About

The Show
Behind the Brilliance is a long-form interview podcast for the intellectually curious and relentlessly ambitious. The conversations feature smart, inspiring, and funny innovators, creative, and entrepreneurs sharing the strategies, frameworks, and lessons that have shaped their success. The result is a growing archive of wisdom, strategies, and tactics on how to live well on your own terms no matter what your ambition may be.

Alongside these are solo episodes and Q+As that blend Lisa’s wit, stories, and wisdom.

The show has garnered rave reviews from an enthusiastic and diverse listenership spanning more than 100 countries.

The Host

Lisa Nicole Bell makes things and makes things happen. She is a producer, writer, entrepreneur, and the host of Behind the Brilliance. After years of successfully melding art and commerce in her own projects using time-tested wisdom, she launched Behind the Brilliance to share her conversations. The show delivers a smart and funny take on pursuing ambitions, designing a life, and living joyfully. Lisa’s most recent media work includes producing an Australian documentary on identity and gender politics within sports and a digital docuseries executive produced by Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis.
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The Guests
Behind the Brilliance delivers an eclectic array of leaders, artists, scientists,CEOs, technologists, venture capitalists, writers, and innovators. As a skilled interviewer and storyteller, Lisa brings the paths and processes of her guests to life with entertaining and thought-provoking discussions.

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