World XP Podcast

World XP Podcast
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  1. 2d ago

    He Spent a Year Building a Drink — Then the Manufacturer Backed Out | Jordan Martinez

    Jordan Martinez joins the World XP Podcast to break down what it actually takes to launch a beverage company from scratch. While serving active duty in the U.S. Air Force, Jordan began developing Machi, a canned matcha protein drink — a process that turned into years of formulation, manufacturing problems, ingredient sourcing, FDA requirements, fundraising and supply-chain headaches. We get into the roughly $25,000 he sank into an early formula, why his first manufacturer unexpectedly backed out, what forced him to start over, how he's preparing an initial run of roughly 20,000 cans, and what he's learned trying to turn an idea into a real consumer brand.If you're enjoying the content, please like, subscribe, and comment! Jordan's Links:Website: drinkmatchi.comInstagram: instagram.com/drink_matchiLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jordan-m-208122133 Jordan Martinez is the Founder of Matchi and a transitioning U.S. Air Force Officer. Matchi makes canned matcha lattes with 20 grams of protein, collagen, and fiber, for people who love matcha and for anyone who tried it once and wrote it off. The company is based in Alexandria, Virginia._______________________Follow us!@worldxppodcast Instagram - https://bit.ly/3eoBwyr@worldxppodcast Twitter - https://bit.ly/2Oa7BzmSpotify - http://spoti.fi/3sZAUTGYouTube - http://bit.ly/3rxDvUL#entrepreneurship #startup #matcha #drink #protein #worldxppodcast

    He Spent a Year Building a Drink — Then the Manufacturer Backed Out | Jordan Martinez

  2. Oct 26

    Psychoanalyst Explains Why Kids Are Becoming Less Resilient | Erica Komisar

    Psychoanalyst and parenting expert Erica Komisar joins the World XP Podcast to discuss why she believes emotional security in the earliest years of childhood plays such an important role in resilience later in life. We discuss attachment, daycare and early separation, why young children may struggle with stress, the different roles mothers and fathers can play in development, balancing parenthood with career ambitions, why modern families struggle to prioritize time together, and how parents can build a secure foundation before asking children to become more independent.If you're enjoying the content, please like, subscribe, and comment! Erica's Links:Website: https://www.ericakomisar.com/Erica Komisar, LCSW, is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and parenting expert with over 30 years of experience in private practice. She is the author of Being There and Chicken Little: The Sky Isn’t Falling, and A Parent’s Guide to Divorce. Erica is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Institute for Family Studies, and The Dispatch, and has appeared on CBS, Fox News, and The Diary of a CEO podcast. She is the founder of Attachment Circles, serves on the advisory board of ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship), and has spoken at the United Nations on child development and emotional health. She lives in New York City with her husband and three young adult children._______________________Follow us!@worldxppodcast Instagram - https://bit.ly/3eoBwyr@worldxppodcast Twitter - https://bit.ly/2Oa7BzmSpotify - http://spoti.fi/3sZAUTGYouTube - http://bit.ly/3rxDvUL#Parenting #childdevelopment #baby #parents #worldxppodcast

    Psychoanalyst Explains Why Kids Are Becoming Less Resilient | Erica Komisar

  3. Oct 19

    Award-Winning Historian Explains What We Get Wrong About the American Revolution | Dr. Richard Bell

    Award-winning historian Richard Bell, professor of history at the University of Maryland and author of The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, joins the World XP Podcast to separate the mythology of America’s founding from the much messier history underneath it. We discuss why the Revolution was about far more than taxes and tea, the economic and territorial interests of the Founding Fathers, why many colonists remained loyal to Britain, how the Boston Tea Party changed King George III’s thinking, the forgotten importance of the Caribbean, and why France joined the war primarily to weaken Britain rather than simply support American liberty.If you're enjoying the content, please like, subscribe, and comment! Rick's Links:The American Revolution and the Fate of the World: https://square.link/u/1rTxIH33https://www.amazon.com/American-Revolution-Fate-World/dp/0593719514?&linkCode=sl1&tag=rjbell-20&linkId=e73e65fda5a8a223999c67074969a849&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tlWebsite: Richard-Bell.comRichard Bell is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. He is the author of the book Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home which was a finalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize. He has held major research fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress and is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Humanities Public Scholar award and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. His new book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, published by Penguin, recently won the Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award. He maintains a list of upcoming events at Richard-Bell.com._______________________Follow us!@worldxppodcast Instagram - https://bit.ly/3eoBwyr@worldxppodcast Twitter - https://bit.ly/2Oa7BzmSpotify - http://spoti.fi/3sZAUTGYouTube - http://bit.ly/3rxDvUL#history #americanhistory #americanrevolution #colonialhistory #worldxppodcast

