In this episode, serial entrepreneur and impact investor Stefan Krook returns to Corporate Unplugged to share his vision for the Laghum Economy – a market economy redesigned for a world of 8 billion people living within hard planetary boundaries.

Drawing on decades building purpose-driven companies like Kivra and the GoodCause ventures, Stefan explains why even the most innovative circular business models are still swimming upstream against a tax system that makes work expensive and nature almost free. He unpacks how shifting taxes from labour to resource use – applied at the point of consumption – could flip the script, so that repair, sharing, circularity and durability become the natural winners rather than costly exceptions.

Stefan also shares the personal crisis that led him from optimism about purpose-driven companies to questioning the rules of the game, and how that journey brought him back to Stockholm School of Economics as its first Practitioner in Residence. Together with Vesna, he explores what this transition would mean for CEOs, policymakers and citizens – and why innovation always follows the brief the system gives us.

On today's podcast, you will learn:

1. Why pricing nature – not labour – is the missing systemic lever in today's economy.
2. How a tax shift could turn green premiums into green discounts.
3. Why even the best impact ventures struggle when prices send the wrong signals.
4. What CEOs can realistically do beyond voluntary sustainability initiatives.
5. How a Laghum Economy could shape everyday life for the next generation.

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Raiya introduces the idea of embodied leadership, where leaders slow down, deepen their mind–body connection and tap the body’s vast data‑processing capacity to access wiser, more aligned decisions. She shares how group containers for “healing innovation” allow high‑impact AI and systems leaders to see and integrate old wounds and limiting beliefs so that new insight and strategy can emerge naturally from the collective field.​

The conversation also reframes AI as a co‑creator rather than a saviour or villain. Raiya explains why treating AI as either rescuer or threat erodes human agency, and how discerning collaboration—with humans firmly in the loop—can help AI amplify our deepest values, not our fears.​

They dive into belonging, coherence and community as essential containers for evolutionary leaps, and imagine a future where “AI in the loop” seamlessly supports human connection, interdependence and joy in everyday life.​

On today’s podcast:

● What healing innovation looks like in practice for leaders and teams​

● Embodied leadership and why slowing down unlocks breakthrough creativity​

● AI as co‑creator: keeping discernment and human agency at the centre​

● Belonging, interbeing and the role of community in transformative work​

● Designing AI and systems for coherence, not just productivity and profit​

● Why joy, curiosity and self‑care are strategic filters for the future of work

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Hrund explains that intuition is far from mystical; rather, it is a form of deep intelligence, blending embodied awareness with subconscious processing. She shares how cultivating rituals like daily journaling, contemplative walks, and meaningful pauses can unlock creativity, strengthen self-trust, and help leaders make courageous decisions under uncertainty. The conversation unpacks the threefold Icelandic concept of InnSæi: seeing within, seeing from the inside out, and the sea within, illustrating how personal transformation ripples out to shift organizations and systems.

Listeners will discover how modern leadership depends on authentic imagination, the courage to experiment, and the strength to embrace vulnerability—essential skills in times of continuous transformation. This episode will inspire leaders to trust their inner compass, build resilient teams, and lead with hope and curiosity. Hrund’s stories and insights offer practical guidance for anyone who wants to thrive amid complexity and create a more human-centered workplace and world.

On today’s podcast:

• The meaning and power of “InnSæi”—Icelandic intuition
• Building strong, innovative teams through self-awareness
• Daily rituals leaders can use to nurture intuition
• How imagination fuels hope and resilience
• Making high-stakes decisions in uncertainty

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On today’s podcast:

● Why art and culture are essential for leadership in the age of AI

● The FREE framework: Fact-based, Reflective, Empathetic, Entrepreneurial

● How formative experiences shape empathy and inclusion

● The transformative power of art as a catalyst for self-reflection

● Why inclusion and respect are critical for responsible leadership

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Peter shares practical ways leaders can catalyze systemic change, emphasizing the power of authentic partnerships and “pre-competitive collaboration”—even among rivals. He highlights the importance of leadership as a developmental journey rooted in purpose, service, and the ability to create generative social fields where trust and innovation can flourish. Peter also reflects on the wisdom of indigenous cultures and the critical need for hope and honest dialogue in times of uncertainty.

On today’s podcast:

• Why systems thinking is essential for real, lasting change
• How leaders can embody and catalyze transformation
• The value of partnerships and collective intelligence
• Lessons from indigenous cultures on resilience and memory
• Why hope, courage, and relational space matter now more than ever

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In this episode, Robert reflects on how love drives his purpose and how self-awareness and judgment-free living are essential for personal and societal transformation. He discusses the importance of polymathy in addressing complex challenges and why humanity is on the cusp of a collective awakening. From sacred geometry to the power of synchronicity, Robert offers a thought-provoking lens for leaders seeking to create meaningful impact.

In this episode:

• Why love is the ultimate driver of purpose
• The role of polymathy in solving global challenges
• How judgment creates suffering and self-love heals it
• Humanity’s awakening and interconnectedness through synchronicity
• Sacred geometry as a meditative practice

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Through his Summit of Minds initiative, he immerses leaders in nature-based experiences to inspire action: “When you see glaciers retreating almost visibly, it compels you to act.” Thierry also reveals his creative side as a novelist. His latest geopolitical thriller, Deaths at Davos, explores themes of power, greenwashing, and global influence. “Fiction allows me to ask bold questions about our world without the constraints of non-fiction,” he explains.Listeners will hear Thierry’s candid thoughts on cross-generational collaboration: “Younger generations are today’s change agents—more attuned to sustainability and determined to make a difference.” He also highlights the importance of listening as a key leadership skill: “Too many leaders talk at people instead of with them. Listening is rare but transformative.”This episode is a call to action for leaders and individuals alike to embrace hope through decisive action, collaboration, and a commitment to sustainability.On today’s podcast:Thierry’s non-linear career journey

• The importance of stakeholder capitalism
• Writing fiction to explore global challenges
• Nature as an economic cornerstone
• Cross-generational dialogue as a force for change

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Jesh discusses his shift from seeing himself as a healer to a gardener, focusing on creating conditions for people to thrive. This metaphor underpins his work at hOURS, where he aims to build scalable systems that promote epiphanies and personal development. He envisions a future where technology supports collective intelligence, drawing from the deep well of human creativity and emotion.

The conversation also touches on the limitations of current AI systems, which often lack depth and fail to capture the richness of human experience. Jesh advocates for a new approach that respects individual data ownership and incentivizes genuine contributions to a collective intelligence network.

This episode reflects on the role of trust and purpose in this journey, highlighting the urgent need for businesses to align with human-centric values. It is a call for leaders to embrace boldness and authenticity in shaping a future that prioritizes growth and connection over profit and exploitation.

In this episode:

• Transitioning from healing wounds to cultivating growth.
• AI that can enhance human creativity and connection.
• Personal data ownership – crucial for ethical AI development.
• Trust and purpose – essential components of systems aligned with human values.
• A call for leaders to prioritize meaningful contributions over profit.

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She emphasizes the importance of intrinsic motivation, highlighting key drivers like mastery, purpose, autonomy, connection, and belonging. This challenges traditional approaches to change management, advocating for a shift from pushing and persuading to guiding and partnering with teams.

The conversation delves into the psychological aspects of courage and how organizations can create environments that enable individuals to access their inner strength. Dr. Lertzman also discusses the significance of integrating experiences into daily practice, ensuring that transformative moments lead to sustainable change.

Join us as we uncover strategies for unlocking potential and driving meaningful change in today's complex world.

On today’s podcast :

• Intrinsic Motivation: Mastery, purpose, autonomy, connection, and belonging.
• Guiding Over Pushing: Shift from traditional methods to a partnership approach in leadership.
• Courage and Resilience: Creating conditions that enable individuals to access their courage.
• Integration of Experiences: Ensuring transformative experiences are integrated into everyday practice.
• Psychological Approach: Using psychology to foster engagement and manage change effectively.

