Synopsis
James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, investor, board member, and the writer of 11 books including the recent WSJ Bestseller, "Choose Yourself!" (foreword by Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter).He has started and sold several companies for eight figure exits. He's on the board of a billion revenue company, has written for The Financial Times, The New York Observer, and over a dozen popular websites for the past 15 years. He's run several hedge funds, venture capital funds, and is a successful angel investor in technology, energy, and biotech.He has also lost all his money, made it back, lost it, made it back several times and openly discusses how he did it in his columns and books.
Episodes
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Make You a Millionaire! Jen Glantz EP01: You can't scale yourself! How to turn your knowledge into a million dollar!?
11/06/2021 Duration: 01h03minThe fourth candidate for Make You a Millionaire, Jen Glantz, The Bridesmaid for Hire, Author, and Podcast Host, has entered the ring! What is a bridesmaid for hire? Why hire a bridesmaid? Why can't your friends do it? In this episode, we find out what, how, and why bridesmaids for hire? What's really going on at most weddings? Also, you can't scale yourself, so we talk about how to turn Jen's idea and knowledge into a million-dollar business! Twitter: @JenGlantz IG: @jenglantz My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twit
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723 - What drives people to cult and conspiracy with Dan Cummins
09/06/2021 Duration: 01h14minI enjoy having people that are smart, knowledgeable, and good at telling stories on the podcast, sometimes I just enjoy discuss why some people do something! In this episode, I have Dan Cummins, the American stand-up comedian, and Timesuck podcast host, on to talk about Cult, Qanon, Conspiracy, and what superheroes ability that you rather have! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey th
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722 - How can CHIA solves Cryptocurrency's problem?! with Bram Cohen
07/06/2021 Duration: 01h31minBram Cohen, the founder of BitTorrent and Chia Network, in 2004, realized the internet speed and bandwidth was slow, and even maybe a fraction of what we have today, so he came up with a peer-to-peer protocol called BitTorrent. If you're old enough, you might have used it to download movies, music, and even games at some point. Fast track 2017, he found a new interest in cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, and Etherum, and saw that there's a problem with it. So he founded his own "Green" cryptocurrency in the hope of solving the issues that Bitcoin, Etherum, and other coins have! If you have questions about Chia, and what is Chia, how can Chia solve the problem, and what problems exactly are we looking at? Don't worry, I do too, I ask all the questions that I am curious about and more! Check it out, listen, and to the moon! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write
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Make You a Millionaire! Paolo EP01: Idea Sex! Combining Passion, Knowledge and Skill!
05/06/2021 Duration: 01h32minThe third candidate for Make You a Millionaire has entered the ring! This time around, I will follow Paolo's journey and guiding him to become a millionaire, or set him on the path! Paolo has a very interesting background, he majored in theoretical physics, however, he doesn't just want to become a professor, so he started getting into coding. During his past time, he would cook and take pictures of food, so he decided to combine his passion for food and his knowledge in coding, and came up with pretty interesting software. Listen, enjoy and follow Paolo's journey! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcast
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721 - Can psychedelics help with mental illness? with Calum Hughes
02/06/2021 Duration: 59minThe suicide rate has been going up, more and more people are having some sort of mental illness, and the economic lockdown last year didn't help either! In this episode, Calum Hughes, Founder, and CEO of Allied Corporation came on and raise awareness on the mental health issue. We also talked about how psychedelic and cannabis/ marijuana can be used for the treatment of therapy-resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD, and substance use disorders. My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook ------------What do YO
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720 - How Sha Na Na Solves Murder - Robert A. Leonard, American Forensic Linguist and Founding Member of Sha Na Na
31/05/2021 Duration: 01h25minHow does Sha Na Na solve a murder? This is probably one of the best transitional stories that I have ever heard! Robert A. Leonard, American Forensic Linguist and Founding Member of Sha Na Na, opened for Jimi Hendrix in Woodstock, toured with the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and even Bruce Springsteen opened for them!Then he gave it all up, went and finished his Columbia Ph.D. in Linguistics, and became one of the best Forensic Linguists in the world. He worked on cases like the murder of JonBenet Ramsay, the murder of Charlene Hummert, the Tennessee Facebook murders, and many more. He even represented Apple in the "App Store" case!Link: https://www.robertleonardassociates.com/ My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you
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Make You a Millionaire! Jason Furst EP01: Know your passion, and your field!
