The Fred Pinto Podcast

The Fred Pinto Podcast

Can we harness our ingenuity to elevate the human experience? Join technology lawyer and entrepreneur Fred Pinto as he explores the mindsets, stories and insights of leading entrepreneurs, thought leaders and innovators. https://fredpinto.com/

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September 17, 2025 78 mins

Coleman Hughes is a writer, podcast host and musician. He is the author of The End of Race Politics, and is a regular contributor to The Free Press.

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(00:00:22) Intro
(00:05:50) Chapter 1: Making Sense
(00:11:14) Chapter 2: The New Race Politics
(00:36:18) Chapter 3: Identity: Race or Values?
(00:46:05) Chapter 4: Race Politics in Corporate America
(01:02:41) Chapter 5: The Victimhoo...

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Dr. Steven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, whose books include The Language Instinct, The Blank Slate, Enlightenment Now, and Rationality. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. 

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(00:00:11) Intro

(00:03:17) Chapter 1: Revisiting the Blank Slate 

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Dr. Jean Twenge is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, and the best-selling author of The Narcissism Epidemic and Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents – and What They Mean for America’s Future.

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(00:00:12) Intro
(00:05:36) Chapter 1: Today’s Mental Health Epidemic
(00:13:51) Chapter 2: The Rise of Individualism
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Dr. Michael Mannino teaches at the Institute for Data Science and Computing at the University of Miami and is the Chief Science Officer at the Flow Research Collective.

(00:00:00) In this episode

(00:00:06) Intro

(00:04:30) Chapter 1: Neuroscience and Philosophy

(00:18:40) Chapter 2: Mind Body Connection

(00:28:26) Chapter 3: Levels of Embodied Consciousness

(00:46:17) Chapter 4: The Cognitive Benefits of Movement

(01:04:27) Chapter 5: Ac...

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January 22, 2025 55 mins

Steven Kotler is a New York Times best-selling author, an award-winning journalist, and the executive director of the Flow Research Collective. His books include Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, and The Art of Impossible

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(00:00:00) In this episode 
(00:00:11) Intro
(00:02:58) Chapter 1: What is Flow? 
(00:24:11) Chapter 2: Calibrating Challenges 
(00:33:47) Chapter 3: Purpose an...

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James Altucher is an entrepreneur, investor, best-selling author, and host of The James Altucher Show.

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(00:00:00) In this episode…

(00:00:15) - Intro

(00:06:27) Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship: a Series of Experiments

(00:23:21) Chapter 2: Reinvention and Problem-Solving

(00:46:49) Chapter 3: The Spokes and Wheel Approach

(01:02:02) Chapter 4: AI’s Creativity Revolution

(01:11:03) Chapter 5: The Decline of Cities 

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October 22, 2024 68 mins

Claude Silver is the Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX.

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(00:00:16) Intro

(00:02:31) Chapter 1: Queen of Hearts

(00:16:32) Chapter 2: Caring with High Standards

(00:28:18) Chapter 3: Purpose and Grit

(00:38:05) Chapter 4: Empathetic truth-telling

(00:43:43) Chapter 5: Of Chops and Culture

(00:54:08) Chapter 6: The Balanced Life

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Jonathan Pageau is a religious iconographer, public speaker, and host of The Symbolic World podcast.

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(00:00:00) In this episode…

(00:00:07) Intro

(00:01:44) Chapter 1: The First Purpose

(00:04:49) Chapter 2: Art and Meaning

(00:14:40) Chapter 3: The Indifferent Universe

(00:34:20) Chapter 4: On Miracles

(00:43:44) Chapter 5: Fundamentalisms, Old and New

(00:55:01) Chapter 6: Religion and Politics

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Dr. Daniel A. Yudkin is a Fellow in Social and Behavioural Science at the Wharton School and Director of Research at More in Common

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(00:00:00) In this episode…
(00:00:42) Chapter 1: Exiting Academia
(00:17:10) Chapter 2: Hidden Tribes
(00:50:49) Chapter 3: Society and Morality
(01:14:10) Chapter 4: Diversity and Shared Norms
(01:23:32) Chapter 5: Future Projects

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Glenn Greenwald is an award-winning journalist, author and constitutional lawyer. His reporting on the global surveillance programs won a Pulitzer Prize for The Guardian. He hosts the daily show System Update on Rumble. 

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(00:00:00) In this episode…
(00:00:20) Intro
(00:02:57) Chapter 1: The political spectrum
(00:07:24) Chapter 2: Journalism and knowledge of the law
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Ariel Helwani is a sports journalist and the host of the MMA Hour. He’s won MMA Journalist of the Year at the World MMA Awards every year since 2010.

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(00:00:00) In this episode…
(00:00:33) Chapter 1 - Back to Montreal
(00:13:20) Chapter 2 - Journalistic Ethics
(00:21:30) Chapter 3 - Truth vs Spectacle
(00:33:16) Chapter 4 - The Future of the UFC
(00:42:53) Chapter 5 - Thicker Skin...

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Dr. Bjørn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus, the best-selling author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Best Things First, and a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He’s been named one of the top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines and was listed among TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world. 

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Tom Bilyeu is a unicorn entrepreneur, award-winning screenwriter, and the founder of Impact Theory, a media company dedicated to positively impacting lives through empowering educational content.


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January 23, 2024 96 mins

Mitch Joel is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and co-founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that provides premium, bite-sized thought leadership.

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November 28, 2023 65 mins

Jesse Itzler is a serial entrepreneur, recording artist, coach, co-owner of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks, and the New York Times best-selling author of Living with a SEAL and Living with the Monks

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October 26, 2023 89 mins

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September 26, 2023 82 mins

Ido Portal is a world-renowned expert and thinker on human movement.

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Dr. Richard Weikart is an award-winning historian and emeritus professor of history at Cal State University Stanislaus, a Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and the author of several thought-provoking books, including From Darwin to Hitler, and The Death of Humanity

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Dustin “The Diamond” Poirier is a decorated UFC fighter, and the co-founder of The Good Fight Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to helping underserved communities.

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Is well-being best achieved in accepting what is, or in passionately engaging in what is yet to be? Technology lawyer and writer Fred Pinto links counterintuitive findings from philosophy, wisdom studies, and psychology to tease out the idea that finding ourselves comes as a result of losing our firmly held ideas of ourselves first. In a modern world that encourages self-obsession, this talk is for everyone who wants to achieve mor...

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