Plus Future Podcast

Mireille Harper is an award-winning Editorial Director at Bluebird & One Boat, Pan Macmillan. She has formerly worked at Penguin Random House and Hachette. Mireille is also a writer, sensitivity reader and a PR and communications consultant. Her work has been published in British Vogue, GUAP, Nataal and more. As a communications consultant specialising in creative, cultural and community-led projects, Mireille has worked with Punch Records, BYP Network, ShoutOut Network. She is a trustee of Migrateful and on the advisory board for Africa Writes.

Mireille is the author of Timelines from Black History and a contributing writer to Timelines of Everyone, The Black History Book and Migrations. Her essay, ‘Why Passivity Will No Longer Do’ is published in Feminist Book Society’s anthology, This Is How We Come Back Stronger.

Dan Formless’ rapid rise in the business support and start-up arena saw him become the youngest ever CEO of a British chamber of commerce at 25 years old. He left to focus on his lifelong passions: music and filmmaking.  Embracing the growth of live-streaming, he created opportunities to work with numerous internationally-renowned artists and music brands.  Dan founded independent East London radio station Hoxton FM (2011), Forward Movement hybrid studio (2019) and this year his own record label, Saboteurs Sanctuary.

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Dan Formless: @danformless

James Nepaulsingh: @nepopublic

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Judah Armani is Founder of InHouse Records, operating in multiple UK and USA prisons, Head of the Social Impact Challenge Lab at the Royal College of Art and a Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. 

Judah has pioneered new ways in which design education, particularly service design education and practice, can be deployed to transform the lives and education of those serving prison sentences. He established InHouse Records, which is a fully functioning record label operating in seven UK and three USA prisons, along with Aux Magazine, a publication that is primarily educational but also engaging and entertaining. It is distributed in 48 prisons in the UK and USA. Graduates of the InHouse programme have a re-offending rate of less than 1%.

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Judah Armani: @santojude

INhouse Records: @inhouserec

James Nepaulsingh: @nepopublic

Plus Future Coaching: @plusfuturecoaching

Artist Cindy Shaoul has become a favorite of celebrities such as Emma Roberts, Lily Collins, Ashley Park, Catherine Deneuve, and John Malkovich. She is currently represented by Lilac Gallery, Peanut Gallery, and Lerebours Antiques. Vanity Fair, LUXE, Authority, Aspire Design & Home have written about her. Cindy’s blend of impressionistic and abstract style is inspired by the whimsey and purity of the feminine form. 

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Cindy Shaoul: @cindyshaoul

James Nepaulsingh: @nepopublic

Plus Future Coaching: @plusfuturecoaching

N. Damali Peterman, Esq. is the CEO and founder of the prominent global conflict resolution firm, Breakthrough ADR. Breakthrough specializes in innovative and engaging ways to help individuals, companies, government agencies and educational institutions prevent, manage and resolve conflict in the workplace and beyond.

Damali’s new book ‘Negotiating Whilst Black: How To Be Who You Are To Get What You Want’ will be published by Penguin Random House in Spring 2024.

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Damali Peterman: @breakthroughadr

James Nepaulsingh: @nepopublic

Plus Future Coaching: @plusfuturecoaching

StuartO is one of the most famous people in Japan who no one knows. He has voiced over 200 major commercial campaigns both domestically and overseas, as well as voicing NHK WORLD TV’s popular programmes, currently on air in over 160 countries worldwide. As a singer and DJ, StuartO’s live performances are in high demand and he was a Stadium MC/announcer for the TOKYO 2020 PARALYMPICS and 2019 Rugby World Cup (in Japan) supporter events.

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StuartO: @stuartophoto

James Nepaulsingh: @nepopublic

Plus Future Coaching: @plusfuturecoaching

Plus Future: linktr.ee/plusfuture

Victoria Cantons is now one of the major names in the art world. Cantons has a transgender history – having transitioned at thirty-nine – and was an only child, growing up in London with a Catholic mother from Spain and Jewish father of French and Russian descent. Because of this background, Cantons is keenly aware of questions concerning boundaries, stigma and freedom. She is a cross-disciplinary artist with a focus on painting.

*Episode edited to remove long pauses*

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Victoria Cantons: @victoriacantons

James Nepaulsingh: @nepopublic

Plus Future: linktr.ee/plusfuture

Guy Perryman is one of the most famous people in Japan. He has interviewed rock royalty including Paul McCartney, DJ’d for royalty including Prince William, was the world’s first person to DJ live on board airline flights between Tokyo and London and in 2017 was appointed MBE by Queen Elizabeth II. 

Join us and get tips on how to deal with procrastination, perfectionism and a fear of failure.

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Guy Perryman: @guyperryman

James Nepaulsingh: @nepopublic

Plus Future: linktr.ee/plusfuture

Join me as I coach Andrew Ramroop, seen by many as the best tailor in the world. He was the first Black tailor on Savile Row and his highly confidential client list is much sought after. He tailored five suits for Princess Diana and now travels the world to fit his clients. As the session progresses, Andrew starts to uncover his blindspots and assumptions in his business. I’m excited to watch how he puts his discoveries into action in the near future.

