Neil Sahota is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations A.I. subject matter expert, professor at UC Irvine, and globally-recognized speaker and author. Neil is a founding member of the UN’s Artificial Intelligence for Social Good Committee, and he’s here to talk about the ways we can harness the power of AI and use it for social good. Neil is also the author of Own the A.I. Revolution, providing a future-forward look at A.I., focusing on how businesses can use it to commercialize while doing good ...
Aug 27, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Aaron Aldred is movement based performance trainer situated in Melbourne. With a Bachelors degree in Sports Science, he is currently training clients out of Focus Fitness Yarraville, a gym located in the inner west of Melbourne. Aaron runs 4 week Mobility workshops which provide a wealth of knowledge on optimising movement mechanics, self myofascial release (SMR) and body recovery. Aaron has been a competitive athlete for the majority of his life in a range of sportsand currently a national leve...
Aug 22, 2019•46 min
Paul Roos is a former Australian rules footballer and senior coach in the Australian Football League (AFL). Roos represented Fitzroy and Sydney during the 1980s and 1990s, playing 356 games over 17 seasons. Roos was the senior coach of the Sydney Swans and Melbourne Football Club from 2002 to 2010 and 2013 to 2016 respectively. Roos was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2005. He has won many accolades throughout his career: he was named All-Australian seven times; received th...
Aug 14, 2019•1 hr 35 min
This past weekend I went snowboarding at Australia’s Mount Hotham. While I have been a longtime skateboarder, and a short-time surfer, I’d never been snowboarding. While my skating skills were somewhat transferable, it didn’t stop my ass from hitting the white powder about 50 times. But that was okay. It just meant that I had to get up 51 times. --- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.t...
Jul 25, 2019•4 min
Scott Belsky is the author of the international bestselling book MAKING IDEAS HAPPEN and his latest book, The Messy Middle, explores finding your way through the hardest and most crucial part of any bold venture. Scott has spent his career making the creative world more productive, connected, and adaptive to new technologies. He founded Behance, the leading online platform for the creative industry to showcase and discover creative work, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012 for...
Jul 24, 2019•41 min
Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences sharing the platform with everyone from today’s business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U.S. President. Bob is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies. His book, The Go-Giver, coauthored with John David Mann, itself has sold over 850,000 copies and it has been translated into 28 languages. Bob is an advocate, supporter...
Jul 20, 2019•47 min
“There is nothing permanent except change”. Heroclitus’ dictum is over 2,500 years old, and it’s more relevant than ever. Moore’s law, the doubling of computing power every 18 months, is fifty years old. In 1971, Intel’s 4004 contained just 2,300 transistors. Today’s microprocessors contain over 20 billion. The meteoric rise in computing power is rendering businesses big on process, five year plans and consensus seeking meetings unable to adapt fast enough . ---- ---------- Employee to Entrepren...
Jul 18, 2019•10 min
In this episode of Future Squared, I bring you two executives from Bank of New Zealand - Lannon Durant - Senior Manager in BNZ’s Partnership Team, and Connor Shelley, Head of Transformation and Innovation. Bank of New Zealand recently partnered with Collective Campus to run a startup partnership program, whereby we scoured the globe to find, connect with and evaluate startups and scaleups that could help BNZ solve specific business challenges. In this episode, we unpack lessons learned from the ...
Jul 16, 2019•45 min
“How Big Is Your Company?” Human beings are social animals. Henceforth, like a peacock signaling reproductive fitness with its large and colourful tail, human beings signal through our haircuts, clothes, the cars we drive, the places we live, what we eat (or choose not to eat — here’s looking at you vegans and intermittent fasters), when we wake up, how often we work out, and the titles on our business cards — among a plethora of other things. If you’re an entrepreneur or leader, then you’ve pro...
Jul 11, 2019•9 min
Jonathan Rosenberg is the former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Alphabet Inc. CEO Larry Page. Alan Eagle is the Director of Executive Communications at Google. The pair co-wrote How Google Works, and the newly released Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell, alongside longtime Google CEO and Chairman, Eric Schmidt. Trillion Dollar Coach unpacks management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbe...
