Michael Phelps is just like everybody else (minus the “greatest Olympian of all time” moniker). In that, despite his abundant success, he too has had to grapple with identity and self-value. Phelps’s soul searching has resulted in his dedication to helping other Olympians grapple with life and let down after that ancient competition. Hear his earnest take on dealing with depression, learning how to communicate at 30 – and where he brushes his teeth.

Today’s episode features a chat that took place late last year at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit. It’s between Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and CEO of 23andMe and Matthew Herper, senior editor at Forbes. Hear about Wojcicki’s vision to inspire a consumer revolution in healthcare, her inspiring attitude about conflict and how coming from a family of problem-solvers set her up to succeed.

When Spencer Rascoff, the CEO of Zillow Group, watched Steve Jobs reveal that Apple would allow outside apps on the iPhone, he rushed out of his office telling his team they needed to shift their entire strategy to mobile. A few years later, Jobs would show off the Zillow App onstage at the Worldwide Developer Conference. Hear Roscoff’s strategy for turning Zillow into one of the most popular apps around, and learn about the latest trends in the trillion-dollar real estate biz.

When Jennifer Hyman, cofounder and CEO of Rent The Runway (RTR) set out to figure out how to rent “occasion” outfits and dresses to women, she knew she had a great idea. Next question, how to execute? Hyman quickly determined she had a logistics and tech company on her hands. On this episode of “The Forbes Interview” hear how RTR made the choice to expand into Unlimited, a platform that rents everyday clothes and items, her take on deep investor bias and the piece of data that RTR relies on...

Trailblazers Adi Tatarko and her husband started the behemoth home remodeling/design website and community, Houzz, out of the kitchen of their first home (where they still reside). Hear how these two Silicon Valley professionals quit their day jobs to launch their side project and turned it into a billion-dollar business garnering 40 million users a month worldwide.

David Novak, former CEO of Yum! Brands which includes the fast-food giants Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC could have easily retired. Instead, he’s driven to train future leaders with his newly launched platform, OGoLead, which aims to give leadership tools and training developed over thirty years of hard-earned business experience. And, remember Crystal Pepsi? That was Novak’s brainchild. With frank and humorous acceptance, hear him take responsibility for what he calls one of his best ideas...

Nick Cannon has that incredible rags to riches story. He grew up on government assistance and is now a very successful entertainer and entrepreneur. Hear how he went from teenage stand-up comedian to youngest staffed television writer in Hollywood to musician to businessman to college student – and the surprising career finish he expects for himself. Plus, his take on why the hunger, drive and multi-faceted skill set of stand-ups make for such giant careers.

Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO, talks about the anemic growth of IT systems and the race for vertical integration, a day in the life of CEO and the benefit of sharing the responsibility of leadership with Safra Catz and Larry Ellison.

Hear how John Amato, CEO of The Hollywood Reporter Billboard Media Group, leveraged the advantages of the mobile age and international outposts to build the two venerable periodicals into powerhouse multimedia outlets.

A dense and comprehensive interview with Silicon Valley pioneer Tom Siebel, one of the first twenty Oracle employees and founder of two companies: Siebel Systems and C3 IoT. He’ll take you back to the bygone days of the 80s when running a business was “easy” to today, where running a business is far more complicated. You’ll hear about how the Internet of Things (IoT) will impact our everyday lives and how healthcare will benefit the most with disease prediction and precision medicine. And...

Ben Lerer’s Group Nine Media consists of Thrillist (which he founded), NowThis, The Dodo and Seeker. The content is largely video and it’s sticky. Lerer says Group Nine is the #1 publisher on Facebook Watch with over 5 billion monthly video views. According to Nielson, its audience is overwhelmingly in its 20s, a coveted demographic. Hear Lerer talk about the future of media, developing business models for online media sites and his positive take on the changes FB is promising to make.

Jim Breyer has his hands in many pots. From helping to choose a new president for Harvard University to running his VC company, Breyer Capital, Breyer has developed a keen eye for talent and investments that pay off. As one of the first investors in Facebook (bought at .05 cents a share), hear his insider’s take on that social network, his favorite qualities in an entrepreneur and lots of talk about AI, the tech field he says is growing at a speed heretofore unseen.

As he tells it, Ron Shaich has overseen six iterations of Panera Bread over the last 36 years he’s been running the company. It started out as a cookie store in downtown Boston. Now, Panera franchises cover the U.S. serving fresh bread, soups, salads, sandwiches and sweets. Hear Shaich talk about his pioneering days of fast-casual food, how he made smart, painful decisions to grow the company and why, when the company was public, he never focused on the stock price.

