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Ryan Holiday is a bestselling author and a leading voice in modern Stoicism.

This conversation explores Christopher Nolan's interpretation of Homer's Odyssey and the moral truths the poem was built to transmit. We discuss why interpretation is the assignment, the hubris Nolan left out, unreliable narrators, the sirens as confirmation bias, perseverance versus persistence, and many other topics.

Odysseus, it turns out, is working the twelve steps.

Ryan is a great mind. And the movie is a masterpiece. Enjoy!

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Michelle Khare is the Emmy-shortlisted creator behind the YouTube series "Challenge Accepted."

We explore the seismic shift underway as the creator economy and Hollywood converge. She recreated one of Tom Cruise's most dangerous stunts, hanging off a C-130 mid-flight. We get into daring versus reckless, fear setting, and walking toward what scares you.

Along the way, she reveals the simple test she runs before every insane risk.

Michelle has arrived, and she's just getting started. Enjoy!

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Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer at The New Yorker, bestselling author, and podcaster. Chris Chavez is a journalist, podcaster, and the founder of CITIUS MAG.

I just passed a thousand episodes, which has me rethinking what I want this to feel like. So for this one, no agenda, no notes. Just three podcasters rolling the dice.

Where it went: the art of the interview. Farming attention with integrity. The state of running. Why America loses at the sports it thinks it should dominate. Enjoy!

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Mark Dowdle is an endurance athlete and former football and lacrosse player.

This conversation explores the intersection of endurance and identity, digging into the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and how we get uncoupled from them.

We discuss turning pain into purpose, shared vulnerability as connective tissue, faith, why mood follows action, and dancing at the edge of your capabilities — where the mask comes off.

Mark is a change agent masquerading as an ultrarunner. Enjoy!

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This is the 1,000th episode of the podcast. Insane. To mark it, Julie and I take it back to the start.

We recap the origin story of this show. A creative experiment, born in a yurt on a Kauai mango farm, our family was on the precipice of foreclosure. We get into the crucible that gave birth to everything, and why change stays within everyone's reach.

Fourteen years. A thousand episodes. Grateful for every one of you. Enjoy!

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