With 8 out of 10 of our thoughts being negative, we humans are trapped in self-doubt and continual cognitive catastrophes. Mark shares his personal struggles with self-doubt, self-loathing and how the uninvited guest continually shares stories with him from his 8 drawer 'bad news filing cabinet'. He also gives some advice on how to shut the door on the uninvited guest and start to fill up your 2 drawer 'good news filing cabinet'.

Director of Play and Connection for an International Tech Company, Stefan Bramble has magically combined his acting and teaching careers to now lead the way globally by incorporating play into work. He shares why being an idiot and fu#king up creates moments that can build deeper human connections and solve very challenging work problems.

Mark talks about why he keeps getting asked how can we be 'more human' in the workplace, why this is a nonsense statement and shares ten ways to embrace what it is to be truly human and see everyone thrive at work and in life.

Founder of the Building Better Humans Project Glenn Azar joined me to share some amazing lived experiences from his time serving his country, to walking the Kokoda Track 80 times and how his learnings about himself and other humans can benefit leaders looking to balance on the tightrope between comfort and discomfort.

Toxic workplaces are full of 'look at me' managers, control freaks, and box-ticking inauthentic actors, and in this episode Mark shares his experience with toxic workplaces and some ideas on how to pick them if you're in the market and how to leave them if you're caught in one.

Communications expert and high conflict mediator Bill Stierle and I were due to just chat and connect the first time but it turned into a podcast episode!! Bill shares his wisdom about scary honesty, telling bad news early and making it safe to do so, language strategies, first impressions, the neurons in different parts of the brain, and why ice cream is good or not so good depending upon the stories we tell ourselves.

Mark shares some practical ways to combine traditional technical work and measures with the pandemic-driven focus on human work to create a masterpiece of both the 'being' (humannovation) and 'doing'(innovation).

Through an existential crisis at 19, Andrew Brown the co-founder of Adaptive Cultures turned to his passion to liberate human potential and wisdom. He has been helping humans and organisations step into the challenging work of adaptation and shares some amazing personal observations and experiences on why some humans and organisations adapt and others don't.

Mark tells it as he sees it about being busy, busyness as a badge of honour, a suit of armour, and the origins of the 'Busy Fool Syndrome' and shares five ways to bust busyness, which is a choice you make every moment of the day.

The tables are turned in episode 100 and Mark moves from host to guest - and is asked some curious, confronting and non-scripted questions about his life, from a teenager through to current days, and why this work of 'human' means so much to him.