Jul 11, 2019•57 min
Matthew Belair is a life long martial artist, knowledge seeker and explorer. He has travelled the world to train with masters, which include meditating with monks in Nepal, training MMA in Thailand and trekking Mount Everest and studying Shaolin Kung Fu with 34th Generation Shaolin Masters in China. He shares his knowledge in his podcast, the Matt Belair Podcast: Master Mind, Body & Spirit, as well as his coaching, workshops and programs. He’s the author of Zen Athlete: A Guide to Self Maste...
Jul 10, 2019•1 hr 5 min
When I launched this show I remember looking at other podcasts that had published over 300 hundred episodes and thinking that was truly insane….and here we are 3 and a half years later with 350 episodes. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for listening. In this installment of Fast Fix Friday, we unpack Japanese swordsman and philosopher, Miyamoto Musashi's famous maxim, "if you know the way broadly, you will see it in all things". --- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts goo.gl/sMnEa0 ...
Jul 04, 2019•6 min
Remi Adeleke is many things, former royalty, an ex-Navy Seal, an author, entrepreneur and producer. But most of all, he’s a symbol of perseverance. Having gone from Nigerian opulence at the age of five to drug-dealing on the streets of the Bronx as a teenager, Remi knows a thing or two about tough times, and how to overcome them with nothing but sheer tenacity and hard work. Remi is the author of Transformed: A Navy SEAL's Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, ...
Jul 03, 2019•53 min
Self-awareness is a hot topic nowadays. You can hardly open a business or psychology book without coming across numerous mentions of emotional intelligence, EQ or self-awareness. The theory of objective self-awareness goes back to 1972, when it was published by Shelley Duval and Robert Wicklund . Daniel Goleman’s definition of self-awareness, immortalized in his best-selling book Emotional Intelligence , simply puts it down to “knowing one’s internal states, preference, resources, and intuitions...
Jun 27, 2019•10 min
Niccolo Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’, written in the early 16th Century whilst living in exile, was a gift to Lorenzo Medici — defacto ruler of the Florentine republic — arguably as a means to earn his place in society as a statesman again. The Prince is to this day considered one of the earliest works of modern philosophy, and indeed of modern political philosophy, and is the book that spawned the use of the term Machiavellian to refer to cunning and unscrupulous, especially in politics. However,...
Jun 13, 2019•8 min
When most people think of a successful entrepreneur, typically they think of a charismatic, outgoing, and brilliant leader; Jobs, Bezos or the flamboyant Richard Branson might come to mind. Rarely is introversion conflated with entrepreneurial success. This is because society has a cultural bias towards extroverts, according to Susan Cain, and also because an entrepreneur must interact and influence numerous people — their team, their customers, their partners, and the media. Having said that, t...
Jun 06, 2019•13 min
With a writing career spanning 19 years, Mezrich has authored twenty books, with a combined printing of over 4 million copies, including the wildly successful Bringing Down the House, which spent sixty-three weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, and sold over 2 million copies in fifteen languages and was adapted into the #1 Box Office movie 21. His book, The Accidental Billionaires was adapted into the movie The Social Network which was #1 at the box office, won Golden Globes for best pic...
Jun 05, 2019•49 min
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” — Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President The spirit of Coolidge’s quote has been echoed time and time again by high performers across many domains on my podcast , whether it was Robert Greene , Michael...
May 31, 2019•11 min
From a very young age, Lucas Aoun became interested in the effects of certain foods and herbs on his own physiological and psychological performance. When he was playing soccer, he found himself monitoring his performance very closely and discovered that some supplements were having a drastic effect on reaction times, decision making and ability to the "read" the play. This then sparked a passion to spend copious amounts of his "spare time" to research various ergogenic aids. Having battled with...
May 24, 2019•1 hr 17 min
I recently concluded an intense but rewarding podcast tour in support of my now newish book, Employee to Entrepreneur . Having appeared on over 50 podcasts, I thought I had been asked just about everything on the topic of making the aforementioned leap. That was until I spoke with Erik Fisher of the Beyond the To Do List podcast. Erik took a different approach and asked me whether or not an employee can be an entrepreneur. I rattled off some initial thoughts that came to mind, but the first thin...