    Award-Winning Historian Explains What We Get Wrong About the American Revolution | Dr. Richard Bell

  4. Oct 12

    How Politics Became a High-Stakes Sport | Dr. Ben Darr

    Political scientist and author Ben Darr joins the World XP Podcast to explain why American politics increasingly looks more like sports fandom than democratic participation. We discuss how Team Red vs. Team Blue turns voters into spectators, why political “winning” can become disconnected from improving people’s actual lives, and how campaign strategy, polling, prediction markets and social media reinforce the game. Ben also reflects on his own political journey from the right to the left and toward the center, how Iraq, Obama, Bernie Sanders and the COVID era changed his thinking, what he sees in today’s college students, and the ideas behind his book This Is No Game.If you're enjoying the content, please like, subscribe, and comment! Ben's Links:This Is No Game: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/This-Is-No-Game/Benjamin-Darr/9781803419923Substack: contrariwise.substack.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@feistychess5499 ⁨@feistychess5499⁩ Dr. Ben Darr is Associate Professor of Politics at Loras College, in Dubuque, Iowa. He writes at contrariwise.substack.com and his areas of interest include politics, religion, and anything else controversial. He is also an avid chess player and the director of the Dubuque Chess Club, and has a chess channel on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@feistychess5499. Opinions expressed here are his and his alone, and don’t represent any institution affiliated with him. You can find his book, This Is No Game, at https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/This-Is-No-Game/Benjamin-Darr/9781803419923. _______________________Follow us!@worldxppodcast Instagram - https://bit.ly/3eoBwyr@worldxppodcast Twitter - https://bit.ly/2Oa7BzmSpotify - http://spoti.fi/3sZAUTGYouTube - http://bit.ly/3rxDvUL#politics #americanpolitics #election #democracy #worldxppodcast

    How Politics Became a High-Stakes Sport | Dr. Ben Darr

  5. Oct 5

    Middle East Expert: The Iran War Is Likely to Escalate Again | Simon Waldman

    King’s College London Defence Studies lecturer and Middle East scholar Simon Waldman returns to the World XP Podcast to examine where the conflict with Iran could go next — and why he believes another round of fighting may ultimately be more a question of when than if. We discuss the changing nature of warfare, drones and low-yield nuclear weapons, whether the United States needs to rethink its global military posture, and why modern conflicts are increasingly difficult to contain. We then trace the history behind today’s Middle East through the Suez Crisis, the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the rise of Palestinian nationalism, Egypt’s peace with Israel, and the Iranian Revolution.If you're enjoying the content, please like, subscribe, and comment! Simon's Links:Amazon link to Looking For Elsewhere: The Jews of Turkey Then and Now: UK: https://amzn.eu/d/0gKyuvNGUSA: https://a.co/d/088t99LRCanada: https://a.co/d/0hQ4vVktSubstack: https://simonwaldman.substack.com/X: https://x.com/SimonWaldman1Simon Waldman is a lecturer and tutor at King’s College London where he has taught for around 12 years while also doing some think-tank work in between. He is a regular contributor to Haaretz, Israel’s leading liberal daily as well as other international outlets. He is the author of, Anglo-American Diplomacy and the Palestinian Refugee Problem and The New Turkey and Its Discontents. His latest book is called, Looking For Elsewhere: The Jews of Turkey Then and Now, an exploration into the Jewish community in Turkey and why many Jews to leave a country that for centuries they had called home. It is released in July and available for pre-order on Amazon, Blackwells, Barnes & Noble, and all good bookstores. _______________________Follow us!@worldxppodcast Instagram - https://bit.ly/3eoBwyr@worldxppodcast Twitter - https://bit.ly/2Oa7BzmSpotify - http://spoti.fi/3sZAUTGYouTube - http://bit.ly/3rxDvUL#MiddleEast #Iran #Geopolitics #history #worldxppodcast