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He emphasizes the critical role of young people as active contributors to climate innovation and highlights UNICEF's efforts to empower youth through initiatives like climate accelerators, which support young innovators in developing impactful solutions. 

UNICEF's strategic approach to identifying and scaling innovative solutions has stretched to cover 160 countries. Thomas explains how his team identifies key problems affecting children, such as the learning crisis where a significant percentage of children cannot comprehend texts they read. By vetting and adopting successful solutions from various regions, UNICEF aims to address these challenges effectively.

Thomas discusses the importance of building future leaders through programs like Upshift, which equips young people with skills in critical thinking and problem-solving. This initiative has reached over 1.5 million adolescents globally, fostering a generation of adaptable and innovative thinkers poised to shape the future.

Throughout the episode, Thomas reflects on the power of collaboration and co-creation in solving complex global problems. He underscores the need for bold thinking and unlearning conventional approaches to drive meaningful change.

Thomas powerfully expresses his passion for social justice and his vision for a future where every child has equal opportunities for quality education and health. He advocates for hope and empathy as essential elements in addressing global challenges and building a more equitable world.

In this episode: 

• UNICEF's focus on accelerating impact for children globally through innovative solutions.
• Identifying key problems, vetting solutions, and facilitating adoption and scaling of effective interventions.
• Importance of storytelling and highlighting successful local examples to inspire replication.
• UNICEF's "Upshifts" curriculum empowering young entrepreneurs and changemakers.
• Co-creation and "unlearning" as powerful tools to unlock new perspectives.
• Thomas's personal commitment to social justice and equal opportunities for all children.
• Advice to leaders on being bold, daring, and continuously challenging themselves and their teams.

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Laura explains how music can entrain the body's natural frequencies, releasing stagnant energies and emotions. She describes her personal journey of discovering her musical gifts, and the transformative mentors and experiences that have shaped her work, culminating in her immersive ‘Chambers of Awe’ experiences that combine ancient instruments with cutting-edge technology to guide participants on journeys of expanded consciousness.

Looking towards the future, she emphasizes the importance of flexible, caring leadership that empowers people's unique talents and contributions.

In this podcast:

●     The vibrational nature of the universe and how it is understood across diverse spiritual and philosophical traditions

●     Laura’s work creating immersive ‘Chambers of Awe’ experiences

●     The healing power of music to entrain the body's natural frequencies and release stagnant energies

●     Laura’s personal journey of discovering her musical talents and the mentors who shaped her work

●     The importance of leadership that empowers people's unique gifts and fosters a cooperative, nature-inspired model

●     Laura’s vision for a future where humanity learns from nature's collaborative approach, using technology to augment human abilities

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In this episode, Vesna and Phoebe discuss the critical role of creativity and perception in shaping the world around us. 

We delve into the challenges of fostering imagination and creativity within organizations, highlighting the need for psychological safety, non-hierarchical work environments, and interventions that integrate art and creativity into leadership and decision-making. Phoebe shares her personal journey from the world of science and technology to the realm of moral imagination, driven by a desire to address societal issues at a deeper level.

She envisions a future where living on Earth is safe, free, and abundant, with restored ecosystems and a life-centric economy. This important discussion explores the potential for organizations to become instruments of change, prioritizing people's well-being and the planet's health over traditional metrics of success. 

On this podcast with Phoebe Tickell you will hear about:

• The power of moral imagination in shaping the world and driving collective action.
• The importance of acknowledging the full spectrum of emotions, including our shadow sides, to create more textured and life-affirming futures.
• Strategies for building work environments that nurture creativity and innovation, such as fostering psychological safety and non-hierarchical structures.
• Phoebe’s personal journey from the world of science to the realm of moral imagination, driven by a desire to address societal issues at a deeper level.
• The potential for organizations to become instruments of change, prioritizing people's well-being and the planet's health over traditional metrics of success.

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In this episode of Corporate Unplugged, Christopher discusses our need to evolve and grow, to raise our consciousness and understanding of our interconnectedness, both within individuals and organisations. But more importantly, we need to learn to clear our own energy system, to embrace the power of thought, intention, and beliefs to make wise choices and grow in wisdom.

To learn more, download and listen to this episode today.  

On today’s podcast:

●     Personal growth, collective dysfunction, and planetary transformation

●     Consciousness, growth, and personal development

●     Bridging generations for business success

●     Businesses need a quantum understanding to thrive

●     We are all leaders

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Eda’s the co-founder of the global collaborative platform, Joint Idea; lifelong laboratory growth program Life Works Labs; and social tribe, Love Mafia. She’s also a second generation shareholder in Nurol Holding, an industrial conglomerate in Turkey operating in construction, infrastructure, machinery, energy, investment, banking and tourism.

In this episode of Corporate Unplugged, Eda talks about the hurdles life presents us so that we can become what we were meant to be.

“Just flow and see where life takes you. Don’t force things, don’t try to wear jackets that don’t fit you, just let it go and enjoy life as it is; just trust life that it may not deliver you what you want, but exactly what you need.”

On today’s podcast:

●     Personal growth, vulnerability, and utopia

●     Learn to voice your truth

●     Leadership, growth, and sustainability in a family-owned business

●     Exponential humanity and learning to listen

●     Collective intelligence, love, and compassion in business

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We humans aren’t evil, our problem is we don’t see what we’re doing as damaging, nor can we see how we could do it differently. Our world is built around a formula of growth, rather than meaningful growth. 

In this episode of Corporate Unplugged, Lisen discusses the urgency of the climate change challenge, but also the potential opportunities it presents for us individually, as well as for companies, but, in a way that doesn’t create a whole new set of problems. 

To find out more, download and listen to this fascinating conversation. 

On today’s podcast:

• Climate change impact and human warming
• Sustainable business practices 
• Sustainability transition and its benefits for society
• Climate action and hope for the future

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We live in a complex, interdependent world, and to find new solutions we need to relearn how we think, feel and navigate, we need to adopt a different mindset. 

In this episode of Corporate Unplugged, Vesna and Nora discuss the need for a more diverse ecology of knowing; how do we know things? What is our ability to zoom in and study the details? And how can we zoom out and see the context?

To find out more, download and listen to this latest episode. 

On today’s podcast:

• The perception habits we need to ditch
• We have to learn to do things together
• What is this warm data stuff?
• The future Nora wants to see

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25 years ago, in Silicon Valley, Nipun started Service Space as an experiment with friends. Today it’s a global ecosystem with around 1.5 million members. And they've not only delivered millions of dollars in service for free, but they're also regenerating a gift culture. 

In this incredibly insightful conversation, Vesna and Nipun discuss how small acts of kindness can change the world. To find out more, download and listen to this episode. 

On today’s podcast:

• What we can learn from the gratitude economy
• The future potential of AI
• Aligning AI with heart intelligence
• The 1,000 km journey to himself
• The long term solution for business

Links:

• https://www.servicespace.org/

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In this episode of Corporate Unplugged, Neha explains why her passion is teaching people how to communicate with themselves, and with each other, to navigate their emotions, manage their energy, to learn how to keep themselves well so that collectively, as humans, we can all rise together now, and in the future. 

“What I have learned is, self-care is not selfish, it's self-full. It's how I can, over time, be able to serve in the world in a way that comes from a replenished full, energized place, full of vitality and energy, versus a depleted exhausted place.”

To find out more, download and listen to this latest episode.

On today’s podcast:

• Why self-care isn’t selfish
• What is burnout?
• The three phases of burnout
• Why we need human connection
• Bridge leaders of today, to be leaders of tomorrow

Links:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Website

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In this episode of Corporate Unplugged, Manish explains we first need to understand why there is injustice in the world, before we can find a solution. A lot of our failures today, says Manish, are failures of imagination. We’re really good instrumentalists, we know how to crunch data, what we lack is a fluency in the language of morality. 

To find out more about cultivating moral clarity, download and listen to this episode today. 

