Author of “The Four Pillars of Success” and DNotes Co-Founder Alan Yong Offers Insights on how to create a Digital Currency by sharing the DNotes' Vision and Strategy. We discuss everything you need to know about the formation of digital currency from the financial crisis to the rapid rise of Bitcoin. Alan shares the need for trust in a new industry riddled with bad actors and Ponzi schemes. This is a must listen for novice and expert wanting to learn more about cryptocurrencies, digital currenc...
Jul 26, 2018•53 min•Season 1Ep. 112
In this knowledge economy, we need to power our minds. To do this we must power our bodies. We live in a semi-permanent state of fight or flight, which releases cortisol as a precursor to impending danger. In turn, this causes a plethora of problems. Matt Lovell is a disruptive thinking performance and Health Nutritionist. Body recomposition expert. His clients have included England Rugby, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and currently Reading and Bournemouth football clubs. He is an expert in...
Jul 20, 2018•38 min•Season 1Ep. 111
If we depend on market research to dictate business decisions, today's guest explains how this is a big mistake. Market research cannot predict buying decisions because it focuses on the conscious mind, like most of our daily decisions in life and business. we make them unconsciously. With corporate risk aversion at an all-time high, it’s no surprise that marketing professionals increasingly reach for market research to support their strategies. Then, if products and marketing campaigns fail, th...
Jul 14, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 110
Soft Skills have become the new hard skills, yet we have to seek out education in these skills. In an increasingly tech-driven world, soft skills are even more necessary. President of PDS Tech and multiple author and martial artist Cash Nickerson shares how to become a more confident and effective negotiator, listener, speaker, and leader using the way of the Samurai. The martial arts skills of the Samurai revolve around politeness, self-control, and honesty. By using these traits as business st...
Jul 09, 2018•46 min•Season 1Ep. 109
Most of us struggle with our attention, but more important is that we struggle to improve that attention. We welcome Joanna Jast author of "Laser-Sharp Focus. A No-Fluff Guide to Improved Concentration, Maximised Productivity and Fast-Track to Success". We discuss: What is focus? How does focus work? The silver bullet myth to focus the 2 types of attention: Automatic attention (8-12 seconds and Intentional attention Distraction logs? Distraction patterns How Motivation is short lived Intrinsic a...
Jul 03, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 108
From rogues to role models: Be More Pirate reveals the radical strategies of Golden Age pirates, and updates them into clear solutions for making your mark on the 21st Century. Be More Pirate draws parallels between the strategy and innovation of legends like Henry Morgan with modern-day rebels, like Elon Musk, Malala and Blockchain, and reveals how to apply their tactics to life and work today. Social entrepreneur and author Sam Conniff Allende shares the parallels and the principles we can dra...
Jun 26, 2018•51 min•Season 1Ep. 107
Gib Bulloch is an award-winning social intrapreneur who consults, writes and speaks on topics relating to the role of business in society. Gib believes passionately in the power of business to change the world and in the power of the individual to change the world of business. Gib founded and scaled Accenture’s global "not-for-loss" consulting business, ADP. He left Accenture in 2016 to explore new ways of supporting purpose-driven insurgencies within the corporate world. We discuss: The Challen...
Jun 20, 2018•43 min•Season 1Ep. 106
So much passes us by, unnoticed. We multi-task, switch between screens, work faster. When was the last time you paused to consider a beautifully made object or stunning natural landscape? Yet this is when our spirits lift, our soul is restored. In this show entrepreneur, author and speaker Alan Moore invites us to rethink not only what we produce -whether it’s a website, a handmade chair, or a business- but how and why. We discuss examples from Alan’s book "Do Design - Why Beauty is Key to Every...
Jun 14, 2018•39 min•Season 1Ep. 105
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” Steve Jobs We are forever in a rush In a high-tech volatile society, we barely have time to enjoy our lives and we tolerate tired joyless states. We talk to the pioneer of energy psychiatry Judith Orloff M.D. Judith is a psychiatrist, an empath and intuitive healer, and is on the UCLA Psychiatric Clinical Facu...
Jun 08, 2018•38 min•Season 1Ep. 104
We live in a world of unprecedented disruption. But we are all born of the sun, and travelling towards it. How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci is a guidebook, inspired by one of history’s great souls, for that journey. This book is an invitation to breathe the vivid air, to feel the fire in your heart’s centre, and the full flowering of your spirit. We welcome specialist in innovation and creativity, founder of The High Performance Learning Center and author of 15 books, Michael J. Gelb. We talk...
