People, Not Numbers

From addiction to expansion...

Richard Atherton is an executive coach in the structure he founded FirstHuman.

He also hosts "Being Human"—a podcast I admire with over 300 episodes 😮

But what struck me the most was not his brilliant and eclectic career (from management consultant to cabaret owner and system coder... you won't believe what Richard did in his life).

It was what he shared in this episode.

Without filters.

Without hiding.

Check a few golden nuggets:

🍷 Richard started drinking at 14.

🎓 He had a brilliant academic track.

👎 He got fired from his first job for being too shy.

🤩 He lived a full, rich life… while struggling with alcohol and other addictions

For years, the hangover was the only thing that helped him slow down.

His mind was too fast. Too busy.

Alcohol numbed the noise.

Later came more layers:

➡️ Alcoholics Anonymous

➡️ S#x and Love Addicts Anonymous

➡️ Co-Dependents Anonymous

➡️ Landmark Education

➡️ John Bradshaw’s book Homecoming

➡️ Deep childhood therapy

➡️ Primal scream work

An SO. MUCH. MORE.

Richard went deep.

And through that depth, he came back.

Clearer. Softer. Freer.

He now helps leaders turn away from the illusion of “When I’ll finally get X, I’ll be happy.”

Because joy and connection are not at the end of the path.

They’re here.

Available.

When we stop running.

It’s one of the most open conversations I’ve ever had on this podcast.

Check the full episode HERE: https://lnkd.in/dYejCFSE

ENJOY TO THE MAX 🤩🤩🤩!!!

What do Luxury, Leadership & Stroke Recovery have in common?

A ex-high-level executive at LVMH and Moncler.

An entrepreneur helping stroke survivors regain speech.

A master of craftsmanship and human connection.

🤩 Meet Matthieu Rinville.

From leading 800 employees in a Romanian factory—saying good morning to every single one of them—to launching Aphasix, his company dedicated to helping stroke survivors suffering from aphasia, his journey is as unexpected as it is inspiring.

That’s not all.

Matthieu also took over a luxury craftsmanship company in Italy, specializing in the creation of high-end display trunks and bespoke cases for the world’s most prestigious brands.

💡 A few things we talked about:

➡️ 150,000 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞. 40,000 people are left with aphasia, the loss of speech. Matthieu and his co-founder Pierre de Linage are working to give them their voice back.

➡️ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠—it’s hiring & keeping people. Talent retention is everything.

➡️ 𝐋𝐮𝐱𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭. It’s about the connection you create around it.

➡️ 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, but they are a result—not a goal.

➡️ 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞—if you give people the tools to achieve it.

➡️ 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞.

🔥 This episode is packed with insights on leadership, resilience, and the hidden truths behind luxury & impact-driven business.

ENJOY TO THE MAX!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩

Frédéric Roscop is no regular #Osteopath.

Last year, he was awarded Osteopath of the year and Wellbeing start-up of the year at the Forttuna Global Excellence Awards®

Most importantly, Fred is a wizard when it comes to holistic approach of care, focusing on Body, Mind and Energy.

He is a researcher in #QantumBiology and has integrated his discoveries in his brand AEQUIL.

A few things about Fred:

🤧 He was very fragile as a kid with tons of health issues

🥴 At the age of 8yo, he got lime disease

❌ It took him over a decade to put a name on his condition, mainly because of mistaken diagnosis

☯️ His mission is to cover the gap between long standing suffering and well being

🌄 This is why all he does is about life long well being

Listen to the full episode and discover how Fred is paving the way to a new era of care, healing and well being.

My dear Fred, I enjoyed so much recording this episode with you and am sure many people will be inspired by what you do.

ENJOY TO THE MAX 🤩🤩🤩!!!

Fellow podcasters are always awesome to host on the show.

And when Dennis Wakabayashi, CX influencer of Expo 2020, founder of CX in the wild, podcaster, public speaker, CX strategist and consultant comes in town, that's even better.

