Alex Dunsdon is a Partner at Saatchi Invest and founder of Potential VC building a generation of impact VCs. Their mission is to find, foster and fund crazy, unusual, and innovative startups helping the world. Alex was also a seed cheque investor into Citymapper, Farewill and Ometria. Alex joins me this week to deliver his ultimate breakthroughs and formula for decisions, whether it is about your career path or your life. Resources The Science of Serendipity: How to Unlock the Promise of Innovat...
Feb 08, 2022•47 min
Tessa Clarke Tessa is a startup founder who thrives in challenging environments, and has a strong track record of driving change. She grew up on a farm and knows how much hard work goes into producing the food we all eat, and absolutely 'hates' throwing it away. When she was moving country and the removal men said she has to bin their food, she couldn't do it and it was when the OLIO app was born. OLIO is now helping save millions of food items from being thrown away. It's also changing peoples ...
Feb 01, 2022•53 min
Perfectionism and Celebrating Your Wins Most of us are trying to be perfect and set high standards that are likely we could not meet and maybe even get disappointed with ourselves because we could not meet the expectations at all. Some of us create many big goals and focus on the destination rather than the small and significant steps we need to take to get us there. In this episode, we will talk about perfectionism and celebrating our wins. Growth Mindset podSam Webster Harris explores the psyc...
Jan 21, 2022•25 min
Roeland Decorte is the CEO and Founder of Decorte Future Industries (DFI). They are building a groundbreaking AI for health data extraction from audio. His doctoral work on code-breaking is cited by world experts in his field. He started DFI inventing and personally engineering the exoskeleton tech. Roeland also has experience in mechanical engineering, prototyping, fundraising, politics, political economics and academia. He was the youngest student from Belgium to have joined the University of ...
Jan 13, 2022•44 min
We often hear the "New Year, New You" phrases as every new year comes. And in this episode, Sam conveyed improving in a more holistic approach. Takeaways You might have already written down your plans that you want to do or change this year, but we should also be open to things that may arise and haven't thought of happening. From the list of plans you have for this year, pick one thing/s that scares you and try doing those. - - - Growth Mindset podSam Webster Harris explores the psychology of h...
Jan 04, 2022•15 min
Lorenzo is the Managing Director of Gaingels and a co-founding chairman of StartOut, two of the leading groups dedicated to support and elevate LGBTQ+ leaders in the venture startup ecosystem. He is also a Tony-Award and Drama Desk winning Broadway producer and the co-creator and lead producer of Allegiance, the Broadway musical. Lorenzo previously co-founded startups Powerset, which was acquired later on by Microsoft. He is also an investor, board member, and advisor for startups such as Figure...
Dec 07, 2021•45 min
Bryony Thomas is one of the UK's foremost marketing thinkers. She is the author of Watertight Marketing, which has been in its best-sellers list consistently for over five years, with no gimmicks. Watertight Marketing is one of the best business books I have ever read. In this episode, Bryony shows how she succeed and what mindset she has despite of setbacks and risks. - - - Connect with Bryony Watertight Marketing (https://watertightmarketing.com/) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryonyth...
Dec 02, 2021•13 min
Elizabeth is the CEO and Founder of Cypher Coders, the UK’s leading coding school for children, as well as a highly experienced AI creator, author and entrepreneur. Her mission is to empower children to move freely and confidently through the changing world around us, fluent in the universal language of code in order to become future-ready.CONNECT WITH ELIZABETHCypher Coders (www.cyphercoders.com)LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethtweedale)Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/notting...
Nov 16, 2021•51 min
George Ferguson CBE, PPRIBA, RWA (born 22 March 1947) is a British politician, former architect, and entrepreneur who served as the first elected mayor of Bristol from 2012 to 2016. Ferguson was co-founder of Ferguson Mann Architects in 1979 and the past president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2003–2005) where he was noted for championing the causes of education, the environment and good urbanism. He was also a founding director of The Academy of Urbanism and a founding member of...
Nov 05, 2021•49 min
Jennifer Clamp Jennifer Clamp is the Founder Coach of Aata, who support founders to become CEO and grow their business sustainably. In this episode, Jennifer shared with us the seven conditions that are required for change, and these are: 1. Believing that we can. 2. Establishing a baseline. 3. Establishing a goal. 4. Getting in our way in the right way. 5. Getting out of comfort zone. 6. Exploring different perspectives. 7. Willingness to try new things. Let's find out if people really can chan...
