Hacking Happy with Penny Locaso
168 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWelcome to the Hacking Happy podcast. I'm your host Penny Locaso and I'm the world's first Happiness Hacker with a bold mission to teach 10 million women how to flourish on their terms by 2025 without guilt.
This podcast is designed to help you reignite your spark so that you can channel it towards injecting more balance, presence and connection into each day without burnout.
If that sounds like something you could use a little more of let's get started!
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Let's Get Real and Human
March 10, 2019 02:22 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBLet's Get Real and Human A raw look at being human on your entrepreneurial journey. In this episode of the Human First Podcast, Penny Locaso gets vulnerable and honest about what it means to be human on this entrepreneurial journey. Hint: It's coming to terms that there's no silver bullet or shortcut in realising your dream. This week, we explore the lessons Penny has learned in her intentional adaptability™ journey: •Change comes with sacrifice. Be conscious about what you'll need to give...
Habits, Humanity and Taking Action with Global Game Changer Holly Ransom
March 04, 2019 08:28 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBHabits, Humanity and Taking Action. In this episode of the Human First Podcast, I share coffee and conversation with the always thought-provoking, Holly Ransom. CEO at Emergent, professional moderator, and a brilliant mind, Holly is forensically curious about the world around her. This Week We Explore: •What it really means to be human, beyond our connectedness with each other and the environment •The internal tug-of-war between our digital self Vs the real self, and its effect on the you...
AI For Humanity and For Good
February 25, 2019 20:28 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBBringing spirituality and morality to technology. Rita Arrigo, Digital Advisor at Microsoft, shares how engaging with customers who look at the world in different ways has shaped her perspective on how AI can truly amplify human potential, and not replace it. This Week We Explore: •How AI can be a force for good, assisting countries that face water issues, climate change, and wildlife conservation challenges •Leveraging AI for inclusivity, and helping people with disability find a more st...
Technology's Two-Headed Dragon
February 02, 2019 00:22 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBJust because it can be done, does it mean we should. Raymond McCauley, scientist, engineer, investor, Chair, Digital Biology at Singularity University, and co-founder bioCurious. With too many titles to fit on a business card, when Penny asked who Raymond is as a human being, his number one response was a Father, and his most important role, that of being a curator of experience for his 12-year-old twin boys. This week, Raymond shares with Penny his insights into the world of biotechnology an...
What If Success Looked Like Discovering That What You Thought You Knew Was Wrong?
January 27, 2019 07:56 - 10 minutes - 9.34 MBWhen did you last surprise yourself? Human First host Penny Locaso finds herself doing this a lot lately as she pilots the world first Intentional Adaptability™️ Program with fifteen brave intrapreneurs, from a global giant. Listen and learn how IAQ™️ is a foundational skill set for navigating and shaping the future. It's a place where using your curiosity to challenge everything you thought to be true, is highly valued. Listen and learn how discovering you are wrong can be more powerful than...
Less Doing More Being In 2019
January 17, 2019 06:09 - 8 minutes - 7.81 MBCreate The Space For More Being Happiness Hacker and Human First host Penny Locaso shares her 2019 commitment for creating intentional space for less doing and more being. Focusing on how you show up in the every day may very well enable you to realise the magic in the journey that is life. •Remove the word busy from your vocabulary •Set micro-goals for a more valuable being •How will you create the space for less doing and more being in 2019? Where To Find Penny Email Instagram LinkedIn...
Yin & Yang of Technology
December 10, 2018 00:56 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBConversation, Curiosity & Exploration - Futurist In Residence at MYOB, Keran McKenzie, and Penny, have a discussion around the exciting world of data availability, and its corresponding cause for concern. This Week We Explore: •Voice interface technology •Fostering innovation and curiosity and wrestling with immediacy of available answers •Simplicity of access to data comes with the risk of relaxed sharing •Social media drug of addiction •Fostering the discovery of solution Where To F...
Impact Investing
December 06, 2018 06:34 - 18 minutes - 17.5 MBAI Lock-in Loop - Mike Butcher, Editor At Large at TechCrunch London, chats with Penny about the technology trends Mike has observed as having the largest impact on society and how they have provided permission to change society's conversations around the refugee crisis. This Week We Explore: •The AI lock in loop with an exponential effect on businesses, it's a drug of addiction •AI as an arms race •Giving politicians permission to change the conversation around refugees •Impact investi...
Future Presents Opportunity
December 02, 2018 23:08 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBStudent, Thought Provoker, and Conscious Being. 17-year-old, Carey Grammar year 12 student, Matt Blanch provides a discourse on some changes and trends affecting young adults today, offering a unique perspective on the future. This Week We Explore: •Opportunity is what the future presents •Significant comparisons to the industrial revolution in mechanising our cognitive abilities •The growing acceptance of nihilism •Encouragement of the average - the linear education system If you love...