The session covers:

• Kickstarting a business after a two-year pandemic lull 
• To what extent are you pivoting effectively? 
• Challenging your own outdated ways of doing things 
• Succession planning for the next generation

If you enjoyed this episode and it inspired you in some way, it would be great to hear your biggest takeaway. Head over to Spotify and leave a review. 

About Andrew

Andrew Ramroop is a Savile Row tailor. His international client list includes famous politicians, movie stars, captains of industry and royalty.

Andrew is Trinidadian and became an apprentice to a local tailor when he was 13. He moved to London when he was 17 to work on Savile Row. He graduated from the London College of Fashion and eventually became the first Black person to own a Tailoring House on Savile Row, Maurice Sedwell.

Andrew is keen to pass on his skills to the next generation of tailors and has been heavily involved in creating bespoke training initiatives for them. He was awarded an OBE in 2009, for his work in tailoring and training, and was the UK’s Black Business Person of the Year in 2017.

Connect with Andrew:

Website: https://www.mauricesedwell.com/ 

https://savilerowacademy.co.uk/ 

https://www.artssavilerow.com/ 　

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MauriceSedwell/ 

IG: https://www.instagram.com/mauricesedwell/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-ramroop-obe-cmtt-6751442/ 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4j7ZFk6lhoaPwI9VVw51aw 

Connect with James Nepaulsingh:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/plusfuturecoaching/

https://www.instagram.com/nepopublic/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesnepaulsingh/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/plusfuturecoaching 

Email: [email protected] 

Website: https://plusfuturepodcast.com/ 

Soundtrack: Nepotek - ‘Sapphire’ - Plus Future Records 

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James coaches one of the biggest names in the art world: Kenny Schachter.

Described as “the art world's enfant terrible," Kenny has weaved his way through various roles as a self-taught artist, writer, curator, father and, most recently, NFT pioneer. Always on the outside, yet embedded within the inside, Kenny is a self-confessed walking contradiction. He is the ultimate disrupter and is full of generosity, always seeking ways to forge new paths for emerging artists.

The session covers:

• Wanting to be taken seriously in the art world
• NFTs
• Rejecting goal setting
• Living your passions
• Life’s traumas as being part of life
• Living the here and now

Links of things mentioned in this episode:

Art without Substance book

About Kenny:

Kenny Schachter has been curating contemporary art exhibits in museums and galleries and teaching (art history and economics) for more than thirty years; presently in the graduate department of the University of Zurich (appointed to advisory board January 2021) professorships at the School of Visual Arts (NY) and New York University. He has lectured internationally, been the recipient of a Rockefeller supported grant in Mexico, and contributed to books on Paul Thek, Zaha Hadid, Vito Acconci and Sigmar Polke/Gerhard Richter.

Schachter has a regular column on Artnet.com in addition to writing widely for various international publications, including most recently New York Magazine and The Times Magazine (UK). He had a retrospective of his art at Joel Mesler’s Rental Gallery in New York in the summer of 2018, curated an exhibit at Simon Lee Gallery in London, fall 2018 and a one-person show at Kantor Gallery, LA, February 2019. He recently participated in a two-person show with Eva Beresin at Galerie Charim in Vienna (both in May 2021). Schachter also participated in Art Basel 2021 in Switzerland and Miami with Nagel Draxler Gallery.

Schachter is presently the subject of a documentary being produced and directed by Chris Smith (Tiger King/Fyre Festival), and a Hulu/ABC NFT film, and has been profiled in The New York Times Magazine (cover story, September, 1996), and London's Observer, Independent and Telegraph. After having made digital art for decades, Schachter has spearheaded the traditional art world’s adaptation of Non-Fungible Tokens in 2020-1 by lecturing from Yale to the Hirschhorn Museum and written 12 feature articles for Artnet on the subject. In 2021, he curated wide-ranging NFTism exhibitions (a term he trademarked) at Nagel Draxler in Cologne, Institut in London. Kenny is currently based in New York.

About James:

James is a multipotentialite: a lawyer, executive coach, painter, music producer and podcaster. He studied at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge and the Royal College of Art. He holds two board positions in Tokyo and also lectures law part-time in Japan’s top-ranking universities.

He is Senior Legal Counsel at one of Japan’s best-known institutions. He uses his fine art background to approach the corporate world through a creative corporate design lens. In the art world, he regularly holds exhibitions in Tokyo and London and you will often hear his music played on radio stations such as BBC Radio One.

James is accredited as an Associate Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation and a mediator by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution.

James is British and is of Trinidadian origin.

Connect with Kenny Schachter:

Website: https://www.kennyschachter.art/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/kennyschachter/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kennyschac?lang=en

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoNrOkKYDvxkNVJx4ODz_Ew/videos

Connect with James Nepaulsingh:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/plusfuturecoaching

https://www.instagram.com/nepopublic/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesnepaulsingh/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/plusfuturecoaching

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://plusfuturepodcast.com/

Soundtrack: Nepotek - ‘Sapphire’ - Plus Future Records

Find the full track on the below channels

Spotify

Apple Music

YouTube

Beatport

Traxsource

Bandcamp

SoundCloud