On today’s podcast:

• Why we’re all such good instrumentalists
• We aren’t trained to navigate difficult issues morally
• Moral clarity and justice requires accompaniment
• Leaders should rely on moral authority

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“We craft these visions of the future where people can't see themselves in it, they can't see that they belong to it.”

In this episode of Corporate Unplugged, Nichol discusses the future of human intelligence and why there can be no digital transformation without a human transformation, and explains why change needs to come from the top.

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Culture is a collection of people, and how they show up with each other every day, and how one shows up with other people has everything to do with how you show up with yourself. It starts with you. It always starts with you.”

To find out more, download and listen to this latest episode. 

On today’s podcast:

• The future of human intelligence 
• Taste and the future of work
• Redefining what it means to be human 
• The web of life
• Why the world needs more belonging

Links:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Website

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In this episode of Corporate Unplugged, Gianpiero shares his thoughts on the need to humanise leadership and learning, and how he encourages his students to look at leadership as a kind of love. Then, using this framework, he explores the difference between good leadership and bad leadership. 

“Good leadership is the one in which there is an element of seduction, but then there has to be something more. There has to be care. There has to be a promise. But there has to be something more; there has to be progress.”

To learn more, download and listen to this episode. 

On today’s podcast:

• Leadership is a kind of love
• The difference between good and bad leadership
• Why leadership is shaping systems
• How to know when you’re failing as a leader
• The paradox of leadership and support

Links:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Website

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The answer, says Stefan Beiten, Founder and Managing Partner of Argo Ventures, always lies with your people, you need to learn to connect with them.

Stefan is an out-of-the-box thinker and serial entrepreneur, investor, company builder, and opportunity finder from Berlin. Best known for producing the global phenomena, Earth, the most successful nature documentary ever produced, on this episode of Corporate Unplugged, Stefan discusses how to empower purposeful leaders to solve real-world problems. 

To find out more, download and listen to this truly insightful episode.  

On today’s podcast:

• Bringing trust and purpose to the world
• Be terrified about missing conversations 
• Businesses as instruments of purpose
• The potential dilemma of AI

Links:

• Earth - A Venture of Argo Ventures 

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The world has had a collective awakening. People are fast realising life is too short to waste on dirty, profit making projects. They want purpose, they want good reasons to invest their time in something. Which is why now is a really good time to have a conversation about what kind of society we should develop, what kind of companies we want to build, and how we want to be for the people around us. 

In this episode of Corporate Unplugged, Richard explains why collaboration and curation are key to change, why leaders need to create on the edge, and why China is leading the way, creating cities of the future, with an open mind and a desire to disrupt.

On today’s podcast:

• How to design humanistic, balanced projects and places
• Why China provides a second life for international brands
• Innovating through the D O U X principle
• How to bring humanism into your corporation
• Why the world needs balance

Links:

• Richard Hsu
• Facebook
• Alternative Thinkers

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On today’s podcast:

• Bridging the gap between the academic and business world
• Why academia needs to change
• Filippo’s vision for the university of the future
• There is no work/life balance; there is only life work
• We need to become less emotionally attached to our companies

Links:

• Filippo Dal Fiore
• Website: Filippo Dal Fiore
• Great Place To Work®

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On today’s podcast:

• Why we need to pause before we act
• The darkside of the Green Revolution
• Competition isn’t our innate human nature
• The problem with tracking ESG metrics
• What the world needs most right now

Links:

• 8 week course: Introduction to Regenerative Economics – CAPITAL INSTITUTE
• capitalinstitute.org

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Because that’s exactly what Matt Mullenweg, CEO and founder of WordPress did. 

After many twists and turns, today the company has nearly 2,000 employees and a valuation of $7 billion. And WordPress powers more than 40% of the websites on the internet. 

So why did Matt decide to go against the status quo and make his platform free for all users? And why, almost two decades ago, did Matt decide that it was so important that the internet was about sharing and freedom and bringing people together to collaborate online?

Download and listen to find out more.

On today’s podcast:

• The genesis of WordPress
• Understanding the need for Open Source
• The cycle of generosity in Silicon Valley
• Making investments with Audrey Capital
• What the world needs most right now

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On today’s podcast:

• Realising the power of marks
• Becoming a graphic recorder
• How to work with a graphic recorder
• Making the first mark
• Why we need to be more kindness-centric

Links:

• Book - Drawn Together through Visual Practice

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So what does it take to transform a nation from polluter to protector, and why, as a member of one of the ruling royal families in the oil rich United Arab Emirates, has he chosen the rather unlikely vocation as environmental campaigner?

Find out in this episode!

You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3yrSSm6

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In this podcast:

• From ego system to ecosystem 
• The knowing/doing gap
• The ecological, the social, and the spiritual dimensions
• How can leaders play their part?
• The need for movements

Links:

• https://ottoscharmer.com/
• https://www.presencing.org/
• Putin and the Power of Collective Action from Shared Awareness: A 10-Point Meditation on Our Current Moment
• ​​Putin and the Power of Collective Action from Shared Awareness — Part 2: The Social Grammar of Creation

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In this podcast:

• Defining your own success
• On a mission to liberate a billion souls
• Leaving Harley-Davidson
• Becoming a rebel role model for other leaders
• The power of kindness

Links:

• Book - Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel's Guide to Finding Your Best Life
• Rebel Leader’s Manifesto 
• Rebel Souls Podcast with Shelley Paxton

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In this podcast:

• It’s time to review the results
• The answer isn’t driving an electric car
• Why fleeing war changed his life
• The power of the financial industry to bring about change

Links:

• Where the Money Tree Grows
• ESG on a Sunday

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In this podcast:

• Why success doesn’t have to be goal driven
• Our education system doesn’t create leaders
• How to use business as a force for change
• The most important quality of a leader 
• Kindness is the highest form of intelligence

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In this podcast:

• How to get to yes
• How to negotiate for important things
• William’s vision for the future
• Long term solutions for business
• Go to the balcony
• What does a win look like?

Links:

• www.williamury.com

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In this podcast:

• A pioneer for the environment
• The Way of Nature 
• The Vision Quest
• Why we need an educational system around the ecosystem
• The fragility of modern highly centralised systems
• How leaders can come back into balance with nature

Links:

• WayOfNature.com
• info.wayofnature@gmail.com
• vimeo.com/wayofnature

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In this podcast:

• Getting closer to the people you care about
• Gozamm as a platform for change
• The importance of human connection
• Create human change within organisations
• The future according to Johan
• Advice to leaders and organisations

Links:

https://gozamm.com/

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In this podcast:

• The Not For Sale model
• Founding Rebbl
• Saving the Corporate Soul 
• Designing a better world
• Eradicating human trafficking 
• What David can teach the world

Links:

• Rebbl
• Saving The Corporate Soul

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In this podcast:

• Personal organisational and systemic change
• Collective sense-making process
• Connecting to a sense of purpose
• Long term solution for business
• Make change with the resources you have
• Why leaders need to slow down

Links:

• The Power Of The Powerless

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In this podcast:

• Her dream for the future
• Reimagining Capitalism
• Why change in business is necessary
• Being a tree hugger
• Lessons from death

Links:

• Book - Reimagining Capitalism
• Rebecca Henderson

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In this podcast:

• The journey to caring
• Sharing the knowledge with other companies 
• Persuading stakeholders to invest in culture
• Impressing culture on acquisitions
• The essence of LCII culture
• The business culture revolution

Links:

• https://www.lci1.com/

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In this podcast:

• The best way to have a vision
• Perpetual reinvention
• A passion for problems
• What the world, businesses & leaders need

Links:

• https://www.grouppartners.online

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In this podcast:

• Happiness cannot be pursued
• The biggest challenges we face
• Rise of feminist values
• The Athena doctrine
• Creating whole human beings
• Heart, healing and soul

Links:

• Book - Conscious Capitalism

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In this podcast:

• Creating an intentional culture
• Joy in business
• Teamwork, collaboration, pairing
• Scaling up and scaling down
• Long term solutions for business
• Dealing with self doubt

Links:

• Book - Joy, Inc
• Book - Chief Joy Officer

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In this podcast:

• Why CAKE is the opposite of motorbike culture
• The global rise of IKEA
• Being purposeful without expecting payback
• Take a break
• Be respectful, be patient, take action
• The importance of caring leadership

Links:

• https://www.ridecake.com/en/

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In this podcast:

• What is ThreeFold and who is it for
• How to become a farmer of internet capacity
• Finding a balance and building trust
• The importance of compassion 
• Do less with the mind and more with the heart

Links:

• http://threefold.io

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Bob is chairman and CEO of Barry-Wehmiller, a global $3 billion capital equipment business with more than 12,000 team members. He was recently named the number three CEO in the world in an Inc. magazine article. And Bob is very intentional about using his platform as a business leader to build a better world. Bob was recently asked the question - what do you do, and his reply highlights quite how incredible he is - he said, ‘we build great people who build extraordinary things’.

