Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins

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Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins is the companion to the Four Fs Podcast, built for people who want the best moments in 10 minutes. Each episode is a focused clip pulled from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and other world-class experts you won’t hear on every other show. You’ll hear real stories about leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, resilience, AI, and personal reinvention—without the fluff. Use these as a daily hit of perspective, and dive into the full-length episodes on the Four Fs Podcast whenever a guest or idea grabs you.

  1. CEO & Breast Cancer Survivor Shares Powerful Preparation Secrets

    4h ago

    CEO & Breast Cancer Survivor Shares Powerful Preparation Secrets

    "I challenge you to stay in alignment with yourself. When you find yourself in those spaces, soak it all up, stay curious, and keep driving from there." Tiffanie Janowitz — youngest of eight, former University of Utah competitive cheerleader, now CEO of Limitless Society — answers a question from an 8-year-old listener about why she chose cheerleading, and uses it to unpack what "living in alignment" actually means. In this 10-minute conversation, Tiffanie shares: • The friend who invited her to a cheerleading practice at age 10 — and the moment everything clicked • What competitive cheerleading actually teaches you as a life skill • Why being the youngest of eight made her MORE independent, not less • The fork in the road: people-pleasing checklist vs. her own voice • What it feels like to operate from alignment — gratitude, peace, less friction • Why she stayed in the mold for years before finally breaking it — Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every other show — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention. Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

    10 min
  2. Why Today's AI Is Just "Average" — And How It Becomes Superintelligent — Dr. Craig Kaplan

    9h ago

    Why Today's AI Is Just "Average" — And How It Becomes Superintelligent — Dr. Craig Kaplan

    Today's AI sounds smart because it knows a little about everything. But the moment you ask it about something you're an expert in, the cracks show up fast. So how does it become genuinely smarter than the smartest human? Craig Kaplan — Wall Street veteran, AI researcher, and founder of SuperIntelligence.com — joins The Four Fs Podcast to break down the path from "average intelligence" to actual superintelligence in language anyone can understand. No PhD required. In this 10-minute conversation, Craig shares: • Why current AI is the average of the internet — and why that ceiling is lower than people think • The "two heads are better than one" idea, scaled to 2 million heads working together • How AI can train on top-quality experts to leapfrog the average • Why playing itself a million times turned chess and Go AI into unbeatable champions • Synthetic data: how AI generates its own new thoughts to bootstrap higher intelligence • The speed advantage — a lifetime of reasoning in the time it takes you to sip coffee • Why your brain has to fit through a birth canal, and AI doesn't • The 1,000+ pages of designs Craig is giving away for free at SuperIntelligence.com • How knocking AI tail-risk from 20% down to 1% becomes everyone's job Whether you're an AI skeptic, an AI optimist, or just trying to keep up, this is the simplest explanation you'll hear of where this is actually going. Learn more: https://superintelligence.com — Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every other show — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention. Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

    12 min
  3. From Failure to Ranger: How a $5.99 Bottle of Vitamins Almost Ended Everything

    2d ago

    From Failure to Ranger: How a $5.99 Bottle of Vitamins Almost Ended Everything

    One bottle of Centrum Silver. An unlocked locker. One jump away from Ranger selection. David Porter — former 75th Ranger Regiment, now a senior executive at ServiceNow — tells the story of how a tiny mistake at airborne school cost him his shot at Ranger Assessment and Selection, and how the next two weeks reshaped his entire career. In this 10-minute conversation, David shares: • The morning his sea bag got dumped and the bottle of vitamins on the CO's desk • Being reassigned to "the island of misfit toys" while his class moved on to selection • How he rebuilt the headquarters intake system in Excel and Access — and got noticed • The single jump the CO greenlit so he could catch back up to his class • Why he believes the detour actually put him ahead of his buddies • What "engineered failure" in elite training really teaches you — Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every other show — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention. Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

    11 min
  4. The Best Interview Asks No Questions: Legal Tools for Safety Investigations

    2d ago

    The Best Interview Asks No Questions: Legal Tools for Safety Investigations

    "Grab a coffee. Tell me what happened." That's the entire script. Desai Link — author of "Beyond the Incident" — explains why he's the first person to translate 400 years of British legal causation principles into safety investigation tools, and why the word "interview" itself can wreck the conversation before it starts. In this 10-minute conversation, Desai shares: • How British adversarial law evolved tools for weighing competing oral testimony • Why humility + respect + psychological safety beats any structured interview script • The "proactive labeling" technique — naming the conversation before it happens • "Grab a coffee" vs. "I need to interview you" — what changes in the brain • Why the best interview probably doesn't ask a single question • How to apply legal causation to a workplace incident review — Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every other show — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention. Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

    9 min
  5. Food Poisoning Put Me in the ICU—Here Is How I Reset My Life - Former Microsoft EVP Rich Kaplan

    3d ago

    Food Poisoning Put Me in the ICU—Here Is How I Reset My Life - Former Microsoft EVP Rich Kaplan

