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#196 The Seventh Power - with Kevin Hancock
December 29, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 24.5 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest is Kevin Hancock, CEO of one of the oldest family businesses in the United States. Kevin used to be a hard-charging, traditional leader, until one day, when felt his throat tightening and found it difficult to speak or be understood. His diagnosis: spasmodic dysphonia, an incurable and rare condition that causes throat spasms. Out of this adversity came a radical shift in leadership and a brand...
#195 Leverage Change - with Jake Jacobs
December 24, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 28.4 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is perhaps one of the most experienced change leaders and advisors on the planet, Jake Jacobs. For over 35 years, he has worked in 61 industries, helping over 210.000 people implement changes in their businesses. What I love about Jake is his fearlessness in calling out what leaders really must do to achieve change in their businesses. We talk: The importance of leverage Thin...
#194 Psychedelic Psychiatry - with Will Van Derveer, MD
December 17, 2021 00:00 - 57 minutes - 19.9 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Dr Will Van Derveer. Will is the founder and medical director of the Integrative Psychiatric Healing Center where he has practised integrative psychiatry for 15 years. After discovering that his conventional psychiatric training was inadequate to answer many of his patients' challenges, he took an entire year out to meditate. Finding that meditation alone was also not the ans...
#193 Courage To Come Back - with Guy Felicella
December 10, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 23.4 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human has one of the most extraordinary life stories of anyone I’ve met. I give you Guy Felicella. Guy grew up in a middle-class home but fell into addiction at a young age. He spent 30 years in the repeated cycle of gangs, addiction, treatment, and jail. But a pivotal meeting with one of Canada’s most celebrated doctors changed the course of his life. Guy is now nine years sober and ...
#192 Learning From The Indigenous - with Darcia Narvaez
November 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 22.7 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame. I love Darcia's work because, unlike other psychologists, she doesn't simply look at our society's current pathologies and ask, how do we fix this? She takes in the broad sweep of human societal evolution and notes how our current ways of being and relating haven't always been so. She focuses espe...
#191 Resilient By Design - with Ian Snape
November 19, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 22.7 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is complexity theorist and author Ian Snape. A former research leader and executive at the Australian Antarctic Division, he has led teams on expeditions to both polar regions before focusing on coaching and training CEOs, Olympic athletes, and frontline professionals. We discuss how resilience isn't just the ability to tough it out; it's dependent upon an interconnected set of s...
#190 Performance Conversations - with Christopher D. Lee
November 12, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 23.2 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Christopher D. Lee, PhD, author and the HR Director at one of the USA's oldest and most prestigious colleges, William & Mary. Christopher has a passion for human performance. There are three things we know about traditional performance appraisals: they are widely used, universally despised, and probably ineffective. What should leaders do instead? Adopt a coaching mindset an...
#189 The Power of Surrender - with Judith Orloff
November 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.5 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is psychiatrist, empath and author Judith Orloff. Judith is the bestselling author of "The Power of Surrender", where she advocates for the art of letting go as the secret key to manifesting power and success in all areas of life, including work, relationships, sexuality, radiant aging, and health and healing. We talk: Surrendering to her intuition as a medical professional Le...
#188 Eco-Leadership - with Satish Kumar
October 28, 2021 23:00 - 47 minutes - 16.7 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is peace-pilgrim, life-long activist and former monk, Satish Kumar. As a teenager, Satish trekked from India to America via Russia to deliver ‘peace tea’ to the leaders of, what were then, the four major nuclear powers. He walked 8,000 miles without any money totally depending on the generosity of strangers. Now in his 80s, he has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological re...
#187 The Five Lost Superpowers - with Corena Chase
October 21, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 21 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is facilitator and author Corena Chase. Corena is co-author of The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lose Them and How to Get Them Back. Corena believes that everyone has superpowers when they are a child. While we tend to lose track of them as we grow up, they’re always there, right below the surface, ready for us to reactivate them and fully manifest our human potential. We talk: ...
