Entrepreneur Dominic McGregor at 21 co-founded the Manchester-based social media marketing agency Social Chain and helped grow it to a $200m turnover business with 750 staff in offices all around the world. Dom was one of the first people to hire a happiness manager to help support his growing business. Having floated Social Chain Dom has now exited the business to start the next stage of his career and he sits down with Matt Phelan to answer the following questions. What makes you happy Dom? How important is personal brand in business and can you lose yourself? How can we be aware of addictions like social media and alcohol? Is university still a good option for young people? How can people starting their career balance hard work and happiness? Please tell us about your new roles with a VC and advising the cabinet office?

Matt asks Gabe the following questions

How do you support someone transitioning?

Is data scary?

How do you build a team?

What's next for Gabe Barrett?

How do you work as a double team?

What can employers do to attract talent like Femi?

Matt Phelan and Emily Franklin discuss Employee Voice and the importance of listening to your people. Matt asks Emily the following questions

What makes you happy?

Why did you get involved in the people space?

Why do you share stories on your blog?

What is employee voice Not?

What is Employee voice? Why employee voice important?

This episode discusses emotions at work and why they are so important. What are emotions?Why is being emotional associated with being unprofessional?How do you engage with emotions effectively?Should we talk about emotions at work?

Matt Phelan interviews UX expert Leslie Fountain on everything from design, leadership,UX, motivation and designing for human life.

Guest host Susan Furber interviews Clive Hyland on his new book The Quantum Way. Clive's book explores the Science Behind Happiness and Workplace Engagement.

What makes you happy? How does this book link to Freedom To Be Happy Why did you write The Quantum Way? What is in The Quantum Way? What are your influences?  If someone has your read book and become inspired what is the next step?

Susan asks Clive the following questions

What makes you happy? How does this book link to Freedom To Be Happy Why did you write The Quantum Way? What is in The Quantum Way? What are your influences?  If someone has your read book and become inspired what is the next step?

Editor of Freedom to Be Happy Susan Furber guest hosts this podcast to interview Matt Phelan on his best selling debut book Freedom to Be Happy: The Business Case for Happiness. Questions include What makes you happy?

Talk to me about the process of writing a book?

Why did you write Freedom to be Happy?

What is in Freedom to Be Happy?

What are your influences?

What does the future look like?

Product manager Dylan Sellberg discusses the Human side of building tech. I invited Dylan on after reading his tweet 

"My favorite part about building product is that I can be told my work is "unstoppably great" and "the 667th layer of hell" in the same day". I ask Dylan

what makes you happy?

what is a product manager?

take us through the humans side if building great product?

Sope Agbelusi and Matt Phelan discuss the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report. Matt asks Sope the following questions. What is the report? What are your views on the report? Why has it been so widely criticised? Was there anything useful in the report? How can we learn from this?