In this show, you'll hear from two guests about how to harness the power of the internet First, Liz Ogabi tells us how her move from London to Lagos inspired her entrepreneurial career and the launch of her online community, For Working Ladies. Then you'll hear Ship 30 for 30 and Category Pirates founder, Nicolas Cole, explain why it's viable for creators and entrepreneurs to leverage the internet's scale to niche down. Original Episodes: Elizabeth Ogabi - Kickstarting Your Side Hustle Nicolas C...
Aug 10, 2022•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this show, you'll hear from Bruce Daisley about why there's still magic in connecting with people in real life despite some advantages to the rise of remote work. Original Episode: Bruce Daisley - Making Work Better (And More Joyful) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 09, 2022•3 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast In this show, you'll hear from two guests about why flexibility can now be considered a mark of success. First, We Are Rosie founder, Stephanie Nadi Olson, explains why Covid "lifted the veil' on the bullsh*t that companies were spouting about the downsides of flexible work. Then you'll hear Annie Auerbach, Author of FLEX, discuss why now's the time to move on from the idea that flexibility is something desired by less ambitious people and recognise how it creates value for individuals and busin...
Aug 04, 2022•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this show, you'll hear from two guests about why we changes in how we work are enabling us to network more easily, which means you need to start cultivating your community First, Bearaby founder, Stephanie Nadi Olson, explains why building new relationships was critical to her establishing herself and her business in an industry in which she'd never previously worked. Then you'll hear networks expert, Erica Young, discuss how to take an intentional approach to cultivating your community. Orig...
Aug 03, 2022•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this show, you'll hear from two guests about why we need to rethink how we learn and the connection between education and the future of work. First, Semper Virens' General Partner, Allison Baum Gates, explains why lessons learned from online education have led to a flipped approach in the classroom and the workplace. Then you'll hear Olympian and leadership expert, Cath Bishop, break down why autonomy and curiosity are so important to how children and adults learn. Original Episodes: Allison ...
Aug 02, 2022•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this show, you'll hear from two guests about how failure really can lead to growth. First, Reward Gateway founder, Glenn Elliott, explains why not everyone's honest about their experience in business and why the only way to innovate is to keep testing. Then you'll hear how Justin Welsh treats content creation as a game, which you'll only improve in if you keep making and learning from your mistakes. Original Episodes: Glenn Elliott - Entrepreneurship & Employee Engagement Justin Welsh - A...
Jul 28, 2022•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to Series 8 of the Future Work/Life podcast. Over the next 20 bite-sized episodes, I'll share my Top 20 lessons from my first 100 podcasts. Lesson 1 focuses on why you should embrace being different as a leader, entrepreneur and creator. The show features two clips from interviews with Christopher Lochhead, my first ever guest and currently, the only guest to have featured on the show twice. Check out the two episodes here (and excuse the terrible sound quality from the first episod...
Jul 27, 2022•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome to the Future Work/Life podcast on which we discuss big ideas about the future of work and life. Today's episode is one of those that make doing this so worthwhile. My guest is one of my favourite authors, someone whose books and columns I've read for over 15 years and whose ideas have changed the way I think about the world. Tim Harford is a journalist, author of multiple bestselling books, a TV host and the presenter of the chart-topping podcast, Cautionary Tales. You probabl...
Jul 06, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast I'm excited to bring you today's episode because it pulls together the various strands covered in the series so far, not least how to build a sustainable system for pivoting careers and harnessing the power of your ideas. For a decade, today's guest, Justin Welsh, was a sales leader for high-growth tech businesses, helping to build two $50M+ ARR (annual recurring revenue) companies and raise over $300M in venture capital. But in 2019, he burned out. Deciding it was time to step away from his hig...
Jun 29, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast My guest today is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer, author of multiple best-selling books and one of the world's leading experts on flow. Steven Kotler founded the Flow Research Collective in 2019 and has written category-defining books like The Rise of Superman , Stealing Fire and The Art of the Impossible . His most recent work is fiction – a thriller set in the near future called, The Devil's Dictionary . We had a fascinating conversation exploring: Steven's 20-...
