Episodes

The Bug in Our Thinking & The Way To Fix It

Hugh is an author with experience in business, market research, psychotherapy, academia and performance.

He has led over a hundred workshops in negotiation, qualitative research, therapeutic transformation, hypnosis, effective presentation skills, practical philosophy and authentic storytelling.

In 1997 he gained his PhD in Philosophy from City University, London.

In 1999 Hugh co-founded Corr Willbourn Research and Development, a qualitative market...

Living Your Passion & Creative Play

John C. Morley is an International Keynote Speaker, Podcast host, Drive Time Radio Personality, and CEO and Founder of The JMOR Connection, Inc now a 30+ year company in Franklin Lakes, NJ.

John has a passion for Technology and helping others feel comfortable with using their technology to maximise its optimum potential.

During 7th Grade he started one of New Jersey’s largest BBS Systems to build community before there was an internet. Later, he managed two...

The Creative & Transcendence as the Norm

Robert Fritz first published his excellent ‘The Path of Least Resistance’ in 1984. The book took the personal growth world by storm. Here was a work that integrated psychology with creativity with productivity, seamlessly. His highly leveraged modality proved effective for millions across the following decades.

In this episode I share with you his closing words ~ the punchline if you will. Here we tap into the true motivation for becoming the creative f...

Ep 92: Michael Kurkowski - Strength, Intuition & Emotional Regulation

Michael has been a strength and mindset coach for almost 15 years. He’s the owner of Breakthrough Secrets and host of The Strength Connection Podcast.

Michael helps busy professionals create a harmony in

their physical, mental and spiritual strength practices to help them live out their fullest potential and most joyful life.

He believes in the process of mastery ~ that everyone is capable of becoming a master of their own...

The Nameless & What is Reality?

While it’s true we require some sense of what is or isn’t real for our basic survival and ability to navigate life, it can be significantly liberating and helpful to dip into philosophical notions around perception, reality and illusion.

Creativity calls for expanded thinking and expression. We can’t do this very well when we’re wedded to a limited and limiting position about reality.

In this episode I introduce a highly esoteric and ‘out there’ piece from the ...

The Spirit of Things & Assured Success

Robert D’Aubigny is an entrepreneur and investor. His main raison d'etre is creating organisations where the environment and corporate systems lead to personal growth.

Much of Robert’s early life was spent working in and collaborating with alternative communities; studying the main streams of humanistic psychology under the tutorage of leading thinkers in the field. After exploring different approaches to personal development he created his first organisa...

Building Community & The Rabbi’s Gift

As tribe creatures we all need community. As leaders it behoves us to create and nurture community within our organisations.

In this episode I introduce the great M Scott Peck who researched and wrote about Community extensively in the 80s.

I share with you the beautiful and very moving myth or legend The Rabbi’s Gift, drawn from Peck’s wonderful book The Different Drum (1987). The story contains within it some of the crucial principles for creating a thr...

Park Your Ego At The Door

Charles J Read is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), U.S Tax Court Practitioner ( USTCP), member of Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council (IRSAC) and the Founder of GetPayroll.

A Vietnam war vet, and a business owner for over 30 years, his companies have provided full-service payroll services, payroll tax services, and other payroll-related services since 1991.

Charles is an accomplished senior executive and entrepreneur with more than fifty years of financial ...

Organisations as Political Systems & The Sources of Power in Your Organisation

Re-introducing Gareth Morgan who gave us his marvellous book ‘Images of Organization’.

Over several decades of working with clients who are making significant changes in their businesses, I’ve noticed that organisational interventions that are not specifically tailored to the organisation in question do not work. At best there’s some improvement but not as much as hoped. At worst damage is done and more money must b...

Curiosity, Interestedness & The Meaning of Life
Legendary multi–BAFTA Award winning producer John Lloyd CBE is the founder of QI and the producer of some of Britain’s best-loved TV shows. He is of the same opinion as Plato: unmitigated seriousness has no place in human affairs. On the other hand, he also likes A. N. Whitehead’s assertion that it’s more important for something to be interesting than true (although it’s more likely to be interesting if it is true).

When it comes to producing and ...

Scott Ritzheimer Guest Host - Secrets of Success & The Power of Choice
Scott helped start nearly 20,000 new businesses and nonprofits and with his business partner started and led their multimillion-dollar business through an exceptional and extended growth phase (over 10 years of double-digit growth all before he turned 35).

He founded Scale Architects to help businesses across the country identify the right growth strategies and find the right guides to get them on the fast-track to Predictab...

Divine Nature, Highest Intent & We Are Happiest When We Serve

An accomplished strategic sales professional and leader, Dan has always been fascinated by human behaviour and the differences between those who are happy and successful and those who struggle.

Dan realised it was his calling to help those who struggle with negative emotions and behaviours, to remember their highest intent, embrace their divine nature and rediscover their passion!

Whatever we aspire to, whatever the life of our dre...

Organisations as Organisms & The Vital Importance of A Bit of Research
Introducing Gareth Morgan who gave us his marvellous book ‘Images of Organization’.

