At four year’s old, young Sheain escaped the regime of Saddam Hussein with his family, travelling on a donkey whilst under attack in a war zone. Settling in Britain, Sheain changed his name to Lazo, and went on to become an award winning body builder and transformational coach for the highly driven, rich and famous. Lazo has spent a large part of his life with access to a glamorous, exclusive and elite world, from travelling on super yachts, to invites to all the best parties and clubs in cities...
Jan 21, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Daniel Hill is a hugely successful property developer and investor with an 8 figure portfolio, ready to retire at 35 years old. He is also the best selling author of Karma Credits, The Universal Law of Wealth, Health and Happiness as well as the host of the Blueprint podcast and proponent of creating your ‘life by design.’ A hugely driven and talented man, with a heart of gold, he is full of apparent paradoxes. He ran his hugely successful company Multi-Let which he sold for multiple 7 figures i...
Jan 09, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 5Ep. 41
These short thoughts for the day are shared with you in the spirit of our shared evolution and learning. Hope they spark some insights or contemplation.
Dec 27, 2023•47 sec•Season 5Ep. 40
These short thoughts for the day are shared with you in the spirit of our shared evolution and learning. Hope they spark some insights or contemplation. Warning: Sexual slur word reference
Dec 27, 2023•32 sec•Season 5Ep. 39
These short thoughts for the day are shared with you in the spirit of our shared evolution and learning. Hope they spark some insights or contemplation.
Dec 27, 2023•29 sec•Season 5Ep. 38
These short thoughts for the day are shared with you in the spirit of our shared evolution and learning. Hope they spark some insights or contemplation.
Dec 27, 2023•33 sec•Season 5Ep. 37
The incredibly successful, wise and brave entrepreneur David Thomson, founder of Suada, speaks candidly about the reasons behind his drive to be "rich and hard." This is an especially useful discussion, packed with lots of practical advice on life, learning, business and sales, which is David's main area of expertise. We discuss David's upbringing in Scotland, spent in clubs and pubs, full of poverty and severe adversity. He had a teriibly traumatic childhood, eventually ending up at a children'...
Dec 10, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Season 5Ep. 36
Growing up in London during the eighties, with hardworking, busy but loving parents, Shamita learnt stories from both her grandmothers about her family's magical, adventurous past yet she was always told - be good, don't rock the boat, do well. Her curious, inqusitive nature led her to be confused by these messages. Internally conflicted, she went on to do all that was required of her - to study law, get a corporate job in London helping others, to be a good daugther, wife,and daughter in law. B...
Nov 26, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 5Ep. 35
A deeply personal and profound conversation detailing the journey of Ansuya Devi, attorney, holistic coach and founder of Modern Ancients Sanctuary. From humble beginnings in Hackney, growing up in a large Hindu family of Mauritian Indian immigrants, Ansuya and her siblings desperately strived for balance between Eastern and Western cultures. Her move to study law in Manchester was considered a huge deal, and she herself did not realise that quite soon after she would move to the USA as an attor...
Nov 12, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 5Ep. 34
Welcome back to the Evolving Door podcast, this episode is solo episode number 4 where I share 3 things I have been thinking about recently. 1: Stability and inspiration The best thing I can do for my family is provide stability and inspiration. So first I need stability and inspiration in my own life. 2. Ungrateful change-makers Change-makers in their efforts to bring about needed change can often seem ungrateful for all the good that has been done and the sacrifice of others to get things to w...
Oct 29, 2023•16 min•Season 4Ep. 33
This week's guest Wali Khan had to leave home at 7 years old to escape the Taliban. He relocated to the UK with his mum and brother. A few years later he found himself at a hospital in Birmingham meeting two boys his age from back home in Swat Valley, Pakistan. Their sister Malala had been shot in the head by the Taliban and was being treated at the hospital in Birmingham. The boys became friends and shared many of the same challenges growing up and being educated in a country far from home. The...