#186 A Place To Heal - with Fiona Arrigo
October 14, 2021 23:00 - 59 minutes - 20.7 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is intuitive healer, mentor and life teacher Fiona Arrigo. What I found so compelling about Fiona is her profound belief that we can heal ourselves. With so many of us right now - including me sometimes - seeking external sources for our wellbeing, she's part of a growing movement of people rediscovering their innate healing potential. On this basis, she has developed her healing...
#185 Post Growth - with Tim Jackson
October 07, 2021 23:00 - 58 minutes - 20.4 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is ecological economist and writer Tim Jackson. Tim's view is that we need to give up our obsession with GDP and focus instead on human progress. He envisions a return to a focus on virtue and a re-prised role for institutions to integrate the desires of individuals with their social obligations. His book Post Growth is both a manifesto for system change and an invitation to rek...
#184 Feel Alive Again - with Marina Efaimoglou
September 30, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 27.9 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Marina Efaimoglou. She has an interesting life story, to say the least. Whilst still in her twenties she was running her own investment firm having survived a cancer with 25% survival odds. The scare caused her re-evaluate her life. She later received a second diagnosis. This time, she was able to heal purely through natural methods. Her health quest led her to create the Euph...
#183 Trauma-Sensitive Yoga - with Jenn Turner
September 23, 2021 23:00 - 56 minutes - 19.7 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is educator, mental health counsellor, yoga teacher and co-founder of the Center for Trauma and Embodiment (CFTE), Jenn Turner. Trauma is a pervasive aspect of all human experience. Understandably, it's one that no one wants to talk about, and yogis are no exception. Jenn's work is piercing this taboo in the yoga world. She's learning lessons about dealing with the impacts of bur...
#182 Slaying Zombie Economies - with Steve Keen
September 16, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 31.2 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Professor of Economics Steve Keen. Professor Keen has been on a mission to expose the failings of mainstream economic theory and policy. An economics dissident and author of 2001’s Debunking Economics, he warned about the 2008 economic crisis long before it happened. We talk: Why Neoclassical economic models are fantasies How nations manage to keep their ‘zombie economies’ ...
#181 Angrynomics - with Mark Blyth
September 09, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 22.7 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when materially we seem to have it so good? This is a question that my guest this week, Mark Blyth has set out to discover. In his book Angrynomics, Mark explores the rising tide of anger and proposes radical new solutions for an increasingly polarized world. Mark is as entertaining as he is passionate, we talk: Why we're so angry The failure of 'trickle-up' ...
#180 What Is Water? - with Kayvan Kian
September 02, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 21.2 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ How many of us during our school years learned the teachings of Epictetus or Seneca? Perhaps you were lucky. With the world as it is right now, there's a great need for the perennial wisdom of the ancients. My guest this week, Kayvan Kian, has been leading a series of philosophical dialogues within the Young Leaders Forum he founded. He condensed the essence of these conversations into his book What is Water? In...
#179 Swagger - with Leslie Ehm
August 26, 2021 23:00 - 53 minutes - 18.6 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Why are some people magnetic, confident, comfortable in their skin, and in charge of their destinies? What’s their secret? This week's author Leslie Ehm, believes she has the answer in one word: Swagger. Leslie talks about how her philosophy shatters the myths around “fake it ’til you make it”, and we why need to dig deep to uncover and express our real selves. What I love about Leslie is that she’s not shy abou...
#178 Sparking the Virtue Revolution - with Antoinette Weibel and Otti Vogt
August 19, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 36.3 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ What does it mean to be a good organisation in a world of unbounded individualism and ferocious social Darwinism? A rebellious professor and a business insurgent believe they have an answer. Professor at the University of St. Gallen Antoinette Weibel and Otti Vogt, ex-COO of ING, join us this week to talk about the new project they've co-founded called Good Organisations. They believe the “anything goes” narrati...
#177 Patreon Poetry - with David Chislett
August 12, 2021 23:00 - 55 minutes - 19.4 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ We're back with much loved former guest, David Chislett. David is a South African punk rocker-turned-creativity consultant, now living deep in a Dutch forest. As well as helping companies to unleash his weapons of mass creation, David is a poet supported by a band of loyal Patreon subscribers. David shares with us his journey to create a virtual community around his poetry and the steps he took to achieve it. I...
