The Blue Marble

Katherine Tiddy is Founder of The Work Happy Project – an organisation with a simple mission to help people and companies work happier.

This Podcast was originally released by Steve Walker on idibu.com. Steve is Task founder along with co-founder Matt who normally hosts the Task podcast. We decided to release the podcast here as it covered a lot of ground related to employee happiness, and given Task has a key focus around Employee Engagement - it made sense.

We had a great conversation covering lots of ground around happiness and the work place, with topics such as:

Find out more about Katherine on LinkedIn, or follow her on Instagram.

In this episode I speak with Vicky Chen. At just 20-years old, Vicky Chen began her entrepreneurial career as founder and CEO of Chromaki, a boutique fashion business based in Singapore. Since then she’s developed her marketing and account management capabilities in the advertising and public relations sectors, working in Laos, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Vicky is a power organizer of a global award-winning non-profit female empowerment organization, SheSays and she’s one of the founding team of of Cartoons Underground, Southeast Asia Largest Underground Animation Festival. She was recently recognized and shortlisted for the Campaign Asia: Women Leading Change 2017 awards in the under 30 category. You can find out more about Vicky and Cartoons Underground at https://cartoonsunderground.com

In this episode we speak with Michael Shafer, the founder and director of Warm Heart, a community development organization serving Phrao, one of the poorest districts in northern Thailand. Since 2008, Warm Heart has been transforming the lives of many people, addressing issues such as family care, education, microenterprise, environmental sustainability, and health care for the elderly. We talk about Michaels work with the foundation and his efforts to combat the problem with crop burning that takes place here in Thailand each year. Something he’s been working on a solution for, for sometime. You can find out more about Michael and the Warm Heart team, at their website: https://warmheartworldwide.org

In this episode I speak with Ryan Godden. Ryan is originally from Queensland, Australia and now lives in Pai, a small town in Thailand about 140kms north of Chiang Mai. Ryan started life as a tradesman until shifting his focus to animal welfare about 10 years ago. He runs Pete’s Mission, a rescue and rehabilitation centre looking out for the local animal community, which is mostly dogs but he’s also taken in horses, pigs, birds, reptiles and any animal that needs help. We talked about Ryans work and experience with animals. We recorded outside at sunset so it’s shorter than we had hoped as we were in the dark by the end but still a productive and interesting conversation. You can find out more about Ryan at his website: https://www.petesmission.org

Also...the picture of Ryan with the dog was taken a week ago and you''ll be glad to know the dog is recovering well and looks a lot better now.

In this episode I speak with Solonia Teodros, better known as Sol. Sol is a friend of 7 years and we met in Singapore. She's an American-born-Taiwanese-Ethiopian, with life chapters spanning the US and Asia. Sol identifies as a global citizen, humanist and change catalyst. She's co founder of The Change School, an organisation that allows her to help individuals, organisations and communities explore notions of identity, purpose and impact in order to thrive and succeed. Solonia has been recognised as Asia's 50 Women Leaders for Leadership Excellence by CMO Asia, awarded for Global Training & Development Leadership by the World Training & Development Congress, and shared the stage with her co-founder Grace Clapham at TEDxAuckland to speak on the future of Global Citizenship. We chat about starting the Change School, living and working in different countries and what success and purpose are all about. 

To read more about Solonia's body of work, visit: soloniateodros.com  

To learn more about The Change School, visit: thechangeschool.com

In this episode I speak with Don Linder, a friend from Chiang Mai, who I’ve also written and worked with on a screenplay. Don's a native New Yorker, he’s an award-winning scriptwriter, fiction and travel writer, and an academic who has lived and worked across five continents. He’s best know for "The Last Executioner” a movie that won a number of awards including Best Film and Best Screenplay at Thailand's Tukkata Tong Awards -- the equivalent here to the Golden Globes. We talk about screenwriting, how Don researches characters, and we get some insight into his latest movie The Cave. If you want to contact Don directly you can do at: [email protected]

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Meet Dustin Joseph, a travel and food enthusiast who grew up in Left Hand Canyon, Boulder, Colorado and has since traveled to over 60 countries in 5 continents, spending time in Mexico, around the Mediterranean and Southeast Asia. Today he's based in the north of Thailand, an area he's visited and lived in since 2004. Following school Dustin studied Culinary Arts and went onto to work at a number of top restaurants before travelling to Thailand where he's launched, or helped others launch, their own dining experiences. Throughout his culinary journey Dustin has always had a passion and interest in coffee which he's now taken professional with Left Hand Roasters - and it's this we spend the majority of our time exploring on todays pod - as well as touching on life in northern Thailand, following freedom and the current food/selfie phenomenon. Dustin also loves anthropology, agriculture and science, with a focus on finding a way to connect them all. You can find out more about Dustin and his coffee endeavours at: https://lefthandroasters.com

This week we speak to Christian Shearer of the Regen Network. Christian has been working in ecological agriculture for the past 15 years, with much of that time spent working with farmers in Southeast Asia. As a co-founder of Terra Genesis International, he spent the past five years working with leading natural products brands, helping them understand how to invest into their existing supply systems to encourage them toward more regenerative practices. Christian is pouring his life into Regen Network because the tools being built will have a profound influence on the acceleration of the adoption of regenerative agriculture around the world. We chatted about regenerative farming, the role of technology and ideas on solving the burning problem in Northern Thailand.  Listen, enjoy, and please remember to share and subscribe!   

https://www.regen.network

Originally from County Kerry in Ireland Pádraig (Paddy) Flynn has been in Asia for more than 10 years, working in data analytics and technology in the advertising world. He's passionate about demystifying data and exploring how access to the right data sets can improve the way businesses perform. In this podcast we chat about the changes in the advertising landscape over the past few decades, how the future looks, and even parallels between fake news and the old style printing press - has it really changed that much or do we simply have new ways to spin our stories? The sketch I hold in the picture is Paddy's mock up of how  mass broadcasting & TV works - you hear us work on during the chat. Listen, enjoy, and please remember to share and subscribe!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/padraigflynn/