Being Human

#237 Happy Hour is 9 to 5 - with Alexander Kjerulf

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This week, I speak with Alexander Kjerulf, author of the book Happy Hour is 9 to 5: How to Love Your Job, Love Your Life and Kick Butt at Work.Alexander gives detailed, practical advice on building the skills and energy to become happier and more successful at work and on learning how to deal with everything from nightmare bosses, bullies, miserable co-workers, long-running conflicts, stifling bureaucracy and management who refuse to see anything beyond the bottom line.We talk:
How quitting is for winners
Financial freedom
Why not to ask: 'what would make you happy?'
Happiness = relationships and results
Happiness is about them
Links:Happy Hour is 9 to 5 - The BookAlexander's Website

#236 Connect To The Elements - with Justine Clement

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This week, I speak with Justine Clement, breath coach, founder of multiple companies and a formerly self-confessed ‘on-the-go’ CEO.For many years, she was CEO of an experiential travel company, and no words of warning from others about the importance of slowing down could stop her. She only started to listen after a series of injuries forced her to stop. Her slow recovery invited her to start learning how to ‘be’ rather than ‘do’ … and she found some powerful lessons in those enforced moments of stillness. 
We talk:
Conscious Connected Breath
Yin versus yang breathwork
Forest Bathing (no bath required)
Inhaling the phytoncides
Going phone free
Links:WonderbreathForest Bathing Made In BritainSelsey Sea Bathing Society

#235 G Cubed - with Lloyd Roberts

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This week, I speak with Lloyd Roberts, author, serial entrepreneur and tech company co-founder.
His book G Cubed: The Only Formula You Will Ever Need to Become Personally Fulfilled, is a powerful self-help guide that pairs real-life stories with a practical recipe for a personal fulfilment formula that will revitalize your potential, activate your success, and level up your entire world. 
We talk:
How losing his sister changed his life
Almost going blind
Changing your standards
Gratitude, Growth, and Giving as life satisfaction multipliers
How to embed rituals 
Links:G Cubed - The BookThe G Cubed FormulaBecome More

#234 Making Mondays Great - with Julius Manni

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This week, I speak with Julius Manni, CEO of the Finnish tech company Vincit.
Vincit was originally founded in 2007 with a motto. To be a workplace that wouldn’t suck – not even on Mondays. Starting there, they're blossomed into The Best Place to Work in Finland. They've managed to do that using something they call Leadership as a Service, whereby employees are encouraged to develop themselves and their skills through self-management.We talk:
Being a father and public company CEO
Self-management and worldwide scaling
The change leader as facilitator
Music as a creative outlet
Learning to let go
Links:VincitJulius' Music

#233 Yang Sheng - with Katie Brindle

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This week, I speak with Katie Brindle - a force of nature, life healer and expert Chinese Medicine practitioner.
After a car accident ended her dreams of becoming an opera singer, she eventually found healing through a visit to a Chinese Doctor on the King's Road in London. The experience was so profound it inspired her to train as a practitioner. Katie's approach focuses on the gap that Western medicine doesn't address, and that's the 'almost-well', the 'not feeling so good', the tired out and over-stressed. 
We talk:
Katie's transition from marketing exec to therapist
The practice that healed her 
The three foundations of health
Cupping for energy
Tuning into the seasons
Links:Katie's WebsiteKatie's InstagramKatie's TikTokThe Hayo'u Method

#232 The Factory with No Bosses - with Paul Green, Jr.

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This week, I speak with Paul Green, Jr., Assistant Professor of Management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin.Paul has a fascinating life story. What started for Paul as a seasonal job testing tomato juice became the start of an adventure in researching and understanding The Morning Star Company. Morning Star is the largest tomato processor in California. With no bosses, it has been called “the world’s most creatively managed company,” with Paul now leading the Morning Star Self-Management Institute. We talk:
Turning down banking for tomatoes
Every man, a mission
Whether self-management works for everyone
Firing people when there is no boss
The need for a ‘moral protector’
Links:Paul's WebsiteThe Morning Star Company

#231 How to Build a ”WE” Culture - with Kyle McDowell

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This week, I speak with Kyle McDowell, author, leadership coach and former top executive.Kyle has had an extraordinary career. He left high school to work in a call centre, paid his way through college and ended his corporate career managing tens of thousands of people.In his book, Begin With WE: 10 Principles for Building and Sustaining a Culture of Excellence, Kyle examines the root causes of dysfunction in the workplace, highlighting the plague of a "me-oriented" paradigm.His inside-out approach cultivates courageous "WE-oriented" leaders who recognize that great things can only be accomplished by great teams with a shared vision and a common set of guiding principles.
We talk:
We not me leadership
Relating to all levels
Dropping the corporate persona
Holding the line on principles
Links:Begin with WE - The BookKyle's Website

#230 Axing Line Management - with Philippa Kindon & Taryn Burden

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This week, I speak with Philippa Kindon & Taryn Burden, representing the UK software development company Mayden. Philippa and Taryn share Mayden's genuinely pioneering culture. Mayden has taken self-management from the software team and applied it to the whole company.
Philippa and Taryn absolutely give the lie to the belief that removing formal hierarchy inevitably leads to chaos. In fact, it's given them an outstanding culture.
We talk:
A coach for everyone
Personal growth, not promotion
Building culture bottom up
Links:Mayden's Website

#229 Chase the Light - with Cesar Perez

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This week, I speak with Cesar Perez, author of Chase the Light. A professional actor with a promising career, Cesar was on a meteoric rise until a car accident left him with a severe brain injury and almost entirely incapacitated. His remarkable resilience, through a grueling physical recovery and the breakdown of his relationship, forms the core of our conversation.
We talk:
Being coached by an extraordinary mother
His big break
Getting hit by two trucks
Recovering for the sake of others
Keeping it in the day
If you’re going through dark times right now, you may find great inspiration in Cesar’s story.Links:Chase The Light - The BookCesar's Instagram

#228 The Vedas For Everyone - with Narada Kush

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This week, I speak with Narada Kush, someone who has changed my life. He was my personal Vedic meditation teacher. Since taking up this practice, my life has transformed in multiple ways: my sleep has improved, my mind has cleared, and I'm far less reactive to daily events. 
Narada is the author of the book The Vedas For Everyone. He has made it his life's mission to bring the ancient wisdom of the Vedas to the masses and teach their practical applications to inspire people to follow their own unique (inner) path. 
We talk:
his journey into Vedic meditation
gathering insight in an age of ignorance
finding personal stability through meditation
transcending your current state of consciousness
Links:Narada's WebsiteThe Vedas For Everyone - The Book