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Martin Solveig: From a Flop to "Hello"

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT

His first album flopped.

Then came "Hello", Madonna, and residencies in Ibiza and Las Vegas.

Martin Solveig tells Marie what happened in between, and why he chose to stop at the top.

We talk about the phone call that saved his career, the 8-bar rule behind "Hello", the day he hung up on Madonna's manager, choosing his daughter over 40 shows a year, and Alma Studio, his audio app for kids voiced by real actors.

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She Helped Build the Attention Economy. Now She Wants Your Attention Back | Jess Butcher

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:36:36 GMT

Why do only drug dealers and tech companies call their customers "users"?

Jess Butcher would know. She co-founded Blippar, one of the first augmented reality apps, raised over $120 million and spent years in the business of capturing your attention. Then she switched sides.

In this episode of Bold Souls, she tells Marie Outtier:

why your feed is ultra-processed food for your brain
the very different TikTok China gives its own children
why Gen Z is paying to make life harder, from "raw dogging" flights to "friction maxing"
the house rules she uses with her three kids, starting with an old-fashioned alarm clock
what young people lose when nobody's in the office to learn from

If you've ever looked up from your phone and wondered where the last hour went, this one's for you.

Bold Souls: conversations with people who did something bold, about the middle of their story, not just the highlights. New episodes every Tuesday.

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Comparing Your Middle to Everyone Else’s Ending

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT

You’re not short of advice. That’s actually the problem.

In this solo episode, Marie Outtier, founder of Aiden.ai (acquired by Twitter), explains why feeling behind usually has nothing to do with discipline, confidence or the perfect routine. What gets published is the ending: the launch, the award, the before and after. The middle gets cut. So we spend years comparing our middle to everyone else’s ending, and losing.

Marie shares a moment from her first year of university: a student with a very firm opinion about her future, and the question that made it irrelevant. She also explains what Bold Souls is here to do. Every Tuesday she sits down with people who’ve done remarkable things and asks them about the middle, not the highlights.

In this episode:

00:00 Why you feel behind (it’s not a lack of advice)

02:22 I sold my company to Twitter. Be suspicious of me.

03:40 The stranger who predicted my salary

05:22 The part of success nobody shows you

06:15 You’re not behind, you’re in the middle

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Your dreams are not silly. You’re just bold.

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From Too Hot to Handle to Shakespeare: Marvin Anthony

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:15:01 GMT

Marvin Anthony won Too Hot to Handle, was a model for Hugo Boss, and has since taken on the stage and the screen. Here is what that road looks like from the inside.

Then it gets personal: growing up as the only Black family in a small French town, the calls from Prime Video and Lionsgate, a movie you can't watch yet, and what his mum taught him about being a man.

About Marvin: Paris-born actor and basketball player. Most people met him when he won season 2 of Netflix's Too Hot to Handle in 2021. Since then he's been building a career in French film, television and theatre, one casting at a time.

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