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Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter

54 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago -

A podcast about A Human Approach to Innovation and Change. Interview based podcast by a highly experienced business change consultant and qualified Executive Business Coach with over 20 years' experience of leading and successfully delivering global strategic change, digital transformation and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Nina, founder of Cheeky Monkey Business Solutions and author of Transform Your Business, is known for her direct, straight-talking approach, with a smile. This is a series of light-hearted, entertaining discussions about how change effects us personally and professionally. By giving you a virtual seat at the Cheeky Monkey table Nina invites you to listen as she discusses issues that come up regularly in both the workplace and in the world, with people who have experienced those challenges. The underlying theme is that, at the end of the day, nothing happens without people, therefore a human approach and people-based focus is paramount to achieving lasting success in business and in life.

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Health, Wealth & Podcasts

June 28, 2024 17:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MB

Christine Lee has made conscious decisions in her life that allow her to look back at them as different stages, chapters if you like, that are all quite different. In those conscious decisions, her health and wellbeing have been  prominent drivers, along with decisions over money, particulary when to take her pension. Her lust to live life to the full has not been dampened or thrown off course by the early loss of her parents, cancer or continuing health challenges she now faces. In fact,...

I Wanted To Be An Explorer

June 12, 2024 09:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MB

Welcome to a brand new season of the Change Troubleshooter!  Amazingly, this is the 6th season of this podcast that started back in 2020. We have now had over 2 and a half thousand downloads from no less than 535 cities in 47 countries spanning 6 continents! Thanks to you all for remaining interested. Season 6 is called "Hang on, what happened and why?" This is a common moment that Nina has with people.  She loves the "stop, and take me back" moment this creates and is curiously hungry to ...

Smarta Resilience

January 16, 2024 15:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MB

Welcome to Season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter: Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey This is episode 4, Smarta Resilience. Today Nina talks about resilience with Rachel Robinson, founder of Smarta Group in Tavira, Portugal. Rachel tells her story of how she went from corporate retail in the UK to building a house, business and life in Portugal. It's a story of facing up to big issues, huge changes and her need to pull on her resilience on a daily basis.  Together with Nina they discuss what r...

Boxing Clever

December 04, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MB

Welcome to Boxing Clever, the 3rd episode in the Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey season where we focus on strength. Today Nina talks to Ben Williams, a boxing coach, but Ben's not just any boxing coach, he has been Nina's boxing coach for the last 2 years.  Today they talk about how strength in all its forms, personal, mental and physical are put to the test in a boxing environment.

Casa Colibri Version Español

October 20, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes - 18.9 MB

Hola y bienvenido a la temporada 5 de The Change Troubleshooter: ¡Canaliza tu mono descarado interior! (Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey!) Este es el episodio 2, Casa Colibri. Colibri  representa la transformación que ha atravesado Isabel Alebrt mientras canalizaba su mono descarado interior y visualizaba la vida futura que quería para ella y su familia.   Chris  e Isabel hablan sobre esta transformación de Casa Colibri, la casa de 300 años de antigüedad en medio del pueblo de Castaño del ...

Casa Colibri

October 20, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutes - 15.1 MB

Hello and welcome to season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter - Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey! This is episode 2, Casa Colibri. Colibri is spanish for hummingbird, and represents the transformation that Isabel Albert has been through as she channeled her inner cheeky monkey and visualised the future life she wanted for herself and her family.   Nina and Isabel discuss this transformation from Casa Colibri, the 300 year old house in the middle of the village of Castaño del Robledo that Isab...

Ninety Years of Lifting People Up - *Shirley's Cut

September 27, 2023 11:00 - 35 minutes - 23.9 MB

Welcome to Season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter. This season we hope to inspire you to Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey! A state of fun, playfulness and happiness that we can sometimes forget needs to remain a core part of our lives. In this 1st episode, Ninety Years of Lifting people Up, Nina talks to the amazing Shirley Hughes about her early life as a child performer and her wonderful outlook on life that continues into her 91st year.   *This version contans clips of Shirley's friends ...

Ninety Years of Lifting People Up

September 26, 2023 19:00 - 30 minutes - 20.5 MB

Welcome to Season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter. This season we hope to inspire you to Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey! A state of fun, playfulness and happiness that we can sometimes forget needs to remain a core part of our lives. In this 1st episode, Ninety Years of Lifting people Up, Nina talks to the amazing Shirley Hughes about her early life as a child performer and her wonderful outlook on life that continues into her 91st year.  

