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Human Success Stories

David Steele, Jonathan Steele

Booking Overview

Interview-led personal development show focused on the choices, setbacks, and turning points behind a well-lived life, typically featuring accomplished external guests with distinctive careers and compelling personal journeys. Credible pitches include notable founders, investors, artists, executives, technologists, and advocates with substantial achievements and a thoughtful perspective on success; booking difficulty is high because the guest roster includes prominent, highly accomplished figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 12

Frequency: Every two weeks

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: < 100

Listener location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

tsternberg@onewealth.net

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Host

David Steele - Founding partner of One Wealth Advisors, a firm focused on helping clients simplify the financial complexity of their lives.

Jonathan Steele - Founding partner of One Wealth Advisors, a firm focused on helping clients simplify the financial complexity of their lives.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Established founders, investors, executives, artists, technologists, advocates, and other accomplished professionals with recognizable achievements and a compelling career or life transition to discuss.
Required Achievements:  
Founding or leading notable companies or organizations, Major investments or contributions to widely recognized products and brands, Award-winning creative work or major cultural impact, Launching successful philanthropic or advocacy initiatives, Long, distinguished careers with meaningful personal or professional turning points

Recent Guest Discussions

Tony Conrad - Entrepreneurship, Venture Investing, Obsession, Career Choices, And Measuring Success By The People One Helps.

Jordan Kurland - Building A Career In Music Management, Patience, Timing, Artist Development, And Long-term Success.

Christine O'Connell - Career Disruption, Cancer Recovery, Philanthropy, Purpose, And Creating A New Path After A Life-changing Diagnosis.

Alison Bechdel - Creative Work, Family History, Graphic Memoir, Lgbtq+ Representation, And The Relationship Between Art And Personal Experience.

meriko borogove - Technology, Creative Leadership, Team Building, Life After A Consequential Career, And Teaching Artists To Work Collaboratively.

Recent Topics

Personal Development, Career Development, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Philanthropy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Human Success Stories
:

Michael Lerner On Hope in the Midst of a Polycrisis

October 01, 2026

Michael Lerner resigned from Yale before tenure to build a school for kids out of juvenile hall. Three years later, a shaft of sunlight over an abandoned radio station convinced him to found Commonweal instead. Forty years, 234 cancer retreats, and one MacArthur Fellowship later, Michael Lerner explains why he's a hopeful catastrophist — and makes the case for loving your fate, even inside the polycrisis.Human Success Stories is a One Wealth production, hosted by David Steele and Jonathan Ste...

Tony Conrad: Betting on Obsession, Not Industries

September 16, 2026

Tony Conrad co-founded True Ventures, where for two decades he's had a habit of writing the first check into companies nobody else believed in yet — Automattic, Blue Bottle Coffee, Sweetgreen, FitBit, Slack, Peloton, years before any of them were sure things. He talks about growing up in a small Indiana farming town, working as his fraternity's janitor to pay for college, a decade at Groupe Danone that took him from Paris to Jakarta, and co-founding Sphere and About.me — including the...

Jordan Kurland on Turning a Kiss Obsession into a Career

September 02, 2026

Jordan Kurland started collecting Kiss records at six and never really put them down. This episode traces how that turned into a career managing artists — most notably Death Cab for Cutie, who he signed on just months before Transatlanticism changed both their trajectories, and later The Postal Service, whose stadium tour together last year sold out Madison Square Garden in hours. Along the way he co-founded the Noise Pop Festival, now in its 33rd year, and built a decades-long partnership wi...

Frequently asked questions

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Human Success Stories
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How do I get in touch with Human Success Stories?

Human Success Stories is hosted by David Steele and Jonathan Steele. Its publicly listed email is tsternberg@onewealth.net. For guest bookings, the host or producer is usually the best person to reach. Podseeker helps you find direct host and producer contacts and pitch from your own inbox.

What is the email for Human Success Stories?

The publicly listed email for Human Success Stories: tsternberg@onewealth.net.

How many listeners does Human Success Stories have?

Podseeker estimates Human Success Stories reaches fewer than 100 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.

Who is an ideal guest for Human Success Stories?

Human Success Stories typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Established founders, investors, executives, artists, technologists, advocates, and other accomplished professionals with recognizable achievements and a compelling career or life transition to discuss. Common among recent guests: Founding or leading notable companies or organizations; Major investments or contributions to widely recognized products and brands; Award-winning creative work or major cultural impact. Recent guests include Tony Conrad, Jordan Kurland, and Christine O'Connell.

How hard is it to get booked on Human Success Stories?

High. It mostly books established leaders in its field.

What topics does Human Success Stories cover?

Recent episodes cover Personal Development, Career Development, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Philanthropy. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.

Publicly listed emails

tsternberg@onewealth.net

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