Shows
Culture HackersThe Culture of Narrative with Michael MargolisMichael Margolis the CEO of Storied, Inc – #1 narrative expert in techWorks with C-suite and VP leaders that need to get their story straightClients include product execs at Meta, Google, Shopify, Uber, Salesforce$13B+ in investments thru executive buy-in and influence at scale500+ keynotes and talks for Microsoft, Visa, Moody’s, SXSW, TEDxAuthor of Story 10x: a playbook for strategic narratives and tech disruptionColor-blind, left-handed, and eats more chocolate than the average humanA few links from the show: The Liver KingYanis Veroufakis on YoutubeMichael's Free book, Story10X
2025-08-151h 20
IoNTELLIGENCE PodcastSpecial Audio Episode | The Culture of AI: a Conversation between Robbe Richman and Ion ValisRecorded on location in Cardiff, California, July 7, 2025IoNTELLIGENCE helps high performers thrive in a fast-changing world by building smarter brain habits and strategic AI skills.Upgrade Your Brain. Master AI. Be Future-Ready.I had the great pleasure of taping this podcast episode on July 7 with my good friend - and IoNTELLIGENCE Community Member - Robert Richman. Robert is a sought-after keynote speaker and one of the world’s leading authorities on employee culture. He is also the author of The Culture Blueprint, a comprehensive guide to creating a high-performance workplace. He ho...
2025-07-221h 17Culture HackersThe Culture of Ai with Ion ValiskakisToday’s guest is Ion Valaskakis — an executive coach, AI strategist, and expert in helping people thrive at the intersection of technology, neuroscience, and human performance. He’s the founder of Prometheus Strategic Advisors and writes the popular IoNTELLIGENCE newsletter, where he shares practical ways to upgrade your brain and master AI in today’s fast-changing world. Ion works with top executives and entrepreneurs to sharpen their thinking, boost their leadership, and stay future-ready. He’s passionate about coaching the next generation of AI-enhanced executives.
2025-07-181h 17
IoNTELLIGENCE PodcastSpecial Audio Episode | The Culture of Consumption: a Conversation between Robbe Richman and Ion ValisRecorded on location in Cardiff, CaliforniaIoNTELLIGENCE is the Playbook for Professional Success, Personal Transformation, and the Pursuit of Happiness.I had the great pleasure of taping this podcast episode the other day with a good friend - and IoNTELLIGENCE Community Member - Robbe Richman. As one of the world’s leading authorities on employee culture, Robbe served as Zappos's Culture Strategist. He is also the author of The Culture Blueprint, a systematic guide to the high-performance workplace.He hosts the Culture Hackers podcast, a show about culture hacking at companies, in...
2024-04-0556 min
Culture HackersThe Culture of Consumption with Ion ValisIn this episode, we go into the culture of content, consumption and dopamine addiction with Ion Valis. Ion is a strategic advisor to entrepreneurs and executives. He helps them perform, transform, and flourish in an era of accelerating change. In 2014, he published his first book, The Magnificent Mistake: How We Can Earn More from Failure than We Learn from Success. It describes an innovative system he developed to teach leaders and teams how to learn from their errors, and why it’s so important to do so.
2024-03-1356 min
Culture HackersThe Culture of Coaching, with Alan HeymannAlan Heymann is an executive coach, and was previously Vice President of Communications for The Humane Society of the United States. He also held various roles in the Government of the District of Columbia, including agency public information officer, mayoral speechwriter and legislative staffer. Earlier in his career, Alan was a television reporter, producer and anchor in his native Illinois.
2024-01-1246 minCulture HackersHow to pick from all your ideasWhen you run a business, it's so tempting to try new things. But it can come at the cost of the core business. How many do you do? Which ones do you pick? I share my answer through a metaphor...
2023-02-0206 minCulture HackersThe Culture of Remote Talent with John WinsorJohn is currently the executive-in-residence at Harvard Business School’s Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and founder and CEO of Open Assembly, a company that provides content, community, and strategic advising to organizations, people, and platforms to co-create the future of work. He was also vice president and executive director of strategy and innovation at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. Winsor’s books include “Beyond the Brand,” “Spark,” “Flipped, and the best-selling “Baked In,” winner of the 2009 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in marketing, Winsor is an advisor to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, and a regular cont...