May 23, 2019•10 min
Daniel Paisner is one of the busiest collaborators in publishing. He's written over sixty books, on topics ranging from business and sports, to politics and popular culture, including sixteen New York Times best-sellers. His work has been profiled in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, ESPN: The Magazine and on National Public Radio. (In a recent New York Magazine article on how to write someone else's memoir, he was referred to as the "most prolific living ghost" - a title that may or ...
May 15, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Raj Nathan is a hypeman - no, he doesn’t wear a clock around his neck like Flavor Flav - he’s a startup hypeman, and his mission us to help companoes not suck at pitching and telling their story, so they stand out to customers and investors, and stand apart from competitors and pretenders. He’s the founder of Startup Hypeman, host of the Startup Hypeman podcast, and, as you’ll learn, he’s also a rapper, and yoga instructor. We explored a number of topics in this conversation, including: How to t...
May 10, 2019•45 min
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell was an absolutely gripping read about a legendary coach and business executive, whose mentoring of the likes of Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos, amongst other tech luminaries, played a major role in the success of their companies. While Bill was a private person — he passed away in 2016 — who instead preferred to shine the spotlight on the entrepreneurs and executives he worked with, three of hi...
May 09, 2019•21 min
Steve Brophy is a passionate and innovative educator with 17 years of experience both locally and internationally in K-12 schools. In his role as the Director of ICT & eLearning at Ivanhoe Grammar School, Steve is responsible for overseeing the digital strategy and development of the school. Steve was recipient of the 2017 Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria (DLTV) Outstanding Leader of the year award. He is the co-host of the TeachTechPlay web-show, organiser of the TeachTechPlay confere...
May 03, 2019•1 hr 11 min
How often do you find yourself in flow like the rock climber above; that place where you are so immersed in a solitary task that the rest of the world seems to just slip away? Turns out that being in this headspace not only makes us up to five times more productive and a lot more creative, but also measurably happier too. And no, you don't need to be risking life and limb to get there. --- Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  ...
May 02, 2019•4 min
Andrew Tarvin is obsessed with efficiency. In fact, that's why he goes by Drew Tarvin, it's more efficient. As the world's first humor engineer, he teaches people how to get better results while having more fun. Combining his background as a project manager at Procter & Gamble with his experience as a stand-up comedian, he reverse-engineers the skill of humor in a way that is practical, actionable, and gets results in the workplace. Through his company, Humor That Works, Dew has worked with ...
May 02, 2019•51 min
In life, we will inevitably face setbacks - we will come face to face with adversity, be it in our professional lives, or in our personal lives, especially if we’re working towards big hairy audacious goals. But how you choose to interpret and respond to those setbacks can make all the difference. --- Employee to Entrepreneur book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud...
Apr 26, 2019•3 min
Ryan Serhant is a costar on Bravo's hit show Million Dollar Listing New York and the star of Sell It Like Serhant . Ryan fell into real estate by accident after giving up his acting career. He made just over $9,000 his first year in the business. Ten years later, Ryan leads a team of 60 brokers and averages a billion dollars in sales every year, making him one of the most successful real estate brokers in the world. He is the author of Sell it like Serhant - How to Sell More, Earn More, and Beco...
Apr 24, 2019•33 min
Tom Ziglar is the proud son of Zig Ziglar and the CEO of Ziglar, Inc. He joined the Zig Ziglar Corporation in 1987 and climbed from working in the warehouse, to sales, to management, and then on to leadership. Today, he speaks around the world; hosts The Ziglar Show , one of the top-ranked business podcasts; and carries on the Ziglar philosophy: "You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." He is the author of Choose To Win: Choose to Wi...
Apr 19, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Try one new thing a month. This has been my mantra for several years now, and it has seen me try all manner of things, from rock-climbing and surfing to a barista course and learning the art of whisky making, to jumping out of planes and trying hip-hop yoga. I’ve found that trying new things to get out of your comfort zone helps keep your ego in check, strengthens your relationship with adversity, and above all, increases your appreciation of life. In retrospect, it’s not the comfortable times t...
Apr 18, 2019•18 min
