#538: How I Built The Tim Ferriss Show to 700+ Million Downloads — An Immersive Explanation of All Aspects and Key Decisions (Featuring Chris Hutchins)
The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
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🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 182 minutes
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How I Built The Tim Ferriss Show to 700+ Million Downloads — An Immersive Explanation of All Aspects and Key Decisions (Featuring Chris Hutchins) | Brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs recruitment platform with 770M+ users, Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement, and Helix Sleep premium mattresses. More on all three below.
Chris Hutchins (@hutchins) is an avid life hacker and financial optimizer. He’s the host of All the Hacks podcast and the Head of New Product Strategy at Wealthfront.
Previously, Chris was co-founder and CEO of Grove (acquired by Wealthfront), co-founder of Milk (acquired by Google), and a partner at Google Ventures, where he focused on seed and early stage investments.
Chris reached out with many questions about podcasting. He had already read much of what I had written and listened to several interviews, and this is intended to be an updated guide to all things podcasting.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time what I would take if I |
| 0:05.3 | could only take one supplement. The answer is invariably Athletic Greens. I view it as all |
| 0:11.3 | in one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in fact in the four hour body. This is more than |
| 0:16.1 | 10 years ago and I did not get paid to do so. With approximately 75 vitamins, minerals, and |
| 0:21.6 | whole food source ingredients, you'd be very hard pressed to find a more nutrient dense and |
| 0:25.8 | comprehensive formula on the market. It has multivitamins, multimineral greens complex, |
| 0:31.0 | probiotics, and prebiotics for gut health and immunity formula. Digestive enzymes, |
| 0:35.3 | adaptogens, and much more. I usually take it once or twice a day just to make sure I've covered my |
| 0:41.0 | bases if I miss anything I'm not aware of. Of course, I focus on nutrient dense meals to begin |
| 0:46.9 | with. That's the basis. Athletic Greens makes it easy to get a lot of nutrition when whole foods |
| 0:51.9 | aren't readily available. From travel packets, I always have them in my bag when I'm zipping around. |
| 0:57.2 | Right now, Athletic Greens is giving my audience a special offer on top of their all-in-one formula, |
| 1:02.8 | which is a free vitamin D supplement and five free travel packs with your first subscription |
| 1:08.8 | purchase. Many of us are deficient in vitamin D. I found that true for myself, which is usually |
| 1:13.9 | produced in our bodies from sun exposure. So adding a vitamin D supplement to your daily routine |
| 1:18.4 | is a great option for additional immune support. Support your immunity, gut health, and energy |
| 1:23.6 | by visiting athleticgreens.com slash Tim. You'll receive up to a year's supply of vitamin D and |
| 1:30.2 | five free travel packs with your subscription. Again, that's athleticgreens.com slash Tim. |
| 1:40.0 | This podcast episode is brought to you by Helix Sleep. Sleep is super important to me in the |
| 1:45.5 | last few years. I've come to conclude it is the end all be all that all good things, good mood, |
| 1:51.2 | good performance, good everything seem to stem from good sleep. So I've tried a lot to optimize it. |
| 1:57.4 | I've tried pills and potions, all sorts of different mattresses. You name it. And for the last |
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