2022-08-2947 minCulture HackersCreating a Category with Mark FrohnmayerWe talk to the founder of Arcimoto, Mark Frohnmayer. He's pioneering the FUV - the Fun Utility Vehicle, and creating a new category. We talk about the business lessons and culture behind being bold.
2022-08-0838 minCulture HackersUnfollow Your Passion with Teri TrespacioIn Unfollow Your Passion, Terri Trespicio—whose TEDx talk has more than seven million views—skewers the platitudes, inverts conventional wisdom, and calls into question everything you think you need to succeed: passion (fun, but fleeting), plans (flimsy at best), and a bucket list (eye roll), to name a few.
2022-07-2549 minCulture HackersHacking Humanity with Berke BrownGreat to sit down with my fellow culture hacker, Berke Brown. Let me know what you think!
2021-10-2151 min
Cleanse Heal IgniteRobbe is BadAss: Learn How to Speak with Power, Influence and Confidence!Have you ever thought about being a public speaker? Public speaking is one of the number one biggest fears in the world. I want to share with you a fun, fun friend of mine named Robbe Richman, who just rocked the stage the very first time I saw him speak and I thought, "I have to know this guy." Robbe Richman has really contributed to the culture of the shoe company named Zappos. In fact, he actually has created a whole book and system around this that has helped him get paid tens of thousands of dollars j...
2020-10-2354 min
Culture HackersThe 5-Hour Workday with Stephen AarstolThis is an invention ahead of its time. a 5 hour workday, getting more done than a standard day. It's like the 4 Hour Work Week (book by Tim Ferriss), but for a company. Will you dare to explore and experiment?
2020-05-1839 min
2019-09-2700 min
Flower ConfessionalFlower Confessional Episode 2- The X-Pill (and When Stale Bread Re-Adds You On Snapchat)In this episode, Dan and Angela discuss Robbe Richman's "X-Pill," The Placebo Effect, and accessing the subconscious mind to change the way you think and live!
2018-11-0858 min
Are You Being Real? | The Authenticity Podcast192 Robbe Richman - Dating, Love, and Self-AcceptanceListen & Subscribe on iTunes If achieving your goals, feeling like your best self, or even finding the love of your life was as easy as taking one pill, would you do it? Robbe Richman, the author of The Culture Blueprint and founder of Xpill, believes it's possible. He's helped hundreds of people, massive influencer and regular people alike, go through the Xpill activation process to see and feel the difference in their life. It's not what's in the pill that matters (what's in it will actually surprise you). It's the intention and...
2018-10-161h 27
The Guy ShowThe Guy Show with Robbe Richman: X-pill and changing your future NOWUtilizing changes in the culture of your life and the magic of the X-pill
2018-07-2000 min
Pain Science EducationEpisode 90 | Robbe Richman: The Power of a Pill With Nothing in it!If the red pill were real, would you take it? If you’ve seen the movie The Matrix, then you know what Robbe Richman is talking about. Robbe is the creator of the Xpill. The Xpill is not a prescription drug or a supplement. All it is is brown rice protein with no active ingredients. On its own, it has no healing properties, and yet the moment people take it, their whole perception and approach to life changes. The power of a pill lies in the transformation effect it has on people. What’s more interesting is that even if p...
2018-06-1424 min
Soul Wisdom Stories#40 Robert Richman on Uncovering Your TruthSUMMARYRobert is an expert when it comes to building a successful culture within a company and shares his secrets in his book Culture Blueprint. He helped spread the legendary culture at Zappos by co-creating a training programme called Zappos Insights. Most recently however, he founded the company Xpill where created a transformative pill that is a mixture of the “blue“ and “red” pill and has seen both believers and non believers have transformative experiences as a result of taking it. FOLLOW ROBERT ON:Instagram: @robberichmanYouTube: Robbe RichmanWebsite: xpill.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat
2018-05-2750 min
Culture HackersThe Idea: Fun times with Robbe and KellenRobbe Richman and Kellen Schuh talk culture, San Diego, coffee, music and many other things.
