12 Geniuses Podcast

Don MacPherson

Booking Overview

Interview show focused on high performance and lessons from successful people in business, athletics, and music, typically featuring accomplished authors, researchers, executives, elite performers, and resilience figures. Agencies could credibly pitch published experts, business leaders, coaches, athletes, adventurers, and accomplished performers with a distinctive achievement and practical lessons; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 214

Frequency: Monthly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 504 subscribers

Instagram: 428 followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

future@12geniuses.com

dmacpherson@12geniuses.com

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Host

Don MacPherson - Publisher and host of 12 Geniuses, focused on extracting practical lessons from highly successful people across business, athletics, and music.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Published authors, researchers, executive coaches, business leaders, elite athletes, adventurers, military leaders, and other accomplished professionals with a distinctive record of achievement and practical lessons applicable to high performance.

Required Achievements:

Published books, Executive or organizational leadership experience, Exceptional athletic or endurance achievements, Military or operational leadership, Recognized expertise in resilience, performance, or personal development

Recent Guest Discussions

Dr. Gilles Benoit - Leading Organizational Change, Accountability, Perfectionism, Artificial Intelligence, And Organizational Resilience.

Dr. Mitch Kusy - Leading Organizational Change, Accountability, Perfectionism, Artificial Intelligence, And Organizational Resilience.

Sam Maddaus - Resilience, Endurance, Mental Toughness, Identity After Loss, Reinvention, And Pursuing Ambitious Goals.

Brandon Webb - Building Resilience In Children, Parenting, Mental Toughness, Emotional Safety, And Difficult Conversations With Kids.

Recent Topics

Leadership, Performance, Business, Athletes, Music

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

12 Geniuses Podcast

Incorruptible: Building Organizations Where People Flourish | Eric Ries

August 06, 2026

What if human flourishing was the measure by which we evaluate organizations? In this episode of 12 Geniuses entrepreneur and bestselling author Eric Ries discusses his groundbreaking book, Incorruptible, and why the future belongs to organizations designed not merely to generate wealth, but to help people flourish.Eric argues that too many businesses eventually succumb to what he calls "financial gravity” - the relentless pressure to prioritize short-term profits over purpose, people, and lo...

The Playbook for Leading Change | Dr. Mitch Kusy & Dr. Gilles Benoit

July 20, 2026

Change is no longer an event. It's the environment. The leaders who thrive won't be the ones who resist it, but those who embrace it, learn to navigate it with confidence and purpose, and understand that change brings opportunity.In this episode of 12 Geniuses, host Don MacPherson welcomes Dr. Gilles Benoit and Dr. Mitch Kusy, co-authors of The Playbook for Leading Change, for a practical conversation about leading through the social, political, technological, and organizational changes resha...

An Odyssey of Resilience: Biking from Alaska to Argentina

June 15, 2026

When it comes to pushing through and achieving the unimaginable, our minds will give out well before our bodies. The question is: can you control the mind and overcome the doubts that it produces?After losing his leg in a motorcycle accident, Sam Maddaus made a decision few people would consider and even fewer would attempt: he set out alone to ride a bicycle 16,000 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina using a prosthetic leg.Over the course of 21 months, Sam crossed continents...

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