IS THIS IT?

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Episode Overview: How do you organize your time to get all more done. How to delegate the important decisions. How do you let go on control and trust your team. Practice over theory.  Being a good founder vs being a good manager.  How to create at thriving company culture ? The not-so-sexy reality of entrepreneurship . Fighting loneliness . Common Mistakes in starting a company . How to gauge, if an employee is a good fit?  Is anyone born to be an entrepreneur? Antidote to imposter syndrome. Swish’s first stint at entrepreneurship. Which 20% of things you do that bring you 80% of your success?  Moment that changed your life forever.  The Power of Switching off.  Origins of your company- How did TRUFAN become Surf?  Future challenges for companies in data collection or the death of cookies.  Swish’s purpose. Taking the pressure off from needing to have it all figured out. From severe speech impediment to a 4x Ted speaker.  Your speaking style . Authenticity as a super power for a public speaker.  Crafting your story, creating your brand.  Importance of community. Tips to grow your online community.  The best platform to build your following on and how to do it.  Biggest mistakes you made and what did you learn from them. Importance of having a hobby and small wins everyday . Putting yourself out of comfort zone.  Learning to live with and using your anxiety as a strength instead of trying to eradicate it. Importance of having honest conversations about your anxieties.  Swish’s most important life lessons . How to grow your network . Lex Friedman, The Dune, Harry Potter, and setting attainable goals and keeping yourself accountable. Swish’s recipe for happiness.   

About Guest: Swish Goswami, 25, is the CEO of Surf, a tech company providing brands a better way to engage and understand consumers while compensating consumers for their data. Surf’s revolutionary browser extension passively rewards people for their everyday browsing and helps them save when shopping with their favourite brands. Surf’s brand division provides zero party data and commerce enablement opportunities to some of the world’s biggest brands like Netflix, NBA, Sony Music, L’Oreal, Electronic Arts, etc. Surf’s vision is to build an equitable data economy and the company has made two acquisitions and raised over $6M to date (from several NBA players, unicorn founders and venture firms).   Swish has given four TEDx talks and is the bestselling author of “The Young Entrepreneur”, a book encouraging and teaching students to build a business while in school. Through his angel fund AGEX, Swish is an investor/advisor in popular companies like FaZe Clan, Wombo, Othership and the League of Innovators. Swish enjoys speaking about entrepreneurship, data ownership and mental health around the world under North America’s prestigious bureau Speakers Spotlight. For his entrepreneurial and philanthropic achievements, Swish was inducted into Plan Canada's Top 20 under 20 and Bay Street Bull’s 30 under 30, recognized as LinkedIn’s Top Voice and Startup Canada's Young Entrepreneur of the Year and awarded the United Nation’s Outstanding Youth Leadership award.   

Find Swish on https://ca.linkedin.com/in/swishgoswami 

https://www.instagram.com/goswish 

https://www.joinsurf.com/

Find Dana on https://www.instagram.com/dana_grinberga/  

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Isabelle's purpose. Process of defining one’s purpose. The mindset that allowed Isabelle to win multiple gold medals whilst representing Mexican National Swim team.  Importance of allowing yourself to change and pivot.  Toughest moments in your life and how did you overcome them. Identity and community. What living in 10 countries taught you. How to make a new country feel like home.  Your decluttering business. Why do people hoard items and what are the repercussions of living in an untidy space.  Tips for decluttering your space and keeping it clean. Clearing your mind space as a result of cleaning your physical space. Decluttering as a mindfulness and grounding practice. Urban composting - easy tips to help the environment from your home.  Quick tips to be more mindful of your environmental impact.  Will we be ready for the next pandemic? 3 biggest life lessons. Your recipe for happiness.  

About the Guest: Isabelle Vandenbroucke is an environmentalist, decluttering specialist and ex-competitive swimmer  With roots in Mexico and Belgium, Isabelle has lived in 10 countries and now resides in London. Isabelle works at CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Initiative), on the strategy side of vaccine development for epidemics. She also has her own organizing business where she helps clients declutter, organize, and focus on what matters to them. She holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Bachelor’s in Economics-Political Science from Columbia University. Isabelle was a competitive swimmer on Mexican national Swim team, winning 2 Gold and 3 bronze medals and at the Division 1 NCAA collegiate level.   

