Human Impact with Ed Andrew

Owen Bennett-Jones one of the world's leading freelance investigative journalists, former Commonwealth Journalist of the Year and professor at Princeton and USC, has just launched Auddy a new podcast service.

Owen talks to Ed Andrew about the latest podcast Make or Break and the decisions that either lead to success or disaster in some of the most well known businesses on earth.  

We also get deep into when politicians and business leaders forget their audience and become only self-serving, and how the truth in media disappeared a long time ago.

Jim Harshaw is a TEDx Speaker, performance coach, former Division I All American wrestler and former Division I head coach. It took him 16 years to become an All American and he failed many times, often not just with a bruised ego but blood on his face. At age 26, I found myself as the youngest Division I head coach in the country. 

He talks to Ed Andrew about success through failure. He has spent his life surrounded by elite performers – Olympians, CEOs, and millionaires. They’ve all struggled and failed on their way to success.  His mission is help people find success through the many adventures they have had before.

As an actress Debra has performed in theaters, screens and cabarets from New York to Los Angeles. As a talent manager She helped guide the careers of Hollywood A listers including Halle Berry and Antonio Banderas. A sought after speaker and author of The Resilient Actor: How to Kick-Ass in the Business Without it Kicking Your Ass was an Amazon bestseller. 

Debra was one of the first Certified Bulletproof Human Potential Coaches, studying in a year-long program with the Bulletproof Human Potential Institute with Dave Asprey and Dr. Mark Atkinson.  Having worked as a professional actor and Hollywood talent manager, many of her clients are actors and creative types seeking a healthy lifestyle balance while maintaining an exciting, satisfying creative career.

Blake Bauer is the author of the international bestselling book You Were Not Born To Suffer. Each year he helps thousands of people who cannot find effective support from conventional psychology, medicine, or religion. Blake is a world-renowned teacher and speaker with an extensive background in psychology, alternative medicine, nutrition, traditional healing, and mindfulness meditation. Based on both his personal experience overcoming deep suffering, addiction, and adversity, as well as his professional success with over 100,000 people worldwide, Blake’s pioneering work integrates what he’s found to be the most effective approaches to optimal mental, emotional, and physical health.

How to bring diversity, humour and emotional intelligence into workforce planning and recruitment.  US pioneer in assessments Criteria bought Australian AI and gaming based assessment company Revelian famed for its innovation in inclusion and diversity. Ed Andrew talks to Harvard PHD and Fulbright scholar Criteria founder Josh Millet and Revelian CEO Cherie Curtis about where the world of work, planning, recruitment and retention is going.

We take a deep dive into the benefits and drawbacks of AI, how to assess those on the spectrum and showcase their talent, how to create better communication and longevity of employees and where emotions fit within great leadership.   

Rian Doris is the Co-Founder & COO at the Flow Research Collective, a research and training institute focused on decoding the neuroscience of flow states and training leaders to achieve peak performance.

Rian lives at the intersection of entrepreneurship and academia —from starting his first business at age 18 to studying Philosophy in Trinity College Dublin and an MSc in Applied Neuroscience at King's College, London.

On the academic side, Rian has lead research initiatives with Imperial College London, University of Southern California, the University of Zurich and Deloitte.

On the entrepreneurial side, Rian has worked intimately with numerous world-leading experts in peak performance such as Keith Ferrazzi, Dr. Dan Siegel, and Steven Kotler, his partner at Flow Research Collective.

Rian has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, TedX and Big Think.

Justin Caffrey is a former hedge fund manager, who lost his son 10 years ago and committed to changing his life and getting off the hamster wheel of corporate life which was rapidly derailing him.  He now combines his life with ethical investing, advising and a daily practice of cold water immersion, meditation and plant based living. In essence he is now living his life on purpose.  

A recognised thought leader in Mindfulness, Resilience and Wellbeing having delivered programs to over 100 corporate clients. A Proven Multi-Business Entrepreneur in differing sectors and countries. Justin has built and sold 8 Regulated Companies with Seven Figure Exits.

He is the All Ireland All Star Thought Leader in Personal Development in 2019 & 2020.

John is an award-winning author, 3 x NY Times bestseller, he has written 30 books, in 35 languages and have sold more than 3 million copies. He won Nautilus Award, the Axiom Business Book Award (Gold Medal), Taiwan’s Golden Book Award for Innovation, and the 2017 Living Now Book Awards “Evergreen Medal” for “contribution to positive global change.”

John is the first writer I have interviewed, in the sense that he is not promoting his own brand with non fiction business books but is the writer behind many bestsellers.

A fascinating insight into the mind of a writer, his practices, the world of publishing and how he collaborates with business leaders and celebrities.

He is co-author of the international bestseller The Go-Giver (with Bob Burg), the New York Times bestsellers The Latte Factor (with David Bach), The Red Circle (with Brandon Webb), and Flash Foresight (with Daniel Burrus), the national bestsellers The Slight Edge (with Jeff Olson), Among Heroes (with Brandon Webb), Out of the Maze (with Spencer Johnson), and Real Leadership (with John Addison), and the Washington Post bestseller Take the Lead (with Betsy Myers), which was named Best Leadership Book of 2011 by Tom Peters and the Washington Post. His first full-length novel, Steel Fear (with former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb) comes out August 2021. 

DR Mamphela Ramphele has had a celebrated career as an activist, medical doctor, academic, businesswoman and political thinker.  

Well known for cofounding Black Consciousness with Steve Biko in South Africa, she was one of only 4 Managing Directors of World Bank, stood for South African Presidential election in 2014, is a trustee of Nelson Mandela Foundation, and member of Club of Rome.

Above all she is a humanitarian and activist for societal change. We talk about creating an abundant mindset by reconnecting to what we value as human connection and to our environment. That healing racial tension comes form acknowledgement, forgiveness, looking each other directly and creating a new value system.