The Tim Ferriss Show Creators & Guests

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company‘s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune‘s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. The Observer and other media have called Tim “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 100 million downloads.

Brandon Stanton is an American author, photographer and blogger. He is the author of Humans of New York, he is also one of Time's "30 Under 30 People Changing The World".

Terry Crews is an American actor, comedian, activist, and former professional football. He gained fame for his comedic roles in films such as "White Chicks" and "The Expendables" series, and as Terry Jeffords on the hit TV show "Brooklyn Nine-Nine." Crews is a host on "America's Got Talent," and an advocate for various social issues, including his experiences with sexual harassment and his support for the #MeToo movement.

Roland Griffiths is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His principal research focus in both clinical and preclinical laboratories has been on the behavioral and subjective effects of mood-altering drugs.

Diana Chapman is a co-founder of the Conscious Leadership Group and author.

Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer, sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer (AFP), is an American singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, pianist, and lyricist of the duo The Dresden Dolls.

Rick Doblin is the Founder and Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS).

William Ury is an American author, academic, anthropologist, and negotiation expert. He co-founded the Harvard Program on Negotiation.

Aaron Stupple is the author of The Sovereign Child: How a Forgotten Philosophy Can Liberate Kids and Their Parents.

Stephen Dubner is a author, journalist, and radio host. He is also co-author of the popular Freakonomics book series and host of Freakonomics Radio Podcast.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese–American, essayist, scholar, statistician, and former trader and risk analyst. His work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.

Balaji Srinivasan is an Angel investor, entrepreneur, and a co-founder of Earn, Counsyl, Teleport, Coin Center.

Margaret Cho is an American comedian, actress, and advocate. She gained fame with her groundbreaking sitcom "All-American Girl" in the mid-1990s, which was one of the first to feature an Asian-American family on network television. Cho is celebrated for her stand-up comedy, where she tackles issues such as race, sexuality, and social justice with candor and wit. She has released numerous comedy specials and starred in films like "Face/Off" and "The Doom Generation."

Henry Shukman is founder of the Original Love meditation program, spiritual director emeritus at Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, NM, and the author of several award-winning books of poetry and fiction. His newest book Original Love: the Four Inns on the Path of Awakening (HarperOne) was released in July 2024. Henry has taught at Google, Harvard Business School, the Institute of American Indian Arts and Oxford Brookes University.  His poetry has been featured in the New Yorker, Sunday Times, and Guardian, and his essays in the New York Times and Outside. He has an M.A. from Cambridge and an MLitt from St Andrews. Henry is co-founder of The Way, a meditation app that offers a unique, long-term path of deep meditation training

Steven Rinella is the host of the TV show MeatEater and The MeatEater Podcast.

Samuel David Kass (born 1980) worked at the White House from January 20, 2009 to December 19, 2014, and during this period served as President Barack Obama's Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy, as Executive Director for First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move!

Stanislav "Stan" Grof is a Czech psychiatrist, one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of exploring, healing, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche. Grof received the VISION 97 award granted by the Foundation of Dagmar and Václav Havel in Prague on October 5, 2007.

Leo Babauta is a bestselling author and the founder of Zen Habits.

Danielle Teller (formerly Morse, nee Dyck) grew up in Canada, where she and her two brothers were raised by the best parents in the world. As a child, she was a bookworm who dreamed of being a writer, but she chickened out and went to medical school instead. In 1994, she moved temporarily to America, and she has been living temporarily in America ever since. Danielle attended Queen's University during her undergraduate years, and she received her medical training at McGill University, Brown University and Yale University. She has held faculty positions at the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard University, where she investigated the origins of chronic lung disease and taught in the medical intensive care unit. In 2013, Danielle quit her job to pursue her childhood dream of being a writer. She lives with her husband, Astro Teller, and their four children in Palo Alto, California. Her first novel about the life of Cinderella's stepmother will be published by William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins, in the summer of 2018.