Jun 22, 2022•44 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s guest is George Bettany, co-founder of Sanctus, a mental health gym that supports thousands of people at businesses across the UK with coaching that blends personal and professional development with proactive mental wellbeing support. We had a fantastic conversation covering a range of topics, not least why, despite the challenges presented by Covid and multiple lockdowns, one lasting positive has been more openness to discussing mental health in the workplace. We also talked about: -&nb...
Jun 15, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s guest is one of the biggest writers on the internet. He’s written over 5,000 articles online, ghost-written for 300+ business leaders and was previously the most-read writer on the social platform Quora, which has 200 million users. Nicolas Cole, or Cole to his friends, has amassed hundreds of millions of views of his writing, written over a dozen books, and is co-author of the Category Pirates newsletter with former podcast guest Christopher Lochhead and Eddie Yoon. As y...
Jun 08, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today's guest is an incredible example of why it's never too late to pivot careers. For 30 years, Jeff Kofman was a journalist, winning an Emmy award for his coverage of the Arab Spring. During his journalism career, he: Travelled to over 50 countries Lived in South America for 10 years Was first on the scene during the Chilean miners' crisis Created a nature documentary on the Galapagos Islands Worked in multiple war zones, including during the Iraq war Then in 2014, he decided to l...
Jun 02, 2022•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s guest is Stephanie Nadi-Olson, founder of We Are Rosie. After a decade in advertising sales, working for companies like Microsoft and Yahoo, Stephanie recognised an industry ripe for disruption. When she returned to work following the birth of her first child, she experienced for herself the lack of options for people wanting or needing to work flexibly and independently. Her mission with We Are Rosie is to gather all of these people up, market them, and give them the career...
Jun 01, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast In today’s show, we consider a question that I’ve always been intrigued by: are some people luckier than others? My guest is Prof. Dr. Christian Busch, bestselling author of Connect the Dots: The Art & Science of Creating Good Luck . Christian is director of the CGA Global Economy Program at New York University (NYU), and also teaches at the London School of Economics (LSE). He’s also the co-founder of Sandbox Network, a global community of young innovators and Leaders on Purpose, an o...
May 26, 2022•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast In today's show, I speak to Tim Oldman, Founder and CEO of Leesman, the world leader in measuring and analysing employees' experiences in their places of work. Leesman helps organisations understand and measure how employees are supported in their workplaces, which has led them to build the world's largest independent benchmark of employee workplace experience - be that in their offices, their homes, or the spaces in between. Tim's also recently written a book, Why Workplace , which explo...
May 19, 2022•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast In today’s show, I welcome Lynda Gratton, London Business School professor and author of several books, including her most recent, Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organisation and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone. Lynda is one of the world’s most well-respected thought leaders on the future of work and has been named by Business Thinkers 50 as one of its’ top 15 business thinkers. She has a column for MIT Sloan and writes regularly for Harvard Business Review. Her ten books, including...
May 18, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast My guest this week has had an exciting and unusual career journey. After studying finance at university, Kathrin Hamm went to work for an NGO in Afghanistan, which led her to pursue a PhD in international development. However, following four years of travelling the globe in her role as an Economist at the World Bank, she began developing sleep issues. Kathrin searched far and wide for a solution to her insomnia and eventually came across weighted medical blankets. Yes, they were ugly and h...
May 11, 2022•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week's guest is Andy Ayim. He's an angel investor and founder of the Angel Investing School, which teaches professionals from all backgrounds how to begin investing in startups. Its mission is to get women and people of colour onto the cap tables of the world's best performing startups. Andy grew up in Tottenham, which is just around the corner from me and after starting his career as a management consultant, he then moved to Silicon Valley in 2015 where he worked as a product manager in te...
May 04, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast We're often told we should have clear goals for ourselves. In fact, as we've heard from guests like Marc Effron and Grace Lordan in the past, there is a connection between effective goal-setting and high performance. The thing is, many of us still really struggle with this idea, so I wanted to explore it some more. And I figured if you want to dive deep into a subject, we may as well invite one of the world's leading experts onto the show. Today's guest is Emily Balcetis. She's an Associat...
