The Tim Ferriss Show

The Tim Ferriss Show

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World-class performers share tactics, tools, and routines. Hosted by Tim Ferriss.

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January 16, 2026

How The Best Overcome Fear

Welcome to another edition of The Tim Ferriss Radio Hour, where I share the habits and patterns of world-class performers revealed over nearly 300 interviews. In this episode, we'll explore fear. Specifically, how to manage, mitigate, and overcome fear, which is something I've battled for decades. This has been such a focal point of my life that my last TED Talk focused on an exercise called fear setting, which is something I practice at least once a month and have found to be a life raft. In...

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👥 Society
January 16, 2026

Catherine Hoke — The Master of Second Chances

Catherine Hoke (@catherine_hoke) is the founder of Defy Ventures, a non-profit organization that "transforms the hustle" of currently and formerly incarcerated people. Defy's vision is to end mass incarceration by using entrepreneurship as a tool to transform legacies and human potential. Cat was named a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change by WIRED and Nokia for being one of 17 Global Influencers Expanding Human Possibility Through Technology. She has received the MDC Partners Humanitarian Award o...

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💼 Business
January 16, 2026

Best Investments, Bad Advice to Avoid, and Other Life Lessons

This episode sets a new record with five guests -- each considered among the best in their field. It features Adam Robinson (@IAmAdamRobinson), Debbie Millman (@debbiemillman), Neil Strauss (@neilstrauss), Scott Belsky (@scottbelsky), and Veronica Belmont (@Veronica). This roundtable conversation discusses best investments, favorite failures, and bad advice to avoid. I really enjoyed all of the answers from the guests as there's lots of actionable advice. I hope you enjoy this as much as I di...

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💼 Business
January 15, 2026

How to Build Popular Podcasts and Blogs

Many of you have asked me about strategies for building a popular blog and podcast. I've covered some aspects of growing a podcast in a previous post, and then Mari Takahashi (@atomicmari) — a successful ballerina, gamer, and content creator — sent me some very good questions that I haven't discussed before. This episode goes into detail about how I've built The Tim Ferriss Show into a podcast that has almost 300 million downloads, and how my blog receives between three and four million uniqu...

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💻 Technology
January 15, 2026

Bob Metcalfe — The Man (and Lessons) Behind Ethernet, Metcalfe's Law, and More

Bob Metcalfe (@BobMetcalfe) is an MIT-Harvard-trained engineer-entrepreneur who became an Internet pioneer in 1970, invented Ethernet in 1973, and founded 3Com Corporation in 1979. About 1.2B Ethernet ports were shipped last year — 400M wired and 800M wireless (Wi-Fi). 3Com went public in 1984, peaked at $5.7B in annual sales in 1999, and after 30 years became part of HP last year. Bob was a publisher-pundit for IDG-InfoWorld for about 10 years and a venture capitalist for about 10 years with...

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