In short, Dennis is a big figure in CX.

During our conversation, we talked about fascinating topics:

🇺🇸 Dennis had a modest upbringing in the US and went through stigma and racism

👨🏼‍🎨 He became a graffiti artist at the age of 16 and his parents learned it... waaay later

❌ He did not finish high school

🤩 For him, life is a suicide mission where no one made it alive, so... UNLEASH your potential

📏 Measuring CX is a disadvantage when it becomes a focus

🎯 Obstacles to team work are: absence of Unified, Clear and Simple goals

🎻 If businesses were an orchestra, the biggest mistake they do is to focus on the music instead of the space in between the notes

AND MUUUUUUUCH MORE!!!!

Dennis, it was a true joy welcoming you on the show. Thank you for passing by and let's do this again!

ENJOY TO THE MAX 🤩🤩🤩!!!

"I'm not good enough", "People take advantage of me", "I'll never be perfect", "What if I disappoint?", ...

If you have ever said one of these sentences in your own mind and struggled to embark on your own journey because of them, you need to meet Elizabeth Solaru.

✨ Elizabeth Solaru is not the average guest you will listen to.

She is some kind of a phoenix 🐦‍🔥. Not the typical image of the phoenix that comes out of a near-death experience with all the drama around it.

But rather the type of phoenix who came out of a solid and well-anchored mental framework 🤯

🤩 Elizabeth chose another path to lead her life and contribute to the world in a way that works for her and that impacts others.

➡️ Here are a few things you will discover in the episode next week:

📚 Elizabeth is an author of 2 books: one on cooking and the other one on Luxpreneurs

🫵 She finds that often we find Inclusive Visions with Exclusive Executions

🏛️ A book is not just an object for sales, it is a historical document that leave a mark

🦸‍♀️ She went from victim to hero of her own life

🎙️ Her podcast Luxury Business Podcast showcases small businesses in the luxury sector https://lnkd.in/dGXeiWKr

AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!

I have enjoyed this episode with you Elizabeth Solaru! Thank you for coming to the show and sharing openly what makes you #you and can inspire us on this beautiful and difficult journey that is life.

ENJOY TO THE MAX!!!!

Managing my energy... Here is a difficult topic for me.

How to understand my energy? How to sync it with others? Which signals should I pay attention to? What can I do to bring a high level of energy?

These are few of the many questions we cover in the next Episode of the podcast with the great Josefine Campbell, executive coach and Author of the book Power Barometer https://josefinecampbell.com/book-power-barometer/.

During 2 hours, I had a fabulous conversation about Josefine and her upbringing, the importance of martial arts in her life, the multiple jobs she had, until she became the executive coach and author she is now.

Here are a few gems we talked about:

🥋 She is a quadruple champion of Japanese Jiu Jitsu in Denmark

☝️ Rather than Personal 🆚 Professional, try Private 🆚 Professional because everything is personal

🗓️ It takes 7 years for ALL our cels to have changed in our body 😳

👾 She sees the mind of people like a suite of algorithms or mini programs and it helps her a lot to coach better

⚡️ You can check your energy level before starting a meeting (it's all in the book!)

🎯 We can have multiple purposes - one purpose alone does not reflect our richness and complexity

And MUCH MUCH MUCH MORE !!!

ENJOY TO THE MAX 🤩🤩🤩 !!!

You might not be ready for this episode.

I spent well over 2h with the incredible Aurelio C. Hammer, a sound healer and explorer, an artisan crafting instruments that impact us through specific frequencies.

Aurelio lives in Auroville, the last standing utopian community of that scale (where the first ever computer company of India was born) and created a company called SVARAM Musical Instruments & Research (https://svaram.org/).

One of his specialties? The mathematics of music (I did not know such a term existed).

You won't believe what you will learn about the powers of sound and its major impacts on our physical, mental and spiritual health.