Changing Mindsets on Sustainable Leadership

December 06, 2022 12:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MB

Hello and welcome to episode 9 of the Changing Mindsets season of The Change Troubleshooter, this episode is called Changing Mindsets on Sustainable Leadership. Today Nina talks to Brad Peirce, Chief Transformation Officer at Sustainability Mindshift and Principal and Founder of SEED Strategies. Brad has over 25 years experience in helping organisations create more sustainable and regenerative futures.

Changing Mindsets on Being a Changemaker

November 02, 2022 14:00 - 46 minutes - 26.4 MB

The Change Troubleshooter Season 4 Changing Mindsets Episode 8 Hello and welcome to episode 8 of the Changing Mindsets season of The Change Troubleshooter, this episode is called Changing Mindsets on Being a Changemaker.  Today Nina speaks to Susana Paiva, a mechanical engineer, mother, wife, author of several internationally published articles on climate change, an artist, poet and of course, a changemaker. Susana lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. During Covid Susana didn't sit around wait...

Changing Mindsets on It's Never Too Late

November 02, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MB

The Change Troubleshooter Season 4 Changing Mindsets Episode 7 Hello and welcome to episode 7 of the Changing Mindsets season of the Change Troubleshooter. this episode is called Changing mindsets on it's never too late. Today Nina is joined by Evelyn Kortum, also known, artistically as E Wasserhase. Evelyn recently went through a massive life change - Last year, after 30 years of living and working in Geneva, switzerland, and a successful career at the World Health Organization, she and...

Can You Change a Mindset?

September 11, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 49 MB

Welcome to season 4 of The Change Troubleshooter. This is episode 6, Can You Change a Mindset? Today Nina is joined once again by Patrick Hillberg, a college professor in Oakland, Michigan. If you're a regular listener, you may remember that Patrick was Nina's guest in the last episode and the conversation was so thought provoking that they felt it should be continued. However, today, in a role reversal, it is Patrick putting the difficult questions to Nina!

Changing Mindsets on an Industrial Model

August 16, 2022 16:00 - 51 minutes - 30.4 MB

Welcome to season 4 of The Change Troubleshooter, This is episode 5, Changing mindsets on an Industrial Model. In todays fascinating conversation Nina is joined by Professor Patrick Hillberg, a college professor in Oakland, Michigan. Patrick has decades of industry experience in designing, developing and leading teams in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Digital Manufacturing, Process Planning, Robotics and Machine Vision applications in Aerospace, Shipbuilding, Automotive, Construction, ...

Changing Mindsets on Leadership, Patience, Persistence and Courage

August 15, 2022 15:00 - 27 minutes - 15.9 MB

Welcome to season 4 of the Change Troubleshooter, this is episode 4, Changing mindsets on leadership, patience, persistence and courage. Today Nina talks to Susanna Mäentausta, a seasoned professional change leader in the chemicals industry. They discuss some of the many pitfalls that can be encountered when trying to deliver change in large organisations and how a little patience, persistence and courage from business leaders can make a huge difference to delivering change. 

Changing Mindsets on Being Data Driven

May 30, 2022 15:00 - 38 minutes - 23.9 MB

Welcome to Season 4 of The Change Troubleshooter. This is episode 3, Changing Mindets on Being Data Driven.  Today Nina is joined by Jos Voskuil, a PLM coach, blogger, lecturer and a passionate advocate for a digital and sustainable future. His blog is called The Virtual Dutchman  After hearing episode one in this season, Changing Mindsets on Data, Jos was moved enough to contact Nina to have his say on the issue of data, so this is really a response to Oleg Shilovitsky who featured in epi...

Changing Mindsets on Our Attitude to Learning

May 26, 2022 12:00 - 34 minutes - 21.8 MB

Welcome to Season 4 of the Change Troubleshooter. Changing Mindsets.  This is episode 2, Changing Mindsets on our attitude to learning.  In this episode, we find Nina in conversation with another Neena in another country - Neena Arakal Mathew is a Facilitator of Consciousness in Living and Learning, based in New Delhi, India. She is the founder of Mind and Me, a revolutionary learning centre where the teaching methodology is very different from tradtional methods.

