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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.

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Kelly Weinersmith and her husband Zach set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements. After years of research, they aren’t so sure it’s a good idea. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Why has so little progress been made on the wealth gap? 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
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
Pay the People!

Pay the People!

2025-01-1616:49

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
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
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
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
Other People's Words

Other People's Words

2025-01-1012:41

When a loved one dies, can their words live on? 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Should We Go Extinct?

Should We Go Extinct?

2025-01-0912:49

The title says it all. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
American history is kinkier than you think. 📕 Fierce Desires by Rebecca L. Davis 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Custodians of Wonder

Custodians of Wonder

2025-01-0711:09

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
You Need an Editor

You Need an Editor

2025-01-0610:52

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
A storage unit fire destroyed everything Helen Chandler-Wilde owned and forced her to re-evaluate her relationship with material things.
Patrick Hutchison quit his office job and moved to a cabin in the woods. Here's what he learned.
Why does living in the so-called Information Age only seem to make life more confusing? Amanda Montell has some surprising answers.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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."
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