company called Cloosiv (YC S19).   Cloosiv is a company looking to offer smaller coffee shops a mobile ordering solution that can compete with those of the mega coffee brands.    Tim had an idea when he was working at Apple, he was looking at the Apple Store app and customers could walk into the store without ever talking to anyone and buy something. This sparked Tim to build something like that for other markets, which kicked off a journey to the coffee shop market.   He became a management consultant at the North Highland Consulting firm, and they invested 300k into the winner of a startup idea. Tim was that winner and they gave him 300k to start his business. Tim found his cofounder James on UpWork to help develop the app.    Tim had to unlearn how to be a management consultant, generally, companies pay large dollar amounts and "paid for perfection". But as a startup founder Tim mentioned he had to test, removing those own expectations.    Tim's first idea was to create a unified payment app and mentioned he would stand outside stores at the mall and ask questions to the customers walking around. Tim met with the founders of DoorDash and Instacart to learn about mobile ordering. Coffee shops have never had an app that was just for them.   Tim applied to Y Combinator 4-5 times over and over again getting rejected, but Tim never gave up. Dalton Caldwell called the Cloosiv founders delivering the bad news about not getting in and Tim applied again after making progress.   In one trip to San Fransisco and through a fortunate series of events came to a meeting with Sam Altman, who made some introductions, one being Lachy Groom who was an early employee at Stripe, previously head of stripe issuing, core payments product. Lachy was one of Cloosiv's first investors. Laura Behrens, Founder & CEO at Shippo joined as one of the early angel investors.   Square is now Cloosiv's payment partner, coffee shops tend to have very little free table space and their app can run simultaneously as the Cloosiv app on an iPad.   Tim and the Cloosiv team manage a coffee shop's inventory of coffee ordering real-time working towards a platform for a coffee shop to build their brands.   More about Tim here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/griffintimothy/   More about Cloosiv here - https://www.cloosiv.com/

Hoon Kim is founder and CEO of startup Keelo - https://keelo.com   Keelo is an app that helps keep its users fit. Hoon has a passion for long term health. Everything in the app is measured and scored. Keelo keeps people motivated, with the app recommending what workouts to do, geared towards health and strength. This is a project of passion for Hoon. The app was featured on Apple's App Store. Hoon talks about how as we age how to take care of yourself long term, he talks about a good goal for anyone is to be physically independent for as long as possible. Fitness classes can be expensive and Hoon wanted to create a service for everyone, income aside, creating an app at a price point anyone can afford.    Hoon talks about what do people regret when they die, talking about family, risks and how to make an impact in the world. Hoon goes on to talk about passion and why he decided to leave Microsoft after 5 years, going to Stanford Business School. Hoon learned about entrepreneurship, how to start a company and the risks … from Hoon: "In entrepreneurship, there is no one to answer too."   Before Keelo, Hoon founded a restaurant gift card company, which he successfully exited to OpenTable.com.

Learn a bit about motivation and philosophy from Angelo The Motivator. Angelo talks about his past in Nigeria, leaving as a political refugee moving to the U.S. Clevland, Boston then to Stockholm. Angelo brings up the book "The Inner Game of Tennis The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance By W. Timothy Gallwey" You can find him on YouTube and Peptalk. Song Sky lanterns by N I M Z.  

Michael Witz is a seasoned entrepreneur, founder, and CEO at Redemption Games, Inc.   In the podcast, we talk about his time cofounding a startup called Stock Jungle, a successful financial company. Then going on to start a company in the early days of the Facebook platform back in 2008, creating a social gaming company, launching over 50 products.   Michael takes a deep look into some growth hacks on the podcast like the "viral coefficient", a virality math formula. One early heck on Facebook was having people invite their entire friend's list with a single click of a button.   Michael talks about strategy on getting one of his startups sold, "Mob Science” acquired by a private equity (PE) firm in 2013 and the process to do a sale. Michael built the top grossing game Cookie Jam while leading the San Diego division of SGN Games, Inc., who had acquired his previous company, Mob Science. While leading Mob Science, he became one of the largest Facebook game developers, having built such titles as Snowball Fight, Coffee Bar, Gardenhood, Magic Mall, and Legends: Rise of a Hero. Legends: Rise of a Hero was published by Zynga and was named one of their top 10 games for 2012 by Kotaku.   He gives a past historical walk through of what it was like to experience the change from a gaming world driven by Facebook and the shift to Mobile gaming.   Michael was in the Y Combinator Summer 2014 batch and what the experience was like.   We lastly go into cryptocurrency and blockchain. He is currently working on bring Luna DNA and LunaCoin to life.