Changing Mindsets on Data

May 07, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 15.7 MB

Hello and welcome to Season 4 of The Change Troubleshoter - This season is called Changing Mindsets.  The idea here is that Nina and her guest can change people's mindsets on a given subject, the challenge is to do this in just 15 minutes to 20 minutes! In episode one, Changing Mindsets on Data, Nina is joined by Oleg Shilovitsky, founder of Open Bom, a SAAS network based global collaborative platform, and they talk about data and how we should think about it differently, how it is collecte...

Are We Learning for the 22nd Century?

February 10, 2022 19:00 - 32 minutes - 20.9 MB

Welcome to season 3 of the change troubleshooter This is episode 5, Are we learning for the 22nd Century? David Hollands has been an entrepreneur since he was a schoolboy. He has had a whole host of businesses.  Around 20 years ago he observed that people were losing their connection with community based living and nature. He built a whole village in Bulgaria and hopes that will lead to a new form of community. He challenges that the teachings of universities are becoming irrelevant and be...

Climate Activism is Nothing New

January 04, 2022 09:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MB

Hello and welcome to Season 3 of The Change Troubleshooter – If Not You, Who? This is episode 4, Climate Activism is Nothing New,   In today’s world, with all the focus on the global effort to battle climate change and bring down CO2 emissions, you’d be forgiven for thinking that all this activism and attention on the environment was something  new. Far from it. The fight for the planet has been going on for decades. The foot soldiers’ warnings went unheeded for many years, people just wer...

Trailer for Climate Activism is Nothing New

January 04, 2022 09:00 - 2 minutes - 1.44 MB

Welcome to Season 3 of The Change Troubleshooter.  This is episode 4, Climate Activism is Nothing New. Steve Charter is a climate action champion. Over the last 3 decades he has worked as an advisor to local governments on construction policy. The answers to sustainable, environmentally friendly house buliding have been around for a long time but implenenting them has always been an uphill battle.  Listen to the whole episode wherever right here on Buzzsprout!

A New Green Opportunity

December 20, 2021 13:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MB

Paul Kenyon had spent almost 20 years in the print industry, an industry, frankly, in decline. Having been recently made redundant from his job, he was looking for a new challenge, in a new field, in his own words, in anything but print. In a chance meeting over a pint with an electrical engineer friend, they hit on an idea that has changed their lives – the sale and installation of domestic and workplace electric vehicle charging points. Two years on, and busier than he’s ever been, Paul t...

Trailer for Lockdown Heroes Forgotten Already

December 03, 2021 15:00 - 2 minutes - 1.8 MB

Welcome to The Change Troubleshooter, Season 3, If Not You, Who? Lockdown heroes forgotten already It’s lockdown one, spring 2020, supermarkets are running out of stuff, the queues at them are incredible and when you get in there is no pasta, no toilet paper, no flour… what are you going to do to survive? Luckily we have around 4000 farm shops in the UK who stepped up to the plate and provided the best basics money can buy, eggs, potatoes, the very freshest of fruit and veg.  We flocked ...

Trailer for Season 3 Episode 2 Lockdown Heroes Forgotten Already

December 03, 2021 15:00 - 2 minutes - 1.8 MB

Welcome to The Change Troubleshooter, Season 3, If Not You, Who? Lockdown heroes forgotten already It’s lockdown one, spring 2020, supermarkets are running out of stuff, the queues at them are incredible and when you get in, there is no pasta, no toilet paper, no flour… what are you going to do to survive? Luckily we have around 4000 farm shops in the UK who stepped up to the plate and provided the best basics money can buy, eggs, potatoes, the very freshest of fruit and veg.  We flocked...

Lockdown Heroes Forgotten Already

December 03, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MB

Welcome to The Change Troubleshooter, Season 3, If Not You, Who? Lockdown heroes forgotten already It’s lockdown one, spring 2020, supermarkets are running out of stuff, the queues at them are incredible and when you get in there is no pasta, no toilet paper, no flour… what are you going to do to survive? Luckily we have around 4000 farm shops in the UK who stepped up to the plate and provided the best basics money can buy, eggs, potatoes, the very freshest of fruit and veg.  We flocked ...

