Hyper Curious

If you made it to the dizzy heights of Chief Business Officer of Google [X], you’d likely think you made it and be happy with your lot. Not Mo Gawdat. 

Mo IS former Chief Business Officer of Google [X], serial entrepreneur and author of “Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy”, and he’s a seeker. He realised there is more to life to discover and he’s on a mission to make people happier.

And you don’t need a therapist, a guru, a yoga teacher, a meditation guide and a wealth of ‘experts’ to help you reach happiness, says Mo, because there is a reliable, solid model you can follow - the equation for happiness. 

That’s right, Mo has come up with an equation to find happiness and that equation is very simple.

“It's basically, if you look back at all of the moments in your life when you ever felt happy, you will realise that there was no common theme to what made you happy. Happiness is equal to or greater than the difference between the events of your life and your expectations of how life should be.”

In fact, happiness is our default state - we’re all born happy, we just grow out of it. 

This is a fascinating episode with a truly inspirational person. 

On today’s podcast:

• The Supertramp song that triggered a change in his life
• The illusion of control
• Why life is a video game
• How to be present
• The happiness flowchart

Links:

• https://www.solveforhappy.com/
• https://www.onebillionhappy.org/

Do you have a deep self-awareness of who you are? Do you respect your boundaries? Do you know what makes you productive? What makes you happy? What makes you be the best you can be on a day to day basis? 

On today’s episode is Amy Landino, content creator, YouTuber, founder of multiple media companies and author of two books. Amy is on a mission to help people go after the life they want. 

“So I am a woman with a purpose of helping people go after the life that they want. To take control of the things that are controllable in their life.”

If you want to know how to get out of your rut, how to accomplish things for yourself, not for the likes or praises of others, and most importantly how to define what you want and why you want it, listen to Amy share her many pearls of wisdom in this latest episode. It’s incredibly insightful, packed full of simple takeaways that everyone listening can easily implement, even just once a week, to make a huge difference to their lives. 

“Early on I learned the benefit of teaching somebody the benefit of what you provide, which is why when I introduce myself I say, ‘my name is Amy, my purpose is to help you go after the life you want’. We can get into the minutiae and the details of that later.”

On today’s podcast:

• How she started down the entrepreneurial road
• Why running made her uncomfortable
• Her biggest a-ha moment
• Defining your why and knowing when you’ve nailed it
• How to go after the life you want
• Calendar blocking and setting boundaries

Links:

• Gatluw House
• YouTube video - Master Calendar Blocking 
• Book - Good morning, Good life

Welcome to Hyper Curious, a place where we celebrate making change happen by following your curiosity. If you want to learn how leaders in multiple industries, including authors, founders and artists got to where they are, this is the podcast for you. 

In this inaugural episode we meet serial entrepreneur and founder of Beautystack, Sharmadean Reid MBE. Sharmadean is the perfect example of why you don’t have to be a specialist at something in order to be hugely successful. 

“There wasn’t an a-ha moment that made me change. I think like any good founding idea, I just saw a personal problem that I wanted to fix for myself, which is that I wanted to have a very specific nail design, and I couldn't figure out the place to get it done in a way that I wanted it done.”

In fact, Sharmadean is a proud generalist or a multipotentialite (as the TED Talk speaker Emilie Wapnick defines), going from individual contributor to business leader to serial entrepreneur, and because of these changing roles, she understands the importance of revisiting your life narrative and the stories you tell to yourself when dealing with changes, because it’s all about finding balance. 

“Thinking about being optimistic or pessimistic about the future is not my method. I just understand that whatever goes up must come down. And once you've hit rock bottom, the only way to go is up. So all I can do is focus on my path and my journey and my business and hope that that has an optimistic outlook.”

Enjoy this dive into the mind of one of Britain’s leading female entrepreneurs.

On today’s podcast:

• From individual contributor to business leader to serial entrepreneur
• How to balance the needs of the business vs her own needs
• The undue pressures women put on themselves
• Embrace being a generalist and a collector of interests
• Why she’s decided to commit to Beautystack for 10 years
• Why educational resources should be more gender equal
• The importance of writing your own narrative and finding a game you can win

Links:

• Beautystack.co
• Sharmadeanreid.com
• LinkedIn - Sharmadean Reid MBE
• Range - David Epstein
• Emilie Wapnick - multipotentialite
• The Unpaid Labour of Female Founders

Introducing Hyper Curious, launching July 2020.

For more information, visit: http://hypercurious.fm