Life + Work Podcast
June 8, 2022
An Entrepreneur Who Loves Traveling and Optimizing Money: The Story of My Podcast
#60: In this episode, your host Chris Hutchins shares his personal and professional story. He also explains how his life experiences, previous jobs and startups, and passion as an optimizer and entrepreneur inspired the creat...
May 25, 2022
How Kindness Can Make You Unbeatable at Work and Connect You with Anyone with Adrienne Bankert
#58: Emmy-award-winning journalist and author Adrienne Bankert joins Chris to talk about how to make kindness your hidden superpower. They also discuss, giving and receiving constructive criticism, cultivating kindness within...
May 18, 2022
Living a Life of Excellence, Agility and Meaning with Mike Hayes
#57: Former Navy SEAL Commanding Officer Mike Hayes joins Chris to discuss leadership principles, strategies for successful communication, building confidence, and the most important lessons that he learned while serving in t...
April 27, 2022
Minimalism and the Things That Matter for a Meaningful Life with Joshua Becker
#54: Minimalist expert and award-winning author, Joshua Becker, joins Chris to talk about the many ways that “things'' get in the way of living a purpose-filled life. They discuss Joshua’s top decluttering strategies, the 8 d...
April 13, 2022
Dial In Your Health (While Still Enjoying Life) with Liz Moody
#52: Writer and cookbook author Liz Moody joins Chris to discuss health and wellness tips, including what kind of foods you need to be adding in, supplements, vitamins, cold showers, circadian walks, hydroxyapatite, taping yo...
March 9, 2022
Finding Happiness, Success and Deep Purpose with Arthur Brooks
#47: Behavioral social scientist Arthur Brooks joins Chris to explore happiness and the different types of intelligence. They also explore the hustle culture, the science of satisfaction, the reverse bucket list, the four goo...
March 2, 2022
Mastering the Secret Language of Charismatic Communication with Vanessa Van Edwards
#46: Vanessa Van Edwards, a master of communication, joins Chris to explore the language of human social cues and what it takes to be charismatic. They also cover the impact that the four primary forms of communication (vocal...
Feb. 16, 2022
Why 50/50 Doesn't Work: A New Model for Happier Relationships with Kaley and Nate Klemp
#43: Relationship experts Kaley and Nate Klemp, Ph.D., join Chris and his wife Amy to discuss how to create balance in a relationship. They explore why perfect equality is unrealistic, why you shouldn’t aim for fairness, how...
Feb. 2, 2022
The Power of Regret, Motivation and Good Timing with Dan Pink
#40: Bestselling Author Daniel Pink joins Chris to discuss how regret works and how it can help us make smarter decisions, perform better at work and bring greater meaning to our lives. They also talk about Dan’s best tactics...
Jan. 26, 2022
The Language and Actions of Great Leaders with David Marquet
#39: Retired Navy Captain and leadership expert David Marquet joins Chris to share the moment in the Navy that completely flipped his understanding of leadership. They discuss why the secret to leadership lies in giving up co...
Jan. 19, 2022
Leveraging Performance Psychology with a 3-time Gold Medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings
#38: Gold medal olympian and entrepreneur Kerri Walsh Jennings joins Chris to discuss how she's optimized performance in her life and career. Specifically, she explains how she nurtures her body, mind, and spirit. They talk a...
Jan. 12, 2022
The Surprising Habits of Backable People with Suneel Gupta
#37: Bestselling author Suneel Gupta joins Chris to discuss how to make your ideas sound so appealing to others that they not only adopt them but advocate for them. They talk about how to make failure work in your favor, why ...
Jan. 5, 2022
Bucket Lists, Audacious Goals and Living the Life You Want with Ben Nemtin
#36: Bucket list master and NYT #1 bestselling author Ben Nemtin joins Chris to discuss how to live a fulfilling life rather than a life dictated by the expectations of others. They talk about how to create a meaningful bucke...
Dec. 22, 2021
Insider Tricks to Healthcare, Prescriptions and Medical Bills with Marshall Allen
#34: Healthcare journalist Marshall Allen joins Chris to discuss why you should never pay the first medical bill you receive. He also shares tips that can help you prevent big medical bills before you get care, remove unreaso...
Dec. 8, 2021
Health Tips, Crypto and NFTs with Kevin Rose
#32: Entrepreneur and VC, Kevin Rose, joins Chris to talk about the best and latest in everything from wellness to digital currency. They dive into all Kevin's health tips and tricks, what led him to be such a successful inve...
Dec. 1, 2021
Using Creativity to Reshape Your Life and Regain Freedom with Chase Jarvis
#31: World-renowned photographer Chase Jarvis joins Chris to discuss how to unlock your full potential by embedding creativity in your daily life. They talk about how you are creative even if you think you aren’t, 4 simple st...
Nov. 24, 2021
Memory Retention Tactics with World Champion Johannes Mallow
#30: World memory champion Johannes Mallow joins Chris to share techniques you can use to boost your memory. They discuss how he became a memory champion despite his struggles with a muscle disease, the timeless techniques he...
Nov. 17, 2021
The Science Behind Lasting Relationships with Logan Ury
#29: Bestselling author and relationship expert Logan Ury joins Chris to discuss the science behind successful relationships. They discuss how to build relationships that last a lifetime, how to apply relationship science to ...
Nov. 10, 2021
Pushing Your Mind and Body to Win with NBA Legend Manu Ginobili
#28: NBA legend Manu Ginobili joins Chris to share how he made the journey from an Argentine kid who loved basketball to becoming an NBA All-Star. They discuss how Manu pushed his mind and body to beat the odds throughout his...
Oct. 27, 2021
Building The Tim Ferriss Show to 700+ Million Downloads with Tim Ferriss
#26: Best-selling author Tim Ferriss chats with Chris about how he built and grew his podcast ( The Tim Ferriss Show ) to 700+ Million Downloads. They give a deep inside look at how their podcasts got started and how everythi...
Oct. 20, 2021
The Four Research-Backed Steps to Be Indistractable with Nir Eyal
#25: Bestselling author Nir Eyal joins Chris to discuss how you can become indistractable. They discuss the hidden psychology that drives people to distraction, why procrastination is not a character flaw, why you should stop...
Oct. 13, 2021
Adopting a Minority Mindset with Jaspreet Singh
#24: Entrepreneur Jaspreet Singh joins Chris to discuss what a minority mindset is and how you can have one yourself. They talk about how to get through the tough early days of any entrepreneurial project, some of Jaspreet’s ...
Oct. 6, 2021
The Science of Behavior Change with Kristen Berman
#23: Behavioral Scientist Kristen Berman joins Chris to discuss what research shows about why people act so irrationally, how we can actually change our own behaviors, why she thinks habits are overrated, and some great trick...
Sept. 29, 2021
FOMO, FOBO and How To Make Great Decisions with Patrick McGinnis
#22: Patrick McGinnis, bestselling author and creator of the word FOMO, joins Chris to discuss the history of FOMO, ways to overcome the toll it can have on your life, a framework to vastly improve your decision-making and th...