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Somil Goyal is the founder of Project Brains. Somil has deep experience in finance and consulting with skills honed at Deutsche Bank and the Big Four. He runs an alumni angel network in the UK focused on digital industries and climate change. He has also managed and worked at start-up companies especially in fintech.

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(00:00) Introduction
(03:06) What have you been up to since we last recorded?   
(07:17) The shift in mindset of freelancers & remote working
(10:45) The benefits of starting a side business
(15:10) How to get more experience as a young professional 
(19:50) Social capital and building an international network
(22:26) What are the risks of offering your skills to multiple companies?   
(26:53) The challenges for businesses to hire new employees
(28:40) What's the advantage for companies hiring temporary employees?   
(34:50) Understanding the problem statement & finding a logical solution
(38:15) Measuring success on business outcomes
(40:55) How do you determine your price point for your services? 
(48:15) What have been the biggest challenge building a startup?   
(54:25) How do you get your first customers on a marketplace?   

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James McGann is cofounder of Frankie Health and previously the cofounder of Floe. Frankie uses machine learning to connect employees with a network of mental health providers and personalised wellness content. Frankie aims to be the future of employee mental healthcare.

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(00:00) Introduction
(03:00) What was your background in tech & startups? 
(06:03) Travelling, career development & opportunity cost
(09:06) The effects of partying on work-life balance
(11:55) Creativity, growth and ideas from travelling 
(14:13) Tim Ferriss & the experimental mindset
(17:35) How did stress and overworking impact your health? 
(23:20) Is burnout a failure on an individual level? 
(25:28) Self-care routine to improve productivity 
(31:00) When did you realise you had to start meditation? 
(35:12) What's your thoughts on psychedelics for meditations?   
(38:50) Medical psychedelic prescriptions for PTSD
(42:25) How did you get introduced to therapy? 
(46:32) The statistics of therapy and client-therapist relationships
(50:10) How did you manage the risk of Frankie Health?
(55:05) How are the research papers compared for individuals?

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Mark Coles teaches fitness professionals how to turn their passion and purpose into a successful business. Mark is the owner of M10 Coaching, host of the Mastery Podcast and author of the Level Up book. 

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(00:00) Introduction
(02:20) What have you observed in the fitness industry recently?
(06:52) Why do people struggle to get started in life?
(09:35) Finding both your purpose and meaning
(13:11) Discovering your 'why' and creating a roadmap
(16:00) Why do we blame our past for future events?   
(20:25) Leading with confidence and certainty 
(21:23) Learning to focus on micro & incremental wins
(28:00) Focusing on both long and short term objectives 
(31:45) Creating outcome-based plans and details   
(34:20) How do you measure progress effectively? 
(38:30) Using data to direct your vision & mission
(43:57) How important is being a role model to clients?   

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Linas Beliūnas is country manager of Flutterwave and reinventing finance 1% at a time. Linas is currently scaling Flutterwave and leading the company's expansion into Europe. He documents all things financial technology: fintech, blockchain, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies in his newsletter linas.substack.com.

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(00:00) Introduction
(03:26) How did you grow so quickly on social media?
(06:00) What was your background in startups and tech?   
(09:35) What has been the evolution of finance and tech firms?
(12:18) Trust in traditional banking versus fintech firms
(14:23) The challenges that comes with building neobanks 
(17:11) Is the amount of capital raised in fintech justified?
(21:21) Is the fintech industry too overcrowded? 
(23:40) What did Uber get wrong in their business model?   
(25:45) Can startups be profitable if they stop growing?   
(29:10) IPOs & valuations of Robinhood, Coinbase & Grab
(33:11) What excites you in the crypto & blockchain space?
(37:52) What is the advantage of DAOs over crowdfunding?   
(38:56) What are the concerns of full decentralization? 
(42:07) What are your thoughts on the metaverse? 
(45:28) Social status and validation in the metaverse 
(48:03) What are the investment opportunities in the metaverse? 

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Thibault Launay is founder & CEO of Exclusible, an NFT platform for luxury brands. Thibault was previously the co-founder of Alliance Minière Responsable and Afrimalin Group. He was also named Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2019. 

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(00:00) Introduction
(03:10) Why did you get involved in the metaverse? 
(05:26) Why did you decide to create NFTs for luxury brands?
(11:50) The different categories of NFTs 
(15:07) Biggest challenges for brands moving into NFTs   
(18:00) The importance of creating roadmaps for NFTs   
(21:09) Why are you building villas, malls & islands in the metaverse? 
(25:15) What Snoop Dogg is doing in the Sandbox metaverse
(25:50) How do you value land in the metaverse? 
(29:09) How do you build property in the metaverse? 
(33:10) How do you make the experience realistic? 
(38:28) The correlation between cryptocurrency markets & NFTs
(42:21) What will happen to NFTs & the metaverse in a bear market?
(48:00) How can retail investors invest in the metaverse?   
(51:00) The future price valuation & utility of NFTs 
(55:15) What are the career opportunities in the metaverse & NFTs?