#176 To Be Honest - with Ron Carucci
August 05, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 22.3 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ What if being honest with ourselves and others made us be better business leaders? That is the issue this week's guest, Ron Carucci, addresses in his book, To Be Honest. The origins of his book are fascinating. He put hundreds of his firm's past client interviews through IBM Watson's AI engine to uncover patterns associated with business success. He found that honesty was crucial. He discovered that just four fa...
#175 Why Meditate? - with Jillian Lavender
July 29, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 29.2 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Jillian Lavender used to run a large division of an international publisher, always between two planes and walking right up to the line of major burnout. On the recommendation of a friend, and with some scepticism, she took a meditation course. From that point, things changed for her in a big way. She could handle her fast-paced life. After a complete career change, she now teaches meditation in London and New Y...
#174 Surfing Rogue Waves - with Eric Pilon-Bignell
July 22, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 35 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Over the next few years, we will experience more disruption than in the previous 100 years. Yet are things changing too fast and too regularly to notice? Futurist Eric Pilon-Bignell sees modern change presents as a giant, rogue wave emerging on the horizon. He asks, will we surf these waves with mastery? Or will we let them swallow us whole? In his book Surfing Rogue Waves, Eric shows us how to gain from the gr...
#173 Radical Uncertainty - with John Kay
July 15, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 22.9 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with John Kay, one of Britain's leading economists, whose career has spanned the academic world, business and public affairs In his recent book, Radical Uncertainty with Mervyn King, he describes how, as a society, we regularly crave certainties which cannot exist and invent knowledge we cannot have. We forget that humans are successful because we have adapted to an envir...
#172 The Future of Capitalism - with Paul Collier
July 08, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 31.1 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Paul Collier, the author of the barn-storming new economic treatise 'The Future of Capitalism'. From humble beginnings in Sheffield, England, to life as an Oxford don, Paul understands the power and limitations of capitalism from both sides of the tracks. In our conversation, Paul reflects on the role businesses must play in creating a more sustainable version of cap...
Bonus Episode - Tom van der Lubbe - Self Management
July 06, 2021 23:00 - 51 minutes - 18.1 MBThis is an interview with Tom van der Lubbe around the theme of self-management. We get into the history of his founding of Viisi on self-management principles. We also take several practical questions for the webinar audience members. Well worth a watch/listen if you want to learn more about this topic.
#170 Self-Work Meets Complexity - with Gabriel Jurj
July 01, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 28.2 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Gabriel Jurj, who is a complexity practitioner and seasoned executive working in Romania. He didn't take the standard path, dropping out of University to join a monastic order, running hostels in Budapest. Still practising some of his monkish disciplines, Gabriel leans on these to help him lead. He also sees the strong links between a spiritual appreciation and the ab...
#169 Graceful Extensibility - with David Woods
June 24, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 32.5 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with David Woods, a professor at Ohio State University who discovered and pioneered the concept of Graceful Extensibility. As the opposite of brittleness, graceful extensibility is the ability of a system to extend its capacity to adapt when surprise events challenge its boundaries. In this episode, we talk: Dealing with shock The need to stretch at the boundaries How ...
#168 Embracing Flow - with Nigel Thurlow
June 17, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 32.7 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, I speak with Nigel Thurlow, ex-Chief of Agile at Toyota and co-author of The Flow System. Tired of the framework merchants and the over-commercialisation of the Agile movement, Nigel could see that a new approach was needed. A philosophy that went beyond Lean and Agile to embrace complexity thinking, team science and the critical question of leadership. He believes, first and foremost, ...
#167 Rare Breed - with Sunny Bonnell
June 10, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 22.3 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with author, speaker and CEO Sunny Bonnell. Together with her co-author, Ashleigh Hansberger, she wrote Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different, a book that empowers people to take what society deems as "vices" and turn them into unrivalled assets. Sunny, herself a rare breed, dropped out of pre-veterinary school to start a branding agency ...
#166 Cultivating Well-being - with Marion Kiely
June 03, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 26.1 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with complexity practitioner and well-being advocate Marion Kiely. Marion has dedicated her career to figuring out how the latest complexity thinking can bring sustained change to organisations. From her home in Cork in Ireland, she talks passionately about how we can truly be well at work. In this episode, we talk: Why yoga and yoghurt is not the answer Could your wor...