Oct 15, 2023•49 min•Season 4Ep. 32
This week's Eclective Selectives solo episode explores three topics from the last few weeks. The first is about Declarative Language The second is about Autistic Spiderman The third is about my friend Suzanne who recently passed away Hope you like it.
Oct 01, 2023•14 min•Season 4Ep. 31
Welcome back to the Evolving Door podcast everybody this the podcast for ambitious thoughtful people who want to succeed internally just as much as they do out in the world. I have a very exciting guest for you today, Hetal Baman, she's a social impact podcaster she has a podcast called Global Health pursuit. She's an engineer by background, grew up in New York or just near New York, and her heritage is from India. We're gonna hear how she gave up on all the things she enjoyed to try and live up...
Sep 17, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Season 4Ep. 30
This week's Eclective Selectives episode explores three topics that came to me when away on holiday this August. The first is about Design or Chance The second is about Respect and Dignity The third is about Not Letting Beautiful Things Turn To Poison Hope you like it.
Sep 12, 2023•11 min•Season 4Ep. 29
Positive News described this week's guest Ben Hurst as a youth leader helping to rewrite the script of masculinity. I met him after his TEDxLondonWomen talk where he said 'Boys won't be boys, boys will be what we teach them to be.' He is an activist, advocate, public speaker, facilitator, model, and podcaster who is helping men and boys navigate the whole space of what it means to be a man in today's world. We talk about the pressures many boys face growing up to be a certain way, where that com...
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 4Ep. 28
This is my first solo episode where I talk about 3 random things that have struck me in the last few weeks sharing some thoughts and reflections from my perspective. There is a follow on link from the last episode with Glen Hansard as he inspired the section on weeds with something he said to me a while back. I am planning to do more of these if you enjoy them, so please let me know what you think. I also share a new intro I have been working on for the podcast. I am taking a break after this ep...
Aug 13, 2023•11 min•Season 3Ep. 27
I was at Glen Hansard's band The Frames first gig at the Clifton Country Blues Festival in the west of Ireland in 1990. Shortly afterwards we became friends and it has been a wonder to witness the incredible adventure he has been on since, always with music and poetry and an eagerness to better understand himself and life at the heart of it. From humble beginnings living in Dublin's only high rise flats in Ballymun he went on to create amazing music loved by fans all over the world and has playe...
Jul 09, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 26
Daniel Alexander is a former youth worker, award winning film maker, a great champion of young people and a proud dad to twin girls. The trailer for his latest film, a horror adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, has been shared millions of times by fans worldwide as they get excited about the release of the short film with a feature film planned thereafter. He has developed his craft to the point where he has directed and shot content for Netflix, Amazon, BBC and ITV even though he didn't pick up a c...
Jun 25, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Mark Leruste is a former 7-figure award-winning fundraiser turned best-selling author of Glow in the Dark He’s a proud dyslexic thinker and founder of The Unconventionalists podcast and is on a mission to help one million entrepreneurs and leaders impact the world with their story. His TEDx talk was listed as the #1 TED Talk every entrepreneur should watch by Steven Bartlett (host of The Diary of a CEO podcast) You might have seen him in Forbes or The Wall Street Journal and he is a regular publ...
Jun 13, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 24
One Small Barking Dog (OSBD) linked up with multi-award-winning producer/director Ravinol Chambers from Be Inspired Films to talk about his remarkable journey from monk to filmmaker and some essentials of what he has learned along the way. This OSBD 'In The Frame' podcast is in collaboration with Be Inspired Films and Ravs' amazing Evolving Door podcast. OSBD aims to serve and help develop the next generation of emerging filmmakers. The podcast will be available on the Evolving Door podcast wher...
May 30, 2023•50 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Samantha Moyo gave me a big warm hug at TEDxEastend in 2013, she had just recently sold Morning Gloryville, a sober raving movement that had grown massively over the previous year or so. I was delighted to sit down with her for this interview ten years on to discuss her life pre and post-Morning Gloryville. She was born and grew up in Zimbabwe and moved to Derbyshire in the UK at 15 years old to a bit of a culture shock. She talks about her glorious Uni days in Brighton as the perfect place to c...
