Being Human

#260 Being Your True Self - with Gillian McMichael

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This week we speak with Gillian McMichael, teacher, healer, coach and author of the book Coming Home: A Guide to Being Your True Self.Coming from a working-class background, Gillian's path from being an administrator and holiday rep to coaching at the highest levels in business is remarkable. A pioneer in the field, Gillian set up the very first professional coaching body in Scotland and has gone on to master multiple disciplines in the healing and coaching arts. Gillian shares:
Recovery from sexual trauma
Finding meditation
The power of answering big questions
Resiliency and Reiki
Stacking habits
Links:Gillian's WebsiteComing Home: A Guide to Being Your True Self - The Book

#259 Potentiate Your DNA - with Sol Luckman

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This week’s Being Human guest is Sol Luckman, a confessed beachaholic and obsessive cultural creative.
Preferring hard play over a so-called honest day’s work, these days in the New Abnormal, Sol spends his time on a new small island mostly bodysurfing, painting, and writing—not necessarily in that order and usually not all at once.
How while on a permanent vacation, he became a multi-award-winning and international bestselling author and prolific professional artist is anyone’s guess. 
We talk:
From athlete and star student to suffering a vaccine injury
Eras I, II and III of Western Medicine
Discovering the codes to achieve a bioenergetic reset
Turning frogs into salamanders
Are we living in a sound hologram?
Links:Sol's Website

#258 Leading Beyond Change - with Michael and Audree Tara Sahota

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This week’s Being Human episode sees the return of Michael Sahota, this time joined by with his wife Audree Tara Sahota.Michael and Audree are the co-creators of the SHIFT314 Evolutionary Leadership Framework™ (SELF), which provides a practical step-by-step guide for the inner and outer shifts needed to unlock Business Agility, Teal and other new ways of working. 
We talk:
How consciousness is awareness
Awareness starts with noticing the consequences of your behaviours
The triangle of trauma impact
Healing fast and slow
What is driving your desire?
Links:Leading Beyond Change - The BookEmotionalScience.com

#257 Self-Organisation Now! Sparking The Revolution - with Niels Pflaeging

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This week I speak with Niels Pflaeging, researcher and author on organisational leadership and transformation.Niels is a tour de force on a mission to create a world of 'Beta' organisations. He borrows the 'beta' concept from software development, where 'beta' systems are constantly being iterated. Beta organisations are decentralised and comprise small, self-sustaining autonomous teams in the mould of Handelsbanken or Buurtzorg. Niels claims his beta model is the best a company can adopt to thrive in complexity and to enable human flourishing. Niels pulls no punches in describing our present management paradigm, nor his views on applying complexity science in business.Niels shares:
Why command and control 'Alpha' organisations stink
The difference between Blue (complicated) and Red (complex) systems
Why complexity frameworks are BS
The issue with consent-based decisions making
How to transform to a decentralised 'Beta' organisation in 90 days
Links:Organize for Complexity - The BookNiels' Websitegomenius

#256 Failure Rules! - with Andrew Thorp King

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This week I speak with Andrew Thorp King, author of the book "FAILURE RULES!: The 5 Rules of Failure for Entrepreneurs, Creatives, and Authentics".Andrew has had a wild ride - from working a steel production line, to managing a hard rock label, to owning gyms and finance companies.We talk:
How failure purifies
Love meaning, not money
The 'Thing One/Thing Two' strategy living your dream
A soul on fire is a soul alive
Soulful resilience
Links:Failure Rules! - The BookAndrew's Website

#255 The Nine - with Phil Simon

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This week I speak with Phil Simon, author, speaker and recognized authority on technology, collaboration, and the future of work.Phil predicts a growing gap between the workplace of the future and how we operated pre-COVID. In his latest book, The Nine, he outlines the major interlocking trends that will shape this new world. We talk:
Addressing the mental health crisis
We're not going back 5 days a week
Optimism for the impacts of Generative AI
Combating Zoom fatigue
Options for moving forward
Links:
Phil's WebsiteThe Nine - The Book

#254 Sociocracy 3.0 - with James Priest

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This week’s Being Human episode is with James Priest, exploring Sociocracy 3.0, the liberating approach to business based on the consent, not consensus, process.
James combines extensive experience in sociocracy with 15 years of practice in the fields of holistic organizational development, facilitative leadership and personal and relational transformation across a variety of sectors, from corporations to non-profits, children and communities.We talk:
Becoming a leader of a spiritual community at 27
First forays in using Sociocracy
Preventing teenage pregnancies
Developing Sociocracy 3.0 for use in business
The unexamined drivers of our behaviour
Links:Sociocracy 3.0

#253 The Fourth Phase of Water - with Gerald H. Pollack

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This week I speak with Dr. Gerald Pollack, a man who is on a mission to challenge everything we know about water.We've always been told that water has three states: Solid, Liquid, and Vapor. Dr. Pollack's laboratory findings imply the presence of a surprisingly extensive fourth phase that occurs near certain surfaces. The formal name for this fourth phase is exclusion-zone water, aka EZ water, with its discovery opening the way for new and profound implications in chemistry, physics, and biology.We talk:
Getting inspired to study water
First discovering 'EZ water'
How it makes all of biology wrong
Health implications for EZ water
Does water have memory?
Links:The Pollack LabProfessor Gerald Pollack Facebook Page

#252 Mainstreaming Psilocybin - with Neil Markey

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This week I speak with Neil Markey, a man with a remarkable story.After serving in the US Army Rangers and doing three tours in Iraq and twice in Afghanistan, he was discharged suffering from depression and PTSD. This led him to alternative well-being practices and he began a profound healing journey with mindfulness and psychedelics. Via the prestigious consulting firm McKinsey and a stint in private equity, he now leads healing retreats across Jamaica and the Netherlands.We talk:
Recovering from PTSD
Experiencing psilocybin for the first time
Relating to Nature
The psilocybin risk/reward
Neil's new vision for capitalism 
Links:Beckley Retreats

#251 The FreeMind Experience - with Tom Fortes Mayer

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This week I speak with author, speaker, and therapist Tom Fortes Mayer. In 2000, after a chance encounter with a holy man at the wind down of a rave in Goa, Tom experienced a profound event that changed how he viewed himself and his life. Since that moment, he has been obsessed with how these moments happen and has dedicated his life to learning how to engineer them for others in the most powerful ways possible.We talk:
Experiencing epiphany
From nightclub impresario to seeker
Unpicking self-sabotage
Fusing music and therapy
Finding sober joy
Links:Tom's WebsiteTom's TedX Talk