Claire Linton-Evans – women's executive coach and author of the book Climbing the Ladder in Heels – How to Succeed in the Career Game of Snakes and Ladders – is the latest person to take the mic at our 'How'd You Become So Awesome?' podcast.

As a lifelong agitator for change – Claire has laser-focussed her career on helping women get into corporate leadership roles and staying there.

To read the accompanying blog post, The art of shedding friends and influencing people – New Podcast Interview with Claire Linton-Evans – visit: http://www.jaydelovell.com/the-art-of-shedding-friends-and-influencing-people-new-podcast-interview-with-claire-linton-evans/

Claire Linton-Evans on the web: http://www.climbingtheladder.com.au/

Claire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/clairehq

Claire on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/climbingtheladderinheels

Claire on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/claire-linton-evans/13/300/2a9

The podcast at iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/howd-you-become-so-awesome/id928101967?mt=2

Jayde Lovell on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaydeLovell

Bec Susan Gill on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BecSusanGill

Bryan Reeves has given tips to Oprah on mind-body science, and is a relationship insight ninja - but he didn't always lead such a charmed life.

Bryan dropped out of a promising military career, leaving his role as a US Air Force Captain, and feeling completely miserable.

Searching for meaning and happiness, he traveled the world, he rediscovered the thrill of being alive, and the beautiful life he came to live.

Today, Bryan works with men, women and couples as a thriving relationship coach and teaches mindfulness to military vets. His book "The Sex, Flirting, Dating, Hunting & Hoping Diet" is available on Amazon.

"I live my dream by helping other people live theirs … as a transformational life and relationship coach."

View on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMHyNl1Wolc

New York based independent filmmaker Naftali Beane Rutter came to our attention with a successful KickStarter campaign he ran to fund his upcoming film, WILD ANIMALS. It's about two boys hiding out in the moments immediately following a school shooting.

Naftali has several film projects on the go, all in various stages of production – and on top of this he’s the director of Waterbound Pictures, a production company that specializes in socially relevant stories.

We begin by discussing WILD ANIMALS and what gave him the idea for the film concept, then we move onto the process of creating – the challenges of bringing grand visions into existence, his advice to upcoming filmmakers and the best ways to crowd fund projects.

We begin by discussing WILD ANIMALS and what gave him the idea for the film concept, then we move onto the process of creating – the challenges of bringing grand visions into existence, his advice to upcoming filmmakers and the best ways to crowd fund projects.

SHOW NOTES:

Our blog post and show transcript: http://www.jaydelovell.com/independent-filmmaker-naftali-beane-rutter-on-the-creative-process-and-successful-kickstarter-campaigns/

Naftali on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnaftali

Naftali’s production company, Waterbound Pictures: www.waterboundpictures.com

Naftali's successful KickStarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/429614911/wild-animals

An article by Naftali, in No Film School, on why he prefers to shoot on film in the age of digital: http://nofilmschool.com/2014/11/why-shooting-film-writing-handwritten-letter

New Yorker article, by Rachel Aviv, on a school school shooting that inspired the concept and name of WILD ANIMALS: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/04/local-story

Dr. Lois Frankel is perhaps best known as the New York Times bestselling author of Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office. But she’s also written a stack of other popular titles in the field of female corporate success and leadership, such as Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich and See Jane Lead.

Lois is an internationally recognized expert in the field, and through her both her own executive coaching company, Corporate Coaching International, and non-profit organisation, Bloom Again, she’s helped thousands of women and girls achieve their career aspirations.

SHOW NOTES

- Lois on the web: www.drloisfrankel.com

- Lois on Twitter: www.twitter.com/drloisfrankel

- Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office: www.amazon.com/Nice-Girls-Dont-Corner-Office/dp/1455546046/ref=asap_B001H6WAB8_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417217992&sr=1-1

- Lois’s other books on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Lois-P.-Frankel/e/B001H6WAB8

- Corporate Coaching International (Lois’s coaching business): www.corporatecoachingintl.com

- Bloom Again (Lois’s non-profit for women): www.bloomagain.org

Lois book recommendations:

- Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It, by Peggy Klaus

www.amazon.com/Brag-Tooting-Your-without-Blowing-ebook/dp/B001J2UVA2/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1

- Nurture by Nature: Understand Your Child's Personality Type - And Become a Better Parent Paperback, by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger

www.amazon.com/Nurture-Nature-Understand-Childs-Personality/dp/0316845132

Other mentions:

Business Chicks (Australia): www.businesschicks.com.au

Australia Human Resources Institute: www.ahri.com.au

Microsoft and women asking for raises controversy: www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-ceo-says-he-was-completely-wrong-on-womens-pay

Research into all-girls schools impacting on female leadership: www.girlsms.org/sites/default/files/Sax_SingleSex_1ddFINAL.pdf

Alyson Schacherer is an accomplished actor, director, teacher, and the Business Manager for The Barrow Group acting & theatre school in New York.

Alyson is also a member of FAB Women, a collective of over 100 female artists who create and produce work For, About and By Women, where she performed her solo show 'The Goldilocks Effect, a love story'.