Trailer for season 3 episode 2 Lockdown Heroes Forgotten Already

November 24, 2021 14:00 - 2 minutes - 1.73 MB

Farm shops across the UK played a massive role in feeding the nation during the first lockdown in the spring of 2020, but how are they faring now things are gradually returning to normal? 

Trailer For Season 3 Episode 1 A Solar Farm at What Cost?

November 11, 2021 16:00 - 2 minutes - 2.04 MB

This is the trailer to episode 1 of season 3 - If Not You, Who? A Solar Farm at What Cost When a global renewable energy company wants to build a mega solar farm near your property, right on top of your water supply with a very real danger of threatening that water supply, what would you do?

A Solar Farm at What Cost?

November 10, 2021 16:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MB

Hello and welcome to a brand new season of The Change Troubleshooter! This is Season 3 – If Not You, Who? This season features people who are getting out there trying to make a difference, often against the odds. It’s a season of stories about ordinary, everyday heroes with the guts and determination to fight back against global corporations. It’s the season of people putting their all into maintaining the momentum their farm shop started in lockdown, it’s a season of celebrating people wh...

Sustainable You - A Thinking Sabbatical

June 25, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes - 30.9 MB

Welcome to Season 2 of The Change Troubleshooter, The Sustainability Season. Today Nina is joined by Amy Rhoda Brown, a Toronto based strategy coach who helps artists and creators who want to begin or expand a creative practice.  To be creative you have to allow your brain to operate in its default network state, basically unstressed. Overloading our brains with constant input and stimulation is counter-productive to peak performance and creativity. If you want to achieve that "Aha" moment,...

What is a Transition Village?

June 10, 2021 23:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MB

Welcome to Season 2 of The Change Troubleshooter- the podcast that is now being listened to in 174 cities in 25 countries on 6 continents!  This is The Sustainability Season.   For today’s episode, What is a Transition Village? Nina embarked on her first outdoor recording session on location on an allotment in Lymm, where she met Liz.. Having moved to Lymm a couple of years ago and becoming increasingly concerned about environmental issues, Liz reached out to the local community and set u...

What does an Activist look like?

May 27, 2021 23:00 - 49 minutes - 33.1 MB

Welcome season 2  of The Change Troubleshooter – The sustainability Season. Today’s episode is called: What does an activist look like?  What image is conjured up we hear the word activist? We may think of dirty, straggly haired ultra extremist radical types, chained to railings or dug in in tunnels, risking life and limb and even arrest and imprisonment, in defence of their true and noble cause, so strong are their convictions.  But if we’re honest with ourselves, we know they’re not all...

From Fast Fashion to Something Else

May 13, 2021 23:00 - 30 minutes - 19.5 MB

Welcome to season 2 of the Change Troubleshooter  - The Sustainability season.  In today’s episode “From Fast Fashion to Something Else” Nina is joined by Sofia Kenyon  Sofia left university in 2017 with a business degree and seamlessly went straight into her dream job in fashion. Or was it? Four years and one pandemic later, Nina asks if the industry is all she thought it would be. This episode is also available as a video. Click here to watch it.

Achieving a Sustainable Digital Thread

April 29, 2021 23:00 - 50 minutes - 31.2 MB

Wecome to season 2 of The Change Troubleshooter. The Sustainability Season. In today’s episode, How to Achieve a Sustainable Digital Thread, Nina is joined by Ross Caddens, business development director of Siemens Digital Industries Software.  Using his wealth of knowledge and experience of Siemens software solutions, Ross helps clients to improve innovation and accelerate product delivery. He also works on innovation projects for the UK Catapults network and helps academia in ensuring tal...

Can we be Sustainable with or without Data?

April 15, 2021 13:00 - 53 minutes - 31.5 MB

Welcome to season 2 of The Change Troubleshooter, the sustainability season. In today’s episode,   Can We Be Sustainable With or Without Data?       Nina is joined by  Federico Pettinella, Anders Praestholm and Alan Walker, three guys who work in data technology.  Every time we write an email, take a photo, download something from the web or send a message on Whatsapp, we are creating data. The amount of that data is massiveand growing quickly.  Business and industry create even more dat...

