The Next Big Idea Daily
Arts & Culture Podcasts
What if engaging with great ideas could become one of your daily habits? What if some of the best tips for living better and working smarter were served up with your morning coffee, a hit of motivation guaranteed to start your day right? That’s the idea behind “The Next Big Idea Daily.” We work with hundreds of non-fiction authors — experts in productivity, creativity, leadership, communication, and other fields — boil down their big ideas into bite-sized chunks, and then offer you one each morning.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
What if engaging with great ideas could become one of your daily habits? What if some of the best tips for living better and working smarter were served up with your morning coffee, a hit of motivation guaranteed to start your day right? That’s the idea behind “The Next Big Idea Daily.” We work with hundreds of non-fiction authors — experts in productivity, creativity, leadership, communication, and other fields — boil down their big ideas into bite-sized chunks, and then offer you one each morning.
Language:
English
Website:
https://nextbigideaclub.com/
Episodes
How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap
1/20/2025
Why has so little progress been made on the wealth gap? 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Duration:00:10:24
Public Speaking Made Simple
1/17/2025
Michael Chad Hoeppner has coached presidential candidates, prominent CEOs, and Ivy League deans on their communication skills. Now he's going to share his wide‑ranging knowledge with you. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Duration:00:16:12
Pay the People!
1/16/2025
Seventy percent of the U.S. economy relies on consumer demand, yet nearly 40 percent of Americans earn less than the cost of living. John Driscoll wants to change that. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Duration:00:17:00
How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood
1/15/2025
Health and science journalist Chelsea Conaboy explodes the concept of “maternal instinct” and tells a new story about what it means to become a parent. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Duration:00:17:39
Benjamin Franklin's Electric Mind
1/14/2025
The dramatic story of an ingenious man who explained nature and created a country. 📕 Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Duration:00:07:19
How to Build Extraordinary Wealth Buying Ordinary Businesses
1/13/2025
Forget flashy startups — the real path to wealth is buying the local car wash. Today, former Wall Street investor Codie Sanchez reveals how acquiring unsexy but profitable businesses can build more reliable wealth than chasing the next unicorn. 📕 Main Street Millionaire 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Duration:00:08:00
Other People's Words
1/10/2025
When a loved one dies, can their words live on? 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Duration:00:13:02
Should We Go Extinct?
1/9/2025
The title says it all. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Duration:00:12:40
Red, White, and Taboo: America's Sexual History
1/8/2025
American history is kinkier than you think. 📕 Fierce Desires by Rebecca L. Davis 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Duration:00:15:13
Custodians of Wonder
1/7/2025
Eliot Stein, journalist and editor at BBC Travel, has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. Today, he shares their stories. 📕 Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Duration:00:11:34
You Need an Editor
1/6/2025
Want to write emails people will actually read? Author Jenn Bane is here to show you how. Her new book, which she co-wrote with Melissa Harris, is “Everybody Needs an Editor: The Essential Guide to Clear and Effective Writing.” 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Duration:00:11:13
What You Learn From Losing Everything
1/3/2025
A storage unit fire destroyed everything Helen Chandler-Wilde owned and forced her to re-evaluate her relationship with material things.
Duration:00:11:32
Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
1/2/2025
Patrick Hutchison quit his office job and moved to a cabin in the woods. Here's what he learned.
Duration:00:13:14
Are We Living in an Age of Magical Overthinking?
1/1/2025
Why does living in the so-called Information Age only seem to make life more confusing? Amanda Montell has some surprising answers.
Duration:00:11:36
Best Of: No-BS Secrets to Success
12/31/2024
Jim VandeHei co-founded two highly influential news outlets, Politico and Axios. But as he explains in today's episode, his path to success was far from straightforward.
Duration:00:13:51
Best Of: How to Get Unstuck
12/30/2024
Adam Alter, author of "Anatomy of a Breakthrough," offers up a groundbreaking guide to breaking free from the thoughts, habits, jobs, relationships, and business models that are preventing you from achieving your full potential.
Duration:00:12:33
Best Of: An Ugly Sweater’s Hidden Wisdom
12/27/2024
In the early days of the Covid lockdown, many of us took up new hobbies, like playing guitar or baking bread. But Peggy Orenstein went a little further. A lifelong knitter, Peggy decided to try making a sweater from scratch. She taught herself to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, and other skills. The surprising life lessons she learned are the subject of her new book, "Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater."
Duration:00:12:43
Best Of: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens
12/26/2024
Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former administrator of President Barack Obama’s United States Agency for International Development, shares a dynamic new model for creating large-scale change.
Duration:00:12:21
Best Of: Anyone Can Become a Supercommunicator — Even You
12/25/2024
Charles Duhigg, the bestselling author of "Power of Habit," is on the show today to explain what marital spats, NASA interviews, and gun rights debates can teach us about effective communication. His new book is "Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection."
Duration:00:18:18
Best Of: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
12/24/2024
Katherine May, the New York Times–bestselling author of Wintering, invites us to rediscover the feelings of awe and wonder available to us all. ✉️ Sign up for our newsletter, Book of the Day
Duration:00:16:56