#165 Letting Go of Certainty - with Sonja Blignaut
May 27, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 28.2 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with author and complexity consultant Sonja Blignaut. Meteorologist then IBM consultant, Sonya took a varied path to her latest role as CEO of leading complexity practitioners, Cognitive Edge. Sonja is a born-and-bred South African. As she points out, things don’t get much more complex than in the Rainbow Nation. In this episode, we talk: Complexity and mindfulness The ...
#164 A Strategy for Uncertainty - with Steve McCrone
May 20, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 22.9 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, I speak with former bomb disposal team leader and pioneer in adaptive strategy Steve McCrone. Adaptive strategy applies complexity thinking to the art of high-level planning to enable firms to build resilience in the face of uncertainties. Steve is a very passionate speaker and presenter and brings this approach to life brilliantly using a strategically placed whiteboard. A good one to ...
#163 Future Sense - with Malcolm Parlett
May 13, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 22.5 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with psychological researcher, consultant and author, Malcolm Parlett. From an orthodox academic background, at Cambridge then MIT, Malcolm discovered Gestalt psychology, which changed his life and work. It opened up a new sense of connectedness and took him away from more traditional, reductive approaches. Malcolm went on to co-found the UK's Gestalt Psychotherapy and ...
#162 Embodiment Now - with Mark Walsh
May 06, 2021 23:00 - 40 minutes - 14.2 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with embodiment coaching specialist Mark Walsh. Embodiment is about working through gentle non-athletic movement, posture, awareness, and breathing to pursue deeper, faster and more permanent change. In this conversation, Mark shows us how to make friends with our bodies and feel at home again in our skin. In this episode, we talk: - From drug dealer to aikidoka - The ...
#161 How to Make Optimal Decisions - with Dr. Timothy Yen
April 29, 2021 23:00 - 58 minutes - 20.4 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with psychologist and former U.S. Army mental health specialist Dr. Timothy Yen. Dr. Yen has used his experience to create a framework that helps you build up your inner decision-making capability and use it successfully to address your most important choices. In this episode, we talk: - How trauma impacts how we make decisions - 5 pillars to help you make great choices ...
#160 How to Build a Human Business - with Dr. Thomas Juli
April 22, 2021 23:00 - 57 minutes - 19.8 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, our favorite tangoing, mountain-climbing business philosopher Dr. Thomas Juli returns to share the wisdom in his new book 'Human Business: Life and Work in the Digital Age.' As well as being an Agile Transformation Coach for the insurance giant Allianz, Thomas is a regular speaker at international conferences worldwide. These have included the NASA Project Management Challenge, t...
#159 The End of Jobs - with Jeff Wald
April 16, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 21.9 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with author, former cop and serial entrepreneur Jeff Wald. After selling WorkMarket, the multi-million dollar labour platform Jeff helped build from scratch, he found some time to pen The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations. Jeff claims that we're now entering a fourth great leap forward in technology, after mechanisation, electrification, and...
#158 Learning War - with Trent Hone
April 08, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 29.1 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, I speak with Trent Hone, an authority on the U.S. Navy of the early twentieth century and a leader in applying complexity science to organisational design. Trent hooked me with his powerful story of U.S. Navy's rapid learning techniques in the 'Cyenfin at 21' book, the subject of my recent podcast with Dave Snowden. In our conversation, we talk about how the U.S. Navy was forced to lear...
#157 The Wisdom of Psychopaths - with Kevin Dutton
April 01, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 21.6 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, I speak with Dr. Kevin Dutton, University of Oxford Research Psychologist, Bestselling Author and Elite Performance Consultant, also known as The Psychology Guy. The topic might seem odd for a show dedicated to humanising people’s lives and workplaces, but psychopaths are part of the forest of humanity. As we’ll explore in this episode, they can and often do take on productive roles in ...
