The Boundless Podcast

This is Boundless Rebooted. During #Covid19, we are broadcasting daily. Sharing messages from international Thought Leaders, about mental wellbeing, about leadership and about the opportunities we have right now to make our world more resilient, collaborative and sustainable.

This episode is with Larisa Miller. Larisa is CEO of Phoenix Global and oversees global investments in more than 20 countries around the world. She was named one of the "Top 10 Friends of Africa" by For Business in Africa Magazine, and one of the World's 100 Most Influential Women Leaders by Sovereign Magazine.

In this episode Larisa explains how important a global mindset is at this time. We will only solve a global problem by working together globally to learn, share and respond.

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This is Boundless Rebooted. During #Covid19, we are broadcasting daily. Sharing messages from international Thought Leaders, about mental wellbeing, about leadership and about the opportunities we have right now to make our world more resilient, collaborative and sustainable.

This episode is with Vera Mulyani. Vera is a critically acclaimed visionary architect and urban designer. For the past 15 years, Vera's practice of architecture and science has been evolving to reach an interplanetary scale, pioneering the Mars Architecture (Marschitecture) movement on building a sustainable city on Mars. Her Mars City simulation is currently building in the California desert, uniting the most advanced technology in alternative energy and infrastructure, that can empower the Inland Empire dynamic development.

In this episode Vera explains that we need to challenge ourselves to think big, go out and discover our galactic neighbourhood, because when we do, we’ll really start to learn about and appreciate our home here on Earth.

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This is Boundless Rebooted. During #Covid19, we are broadcasting daily. Sharing messages from international Thought Leaders, about mental wellbeing, about leadership and about the opportunities we have right now to make our world more resilient, collaborative and sustainable.

This episode is with CrisBeswick. Cris is a recognised global thought leader, author and keynote speaker on the subject of strategic innovation.

In this episode Cris makes a compelling case for companies to push innovation boundaries at this time, this could lead to some exciting outcomes, but more importantly, it sends a clear message to employees that they are innovating for the future – therefore there will be a future.

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This is Boundless Rebooted. During #Covid19, we are broadcasting daily. Sharing messages from international Thought Leaders, about mental wellbeing, about leadership and about the opportunities we have right now to make our world more resilient, collaborative and sustainable.

This episode is with Chester Elton. Chester is co-founder of The Culture Works and author of multiple award winning, #1 New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, All In, The Carrot Principle and The Best Team Wins.

His books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.

In this episode Chester tells the story of Kent Taylor, CEO of Texas Roadhouse. It’s an unbelievable example of courageous, modern, compassionate leadership. I hope you love this story as much as I do.

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This is Boundless Rebooted. During #Covid19, we are broadcasting daily. Sharing messages from international Thought Leaders, about mental wellbeing, about leadership and about the opportunities we have right now to make our world more resilient, collaborative and sustainable.

This episode is with Bruce Daisley. Bruce formerly ran Twitter's business in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He runs the top business podcast, Eat Sleep Work Repeat and his first book - about improving work & work culture - was a Sunday Times #1 bestseller.

Each one of us is facing a different challenge at this time, for some of us it’s physical, for some it’s emotional and for some, it’s about keep business going. All of these are important, in different ways. We need our economic engine to continue, and through these changes some businesses will have the opportunity to bounce back stronger, wiser and more resilient.

I began by asking Bruce if Covid-19 provides us with the opportunity to be more authentic in how we present ourselves in our companies?

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Some of you may have heard of the Kurzgesagt animation studio. They publish videos that try to rationalise life’s biggest questions and address science’s biggest gaps.
In 2017 they were challenged to explain the meaning of our existence. The message they produced was viewed 2 million times in two days.

Their words inspired the following passage, changes have been made, but credit of course goes to the wonderful Kurzgesagt for their brilliance:


“It’s possible. But also very unlikely that 200 trillion trillion stars were made for us.

In a sense it can feel like a joke has been played on us.

That we became self-aware, only to realise this story is not about us.

It’s possible that nothing matters. But equally it’s just as possible that everything matters.

As far as we can see, we only get one shot at life.

This could make death a little scary, but it also sets us free.

If the universe is to end as we believe it will, every humiliation we have ever suffered in our life will be forgotten.

