The Next Iteration Podcast

Our thoughts on the new lockdowns, and how patience truly is one of the best virtues.

Timestamps

3:20 - Why it’s hard to be patient young

14:00 - How patience helps with building habits

23:00 - Choosing what to be impatient with

31:30 - Opening the door for serendipity

Happy Holidays, Iterators!

Timestamps:

2:43 - Gratitude turns what we have into enough

4:50 - Fuad’s Big Boat Analogy (BBA)

11:40 - How do you show people you care about them?

24:00 - Dealing with family stress during the holidays

32:20 - We must be everything we’re capable of being - Abraham Maslow

Timestamps:

2:30 - How did you get into the mental health space?

11:15 - What’s the best way to support a friend going through it?

25:40 - Is our mental health as a society getting worse?

35:00 - What global learnings can we take to solve mental health issues here in North America?

47:30 - Feel the feels, don’t distract yourself

https://www.aruniesaldhi.com/

Timestamps:

3:20 - What actually helps people change their behaviour?

14:20 - Hindsight bias and choosing your specialization as a doctor

25:00 - Pivoting out of medicine

38:00 - Alzheimers and diabetes

43:00 - The path of least resistance

Timestamps

2:20 - The role of humility in medicine

13:15 - Patient care as an artform

27:40 - Leadership in medicine and in life

37:20 - What’s blocking medicine from fully embracing tech?

43:55 - Halo Health and becoming an angel investor in healthcare

Timestamps:

2:45 - How geography affects the distribution of resources

14:30 - Is the current VC market sustainable?

18:55 - Why not all companies need VC

29:00 - How did sports eventually put you on the path to getting into VC?

40:44 - What frameworks have you built to manage risk, both in work and in life?

STRESS

It's October, school and work are ramping up, and the days are getting shorter and colder. The perfect recipe for some stress.

Today's episode is a 1-1 convo with Damien and I on stress -- acute vs chronic stress, the physiological nature of stress, and strategies we've used to cope with stress.

Hope you all enjoy this little candid gem :)

Timestamps

1:30 - Prenoia, the opposite of paranoia, believing the universe is conspiring to help you

8:50 - How do you tune into your intuition?

17:50 - What number does your progress bar in life read right now?

31:20 - What has backpacking taught you about life?

45:00 - How to build a genuinely supportive community

Espree's Links!

Youtube - https://youtube.com/espree

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/espree/

WeAreLATech - https://wearelatech.com/

Timestamps

2:20 - What’s your professional superpower?

9:00 - Government or private sector, where can you have more impact?

19:50 - How can we create an economic system that values more than just money?

34:00 - How did your values shape the path of Verto Health?

44:00 - Lighting round! Favorite failure, entrepreneurship, etc

Check out Verto at https://verto.health/

Vision. That’s what every company starts with.

You have an idea of what the future COULD look like, and you work to make that future a reality.



That’s what Swish is doing with Trufan. Swish believes in a future where people can track their data, and take a cut of the profits that companies like Google and Facebook make off of their data.

Today’s Next Iteration Podcast ep is a convo with Swish on building startups, the future of data sovereignty, and the glorification of entrepreneurship. Tune in for some laughs and some great insights from LinkedIn’s Very Own. 



Timestamps

1:00 - Building Trufan, a new way to think of data and users

9:00 - What it’s like to hire as a young CEO?

12:00 - The glorification of entrepreneurship

22:30 - What would you do with a blank check for Trufan?

27:50 - How’d you get the name Swish?

30:30 - What have you done that your parents love bragging about?

32:05 - What have you learned about investing and VC from being on both sides?

40:10 - How do you hone your curiosity?

Learn more about the vision here: https://www.joinsurf.com/

Reach out to Swish here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/swishgoswami/