wikiHow is a collaborative, wiki-based platform on a mission to teach anyone how to do anything. Founded by Jack Herrick in 2005 and run as a self-funded 'hybrid' company that pairs a profit-making ad model with a nonprofit-style public mission, it hosts hundreds of thousands of community-written, expert-reviewed how-to articles in 19 languages and has reached tens of millions of monthly readers worldwide.
Alain de Botton is a Swiss-born British philosopher, author, and entrepreneur who has written 15+ books translated into 30+ languages, co-founded The School of Life in 2008, and built a global movement dedicated to making philosophy practically useful for everyday life - covering love, work, anxiety, and what it means to live wisely.
Ed Mylett is a self-made entrepreneur, bestselling author, peak performance coach, and one of the most followed personal development voices on the internet. Starting from a home shaped by his father's addiction and a college baseball career cut short by injury, he rose to become one of the youngest CEO Marketing Directors at World Financial Group, built a multi-hundred-million-dollar business career, and then reinvented himself as a globally recognized speaker and podcast host. His show, The Ed Mylett Show, draws millions of listeners with unfiltered conversations on success, mindset, and building an extraordinary life.
Jay Shetty is a British-Indian author, podcast host, and former monk who turned three years of monastic life in India into the world's #1 health and wellness podcast, 'On Purpose,' which has surpassed 1 billion listens. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and TIME100 Creator, he is the author of two bestsellers, Chief Purpose Officer at Calm, and co-founder of multiple ventures including a production company and a talent agency. In May 2026, Netflix and Spotify signed a deal worth up to $100 million to exclusively carry video versions of his podcast.
Lewis Howes is a former professional athlete turned media entrepreneur, best known as the host of 'The School of Greatness' podcast - one of the world's top podcasts with over 500 million downloads. A three-time New York Times bestselling author, Howes transformed a career-ending wrist injury and a spell sleeping on his sister's couch into a multi-platform media empire spanning podcasts, books, television, and the Greatness Network. Recognized by the Obama White House as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under 30, he has interviewed everyone from Tony Robbins to Alanis Morissette.
Mel Robbins is a bestselling author, award-winning podcast host, and one of the most-booked motivational speakers in the world. The creator of the 5 Second Rule and The Let Them Theory, she turned a near-bankruptcy crisis at 41 into a media empire with 40 million followers, a top-3 global podcast, and books translated into 65 languages. As CEO of 143 Studios, she produces content for corporate partners including Starbucks, JPMorgan Chase, and LinkedIn.
Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, and one of the most widely read and debated public intellectuals of his generation. Known for his books '12 Rules for Life' and 'Beyond Order' - which together sold over 7 million copies - and a YouTube channel with over 8.8 million subscribers, he blends Jungian psychology, evolutionary biology, and Biblical narrative into a framework for personal responsibility and meaning. He co-founded Peterson Academy in 2024, an online education platform with 72,000 students, and hosts 'The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast,' which has surpassed 150 million downloads.
Tim Ferriss is a five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast (1 billion+ downloads), early-stage investor in Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, and 50+ companies, and founder of the Saisei Foundation funding psychedelic research. Known for popularizing 'lifestyle design' with The 4-Hour Workweek, he is also a Guinness World Record holder in tango, a national kickboxing champion, and a polyglot who speaks five languages.
Julien Smith is a Montreal-based serial entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, and one of the earliest Twitter users (handle @julien). He co-founded Breather, an on-demand private workspace platform that raised $122M+, and later Practice, a coaching management platform backed by a16z. His 2011 free Kindle book 'The Flinch', edited by Seth Godin, remains one of the most-read Kindle books ever, and his viral blog post 'The Complete Guide to Not Giving a Fuck' is widely credited as the inspiration for Mark Manson's multi-million-copy bestseller. Today he coaches first-time CEOs.
In this solo lecture, behavioral scientist and human behavior expert Chase Hughes introduces the concept of 'emotional debt' — a neuroscience-backed framework explaining how unprocessed emotions don't disappear but compound in the nervous system like interest on a loan. Drawing on biology (amygdala hypersensitization, the HPA axis, prefrontal cortex degradation), somatic science, and psychology, Hughes argues that what we call 'personality' is often just a collection of unpaid emotional invoices from childhood. He outlines five steps to process emotional debt: see the payments, name your debt-servicing behavior, let the body finish incomplete responses, stop taking on new debt, and get a witness — all united by a single active ingredient: perspective shift.
Heather Havrilesky is an American advice columnist, culture writer, and author best known for her wildly popular 'Ask Polly' column, which began at The Awl in 2012, moved to New York magazine's The Cut in 2014, and migrated to Substack in 2021 where it has amassed over 100,000 subscribers. Writing with unflinching emotional honesty and a distinct all-caps intensity, she dismantles myths of American success, explores the paradoxes of modern love, and reassures readers that being a walking tangle of contradictions is not just acceptable but very human. She is also the author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller 'How to Be a Person in the World' and 'Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage,' named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker.
Mark Manson is a three-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, blogger, and podcaster whose books have sold approximately 20 million copies worldwide across 65+ languages. Known for his brutally honest, profanity-laced take on self-help, his breakout book 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' spent over 279 weeks on the NYT bestseller list and was adapted into a documentary by Universal Pictures in 2023. He runs a popular weekly newsletter, an AI-powered coaching app called Purpose, and the podcast 'SOLVED with Mark Manson.'