May 14, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 22
In the last few years, we have been learning about neuro - divergence including Autism and ADHD in our own family. I knew of Ash as an up-and-coming film maker in the Midlands and saw him post that he was neuro-divergent and that he was into Airsoft and thought I would love to interview him to learn more about his experience growing up with Autism. My son is also massively into Nerf guns and thought it would be cool to invite Ash over to do the podcast and also to bring his Airsoft guns so we co...
May 08, 2023•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 21
I am very excited to share the latest episode of the Evolving Door podcast. This is a very special guest and the very first interview I recorded for the podcast, please welcome Raghunath Yogi. Raghunath is a bundle of love, of fierce wit, of hurricane-level energy and of piercing passion for personal growth, individual authenticity and spiritual progress. He is larger than life, extremely engaging and personally very inspiring. We talk about his dissatisfaction with stereotyped life, going into ...
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 20
I loved talking to Jonah Sachs. He is an author, speaker and viral marketing pioneer. His new approaches to digital media have been critical in bringing the ideals of social change — such as equity, empowerment, responsibility and transparency — to the forefront of business and popular culture. He had over 60 million views on his videos even before YouTube was a thing. His first book 'Winning The Story Wars' catapulted him onto the global speaking scene talking about storytelling for brands and ...
Apr 17, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 3Ep. 19
This is one of my favourite episodes. Although Madi and I had a very different start in life, we both spent many years completely absorbed in the culture, philosophy, and community of the Hare Krishna movement. We also both shared similar experiences in later life that helped us make sense of our experiences and broaden our minds on many issues. At 5 years old Madi was taken to America from Ireland by his parents and told he was going for a sleepover at a boarding school there and when he woke u...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Shikha Uberoi is an amazing person. She excelled at professional tennis (top 100 in the world, No.1 in India), went into TV and then Tech, and has done it all with such a great sense of purpose. She is one of five sisters and her parents (especially her father) gave them tremendous self-belief that they really could do anything, and that there was no limit. They have each gone on to achieve amazing things in their lives. Shikha has always embodied a sense of service and spirituality but she foun...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Namarasa Das's parents became Hare Krishna when he was one year old. His dad got really into it and his mum was very unsure, especially since she saw it as a threat to stable family life. He grew up part of a spiritual community on weekends and a typical American high school kid Monday to Friday. He started to have doubts about his faith and needed to figure it out for himself so he embarked on a life-changing trip to India to study philosophy there and came back ready to commit his life to spir...
Mar 14, 2023•1 hr 44 min•Season 3Ep. 16
I so loved talking with Jacquline, it filled me with inspiration and hope and brought a few tears to my eyes. I hope it will do the same for you. We recorded this conversation a few years back and with the release of my documentary 'A Girl Can Touch The Sky' the podcast episode got delayed. I am delighted to be able to release it now in time for International Women's Day 2023. Jacquline is an amazing human and an amazing woman and a powerhouse for good, having founded and built Acumen who has in...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Season 3Ep. 15
I loved the BAFTA award-winning show The Revolution Will Be Televised so much, with its cutting satire and hilarious pranks tackling serious issues it was the perfect combination of silly and serious all in one. It was a pleasure to chat with Heydon Prowse who along with Jolyon Rubenstein (E2) were the stars of the show as well as the writers too. Hear how Heydon along with Joe Wade were already creating prank-style undercover videos about political stuff and then added Jolyon who brought new ch...
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Jaz O'Hara is the amazing Founder of The Worldwide Tribe and Host of the Asylum Speakers podcast. Moved by the refugee crisis in the Calais Jungle, she shared a post on social media and woke up in the morning to 65,000 shares and so many messages. It started her journey to better understand the issues facing Asylum seekers and for many years now she has been sharing stories and advocating for fair treatment and rights for those experiencing displacement and the many challenges that leaving your ...
Feb 20, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 13