Jun 02, 2018•53 min•Season 1Ep. 103
“Someone once told me the definition of hell; on your last day on earth, the person you could have become will meet the person you became.” We often go through life doing stuff, often without assessing is it the right stuff, we don’t even do stuff for ourselves and we end up wondering what we could have done in our lives. Globally, not having enough time is a cause of immense stress. Today’s show is dedicated to shining a light on how we could better manage our time and focus on what is importan...
May 25, 2018•42 min•Season 1Ep. 102
We live in a world where the art of communication has become more important than ever, yet very few of us are taught how to communicate. Joel Schwartzberg is a strategic communications trainer. The biggest obstacle he's come across—one that connects directly to nervousness, stammering, rambling, an epic fail is that most speakers and writers don't have a point. They typically have just a title, a theme, a topic, an idea, an assertion, a catchphrase, or even something much less. This show is abou...
May 18, 2018•55 min•Season 1Ep. 101
If you pick up a book on innovation or creativity, it is often written from an expertise-in-one-area perspective. This isolates other elements which may be much more relevant to your challenge. Professor David Owens has written this accessible book for everyone breaking the silos of discipline to give a rounded framework useful to all fields. This is a must listen for corporate innovators, leaders and innovators of any kind. We discuss: The six constraints of innovation. The challenges of silos ...
May 12, 2018•50 min•Season 1Ep. 100
“A great many college-educated, white-collar workers are going to discover that their jobs, too, are squarely in the sights as software automation and predictive algorithms advance rapidly in capability.” ― Martin Ford Martin Ford is a futurist and the author of the New York Times bestselling "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future" (winner of the 2015 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and translated into more than 20 languages) and "The Lights i...
May 03, 2018•45 min•Season 1Ep. 99
“It is time we focus less on our hardware and more on our humanware.” - Larry D. Rosen PhD. Dr Larry Rosen is the best-selling author of multiple books including ones we will talk about today: iDisorder and The Distracted Mind, which touch on the disorders we are experiencing, amplified by technology and why we are behaving the way we do. We talk: The state of distraction The increasing anxiety experienced The multitude of scientific studies on attention spans iDisorders and how anxiety has surp...
Apr 28, 2018•51 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Space Elevators, Asteroid Mining, Buckets of programmable matter, à la carte physical features and printable houses. We are joined by authors of 'Soonish', Dr Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. Dr Kelly Weinersmith works in the BioSciences department at Rice University, and is the co-host of Science . . . Sort Of, a top-rated science podcast. Her research has been featured in the Atlantic, National Geographic and BBC World. Zach Weinersmith is the creator of the popular webcomic, Saturday Morning Break...
Apr 21, 2018•37 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Experience is the new battlefield. Satisfaction is not enough anymore. Customer experience is the main driver of future loyalty and will turn your customers into raving fans. Our guest is Chief Xperience Officer (CXO) and Managing Partner at Solutions Unlimited. He is the author of the wonderful book Start Reverse. In this must-listen chat, Andre tells us about the philosophy of starting in reverse, of flipping marketing on its head to become “customering”. Customering means starting with the cu...
Apr 14, 2018•46 min•Season 1Ep. 96
In this eye-opening chat, we realise how we can improve our company by changing our language. We look at the problems, there are a lot of them: 90% of American Companies have a recognition programme Yet, most workers receive no recognition! The No.1 reason people leave their jobs is not feeling appreciated 67% say more motivated by praise than anything else Labour turnover is one of the significant causes of declining productivity and sagging morale Visible costs to turnover: Termination Adverti...
Apr 07, 2018•40 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Larry Osborne is a senior and teaching pastor at North Coast Church, acclaimed as one of the most influential and innovative churches in America. Under his leadership, the church has grown from 128 to over 12,000 on a weekend. With Larry’s success with innovating in a traditional organisation, many leading CEOs and organisation sought out his formula. On this show, we discuss that formula. Larry's books include Sticky Teams, Sticky Church, Sticky Leaders, Mission Creep, and today’s focus Innovat...
Apr 02, 2018•46 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Only 33% of people in the USA and 15% Worldwide are engaged in the workplace. We discuss how great leaders can manage their people like a portfolio, they develop their people by enabling them to learn, leap and repeat. We discuss how organisations can build an ecosystem where people will disrupt themselves in the short-term for the growth of the organisation in the long term. In this great chat, we discuss some exemplars of personal and organisational disruption. Whitney shares the principles of...