Stanford University Emeritus Professor John Krumboltz on Learning and his life journey   Dr. Krumboltz is a specialist in counseling psychology. He helps counselors learn how to help their clients take actions to create more satisfying lives for themselves. His research covers tracing the roots of academic, career, and personal problems, as well as studying the emotional outcomes of learning experiences, and the use of multimedia in simulating occupational activities. Dr. Krumboltz is also a leader in the theory of career counseling. His social learning theory postulates that career transitions result from an uncountable number of learning experiences made possible by both planned and unplanned encounters with the people, institutions, and events in each person's particular environment. https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/jdk   In this interview, Professor Krumboltz talks about his goal to live to 100 years old. Professor Krumboltz talks about our life and how short it is and how we will all die, while we are alive let's have fun.   He walks us through his experience in how everything is connected, his thoughts on giving advice to parents about children and their goals and careers and goes into various topics like artificial intelligence. Dr. Krumboltz talks about "the lecture method" in college and how it is bad.   Professor Krumboltz, one of the people who coined the term from his book "Fail Fast, Fail Often”, talks about the topic and what it means. Its the fear of failure that is the biggest hindrance.   What is someone doesn't like you? So what, it isn't a big deal.   Dr. Krumboltz talks about becoming a Stanford Professor and the steps he took to get there.   Author of the books Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win” by Ph.D. Ryan Babineaux and Ph.D. John Krumboltz Luck Is No Accident: Making the Most of Happenstance in Your Life and Career by Al Levin EdD and John Krumboltz PhD Any many others which can be found here - https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_2?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AJohn+Krumboltz&page=2&keywords=John+Krumboltz

An interview with "the father of the Internet” TCP/IP co-inventor Vint Cerf.   Cerf was born June 23, 1943 is an American Internet pioneer, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet”, sharing this title with TCP/IP co-inventor Bob Kahn. His contributions have been acknowledged and lauded, repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Marconi Prizeand membership in the National Academy of Engineering.   In the early days, Cerf was a manager for the United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funding various groups to develop TCP/IP technology. When the Internet began to transition to a commercial opportunity during the late 1980s, Cerf moved to MCIwhere he was instrumental in the development of the first commercial email system (MCI Mail) connected to the Internet.   Cerf was instrumental in the funding and formation of ICANN from the start. He waited a year before stepping forward to join the ICANN Board, and eventually became chairman. He was elected as the president of the Association for Computing Machinery in May 2012, and in August 2013 he joined the Council on CyberSecurity's Board of Advisors.   Cerf is active in many organizations that are working to help the Internet deliver humanitarian value to the world. He is supportive of innovative projects that are experimenting with new approaches to global problems, including the digital divide, the gender gap, and the changing nature of jobs. Cerf is also known for his sartorial style, typically appearing in a three-piece suit—a rarity in an industry known for its casual dress norms.   More here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf

Somni is a digital health company improving sleep through technology-enabled behavioral medicine.    Matt Berg, the founder and CEO of Somni talks about how sleep affects us, sleep pods at work, how the Somni team went on tour with Arianna Huffington to talk about sleep to William C. Dement's book The Promise of Sleep, sleep debt, what is blue light and chronobiology, circadian rhythms, melatonin, f.lux, light blub colors, power napping, and other tips on getting better sleep.   Matt also gives some tips and insight into bootstrapping a startup.   Learn more about your sleep from Somni at https://puresomni.com/   Music by If These Trees Could Talk - The Giving Tree