27/05/2021 Duration: 01h09minThe second candidate for Makes You a Millionaire's series is here! In this episode/ series, we feature, Jason Furst, an up-and-coming restaurant manager! We talked about how's the restaurant business looks like in terms of staffing, reservation, and serving. What are the new methods and how a restaurant should adopt them in order to adapt to the post-pandemic Era? How can Jason start his journey to the million dollars! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head
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719 - John Lee Dumas: The Common Path to Uncommon Success
26/05/2021 Duration: 51minJohn Lee Dumas, author, and founder, and host of the award-winning podcast, Entrepreneurs on Fire, is probably one of my favorites Entrepreneurs in the world. In this episode, we have him on to talk about his new book, The Common Path to Uncommon Success. What I love about this book is that it has some very simple techniques that work about how to find your passion, how to find your niche, and then how do you become successful at it! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please follow and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook ------------What do Y
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718 - Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution with Carlo Rovelli
24/05/2021 Duration: 01h05minI love doing podcasts, cause when the guest comes on, I get to ask all sorts of questions, and the guests are obligated to answer them! The same goes with this episode! In this episode, I have Carlo Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist, and a writer, who also wrote the Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, which outsold the Fifty Shades of Grey, on to talk about his new book, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution. We talked about the whole history of the Quantum Revolution and everything physics and science. My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify
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Bonus Episode - 'Real Good' Podcast: Don't Get Lost In The Easy Conversation with Dr. Jonathan Shepherd
21/05/2021 Duration: 01h12minOnce in a while, I will come across a show that's so good and relevant, I think the listener needs to listen to it, and here's one of them, Real Good Podcast. Real Good by U.S. Bank, hosted by Faith Salie (Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me, CBS Sunday Morning) and is a podcast about the stories of people who are truly making an impact, and the people whose lives are being changed by their efforts. In this episode, which is the final episode of Season 2, they speak with Jonathan Shepherd, the President of the Board of Directors for the Black Mental Health Alliance about why the notion of those in black communities not wanting to seek care is a myth, why cost barriers are it inaccessible and how to stop getting bogged down in the easy conversations about care. My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I l
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717 - Exploring the God Equation with Dr. Michio Kaku
19/05/2021 Duration: 56minI love having Dr. Michio Kaku, An American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science, and the co-founder of String Theory, on the podcast. He's such a science communicator and has great philosophy behind every idea and theory that he has. In this episode, Dr. Michio Kaku talks about his new book, The God Equation, and explains to me if it's possible to time travel. My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listen
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716 - Former World Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov: How to be better at Chess!
17/05/2021 Duration: 58minThe world is still crazy over chess! At one point last year, chess was the most view's stream on Twitch, and it even surpassed Fortnite, which once was the most viewed game on Twitch! In this episode, I have, the Former World Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov, on to talk everything about chess, and his new platform, kasparovchess.com. I asked him all sorts of questions that I have been pondering myself for the past few months as I was trying to improve my chess rating. Can you be good at chess if you just starting out as an adult, what's the difference between Number One in chess, and Number Two in chess? If you just started, what should you focus on? We also talked about all the features on Kasparovchess, from masterclass to online video lessons, to puzzles, to podcast! Listen and enjoy! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check
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The Companion Podcast EP03: From Discussing Conflicts, to Jobs Changing, to Pitching ideas, to Trusting Data, and to Influencing other people! What did we learnt this month!?
