Simon Sinek

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10,750 appearances 23 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

Simon Sinek’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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A Bit of Optimism · Why Trying to “Sound Smart” is Losing You the Room with Strategic Story Producer Rob Willis · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

And if you look at the great brands, I think when you're distilling the idea down to its essence, I think those little clippable, quotable bits become quite obvious. podcast-host

I'm explaining this thing called the why, and that's the thing that motivates the purchase behavior, the vote, the support, whatever it is. podcast-host

And the what is the result, even though you think that's the reason they're buying it. podcast-host

you know it's clear that people don't buy what you do they buy why you do it like it is sort of a anybody could have if you go down the logic train i think you get there podcast-host

i just went down the logic train i guess such a good question i don't know the answer podcast-host

I mean, I think visually. podcast-host

And so people think that I have that pad and pen out there as this sort of clever device. podcast-host

But I didn't do it for you. podcast-host

I did it for me. podcast-host

Because when I'm thinking, and especially if I'm doing something extemporaneously, I need that. podcast-host

Because if you sit down with me and have a meeting with me, invariably I'm going to grab a piece of paper and a pen to explain my ideas because I think visually. podcast-host

And so that pad and pen is there for me to think visually. podcast-host

It's really funny. podcast-host

It happened a long time ago. podcast-host

So I don't, and I think we tend to sort of romanticize and rewrite history. podcast-host

But I think, you know, I think the thing that has to, that people have to remember is all ideas feel like a bolt of lightning, but they're not really. podcast-host

You know, there's, it's like anybody, it's like little bits, little bits, little bits. podcast-host

And then the final articulation is the bolt of lightning, but it didn't come out of nowhere. podcast-host

You know, it came out of lots of conversations and lots of thinking and lots of reading and lots of, you know, sort of trying to understand. podcast-host

And then you arrive at what seems to be a bolt of lightning, you know. podcast-host

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