Evolving Door

This week's guest Wali Khan had to leave home at 7 years old to escape the Taliban. He relocated to the UK with his mum and brother.

A few years later he found himself at a hospital in Birmingham meeting two boys his age from back home in Swat Valley, Pakistan. Their sister Malala had been shot in the head by the Taliban and was being treated at the hospital in Birmingham.

The boys became friends and shared many of the same challenges growing up and being educated in a country far from home. They have started a unique project together called 'The Last Neanderthals' using the power of Web 3.0 to build a global community around the power of education, the power of possibility.

This is Wali's story.

Checkout @thelastneanderthals

This week's Eclective Selectives solo episode explores three topics from the last few weeks.

The first is about Declarative Language

The second is about Autistic Spiderman

The third is about my friend Suzanne who recently passed away

Hope you like it.

Welcome back to the Evolving Door podcast everybody this the podcast for ambitious thoughtful people who want to succeed internally just as much as they do out in the world.

I have a very exciting guest for you today, Hetal Baman, she's a social impact podcaster she has a podcast called Global Health pursuit. She's an engineer by background, grew up in New York or just near New York, and her heritage is from India. We're gonna hear how she gave up on all the things she enjoyed to try and live up to others expectations of her and lost herself along the way even though outwardly she was doing really well.

Now she has finally had the courage to explore outside the lines and see what's possible for her life, carving out a life that didn't seem on the cards in the beginning. She's mapping it out and going for it.

You can find her @hetal.baman

I'm @beinspiredrav

We would love to hear from you

This week's Eclective Selectives episode explores three topics that came to me when away on holiday this August.

The first is about Design or Chance

The second is about Respect and Dignity

The third is about Not Letting Beautiful Things Turn To Poison

Hope you like it.

Positive News described this week's guest Ben Hurst as a youth leader helping to rewrite the script of masculinity.

I met him after his TEDxLondonWomen talk where he said 'Boys won't be boys, boys will be what we teach them to be.'

He is an activist, advocate, public speaker, facilitator, model, and podcaster who is helping men and boys navigate the whole space of what it means to be a man in today's world.

We talk about the pressures many boys face growing up to be a certain way, where that comes from, and how to help our sons navigate these challenges.

We discuss figures like Andrew Tate and their influence on boys and young men including the reasons they have been so successful. We also explore the importance of seeing the positive in their messages alongside the negative if we are to gain the trust of those receiving the message.

If you have sons or daughters, this episode will equip you with tools to help you support them in facing the challenges of growing up today.

Connect with Ben @therealbenhurst or @beyondequality

This is my first solo episode where I talk about 3 random things that have struck me in the last few weeks sharing some thoughts and reflections from my perspective.

There is a follow on link from the last episode with Glen Hansard as he inspired the section on weeds with something he said to me a while back.

I am planning to do more of these if you enjoy them, so please let me know what you think. I also share a new intro I have been working on for the podcast.

I am taking a break after this episode until September when we will be back with some great interviews and solo episodes for your entertainment, inspiration and pleasure.

Until then, hope you enjoy the episode and have a great summer.

I was at Glen Hansard's band The Frames first gig at the Clifton Country Blues Festival in the west of Ireland in 1990.

Shortly afterwards we became friends and it has been a wonder to witness the incredible adventure he has been on since, always with music and poetry and an eagerness to better understand himself and life at the heart of it.

From humble beginnings living in Dublin's only high rise flats in Ballymun he went on to create amazing music loved by fans all over the world and has played alongside so many of his childhood heroes like Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell, Michael Stipe and many more.

He won an Oscar for the music he and Marketa Irglova wrote for the Indie Film 'Once' that they both starred in which captured the hearts of so millions and opened him out to a wider audience.

We have a rambling conversation about so many things, I hope you like it (we managed to clean up the audio really well for the most part but towards the end you can hear a friendly neighbour strimming the grass outside the window, just a heads up).

You can connect with Glen @thegingerman222 on Instagram and I am @beinspiredrav We would love to connect and hear your thoughts on the episode. Please don't forget to like, rate and subscribe, it really helps alot.

Daniel Alexander is a former youth worker, award winning film maker, a great champion of young people and a proud dad to twin girls.

The trailer for his latest film, a horror adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, has been shared millions of times by fans worldwide as they get excited about the release of the short film with a feature film planned thereafter.

He has developed his craft to the point where he has directed and shot content for Netflix, Amazon, BBC and ITV even though he didn't pick up a camera until he was about 20 years old. He is a huge supporter of young talent and knows only too well that a wrong turn in youth can lead to a very different future as he had his own near misses growing up too.

This is a great episode, we really get into some deep stuff on life as well as lots of really useful advice for anyone pursuing a career or a passion in the creative arts.

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Mark Leruste is a former 7-figure award-winning fundraiser turned best-selling author of Glow in the Dark

He’s a proud dyslexic thinker and founder of The Unconventionalists podcast and is on a mission to help one million entrepreneurs and leaders impact the world with their story.

His TEDx talk was listed as the #1 TED Talk every entrepreneur should watch by Steven Bartlett (host of The Diary of a CEO podcast)

You might have seen him in Forbes or The Wall Street Journal and he is a regular public speaker at companies big and small all over the world.

What I love about him most is his quest to encourage as many people as possible to bring their humanity to the workplace by sharing their stories and using their voices to make a difference.

He says 'The story that will change your life the most is not the story you read but the story you tell.'

Today we dive into his story and the journey he has been on that has led to his best-selling book 'Glow In The Dark.'

You can find out more about his work at https://www.markleruste.com