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Mastery Of Self With The Human Connection Facilitator Nov 30, 2020

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Virginia Salas Kastilio is a hyper connector and serial entrepreneur who was named one of Inc. Magazine's top 26 Women to Change the World. She's an internationally acclaimed speaker, marketer and activist and having built multiple empires, she is currently helping "reconnect" humanity and bring consciousness into the mainstream through The I Trust You Movement (after previously disputing the social media landscape through her agency, Gini.TV).

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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Wisdom From A Faithkeeper Of The Turtle Clan Nov 16, 2020

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Chief Oren Lyons is a Native American Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Haudenosaunee Peoples. He’s a member Chief of the Onondaga Council of Chiefs and the Grand Council of the Iroquois Confederacy. He's Professor Emeritus at University of Buffalo, New York and he has a doctorate law degree from Syracuse University. Oren is an accomplished artist, environmentalist, author, and founder and principal partner of One Bowl Productions, a purpose-driven film and television production company in LA. He's chairman of the board for Plantagon, and a world leader in Greenhouse Innovation. Oren is a leading voice at the United Nations permanent forum on human rights of indigenous peoples. And he's received numerous prestigious awards, such as the United Nations NGO World Peace Prize, and recently the prestigious Friends of the Children award with his colleague, the late Nelson Mandela.

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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Disrupting The Charity World With Milkywire Nov 09, 2020

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Nina Siemiatkowski is the founder and CEO of Milkywire, a platform that brings people who want to improve our world closer to the people in the field who are working to protect and restore our planet.

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

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Humanising Business In The Age Of Machines Oct 14, 2020

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“In the wake of this pandemic, it's this impossible stretch between on the one hand restoring normalcy and making sure that the operations continue, and at the same time thinking ahead, looking forward and really adjusting to the new reality that we're going to experience in the wake of this crisis.”

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

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Cancer Care, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Longevity Oct 05, 2020

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Laurent “Larry” Leksell is the co-founder of Elekta, a global company that is pushing the boundaries of radiation therapy to provide access for advanced, high-quality cancer care. While studying at the Stockholm School of Economics, Larry jumped into entrepreneurship with his father who had a passion in cancer research. Larry now sits as a chairman and principal shareholder of Elekta while he fulfills his passions of philanthropy, entrepreneurship and art.

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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Creating Community, Consciousness, & Connectivity Sep 08, 2020

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Markus Lehto is a Utopian, an expert generalist. He’s also the co-founder of Joint Idea and Lifeworks Labs and the co-founder of the global community - Love Mafia. Born in Canada with Finnish traditions and culture, life took him on a path across the world as a professional in consulting, investment banking and real estate development. He's based in Istanbul and is pursuing entrepreneurial ventures in design and architecture, investment, community building, learning and tech development.

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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What It Takes To Lead The Next Generation Jul 14, 2020

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“Business leaders should be ready to be challenged by young people. I feel we have ended up in this patriarchal system with CEOs and leaders who do not want to be confronted by the young generations.”

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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What Poker Can Teach Us About Life Jun 30, 2020

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Maria Konnikova is a New York Times best-selling author, journalist and psychologist who in 2018 while researching her newest book, The Biggest Bluff, became an international poker champion and the winner of over $300,000 in tournament earnings, inadvertently turning herself into a professional poker player.

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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How A Crisis Can Help Us Grow Jun 16, 2020

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Ma Steinsvik is passionate about emerging technologies and believes in the power of digital transformation and AI in order to scale business transformation towards a circular economy. Because an augmented circular future will lead to a better world.

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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Why Covid-19 is an opportunity to redesign your life Jun 02, 2020

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What is design and who is it for?

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

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