North America, every mention
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The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 1:01:16 Brad Jacobs There are, there's eight hundred billion dollars of distributors in Western Europe and in North America, which is where I want to plant my flag.
John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 36:08 Shane Parrish He owned half a commission house that handled produce from one of the most productive farm regions in North America.
Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain
- ▶ 34:57 Kaz Nejatian We're the largest buyers of home in North America.
- ▶ 50:43 Kaz Nejatian Uh, it tends to be a sport that if you play in North America that basically never has an audience. 2 times in the scene
How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders
- ▶ 46:14 Shane Parrish But he's going into hospitals, because hospitals are this place where they're supposed to make us better, and they feed us crap, at least in, in North America, they don't always have the best food.
The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik
- ▶ 14:03 Mario Harik Here in North America, we have about 23,000 people.
- ▶ 19:44 Mario Harik So when you look at our, say our workforce here in North America, we have about 23,000 people.
- ▶ 26:08 Mario Harik That freight across a network of 300 locations across North America.
- ▶ 53:53 Mario Harik But more importantly, that capacity now is enabling us to capitalize on what could be an industrial recovery over the years to come here in North America.
Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big
- ▶ 20:48 Shane Parrish The plant opened in 1969 and became the largest frozen French fry plant outside of North America.
Ray Kroc : How McDonald’s Took Over America
- ▶ 46:46 Shane Parrish So he developed a sandwich, North American whitefish, breaded and fried with tartar sauce on a bun.
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 48:23 Shane Parrish It was fascinating to talk to him because he basically was like, look, you know, he owns North America's largest private telecommunications company.
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 21:13 Ron Shaich It became a category in malls across North America,
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:18 Shane Parrish Not only is John Bragg the largest grower and processor of wild blueberries in the world, but he owns North America's largest private telecommunications company.
- ▶ 12:25 Shane Parrish Today, Oxford Frozen Foods is the second largest frozen carrot producer in North America.
- ▶ 27:47 Shane Parrish Everyone else saw a money losing cable company in small town Nova Scotia, but John Bragg saw the foundation of what would become North America's largest private telecommunications empire.
- ▶ 34:36 Shane Parrish First in North America to bundle internet, phone, and TV into one package. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:57 Shane Parrish By twenty-twenty, that money-losing cable system in Amherst had become the largest private telecommunications company in North America.
- ▶ 49:37 Shane Parrish He owns North America's largest telecommunications company.
- ▶ 54:26 Shane Parrish He's built North America's largest private telecommunications company.
- ▶ 57:19 Shane Parrish And, you know, we didn't get into a lot of the details of it, the fiber optic network he owns, but he's been at the forefront of buying up North American fiber optics. 2 times in the scene
The Science of Lasting Love with Dr. Sue Johnson
- ▶ 29:35 Dr. Sue Johnson Even in terms of sex, um, the best survey research in North America is by a man called Laumann at the University of Chicago.
- ▶ 54:35 Dr. Sue Johnson For most adults in North America, that's the only place they get touched, which is something we should look at. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:56 Dr. Sue Johnson You know, I'm gonna work at it, um, I'm willing to look at it and explore it and work at it, right, and then that's the start, and then to find something that really helps you, and if something like, you know, an educational program like… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:07:39 Dr. Sue Johnson We train, um, 3000 mental health professionals a year in North America in our four-day trainings.
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- ▶ 1:41:23 Harley Finkelstein You walk into any hospital in North America, maybe in the world, and you look around and see, like, what most doctors are wearing or nurses are wearing.
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:38 Shane Parrish This episode reveals how a kid selling garden seeds door to door built one of North America's last great private empires.
- ▶ 15:44 Shane Parrish More than any North American dealership had ever achieved.
- ▶ 40:09 Shane Parrish As the conglomerate bubble burst across North America, Neonex shares fell from 45 dollars to 80.
- ▶ 51:19 Shane Parrish But would it work with North American workers?
- ▶ 1:00:13 Shane Parrish What strikes me most about this story is that Pattison built one of North America's great business empires without ever forgetting the lessons he learned selling seeds door to door.
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top
- ▶ 1:16:57 Indra Nooyi I remember there was a Walmart senior executive, Greg Foran, who was running North America Walmart, and he was in Kiwi, and he was turning around Walmart North America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:01 Indra Nooyi Well, you know, when Roger was CEO, we spun out the bottlers in North America. 2 times in the scene
Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
- ▶ 0:45 Shane Parrish Whether you follow North American politics closely or just catch the headlines, our conversation explores issues that affect your daily life.
Best of 2024: The Blueprint for a Transformative New Year
- ▶ 1:02:40 Brad Jacobs There are this eight hundred billion dollars of distributors in Western Europe and in North America, which is where I want to plant my flag.
- ▶ 1:11:45 Dr. Rhonda Patrick And I'm sure, you know, in North America and Canada are very similar.
John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
- ▶ 1:25 Shane Parrish And if that wasn't enough, he also started and grew North America's largest private telecommunications firm, Eastlink.
- ▶ 17:35 Shane Parrish I want to come back to East Link in a second, because you own one of the largest, I mean, the largest private telecommunications company in North America.