Oct 26, 2021•43 min
In this episode, Jarie Bolander, host of The Entrepreneur Ethos podcast, talks with Sam about how he became an entrepreneur and the story of his failures and successes as he walks through his entrepreneurship journey. We'll later find out how he was able to manage his life after losing a loved one. - - - On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a ...
Oct 19, 2021•50 min
Why Buddhism is True written by Robert Wright 'Why Buddhism is True' looks at the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment. Robert Wright is a devout non-meditating anger prone evolutionary psychologist and writer. He dives headlong into the world of meditation with surprising results, and explain why it works from an evolutionary standpoint. Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed to often delude us, he argued...
Oct 12, 2021•45 min
In this episode, Nick Bradley, host of Scale Up Your Business podcast, the number one UK business podcast on iTunes, talks with Sam about their viewpoints of having a growth mindset in the world of entrepreneurship. KEY TAKEAWAYS Get comfortable being uncomfortable. Acquisitions is not just acquiring products, customers and other things but you can also acquire talent. Most of what we achieve or don’t achieve is connected to our view of ourselves and our identity. You're the sole responsible for...
Oct 05, 2021•58 min
This is the conversation I had with a hitman living in India about his life. We discuss the story of how he came to be a hitman and what his life is really like. It is certainly very different to what you see in the movies and be prepared for some big insights. After the interview, we break down what happened and also discuss things like how I manage to get these interviews and other events in my life like staying with a bunch of drug dealers on the border of Mexico. Thanks to Andreas for provid...
Sep 28, 2021•36 min
Mike Winnet who is better known as 'The Contrepreneur' has shared with us lessons and the truth about contrepreneurs. According to Winnet, contrepreneur is a con artist who makes their fortune by fooling wantrepreneurs into thinking they're getting a great deal or coming into some easy money, when the reality is, it's the contrepreneur making the real money. Listen until the end as there are really good points on this discussion. - - - On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we ex...
Sep 21, 2021•39 min
Nicholas Wheeler, OBE, is the founder of Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts Limited, founded in 1986 while he was a student at the University of Bristol. In this episode, he discussed various successes and failures from childhood to the present day. We found out how to have good and bad ideas and the key to making them successful. We'll get to know more tips and his journey on how you too can have a successful business. - - - On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore the psychology ...
Sep 14, 2021•50 min
Emilie Vanpoperinghe and Deepak Ravindran Emilie and Deepak are the founders of Oddbox, a purpose-drive business that fights food waste on farms with innovative solutions and fosters conscious consumerism. Their story started in Portugal, at a food market filled with wonky fruit and veg. Co-founders, Deepak and Emilie, were shocked to find out that a number of produce in the UK is wasted before it even leaves the farms because of the odd appearance meaning a lot of unnecessary waste for the plan...
Sep 07, 2021•31 min
Melissa Monte is one of today’s influential and thought-provoking explorers of the mindset and positive energy. She’s known for her ability to obtain and explain complex ideas with humor and clarity. In this episode, Melissa shared her journey on how and why she started doing the Mind Love podcast. She imparts with us valuable lessons that she has learned and shared with the community. It took her months to know her purpose. When she finally got it, she was confident in that decision because of ...
Sep 03, 2021•25 min
In this episode, Frank Dick, a Former Olympic Coach, shared the nitty-gritty of living a better life by making ourselves better every day. This journey through mindset transformation offers practical steps to build authority, embrace reality-based personal growth, and understand the dynamics of past versus present selves. It's time to take ownership and craft a fulfilling life Learn how to stop disappointing yourself by aligning your present actions with your future vision. We dissect the ancien...
Aug 24, 2021•19 min
Frank Dick was acknowledged as and remains one of the outstanding sports coaches and coach mentors of the world. He is also the author of for major publications: 'Winning Matters', 'Sports Traning Principles', 'Winning', and 'Winning Lines.' He is currently the President of the European Athletics Coaches Association. If you have enjoyed this episode, subscribe and share it with your friends. Happy listening! - - - On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore the psychology o...
