Episodes

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...