2018-03-121h 02
Culture HackersThe Culture of OverwhelmWe're all dealing with it, both in corporations and in our everyday lives. Let's talk about it.
2017-05-0911 min
Culture HackersQ&A with Robbe! - Culture Hackers PodcastIn this episode I take your questions and answer them!
2016-10-2441 min
Culture HackersCulture Hacking with Danielle BeinsteinNYC native Danielle Beinstein has always been passionate about physical, emotional and mental health. After nearly 10 years in the media world, she returned to school, receiving her MA in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica in 2012, followed by an additional year in Consciousness, Health & Healing in 2014. She is particularly fascinated by the role that feelings play in our both our personal and collective experiences and narratives. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Humanities from NYU in 2003.
2016-08-101h 10
Culture HackersThe Culture of Productivity and A.I.Kanban System - 4:32 Thinking Fast and Slow - 8:30Bot Revolution - 16.33Phil Libin Investment Thesis - 18:14Slackbot Integrations on Producthunt - 22Slack has 600 app integrationsOzlo -23:54Butter - 29:08Glide - 31:24
2016-07-2444 min
2016-07-1038 min
Culture HackersProcrastination Hacking, with Shirley Eylor AsifShow Notes
Introduction of Shirley Eylor Asif [0:22]
How Shirley got involved in the field of procrastination [1:25]
What do you do when you procrastinate? [2:11]
The pattern/cycle/stages/phases of procrastination [2:25]
What is at the core of procrastination [6:50]
What research shows the reasons for procrastination is [8:15]
Can procrastination be hacked just by doing it? [9:16]
Research is on motivation [11:26]
Strongest motivation [11:56]
The procrastinators mindset [12:26]
Pareto role applied to behavior [13:29]
Trying to do too many things cause procrastination? [14:34]
On schedule tool [17:46]
Are busy people more efficient? [19:39]
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2015-09-0255 min
Culture HackersRobbe on anti-marketing, adrenal fatigue and the big productivity hack.Robbe on anti-marketing, adrenal fatigue and the big productivity hack.
2015-08-2129 minCulture HackersThe Culture of Soul Cycle, Steve Jobs and T.SwiftThe Culture of Soul Cycle, Steve Jobs and T.Swift with Michael Leon Haytayan
2015-08-1200 min
Culture HackersLeadership Hacking with Mark McKergowA new and very practical theory on networked leadership.
2015-07-0643 min
Culture HackersThe Culture of Hollywood with Gagerman and WallerMike Gagerman and Andrew Waller are two screenwriters I went to high school and college with. We get a bit ridiculous and then cover the darker side of entertainment.
2015-06-2553 min
Culture HackersStart-ups, Vegas and more with Jill and RobbeStart-ups, Vegas and more with Jill and Robbe
2015-06-2239 min
Culture HackersThe culture and mythology of love with Rich PotterRich shares with us the history behind the culture of love.
2015-05-2154 min
Culture HackersHacking the Product Launch with Cauri JayeProduct launches, agile, start-ups and personal efficiency.(and his magic skateboard!)
2015-05-1547 min
2015-04-161h 13
2015-04-0941 min
Culture HackersCulture Hacking with Presence with Scott SchwenkCulture Hacking with Presence with Scott Schwenk
2015-03-271h 03
Culture HackersThe Culture of Dating with Dating Hacker Adam GiladThe Culture of Dating with Dating Hacker Adam Gilad
2015-03-251h 03
Culture HackersThe Culture of God, Sex and Business with Carrie KishCarrie Kish is CEO of CultureSync. We have fun getting into sensitive subjects and even tell about our embarrassing drinking stories! You can find out more about CultureSync at www.culturesync.net and more about Carrie at www.carriekish.com
2015-03-0651 min
Culture HackersThe Culture of Culture Hackers, with Jill RichmondThis is a second episode with Jill Richmond, who will be a co-host on the show.
2015-03-0242 min
Culture HackersRandom fun with Sharí Alexander!Influence hacker Sharí Alexander and I get into fun, random and personal conversation.
2015-02-231h 05
2015-02-1859 min
Culture HackersFeedback Hacks with Dehra GlueckThis was recorded after the first time I introduced Leadership hacks. Dehra took one and ran with it and she got immediate results.