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Johnny Walker is an award winning digital marketer and former executive search consultant from London’s square mile. Johnny is founder of The Executive Edge program, specifically aimed at senior and executive job seekers, with one objective to help them get their ideal job, faster, for more money, without having to sell themselves.

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(00:00) Introduction
(02:49) Johnny's work tailored to young professionals
(05:40) What do people get wrong with building CVs?   
(06:55) What is the purpose of a CV? 
(08:05) Three biggest problems of CVs
(11:23) How important is including relevant information?   
(16:20) Should you find consistent themes in job descriptions?   
(20:47) Adding purpose and performance to your CV
(21:55) Google's hiring process and research study
(23:10) The "Five P Formula" for CV writing   
(27:40) Your CV can not have assumptions
(31:03) How should you structure & organise your CV? 
(33:20) The buyer's journey for the hiring manager
(38:20) What's relevant to your personal details?
(42:11) What should you capture in the introduction?
(46:16) How should you create a CV for international applications?
(52:40) How does side projects effect your job application?

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Mark Ross is a career coach for young professionals with a heavy focus on finance and tech. Mark teaches you how to develop a new resume from scratch that sells you in the most convincing way possible as well as improving your interviewing and networking skills. During Mark’s career he’s worked at firms such as Morgan Stanley, State Street and Numerix.

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(00:00) Introduction
(02:43) What got you so interested in career mentoring?
(04:20) The statistics of getting hired by a tier one firm
(08:05) How do you build a career you love? 
(11:01) Working hard versus being a bad employee
(15:38) Performance appraisals and positive feedback 
(21:58) How do you build a relationship with your manager?   
(23:10) What are the biggest challenges in being hired?
(28:30) How do you apply to multiple jobs at once?   
(32:20) What do you do if you have no experience? 
(37:00) Confidence is the most important interviewing skill
(39:50) When does money not become an important factor? 
(43:15) Does moving company limit your ability long term? 
(45:40) How do you approach salary & contract negotiations?
(50:14) Leaving with grace is extremely underrated 
(53:15) How to answer difficult interview questions 
(55:30) How do you accelerate your career growth?   
 (01:00:53) How important is finding fulfilment in your job? 

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Johann Hari is an internationally bestselling author. His first book, Chasing the Scream, was a New York Times bestseller and is being adapted into a Hollywood feature film. His second book, Lost Connections, was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. He has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde and others. His TED Talk, ‘Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong’, and the animation based on it, have had more than twenty million views.

Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? Most importantly, how do we get it back?

Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to find out. He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention and learned that everything we think about this subject is wrong. We think our inability to focus is a personal failing, a flaw in each one of us. It is not.

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(00:00) Introduction
(03:34) Why did you start writing Stolen Focus?
(10:25) 12 factors to boost & degrade our attention
(14:16) First factor to disrupt your attention
(18:26) The impact of Slack & social media platforms
(21:40) How Facebook makes money from you
(24:45) The subconscious effects of social media notifications
(27:50) How apps are designed to keep you scrolling
(31:35) Creating a new business model for social media
(36:20) Building tech that heals and repairs our attention
(38:00) How our relationship with food alters our attention
(41:20) The impact of food on concentration & thinking   
(48:30) The importance & effects of sleep 
(56:25) Setting hard and fast rules with companies

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Here’s exactly how to move industry with NO experience. I didn’t have a flashy masters degree. In fact, I didn’t have the money or patience to do it either. You don’t need to make dramatic changes, this process took me exactly 3 months and cost less than €100.

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(00:00) Introduction
(01:06) Role mapping
(02:32) Transferable skills
(03:43) Gap analysis
(04:46) Industry updates
(06:08) Ongoing learning
(06:55) Interview execution

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For this years Christmas Special, Simon Ree and Rocco Strydom make yet another appearance on the show to discuss the biggest events of 2021. We look towards 2022 and dig into the latest trends in terms of financial markets, technology and entrepreneurship.

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(00:00) Introduction
(00:42) Introduction
(03:24) Rocco's Christmas list
(05:24) Review of 2021's financial markets 
(08:50) The rise of community & engagement 
(11:19) The great resignation & remote working
(14:29) Starting a side hustle & becoming an entrepreneur 
(17:11) Creating multiple income streams & products
(22:30) The benefits of building an audience & network
(27:40) The realities of balancing a side business 
(30:47) The reason why I started a podcast
(32:25) Beginners mindset & getting started
(35:15) Marking rapidly moving & retail investing
(41:15) Financial education & gamification
(44:27) Cryptocurrency, NFTs & the metaverse
(50:40) Who is attracted to the metaverse? 
(53:00) Neuralink & metabots trends
(56:30) New investment in the metaverse
(56:30) How crypto was rebranded to Web 3.0
(01:01:30) Entertainment versus valuable content

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