Brilliant Podcast
Brilliant Podcast
Podcast Description
From 2021 to 2023, Tristan Ahumada captured the podcasting world’s attention with the Brilliant Thoughts podcast through SUCCESS Magazine, amassing a dedicated following. With over 100 episodes and glowing five-star reviews, it averaged more than 100,000 downloads per episode, becoming an essential listen for those eager to grow their life and business.
Now, we’re narrowing the focus even further — Introducing Brilliant, a podcast dedicated to the books you should be reading, but aren’t.
Join Tristan as he interviews some of the smartest minds on the planet—authors who have poured their genius into carefully crafted books that you should be reading. These thought leaders are shaping the future, and they’re sharing ideas that will help you think more critically, enhance your knowledge, and elevate your life and business. Each episode will take you through the key lessons from their work, offering insights that can inspire breakthroughs and drive real change. These aren’t just books—they’re transformative ideas that propel humanity forward, and Tristan will guide you through them.
Subscribe now and discover the books and ideas that will change the way you think, transforming both your life and business. Brilliant is your new go-to for the stories and insights you didn’t know you needed.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on critical thinking, personal development, and leadership, with episodes exploring themes from emotional resilience to storytelling as a healing tool. Notable example episodes include discussions with authors on the impact of social capital and the importance of fostering human connection in leadership roles.
From 2021 to 2023, Tristan Ahumada captured the podcasting world’s attention with the Brilliant Thoughts podcast through SUCCESS Magazine, amassing a dedicated following. With over 100 episodes and glowing five-star reviews, it averaged more than 100,000 downloads per episode, becoming an essential listen for those eager to grow their life and business.
Now, we’re narrowing the focus even further — Introducing Brilliant, a podcast dedicated to the books you should be reading, but aren’t.
Join Tristan as he interviews some of the smartest minds on the planet—authors who have poured their genius into carefully crafted books that you should be reading. These thought leaders are shaping the future, and they’re sharing ideas that will help you think more critically, enhance your knowledge, and elevate your life and business. Each episode will take you through the key lessons from their work, offering insights that can inspire breakthroughs and drive real change. These aren’t just books—they’re transformative ideas that propel humanity forward, and Tristan will guide you through them.
Subscribe now and discover the books and ideas that will change the way you think, transforming both your life and business. Brilliant is your new go-to for the stories and insights you didn’t know you needed.
How to fix burnout is something we find ourselves looking up all the time, mostly because we get completely buried in our daily routine and forget to breathe. On this episode of The Brilliant Podcast, I sat down with DJ DiDonna to figure out why a normal three-day weekend never feels like enough anymore, and we ended up hitting on a much better approach to work life balance. We got into the exact signs of burnout that I usually overlook in my own life, like how we treat ourselves like appliances that just need to plug into a wall for an hour instead of human beings who need real time to just mess around and play. DJ spent five years tracking people taking a sabbatical, and he walked me through how stepping away from your business can be a peak life experience instead of something that hurts your career.
I used to be the ultimate functional workaholic who only took a break when my body completely quit on me and forced me into a sick day, so this conversation really changed how I view my schedule. We talked about handling career uncertainty when everything feels unpredictable, finding a way to get things done through mindful productivity, and how I am personally planning time off so I can stay sane. If you are trying to build a business or just trying to find some stress management techniques that make sense, this chat is going to help you figure out who you are when you aren’t working.
Drop a comment and let me know what you’d do if you had three months completely to yourself, and make sure to subscribe so you catch all our weekly chats.
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Dennis “DJ” DiDonna teaches entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and spends his career building organizations that help people. He started The Sabbatical Project to study the benefits of taking extended breaks from work, and his research has been featured in major places like The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal. Before this, he cofounded a financial tech company that helped businesses in over 20 countries get $2B in funding before it was bought out. DJ holds an MBA from Harvard, loves the outdoors, and once walked a 900-mile journey in Japan.
Get his book Big Time Off: https://amzn.to/44xy1OI
Website: https://djdidonna.com/bioii/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/djdidonna/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djdidonna/
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