14/05/2021 Duration: 37minCompanion Podcast for April 2021! Why are there so many conflicts out there? Do you lose any friends over a conflict? An argument? How the job industry has changed? How to successfully pitch a good idea? Why should you really trust data, and how do we influence other people? In this episode, Jay and Nathan explore what they have learnt from The James Altucher Show for the month of April 2021! If you missed any of the episodes, make sure to go back and revisit them! Also mentioned: David Epstein, Jason Feifer, Robert Cialdini, Phillip Stutts, Amanda Ripley, Chuck Collins. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow
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715 - How to Win The Crowd!? with The Millionaire's Magician, Steve Cohen
12/05/2021 Duration: 01h23minThis is a fascinating episode that I learned so much! I have on the Millionaire's Magician, Steve Cohen, who has performed for Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, Barry Diller, Martha Stewart, Jack Welch, Michael Eisner, Stephen Sondheim, André Previn, Anne-Sophie Mutter, the Queen of Morocco, and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, and also done more than 5000 shows around the world! In this episode, we don't just talk about magic, we don't just talk about his journey of becoming the Millionaire's Magician, we talked about his book, Win The Crowd, and how we can use the misdirection techniques and influence techniques in our life! One quick sneak peek, do you know that people are more willing to do what you ask if you give them two commands instead of one? Give it a try! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full pos
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714 - You're INVITED to The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence with Jon Levy
10/05/2021 Duration: 01h09minI remember a couple of years ago, one day when I was asleep, my friend woke me up in the middle of the night and "invite" me to a dinner party. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT! I have nothing better to do, so I went along. It turns out, it was the best dinner party that I ever have been, and was organized by the great organizer and influencer, Jon Levy! In this episode, I have him on again to talk about his new book, You're Invited: The Art & Science of Cultivating Influence. We talked about what's the real meaning of being an Influencer? It's not about having a million followers on TikTok, Instagram, or whatever social media platform. Also, why does he set out to organize all this amazing dinner party that features famous people, and why does he like connect people? Listen and find out! You might get the Invitation to his next dinner party! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should
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Make You a Millionaire! James Quandahl EP03: Becoming more than an Amazon Ninja!
09/05/2021 Duration: 56minIn the last episode of Make you a Millionaire with James Quandahl, we talked about spoke-and-wheel techniques. In this episode, we are putting that technique and mindset into practice. I started out asking James the ins and outs of setting up, and running an Amazon Seller account. And then we branch it out into making courses and other things for it! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short sur
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713 - Oscar Mayer Heir Chuck Collins: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
05/05/2021 Duration: 54minHave you ever wonder how billionaires and millionaire, old or young, hide their rich? Specifically, what did they do, so that they can "hide" their money? In this episode, we have The Heir to Oscar Mayer, Chuck Collins, on to talk about his book, Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions. In the episode, Chuck talks about his take on passing down the wealth to the next generation, and also, all sorts of techniques that riches use to "hide" their wealth! From moving assets around, having trustees, to digital assets like cryptocurrency and all! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcast
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712 - Robert Cialdini: How to use "Influence" to persuade anyone to give you anything
03/05/2021 Duration: 01h14minOnce again, we have Robert Cialdini, the Regents' Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University and was a visiting professor of marketing, business, and psychology at Stanford University, as well as at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and also the author of the Marketing "Bible", Influence, on again to talk about the new and expanded version of the book, Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion. As an avid listeners know, I constantly quote Robert's principles of persuasion, uses them all the time for my comedy, talks, and even debates! In this episode, Robert and I broke down all his 6 principles of persuasion, and his newly added principle, Unity. Listen and enjoy! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.co
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Make You a Millionaire! - James Quandahl EP02: Spoke-and-Wheel Techniques!
01/05/2021 Duration: 01h29sIn the first Make You a Millionaire episode with James Quandahl, I showed him some of the interview techniques that I would use when I am interviewing people. We even did a couple of spontaneus interviews right there and then! In this episode, we broke down some of his idea lists, and use the Spoke-and-Wheel techniques from my Skip The Line book to come up with even more ideas, more ways to monetize his idea list! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to&n
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My Favorite Things: How To Get Everything You Want!
29/04/2021 Duration: 36minYou don't have to have good grades to get into Ivy League School, heck, you don't even need to go to college to be successful in life! In this episode, I recounted the times that I get what I wanted just to be the "Only One". To get what you want, you don't need to be the "better", you just need to be the "only one"! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why you should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better t