In this podcast:

• Why we need leadership
• How to care for your people
• The cure for our world is our education system
• The importance of empathetic listening

Links:

• Chapman and Co. Leadership Institute
• Books: Everybody Matters
• Conscious Capitalism
• www.trulyhumanleadership.com
• www.barrywehmiller.com

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In this podcast:

• Design and intention
• Co Creation HUB
• Opportunities and challenges in Africa
• Solving problems with science and technology 
• The future is bright
• Long term business solutions
• Experience, wisdom and empathy

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Ashoka envisions a world in which everyone is a changemaker; a world where all citizens are powerful and contribute to change in positive ways. Ashoka supports over 4,000 leading social entrepreneurs from all over the world, mobilising a large global community of changemakers, to solve some of the world’s toughest social problems. 

Marie's work is featured extensively in international media, and she is a frequent speaker at conferences focusing on social entrepreneurship and innovation. 

In this podcast:

• Redesigning the future
• Using rats to clear landmines
• Building resilient societies through social innovation
• The power of businesses
• The positives from COVID
• Trust is the best way to lead
• What makes a social entrepreneur

Links:

• http://marieringler.at/
• Giant rats put noses to work on Mozambique's landmines

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In this podcast:

• The ugly and beauty in transformational change
• Why don’t all companies create psychological safety
• Her passion to create a better workplace
• Buckminster Fuller
• The importance of system thinking
• The power of ‘I don’t know’

Links:

• The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
• Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation
• https://fearlessorganization.com/

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In this podcast:

• How big business uses cultural anthropology
• Consumer behaviour misconceptions
• How Katarina works
• Understanding Gen Z
• Default thinking and sense making

Links:

• www.inculture.com

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In this podcast:

• Self mastery and I Trust You 
• The importance of human connection
• Law of attraction
• Being a responsible influencer
• Human connection in Silicon Valley
• Understanding Gen Z

Links:

• humantrustlogistics.com  (Company Website)
• itrustuniversity.com  (Portfolio)

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In this podcast:

• What is wisdom
• The difference between listening and hearing
• Why we need to slow our meetings down
• International Green Cross
• Greed is our existential problem
• Oren’s advice to leaders
• Capitalism is not democracy
• The importance of giving thanks
• It ain’t over ‘til it’s over

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Milkywire is a crowdfunding platform that lets you connect with and support grassroots NGOs that fight climate change, preserve wildlife, protect and clean the oceans, and so much more. 

Every week the organisations on Milkywire share videos and photo updates so that anyone can follow their progress and learn what is being done. Milkywire is literally disrupting the charity sector, so that everyone can contribute and directly dive into action and participate.

In this podcast:

• The genesis of Milkywire
• How bullying and self doubt shaped Nina 
• All roads lead to Rome
• Live outside of your comfort zone
• What companies need right now
• Why leaders need to look in the mirror
• The impact of COVID on launching Milkywire

Links:

• www.milkywire.com 
• Book of Leon

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And what will this new reality look like for you? A more beautiful business that allows more human-centred growth strategies? Then Tim Leberecht, the German-American championing a more humanised future in the age of machines is the passionate voice you should listen to. 

“We're moving from the binary world in a binary way of running business to a non binary way of running business that is fluid, that is ambiguous, that is fuzzy.”

Tim is an author and entrepreneur and the co-founder and co-CEO of The Business Romantic Society, a firm that helps organisations and individuals create transformative visions, stories and experiences. 

He's also the co-founder and co-curator of the House of Beautiful Business, a global think tank and a community for leaders and changemakers with a mission to humanise business in the age of machines. 

In this podcast:

• The cracks in Silicon Valley
• Humanisation of business
• The Book of Beautiful Business
• Tim’s definition of a leader
• The potential of not knowing the answers 
• Why companies need to be ambidextrous

Links:

• Ted talk - 3 Ways to (Usefully) Lose Control of Your Brand
• Ted talk - 4 Ways to Build a Human Company in the Age of Machines
• Book - The Business Romantic 
• Book - The Book of Beautiful Business
• www.houseofbeautifulbusiness.com
• www.thegreatwave.house Oct 16-19th 2020

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In this podcast:

• Founding Elekta with his father
• His life dedication to solutions for cancer 
• His passions for philanthropy, entrepreneurship and art
• Cancer care innovation and resources
• Entrepreneurship expectations
• Long-term business solutions

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In this podcast:

• Why we need to rethink our Anglo Saxon worldview
• Creating Lifeworks Labs
• Why seeking his own truth is his passion
• Becoming an expert generalist
• Redefining what the good life means
• What decentralisation means
• Why we need to break in order to grow
• Cultivating serendipity
• Why the world needs love

Links:

• Joint Idea

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Meet Zakaria Bekkali, a 22 year old with a wise head on young shoulders. Zak is a graduate student at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he’s been awarded a postgraduate excellence scholarship for a Master of Public Administration with a specialisation in social impact. He also holds a Bachelor in International Politics and Government from Bocconi University in Milan, as well as having studied at Princeton University during his undergraduate senior year. 

In this podcast:

• Transformational moments
• Why insecurity was a driver for him
• The synergy between business and community
• Equality of opportunity
• Give opportunities to young people
• Why feminine isn’t another word for weakness
• Radical vulnerability for collective healing

Links:

• Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize in Economics

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In this podcast:

• The role that luck plays in our lives
• What Maria has learned about life from playing poker
• Why we shouldn’t take life for granted
• Where she gets her inspiration to write from
• How COVID-19 is revealing our true colours
• The power of language and communication in business
• How chance affected her life
• The value of human connections

Links:

• The Biggest Bluff

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Ma is a European business leader, futurist and investor, and the CEO of Bulls Holding, an international agency for film, literary and art-based brands, influencers and editorial content, and Chair of the Board of R&B Licensing, a global 360 agency for literary and design based properties. She is an acknowledged international keynote speaker on technical leaps and their impact around the world. 

Ma discusses the foundations of business, of being a part of something big and giving back. And how even now, while the whole world is going through one of the toughest times in living memory, we still see people who, when they have their own lives secured, do what they can to contribute and give back to society. 

“When I invest in companies I'm often so struck by the generosity I receive back in the form of knowledge and network and tips and so on, because people, entrepreneurs and leaders, people of all kinds really want to give back. And if you look at it from a psychological point of view, that's when we're really happy.”

In this podcast:

• We are hardwired to want to give 
• The changing basis for innovation
• The power of the internet
• Why a crisis shows gaps in our knowledge
• Why imbalance leads to creativity
• How to find wisdom
• Digital transformation
• The formula for business - value driven, data driven and customer centric

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This loaded question is asked of Ayse Birsel, named by Fast Company as one of the Most Creative People in Business. Ayse is a beautiful blend of East meets West, born and raised in Turkey but who now calls New York home. 

“The combination of East and West, being Turkish living in the States, really allows me to see two sides of everything, which is a great quality, actually a superpower for designers, especially when those qualities are often in opposition to each other.”

And there is no better person to pose this question to: Ayse is a designer and innovator who has designed hundreds of award winning products and systems for Fortune 500 brands. She's known for bringing new solutions to old problems and for her humanistic design approach. 

