Life Is Not A Dress Rehearsal With Nico Yeats Zeelie
May 21, 2026
If life is not a dress rehearsal, then what will you do with it? That’s the question at the heart of this conversation with Nico Yeats Zeelie — an entrepreneurial mindset facilitator from South Africa who, after attending a faculty training workshop with ELI, took a simple framework back to his students and watched it change the way they saw themselves and what was possible. In this episode, Gary and Nico explore what happens when…
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Agency, Mindset, And Human Potential With Anita Shankar And Paul Spurzem
April 16, 2026
Welcome to the show, where we explore the hidden logic that enables ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things. I recently sat down with Anita Shankar and Paul Spurzem from Johns Hopkins University to talk about something I’ve come to believe sits at the root of almost everything we care about, agency. The ability to make decisions and take action on things that matter. Now that may sound simple, but the implications are profound. When people…
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