In this wonderful conversation we discuss indigenous wisdom, leadership and how a reimagined approach to business and economics can support human and planetary thriving. We also discuss better ways to engage people to move in different directions - experiences not PowerPoint!

This is one of our favourite episodes yet and is a fitting way to end season 3. We’ll be back soon ❤️

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(Apologies for the slightly sub-standard audio on MJ’s microphone 🎤 in this episode - technical gremlins 👹).

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Journalist and author Brigid Schulte joins us for an uplifting conversation about our broken system and offers inspiration for a hopeful way forward.

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In this super enjoyable episode we discuss the power of music and storytelling, authenticity and human connection in a world of AI and automation. We also explore the creative process, the power of purpose and the importance of taking care of our home planet 🌍

This episode was recorded live at London’s famous Metropolis Studios - thank you to Glenn Herweijer for having us ❤️

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Karl shares how he overcame the profound loss of his family home through the kindness and solidarity of community. We discuss unity and male friendships at a time of division and toxic masculinity and reflect on the good and the bad of life in big business.

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Malcolm shares his experience of overcoming personal tragedy and adversity.

We also get into the evolution of leadership, psychedelics, ceremonies, rituals and ego death 🙌

Slay your Dragons

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Wild Geese 🪿 by Mary Oliver

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More thoughts from Ben

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Stephen is a deep and thoughtful guy and we cover lots of bases including indigenous wisdom, regenerative vs sustainable business and whether business can survive at its current scale.

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE

• What are the biggest challenges for mission-driven founders to structure impact at early stages?
• ‘Humanity-centred’ design rather than human-centred design: looking at problems from the root cause with a long-term mindset, being iterative, continual refinement and building with community
• The power of the collective and what is possible when we come together and create from a space that is bigger than ourselves.

REFERENCES

Mirth Drink

Patagonia founder, Yvon Chouinard

Let my People go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard

Perspectiva Press

The Wisdom of Insecurity, Alan Watts

Shantaram (audiobook)

Armchair Experts (podcast) 

Syzmon, Blue colored mountain (song)

Barca Matchday Playlist 

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE

• Reaching the end of a hyper-rational, high secular materialism age - and looking at what comes next to fill the ‘void’ in realising it doesn't provide real meaning 
• Exploring Spiritual Capital as a “resource of collective memory, benefit, and impact of a culture’s religious, spiritual, philosophy history and heritage” and investing in it through honouring purpose, value, virtue, and meaning in cultures 
• Religion as a way of being. It’s a pattern and we’re all in one. We’re all worshipping something
• CENTRES OF POWER ARE MOVING AWAY FROM THE WEST - neutral secular perspectives that are not neutral. Parts of the world are pushing back.
• How you develop leaders - mindfulness, breathing, embracing the wilderness 
• The agenda of “purpose” in business spaces & leadership programmes - and how authentic and meaningful this actually is. 

QUOTES & SNIPPETS

“We’re in a meaning crisis. Spiritual Capital doesn’t ‘belong’ to big businesses. You cant import purpose, ritual, philosophical ideas etc”

“It’s a pattern and we’re all in one”

“Consumerism doesn’t provide the meaning people thought it would so they’ve gone looking for meaning in something else”

“All people have now IS their work - home - and hobby. People's lives have gone from many layers to work and home. Back in the day, people belonged to a community organisation, there were layers between the individual and the state that gave them meaning and a sense of grounding but we’ve stripped them out”

“Most of the stuff you read in these modern business books about purpose and good culture - they exist in all the great scriptures. We’ve had this stuff forever.”