She's also the author of Design The Life You Love, and gives lectures on Design The Work You Love to corporations. She's also the co-founder of Birsel Plus Seck, the award winning design and innovation studio and consults for a large number of big brand businesses. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). 

If anyone knows design, it’s Ayse (pronounced Eye-Shay). And she’s keen to show people that rather than letting the current pandemic get the better of us, we should use it as inspiration to redesign our lives. 

“Constraints are necessary for great opportunities. If this is the biggest constraint that we've ever had, this should be our biggest opportunity as well.”

In this podcast:

• What is design and who is it for
• Why Covid-19 is the perfect excuse to redesign your life
• Turning constraints into opportunities
• How the 2008 financial crisis created her now life 
• The butterfly effect
• Re-humanising our workselves

Links:

• Design the life you love - Ayse Birsel
• https://thinkers50.com/

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“In our relentless pursuit for external validation, we've lost sight with the fact that validation actually comes from within always, and I think that actually applies to business and products.”

Tara Schuster was told early on to pick a lane and stick with it. She couldn’t be or do more than one thing, but luckily for the rest of us she rejected this notion and has since become an author, playwright, and accomplished entertainment executive, currently serving as Vice President of Talent and Development at Comedy Central. 

In her first book, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies, which lies at the intersection of self-help humour and memoir, she shares hard-won lessons in learning to love and care for yourself.

“I think we are very good at being mean to ourselves and treating ourselves with such little care. I mean shocking because we'll treat a guest 10X better than we'll treat ourselves.”

This episode is as brutally honest as her book and a refreshing listen for anyone who is struggling with self-doubt. 

In this podcast:

• Her standard day structure
• How to become more self aware
• The difference between a truth and a belief
• We need to unlearn cruelty
• Not every experience has to be exceptional
• Anyone can be a leader

Links:

• Tara’s Book - Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: and Other Rituals to Fix Your Life from Someone Who has Been There
• Julia Cameron’s - The Artist’s Way

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It’s such a smart move that today over 3.7 million Swedish people, almost half of the grown up population in Sweden, have Kivra. That’s roughly 25,000 companies and organisations that rely on Kivra, the digital mail company, for important letters, invoices, doctor’s appointments, salary specifications and so on. 

Anna Bäck is an entrepreneur and innovation leader who’s been leading a number of startups in China and Sweden, and most recently driving innovation and disruption as a design leader within McKinsey.

This is an incredibly interesting conversation, learning about Anna’s influences and transformational points in her life that have led her to where she is today - to a business model that goes hand in hand with doing good and driving a more sustainable future.

This is an inspirational podcast with an inspirational leader. 

In this podcast:

• Where the idea for Kivra came from
• The importance of creating a sustainable business model
• Her passion for making a difference in a positive way
• How she deals with fear and anxiety
• Why she values having a global world view
• The need for cross border collaboration

Links:

• www.kivra.com

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“Some of what people find most inspiring in their whole lives, are some of the hardest times that they had been through or had survived.”

Inspiration is a complex entity, something that is hard to define in itself without using the word ‘inspiration’. It’s not a smiley thing that works just in the good times, it’s not something that we do only when it’s convenient, inspiration is a critical foundation for healthy humans. 

Inspiration is especially critical during times of crisis, such as the one we are enduring right now. 

“We found that during times of crisis, the ways that we act in the world change, right, all of how we're thinking and seeing the world changes. And in that unfreezing, there is an opportunity to shape new mindsets, to create new, powerful connections, to reinvent how we do business.”

So if you’re struggling to see the light at the end of the tunnel, don’t despair, let this inspirational woman inspire you to bring about new change. 

In this podcast:

• Why inspiration is a muscle that needs to be worked
• How to get inspired
• How InspireCorps is working through Covid-19
• The difference between offering a service and being willing to serve
• Why it’s a birthright for people to be inspired in their work
• Post traumatic growth

Links:

• Dare to Inspire
• https://inspirecorps.com

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Garry has been with the company for almost 33 years, having worked his way up through the managerial ranks to the top position, he knows what great company culture looks like, so much so, he not only practices what he preaches, he teaches it to the next generation of leaders too. 

Having realised that micromanagement as a leadership technique isn't scalable, if Garry wanted to take the blue and yellow can with the little red top to the world, he knew he’d have to set his employees free, to give them freedom to do their best work. So when he became CEO, he went back to school and worked hard to create an extraordinary workplace culture in WD-40 Company. 

“In 394 BC, Aristotle said, ‘pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work’. And I really believe that that's something that we need to do, to build an economic environment for our companies that firstly serves the people in the organisation. And if we take care of them, they will take care of our customers. So that's where the journey began.”

In this podcast:

• Why being a servant leader pays dividends
• Business has the opportunity to change the world
• Our values grant us freedom to make autonomous decisions yet still act as one 
• Why honesty and integrity aren’t values
• Why technology is forcing us to behave unnaturally
• The attributes of a bad CEO
• Why we need more love in the world

Links:

• https://www.wd40company.com/

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Why a reappearance? 

Because the subjects Roberto has been researching and writing about for the last couple of decades are more interesting and relevant today than ever before, and his ideas, insights and work need to be shared with an even wider audience. 

If companies and leaders want to make an impact, they need to provide meaning to their customers through their products and services. Companies should be thinking: ‘If they don't need what we do, it's our problem. It's not their problem.’ And the best leaders are the ones who have learned to say: ‘I don’t know, but I'm curious to know, and now we discover together’.

If you missed Roberto’s first episode where he talks about why less is more, how to navigate in a world full of opportunities and why we need to understand social sustainability, do listen to it (link below). 

In this podcast:

• Why it’s human nature to find meaning
• The importance of having a purpose
• How to innovate your product
• The power for leaders of saying ‘I don’t know’
• Why fear prevents learning and kills curiosity
• The KPIs through which you measure purpose and meaning

Links:

• https://corporateunplugged.com/roberto-verganti/
• Overcrowded – Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas by Roberto Verganti
• The Fearless Organization by Amy Edmondson

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Kristoffer is a popular podcaster and host of Värvet, Sweden's favourite podcast. What makes the podcast so incredibly relatable is that he has very deep dialogues with a very diverse crowd of people - from filmmakers to artists to business leaders, Kristoffer has interviewed over 400 people so far, and counting. 

He originally set out to chat particularly with comedians, but has since broadened his horizons to a much wider audience, and he’s been richly rewarded for his diversification in guests - Värvet has had around 90 million downloads to date. 

Besides having a voice that you can’t help but be drawn to, he has also developed the art of really listening to what his guests are saying. He leaves time for them to truly reflect on his question before answering, meaning they can express what they want to express and he doesn’t interrupt them, nor does he cut them off short. In a sense, Kristoffer affords guests a sense of psychological safety, which is apparent in his dialogue with each and every person. 

Kristoffer also has a genuine interest in people - a trait that is very unusual nowadays, but something that needs to be encouraged in more people. Because with a genuine interest comes the ability to really connect with someone, and in turn allowing them space to express who they are, meaning we can learn a lot more from them. 

“I think it's always important to understand someone, to learn from people, to understand where they come from, you know, why do they do what they do?” 

In this podcast:

• The dream that led Kristoffer to becoming a podcast host
• What life means to Kristoffer
• Why we all have a duty to share our talents
• How he chooses his guests on his podcast
• Why he thinks we need to listen more
• What companies need to focus on
• How not having a vision impacts all of us
• What the world needs most right now

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Zoë studies and teaches behavioral science to help great people become more influential. At Yale School of Management, she works with executives and has developed a popular MBA elective called Mastering Influence and Persuasion, aka "Doing Uncomfortable Things That Make You a Better Person." Her course ‘How To Make Behaviour Addictive’ is also heavily in demand.