Arogyaswami J. Paulraj AVSM, VSM (born 14 April 1944) is a distinguished Indian-American electrical engineer. A former Commodore in the Indian Navy, he is currently a Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Elect. Engineering at Stanford University.   Paulraj was born in Pollachi near Coimbatore, India, one of six children of Sinappan Arogyaswami and his wife Rose. He joined the Indian Navy at age 15 through the National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla and served the Navy for 30 years. Paulraj received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Naval College of Engineering, Lonavala, India, and his doctorate in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.   Paulraj is the pioneer of a breakthrough wireless technology known as MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) that dramatically increases performance of wireless systems. MIMO is now core technology in latest WiFi and LTE systems. Paulraj served in India till 1991 where he is known for pioneering the development of military sonars (APSOH family). Paulraj also served as the founding director for three major labs in India - Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), CDAC (Center for Development of Advanced Computing) and CRL (Central Research Labs of Bharat Electronics).   Paulraj's MIMO technology is now crucial to local area and mobile wireless communications. MIMO allows both higher data rates and wider coverage areas. MIMO technology involves using multiple antennas at both the transmit station and the receive station. Efficiency is increased because parallel streams of data can be multiplexed within the same channel.   Paulraj first developed the idea of MIMO in 1992 while at Stanford University. Using the spatial multiplexing concept that exploits MIMO antennas, he demonstrated that spectral efficiency could be improved by transmitting independent data streams from each antenna and then exploiting the distinct spatial signatures of each stream at the receive antennas to separate them. Paulraj was issued a patent for the MIMO concept in 1994. He faced skepticism from industry and funding sources and practical application of the technology was not seen until the early 2000s. Among the obstacles, digital transmission was needed to fully exploit the potential of MIMO, but the U.S. wireless industry was still predominantly analog at the time. However, Paulraj persisted and held annual workshops at Stanford on the technology that eventually helped interest in MIMO and spatial multiplexing take hold.   Paulraj founded Iospan Wireless Inc. in 1998 to form the first company to incorporate MIMO technology in a commercial system. The system developed by Paulraj at Iospan helped erase lingering skepticism about the practicality of MIMO. The lessons learned at Iospan gave the wireless industry the confidence to incorporate MIMO into emerging wireless standards, and the technology developed at Iospan such as spatial multiplexing, orthogonal frequency-division multiple access and opportunistic scheduling, can be seen in today's 4G systems. Intel Corp. acquired part of Iospan in 2003 to help launch its own push into WiMAX, further establishing the importance of Paulraj's MIMO concept. Paulraj co-founded Beceem Communications in 2003 and the company became a leader in WiMAX chipsets. Beceem was acquired by Broadcom Corp. in 2010.   An IEEE Fellow, Paulraj is also a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and several other scientific / engineering academies. His awards include the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award and Padma Bhushan from the president of India, one of the country's highest civilian awards. Paulraj is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, Calif., and is also a Senior Advisor to Broadcom Corp., Irvine, Calif.   During his 30 years in the Indian (Navy) (1961-1991), he founded three national level laboratories in India and headed one of India's most successful military R&D projects – APSOH sonar. He received over a dozen awards (many at the national level) in India including the Padma Bhushan, Ati Vishist Seva Medal and the VASVIK Medal.   Paulraj has set examples of bridging Academia & Tech Industry by bringing Academic Innovations to the center-stage of the Industry. After having designed and developed one of the most advanced Sonar APSOH for the Indian Navy, while he proposed the idea of MIMO from Stanford, it naturally faced skepticism and was rejected by the Industry. His relentless persistence for over two decades during which he created working models of his MIMO ideas and proved them by creating two high technology companies in the Silicon Valley. The first - Iospan Wireless Inc. developed the core 4G wireless technology and was acquired by Intel Corp. In 2003, his second company - Beceem Communications Inc. became the market leader in 4G chip sets and was acquired by Broadcom Corp. in 2010.   Through productization of his ideas into viable products, he proved his innovative ideas about MIMO & WIMAX, which got overwhelming adoption from the industry world over and became the foundation of the next generation Mobile Communication, popularly known as 4G. Not surprisingly, Paulraj is known as the Father of MIMO and WIMAX, the 4G Cellular Technologies.   Paulraj has been honoured with the most coveted global technology awards, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 2011 and the Marconi Prize in 2014, for his pioneering contributions to the telecommunications industry.