REFERENCES

Richard Dawkins

Gus Speth

Robert Tombs

Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE

• The appreciation & sense of wonder that parenthood brings - for the journey that all humans go through
• Prioritising a creative career and navigating the school system
• Holding onto the purity of making music vs being ‘successful’ in the industry 
• The mid-life crisis that comes when we turn 30; “slowly untethering from youth, accepting that you’re moving on to a new chapter”, and how yoga helped him through this process

QUOTES & SNIPPETS

“It’s like I’m seeing the pyramid of Egypt for the first time when I’m watching him (son), that sense of wonder, seeing his little personality grow”

“No matter how much work you do on yourself (e.g meditation, Wim Hof ice showers) - you can still fall into bad habits. We are all a work in progress”

“Keep the harmony. If you don’t get things ironed out with yourself and your band or business; there’s no longevity”

“Yoga was a revolutionary force in my life; the one place, apart from making music, that could go to be in the moment where no other thoughts exist”

REFERENCES

The Infinite Monkey Cage, Brian Cox

The Rest is Politics

Cold Reactor, Everything Everything

Doppelganger, Naomi Klein

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F***, Mark Manson

The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle

CONNECT WITH DAN

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Dan’s new album

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE

• Why caring for your people should be the first goal in any human organisation 
• Thriving with autism
• The mental health and emotional intelligence of the younger generation
• The complexities of gender differences in raising boys and girls
• Getting in touch with our “Wild Creature Mind”

QUOTES & SNIPPETS

“If your kid sees you cry sometimes, that’s a gift to them”

“Human beings are broken and that’s the beauty of us - it’s what we make of that”

“There’s a thousand different ways to be a boy or a man, and there’s a thousand different ways to be a girl or a woman” 

“Instead of thinking ‘I'm anxious’ - try thinking: ‘there's something in me that’s anxious;’ then everyone can muster that strength to nurture themselves”

“There’s a generational uprising. It’s angry and it’s tender at the same time. These kids have got heart and they’ve got backbone. And they know what’s what.”

“We are wired to have fatherly, sisterly, and motherly feelings. A human organisation will only really hum when we honour these”

“Any organisation that has money as its purpose is automatically doomed to fail, because money is a myth, it’s a fairytale.”

REFERENCES

Fully Human by Steve Biddulph

The Secret of Happy Children by Steve Biddulph

Make Friends with Your Wild Creature Mind by Steve Biddulph *coming soon*

Ian McGilchrist (neuroscience) 

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE

• Social Impact - where should people act? How do we make a difference when there’s so many things going on in the world, and use our heart to lead us there
• The illusion that business is all to do with the head - but there is a lot more permission around love & connection than we allow ourselves to think 
• How to back up, shift to a more human perspective, and see things differently - gaining perspective & joy from those on the front line
• Inspiration from working with Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice

QUOTES & SNIPPETS

“Where to act is where your heart breaks”

"To be human is a heartbreaking, excruciating experience, and it is an uplifting liberating experience. But holding both of these as true, is key to our liberation and  destiny"

“Play, practice, push the edges of your imagined cells, and the worst that can happen is that you have to apologise”

“Every time a subject is freaking you out, instead of moving away, get closer to it and see what joy you find… There are always people on the front line doing remarkable things”

“In our quiet moments, something powerful is guiding us that isn't our logic”

REFERENCES

Barbara Sreisand’s Autobiography

The Culture Map by Erin Meyer

The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why by Richard Nisbett

Beyonce Texas Hold ‘Em

Wilderness Leadership School

FTE’s (Full Time Equivalents)

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Ted Talk

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• How Conscious Wellness is rooted in helping others 
• The interconnectedness of all living things - based on the West African belief of Aduna 
• How Andrew and Aduna grew a leading wellness business supporting local farmers in Ghana 
• Modifying the capitalist structure so that it’s not exploitative, extractive and unhealthy
• Where our sense of worth and value comes from as human beings

QUOTES & SNIPPETS:

“Doing something on a daily basis that is making a difference to other people is the most important part of wellness”

“I am because we are” - the concept of Ubuntu

“So many people are living in deficiency of human community in modern life” 

“If you want to achieve a state of oneness it can’t just be about yourself”

“Collective Wellness is true wellness”

“Physical and emotional health are two sides of the same coin”

REFERENCES:

The Baobab Tree

Microbiome

‘Ubuntu’ Philosophy

B-Corp

Fonio seeds

How To Do The Work, by Dr Nicole LePera

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• What it means to be in the world of corporate and political ‘power’ 
• How to see the best in people and build bigger, more inclusive movements
• How to live by the practice of ‘memento mori’ 
• Adam's experiences of seeing first-hand how American politics operates behind closed doors 
• The small shifts needed to imagine a new system & step forward with true purpose

QUOTES & SNIPPETS:

“Corporations are claiming to be the solution to the problems they have created”

“It has nothing to do with bad people - it has everything to do with incentives and structures & the way human beings operate”

“When do you call someone out and when do you bring them into your movement?”

