Episodes
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Ep. 141 - Shai Schechter: there are no "bad" people (?)
shai.io/values
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Ep. 140 - Dr Voice: part 1 (meeting John Lennon)
www.drvoice.tv
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Ep. 139 - Simon Ohler: speak truth & HARMONISE + video games
Simon Ohler is a philosopher, bridge builder, wish granter, tree homie, based in Berlin. simonohler.com@simon_ohler
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Ep. 138 - Mark P.M.: psychic medium on ghosts, spirits & healing unwanted energy
Mark is a psychic, medium, healer and remote energy worker, based in Sydney. His mission is to restore peace, balance and harmony by empowering others to connect with their own inner wisdom and the unseen support that surrounds us all. Mark is frequently engaged to clear negative energy, dark...
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Ep. 137 - Haneen Khan: sex, intimacy and owning your desires
www.haneenkhan.com x
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Ep. 136 - Anne-Laure Le Cunff: tiny experiments & living freely in a goal obsessed world
Anne-Laure Le Cunff is an award-winning neuroscientist and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Ness Labs, where her weekly newsletter is read by more than 100,000 curious minds. Her research at King’s College London focuses on the psychology and neuroscience of lifelong learning, curiosity, and...
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Love Letter #001: Van Gogh, Violins and Loan Sharks
deliaburgess.blog deliaburgess.blog/posts/growing-up-van-gogh-violins-and-loan-sharks
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Ep. 135 - Shai Schechter: Delia learns how to lovingly offend people
shai.io On gossip / Lashon Hara: x.com/shaisc
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Ep. 134 - Kate Bean: charter schools, LA fires and embracing change
For 18 years Kate Bean served as the founder and CEO of Aveson, a non-profit built to manage charter schools and lead a national movement to challenge traditional K-12 education. Through her company iChangeCourse, Kate advises non-profit leaders on start-up practices, change management, mindful...
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Love Letter #114: people have opinions & drag queens
HI! This is me reading out my newsletter because why not. Read it here: Growing Up: people have opinions & drag queens Also: Alex is Learning substack: consensus-ism Growing Up: Gestapo & a Notting Hill slum
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Ep. 133: Mark Oliver - the drive for war & four types of intelligence
Mark Oliver is the CEO of MarkTwo Consulting www.marktwoconsulting.com
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Ep. 132 - Johnson Hsieh: healing the mother/son relationship, software engineering & fraternities
twitter: @justavagrant_ johnsonhs.substack.com
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Ep. 131 - Bryan Kam: Daoism, hedonism & perception vs. reason
Bryan is writing a book called Neither/Nor, which is about two ways of knowing the world: through language, and through experience, and how learning to navigate these sometimes opposing ways of learning can reduce individual and social suffering. www.bryankam.com (Listen to Bryan's Growing Up...
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Ep. 130 - Nicole Bosky: healing through community
Nicole Bosky is the founder of Primal Gathering, a regenerative culture design studio that restores people, forests and ecosystems simultaneously and Trust Your Nature, supporting people and employees to feel safe in their own skin through Authentic Relating & Somatic Experiencing® Therapy....
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Ep. 129 - Greg Lukianoff: free speech is for everyone
Greg Lukianoff is an attorney, New York Times best-selling author, and the President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Greg, with Jonathan Haidt co-authored The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for...
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Ep. 128 - Josh Piterman: theatre, talent vs. hard work & the shadow
Josh Piterman is a singer, actor, writer, speaker and host of the Behind the Mask podcast @joshpiterman @gobehindthemask
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Ep. 127 - Marelle Merita Seren: on the run from the police as child, Estonia & lovingkindness
Marelle is a spiritual / fitness coach from in Tallinn, Estonia @marellemerita
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Ep. 126 - Shai Schechter: healing shame, divorce, Barbados
Listen to part 1: Ep. 116 - Shai Schechter: SaaS, creativity & hating yourself less shai.io twitter.com/shaisc
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Ep. 125 - Daniel Bradley: insurance, bioenergetics and healing the body
Daniel helps people convert stress into power with bioenergetics. Self regulation and holistic self healing. Listen to part 1 - Ep. 119 - Daniel Bradley: sexuality & Christian spirituality X: @genuisofthebody
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Ep. 124 - José Betancourt: blockchain, parental pressure & founder mode
José Betancourt is the founder and CEO @ Virtual Labs.
