What if the happiest person actually wins?

In this episode of Lead Human, Jack Myers and Tim Spengler talk with Evan Shapiro – producer, professor, and “media cartographer” – about how to navigate a media world where every kid with an iPhone is your competition.

Evan opens up about:

• Growing up resisting control and why he’s always in a “constant search for change”
• How he uses real data (earnings reports, not just headlines) to speak truth to power
• Why traditional media mistook a rising bubble for brilliance – and what happens when it pops
• How we went from limited competition to “infinite competition” overnight
• Why he tells young people to work at small companies first if they actually want to learn
• His simple philosophy: “the happiest person wins,” and how that changes how you build a life and career
• What it really means to be a creator today: “a writer writes, a creator creates” – every day, like a job

Along the way, Jack and Tim dig into what leaders can steal from Evan’s approach: using facts instead of fear, representing the audience inside broken systems, and building a career that isn’t just successful on paper, but livable.

If you’re a leader, creator, or ambitious human trying to make sense of a collapsing old model and a chaotic new one, this episode is part warning, part playbook, and very human.

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