Andrew Mason shares how he came up with the idea for the trailblazing juggernaut, Groupon, how the company hurt itself and his latest and greatest -- Descript, a company he founded to help people in the audio business both transcribe and audio edit their recordings fast and affordably (without looking at audio waveforms -- just words).

Laura Behrens-Wu had no interest in entrepreneurism nor shipping – and yet here she is, entrepreneur supreme, as cofounder and CEO of Shippo, a company dedicated to ease up the complicated, costly yet necessary field of getting stuff where it needs to go. Shippo has big customers, like eBay Canada, but it mostly caters to small and medium size businesses, like ecommerce stores operating out of bedrooms. The company has recently raised $30 million and is zipping along with 65 employees. Hear...

Brad Katsuyama is the CEO of IEX, the newest stock exchange in the U.S. Katsuyama made a big splash when he outed the traditional exchanges for their practice of high-speed trading, that to his mind ultimately hurt the everyday investor. Hear Katsuyama share the latest about IEX, his daring choice to start a new stock exchange and his thoughts on whether regulation is a good or bad thing.

Hear from the man himself, Captain Chesley Sullenberger, about how he saved Flight 1549 when he landed his Airbus A320 on the Hudson river. Also, how to thrive under pressure in business and life, how to build a team that manages risk and the future of transportation and self-driving cars.

Sam Shank, serial entrepreneur and travel industry vet, set out to make an app-only business that appealed to the spontaneous traveler with Hotel Tonight in 2010. That was a time when relying solely on a mobile-device audience was a novel idea. An easy-to-use interface allows travelers to book their stays the day of arrival (and up to seven days in advance). The company sells unsold rooms at boutique and independent hotels and capitalizes on the millennial prioritization of experience over...

Laurie Segall is senior technology correspondent for CNN and editor-at-large for CNN Tech where she dives into the intersection of tech and culture. Her six-part investigative series, “Mostly Human” explores the deep and darker questions that arise out of humans’ integration of tech – tackling topics including sex, love and death. In this episode, recorded at WebSummit in Portugal, Segall and host Steve Bertoni, talk about the impact tech and social media are having on our day-to-day lives...

About twenty years ago, Simon Segars started out as a design engineer at ARM Holdings, then a scrappy start-up tech company. Now, ARM is a dominant force in designing the processing data on chips and Segars leads as CEO. The company's reach is far. In the past 25 years, 100 billion chips containing ARM technology have been shipped. Hear Segars talk about the company's unique culture, its approach to innovating tech and his predictions for the future of tech security.

Jon Oringer started out with 30 thousand photos of his own that he sold subscription-style to members who wanted access to stock images. Now, Shutterstock has 160 million images and has branched into video, AI and machine learning. Hear how this serial entrepreneur figured out how to run a company though he's never worked for one, what it meant to take the company public and his predictions for the future.

An early investor in Uber and many other startups, Jason Calacanis seems to have an eye for money-making companies. Hear about how he built wealth and influence from nothing, his work ethic and ways in which he thinks people can change their financial status.

What are investors excited about in technology? How do VCs evaluate start-up founders? How do investors decide to bet millions of dollars on unproven companies? Hear Megan Quinn and Jeremy Philips, both general partners at Spark Capital give us a rare look into the competitive and ever-shifting world of high stakes venture capital. Also hear Quinn and Philips, who have backed start-ups like Slack, Tumblr and Foursquare, talk about their career paths, how they curate their investments and why...

Free and open to the public is a touring installation displaying legendary artist Robert Wilson's take on a Van Cleef & Arpels high jewelry art display. We sat down with both Wilson and the CEO of Van Cleef & Arpels, Nicolas Bos, to hear about their collaboration to create a Noah's Ark-inspired exhibition that features brooches in the shape of animals. Each piece costs up to $500 thousand. We hear ruminations on the intersection of art and commerce, Wilson's approach to tackling...

Two interviews today! First: Why can't a burger be delicious, of high-end quality and presented in an inviting restaurant space for just five bucks? That's the question restauranteurs Danny Meyer and Randy Garutti set out to answer with Shake Shack -- the fast-food chain with an eye on health and sustainability that's expanding in the U.S. and internationally. We also have Aaron Mahnke on the show, creator of the smash hit podcast, "Lore" timed just for Halloween! (@40:38)