Apr 27, 2022•43 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, my guest is Tom Haak. Tom runs the HR Trend Institute, which he founded in 2014, and he spends much of his time analysing trends in organisational design, people and workplace culture. We had a really interesting discussion. You'll hear us talk about the increasing trend towards personalisation of work, why it's currently trailing behind the consumer industry and what we can do to change that in the future. We also discuss the pros and cons of coaching in the workplace and...
Apr 20, 2022•21 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast In today's episode, you'll hear the incredible and inspiring story of the journalist and author, Laura Price. After making the switch from financial journalism to writing about food, she's now a freelance writer and her new novel, Single Bald Female is out in the UK on the 14th of April. Laura and I discussed how her cancer diagnosis in 2012 changed her perspective on life and work, inspiring her to go back to university to study a masters degree in magazine journalism. After initially working f...
Apr 13, 2022•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s guest is Andrew, Associate Editor and Management Editor of the Financial Times. As well as writing the FT’s weekly column on management, Andrew is a previous winner of Business Commentator of the year and the Decade of Excellence award for sustained achievement in business and financial journalism. Most relevantly to you perhaps, he’s one of the writers I’ve referenced most in my weekly news digest in the Future Work/Life newsletter. We discussed hybrid work and the future of...
Mar 16, 2022•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast My guest today is Hung Lee. He’s the writer and curator of Recruiting Brainfood, a newsletter read by nearly 30,000 people interested in recruitment, talent, and HR, among other things. He also writes This Week In Recruitment and hosts a popular job board. Hung has worked in recruitment for over twenty years and knows the market inside out. As well as dedicating time to saving his readers time – by finding the most relevant and interesting news for them each week – he’s a great example of how wh...
Mar 10, 2022•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Like many others, I've been down the rabbit hole of crypto and web3 over the past year or two. I've met some fascinating people doing what I can only describe as some next level shit as they explore new ways of building communities, creating new business models and generally exploring what's possible with blockchain and tokenomics. Today, I'm speaking to Pedro Oliveira (CEO) and Filipe Macedo (CMO), co-founders of Talent Protocol. They're old friends who, after pursuing separate careers since th...
Mar 08, 2022•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast The theme of my new book, Work/Life Flywheel, which will be published in January 2023, is reimagining your career without fear. As well as the fantastic podcast interviews you've heard over the past few months, I've been deep into the research phase since the start of the year. I've spoken to all sorts of people from different industries and backgrounds. Everybody has a unique story to tell about the decisions they've made in their careers, and I've loved the process. In the book, I'll bre...
Mar 02, 2022•21 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast It’s likely that if you listen to this show, you’re also a reader of business books. In which case, you’ll be very familiar with today’s guest. He is one of my favourite authors, and his books have probably influenced my work more than any others. I suspect many of you have experienced the same, so I’m absolutely delighted to bring you my conversation with Daniel H. Pink. Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including his latest, The Power of Regret: How Lookin...
Feb 23, 2022•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you invite someone back on the show, they have to be legendary - Christopher Lochhead is just that. He’s a nine-time bestselling author, number one business podcaster, and the Godfather of Category Design. He’s also a thoroughly nice guy who’s been very supportive of this podcast, so I was delighted to chat to him again a couple of weeks ago about what he’s been working on and thinking about since we spoke on episode one in October 2020. Christopher explains why the most significant ins...
Feb 16, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joining me this week is Erica Young, Head of Community and Network at Anthemis Group, a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in companies that will help drive change in the financial system. Erica is a life-long student of networks and is also the founder of The Reliants Project, where she helps people and organisations understand how networks shape our wellbeing, relationships and community. She uses techniques developed in the fields of computer science, physics, and sociology to map...
Feb 09, 2022•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s guest is Bruce Daisley. Bruce is the host of one of the UK’s most popular business podcasts, Eat Sleep Work Repeat , and until January 2020, was Vice President of Twitter, having previously run YouTube in the UK. Nowadays, he writes about workplace culture in his newsletter, Make Work Better , and is an author. His first book, The Joy of Work , was a bestseller when it was published in 2018, and he’s got another one on the way this year. I’ve wanted to get Bruce on the ...
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