Art of the Hustle

Simon is best known for popularizing the concept of WHY in his first TED talk of 2009. It rose to become the third most-watched on Ted.com, with over 40 million views and subtitled in 47 languages. He is also the author of multiple best selling books including Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, Together is Better, Find Your Why, and most recently The Infinite Game.

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Chris Voss was the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the FBI and during his 24-year tenure in the Bureau, he was trained in the art of negotiation by the FBI, Scotland Yard, and Harvard Law School. Before then, he had served as the lead crisis negotiator for the New York City Division of the FBI and was a member of the NYC Joint Terrorist Task Force.

Chris has taught business negotiation as an adjunct professor at the USC's Marshall School of Business, Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, and Harvard University.

He's the CEO & Founder of The Black Swan Group, which provides negotiation training for individuals, companies, and live events, and a recipient of the Attorney General's Award for Excellence in Law Enforcement and the FBI Agents Association Award for Distinguished and Exemplary Service.

Chris joins us to talk about the qualities that make a successful negotiator, how using empathy, rather than direct questions, can elicit more effective responses, and the groundbreaking tactics discussed in his book Never Split the Difference.

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Christina Sass is the co-founder and board member of Andela, a company that recruits the most talented software engineers on the African continent and pairs them with global tech companies as full-time, distributed team members.

In five years, Andela has hired almost 2,000 developers and become known as the "Best Place to Work in Africa," with tech campuses in Lagos, Nairobi, Kampala, and Kigali. Founded on the premise that brilliance is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not, Andela has built one of the world's most selective engineering institutions.

Christina has built education and employment programs in China, Gaza, the West Bank, Kenya, and Nigeria. Prior to co-founding Andela, she directed the Program department of the Clinton Global Initiative and advised the President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, a $9B global foundation working to advance education and financial inclusion for youth in Africa.

Christina serves on the Advisory Council of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and on the board of the non-profit Global Give Back Circle. Christina's work has been mentioned by Forbes, CNN, The New Yorker, NBC, and WIRED.

She joins us to talk about how traveling and teaching around the world fostered her passion for youth employment, cracking jokes with Bill Gates, and how artificial intelligence will change the future of hiring.

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In this episode, Jeff sits down with one of the most respected NFL players to ever play the game, 2019 Hall of Fame inductee and longtime friend, Tony Gonzalez. Tony is a former NFL tight end who played 17 season, 270 games and 14 pro bowls and with that retired as the all-time leader in catches, yards and touchdowns by a tight end. But Tony’s career hasn’t always been full of big wins and easy routes. Listen as he deep dives into how each stage in his life has taught him the value behind over coming fear, mastering the art of focus and what it means to “play with your heart”.

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In this episode of Art Of The Hustle, LISNR Founder and CEO, Rodney Williams shares stories about getting four degrees by age twenty four, founding LISNR on the Start-Up Bus, and how being well-rounded puts you in a position to succeed as a CEO. Rodney also shares tips on how to network, what advice he wishes he received, and why it's important to be accessible. Tune in to this episode of Art Of The Hustle which is made in collaboration between Work Radio and Red Bull.

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