A Sounder Life - Musings of a Serial Founder with interesting and inspirational guests

A Podcast by serial kiwi founder (Sounder) John Holt talking about the highs and lows of building startups with fellow founders or other interesting humans with purpose and passion for their chosen pursuits.

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Episodes

A Sounder Life with Hafsa Ahmed: Navigating Bias, Building Community and Shaping the Future

Following or theme of conversations for good with founders from all walks of life and venture Episode 6 of A Sounder Life has something for everyone examining their own purpose and their plans to build something great. Join me as we talk about cracking the code of our diverse societies with Hafsa Ahmed PhD, MNZM a seasoned community researcher and futurist and co founder of the Lady Khadija Charitable Trust who passionately and actively advocates for a brighter future shaped by our conscious act...

Dec 18, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 6

A Sounder Life Episode 5 with Shaun QUINCEY

A rollercoaster of insights and inspiration from serial founder Shaun Quincey, CEO and Founder of Simfuni , family man and 1 of only 2 humans to successfully row the Tasman Sea single handed over 54 days! Spolier alert - the other human is his Dad. Join us on a quick romp through his business life to date and perspective on many aspects of key skills required to succeed in any type of business role or life in general ! Bio - Shaun Cameron Quincey MNZM Born: 27 September 1984 Education: Takapuna ...

Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 5

A Sounder Life Episode 4.5 with guest Raelene Castle ( minus John's ramble)

Have you heard of Imposter Syndrome? Have you experienced yourself ? Join me for an insightful chat with my guest Raelene Castle, CEO of Sport NZ and former CEO Australia Rugby, Canterbury Bulldogs and Netball NZ amongst many other high profile roles. We talk Sport, Business, Diversity and a new take on Imposter Syndrome and how to deal with it. Valuable perspective from Raelene's leadership career. Hope you enjoy !

Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 4

A Sounder Life Episode 4 with Raelene Castle

Who wants a better more purposeful approach to addressing imposter syndrome? Listen in as we discuss this and other challenges in building your career as a founder or executive and check out Raelene's brilliant (IMHO) rethink of imposter syndrome and how to approach it amongst many other gems from her vast experience. A wealth of knowledge and experience is shared in this one from the parallels between sport and business to delivering good feedback and hard messages.

Dec 19, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 4

A Sounder Life Episode 3 with guest Natalie Ferguson

Kia ora! Welcome to Episode 3 :) Still playing with formats but I’m particularly excited about this episode with my first guest - Natalie Ferguson. As per the “run and gun” format of A Sounder Life, we started with an Agenda which went out the window pretty much after we started talking. Instead, we began a chat around Nat’s research, passion and purpose to create solutions for improving the metrics around women in leadership. There was too much goodness in the chat so I didn’t want to edit any ...

Nov 13, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 3

A Sounder Life Episode 2

The Pandemic before the Pandemic - the tragic death of Molly Russell and what good could come of her parent's persistence, John finds the missing book, thoughts on education or lack thereof, Listening notes on Spencer Rascoff, Learn SPIN selling, What on earth is ESG?

Oct 16, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 2

A Sounder Life Episode 1

Kiwi Serial founder (Sounder) John's first episode covers the concepts of a Purposeful and Profitable organisation, finding the third door, fundraising, serendipity engineering, sustainability and timeless sales techniques

Oct 01, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 1

A Sounder Life - The Trailer

John gives you a slow (double speed reccomended) overview of why he's starting this and what he will talk about. Livelier John intervenes with a preamble that promises less monotony

Jun 06, 2022•10 min

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