A Thought for Food

April 01, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 37.8 MB

Welcome to season 2 of The Change Troubleshooter, the sustainability season. In today’s episode, “A Thought for Food”, we are off, thanks to the magic of Zoom, to the frigid shores of Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada where Nina meets Bonita Gionet, who, in her own words is a pragmatic, curious, forward thinking civil engineer, project manager, lifelong learner and coach with a passion for food.    For more than 20 years, Bonita has been involved in local food systems, as a consumer, food co-o...

L.A, A Green & Pleasant Land?

March 19, 2021 00:00 - 49 minutes - 31.7 MB

Welcome to Season 2 of the Change Troubleshooter – The Sustainability Season In today’s episode, L. A,  A Green and Pleasant Land?’ We are in America, via Zoom, and Nina is joined in conversation by Yoel Aynalem, owner of Mekbib Media, a digital content production agency based in Los Angeles, California. Their goal is to help small businesses take back control of how they’re perceived by the public.   Nina was keen to know how things were going in L.A in regard to local sustainability and...

Does Sustainability Start at Home?

March 05, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 39.7 MB

Does Sustainability start at home?  Guests: Bob Barr and Zoe Cohen Welcome to a brand new season of The Change Troubleshooter.  This 2nd season of the podcast focuses on Sustainability. Something we all need to focus on a lot more! We kick off the season with this episode, Does Sustainability Start at Home?  Nina is joined by, Zoe Cohen and Bob Barr. Zoe Cohen, Director of Shine Coaching and Consultancy, is a highly experienced Master Coach who has worked with senior leaders and their tea...

What can you expect from season 2?

February 25, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes - 14.1 MB

Welcome to a brand new season of The Change Troubleshooter! Season 2 is all about sustainability. In this introductory episode Nina explains why she was moved to dedicate a whole season to the theme of sustainability and walks us through what we can expect from each episode.  She talks to some amazing people from her local village as well as across the pond in Los Angeles and Canada. This season will prove to be thought, and we hope, action provoking as the issue of sustainability becomes...

Disrupt or be Disrupted

August 10, 2020 08:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MB

 Do we have unrealistic expectations of digital transformation set by the disruptors? Or have they set an expectation the competition has to respond to? Nina, Simon and Nick have over 75 years of combined experience in this field. Their conversation tackles the top barriers to change and provides insight into what they would do differently.  In this episode Nina, Simon and Nick talk about the permanent, irreversible tech transformation that has come from the disruptors of Silicon Valley. Ai...

Trailer for Episode 6: Disrupt or be Disrupted

August 03, 2020 08:00 - 1 minute - 1.14 MB

 Do we have unrealistic expectations of digital transformation set by the disruptors? Or have they set an expectation the competition has to respond to? Nina, Simon and Nick have over 75 years of combined experience in this field. Their conversation tackles the top barriers to change and provides insight into what they would do differently.  In this episode Nina, Simon and Nick talk about the permanent, irreversible tech transformation that has come from the disruptors of Silicon Valley. Ai...

Battle of the Supercomputers

July 27, 2020 12:00 - 47 minutes - 23.7 MB

 Nina and her guest, Neil Randon, have taken inspiration from a George Bernard Shaw quote; "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get." Brilliant, and sums up so many technology projects.   In this episode Nina and Neil discuss the highs and lows of technology adoption, both of them with a keen understanding of the psychology involved. The brain is the most complex change project; hence, battle of the supercomputers. Despite the fact that most people acknowle...

Trailer for Episode 5: Battle of The Supercomputers

July 18, 2020 23:00 - 2 minutes - 1.56 MB

 Nina and her guest, Neil Randon, have taken inspiration from a George Bernard Shaw quote; "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get." Brilliant, and sums up so many technology projects.   In this episode Nina and Neil discuss the highs and lows of technology adoption, both of them with a keen understanding of the psychology involved. The brain is the most complex change project; hence, battle of the supercomputers. Despite the fact that most people acknowle...

Can we be Fans of the Companies we work for?

July 13, 2020 12:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MB

Can you turn a workplace into a fanbase? Nina and her guest, former FanatiCo employee, James Ashworth tried to do this. They take a look back to discuss what they learned from that experience. In this episode Nina and James discuss why we fake it when we talk about changing culture at work. In 2015, with Steve Smith (chairman of Ear to the Ground) they saw the opportunity to combine their expertise and created FanatiCo. Their mission was to turn workplaces into fanbases. Despite the fact th...