Aug 17, 2021•19 min
Ben Hunt-Davis MBE is an Olympic Gold medalist who won the men's team rowing event for team GB at the Sydney Olympics. He explains how to build a new life after you retire from being an athlete and have to move into the rest of the world. There are a lot of great lessons for finding your place and the ways to focus on the right things. We discuss: * The effects of achieving your dreams and what happens next * How to prioritise what to focus on and what to ignore and setting up bullshit filters *...
Aug 03, 2021•20 min
Ben Hunt-Davis won a gold medal in rowing at the Sydney Olympics and shares some of his big lessons in mindsets. It was by no means an easy journey to his gold medal and Ben was an athlete for many years and only managed his medal on his last Olympics before retirement. He learned a lot of lessons on the way and shares his insights on mindsets and the importance of deliberate practice over relying purely on physical ability. His book 'Will it make the boat go faster' is a great read if you want ...
Jul 13, 2021•19 min
Melissa Monte A keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and the host of the popular podcast “Mind Love”. Melissa is obsessed with learning what makes us humans tick. After spending too long as a guinea pig for bad decisions, she learned first hand how to undo a downward spiral. She’s now spent the last 16 years exploring methods of improving the human condition. Top Takeaways: Hitting rock bottom undeniably put her life in such a tumultuous state, but has definitely brought her into a place she never ima...
Jul 06, 2021•19 min
Jim Rutt is an American businessman and entrepreneur who was the former CEO of Network Solutions, and the former chairman of the Santa Fe Institute. He was also a Researcher in Residence at the Santa Fe Institute from 2002 to 2004, studying the application of complexity science to financial markets, and evolutionary artificial intelligence. He is one of the thinkers behind BigChainDB, the highly scalable blockchain architecture. He was CEO of Network Solutions, which operated the .com, .net, and...
Jun 29, 2021•20 min
Consciousness John Stuart’s view of consciousness is biological: We are conscious because we are animal. Consciousness is something that we evolved without animal lines. Conscious is biological phenomena. Perceptual memory: e.g when you are seeing a scene those residences on your visual system are stored close to the rest of the visual system in milliseconds Short term working memory- can be stored in a short period of time. e.g : the 7-2, you cellphone number. Episodic memories – various period...
Jun 18, 2021•20 min
Jack HughesCofounder of Reason FM and my business partner, Jack Hughes, has been my best friend for over 20 years. We started Reason FM, our business, which is a social podcast player to let people listen to podcasts together and stay more in touch with their friends.We've always thought about friendship and how to make the best of it and how to be the best friend you can be in sort of enrich your life with the right relationships. And the following is just a really big conversation to friendshi...
Jun 08, 2021•24 min
We have another massive insight drop from the founder of The Rattle, Chris Howard. We take a dive into the mindset of why we do things and really picking the right reasons and not letting yourself be driven into making rash decisions just because everyone is doing it. How to choose your own entrepreneurial journey that fits the lifestyle for you rather than. Just kind of what everyone else says you should doTop TakeawayEntrepreneur vs FounderEntrepreneurs Prove their Ideas, Founders Choose to Li...
Jun 01, 2021•27 min
Chris Howard CEO of The Rattle & Cofounder of Min Chris Howard is a builder of provocative companies. His mission is to free talented makers from old-school gatekeepers. While he considers himself a beginner at almost everything, he has spent a considerable number of years exploring the boundaries of entrepreneurship and psychology. Chris, It's just an amazing human I have to say is like energy and vibe is awesome. Top Takeaways Three stages on raising money Founder Fit – knowing thy purpose as ...
May 25, 2021•19 min
Brian Biro Brian Biro is one of the foremost motivational and leadership speakers in the United States. With degrees from Stanford University and UCLA, he has spent the last 21 years delivering over 1,300 presentations around the world. A former vice president of a major transportation corporation, and the author of nine books including the bestseller, Beyond Success, Biro was rated #1 among 40 speakers at four consecutive Inc. magazine international conferences. He has appeared on Good Morning ...
May 17, 2021•37 min
America's Breakthrough Coach - Brian Brio No matter what industry you’re involved in, we are in the breakthrough business. Every day we seek to breakthrough with customers to generate loyalty, satisfaction, and relationship. The key to lasting success in business is breaking through with your own team members so they eagerly embrace personal responsibility, committed purpose, and leadership. Don’t let what you can’t do keep you from doing what you can. Shift your energy to what you can control t...
May 12, 2021•20 min