“The key insight that I’ve learned… is that the primary drivers of all of our decisions and all of our behaviours are unconscious.... we can't just reflect on those. We only perceive the conscious, rational processes of decision making. It's our gut first reactions that are actually very hard to change. And then, consciously, we look for reasons to be able to do those things that we already want to do.”

What the world needs most right now, according to Zoë, is to be able to create a more democratic marketplace of ideas. 

"The way information is shared these days is so consolidated and hierarchical, we miss out on most of the knowledge that exists."

In this podcast:

• Why some companies and brands are really good at connecting emotionally to people
• Mastering influence and persuasion
• How to connect authentically with another person
• Zoë’s new book - the general topic of the book is influence for nice people
• Why Zoë’s mission is to help smart, well intentioned people become more influential
• How we can transform more companies to be ‘humanity plus’ engines
• Why she believes education needs innovation
• Climate change should be the priority for every company right now

Links:

• www.zoechance.com

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This is a person with 1.7 million LinkedIn followers, the one who was selected as a Top Voice in 2018, so she knows a thing or two about disruptive innovation. But Whitney hasn’t always been so influential. 

The best selling author and frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Education began her career working on Wall Street as a secretary. Quickly realising she wasn’t going to make the money she needed, she began to take night courses and was able to transition from being a secretary to an investment banker. 

“For people who worked on Wall Street, like that just does not happen, that divide is so wide. And so for me, that was kind of a disruptive moment.”

Today, Whitney is recognised as being one of the world's most influential management thinkers and is best known for her work on driving corporate invention through personal disruption. She's the author of the books ‘Disrupt Yourself’ and ‘Build an A-Team’. 

She’s developed her own framework and diagnostics to dig deep into the important question of how executives can both create and destroy value. 

“When we're willing to become a silly little thing, we can maybe not take over the world, but we can certainly take over our world... We know from the theory of disruption that when you pursue a disruptive course, your odds of success are six times higher and your revenue opportunity is 20 times greater.”

In this podcast:

• Where Whitney’s ideas about disruption first came from
• Learn, leap, repeat
• Why organisations need to encourage their individual employees to be disruptive
• Learning outstrips money as a motivator
• Learning makes the individual happy and benefits the organisation
• Amateurs compete and professionals create
• Why the world needs more love and prayers

Links:

• Traeger Grills
• Build an A-Team
• Disrupt Yourself
• Disrupt Yourself podcast

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Some people might shy away from the spotlight after all this, but Robin Farmanfarmaian is not most people. Far from it. 

Robin is a professional speaker, entrepreneur and angel investor working with cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence software, device and pharma companies poised to impact 100 million patients. She’s currently the CEO and co-founder of ArO, a dynamic vision correction company. 

In her role as keynote speaker she covers multiple topics and has written and published two books - “The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer” and "The Thought Leader Formula: Strategically Leverage Your Expertise to Drive Business & Career Goals".

Why has she chosen to target diseases that affect over 100 million people? Because Robin is a giver, and she believes in paying it back by paying it forward. 

“Diseases or disorders like sleep apnea, cancer, autoimmune disease, infectious disease, and things like that all have more than 100 million patients worldwide. So I picked that number because it really tackles the biggest problems in healthcare in terms of which diseases are the most prevalent.”

Listen to this incredibly giving, inspirational woman share how she overcame personal and professional adversities to create the life and career that she has today. Learn about the exciting, cutting edge medical companies Robin is involved with, as well as her advice for companies on how to keep employees engaged and why businesses need to invest in their people. 

In this podcast:

• The raison d’etre for Robin’s life mission
• How medical technologies have already changed healthcare
• Why happy employees make happy customers
• Invest in your employees
• Businesses need to focus on innovation and incorporate the latest technology
• Why you need to start your thought leadership journey while you’re still in high school
• The four things the world needs most right now

Links:

• The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer
• The Thought Leader Formula: Strategically Leverage Your Expertise to Drive Business & Career Goals
• BrainCheck app
• Scribe Media
• Adam Grant - TED talk

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Well, that’s just what Eric Edmeades is on a mission to do. Eric is an author, serial entrepreneur and international business speaker. He has logged thousands of hours on stage, even sharing it with the likes of Tony Robbins, Richard Branson and Bill Clinton. Eric’s been involved in a variety of businesses ranging from mobile computing to Hollywood special effects, and now he has turned his attention to his latest project, creating a global movement called Speaker Nation.

“One of the greatest gifts that I ever gave myself was overcoming both my fear and my lack of confidence around communication. I changed my life by overcoming my nervousness and working to cultivate skills and learning how to engage an audience and communicate effectively.”

Learning to conquer his fear around public speaking inspired Eric to help others overcome their anxieties. He had already triumphed in the wellness world with his Wildfit programme, helping over 15,000 clients in 130 countries around the world change how they feel about food. Now he is determined to help others who are struggling to get their words out or struggling to create the kind of influence they want. 

He already runs The Speaking Academy, an outstanding and highly effective 5-day presentation skills training program, but Speaker Nation is a movement that will create an international community for aspiring and professional speakers who share in a common vision of a better future, that will make them better.

In this podcast:

• The Speaker Nation launch in Amsterdam
• Why overcoming his fear of public speaking was the best gift
• The responsibility of enabling effective communication
• Your democratic right to speak
• The global dream for Speaker Nation
• The connection to Mindvalley and Wildfit
• Why leadership needs to focus on the people
• Why we are living in the best possible time

Links:

• Speakernation
• Mindvalley
• Wild Fit
• The Speaking Academy

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Having had a wobble as he turned 40, questioning what he was doing and what impact he was having on the world, Reynir, much to his family and friends confusion, turned his back on his successful career in finance in order to focus on being a solution to the world’s most significant challenges. 

Drawing on his Harvard education, Reynir founded Summa Equity in 2016, a purpose-driven, Nordic private equity firm managing €1.4 billion, to invest in companies looking to solve global challenges.

“The world is developing rapidly. This poses new social and environmental challenges. By investing in companies that actively work to solve these challenges, creating a prosperous society for everyone, Summa is part of the solution.”

This isn’t Reynir’s first time on Corporate Unplugged, he originally sat down with Vesna in 2018 to discuss Summa Equity and the work it was doing, and now feels like the right time to catch up with Reynir again, to see how far he’s come and hear what he’s learned over the last few years. 

When Reynir first ventured into impact investing, he was concerned with the effect that the financial system was having on the world around us, and how companies are increasingly affecting environmental issues. But then he realised that everyone is feeling its effects - social inequality is on the increase, for example, and this concerned him because he didn’t know if he was part of the solution or part of the problem. 

So he took steps to rectify this. Which has subsequently led him to where he is today.  

“These challenges create immense opportunities in the financial system. And investors can be a big force for driving that change. So I decided to leave private equity and started to work with with philanthropy and impact investing.”

We hope you enjoy this podcast as much as we did. 

In this podcast:

• Why Reynir credits the financial crisis as the transformational point in his life
• How Summa Equity creates value
• How Summa Equity chooses and works with the companies they invest in
• Why Reynir’s passion is problem solving
• How his kids are helping him see the world differently
• Why companies need to unleash the creativity in their organisations
• What Private Equity 4.0 is

Links:

• https://corporateunplugged.com/reynir-indahl/
• Albert Hirschman - Exit, Voice, Loyalty

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The renovated former Customs House, built in 1906 in the heart of Stockholm, is home to Fotografiska, now considered one of Scandinavia’s most important and powerful artistic magnets. 

Since opening almost ten years ago, Fotografiska has hosted some of the biggest names in photography from Annie Leibovitz to Gus Van Sant to Martin Parr. But Fotografiska is anything but a regular museum or art gallery. At its core it is a dedicated hub of human interaction, a creative space that nurtures thoughts and discussion and encourages the exchanging of ideas. 

As Jan says, “What we have become is more like a place where conversation can take place. And it can be inspired by what we do in the exhibition spaces, but it could also be inspired by what we do with the food, and helping people to get a bit more conscious.”