 

As well as working in theatre, film and television, she is also the founder of The I Love You Project, which screen prints shirts that say “I love you”, sells them and donates the proceeds to charity.

The Barrow Group: www.barrowgroup.org

Alyson on Facebook: www.facebook.com/alyson.schacherer

FAB Women: www.barrowgroup.org/arts-center/simplearts/fab-women

I Love You Project: www.iloveyouproject.com/

This week on How'd You Become So Awesome we're interviewing Michael Wilson. Michael is a YouTuber who has the popular channel Coma Niddy, his nerdy alter ego who raps about science.

Michael is signed with PBS digital studios, and his new space-themed cover of the song ‘All About That bass’ has been blowing up on sites like Buzzfeed. Meanwhile, Bustle magazine has described Michael as a “Steve Urkel lookalike”, because he often wears a bowtie and braces. In any case, we think Michael is pretty awesome!

Links:

Website: www.comaniddy.com

YouTube: www.youtube.com/comaniddy

Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/tagged/coma-niddy

Dr Siouxsie Wiles is a passionate science communicator, microbiologist and bioluminescence enthusiast; or as her TedX profile describes her: “that pink-haired science lady”.

Siouxsie leads the Bioluminescent Superbugs Group at the University of Auckland, where she studies infectious diseases by making bacteria glow in the dark. In addition to this incredibly cool research, Siouxsie communicates science as a blogger on Sciblogs, in her own podcast and produces explainer animations for YouTube.

 

For her science communication efforts, Siouxsie has been recognised with tonnes of very important accolades – the New Zealand Association of Scientists Science Communication Award, the Prime Minister's Science Media Communication Prize and the Royal Society of New Zealand Callahan medal. As proof of her rising celebrity status in the field, this weekend she’s delivering a TedX talk in Christchurch on her research.

Siouxsie on Twitter: @SiouxsieW

Siouxsie's Lab website: www.superbugslab.org

Siouxsie's Blog: www.sciblogs.co.nz/infectious-thoughts

Siouxsie's Skepticism podcast: www.thecusp.org.nz

Animation about research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP_RaHo1Pmw

Siouxsie's science-art collaborations:

Bioluminescent photobooth: https://www.flickr.com/photos/115140888@N06/sets/72157646187352184/

Art in the Dark: http://artinthedark.co.nz/2014-artists/rebecca-klee-siouxsie-wiles and YouTube teaser: http://youtu.be/e1aQnozgzsI

Chloe is the writer and director of the horror film ‘Crazy Golf‘, a Kickstarter success story, soon to premier in London, UK. Chloe is a an independent filmmaking powerhouse; her first short film ‘Itch‘ was selected and screened at Lindfield Arts Festival, and since then she has independently written, directed, produced the films ‘Ebb and Flow’, ‘Afternoon Breakfast’, & ‘Working Lunch’.

Chloe on Twitter: @ChloePhilippou

Chloe on the Interwebs: www.ChloePhilippou.com

See the Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1914069584/crazy-golf-horror-movie

Ed is an author, businessman, athlete and decorated marine officer. Ed’s served around the world from Afghanistan to Indonesia, has published more than 10 works of fiction and non-fiction, has a slew of qualifications (including his Masters Degree in Security Studies) and is an outspoken advocate of women’s rights, and has written several essays on women in combat.

Ed's Homework List

 Ed's "launch page" link: http://ehcarpenter.blogspot.com/

Gamification

 Follow Yu-kai Chou on Twitter... (@yukaichou) and check out his website: http://www.yukaichou.com/

Kantian Universalism

 An idea originated by the philosopher Emmanuel Kant as the "Categorical Imperative" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative 

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law." in simpler terms, "if everyone acted this way, would that be a world you'd want to live in". For example, should you borrow money without intending to pay it back? Kant would say no, because if it were a universal action, nobody would lend money to anyone because they know they will never be repaid.

Useful Prosumption: 

For the "Useful" part, listen to Episode 36 of "The Tim Ferriss Show" (podcast) with Alexis Ohanian - for the Prosumption part, read "Revolutionary Wealth" by Alvin and Heidi Toffler

Five books to take to space list!

1. Bill Bryson, "Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe"

2. Bertrand Russell "History of Western Philosophy"

3. Neil Gaiman's "Sandman Omnibus" (a giant collection that is still only one book - bam!)

4. The biggest "X-Men" omnibus I can find (again, technically ONE book!)

5. David Kaiser, "How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival"

Awesome literary linkage: http://zenhabits.net/20-amazing-and-essential-non-fiction-books-to-enrich-your-library/

Australia’s youngest person to ever be appointed Director of a branding agency, 24-year-old Emelye Lovell talks on breaking into an agency, the branding industry, working with an all-male team, and her struggle with Trigeminal Neuralgia (also called 'the suicide disease').

Emelye is based in Australia but has also worked in remore locations like Jakarta, Indonesia, where she was previously Marketing Manager of the Melbourne Institute.

Along with being a Branding superstar, Emelye is also a hilarious blogger. You can read her work at BellmanAgency.com.au