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
#332 Laurence Gonzales- The Art and Science of Managing Stress in Extreme Situations & Overcoming Adversity
Laurence Gonzales is an award winning author of numerous books such as Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why and its sequel Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience, which attempt …
#331 David Robson- The Cutting-Edge Science of How Our Mindset Holds The Keys to Unlocking a Better You
David Robson is an award-winning science writer specialising in the extremes of the human brain, body and behaviour.
David’s first book, The Intelligence Trap, Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes is …
#330 Commander Guy Snodgrass- TOPGUN's Instructor on Leadership Lessons from the Cockpit
#329 Apolo Anton Ohno- How To Unleash Your Olympic Winning Mindset
Apolo Anton Ohno is America’s most decorated Winter Olympian of all time, Author, Speaker on a life mission to help you become your best in health, work, and life.
Apolo …
#328 Paul Assaiante- Winningest coach in college sports history on facing fears, learning from failure & being all in!
Paul Assaiante is currently the Men’s Squash and Tennis coach at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Ganek Family US Squash Head National Coach, Professional Speaker and Author. Two-time Olympi…
Best of 2022: My top 10 takeaways from the past year!
#1. Benjamin Zander- A leader’s job is to awaken the possibility in other people.
#2. Will Guidara - You can speak things into existence and the power of nonverbal communication. What would you atte…
#326 Pauline Brown - Former Chairman of LVMH North America on Developing Your Aesthetic Intelligence
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Pauline Brown has been a massive influence in the building of some of the world’s most influential luxury brands. She is the former Chairman of North America for LVMH Moët Hennessy L…
#325 Adrian Fenty- Former Mayor of Washington DC & Founding Managing Partner of MaC Venture Capital
Adrian Fenty is the founding managing partner at MaC Venture Capital. Prior to MaC, Adrian was co-founder and Managing Partner at M. Ventures and Special Advisor to Andreessen Horowitz. He began his …
Momentum Minutes - My NEW DAILY PODCAST!
Hey guys it’s Sean and I’m launching a NEW DAILY PODCAST called Momentum Minutes!
Don’t worry What Got You There isn’t going anywhere but After talking to a dozens of listeners the number one thing …
#324 Mario Andretti- “If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.”
Not many have driven a race car better than Mario Andretti.
He won the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, the Formula One World Championship and the Pikes Peak Hillclimb. He won the Indy Car Nationa…
#323 William Oliver- Co-founder of In Practise, Shares Lessons Learned Studying Thousands of Businesses
William Oliver is a co-founder of In Practise, a research service for investors to learn about high-quality companies. They aim to help investors better understand companies by conducting in depth in…
#322 Will Guidara- Becoming The #1 Restaurant in The World by Unreasonable Hospitality
Will Guidara has been immersed in the restaurant industry since the age of thirteen. Guidara trained in the dining rooms of Tribeca Grill, Spago, and Tabla and opened the restaurants at the Museum of…
The Distillation of Danny Meyer: A Guide to Leadership, Culture Building & Hospitality
Read the entire Distillation of Danny Meyer HERE
Also checkout past Dillations of people like Michael Jordan, Bob Iger, Josh Waitzkin & many more by CLICKING HERE
Danny Meyer is the Founder & Execut…
#320 Benjamin Zander- Awaken The Possibility in Others, A Conductor's Guide to Leadership
Benjamin Zander is one of the world’s most well known classical musicians and is a source of profound inspiration to many people. He is a deeply insightful conductor, a master teacher of music, and a…
#319 Carla Harris- The 8 Keys To Transformational Leadership
Carla A. Harris is a senior client advisor at Morgan Stanley. She has been the recipient of many awards honoring business professionals, including Fortune magazine's 50 Most Powerful Black Executives…
#318- Doug Conant - Former CEO of Campbell Soup Company Shares 40 Years of Leadership Lessons
Douglas R. Conant is an internationally renowned business leader, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, keynote speaker, and social media influencer with over 40 years of leaders…
#317 Annie Duke- Learn Why Quitting is a Superpower of The Greats
Annie Duke is an author, corporate speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space, as well as Special Partner focused on Decision Science at First Round Capital Partners, a seed stage venture f…
#316 Brad Slingerlend- Co-Founder of NZS Capital on Making Decisions in a Complex World
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In this Podcast Episode, I sat down with Brad Slingerlend. He is the Co-founder and investor at NZS Capital, LLC NZS Capital, LLC is a Denver, Colorado-based investment company focus…
#315 Michael Gelb- Developing Creativity on Demand & How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
Michael Gelb is one of the world’s leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development, Michael J. Gelb is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking,…
#314 Tom House- Deconstructing Greatness, Taking on Parkinson's Disease & Learning from Failure
Tom House is a world-renowned expert in the biomechanics of the throwing motion. He has over 50 years of experience in Major League Baseball as a pitcher and pitching coach, and has coached Hall of F…