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Human Success Stories
Human Success Stories is about the choices, setbacks, and turning points that shape a life well lived, told by the people who've lived them. Hosted by brothers and One Wealth Advisors' founding partners David and Jonathan Steele, each episode features a candid conversation with someone whose journey challenges the way we think about success, fulfillment, and what really matters. Human Success Stories is a production of One Wealth Advisors, LLC. Learn more at onewealth.net. This post should not…
Episodes
Human Success StoriesDavid Bigge: Our Brother, the International Lawyer
David Bigge spent 16 years at the U.S. State Department arguing America’s cases before the International Court of Justice, the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, and…
Human Success StoriesA Would-Be Goat Farmer & An Almost-Cop: The Two Chefs Behind Flour + Water
In 2009, a chef named Thomas McNaughton answered a Craigslist posting from a payphone in Bologna. Ryan Pollnow was studying criminal justice. Seventeen years…
Human Success StoriesMichael Lerner On Hope in the Midst of a Polycrisis
Michael Lerner resigned from Yale before tenure to build a school for kids out of juvenile hall. Three years later, a shaft of sunlight over an abandoned radio…
Human Success StoriesTony Conrad: Betting on Obsession, Not Industries
Tony Conrad co-founded True Ventures, where for two decades he's had a habit of writing the first check into companies nobody else believed in yet —…
Human Success StoriesJordan Kurland on Turning a Kiss Obsession into a Career
Jordan Kurland started collecting Kiss records at six and never really put them down. This episode traces how that turned into a career managing artists — most…
Human Success StoriesChristine O'Connell: The Road to One More City
Christine O'Connell thought she had it all figured out — a career built at Georgetown, Oxford, and Thomson Reuters, a life she'd made for herself in London…
Human Success StoriesThe Cartoonist Behind a Broadway Hit: Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel grew up in a small Pennsylvania town in a house that doubled as her family's funeral home, raised by a father who was an English teacher and a…
Human Success StoriesMeet the Person Who Built the Camera in Your Pocket: meriko borogove
meriko borogove spent 22 years at Apple as a founding member of the iPhone team — building the camera from the ground up through generations that turned a…
Human Success StoriesRob Moose: The Arranger Behind the Music You Love
If you've listened to Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, Phoebe Bridgers, or Taylor Swift, you've heard Rob Moose — you just may not have known it. A Grammy…
Human Success StoriesRich Davis - 25 Years in Political Media and He's Not Done Yet
Rich Davis has spent 25 years as one of Washington's top Democratic media consultants, working on races from a mayor's office in Omaha to both of Barack…
Human Success StoriesJoan Barnes — The Woman Behind Gymboree and the Life She Built After It
Joan Barnes built Gymboree from a church basement and a few thousand dollars into a global brand that eventually sold for $2 billion — and she'll be the first…
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Lorne Goldberg: From Junior Tennis Prodigy to Building an Empire
Lorne Goldberg was one of the top junior tennis players in the world at 18 years old and clear-eyed enough to know it wasn't going to be enough. So he walked…
Human Success StoriesDr. Dawn McGuire, Neurologist and Poet, Examines Space Between Science and Soul
Growing up in a small town in Appalachian Kentucky, Dawn McGuire understood early on that a life well-lived meant staying curious, staying educated, and…
Human Success StoriesJohn Paluska's Second Act: How managing Phish prepared him for the restaurant business
What does success look like when you've helped build one of the most iconic bands in modern music history — and then walked away to start over? In this…