Today’s guest is Finbar O'Hanlon Who describes himself as a Purveyor of Different. He invented and patented the Video Virtualization Engine and a mentor to people looking for change. Finbar helps companies and their boards think differently, which he describes as “Black Ops”. He's also a seasoned musician and record producer, the inventor of Frequency Meditation, and the founder and currently advisor at Linius Technologies, an ASX-listed company based in Melbourne.
Facts
⦁ Born in Britain, raised in Australia
⦁ Musician, guitar player, toured the world during the 80s and 90s, and composed multiple film scores.
⦁ He's the owner of several inventor patents
⦁ Finbar developed Frequency Meditation, a successful sound-based meditation practice
⦁ Founder and CEO of Linius Video Systems, a company that "solves the fundamental challenges that exist in the current workflow and monetization of video content delivery over the Internet". The underliying technology of Linius was also conceived by Finbar.
⦁ Finbar has been involved in taking a number of companies from an idea to a commercial success, several becoming public vehicles, and raising over $40 million in funding
⦁ He's currently the host of "Welcome to Finland", aka "WTF!!!", an online TV show about futuristic innovation
Quotes
"I worked my whole life, very, very hard,to be indescribable"
"When I mentor a lot of the younger people, I say to them 'do you want your Ferrari, do you want your Lamborghini?' 'oh, yeah I'd love that'. Here's your number one secret to achieve it. Make sure everyone you meet, you let them leave with sonething more that you've taken"
"Uncomfortable is beautiful. Cause that's where the greatest change happens. (...) When you're in 'disaster' mode, disaster is a spur of creativity. This is your chance."
"When you get to top level, it's about throwing all that stuff away."
"I was a dropout at school, I am not very good at politics. I'm about just, execute, get in, figure it out, get some smart people - just do it"
"You don't know everything, and as soon as you think you know everything, you stop learning and you stop teaching"
"I've lived in five countries, I've been to the Playboy mansion, I've done all these amazing things, built tech companies (...) plus people think that's amazing. To me that's just my life"
"When (people) are depressed or when they lost direction (...) I give them a challenge: 'tell me, in this last week, what you've explored, what have you done in this week, that you've never done before in your life? No problem, in the last two weeks. Last four weeks? (...) If you're not exploring, you're not growing"
"To me, attention deficit doesn't mean anything more than what (the kids) are learning isn't interesting today"
Links
http://finbarohanlon.com/
https://au.linkedin.com/in/finbarohanlon
http://www.frequencymeditation.com.au/
https://www.linius.com/
http://www.innovationcollective.com.au/
https://www.youtube.com/user/finbarohanlon01
https://www.facebook.com/welcometofinland/