Over several decades of working with clients who are making significant changes in their businesses, I’ve noticed that organisational interventions that are not specifically tailored to the organisation in question do not work. At best there’s some improvement but not as much as hoped. At worst damage is done and more money must be invested t...

Being Who You Are, What’s Next? & All In!

Robert Raymond Riopel is an international Best-Selling author, App Designer, Entrepreneur and Trainer. With HIGH ENERGY and Heartfelt Style, Robert Raymond Riopel has used his humour and stories to personally train over 500,000 students around the world.

After going from $150,000 in debt and stressed to completely Financial Free by the age of 32, Robert discovered his passion of training others because he felt that if he could even assist 1 person in t...

Isolation at the Top, The 3 Crucial Support Categories & Thriving as a Non-Exec Chairman

With the right kinds of support and input, NECs can help themselves to thrive and succeed in the role; for the good of the business, the Board and themselves.

In this episode I explore this, and pass on a bit of the wisdom shared with me by NECs a few years ago during the research phase of my eBook ‘Autonomy in Relationship - the Human Side of Being a Non-Exec Chairman’.

Non-exec Chairmen are mature, expe...

Awareness, Humanity & Creating Art

Michaell is an Austrian-Californian multimedia Artist, creativity and awareness educator, author of 5 books, a podcaster, speaker, coach, and former Newport Beach CA arts commissioner.

An outside the box thinker, Michael’s ability is to resolve paradoxes. He discovers patterns within Art that foster creative communication and identifies art values outside of any man-made systems.

He points to our untapped human abilities like our truth-compass of nature and ...

John Heron RIP & Why Emotional Competence is Essential for Leaders Today

John Heron, one of the giants of Humanistic Psychology, passed away in November 2022.

In his 1990 piece ‘The Politics of Transference’ John lays out three fundamental guiding principles:

“The first is that, both theoretically and practically, the intrapsychic and interpersonal dimensions of transference are to be seen always in relation to the society-wide and political dimensions.

“This leads on to the second principle...

Honest Relationship, Mutual Benefit & Business Success

Paul Baron is the founder and CEO of The Wall Printer USA.

He started his career as a high school math teacher but after several years found his entrepreneurial soul kept pulling at him. His decades of business experience span B2B, B2C, retail, manufacturing, international business, and franchising. He has started and owned a series of retail stores, high technology software, communications hardware, consumer packaged goods, and machinery ...

Consciousness, Higher Self & Evolution

I don’t know if you've ever come across a book called the I Ching, which I believe was written originally in Chinese. I've got an English translation here by Brian Brown Walker, and in the front of this book there's a quote which I really like:

“The only true aristocracy is that of Consciousness.”
DH Lawrence

DH Lawrence was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist. His works reflect on modernity, industrialisation, sexuality, emotional health, vit...

Luisa Ferrario - Energy, Sensitivity, Mindset, Intentionality & Joy
Luisa is an entrepreneur, an international growth mindset & leadership mentor, speaker, and author. Her clients include professional services scale-ups to Fortune 500 and World Leading Organisations such as Coca-Cola, Amgen, Merck, Intesa, BCG, KPMG.

Luisa and her team help clients unstick their mindset, energy and emotional ownership - helping them melt away self-sabotage and implement a more profitable and impactful business ...

Leverage, Give & Take, Entrepreneurialism & What is Your Superpower?

Phil Pelucha is an internationally renowned Celebrity Entrepreneur and Business & Sports Consultant best known for 'Billionaires in Boxers.'

1. A former professional athlete

2. Producer & Director of BiBtv

3. Host of a top 5% podcast with more than 1m downloads each month

4. Created over 10k hours of podcasting & Satellite TV content

Phil is famous for his ability to take your business from Unknown to Unrivalled; that and...

Health, Empathy, Looking in the Mirror & Choosing Change

Dai Manuel is a super-dad, dating his wife, with a lead by example way of living and a contagious personality, who is on a mission to positively impact one million role models around the globe to lead a FUN-ctionally fit life through education, encouragement, and community.

He is an award-winning digital thought leader and author, Distinguished Toastmaster & TEDx speaker, former partner and Chief Operating Officer of a multi-million doll...

Self-Worth, Fulfilment, Awareness and Choosing Your Mud
Kevin is the CFO, Founder & Co-Host of Next Level University, a Global Top 100 Self-Improvement podcast with more than 1100 episodes reaching over 675,000 people in more than 140 countries. Over the past few years Kevin and his friends have grown Next Level University from zero to a multi six-figure business.

He’s given hundreds of speeches, trainings and coaching calls with people all over the world.

Kevin believes in a heart driven, but...

Values, Integrity & Quality of Life

Italian by birth, and cosmopolitan by vocation, Angela Santi is the one-of-a-kind boutique-style Leadership Consultant for rebellious and ambitious elite entrepreneurs, business owners, and executives.

With almost 30 years of business experience (18 as an entrepreneur), and humanistic background, she has pioneered the Dolce V.I.T.A. Leadership and Lifestyle Mastery Model, a lively, tailor-made, and strategic approach for empowering her clients to thrive by l...