Find Isabelle on: www.equilibriumorganising.com  

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How Charlie got into fighting. Striving for unachievable. Wanting perfection whilst acknowledging your objective achievement. The struggles of competing professionally in a sport that doesn’t pay. What allowed Charlie to win 3 world champion titles.  The ways to use social media in a healthy way. Charlie’s triathlon. Being honest with yourself is a precursor to authenticity. Imposter syndrome, identity and confidence. Respect in Muay Thai , smack talking and cultural differences in the sport. Calling out Liam Harrison. Charlie’s way to focus, discipline and resilience. Transitioning from an athlete to a trainer. Challenges of working in the fitness industry. Best mental and physical health practices. What’s next for you? Community of fitness enthusiasts. Charlie's purpose and recipe for happiness. 

About Guest:

Charlie Peters is a 3x Muay Thai world champion, Uk no 1 Muay Thai fighter,  founder of Charlie's Training, and currently trains and teaches in the best gyms in London. Charlie is also a professional hairdresser.

The span of Charlie's fighting career saw him compete in 67 professional fights. Maintain 3 World champion Titles (with a total of 5 defences) and claim the UK number 1 spot. 

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Early days. Traumatic extraction from Uganda and migration to UK. First attempts at business, the early hustle in the Moroccan bazaar. Negotiation tips. What you should know, if you think of becoming an entrepreneur. Common pitfalls of entrepreneurship. How Alpesh raised funds for his company MiFone. How do you become indispensable in a company? Tools that helped you make 500M in 3 years whilst working for Motorola. How did you get your first clients for MiFone? Biggest lessons from launching the first African hardware device mobile company. Importance of marketing and brand identity in launching a new product. How to create a strong brand identity. The toughest moment in Alpesh’s life. How did you overcome your burnout? What’s next for you? ZMBIZI and its mission. Meaning and purpose of life. A skill that changed your life. Your recipe for happiness. The myth of tech genius.

About Guest: 

Alpesh H Patel is an award winning Global Entrepreneur and has been featured in more than 50 media outlets including CNN, CNBC, BBC, Forbes, GQ and Huffington Post .He is an expert in business Go to Market strategies with a particular focus on Emerging markets. A veteran in the Telecoms industry, Alpesh generated $500m in his role as Director of Sales, Motorola.

In 2007 he founded the first African Tech Mobile Hardware startup Mi-Fone and OJU the world’s first Afro Emoticon character brand. The combined business was successfully sold to a $5B South African conglomerate. Alpesh is now the Co-Founder and CEO for ZMBIZI and BIZI LABS the new Web3.0 Mobile Platform that has been created to get 1,000,000,000 people paid daily from their Mobile device usage. Alpesh, specialises in Go to Market Strategies, Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship and Results orientated Sales solutions. He has been dubbed as one of the first Tech Innovators to come out of Emerging markets and has worked with industry giants such as Visa, Vodafone, Western Union and Uber.

Alpesh is a Public speaker and has appeared on several panels such as The Titan Academy,The GSMA,The African Leadership Network and The Wharton Conference. He is also a published author with his first book “TESTED” nominated as “The Business Book of the Year UK, 2018”. His work has received critical acclaim and wide press.

Find Alpesh on: https://peshmode.com/about.html

https://zmbizi.com

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Origins of Nisan - Nairobi, village wisdom, love and community. Stark differences between social and economic classes and the dangers they bring. Matriarchal lineage - How did having strong females in your family impact you? Culture, symbols and the unspoken. Spirituality, Your 6 languages spoken and the journey of learning them. Power of language and how has that shaped you as a person. Validity of one’s story regardless of their command of a language. Communication, vocal and active listening. The toughest moment in your life. What does it mean to live, What is true legacy? How Nisan helped create 20-30k jobs in Africa and attracted 50m investment. How did you outsmart big corporations and single-handedly won government contracts? Importance of integrity and values. ADHD - pros and cons, How do you deal with yours? What did your multiple kidnappings teach you? Your 3 most important life lessons. Your purpose. Nisan’s recipe for happiness.

