Luca Steiner (@steinerluca_) is a consultant working in the Banking and Credit Risk Management space. He is a big believer in Web 3.0, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and has been deep down the crypto rabbit hole for over 2 years. He is a digital nomad of sorts, splitting his time between Frankfurt Germany and Stavanger in Norway. Jonty Quenet (@GalacticQue) first started trading and investing in stocks when he was 13 and has made the transition to crypto investing in the past few years. After look...
Nov 08, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Luca Steiner ( @steinerluca_ ) is a consultant working in the Banking and Credit Risk Management space. He is a big believer in Web 3.0, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and has been deep down the crypto rabbit hole for over 2 years. He is a digital nomad of sorts, splitting his time between Frankfurt Germany and Stavanger in Norway. Jonty Quenet ( @GalacticQue ) first started trading and investing in stocks when he was 13 and has made the transition to crypto investing in the past few years. After ...
Nov 01, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Max Linley is a sports physiotherapist who runs his own practice out of the Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa. He specialises in treating and managing the health of combat sport athletes including MMA, Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai and Boxing. CONNECT WITH MAX: http://www.waterfrontphysiotherapyclinic.com/ https://www.instagram.com/waterfrontphysiotherapyclinic/ https://www.facebook.com/waterfrontphysiotherapyclinic WATCH MINDSHIFT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX5uxfEj8hccVSqMYniANVA CONNECT WIT...
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Gal Ezra is the co-founder of one of South Africa's biggest events' companies, Vacation Club, which collectively manages and runs summertime festival brands such as We Love Summer, Future Frequency and Kinky Summer - all of which are South African fan favourites! He's also the founder of Empower Funding, South Africa's most affordable bridging finance provider, where he is day-in and day-out disrupting one of the oldest financial services industry in the country. Not only is Gal a seriously tale...
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Stripe, the disruptive payment processor native to the internet, is the 2nd most valuable Unicorn Company (private company valued over $1bn), behind Elon Musk's SpaceX, and is currently valued at $36 billion. Being one of the fastest growing tech startups out there, their mission is to massively "increase the GDP of the internet" through their suite of payments products. In this episode, Luca and Jonty dive into Stripe's epic rise to the top - breaking down their product suite, explaining how a ...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 16
On the surface, Savannah Cozzi is a graduate law student, entrepreneur and volunteer for numerous charities. But who she really is, is a person who has dedicated her life to service. No matter what she does, she is always looking to serve and affect people's lives as positively as she can. Being a humanitarian and an ambitious, proudly South African woman who is fostering a path that holds close the notion that "Service to Humanity Is The Best Work of Life" she is truly blazing a trail that coul...
Jan 05, 2021•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Jarryd Strydom is the founder of NUBEE - a South African Tech Startup enabling "learner drivers (‘Nubees’) to search for driving instructors in their area, find a match, and book driving lessons" - as well as being the co-founder of two other startups! NUBEE has been called the uber of the learner drive industry, so pay attention ;) This guy is full of knowledge and practical insights, marrying his experiences in starting businesses as well as his education in law, with an acute focus on tech. I...
Dec 16, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Kimon Aylett and Nic Price are the co-founders of Blackswan-Digital, “a digital marketing agency born out of unprecedented events.” They work with a focus on small to medium sized businesses and take a holistic approach to their marketing and client-services. Their main goal is to create, as they have coined it, “Black Swan Moments for brands that will result in niche positioning amongst the worlds’ collection of predictable brands.” In this conversation, we get a behind-the-scenes look of their...
Dec 16, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Can Spotify become THE next big media giant? Can they beat Apple, Amazon and Google in the race for music streaming supremacy? In this episode of Mindshift, Luca and Jonty breakdown Spotify’s business model, business strategy and their growth opportunities to answer this question. More than breaking down Spotify as a company, our conversation goes into gaining an understanding of the ecosystem they operate in, and analysing the trends that are emerging that they will be able to ride in the futur...
Dec 06, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Welcome to the first Mindshuffle, a series inspired by Tim Ferriss': The Random Show that he does with Kevin Rose. (Big shoutout to Tim!) Simply, we talk about random topics and ideas that we are finding interesting in our lives at the moment - whether it's something we are going through, books or articles we are reading or cool stuff we tried! Today we talk a bit about dealing with negativity, self-doubt, book reviews and our approach to reading! We hope you enjoy this and let us know if you en...
