Round Pegs Square Holes Podcast

Lee is a High Performance Life Coach at Mind Power Solutions. He joined the army at 16 after his mother committed suicide a year previously. Following the prestigious British Commando course, he earned a green beret at 18, with many years serving with tours around the world. Having worked with multi million pound business owners, professional athletes and this year alone, coached over 300 military leaders in the British Army, Lee will be sharing his valuable insights into how you can tap into a level of high performance, previously you have not experienced, or sustained. In Lee's words: "My clients increase productivity by 20% on average (measured). Now imagine doing that whilst regaining personal and professional life balance - that’s what I do".

"Everyone has a talent, everyone has a story to tell." Octoos Talents are passionate people with an expertise. Talents would like to share their know-how, their expertise, their passion through an experience/activity. Talents bring emotions to Explorers and allow them to better understand the DNA of a city in an authentic and new angle. In this talk Sebastien will delve further into the Octoos mindset and teach us how to explore a city the right way. Sebastien’s roots come from a mix of French and Spanish cultures and he has lived in several different countries. He worked for a large corporation for 15 years and had the chance to be a Business Angel for early stage companies in parallel. He has had the pleasure of visiting more than 60+ countries and an impressive array of iconic world monuments. His most vivid memories though are the encounters with people. On every trip without fail, he has engaged with locals all around the world. It then became a requisite for him when travelling: meeting people, communicating, exchanging. Because everyone has a hidden talent, because everyone can bring something special to someone else, he had the idea to connect people: to connect local talents and explorers for everyone to share and live a one-of-a-kind experience. Octoos was thus born. Sometimes you meet people who will change your life for the better! It is time to meet, exchange, share and thrive on our talents.

In this episode we are going to be speaking with the incredible Marcus Smith. Marcus' latest series, "Winning with The Ultra Mindset", explores the core lessons he learned after his near-death experience and how participants can put them into practice to win consistently at life. He will share a condensed version of this with your listeners to help them develop a mindset that fosters mental toughness and enhanced self-discipline to keep you on track. Marcus Smith is an entrepreneur, motivational speaker and international athlete.

Rob is an Entrepreneur, Investor, Author of 6 Amazon and Audible Bestsellers, Prolific Podcaster, two-time Public Speaking World Record Holder, Founder of The Rob Moore Foundation. Have you ever wondered how you can build an online business with LOW to NO overheads? Today we are going to find out!

Gavin J Gallagher is an Irish property investor, entrepreneur and speaker. As Director of Earlsfort Group, his family business, he looks after their corporate real estate portfolio at East Point Business Park in Dublin comprising 38 buildings across more than 40 acres with than more than 50 occupiers employing between eight and nine thousand people. In this talk, Gavin will discuss his own story and key lessons he’s learnt from his experiences. Gavin’s story is truly remarkable, as a commercial property investor during the period 2003-2007 he was was on fire, the Celtic Tiger economy was booming and everything he had touched turned to gold, amassing tens of millions in profits while still only in his early 30’s. He was caught by the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and ended up 16M negative with three banks after him while he frantically tried to keep his sinking ship afloat. As an investor never forget the market is cyclical - you will be at the top and then you will be at the bottom, hence the importance resilience and when shit gets real just remember your stumbles and falls do not define you, it’s how you respond to them that matters.

There will come a time when the news says "Its been 90 days since the last Covid Case", with that will come a rush of energy in the market, we are on the cusp of waves of innovation. By now your business should have reset and reinveted itself for the decade ahead. Its now time to paddle and surf to be on top of the incoming waves. Daniel is back to discuss how to capitalise on this moment to position yourself as a Key Person of Influence in your Industry. We will be diving into lead generation and why data should be your big focus going into the next decade. Daniel Priestley is an entrepreneur, best-selling author and international speaker. Starting with nothing, he built successful multi-million dollar businesses in Australia, UK and Singapore. By working with some of the world's most successful people, Daniel discovered there are five strengths that the top entrepreneurs, business owners and leaders possess. With a passion for global small business, Daniel is the author of the four best-selling books Key Person of Influence, Entrepreneur Revolution, Oversubscribed and 24Assets. Daniel is the founder of Dent, which runs a 9-month growth accelerator programme for small enterprises, working with over 500+ entrepreneurs each year to develop their businesses. Dent has offices in the UK, USA, Singapore and Australia.