About Guest: Nisan Abdulkader, dual Yemeni-Kenyan, is an FDI expert, humanitarian, speaker and a force for change in developing world.

She worked in senior public and private sector roles across the globe including in Tunisia, Kenya, South Africa, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Syria, Italy and Canada.

Nisan began her career in consulting and program management roles at UN agencies including Consortium for agricultural research (CGIAR), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, Italy and the United Nations Environment Program in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia.

Since 2014, Nisan has advised over 30 government investment authorities in emerging markets on how to best respond to the significant FDI opportunity which has created an estimated 50 million high value jobs across sectors like Agriculture, Healthcare, Tourism, ICT and Manufacturing. Specifically, Nisan supports IPAs to understand the services they need to optimize market share which typically cover activities like investment strategy development, aftercare & business retention, investment prospecting approaches as well as defining capacity building requirements of government authorities.

Nisan holds the Mary Brooks Law Award, the Social Business Impact Award and the Extraordinary Young 30 Under 30 Award from the Government of Canada.

She holds an honours B.A in Political Science, Management and International Development Studies from McGill University in Canada and a Diploma of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies from Harvard University. Nisan speaks 6 languages: Arabic, English, Italian, French, Swahili, Spanish.

Find Nisan on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nisanabdulkader

Instagram: https://rb.gy/gkcr2e

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Origins of Loui. The early signs of courage, life-changing incident, changed perspective on life. Building the life you want. Importance of following your core values. Disillusionment of goal attainment.  Why adopting veganism was a catalyst that changed Loui’s life. Ayahuasca experience. Importance of reminders in your life. Looking successful to other people vs feeling successful for yourself. Finding your purpose. Loui's purpose. Why you shouldn’t strive to be better at everything. Health practices that make the most difference. How to improve your sleep. How to deal with anxiety. Psychedelics, Microdosing, Louie's experience with psilocybin. Loui's trip and how it changed his view about women. How do you create career that doesn’t feel like work. Why you should love failure. Challenges that hospitality businesses are facing at the moment. What has made you a better businessman? Loui’s net worth, what made him a great entrepreneur. What makes a great founder? Where should we look to invest next? 3 important life lessons. Relationships, difference between what women and men need. Love, expectations, priority management in uncertainty. Things to look out for in a partner. Real love vs immature love. Vulnerability, ego, beauty of heartbreak. Witnessing vs identifying with the emotions. What’s next for you? Recipe for happiness.

About the Guest:

Loui is the founder of the award-winning Erpingham House, the U.K's largest vegan restaurant, and a number of casual dining concepts. In 2020 Loui & partners setup Gamechangers investments, designed to provide opportunities to the hospitsality industry, with a portfolio of brands operating across the U.K, USA & UAE.

Find Loui on: https://www.louiblake.com/about

Instagram: https://rb.gy/g9g9ao

Find Dana on:  Instagram https://rb.gy/pm0wwp

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Episode Overview: David's Origins , Life of an oil and gas engineer , Lessons from working in a corporate world for a decade , Finding meaning in life, Going from disconnect to living with purpose, Mindfulness and self-awareness, How to define your life vision , Importance of service and act of defining your core values, Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, Developing self mastery (how to find your purpose), Redefining remote working, What is real productivity, How to be more productive at work, Core pillars of Live Beyond , How to get in flow state , How to practice self - awareness , Ditch your to do list, implement daily review, how to make your inner voice a friendly one, How to sharpen your focus and attention, how to handle distractions, power of community, why do you attract certain people and repel others. The future of work, whats next for Live beyond, Davids recipe for happiness.

About Guest: Originally from Colombia, David settled in London and pursued a career in oil an gas. After a "successful" and yet unfulfilling decade in the corporate world, David started LiveBeyond with the vision of humanising the global workplace.

Inspired by the work of world-class performers such as Tim Ferriss, Tony Robbins, Ray Dalio, Eckhart Tolle, Thich Nhat Hanh and more, he works to help others integrate work and life in a productive, healthy and meaningful way.