Nov 27, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Today, We Sit Down With Sibs - the first EVER guest on the Mindshift Podcast! Sibs Qetu-Yates is the founder of Getven.com, the tech startup that is “South Africa’s first online marketplace dedicated to finding, booking, and paying for venues for events, meetings and productions” as quoted in Ventureburn. He is also a part-time actor and has his own podcast: “The Sit Down with Sibs” (link below) where he interviews some of South Africa’s most well-known people in the hottest restaurant spots. In...
Nov 21, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In this brief episode we discuss the importance of sleep in our daily lives and share some useful tips, hacks and resources we have found in our own pursuit of sleep optimisation! While we aren’t sleep doctors or experts of any kind, it’s worth noting there is no hard and fast rule with sleep, it’s very personal and is all about whatever works for you - what we have found is that you have to experiment with things by consuming different methods and opinions and then applying them for yourself. W...
Oct 08, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Minimalism is the active pursuit of less, identifying and prioritising the things that actually add value in your life. It doesn’t mean that you need to sell your house and get rid of all your possessions - it’s more of a mindset that tunes out the noise of the modern world, zoning in on what TRULY MATTERS to you. In this episode, we unpack this mindset and go deeper into its themes, especially in light of the COVID crisis, which has stripped our lives down to the bare minimum. Drop a review and...
Oct 02, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Ever wondered what effect AI is going to have on humanity? Maybe it’ll drive our cars for us? Maybe it will assist us at home? Maybe it’ll take all our jobs? Or they’ll become self aware, manufacture deadly robots and enslave humanity...? While the last one is highly unlikely (and straight out of Terminator) AI is going to have an unprecedented effect on the human race, the way we live and work - We like to think that it will be for the better! In this episode we discuss the current status of AI...
Sep 22, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In this episode we reflect on our experience at university - We both studied at UCT for 5 years and have so many insights and lessons we learnt (from inside the lecture hall and out). We discuss what we would have done differently, the importance of networking, making use of your time and much more - We even have a fiery debate on our differing opinions over university course content! As always we hope you enjoy, thank you so much for the support. If you have any feedback or comments for us plea...
Aug 07, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In 2019, Luca helped found a e-commerce jewellery business and in this special episode we take a deep dive into that experience - highlighting key insights he learned on the way. We had so much fun recording this one - reminiscing and reflecting on our experiences, mistakes and lessons learned from business. Our one hope is that you can learn from the mistakes we made and apply these insights into your own business! As always, tweet me @lucabers with any feedback or comments you have and we hope...
Aug 06, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this brief but impactful episode we share some of our stories, mistakes and learnings from our limited but valuable interview experience! Being able to perform a successful interview is such an important skill for anyone, whether you’re a student or professional and is something that is rarely touched on in schools or formal education. These skills are even transferable to other areas of business and life! So we hope you can learn from the mistakes we made and absolutely crush your next inter...
Jul 29, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 4
We're living in the age of the personal brand, in particular the personal brand which is native to social media. In mine and Jonty's opinion there is no better platform to start building that brand than LinkedIn, whether you're a student, CEO or photographer. For those of who have never heard of this amazing social media platform - this episode will give you the lowdown on what the platform is, how to optimize your profile and how to create content native to the platform. To those who are famili...
Jul 01, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Jonty and I want to send our deepest condolences and respects to the people of colour who have lost their lives to police brutality or some other form of racial prejudice. We know we will never understand what people of colour have gone through and still go through to this day - but we will do everything we can to try, by educating ourselves and doing more listening. We believe all of this is inhumane and we will do our utmost from here on to move the world to a more equitable place. Below are l...
Jun 09, 2020•4 min•Season 1Ep. 3
On the 2nd Episode of the "Coffee Chats" Mini-series; we take a deep-dive into the approach we take when facing challenges (such as the coronavirus), while highlighting the importance of shfiting your mindset in times like these. We hope you can use some of these methods to overcome the challenges you are facing in your own life and that you enjoy it! If you have any feedback please do tweet me @lucabers, any feedback is so appreciated so we can constantly improve your experience!
Jun 02, 2020•15 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Kicking off the first official episode of the podcast (and in the "coffee chat" mini-series) Jonty and Luca talk about what Gratitude is; how it can be so important to everyone in 2020 and how one can easily implement it in their lives! We hope you enjoy!
Apr 26, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This is the unofficial first episode where Jonty and Luca introduce themselves and their new venture! They also dive into some of the topics you can look forward to in the future and other details...
Apr 26, 2020•5 min