Because Fotografiska’s vision is to inspire a more conscious world, Jan and his brother are keen to share their values of inspiration, inclusion, innovation, sustainability and relevance not just with their partners, but with the people who come to meet there. To make its accessibility even greater and to make more impactful places for photography around the world, Fotografiska is very soon expanding to New York, and London not long after that.

“We see people meeting, meeting their friends, meeting family and loved ones. All kinds of meetings take place here. Fotografiska is more and more becoming a familiar sort of a place for conversations.”

In this podcast:

• The importance of creating a space for meeting and talking
• The value of talking
• Why Fotografiska isn’t just relevant in Sweden, but around the world
• How to be more conscious
• How photography can raise awareness of global issues
• The benefits of getting older   
• If you run a company you have to be able to fight and change
• Why the world needs more empathy right now

Links:

• www.fotografiska.com

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Because that is the kind of man Ulf is: understated, not a self publicist. In fact, for his latest venture, Wayout, they haven’t actually launched it yet publicly, because they’re too busy just getting on with, well, getting on with it. His company hopes to empower people by way of job opportunities, resolve issues of scarcity of water, and reducing or eliminating plastic consumption.

“We are, let's say hard, hard working people, working more on deploying, rather than to shout about it. And there is also a reason for that, we want to make sure that everything works out fine before we go very, very public.”

But Ulf shouldn’t fear failure. This is a guy who is the CEO of Thurne Teknik, a Nordic Tech Trade company with many years of experience in leading international and industrial sales organisation. A man who has built up significant experience creating value-based corporate cultures in challenging global business environments. The founder of Not For Sale Ale, a company built for social impact and a beer where 100% of profits is invested in the fight against modern slavery. No, Ulf is a one man war on creating change, and his ‘just get on with it’ attitude is inspirational. 

“If you want to do important things in this life, first start, then continue.”

In this podcast:

• Why a lack of courage stymies activity
• Why people separate their agenda in their professional life from their personal life
• What we can learn from the world’s smallest petrol station
• How to build company culture
• Why the most important thing for companies is to figure out their purpose
• The importance of letting employees explore their own personal values
• Why the world needs leadership, hope and bravery most right now
• If you want to do important things in this life, first start, then continue. 

Links:

• Tool - value online
• NGO - The Hunger Project
• Wayout Website

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“Being an activist, that is not easy, because you need a lot of energy, a lot of passion. But from the outside, always fighting all the time against something, that is easy. It’s what you can do when you are inside the system, that some would say, is more challenging.”

And Maria Cristina embodies the passionate purpose that the company she works for, exists to fulfill. Enel, a global Italian utility company believes that ‘sustainability will not develop without continuous innovation and for us innovation is meaningless unless it is oriented towards sustainability.’

Enel couldn’t have chosen a better person to be their Head of Sustainability Projects and Practice Sharing, because Maria Cristina is not just dedicated to her work - what she does is so much more than just a job, you see, Maria Cristina’s desire to change the world through sustainability and innovation is a part of who she is. 

“I'm always asking myself, even nowadays, what kind of woman you would like to be in your future… for young professionals entering this world, be curious about people, about the world, about friends, about what is all around you. This is really important, if you get that, if you make a deep dive into everything, because you need to catch and to understand what can be done.”

In this podcast:

• How to bring about change through sustainability and innovation
• The importance of embedding sustainability into business and creating a new culture
• How a utility company can better the world we are living in
• Why we all have a purpose
• Innovation can make your business more sustainable
• Open power
• Why young professionals need to be curious
• It is important that you live the life you are here to live
• There is no Planet B

Links:

• Enel
• Barefoot College
• Solar energy, the Barefoot College and Enel in Africa
• The sun reaches inside homes in Bahia

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• Changing cultural perceptions of parenthood and work
• Designing a learning experience around parenthood 
• Riccarda’s dream for Ma’am is that they become useless with no more clients
• Why Riccarda is passionate about making sense and maintaining consistency
• What makes a business work today is what will hinder its growth in the future
• Why the current thinking on retirement needs to be re-examined
• The link between power and responsibility
• Why the world really needs more care at this time

Links:

• https://www.maam.life/en/
• http://www.opesfund.eu/

What if businesses looked at parenthood as a training model and were empowered to do good in the world with an ethics-first approach? Learn how Riccarda Zezza, founder of MAAM, is aiming to do just that. Based in Milano, Italy, MAAM is the world's first and only digital training program turning parenthood into a masters in key skills for business.

MAAM delivers a powerful digital and life-based program that builds employees’ soft skills by up to 35% in a very engaging and rewarding way, in order to boost employee motivation and company productivity.

MAAM’s goal is to transform life experiences into business skills and shape a world of work where everyone can fulfill their potential. To date, MAAM has been used by over 40 Italian and international organizations to train over 4,500 participants.

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Selco have made under-served communities the central focus of their thoughts, words and actions. Harish has a doctorate in energy engineering from the University of Massachusetts and he serves on the boards of many organisations, both national and international.

In this podcast:

• What Selco is and who it’s serving
• The impact Selco has in India and what they hope to do
• How Harish defines his passion for leveling the playing field of opportunity for the poor, no matter where people come from
• What social enterprise is, and what it should be
• Why Harish would like to innovate the education system
• Why Harish hopes to see Selco kill itself

Links:

• http://www.selcofoundation.org/

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Nivi is involved because she has dedicated her career to creating digital access for children, youth, and adults. 

Nivi is passionate about the potential impact the internet can have on the economic and social development for the 800 million Africans who are currently not connected, although they all have devices designed for a digital world.

In 2011, Nivi co-founded eLimu, the first company to digitize the Kenyan Primary School curriculum for revision and literacy. Nivi’s other passion is creating children’s playgrounds and enabling connectivity in an analogue way. 

In this podcast:

• Why Nivi is passionate about connectivity
• Nivi’s dreams for BRCK and overcoming barriers to connectivity
• Why we need to connect in a more meaningful way
• The transformational points in Nivi’s life that have influenced her so far
• Why Nivi wants to make the idea of public spaces different
• Why leaders need to listen with an open heart and with empathy
• The importance of listening to yourself 
• Why companies should be focusing on integrity and creating values
• Nivi’s answer for the world is more love and empathy

Links:

• www.BRCK.com
• www.e-Limu.org

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Raya Bidshahri is a serial entrepreneur, writer, educator, futurist and keynote speaker. She has been described as a techno optimist, a communicator of popular science, and an advocate of curiosity, critical thinking, wonder, and awe. 

Raya is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Awecademy, a future-focussed educational organization that is disrupting traditional high school curricula and inspiring students to bring about civilization-level change.

In this podcast:

• Why traditional education models, systems and curriculum are outdated
• Why almost all global challenges, man-made ones especially, boil down to human limitations
• How parents can look to challenge the traditional education experience
• How exponential technologies can be used to tackle global and existential challenges facing our world
• Who Raya thinks we actually are (from a cosmic perspective)
• Raya’s passion—the one that she is willing to suffer for
• What the transformational points in Raya’s life have been
• Why the future of education takes a more blended, hybrid approach, it isn’t just online and digital
• Why the most challenging part of fundraising is subjectivity
• Raya’s advice to leaders
• What Raya believes the world needs most right now

Links:

• SciFest Dubai
• Robin Farmanfarmaian - The thought leaders formula
• Intelligent optimism
• A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
• https://www.rayabidshahri.com/

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On today’s podcast:

• Accepting uncertainty
• Being curious but skeptical
• Navigating the Tech Storm
• A three-way process for innovation in technology 
• Interesting tech trends
• Listening to different opinions

Links:

• Navigating the Tech Storm
• NicklasBergman.com

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Inspired by a class she took in her first semester at Dartmouth called “The Politics of Starvation,” and by her travels to Africa, Asia and Latin America, Tracey has seen first-hand that people in the developing world are incredibly talented, hardworking and intelligent. What they lack is opportunity. 