Every mistake we made. will not matter in the end.
Every bad thing we ever did, will be voided.

If our life is all we get to experience, then it's the only thing that matters.

Humans will almost certainly cease to exist at some point,
but before we do, we get to explore ourselves and the world around us.
We get to experience feelings. We get to experience food, books, sunrises, and getting to know each other.
The fact that we're even able to contemplate these things is incredible.

It's easy to think of ourselves as separated from everything, but this is not true.
We are as much the universe as a neutron star
or a black hole or a nebula.
Even better, actually, we are its thinking and feeling part:
we could be called the centre organs of the universe.

It's not as if we've found out everything there is to know
We don't know why the rules of the universe are as they are,
We don’t know how life came into existence, or even what life is.
We have no real idea what consciousness is or if we are alone in the universe.

But we can try to find some answers.
There are billions of stars to visit, diseases to cure,
people to help, joy to be experienced.
There really is so much to do.

No matter how big the universe, or how long the timeline. Each one of us can still choose to feel, and act as if our life, and everyone else’s is precious.

Everything that happens will eventually we forgotten. But there is only ‘now’ and right now what we do truly, truly matters.”

Kurzgesagt 2017

Thanks for listening. Whatever happens in the week ahead, let’s consciously choose to stay kind, stay grateful, and remember that this is still the greatest ever time to be alive.

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This is Boundless Rebooted. During #Covid19, we are broadcasting daily. Sharing messages from international Thought Leaders, about mental wellness, about leadership and about the opportunities we have right now to make our world more resilient, collaborative and sustainable.

This episode is with Dr. Ernest Jones. Dr. Ernest wrote his PhD research dissertation entitled Social Exchange Perspective and S&OP Participation. He continues to research organizational behaviour topics, and is an author in the award-winning series The Refractive Thinker. He is also a champion of everyday leaders, and in my opinion, he’s a modern, thoughtful and compassionate leader.

Dr. Ernest is a father of three, so I began by asking him how he helping his children to understand and deal with the implications of Covid-19

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This is Boundless Rebooted. During #Covid-19, we are broadcasting daily. Sharing messages from international Thought Leaders, about mental wellness, about leadership and about the opportunities we have right now to make our world more resilient, collaborative and sustainable.

This episode is with Matt Smith. Matt is CEO of Webtrends Optimize a company that works with retailers, ecommerce businesses and travel companies. I wanted to know how these businesses were thinking and feeling at this time. Matt is working with companies that have been stopped in their tracks by Covid-19, and others that are so busy that they are struggling to keep up with demand.

I started by asking Matt, whether at times likes this it could be ok to let your accountant run your business?

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“We need to talk to each other and surrender, not capitulate, but surrender to each other. You can say 'I'm so scared. I don't know how I'm going to make it through the day' and have the other person say 'me too. But I felt that way yesterday and I made it free yesterday. I have no reason to believe I won't make it through it today'. Wow. So here is our opportunity to develop a language of connectedness.”

This is Boundless Rebooted. During #Covid-19, we are broadcasting daily. Sharing messages from international Thought Leaders, about mental wellness, about leadership and about the opportunities we have right now to make our world more resilient, collaborative and sustainable.

This episode is part 2 with Dr. Mark Goulston. Mark is a leadership consultant to major organisations. His book, Just Listen, ranked #1 in six Amazon categories and has been translated into 14 languages. Mark has been UCLA professor of psychiatry for over 25 years, and is a former FBI hostage negotiation trainer.

I started by asking Mark, how do we avoid becoming tribal at a time like this.

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This is Boundless Rebooted. During #Covid-19, we are broadcasting daily. Sharing messages from international Thought Leaders, about mental wellness, about leadership and about the opportunities we have right now to make our world more resilient, collaborative and sustainable.

This episode is with Ambassador Professor Nabhit Kapur. Professor Nabhit calls himself a PsychoPreneur. He is a mental health advocate, an author, TEDx speaker and globally decorated ambassador of mental health and peace with over 200 recognitions from 30 countries around the world.

I invited Professor Nabhit to speak to us for a few minutes to help rationalise the current situation and raise awareness of maintaining our mental health at this time.

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