Mar 24, 2018•41 min•Season 1Ep. 93
We are at a rare moment in time where the future is up for grabs and the following realms are in a state of upheaval: Environment Economics Society Education Politics Technology “When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, others build windmills” - Chinese Proverb This book and this innovation show are about this windmills and the people who are building them. We talk about the heroes of innovation and disruption, those people sacrificing so much to make the World a better place: Jam...
Mar 17, 2018•53 min•Season 1Ep. 92
John Warrillow is the creator of The Value Builder System™, a statistically proven methodology for improving a company’s value by up to 71%. We talk about the many pitfalls facing companies including “The Owner’s Trap”, where the revenue cannot grow beyond the owner’s time. We talk about how businesses falter because of over-exuberance by the entrepreneur owner and how this leads to employee churn. John demystifies many issues around possible acquisition. We talk about how to position your compa...
Mar 10, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Dale Archer M.D. is a Psychiatrist and Founder/CEO of The Institute for Neuropsychiatry and NYT bestselling author of two great books: ‘The ADHD Advantage’ and ‘Better than Normal’. We talk to Dale about how ADHD can be a huge advantage if we society reframes ADHD-ers to see it as an advantage and not a sickness. We talk about the perfect storm of overdiagnosis, the profits from ADHD medication and trigger-happy prescriptions of ADHD drugs. We talk about how the ADHD brain works and is challenge...
Mar 08, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 90
From Buddhist monks to the early stages of psychology, attention has been deemed a vital element of success. In a world vying for our attention, if we can become masters of this attention, we can lead happier more present lives. Dr Joseph Cardillo is this week’s guest. He is a martial artist, doctor and author of: ’Body Intelligence - Harness Your Body's Energies for Your Best Life’, ‘The Five Seasons’, ‘Your Playlist Can Change Your Life’, ‘Be Like Water’, ‘Bow to Life’ and the focus of today’s...
Mar 04, 2018•40 min•Season 1Ep. 89
We speak with Andrew Keen, the pioneer of calling into question the impact of technology and the resulting new business models on society. He has been called a luddite and a technological Antichrist for calling out such concerns. Today, no-one calls him that today. He is the author of the fantastic books: 'The Cult of the amateur' 'Digital Vertigo' 'The Internet is Not the Answer' and the focus of our chat: 'How to Fix The Future' Andrew’s book "How to Fix the Future" outlines a map of how we mi...
Feb 27, 2018•47 min•Season 1Ep. 88
The anti-bullying movement has been full throttle for 18 years since Columbine shooting in 1999. The efforts to stop students from becoming victims of bullying have been solely focused on changing the world around the victim to create a less hostile environment. This has failed. Brooks Gibbs has flipped the approach to bullying and empowers victims to be emotionally resilient so they are not hurt in the first place. This is a simple solution to a complex problem and the only approach that can ke...
Feb 24, 2018•39 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Friederike Fabritius, M.S., is a trained neuropsychologist, a certified coach, a popular keynote speaker, an internationally recognized management consultant, and author of The Leading Brain. She is an expert in the field of Neuroleadership. We discuss strategies to improve our lives by understanding how to maximise the brain. This great conversation includes thoughts on sleep, exercise, brain training, meditation, ageing, children and technology and much more. You can find out more about Friede...
Feb 18, 2018•47 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Jon Acuff is the New York Times Bestselling author of six books including his most recent Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller, Finish: Give yourself the gift of done . For over 20 years he’s helped some of the biggest brands in the world tell their story, including The Home Depot, Bose, Staples. He speaks internationally and was named amidst the INC. top 100 leadership speakers. We discuss how one of the biggest blockers to our success is our perfectionism. We explore ways to change this and help ...
Feb 14, 2018•32 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Steve Waddell is founder and CEO of Nasoni. Steve is disrupting a very mature market, this is the first functional change to the faucet in over 80 years. Steve shares his mindset, his background, his challenges and his motivation. This show is very useful for anyone who wants to understand bootstrapping a physical product from everything from patent to prototype. You can find out more here: https://nasoni.com/ https://vimeo.com/249864698 https://nasoni.com/pages/what-else-can-fontanina-be-used-f...
Feb 11, 2018•29 min•Season 1Ep. 84
David Gluckman is the common denominator of so many brands we know and love. Kerrygold butter, Baileys Irish Cream, Smirnoff Black, Le Piat D’or and many more. We discuss his book That s!it will never sell! through the lens of the lessons it imparts. We discuss the best ways to sell ideas. We discuss the best ways to deliver ideas. We discuss new product development and how to get them over the line. David shares some of his failures and the lessons learned and the ones that got away. You can fi...
Feb 05, 2018•51 min•Season 1Ep. 83