And having worked in microfinance before founding Copia Global, Tracey is a firm believer that capital constraints keep people trapped in poverty. In fact, in America alone, 98% of venture capital goes to white men and the remaining 2% to white women and minorities. According to Tracey, if minorities and low-income people had access to venture capital, the world would be a dramatically different place.

On today’s podcast:

• How using capitalism can end global poverty
• The advantages of running a for-profit over a not-for-profit when trying to help the world’s poorest people
• Why startups need to stay lean in the beginning
• The world’s greatest evil, besides oil, is an under-utilised mind
• Microfinance is what is good about capitalism, it helps people raise themselves out of poverty
• Why entrepreneurs should embrace failure

Links:

• Andela
• The Lean Startup

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On today’s podcast:

• How do you get to clarity, and what do you do with it.
• The most beautiful gift you can give is to have the courage and tenacity to be yourself, and helping others do the same.
• Effective communication is the foundation of all growth, success, and happiness in life.
• If you can speak effectively to children, you can speak effectively to adults.
• Happiness is acquired by getting things. Fulfillment is found by giving back. 
• Having a story and a giving mentality are key to long term business success.

Links:

• https://www.chrisbaldwin.nl/
• https://www.10xspeaker.com/

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On today’s podcast:

• Playing the infinite game with a finite mindset
• For companies to have purpose, they first have to believe in that purpose
• Trust is essential to play in the infinite game
• Rivalry versus competition
• It takes courage to go against the status quo
• What the world needs most right now is love and connection

Links:

• SimonSinek.com

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On today’s podcast:

• Sahar’s new book “Startup Forever”
• Abandoning institutionalized corporate culture
• Bringing 100% of yourself to your work
• Transformational points in Sahar’s life
• A company’s purpose
• Bureaucracy is holding companies back
• Daring as a leader

Links:

• SaharHashemi.com

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• The shift from selling products to selling value
• Companies are generally bad at pricing strategies
• Marco’s passion for behavioral economics
• Four-step framework for revenue strategy
• Customer orientation is a ongoing, cyclical process
• The slow erosion of differentiation

Links:

• MarcoBertini.com

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• Innovation in the fashion industry
• The importance of a team
• Sharing insights across companies
• Changing how clothes are made
• A company is about people
• The world needs good leadership

Links:

• LeverStyle.com

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• Scomodo - a monthly newspaper to inspire a new cultural model
• Passionate about freedom
• Impacting the lives of others through cinema
• Information overload, the internet, and social media
• Being grateful for difficult times
• Creating something that lasts

Links:

• LeggiScomodo.org

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast

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On today’s podcast:

• The impossible just takes a little longer
• The power of a story to change people’s lives
• Following your heart to find your power and purpose in life
• A balance of discipline and adventure
• Everyone needs the skills of an investigative journalist
• What are the values you follow?

Links:

• Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel
• MarkSullivanBooks.com

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast

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On today’s podcast:

• Making our future human-centric
• Change and transformation
• Be true to yourself and surround yourself with great people
• Sticking to solutions, not titles or products
• Earning the role of leader
• Prioritizing human connection

Links:

• SangbreetaMoitra.com

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast

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On today’s podcast:

• What is the Baby Bathwater Institute?
• Maintaining balance when working with a partner
• Transparency in leadership
• Quality over quantity
• Establishing a brand personality
• The importance of connection and being truly present with others

Links:

• BabyBathwater.com
• BabyBathwaterInstitute.com

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• 12 years ago a realization sparked a dramatic shift in Esmond’s life
• Our beliefs define how we experience life
• Stop lying to yourself
• Esmond is passionate about the truth
• Collaboration rather than competition
• The importance of vulnerability

Links:

• EsmondBaring.com
• Esmond on Instagram
• www.nyoude.com
• NYOUDE
• Esmond on Facebook

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• One question that can supercharge everything that you’re doing
• Bringing about change through communication
• Pride: the difference between good and great
• A passion for understanding people
• The four Cs of a great business or leader
• The meaning of happiness
• Why the world needs to slow down

Links:

• Yash’s Facebook
• Yash on Instagram

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• The intersection between fine arts and personal growth
• What is conscious creativity?
• Accepting and loving yourself for who you are
• Being more present and daring to let go
• Reuniting with ourselves and with others

Links:

• DorotaStanczyk.com
• moonkava.org

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast

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On today’s podcast:

• Advocating hyperbaric oxygen therapy
• Applying psychology to digital marketing
• Why having empathy is so important
• Why it’s important for companies to formulate their value proposition properly
• Combining pharmaceutical and alternative medicine
• The millennial Tinder mindset

Links:

• Tim’s Instagram
• Health Optimisation

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• The importance of having a support network
• We need to be more intentional
• What Tiffany learned from millennials
• What makes a great leader
• Our deep desire to belong
• We need more women in leadership

Links:

• Drop The Ball
• The Cru

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• How to effectively drive innovation
• How to distinguish yourself as a startup
• Synchronizing the analogue and the digital
• Think about hiring an external innovation expert
• All companies need a data plan
• Why you should be your best cheerleader

Links:

• TheCurrent

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• How to create good trouble
• The dark side of scaling up
• Inspiration without action is just frustration
• How role models have changed
• Learning how to break rules professionally
• A little bit of chaos will do us good

Links:

• Be More Pirate
• Sam’s Website

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• Helping people to become successful
• Why it’s important to value your employees
• The deepest need of the human heart is to feel understood
• Todd’s advice to leaders
• Balancing production and production capability
• We need to treat each other better

Links:

• Get Better Book

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• A family business
• Committed to sustainability
• Massimo’s holistic way of perceiving disease
• The core values of Aboca
• How creating value brings back success
• We are all responsible for the future

Links:

• Aboca

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• The positive shift in the Swedish corporate environment
• What makes a good leader
• Why purpose-driven companies succeed
• Companies should focus more on the present
• Why we all need to find our purpose
• We need to be more open, vulnerable and mature

Links:

• Michaël Berglund
• Michaëla’s Podcast (in Swedish)

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• Helping organizations transform themselves
• Businesses are more agile than governments
• The essence of experiential learning
• How businesses will look in 20 years’ time
• David’s advice to leaders
• There is a generation of purposeful leaders emerging

Links:

• Impact International

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• Choosing a future-proof business model
• Companies should be agile, principled and sustainable
• Getting globalization and digitization right
• Why we need to take about corporate board composition
• Our job as leaders is to motivate all stakeholders
• What the world needs the most right now

Links:

• AllSaints

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• Quitting your comfort zone
• Changing your mindset
• Actively designing our lives
• We need to think more about sustainability
• Long-term thinking can only benefit us
• We need to step forward and lead the change

Links:

• The Ski Week

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• Using comedy as a unifier
• Seeing disaster as a gift
• The curse of our education system
• John’s formula for long-lasting business success
• His advice to leaders
• We can change the world only by changing ourselves

Links:

• QI

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• Pronoia vs paranoia
• Doing random acts of kindness and beauty
• Retrieving our playfulness
• Ideas have a life of their own
• Staying human in the age of automation
• Choosing curiosity over fear

Links:

• Tiu’s Website

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• Creating networks of women
• The challenges of being a woman
• What it’s like to be an entrepreneur
• A solution for businesses
• Being playful is good if you’re a leader
• We need more empathy when dealing with each other

Links:

• HER Global Network
• HON (Her Online Network)

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• Changing consumer patterns for the better
• Why putting people first is so important for our success
• Refusing to compromise
• Why we need to start with ourselves in order to create positive change
• Balance is crucial
• We need to steer clear from extremism

Links:

• Åkestam Holst

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• The secrets of the longest living people
• Why we should trust our intuition more often
• Companies should bake more humanity into their business models
• The power of human connection
• We should all let go a bit more and just enjoy the ride
• Following your passion will also fix some of your health problems

Links:

• The Human Longevity Project

Full show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/

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On today’s podcast:

• Restoring confidence in our bodies
• Why treating symptoms should no longer be the norm
• Breaking the taboo on sexual health
• The benefits and costs of stem cells
• Why doing scary things helps us grow