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
#237 Neil deGrasse Tyson- Curiosity, Creating Connection, and Cosmic Queries!
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at New York’s American Museum of Natural History.
He is the author of more than a dozen books, he…
#236 Richard Koch- Using the 80/20 Principle & Achieving Unreasonable Success
Richard Koch is an entrepreneur, investor and author of over 20 books including The 80/20 Principle which has become a business classic, being named by GQ as one of the top 25 business books of all t…
#235 Rich Diviney- Navy SEAL Commander on the 25 Attributes of Optimal Performance
Rich Diviney is a retired Navy SEAL commander. In a career spanning more than twenty years, he completed more than thirteen overseas deployments—eleven of which were to Iraq and Afghanistan.
As the …
#234 Howard Marks- Latest Thinking, Spotting Patterns and Understanding Risk
Howard Marks is co-chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, a leading investment firm with more than $140 billion in assets under management.
Howard is a legendary value investor and h…
#233 Dr. Ceri Evans- Lean How to Perform Under Pressure
This episode is all about learning how to perform under pressure because let’s face it, no one has an exemption from pressure.
One of the leading authorities on performing under pressure Dr. Ceri Ev…
#232 Colin Bryar- Amazon's former Vice President on Leadership Principles & Working with Jeff Bezos
Colin Bryar joined Amazon in 1998 and spent the next 12 years as part of Amazon's senior leadership team as Amazon grew from a US domestic seller of books to a global, multi-dimensional powerhouse a…
#231 Josh Clemente- Founder of Levels & Former SpaceX Engineer on Building a Great Company, Improving Metabolic Health and Lessons Learned from Elon Musk
#230 Jon Oringer- Billionaire Founder of Shutterstock on Learning from Failure, Starting and Growing a Business, Investing in the Future
Jon Oringer is the billionaire Founder and Executive Chairman of Shutterstock, the publicly traded stock media and editing tools provider.
In addition to that Jon is a serial entrepreneur, investor a…
#229 Steven Kotler- Achieving Peak Performance & Taking on The Impossible
Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, executive director of the Flow Research Collective, and peak performance expert.
Steven first appeared on the podcast on episode #43 where we cov…
#228 Erin Meyer- Lessons Learned from Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Erin Meyer is the author of the New York Times bestseller No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention that she cowrote with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
Erin is also the author of The Cultur…
#227 Randall Stutman- Creating Admired Leaders of the World's Top Performers
Dr. Randall Stutman is a leadership scientist dedicated to exploring the behaviors and routines of extraordinary leaders. Labeled by Goldman Sachs as the most experienced advisor and executive coach …
Top 10 Takeaways of 2020!
As 2020 comes to a close, I can’t help but reflect on the incredible episodes from the past year and all that I’ve learned from each conversation. To wrap up this year, I have compiled my Top 10 Tak…
#225 Geoffrey West - Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
Geoffrey West is a physicist turned complexity theorist. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, where he served as President from 2005 to 2009.
West has been listed as o…
#224 Rory Sutherland- Vice Chairman of Ad Agency Ogilvy & Mather on the Science of Conjuring up New Ideas
Rory Sutherland is Vice Chairman of one of the world’s most respected advertising agencies Ogilvy & Mather.
He is the author of Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, …
#223 Frank Slootman- Chairman & CEO of Snowflake on Ambition, Taking on Challenges & Rapid Business Growth
Frank Slootman currently serves as Chairman and CEO at Snowflake. Frank has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive in the enterprise software industry.
Slootman served as CEO an…
#222 Bill Tierney- 7 Time National Champion Lacrosse Coach
Bill Tierney is the head men’s lacrosse coach at the University of Denver and one of collegiate lacrosse's legendary coaches. In 2015 Tierney was named USILA Division I National Coach of the Year whi…
#221 Dr. Jim Loehr- Pioneering Elite Performance Psychology for Sports, Business and Life!
Dr. Jim Loehr is the Bestselling author, world-renowned performance psychologist, and Co-Founder of the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute.
He has worked with hundreds of world-class perfo…
#220 Robert Greene- Mastering The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Laws of Human Nature, The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, and Mastery. Robert was ori…
#219 Ed Sim- Courage, Conviction and Venture Capital with Boldstart Ventures Founder
Ed Sim is the founder of Boldstart Ventures, a first check investor for bold founders reinventing the enterprise!
Ed loves to work with engineering driven founders with a laser sharp focus on product…
#218 Seth Godin- The Consistent Patterns of Success
Seth Godin Is the bestselling author of Linchpin, Tribes, Sean’s favorite marketing book of all time, This is Marketing and his latest work The Practice: Shipping Creative Work.
On this episode Seth…