Episode 7 - Winning Voices with Tim Ferriss

Magic Johnson is an NBA legend who has achieved greatness on and off the court. In this episode, Magic, an advocate and apostle for telling purposeful stories for leadership success, shares his "I am Kareem" story which changed the mindset of the Lakers when the team felt failure against their opposing team was inevitable.

Mark Victor Hansen, creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, has sold over 100 million books worldwide. Mark shares with Peter the purposeful story of how he was dyslexic and turned "no" into "on" in order to propel the success of this franchise after it had been rejected 144 times.

Although Stephen Curry is an NBA star for the Golden State Warriors, he wasn't highly recruited out of high school despite his strong basketball pedigree. Stephen converses with Peter about how he turned that negative back story of criticism and adversity into a purposeful story that motivated him to become one of the NBA's brightest young talents.

Chad Hurley's simple idea of giving the world a platform to easily upload videos and share with their friends led to YouTube being sold to Google for $1.6 billion. Chad tells Peter the story that was the catalyst for creating YouTube. By telling the story forward of how he and his partner solved a universal problem, Chad was able to convince others of YouTube's enormous potential.

Pat Riley, who has won 7 NBA Championships as a player and coach, tells purposeful stories to his team, the public, the media, partners and, as a highly sought after motivational speaker, to corporations to ignite success. Riley shares how critical it is to know your audience before you deliver your "tell" and how he uses telling purposeful stories to move people to action.

Deepak Chopra, MD, best-selling author and founder of the Chopra Center for Well Being, shares with Peter the story that ignited his passion for alternative medicine and how negative back stories can be projected in the physical body. In this episode, Chopra reveals that by asking yourself critical questions, you can change the story you tell to yourself and propel self-healing.

Tony Robbins, renowned life strategist, author and turnaround expert, exhorts to others a simple mantra, "change your story, change your life." In this episode, Tony discusses with Peter how being a great story listener is critical for success.