In this talk, Isabelita will talk through stress, especially when looking for a job -- the effects of it and how much it affects the actual aimed results. She will also discuss the mindset during the job search for successful and faster results and the importance of relaxation and staying positive. She will cover perception, reality, cause and effect, frequency, human “softwares”, power of creation, visualization and the law of attraction amongst other things. Originally from Brazil, having lived in several countries, living in Dubai since 2011, Isabelita Castilho is a passionate Executive Career Consultant, who provides strategic career transition advice to senior executives looking for their next job. Isabelita is also a conversational hypnotherapist and the author of the book “All The Secrets of Getting a New Job in Dubai, Unleashed!” Isabelita has advised many senior executives across the world and has many public testimonials (64 up to date combined) on her LinkedIn profile page. She studied in the U.S, Australia and Brazil, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, while having acquired many HR-related certifications including interview skills, dealing with difficult people at work and work relations. She speaks several languages and is currently learning Swedish. Isabelita loves NLP, Neuroscience, Hypnosis, Meditation, Spirituality and is an avid public speaker as well.

In this talk, Matthew will discuss how, having spent the past 10 years working in bespoke menswear, the last 3 running his own business with sustainability being a big driver, he decided to take this into school uniforms where the potential for positive impact is so much bigger. At the moment uniforms have a huge environmental impact and aren't good for the kids wearing them, and he’s decided to make a change in that system. Covid isn't just about pivoting, it is about pivoting to business models that are going to help solve the climate crisis that we face, and he plans to take us through the steps of how his business did just that. Matthew Benjamin was born and raised in London. His father is from Guyana, and although his mother was born in the UK, her parents are from Jamaica. With a dad hailing from the Caribbean, he grew up playing cricket and the Windies are his team. He studied Advertising in the UK before going to study an MBA in Luxury Management at the International University of Monaco. His career started in London, working for the largest custom clothing company in the world, Tom James, which led him to come to Dubai, to open and run an office for them, becoming one of the youngest in the history of the company to do so. In 2017 he started Benjamin Siggers, a bespoke menswear business with sustainability at its core. As his passion for sustainability grew, so did his ambition to make more of an impact, which has resulted in him starting Kapes.

In this talk, Nick will chat through the brand ethos of TeamAngelWolf, that is, Inclusive Impactivity. This refers to the notion of encompassing and including all people comprehensively as well as creating a positive, equal space with an enhanced quality of being active, visible and impacting the community. Nick Watson has lived in Dubai, United Arab Emirates since 1998 after serving as a Royal Marine prior to that. He has been in the health and fitness world for over 22 years and considers himself a a constantly inspiring entrepreneur, with vision, heart, driven ambition, and perfectionism to organisation and detail. He is the founder of Team AngelWolf which is a non-profit foundation that promotes an inclusive, active life with People of Determination. They work primarily with families and individuals of all abilities in a welcoming, motivational and connected space. Their action surrounds the principal that everyone is welcome and everyone is equal.

Craig, if you don't know already, was the primary vehicle technical advisor for The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious and Tokyo Drift. (The best of the franchise) He grew up loving cars, and after many years and roles inside the automotive aftermarket industry, this ultimately landed him a position with Universal Pictures in 2000. He leveraged that relationship to help further various side ventures. After helping others build their dream, Craig struck out on his own and started building his own dream. Over his 30 years in marketing, he had to reinvent himself multiple times to adapt to new technologies. Today, Craig's work/life balance is both satisfying and rewarding, with ECommerce being his biggest passion. In this talk, Craig will discuss taking lessons from the economic crash of 2009 and implementing them in the current time as well as how diversification has helped us weather the storm. Not to mention, we'll cover a lot of what he did in the FF franchise and how he leveraged those relationships to get ahead in life.