2015-01-2824 min
Culture HackersChapter 9- The Culture BlueprintChapter 9 - The Culture Blueprint
Is This Really Worth It?
Don’t Medicate with Culture Change
Why Isn’t This Working
The Hypnosis of Language
The End of “Buy-In."
This is Frustrating!
I’m Stuck in the Parent Trap!
People Are Not Proactive.
Everyone is so Entitled!
The Delay: Know It’s Coming.
Are you Truly Committed.
by Robert Richman
2015-01-1122 min
Culture HackersChapter 7 - The Culture BlueprintChapter 7 - The Culture Blueprint
Preparing to Build Your Team
The Driver
The Corporate Navigator
The Subculture
The Culture Crew
The Support Network
by Robert Richman
2015-01-1016 min
Culture HackersChapter 8 - The Culture BlueprintChapter 8 - The Culture Blueprint
Teamwork
Create Immediate Safety
Break Through Obstacles
Solve Problems. Resolve Conflicts
The Best Team Building Activity
Share the Finances
Delegate
by Robert Richman
2015-01-0926 min
Culture HackersChapter 6 - The Culture BlueprintChapter 6 - The Culture Blueprint
No-Bullshit Leadership
Traits of Highly Successful People
Stress is for Amateurs
The Power of the 1:1
by Robert Richman
2015-01-0813 min
Culture HackersChapter 5 - The Culture BlueprintChapter 5 - The Culture Blueprint
The Culture Toolkit
Immediate Wins
Culture Hacking
Hack Your Meetings
Recognize
Reflect
Create Serendipity
by Robert Richman
2015-01-0719 min
Culture HackersChapter 4 - The Culture BlueprintChapter 4 - The Culture Blueprint
INCLUDES
Ideation
Experiments over Prototypes
The Beta Blueprint
A Beta Story
Market Internally
The Culture Cell
Story Capture
Reinvention
The Process of Transformation
by Robert Richman
2015-01-0626 min
Culture HackersChapter 3 - The Culture BlueprintChapter 3 - The Culture Blueprint
INCLUDES:
Introducing the Blueprint
The Culture Blueprint
Inspiration
The Culture Hero
The Immersion
Vision
Bold Action Step
The Culture Crew
The Culture Growth Engine
Attract and Repulse
Job Descriptions
Interview Process
Induct and Initiate
Induct into the Organization
Team Initiation
New Manager Introduction

Serve and Deliver
World Class Service
The New Service Model
Use Data Collectors
Engage and Sustain
Personalized Engagement
Coach Up or Coach Out
Dynamic Learning
Unbreakable Rituals
Schedule the Celebrations
P...
2015-01-041h 17
Culture HackersChapter 2 - The Culture BlueprintChapter 2 - The Culture Blueprint
INCLUDES:
Determine Your Mission
Create Your Vision
Establish Your Values
Why Values are Valuable
The Magic Formula
Types of Values
Clear Values vs. Vague Values
Optimize Your Values
The Mindset Model
The Core Value Discovery Formula
Aligning the Core Values
Navigating the Core Pitfalls
The True Values Test
By Robert Richman
2015-01-0335 min
Culture HackersChapter 1 - The Culture BlueprintChapter 1 - The Culture Blueprint
Includes:
What is Culture?
The Simple Idea Behind Culture
Old Model vs. New Model of Management Culture
The Seven Principles of Culture:
Culture is Co-Created
Share What You Want to Keep
Culture Feeds on Culture
Culture is Composed of Systems
Culture is a Game
The Story is Currency
The Secret to Innovation
by Robert Richman
2015-01-0331 min
Culture HackersIntro - The Culture BlueprintINTRODUCTION - The Culture Blueprint
Includes:
Who Is This Book For?
Problems This Book Will Solve
The Installer
How this Book Got Started (Includes the Zappos story)
How to Use This Book
by Robert Richman
2014-12-3030 min
Culture HackersWelcome to Culture HackersThis is a podcast all about culture in organizations, but the cutting edge ideas about what's really happening. It starts off with a free audiobook, of my book The Culture Blueprint and continues with ideas, rants and off-the cuff conversations with some great culture hackers.
2014-12-2901 min