Peter Shankman
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Work
Podcast Host
2016 - Present
Faster Than Normal is an award-winning podcast highlighting the benefits of having #ADHD, featuring interviews with celebrities, business executives, and everyday people who share their secrets about...
Author
January 2015 - Present
New York, New York
Author of the "must read" "customer service bible," Zombie Loyalists: Using Great Service to Create Rabid Fans
CEO & Founder
November 2013 - Present
An online business community for entrepreneurs of all sizes. 150 brilliant minds and growing! www.shankminds.
Founder (company)
November 2007 - Present
New York, New York
Keynote Speaker
2002 - Present
New York, New York
Corporate Keynote Speaker on customer service, marketing, advertising, corporate culture, and social media for companies and corporations around the globe, including Saudi Aramco, Disney, Sheraton...
Education
About Peter
The most introverted extrovert you'll ever meet.
Dad. Angel Investor. Corporate keynote speaker. 2x Best-selling author. Founded (and sold) HARO. World Traveller. Ironman Triathlete. NASA Advisor. Board Member. Advisory Board Member. TEDx Speaker. Cat father. See http://shankman.com/about for more!
Peter Shankman blames ADHD for most of his success. A serial entrepreneur, Peter is best known for founding Help A Reporter Out (HARO), the social media website that redefined how journalism and PR works by connecting millions of sources with hundreds of thousands of journalists around the world each day, for free. HARO was acquired by Vocus in 2010.
Peter sits on the advisory board of NASA and is a successful angel investor with multiple start-up companies in his portfolio.
He currently lives in New York City, and in his little spare time, is a sub-4 marathon runner, an Ironman, and B-licensed skydiver. In 2011, a tweet of his was voted one of the top 10 Tweets of the year by ABC News and Twitter.
Dad. Angel Investor. Corporate keynote speaker. 2x Best-selling author. Founded (and sold) HARO. World Traveller. Ironman Triathlete. NASA Advisor. Board Member. Advisory Board Member. TEDx Speaker. Cat father. See http://shankman.com/about for more!
Peter Shankman blames ADHD for most of his success. A serial entrepreneur, Peter is best known for founding Help A Reporter Out (HARO), the social media website that redefined how journalism and PR works by connecting millions of sources with hundreds of thousands of journalists around the world each day, for free. HARO was acquired by Vocus in 2010.
Peter sits on the advisory board of NASA and is a successful angel investor with multiple start-up companies in his portfolio.
He currently lives in New York City, and in his little spare time, is a sub-4 marathon runner, an Ironman, and B-licensed skydiver. In 2011, a tweet of his was voted one of the top 10 Tweets of the year by ABC News and Twitter.
Favorite Quotes
"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you." -Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones
Well what do you know, a door locked tight
Opens at last, and shows some light...
Once more a door you tried and tried
Gives and you're on the other side...
You were unsure and yet somehow
Look at where you are standing now...
Out of the blue
An answer comes to you
You never knew you knew...
-Closer Than Ever
"The whole town wants to know when I'm gonna grow up, but you know I never will." -David Lee Murphy
The Mad Hatter: "Have I gone mad?"
Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are."
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid." -Q - ST:TNG
Priusquam praesens
Damnatus salvens
Hic homo nesciens
Quae future est?
Est plane vanum?
Magnificandum?
Error aut sanum?
O Fortuna Est!
Qua?
"It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can GET hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can TAKE, and keep moving forward. That's how WINNING is done!" - Rocky Balboa
"The stone age didn't end because of a lack of stone."
"Everybody's playing the game,
But nobody's rules are the same,
Nobody's on nobody's side.
Better learn to go it alone,
Recognize you're out on your own
Nobody's on nobody's side." - Chess
"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." -Leonardo da Vinci
"Come to the edge."
"We might fall."
"Come to the edge."
"It's too high!"
"Come to the edge."
And they came, and he pushed, And they flew.
- Christopher Logue
"Fortune favors the bold." - Virgil
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." - Confucius
Cielos Azules - (blue skies)
"Just laugh. Be safe. Love life."
"Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win." - Tom Fleming
"Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky, you can see the stars, and still not see the light." - The Eagles
Well what do you know, a door locked tight
Opens at last, and shows some light...
Once more a door you tried and tried
Gives and you're on the other side...
You were unsure and yet somehow
Look at where you are standing now...
Out of the blue
An answer comes to you
You never knew you knew...
-Closer Than Ever
"The whole town wants to know when I'm gonna grow up, but you know I never will." -David Lee Murphy
The Mad Hatter: "Have I gone mad?"
Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are."
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid." -Q - ST:TNG
Priusquam praesens
Damnatus salvens
Hic homo nesciens
Quae future est?
Est plane vanum?
Magnificandum?
Error aut sanum?
O Fortuna Est!
Qua?
"It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can GET hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can TAKE, and keep moving forward. That's how WINNING is done!" - Rocky Balboa
"The stone age didn't end because of a lack of stone."
"Everybody's playing the game,
But nobody's rules are the same,
Nobody's on nobody's side.
Better learn to go it alone,
Recognize you're out on your own
Nobody's on nobody's side." - Chess
"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." -Leonardo da Vinci
"Come to the edge."
"We might fall."
"Come to the edge."
"It's too high!"
"Come to the edge."
And they came, and he pushed, And they flew.
- Christopher Logue
"Fortune favors the bold." - Virgil
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." - Confucius
Cielos Azules - (blue skies)
"Just laugh. Be safe. Love life."
"Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win." - Tom Fleming
"Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky, you can see the stars, and still not see the light." - The Eagles
