Getahead - Behind The Curtain

For the latest episode of Getahead - Behind The Curtain we welcome Morning Gloryville's Neil Greenwood to the pod. We talk about his background in recruitment, and the transition from that to becoming the "magical maestro" at the original sober morning rave!

A slightly different episode, this one recorded live at the first Getahead Festival, with founder Dan Kirby speaking to Michael Acton Smith, the CEO of the Calm meditation app, creator of Moshi Monsters, and someone who has really been there, done it when it comes to the rollercoaster ride that is entrepreneurship!

Will Kirby is joined by Jon Salmon. Jon's had a successful career, creating an award-winning production studio, is a pioneer of live-streaming from festivals, and co-founded branded entertainment agency Byte Entertainment. 

He is also a passionate mental health campaigner, something driven by his own experiences, losing his father to suicide as a teenager, being sectioned in the late 90s, then hiding this fact from his friends for nearly 20 years, until another suicide made him reassess

For the latest episode of Getahead - Behind The Curtain, we welcome Wez Saunders, Managing Director of Defected Records, the incredibly successful house music record label and events company, and discuss all manner of topics, ranging from his own personal journey and battles with grief-related depression, changing career as a result of those experiences, all the way through to the considerable success he has enjoyed at Defected, including a trip to the Grammy Awards.

Today, Getahead - Behind The Curtain welcome's James Sutcliffe, Marketing Director at Monster Energy, for a chat about his life, work and ideas - we covered a lot of ground, including his own 2 brushes with cancer and how that impacted him, his role at Monster and what they do for developing musicians, including working with Stormzy. The topics of physical and mental health come up, as does the normalisation of drugs in UK society, and how that relates to mental health.

The 3rd and final interview recorded at Getahead Festival in London, this time with Charlie Walker from Harmonic Finance, one of Getahead's sponsors. He told me about his history building businesses, his struggled balancing the demands of entrepreneurship and family life, health scares, an interesting anecdote about a member of his family who's gone into politics and done rather well, and much more

At the Getahead Festival, I spoke with Emma Mamo, head of workplace wellbeing at Mind. We touched on how stress & pressure can spill over into mental health issues if not tackled, how early on in her career at Mind she had some challenges that required help from more senior figures, as well as finding out about her habits & routines, and much more.

Taken from the annual Getahead Festival in London, a short interview with world-renowned sleep expert Nick Littlehales, with some great insights on how to use sleep to benefit your health and wellbeing.

Top radio and club DJ Melody Kane joins Will Kirby for a conversation about her life and career, her fitness brand No Kane No Gain, her charity work in Kenya, and much more besides!

A brief introduction to Getahead, to your host Will Kirby (aka Santero), and to this podcast, Getahead - Behind The Curtain.