Can We Be Fans of The companies We Work For?

July 13, 2020 12:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MB

Can you turn a workplace into a fanbase? Nina and her guest, former FanatiCo employee, James Ashworth tried to do this. They take a look back to discuss what they learned from that experience. In this episode Nina and James discuss why we fake it when we talk about changing culture at work. In 2015, with Steve Smith (chairman of Ear to the Ground) they saw the opportunity to combine their expertise and created FanatiCo. Their mission was to turn workplaces into fanbases. Despite the fact th...

Why Do We Fake It?

July 13, 2020 12:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MB

Can you turn a workplace into a fanbase? Nina and her guest, former FanatiCo employee, James Ashworth tried to do this. They take a look back to discuss what they learned from that experience. In this episode Nina and James discuss why we fake it when we talk about changing culture at work. In 2015, with Steve Smith (chairman of Ear to the Ground) they saw the opportunity to combine their expertise and created FanatiCo. Their mission was to turn workplaces into fanbases. Despite the fact th...

Trailer for Episode 4: Why Do We Fake It?

July 10, 2020 14:00 - 2 minutes - 1.49 MB

Can you turn a workplace into a fanbase? Nina and her guest, former FanatiCo employee, James Ashworth tried to do this. They take a look back to discuss what they learned from that experience. In this episode Nina and James discuss why we fake it when we talk about changing culture at work. In 2015, with Steve Smith (chairman of Ear to the Ground) they saw the opportunity to combine their expertise and created FanatiCo. Their mission was to turn workplaces into fanbases. Despite the fact th...

Trailer for Episode 4: Can we be Fans of the Companies we work for?

July 10, 2020 14:00 - 2 minutes - 1.49 MB

Can you turn a workplace into a fanbase? Nina and her guest, former FanatiCo employee, James Ashworth tried to do this. They take a look back to discuss what they learned from that experience. In this episode Nina and James discuss why we fake it when we talk about changing culture at work. In 2015, with Steve Smith (chairman of Ear to the Ground) they saw the opportunity to combine their expertise and created FanatiCo. Their mission was to turn workplaces into fanbases. Despite the fact th...

Is Change a Team Sport?

June 29, 2020 10:00 - 58 minutes - 40.6 MB

*Please note that this episode was recorded prior to the Coronavirus outbreak when we thought it wasn't going to happen to us! Therefore when Nina states that the biggest thing affecting us all in the UK right now is Brexit, that is obviously not the case now, although it is still a very important topic. In this episode Nina is joined by Yasmin Hurst and Peter Allen to discuss the question; is change a team sport? which was inspired by the Adidas Originals brilliant campaign called "Change...

Trailer for Episode 3: Is Change A Team Sport

June 27, 2020 16:00 - 1 minute - 1.35 MB

 In February 2020 Adidas Originals launched a brilliant campaign called "Change is a Team Sport". Nina thought that this was the perfect discussion topic for her catch up with two former Cheeky Monkeys, Yasmin Hurst and Peter Allen.  For those of you who don't know, the Adidas Superstar is a shoe, trainer or sneaker, depending on where you are from. The campaign was directed by Jonah Hill and it stars old and new Adidas collaborators.  Delivering change is complicated, it's a mixture of sc...

Made of What Matters - The 'DARector's Cut' (30% Slimmer!)

June 18, 2020 13:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MB

This is a slimmed down 'DARector's Cut' of the original episode, Made of What Matters. The story is the same as in the original episode (description below), it's just 30% shorter for all you busy people who can't spare a full hour to listen to the full version! In this episode Nina and her parents, inspired by the personal and positive way Raheem Sterling, Gillette and Football Beyond Borders tackle the sensitive issue of perceived differences, cover subjects such as role models in life, c...

Made of What Matters

June 11, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MB

 In this episode Nina and her parents, inspired by the personal and positive way Raheem Sterling, Gillette and Football Beyond Borders tackle the sensitive issue of perceived differences, cover subjects such as role models in life, changing cultural attitudes and what it was like to be in a mixed-race relationship in Manchester in the late 1960s.  The collaboration between Raheem Sterling, Gillette and Football Beyond Borders looks to sport for role models. As football fans Nina and her par...