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Ep. 123 - Jack Raines: day trading, shitposting, college football and existential thoughts
Jack is a columnist for Sherwood Media, Robinhood's media subsidiary, based in New York. Jack's personal blog, Young Money, has over 64,000 subscribers. Topics range from behavioral finance to existential introspection. www.youngmoney.co
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Ep. 122 - Aspen Arora: US Navy Intelligence / Colorado hippie & radical healing
Aspen joined the Navy when she was 17 as an enlisted sailor, & commissioned from the United States Naval Academy in 2019 as a naval aviator with a B.S. in Operations Research. In 2022 she was medically evacuated from the Middle East to San Diego where she began her radical healing journey. As she...
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Ep. 121 - Imogen Geddes: being "average", overseas adventures and pathway to yoga teacher training
Imi is a Somatic Yoga Teacher based in London. insta: @imogen.brodie Join her 8 week online somatic yoga programme starting 30 Sept 2024 imogen-brodie-yoga.mykajabi.com/survive-to-thrive-sign-up
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Ep. 119 - Daniel Bradley: sexuality & Christian spirituality
Daniel helps people convert stress into power with bioenergetics. Self regulation and holistic self healing. X: @genuisofthebody
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Ep. 118 - Ranjana Iyer: Bangalore startups, arranged marriage & ayahuasca
Ranjana (RJ) is a former professional dancer and a startup founder based in Bangalore. She is also a vegan, bookworm, writer, dancer, and entrepreneur who loves: "entrepreneurship, travelling, reading, writing, solitude, nature, walking, learning various dance forms, deep conversations, masala…
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Ep. 117 - Rish Gupta: the false self & trusting the path
Rish Gupta is a transformation & manifesting coach based in India. In 2019, a deep void forced him to enquire about the nature of this life. He turned towards spirituality for the first time: "As my practices to strengthen my body, mind and spirit intensified, I became more and more aware of...
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Ep. 116 - Shai Schechter: SaaS, creativity & hating yourself less
shai.io twitter.com/shaisc
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Ep. 115 - Jess Dato: Long Island, leaving big corporate & working with founders
Jess Dato is a strategy & ops consultant providing fractional services to startups and small businesses, based in New York. Find her on twitter @jessdato
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Ep. 114 - Roger Moorhouse: mechanic to acclaimed WWII historian and author
Roger Moorhouse is an historian and author specialising in modern German and Central European history, with particular interest in Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and World War Two in Europe. His books include: Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45 The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's...
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Ep. 113 - Catherine Woodiwiss: Appalachian hippie Christian values
Catherine Woodiwiss is a designer + journalist. She is currently building socialhealingproject.com Her work is largely about what makes us human, in a world that’s increasingly being built for tech. catherinehwoodiwiss.com Twitter: @chwoodiwiss
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Ep. 112 - Joachim Brackx: post-achievement life
Joachim found success as a singer & composer in Belgium before turning to entrepreneurship for greater agency over his life and income. He co-founded a digital product business while living nomadically. He is currently based in Sofia, where he is pursuing a new chapter...
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Ep. 111 - Melissa Porter: emotional eating, hedge funds & hypnosis
Melissa is an Emotional Eating Coach based in Portugal. In 2023 she quit her London hedge fund job to pursue a greater calling... insta: @melissaportercoaching
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Ep. 110 - Silba Staffler: making friends with food & why your therapy isn't working
Silba is a trained behavioural scientist and trauma-informed somatic coach (MSc, Dipl, Cert, Dipl) who supports ambitious humans to reconnect to their bodies, redefine their purpose and savour the fullness of life. In her private coaching sessions, workshops and talks, she merges modern science,...
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Ep. 109 - Pantelis Grigoriou: motivation of champions, tennis & unconditional love
Pantelis is a CEDR accredited mediator with a unique background in business, partnerships, fintech, property, sports, and negotiations, offering a rare insight into the influences that drive conflict. Pantelis brings a wealth of experience from founding seven startups and achieving two successful...
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Ep. 108 - Justin Breen: connecting visionaries to serve humanity
Justin partners with the 0.1% because they create the technologies, companies and systems that benefit the other 99.9%. He is the author of Epic Business and Epic Life. theepicfit.com
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Ep. 107 - Tom McLeod: the non-linear path to building companies
Tom is an investor, mentor and partner who loves building software.