#156 More Moose Heads on The Table - with Karin Tenelius
March 26, 2021 00:00 - 52 minutes - 18.4 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Karin Tenelius, one of the world's leading experts in self-managing organisations, or, in her own words, "workspaces that work for people and bring out the best in them." Karin not only trains others to lead through self-managing principles, but she has served as CEO to several businesses that she has managed in this way. For those of you who loved our episode with Li...
#155 Pioneering Self-Management - with Jos de Blok
March 19, 2021 00:00 - 53 minutes - 18.6 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My guest this week, Jos de Blok, has been on the bucket list of Being Human for a number of years. He's the founder of Buurtzorg, a community nursing organisation that has embracing the self-organising principle to stunning effect. In recognition of his contributions, Jos shares the RSA's Albert Award with the likes of Tim Berners-Lee and Stephen Hawking. Recently, having grown Buurtzorg to become an internation...
#154 Training Your Inner Warrior - with Robin Rice
March 12, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 27.5 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, we talk with Robin Rice, an internationally published author, transformational speaker, social change artist and mentor to leaders. A big thank you to renowned Transformation Coach Lyssa Adkins who recommended Robin to me as a guest. Our conversation was a powerful reminder for me of that paradox that developing enhancing our personal impact rests in dropping our 'I' in service of the '...
#153 Leadering - with Nancy Giordano
March 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 21.6 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, we talk with Nancy Giordano, one of the world’s top female futurists. Nancy has worked with many leading companies to evolve over $50 billion worth of business. The first TEDx licensee and guest lecturer with Singularity University, Nancy is currently advising an AI startup and advancing horizon efforts that aim to dramatically reshape the ways we recognize, create, and exchange v...
#152 Be Kind - with Jack Parsons
February 26, 2021 00:00 - 40 minutes - 14.1 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, we talk with Jack Parsons. He's an entrepreneur, public speaker and subject expert on youth, and serves as CEO of The Big Youth Group. Jack has made it his mission to help young people better themselves, in order to help them take advantages of opportunities in the business world. Jack's efforts have paid off, as he has become publicly known as the UK’s Chief Youth Officer. In this epi...
#151 Kick Out Your Budget - with Bjarte Bogsnes
February 19, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 19.7 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, we talk with Bjarte Bogsnes, Chairman of The Beyond Budgeting Institute and an HBR/McKinsey Management Innovation Award winner. Beyond Budgeting is a movement from CFOs themselves to kick out budgets from corporations. Yes, you read that correctly, CFOs burning budgets, and Bjarte was ripping them up before Beyond Budgeting was a thing. How does this relate to Being Human, you mig...
#150 The Smartest Person in The Room - with Christian Espinosa
February 12, 2021 00:00 - 52 minutes - 18.4 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, we discuss cybersecurity with expert in the field and author Christian Espinosa. Don't worry, we're not talking about bits, bytes, and firewalls. We're talking about the biggest security threat of them all. The one between the keyboard and the chair. Christian shares with us his journey becoming a world-renowned cyber security coordinator, managing on one hand the whims of extreme...
#149 Cynefin at 21 - with Dave Snowden
February 06, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 30.5 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode Being Human, we have a return visit of one of our most popular guests, Dave Snowden. Dave is by far my favourite Welsh National Treasure. He's a philosopher-cum-management thinker and developer of the Cynefin framework, a decision making framework that has transformed the way people work and think from the military generals to software developers to humble business coaches like me. Professor Sno...
#148 Eating for Energy - with David "Avocado" Wolfe
January 30, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 20.9 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week on Being Human, I speak with someone who's significantly influenced my lifestyle and how I eat. I think many of us understand that our diets aren't as healthy as they could be. But what if we were able to eat in a way that had us experiencing an abundance of energy from dawn till dusk? David 'Avocado' Wolfe is that possibility made manifest. He has spent a lifetime researching and seeking out the most...
#147 Building a Start-up Culture - with Richard Stobart
January 22, 2021 00:00 - 57 minutes - 19.9 MB> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Richard Stobart, an old friend and the CEO of successful start-up char.gy, a business devoted to transforming lampposts across Britain to start charging our electric cars. If you want to learn more about building a start-up culture within your business, this is the episode for you. Richard shares candidly about how he initially failed to create good start-up ideas wi...