What Got You There with Sean DeLaney
What Got You There with Sean DeLaney: Beneath the Surface
A podcast for high performers, deep thinkers, and those who refuse to live on autopilot.
Every week, Sean DeLaney explores the ideas that don’t just make you better at what you do — but more connected to who you are.
Through solo episodes and long-form conversations with world-class performers, thinkers, and creators, we go beneath the surface of success to ask the questions most people avoid:
What if the version of you the world rewards… isn’t the version that makes you feel alive?
Can ambition and inner peace coexist?
How do you perform at your best — without abandoning yourself in the process?
This show is a space to get honest. To let go of old scripts. To reconnect with what actually matters. And to explore how we live, create, lead, and perform — from the inside out.
Not just for more success. But for deeper presence. Greater freedom. And a life that breathes.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 397
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
#177 Stephanie Mehta: Editor-in-chief at Fast Company on Ambition, Bold Thinking, Culture, Creativity & More!
Stephanie Mehta is editor-in-chief of Fast Company. Her career so far has taken her from the Wall Street Journal to Fortune, Bloomberg and Vanity Fair, where she was deputy editor. Now, she oversees…
#176 Keith Rabois- Spotting Undiscovered Talent, Discovering Your Comparative Advantage and Cultivating Greatness.
Keith Rabois is a Silicon Valley legend known for discovering and cultivating talent that has gone on to create companies such as YouTube, Lyft, Airbnb, Quora and many more.
Keith is a general partne…
#175 Kamal Ravikant- Loving Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It, Taming the Mind, and Following Fears
Kamal Ravikant has trekked to one of the highest base camps in the Himalayas, meditated with Tibetan monks in the Dalai Lama's monastery, earned his US Army Infantry patch, worked with some of the be…
#174 Nir Eyal - Best-selling Author on Consumer Psychology, Business, Behavior and the Brain!
Nir Eyal is the bestselling author of "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" and "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.”. After coming to America and successfully…
#173 Gregory Zuckerman- Author “The Man Who Solved the Market, and how James Simons became one of the most successful investors in history.”
Gregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal, a 20-year veteran of the paper and a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb award — the highest honor in business journalism.
On this …
#172 Solo Episode- How I'm Preparing for the Start of 2020
Everyone wants to BLAST OFF in the New Year and on this episode Sean goes into the strategies and frameworks he’s using to ensure 2020 is his best year yet! If you’re wondering about getting your he…
#171 Ramit Sethi- How to Live a Rich Life- REPOST
Ramit Sethi is a New York Times bestselling author and founder of iwillteachyoutoberich.com. Over 1,000,000 people have read his material to learn how to use psychology and systems to live a Rich Lif…
#170 Kara Goldin- CEO & Founder of Hint on Disruption, Lifelong Learning, and Curiosity!
Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of San Francisco–based Hint®, a healthy lifestyle brand that produces the leading unsweetened flavored water and a scented sunscreen spray that’s oxybenzone- and pa…
#169 Solo Episode- Become an Idea Generating Machine!
On this quick hit solo episode Sean goes into his strategies for unlocking your ideas and becoming an idea generating machine!
Get the Latest from Sean right here – https://bit.ly/2RH3eaD
Connect wit…
#168 Brian Rist - Executive Chairman & Founder of Storm Smart Industries Shares Lessons on Entrepreneurship, Building Great Culture & Developing a Growth Mindset
Brian Rist is the President & founder of Storm Smart Industries which he founded in 1996. Brian was able to spot an opportunity and has pioneered the innovative technology that Storm Smart uses to ke…
#167 Solo Episode: Finding Your Competitive Advantage
Today Sean is bringing you a quick hit solo episode on uncovering your competitive advantage, how to discover what your unique abilities are, how to leverage them to distinguish yourself and how to k…
#166 Scott Young- Ultralearning: Master hard skills, outsmart the competition and accelerate your career
Scott Young is the author of the new book Ultralearning: Master hard skills, outsmart the competition and accelerate your career. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, y…
#165 Jerry Colonna- The CEO Whisperer Gives Sean a Reboot!
Most of us have gotten pretty far by moving fast, doing more, and striving for the next achievement. But when you’re called upon to lead, it’s time to look in the mirror, face your hard stuff, and gr…
#164 Scott Adams- The Dilbert Comic Creator
Scott Adams is the creator of Dilbert, one of the most popular comic strips of all time. In addition to creating Dilbert Scott has been a Bestselling author and successful entrepreneur.
His many best…
#163 Matt Walden- Singer/ Songwriter on Navigating the Music Industry, Dealing with Self Doubt and Becoming an Entrepreneur
Matt Walden is a singer songwriter who discusses his unconventional journey which began with him posting original and cover songs on YouTube and Vine. Since then he’s had millions of streams and has …
#162 From Shark Tank Failure to Making Kitu Super Coffee a $100 Million Dollar Brand with the DeCicco Brothers!
In just three years, the DeCicco brothers have taken Kitu Super Coffee from a college dorm room to being the #1 selling bottled coffee in the U.S. and a business worth over $100 million! As a freshma…
#161 Dr. Tara Swart - How to Optimize for Peak Brain Performance
Dr Tara Swart is a neuroscientist, leadership coach, award-winning author and a medical doctor. She works with leaders all over the world to help them achieve mental resilience and peak brain perform…
#160 Daniel Farkas the CEO of DROPS- Meta learning, mental models and building a great company
Daniel Farkas is co-founder and CEO of Drops, where he helps people all around the world learn languages in a new, enjoyable way.
Following an epiphany that most of us are never actually taught how t…
#159 Solo episode- One of my key Mental Models "Gaps in Judgement"
On this solo episode Sean discusses one of his key mental models, “Gaps in Judgement”.
“Gaps in judgement…. We all have them. But how do we become better at identifying them? At understanding them? A…
#158 Brent Beshore- Founder & CEO of Adventur.es on understanding risk, finding great investments, taking advantage of luck & more!
Investor Brent Beshore is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of adventur.es, a Midwestern-based private equity firm. you can check them out at adventure.es
His firm takes a long-term approach to…