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Ep. 106 - Andrew Fleig: stoicism & cold emailing to get what you want
Andrew is a writer and student of philosophy at George Washington University, in Washington D.C. He also works as a Research Assistant for Brass Check, working for some of the biggest and most brilliant minds in content creation, such as Ryan Holiday, Brent Underwood, and Billy Oppenheimer....
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Ep. 105 - Ben Freeth: the long ride to justice for Zimbabweans
Ben Freeth, MBE is a British-born Zimbabwean farmer who successfully sued Mugabe in an international court in 2008. Since winning the lawsuit he has been harassed and his farm burnt to the ground. His family's story was told in a BAFTA nominated documentary, Mugabe and the White African (2009)…
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Ep. 104 - Khe Hy: leaving a $2.3m Wall Street salary at 35 & finding peace
Khe Hy worked on Wall Street for 15 years and was one of the youngest Managing Directors at BlackRock. He followed the playbook of status and income, but was hit with the striking realisation: "Is this it?" At 35, he left and started RadReads, the blog that helps hard-charging professionals step...
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Ep. 103 - Kai Karar: drugs, sex, violence & going viral
Kai Karar tells his Growing Up story on Ep. 94 - Kai Karar: addiction, stealing cars, Russian drug supply & getting clean He currently hosts a popular podcast in Finland (he monetised his YouTube channel in 49 days) & here we are mostly chatting about this! Kai lives in Tampere Finland. He is a...
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Ep. 102 - Erica Komisar: prioritising motherhood & raising an emotionally secure future
Erica Komisar, LCSW is a New York based psychoanalyst, parent coach and author. With 30 years of experience in private practice, she works to alleviate pain from individuals who suffer from depression, anxiety, eating, and other compulsive disorders. A graduate of Georgetown and Columbia...
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Ep. 101 - John Hittler: Russian orphans & talking his way into Georgetown
We also discuss growing up in Detroit with that surname... John Hittler is the co-founder of Evoking Genius, a transformational business-coaching firm based in San Jose, California. Father of seven, happily married, competitive athlete, and dedicated volunteer in the field of domestic violence,...
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Ep. 100 - Grace Nikae: child prodigy, wanting to be "normal" and the freedom to change careers
Grace Nikae began touring internationally as a concert pianist at 13 years old... (I was going to ask her the definition of "child prodigy" and then found out she'd been on TV as a 3 y.o. solving algebraic equations and reading from a Mark Twain novel, so checks out.) Grace has done many…
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Ep. 99 - Dave Sherwood: CEO of BibliU, quitting Oxford to start a company
Dave Sherwood is Co-Founder and CEO of BibliU. BibliU is an education technology company, specialising in digital textbook provision for universities. Originally from Western Australia, Dave was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University but left his studies after 18 months having founded BibliU.
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Ep. 98 - Delia Burgess: why the podcast, depression & mushies
I had no idea what Neil was going to ask me ahhhhh scary
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Ep. 97 - Georgie Owen: accepting yourself for being "too much"
Georgie is a legend / lawyer based in Melbourne who is passionate about food & diet culture. insta: @conceivingitall podcast: Conceiving it All - the podcast She sent me a million books / resources to include in the show notes: ADHD ADHD 2.0, Edward M Hallowell, Dr. John J. Ratey Scattered Minds,...
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Ep. 96 - Alex Large: conquering social anxiety & IFS
Twitter: @alexishelping
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Ep. 95 - Nolan Gore: Marine Corps, God, Texas & landscaping
Nolan Gore is the General Manager and owner of Top Choice Lawn Care, Austin (85 employees. $8M and growing) He previously served in the US Marine Corps as Combat Engineer Officer. Twitter: @LeadershipAcad1 www.topchoiceaustin.com
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Ep. 94 - Kai Karar: addiction, stealing cars, Russian drug supply & getting clean
Kai lives in Tampere Finland. He is a ghostwriter, podcaster and former MMA fighter. @edge_of_obsess
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Ep. 93 – Silba Staffler: out of body experience & healing her relationship with food
Silba is a trained behavioural scientist and trauma-informed somatic coach (MSc, Dipl, Cert, Dipl) who supports ambitious humans to reconnect to their bodies, redefine their purpose and savour the fullness of life. In her private coaching sessions, workshops and talks, she merges modern science,...