“There’s no secret formula for achieving power”

"If we’re going to die at some point, we might as well live”

"I’ve seen what's on the other side; and they're just people"

"At the end of the day, it's not going to be the emails I regret or the work I didn't do - it's going to be the walks in the park i didn't take"

REFERENCES:

The Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler 

The Persuaders, Anan Giridharadas

The Long Now Foundation

Lupe Fiasco 

ESG

Reframe the Day, Adam Lowenstein

Memento mori

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• Surviving inequalities as an intersectional woman
• Exploring tools for empowerment & sustainable, systemic change
• “Driving intentional design for the people by the people”
• Aligning to identity, passion & purpose 
• How to be relentless in humanising our systems 
• Decolonising the tech industry

QUOTES & SNIPPETS:

“There is beauty in my diversity. I don’t feel like an outsider anymore, because I’ve been in spaces where all of me was accepted.”

“Empathy can feel like a curse - you feel too much”

“Treat this world as if you’re a traveler - serve, serve, serve, - and impart as much as you can with the time that you have” 

“Art is a revolution, it's our way of pushing back on the structures”

“Leaders of the future pair value with value”

“Our systems are driving violence” 

“Shame prevents action”

REFERENCES:

Voicing Voices

Duke Corporate Education

ESG

Cambodia Civil War 

United Nations Youth Declaration

Tower Hamlets 

The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron

Qatar Foundation

Sheikha Moza

Sam Cook (Musician) 

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• How trauma and adversity shaped Robi’s artistic process
• How to create an optimum routine, build discipline, and push boundaries
• How to live ‘on-purpose’
• How to reflect your inner world into the outer world and create spaces for healing

QUOTES & SNIPPETS:

“I tried to find the beauty in the thing that was not loved. I tried to work on myself”

“Accumulated small steps create big things” 

“There is something special inside of every single person on the planet. Are you doing it, or are you resisting it?”

“Sometimes all you need to do is hear someone say: I took a risk”

“We are in a negative, destructive, sick world. But I don’t buy into it. I’m trying to make it better.”

REFERENCES:

The Wim Hof Method

Michelle La Grand - La Grand Jazz ft. Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Miles Evans

Chat GPT

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• Building resilience and high performance 
• Guardianship, stewardship and fatherhoood
• Learnings from living in the Amazon Basin with an indigenous Tribe
• Re-establishing our connection with nature

QUOTES & SNIPPETS:

“The person who has the lowest centre of energy, holds the space”

“Gratitude is the best antidote to fear”

“What do you actually want and what’s stopping you from getting there?”

“How can we emotionally and creatively connect with ourselves to solve problems, and think divergently?”

REFERENCES:

The Huli People

David Attenborough, Our Planet

Transcendental Meditation

Aikido

Kat Williams

The Four Agreements, Don Miguel

The Relationship Handbook

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"Hate cannot drive out hate - only love can do that."

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• The habits of happiness
• How to cultivate inner peace - and be the change we want to see in the world
• Insights into spirituality, mindfulness, meditation & self-compassion
• The science and art of authentic sustainable happiness

QUOTES & SNIPPETS:

“Authentic, sustainable happiness is having a balance of Pleasure, Purpose & Peace”

“It takes community to maintain consistency”

“The way out is in”

REFERENCES:

Positive Psychology

The Vagina Museum 

Insight Timer App 

Dr Kristin Neff, pioneer of self-compassion

Women’s Aid

Vipassana Silent Retreat

The Dalai Lama 

Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh

International Plum Village Community

Fred Rogers

Martin Luther King 

Post Traumatic Growth

Kintsugi

The Well Bean Co 

Soil, Soul, Society

Toni Jones

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