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Yesterday
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.
In 1978, Brian Smith quit his accounting job in Australia and headed to California with a surfboard, some savings, and ambition. He figured California was where he’d find an idea or a product to bring back home to Australia to build a business. A year in, he was still looking.But ... Show More
1h 28m
May 28
Advice Line with Jeffrey Hollender of Seventh Generation
Today’s callers: Kristina in Ohio looks for avenues beyond organic social media to market her furniture designed for toddlers and parents alike. Then Phil in Michigan considers the best messaging to brew interest in his farm-made cherry vinegar. And Caroline in California scouts ... Show More
46m 5s
May 25
Justin’s Nut Butter: Justin Gold. He Was Waiting Tables, Then...He Reinvented Peanut Butter.
At 25, Justin Gold was making experimental peanut butter in his home kitchen with a food processor and a stack of recipe journals. His singular obsession: bring new life to a tired lunchtime staple.What started as late-night experiments with honey, cinnamon and banana eventually ... Show More
1h 27m
Aug 2019
201. The History of Audible With Angelika Fuellemann
Angelika Fuellemann is a designer who worked early on with BookSense.com, then got hired by Audible early on, so this is the early story of Audible. It’s funny… audio, streaming music, podcasts, audiobooks, it seems so obvious now, but it really is funny to look back and think ab ... Show More
25m 4s
Jun 2021
LAUNCHING Our Audiobook
Today we're launching our audiobook: The Sh*t They Never Taught You.For a limited time, you can get 50% OFF! Use the code LAUNCH at checkout to buy the audiobook for half price: https://mysoundwise.com/soundcasts/1623277740633sThis episode is a free chapter - the introduction to ... Show More
37m 17s
Dec 2016
206: Go Where the Cash is Already Flowing
I’d like to introduce some of the characters in my latest book Buy Buttons, and also give you a sample of the audiobook version I recorded. I knew I wanted to create an audiobook for this title, because Audible is yet another “Buy Button” marketplace for me to test out, and becau ... Show More
25m 45s
Apr 2022
1951: Audius Co-Founder Forrest Browning Talks About $Audio
Audius is a digital streaming service that connects fans directly with artists and exclusive new music. It does this by being fully decentralized: Audius is owned and run by a vibrant, open-source community of artists, fans, and developers all around the world. Audius gives artis ... Show More
30m 50s
Apr 2019
Ep 182: Matching the right (audio)book to the right listener
A request we hear a lot at WSIRN is “can we have another episode about audiobooks??” So today, Anne is bringing in Michele Cobb, publisher at Audiofile magazine, to not only help recommend audiobooks for YOU, but to match Anne with her own next great audiobook read. Michele and A ... Show More
50m 59s
Jun 2017
#244: The Quiet Master of Cryptocurrency -- Nick Szabo
<p>Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4) is a polymath. The breadth and depth of his interests and knowledge are truly astounding. He's a computer scientist, legal scholar, and cryptographer best known for his pioneering research in digital contracts and cryptocurrency. The phrase and concept ... Show More
2h 31m
Oct 2020
#472: Books I've Loved — Debbie Millman
21m 6s
Sep 2020
#459: Books I've Loved — Alain de Botton
14m 47s
Aug 2020
#454: Books I've Loved — Whitney Cummings
20m 40s
Nov 2019
Ep 209: Cracking the audiobook code
Today’s guest is Jamie Freeman, a reader who was led to audiobooks by her favorite true crime podcasts… and has since made serious space in her life to read with her earbuds in. Anne and Jamie chat about spine-tingly crime nonfiction, historical romance, their favorite audiobook ... Show More
48m 23s
Before mp3 players came along in the mid 1990's, listening to audiobooks was a pain. The number of titles was tiny, narration was dull, and if you wanted to listen on the go, you had to juggle a bunch of clunky cassettes. Don Katz faced these frustrations every day while jogging. He was an accomplished writer who thought there was something special and intim ... Show More
<p><strong>Books I've Loved — Debbie Millman </strong>| Brought to you by <a href="http://audible.com/tim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Audible</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p>Welcome to another episode of <a href="http://tim.blog/podcast? ... Show More
<p>Welcome to another episode of <a href="http://tim.blog/podcast?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcast-description" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Tim Ferriss Show</em></a>, where it is my job to sit down with world-class perf ... Show More
<p><strong>Books I've Loved — Whitney Cummings </strong>| Brought to you by <a href="http://audible.com/tim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Audible</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p>Welcome to another episode of <a href="http://tim.blog/podcas ... Show More