An avid traveler, creative by heart and fascinated by the power of the mind when it comes to improving the quality of our lives, David focuses on improving the way we live, work and travel.

Find David on: https://www.livebeyond.global

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livebeyond.global/

Find Dana on:  Instagram https://rb.gy/pm0wwp

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On this Part II of Sam’s interview you will discover Sam’s Origin story, Importance of alone time, safety and independence , Doing things for the right reasons, Seeking approval , Mastering attention and communication. 7 human intelligences, The journey of learning from Iceman, Pickpocket, Magician, Tea Master. Career advantages you may have by having unorthodox thinking about rules. Generalism, The art of asking questions. Trauma, Boundaries, Understanding and defining ones purpose , Service vs Feeling valuable , How happiness is linked to safety - Sam’s recipe for happiness.

About the Guest: 

Dr. Sam Qurashi is a Writer, Entrepreneur, Instagrammer, and Youtuber. He worked as a Psychiatric Resident in an Addiction Hospital. Throughout that time, he had the opportunity to help over 10,000 patients. After seven years, he walked away from his medical career believing that there must be a more effective way to help people.

Find Sam on https://www.patreon.com/samqurashi

Instagram https://rb.gy/lnvbzf

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In this 2 part episode we dive straight into how making online content helped Sam train his inner voice, ways to heal emotional wounds, authenticity , how do you remove emotional triggers, giving yourself permission to feel, what is the missing piece in self development movement, Identity vs Labelling, Communication, Social engineering,  How to approach and handle your emotions, The importance of unconditional acceptance .How to hold space for people to feel safe and express their emotions in your presence. Expressing the truth of how you feel. Use of language. Path of least resistance. The art of acceptance. Toxicity of positivity. Phrase to establish healthy boundaries . Personal responsibility. Trying to control the uncontrollable - 7 things we cannot control. Unpacking boundaries - 4 ways to set them and what to do, so you don’t need them in the first place. Tune in for part 2 next week.

Guest bio: Dr. Sam Qurashi is a Writer, Entrepreneur, Instagrammer, and Youtuber. He worked as a Psychiatric Resident in an Addiction Hospital. Throughout that time, he had the opportunity to help over 10,000 patients. After seven years, he walked away from his medical career believing that there must be a more effective way to help people.

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Find Dana on:  Instagram https://rb.gy/pm0wwp

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Juan talks on his early days and childhood influences, career breakthrough, managing relationship with parents and autonomy abroad at an early age, work ethics, F2 crash and the death of Anthoine Hubert, mindset and tools that allowed him to manage the injuries, trauma and shock, to come back to the racing world in record time, power of Visualisation , perspective on life after a life changing event, what's next for him, and, finally, Juan shares his purpose and recipe for happiness.

About the guest:

Juan Manuel Correa Borja  is an American Ecuadorian racing driver who races under an American license and currently FIA Formula 2 Championship with Van Amersfoort Racing. Born in Ecuador in 1999, JM has been in a fast paced career becoming a Cadet National Champion at only nine years old in Karting. Upon relocating to Miami, he competed on the main karting circuits in the USA winning the 2013 United States Rotax National Championship and then earning the rights to be named the Rotax Junior World Champion. This success changed his life, and he was recruited by the Lotus F1 Team to join their Junior Driver Program, and at the early age of 14 years he moved to Europe, to start competing in the CIK/FIA European Karting Championship against the world's top Karting drivers.

He competed in the FIA F2 category during the 2019 Season driving for Sauber Junior Team by Charouz Racing System earning two second place podium results in Baku, the Grand Prix of Azerbaijan and in Paul Ricard, the French Grand Prix. In addition to this, he was chosen by Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN F1 Team in 2019 to be one the team's Development Drivers.

Having suffered a tragic and almost career ending accident in August 2019 racing in F2 Championship at Spa Circuit in Belgium, JM has made a comeback into the world of racing, and is currently with Van Amersfoort Racing in F2.

Find Juan on: https://www.jmcorrea.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juanmanuelcorrea_/ 

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