    Food poisoning. 5 days in the ICU. Five weeks of chemotherapy. And a priority list that's never changed since. Microsoft veteran Rich Kaplan walks through the 2005 illness that nearly took his life, the operating philosophy he's lived by ever since — family, health, service — and the unforgettable QVC moment where he sold 22,000 copies of Windows 95 in a single appearance. In this 10-minute conversation, Rich shares: • The 2005 food poisoning that became 5 days in ICU and weeks of chemo • Family > health > service to others — and ignoring everything else • Selling 22,000 copies of Windows 95 in a single QVC appearance • Meeting Susan Lucci and working with anchor Joyce Taylor on TV • Joining the Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center board after the experience • The early-internet marketing problems no one talks about anymore — Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every other show — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention. Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

    11 min
  6. From Arrests to AI: Building Resilience & Owning Your Story — Himani Naresh

    5d ago

    From Arrests to AI: Building Resilience & Owning Your Story — Himani Naresh

    What does getting handcuffed at 17 over a $1.25 subway token have to do with becoming a Microsoft developer? Everything — if you know how to turn a story into a lesson.In this 10 Minute Wins conversation, Himani Naresh — Columbia computer science grad, version-one SharePoint developer, and former VP at a global media company — walks through the through-line from her NYC subway arrest to her early days as the only woman engineer at Microsoft, and the exit-interview feedback that changed how she thinks about confidence forever.If you've ever felt like you're not as smart as the people around you, this one is for you.🎯 What you'll learn:• Why your past mistakes can be the best material you have• What it really felt like being the only woman on a male engineering team• The exit-interview feedback Himani wishes she'd heard years earlier• How to spot the skills you already have but undervalue• How to build resilience when you have no obvious ally in the room⏱ Chapters:00:00 The $1.25 subway token she still keeps in a photo album01:45 Columbia, computer science, and landing at Microsoft in 199903:10 Version-one SharePoint and writing C++ in Visual Studio04:30 Why she switched from developer to program manager05:30 The exit-interview comment that changed everything07:15 "Stop comparing — focus on what you're good at"08:45 Being the only woman in tech — and on the 40th floor of Embarcadero10:20 Building resilience without an obvious ally12:00 Priorities at 22 vs. priorities at 30+🎙 About The Four Fs Podcast — 10 Minute Wins:Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every other show — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention.Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.#WomenInTech #Resilience #CareerAdvice #Microsoft #FourFsPodcast

    14 min
  7. Hatchling Turtles, Monitor Lizards, and the World's Wildest Safety Job With Safety Expert Desai Link

    6d ago

    Hatchling Turtles, Monitor Lizards, and the World's Wildest Safety Job With Safety Expert Desai Link

    An osprey drops a baby turtle from the sky. It hits a worker in the head. Welcome to Barrow Island. Desai Link — NZ-based health and safety leader and author of "Beyond the Incident" — opens with the wildest stories from a career he never planned: Class A nature reserves in Western Australia, 8-foot monitor lizards that don't fear humans, and the day-to-day reality of an H&S role no one teaches you about. In this 10-minute conversation, Desai shares: • 8.5 years in H&S — and the expansion into risk and privacy • What an H&S manager actually does: compliance, engagement, influence, advisory • Barrow Island Class A nature reserve and the osprey-turtle incident • 2.5-meter monitor lizards strolling between trucks with zero fear • Why "influence" matters more than authority in the safety world • The book that translates 400 years of legal precedent into safety practice — Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every other show — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention. Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

    9 min
  8. Fear No Fear: The Ancient Sanskrit Practice That Rewires Trauma

    Jun 1

    Fear No Fear: The Ancient Sanskrit Practice That Rewires Trauma

    Fear lives only in the past or future. Presence dissolves it. And there's a 2,000-year-old word for the muscle that does it: abhaya. Trauma therapist Richie Landward traces fear back to the origin of creation itself — and walks through the 4-step "abhaya" process that transforms fear from enemy into evolutionary partner. In this 10-minute conversation, Richie shares: • Why fear and chaos exist to drive evolution, not to be defeated • The 4 steps of abhaya: acknowledge, be present, fear breath, cultivate love • PTSD's diagnostic core: avoidance and escape — and how to interrupt it • "You can't truly love until you've been afraid" • Growing up in Holiday, Utah with a sequencing disorder — and a dad who was dean at U of U • Why the parasympathetic system is the secret to staying with fear long enough to learn Four Fs Podcast: 10-MinuteWins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders,veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every othershow — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention.Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts,and YouTube.

    12 min
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Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins is the companion to the Four Fs Podcast, built for people who want the best moments in 10 minutes. Each episode is a focused clip pulled from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and other world-class experts you won’t hear on every other show. You’ll hear real stories about leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, resilience, AI, and personal reinvention—without the fluff. Use these as a daily hit of perspective, and dive into the full-length episodes on the Four Fs Podcast whenever a guest or idea grabs you.

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