Money With Heart
November 26, 2018 02:53 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBUsing Banking For Good. Holly Ziegal Ruxin, CEO & Founder Montcalm TCR, just off a jet from San Francisco, sits down on the Human First couch with Penny to discuss curiosity, perfection, and how life-changing lessons can be learnt from a 5-year-old. This Week We Explore: •What exactly is perfection •Why it's important in Holly's life to be of service to others •Constantly being curious and constantly asking the question, the answers come, and it's really fun Where To Find Holly LinkedIn...
Why Busy = Bullshit
November 18, 2018 01:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBAre You Jack Of Busy? Happiness Hacker and Human First host Penny Locaso shares a hack that has fundamentally shifted her life and the way that she looks at what she's doing with her time. How removing the word 'busy' from her vocabulary has created the space to be more human. This Week, Happiness Hacker and Human First host Penny Locaso challenges you: •What would you do with your time if you weren't so busy? •Create a space for stillness or boredom •Remove the word busy from your vocab...
Empathy In The Workplace
November 11, 2018 10:39 - 19 minutes - 18.5 MBWhat is the global mind? Dot Connector, Brian Lim - IT Manager/Consultant at Fishburners and HyperCubes Co-Founder joins Penny in a frank discussion around using technology to serve humanity to remain relevant, through empathy. This Week We Explore: The use of satellite technology to gain insight for agricultural and mining resources Brian's excitement in the realm of space travel, it's on our doorstep Why digital biology and blockchain are Brian's biggest technological fear It's not what th...
Digital Native Vs Digital Immigrant
October 19, 2018 03:45 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBLoved, Loathed, Longed For, Learnt... Dom Price, Work Futurist and Head of R&D at Atlassian, sits on the Human First couch with Penny to explore how he sees the advancements in tech and AI affecting the future of work in the unprecedented multi-generational workforce. This Week We Explore: · Without change, an otherwise effective existence will not remain relevant · Dom's insights on leading a multi-generational workforce · The mental health impact of increased long periods of complex work, ...
Skilling University Students To Lead Tomorrow
October 19, 2018 02:37 - 34 minutes - 32 MBBuilding empowered communities through university. After working as a Civil Engineer, then traveling for 2 years to more than 40 countries, Josh Farr asked himself, "If I could design my dream career, what would I do?"... With experience in student leadership and a passion for the value of campus life at universities, Josh founded his own business, Campus Consultancy, to empower student leaders through entrepreneurial education. This Week We Explore: · How university students gain a 17-month...
Secret Weapon To Thrive In The Future
October 19, 2018 01:36 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBPerpetual Learning = To Thrive ..... Happiness Hacker and Human First host Penny Locaso shares her hacks on developing the skills needed to thrive in an unprecedented future of artificial intelligence and technology. As we enter the fourth industrial revolution, uncertainty is becoming the new normal, how do we remain relevant in the context of change? How can we help our children to adapt in this new world we find ourselves in? This Week Happiness Hacker and Human First host Penny Locaso s...
Children And The Future Of Work
September 21, 2018 04:15 - 28 minutes - 26 MBKids at work = happy. What are your thoughts in kids and the future of work? You may not know this but recently when my son asked me if he could take a day off school in order to watch me at TEDx Melbourne, I said absolutely! I figured Sax would learn more watching 13 amazing speakers than he would in his Grade 2 classroom. Equally, as a single mum, I know how hard it can be when an opportunity presents and you can't find care for your child. That's why I'm a huge advocate of children being ...
Humanising From Silicon Valley To Australia
September 20, 2018 04:10 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBEmpathy, play, and the future. We speak with Julie Trell, Head of muru-D, Human API (connector of people, programs, and ecosystems), and SheEO Country Lead - Australia. SheEO was launched in Canada in 2015. The model brings together 500 women Activators who will contribute $1,100 each. This money is pooled together and loaned out at zero percent interest to five women-led ventures selected by the Activators. The loans are paid back in five years and loaned out again, creating a perpetual fun...
Happiness Hacking With Penny Locaso
September 19, 2018 04:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBWhat is a happiness Hacker? We start the season with Penny Locaso Human First host and Happiness Hacker digs deep in a reverse interview with her game-changing friend Sheree Rubinstein, Founder and CEO of One Roof. In this episode we unpack: •Who Penny is as a human being and how she became the worlds first happiness hacker •What she's excited about in the future •Why many are afraid of the future and how Penny uses fear to help others embrace the age of uncertainty •What Penny is afrai...