Here are some extracts of what we talk about in this episode 40:

🫀 Each instrument touches a different layer of our being (for ex: specific frequencies trigger specific organs in our body)

🤩 There are NO ideal circumstances in life: we all go through struggle

🌪️ Nature can be brutal, far from the romantic idea he had of humans living in symbiosis with nature

❓ We always need to be ready for the unknown

⏭️ The future is more exciting to explore than the past

👲 Back in the Chinese empire, music had a role in social coherence

🧠 Music opens your feeling, your sync and capacity to work with others AND your intellectual capabilities (you read that well)

🙏 There is NO religion nor spiritual tradition without music

I could continue endlessly. This episode is so rich that it will probably challenge pre-conceived ideas you might not even know you have.

If you want to feel the joy of exploring new territories, you will enjoy this episode TO THE MAX 🤩🤩🤩!!!

He was not great at school. Nor did he know what you wanted to do with his life by his early 20s.

Until he stepped in #kendo dojo.

Werner Karnadi, a Data warehouse specialist, is above and beyond the coach of the kendo Dutch national team.

If you love sports you will be hooked by what Werner talks about during our conversation. And she loves figures you will like the way we discuss data and how to approach it with a human focus.

A truly fabulous conversation for this Episode 39.

Here are some extracts of what we talked about:

💔 He underestimated the emotional impact of being laid off, and spiralled down

🗣️ A few words from strangers have significantly impacted his life multiple times

🧐 "Don't take things personally" is absurd. How else do you want to take things?

❓You always have to associate a powerful WHY to your goal

🥋 Winning a match is NOT a goal. What you do to get that point IS a goal

🤷 If I haven't figured it out, then others might have not understood it neither -> I need to explain better.

AND MUCH MUCH MORE 🤩🤩🤩!!!

Thank you Josh Bishop for the connection 🙏❤️

ENJOY TO THE MAX 🤩🤩🤩!!!

Authenticity. A word I have always struggled with.

Overused. Misunderstood. Damaging, especially when used to judge people: "He is not authentic..."

And then I received on the show Troels Mark Meyer, the author of the book The Art of Being Authentic (available here: https://a.co/d/8jQuyCb)

I enjoyed the book and yet did not agree with all of it.

I enjoyed even more exploring our respective approaches during the episode.

We both learned a lot. What a great moment of flow, what a joy to move forward with Mark during our conversation!

Here are a few nuggets of what we discussed during the episode:

🥅 Goal driven and Purpose driven are 2 very different ball games with 2 different destinations

😞 Trauma is not a matter of "how big it was" but "how you perceived it"

📣 Changing language when sharing your emotions can have a massive impact. Example: Transform "I am angry" into "I feel anger" and see for yourself!

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 It is not just about you. Others play a prime role in the way we live our lives

🪄 There is a strong difference between Intentions and Manifestations

AND MUCH MUCH MORE 🤩🤩🤩!!!

I enjoyed the conversation with you Troels Mark Meyer. I learned so much. I liked the debate. It was a great moment.

Don't miss this episode and tell me what you think in the comments!

Here is how you can connect with Mark:

Website: https://tmarkmeyer.com/

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

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/troelsmarkmeyer/

ENJOY TO THE MAX 🤩🤩🤩!!!

And there it is. The PART II of my conversation with Josh Bishop 🤩🤩🤩

I received a lot of feedback on PART I. The story of Josh touched and resonated with quite a lot of you.

In that second conversation, Josh and I dive a bit more into the world of film-making and Josh's career.

Here are some of the things we talked about:

🎬 There is a deep difference between US movies and European ones: European movies are NOT made for commerce

🤝 It truly is about who you know

🙃 His first documentary Made in Japan was supposed to follow a stellar path and it did not eventually, which was a big let down

🔗 You do movies because you HAVE TO (as a personal necessity), not because you WANT TO

≠ Career and purpose are two very different things

AND MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!

ENJOY TO THE MAX 🤩🤩🤩!!!