- ▶ 18:40 John Bragg So Nova Scotia and PEI are the only jurisdictions in North America that have restrictions.
- ▶ 26:09 John Bragg Blueberry jam in North America would be maybe five or six on the popularity 2 times in the scene
Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
- ▶ 30:25 Abigail Shrier Uh, it's not just an American or North American problem.
David Segal: Building a $200m Business
- ▶ 29:26 David Segal And we call anything you put in hot and cold water that's not coffee, tea in North America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:29 David Segal It's just North America that for some reason is a bit late to the party.
Brad Jacobs: How To Build a Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 59:54 Brad Jacobs There are, there's eight hundred billion dollars of distributors in Western Europe and in North America, which is where I want to plant my flag.
TKP Insights: Philosophy
- ▶ 32:09 Neil Pasricha So, if the average lifespan, which it is, in North America is 30,000 days, and he happens to have lived 21,500 of them, that thing will say, quick, Neil, do the math, 8500, and then tomorrow it'll say 8499, and that
Jason Karp: Live A Healthier Life
- ▶ 57:14 Shane Parrish So if, if you're a consumer in North America, one way to sort of like opt out of this is to, to buy organic flour.
Keith Creel: Lessons from Life on the Railroad
- ▶ 1:21 Shane Parrish For those of you that don't know, Canadian Pacific is one of the large class one rails in North America.
- ▶ 15:53 Shane Parrish So PSR took CP from, I believe the worst performing class one rail in North America to the best.
Alan Mulally: The Power Of Working Together
- ▶ 26:52 Alan Mulally So, finally, um, the leader of North America, uh, they have an issue, uh, with the launch of the, uh, the Ford Edge in Oakville, Canada, with the actuator on Liftgate, and so he's having his meeting, his BPR before ours, the night before,…
Neil Pasricha: Simple Rules for Happiness
- ▶ 55:35 Neil Pasricha In North America, we've got the highest level word in North America for, you know, working so hard is burnout. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:10 Neil Pasricha That's North American life expectancy. 2 times in the scene
Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought
- ▶ 1:36:52 Barbara Tversky When it's actually south of Rome, and it seems to be because people line up Europe and North America, and Europe is actually farther north than North America, and anyone who goes to Europe at this time of year knows the sun sets very late… 3 times in the scene
#117 Kat Cole: The Power of Possible
#91 Russ Hudson: The Pursuit of Presence
- ▶ 26:10 Russ Hudson So sometimes, like, a classic example here in North America is that a lot of people read this or learn it, and they, they instantly assume they're a four.
- ▶ 51:32 Russ Hudson So the four, uh, the one I was mentioning earlier that everybody seemed to want to be in North America.
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 44:48 Neil Pasricha So, if the average lifespan, which it is, in North America is 30,000 days, and he happens to have lived 21,500 of them, that thing will say, quick, Neil, do the math, 8500, and then tomorrow it'll say 8499, and that
#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- ▶ 1:29:42 Hugh Howey So I'll do deals just in North America, basically, and that lets me do separate, like wool is with Random House in the UK and here in Australia and New Zealand and basically worldwide English. 2 times in the scene
#62 Dr. Sue Johnson: Cracking the Code of Love
- ▶ 0:59 Shane Parrish She's widely regarded as one of the best, if not the best, couples therapists in North America.
- ▶ 24:50 Dr. Sue Johnson Even in terms of sex, um, the best survey research in North America is by a man called Laumann at the University of Chicago.
- ▶ 49:51 Dr. Sue Johnson For most adults in North America, that's the only place they get touched, which is something we should look at. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:40 Dr. Sue Johnson And if something like, you know, an educational program like Hold Me Tight online or in your city, there's one in nearly every city in North America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00:46 Dr. Sue Johnson You know, we, we train, um, 3000 mental health professionals a year in North America in our four day trainings.
#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success
- ▶ 43:15 Daniel Gross Uh, and if you don't have that, and this is, you know, the, I mean, this may explain many of the differences between Mexico and North America is the cult, the culture of access and plenty.
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 15:08 Tobi Lütke Entrepreneurship is actually tanking, um, across North America.
- ▶ 1:04:56 Tobi Lütke This is, I, I wish it wasn't so, but like, it's, there's a thing, like, North America is blessed with a very low distance of power in, as a culture, right?
#36 William MacAskill: The Science of Doing Good
- ▶ 45:42 William MacAskill They're still in the richest 10 to 15% of the world's population, and that's not at all to, um, you know, belittle the problems that people in the poverty line in North America are going through, or the UK. 2 times in the scene
#28 Michael Mauboussin: A Decision Making Jedi
- ▶ 46:21 Michael Mauboussin Um, but it turns out that, uh, in, in, in the United States, I think it's probably true for North America, the United States, our average
Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising
- ▶ 3:01 Rory Sutherland So if you've got a, you know, a third of a large tube of toothpaste remaining, or of course in North America where everything's effing massive, you know, you have sort of six pint, um, tetra packs full of orange juice for some, you're all… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:35:05 Rory Sutherland Weird North American way. 2 times in the scene
#12 Véronique Rivest: Wine Lessons
- ▶ 8:28 Veronique Rivet Um, but it's, it's, it's much more recent that we have official sommelier training in schools in North America. 3 times in the scene