808 - Kathryn Nicolai: The Most Exciting Boring Person

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

How often do you have a hard time falling asleep? For me, it's almost every day, until I found this podcast, Nothing Much Happens, which helps people fall asleep by telling soothing stories.So naturally, I invited Kathryn Nicolai, the creator of Nothing Much Happens Podcast, and the writer of the book with the same name, on to talk about the podcast's origin story, what inspired her to start the podcast, her approach to writing the stories, and also the neuroscience behind sleep!Listen to the episode, and find out more!My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.9	Imagine making a podcast that the sole intention is for people to fall asleep to a while listening.
0:25.5	Catherine Nicolai is the creator of the podcast, nothing much happens and she tells stories that she writes and makes up.
0:32.5	And for the life of me, I can't listen to a full episode of her podcast without falling asleep.
0:39.0	It works. It's gotten to the point where my wife, if she's like too wired, like we were just watching Squid Game on Netflix.
0:45.5	And my wife was just too wired. She couldn't sleep.
0:48.0	So she's like, can you put on that podcast and I put it on, nothing much happens.
0:52.4	I swear to God, I don't even remember one or two minutes of Catherine's soothing voice.
0:59.2	Talking to me through Alexa from her podcast, nothing much happens.
1:02.9	She has 55 million downloads, one of the most popular podcasts on the planet.
1:07.3	I called Catherine and I'm like, how do you do it?
1:09.6	And why did you do it? And what are you doing?
1:11.9	She answered, here she is.
1:13.8	Oh, and before I forget, she talks about all the neuroscience behind what she does.
1:27.0	All right, so Catherine, I have to tell you, last night, sadly, after I admit this, I fell asleep while listening to your podcast.
1:35.0	It's not a sad thing, that's the intention. I'd be more sad if it didn't put you to sleep.
1:39.6	You have such a soothing, first off, these stories are so pleasant and your voice is so soothing.
1:45.4	It's sort of like, it's like a meditation listening to these stories.
1:50.9	I'm glad it feels that way.
1:52.4	It kind of like rolls over you like, like, sleep shit.
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