Is Anything Real In Paid Advertising?

About Is Anything Real In Paid Advertising?

Is Anything Real? is a podcast about questioning the things we've collectively decided are true. Each week, executive coach and author Adam W. Barney sits down with founders, executives, authors, creators and other interesting humans to get underneath the assumptions, conventional wisdom and occasionally ridiculous rules we use to make sense of work, leadership, success and our lives. The conversations are prepared but unscripted. No rehearsed talking points. No pretending there's a neat answer when there isn't one. Just curiosity, honest disagreement, lived experience and the occasional detour that turns out to be more interesting than the question Adam planned to ask. Because sometimes the most useful question is the simplest one: Is any of this actually real? New episodes every Wednesday.

Publisher

Adam W. Barney

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Jun 2025

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

59 of 85 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   12 Hours Left. One Quick Ask. | Bonus Drop

   Host Adam W. Barney makes a brief, unusual request for listener support in this bonus episode of "Is Anything Real?"

2. 

   14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Your Money Is Building Something: Sustainable Investing Isn’t Soft | Ep. 83 w/ Pete Krull

   Host Adam W. Barney interviews sustainable investing advisor Pete Krull about how investments actively build the future, challenging the notion that sustainable investing is merely symbolic.

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   7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Success Isn’t Additive: Subtraction, Pro-zilience, and High Performance | Ep. 82 w/ Nell Derick Debevoise

   Adam W. Barney interviews Nell Derick Debevoise about how subtracting the unnecessary unlocks true high performance and pro-zilience.

Who has been a guest on Is Anything Real In Paid Advertising?

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Pete Krull
• Nell Derick Debevoise
• Lindsay Friedman
• Mike Brown
• John de Jong

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

99

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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