    Middle East Expert: The Iran War Is Likely to Escalate Again | Simon Waldman

  6. Sep 28

    Why a Top Hedge Fund Manager Isn’t Panicking About the Economy | Samir Varma

    Physicist and hedge fund manager Samir Varma returns to the World XP Podcast to break down why he isn’t buying the constant predictions of an imminent financial collapse. We discuss why Americans can feel economically worse off even amid substantial prosperity, housing affordability, tariffs and trade wars, what the Federal Reserve gets wrong, whether the U.S. dollar could lose reserve-currency status, how ordinary people should think about investing through uncertainty, and why Samir believes American innovation and AI could matter far more to the long-term future than the daily cycle of economic doom.If you're enjoying the content, please like, subscribe, and comment!Samir's Links: https://samirvarma.com/https://www.substack.com/@samirvarmaSamir is an Author, Physicist, Entrepreneur, Inventor, and Hedge Fund Manager. He has a PhD in Theoretical Physics from The University of Texas. The incomparable E.C.G. Sudarshan was his advisor and Nobelist Steven Weinberg was on his dissertation committee. He is the author of The Physics of Free Will: How Determinism Affects Everything from The Future of AI to Traffic to God to Bees. He is working on a second book tentatively titled, I Wish I Had Known That about economics, finance and politics.In his spare time he enjoys playing guitar and squash. For computationally irreducible reasons, he has a particular fondness for detective and spy stories, and is obsessed with the music of The Beatles and Pink Floyd.______________________Follow us!@worldxppodcast Instagram - https://bit.ly/3eoBwyr@worldxppodcast Twitter - https://bit.ly/2Oa7BzmYouTube - http://bit.ly/3rxDvULSpotify - http://spoti.fi/3sZAUTG#Economics #Investing #financialmarkets

    Why a Top Hedge Fund Manager Isn’t Panicking About the Economy | Samir Varma

  7. Sep 21

    How We Convince Ourselves We’re Right | Jay Shapiro

    Documentary filmmaker, author, and Dilemma Podcast host Jay Shapiro joins the World XP Podcast to explore cognitive dissonance, moral integrity, and how human beings can rationalize their way into genuinely believing things that conflict with their own values. We discuss the psychology of self-deception, why admitting hypocrisy can actually be a sign of honesty, the rise and decline of the Intellectual Dark Web, how history shapes our moral judgments, the aftermath of October 7 within Jay’s intellectual circle, and the ideas behind his new book, Insufficient Rewards: How We Traded Integrity for Comfort and Outsourced Morality to History.If you're enjoying the content, please like, subscribe, and comment!Insufficient Rewards: https://whatjaythinks.com/insufficient-rewards Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@JayShapiroDilemmaPodcast Jay Shapiro is an author, documentary filmmaker, and host of the Dilemma Podcast.______________________Follow us!@worldxppodcast Instagram - https://bit.ly/3eoBwyr@worldxppodcast Twitter - https://bit.ly/2Oa7BzmSpotify - http://spoti.fi/3sZAUTGYouTube - http://bit.ly/3rxDvUL#cognitivedissonance #moralphilosophy #truth #worldxppodcast

    How We Convince Ourselves We’re Right | Jay Shapiro

  8. Sep 14

    Why We Keep Missing the Only Moment That Matters | Yoav Avni

    Israeli novelist and translator Yoav Avni joins the World XP Podcast to explore time, artificial intelligence, creativity, and why so many of us spend our lives thinking about the past or worrying about the future instead of actually experiencing the present. Yoav discusses his new time-travel novel Time Clocks, the challenge of translating literature between Hebrew and English, leaving a 20-year career in tech to focus on writing, rebuilding his life after a personal crisis, and why he sees AI as a tool rather than something humans should automatically fear.If you're enjoying the content, please like, subscribe, and comment! Time Clocks: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/roundfire-books/our-books/time-clocksWebsite: https://www.yoavavni.com/english.phpYoav Avni is an Israeli author, translator, editor, and writing mentor, born in 1969. His fiction includes novels and short stories. His novels have been published by two of Israel’s leading publishing houses, Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan and Keter. One of them, Three Things for a Desert Island, became a national bestseller, and two of his books won the Israeli Geffen Award for Best Speculative Novel, often described as Israel’s equivalent of the Hugo Award.His latest novel, Time Clocks, was published in Hebrew in December 2024 and is scheduled for international release in English on September 29, 2026, from Roundfire Books (UK/US). His novel Crossing a River Twice was first published in Hebrew in Israel in 2016 and is scheduled for English-language publication in the UK and the United States in 2027.______________________Follow us!@worldxppodcast Instagram - https://bit.ly/3eoBwyr@worldxppodcast Twitter - https://bit.ly/2Oa7BzmSpotify - http://spoti.fi/3sZAUTGYouTube - http://bit.ly/3rxDvUL#TimeTravel #ArtificialIntelligence #author #worldxppodcast

    Why We Keep Missing the Only Moment That Matters | Yoav Avni
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    World XP Podcast
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
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