From negotiating with loved ones over what to have for dinner to life and death hostage negotiations, the skills needed are similar. Steve interviews Chris Voss, author of Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended on it.

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Steve interviews Dayna Martin, the mother of four children who have never been to school, an advocate for non-traditional way to raise children, and the author of Radical Unschooling: A Revolution Has Begun

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The best parents are the ones that make themselves increasingly unnecessary. Many parents who only mean well and only want to help may be able to benefit their children more by getting out of the way. Steve interviews Jessica Lahey, author of The Gift of Failure: How The Best Parents Learn To Let Go So […]

First, Steve interviews John Canemaker of the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. Then, Steve was not a very good student when he was in school and shares his view as to why “C” students sometimes do way better in life than they did in school.

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Drugs are not what we think they are. Addiction is not what we think it is. The drug war has different motives than what we have been told by leadership and the press. Steve interviews Johann Hari, author of Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.