The Wisdom Of... with Simon Bowen

In this episode of The Wisdom Of… Show, Simon Bowen speaks with Charlie Gaudet, known as The CEO Whisperer by Yahoo Finance and the go-to business coach for seven and eight-figure businesses. Charlie is the founder and CEO of Predictable Profits, author of The Predictable Profits Playbook (voted number one in sales and marketing by Indie Excellence), and host of the Beyond 7-Figures Podcast. His strategies have helped 1,000+ founders across 55+ industries generate well over a billion dollars in revenue. He has scaled organisations from startup to $3.1 billion in revenue and worked alongside organisations including those of Anthony Robbins and Chet Holmes.

Simon and Charlie build a live visual model in the episode: The Founder's Trap® and PPOS Escape Architecture, mapping the three layers of founder dependency and the three-pillar operating system that replaces them.

00:00 Welcome to The Wisdom Of… Show and introduction of Charlie Gaudet

02:00 Starting his first business at four out of desperation: the father who was never home

05:00 Building a multi-million dollar company at 24 on 3:30 am alarms and no sleep 07:00 The emergency room: organs shutting down, and the question that changed everything

10:00 Why are my competitors working half as many hours and making more money?

13:00 The Founder's Trap®: what it is, why every successful founder walks into it, and why most don't know they're in it

17:00 Why traditional business coaching fails founders, and what an operating system does differently

21:00 LIVE MODEL BUILD: The Founder's Trap® and PPOS Escape Architecture

32:00 The three layers of the trap: Setup, Sales, and Scale

36:00 The three pillars of the escape: building the demand engine, installing the closing architecture, optimising the growth machine

40:00 The 90-day installation sequence: Days 1-30, 31-60, and 61-90

44:00 The test: can you take a month off and the business still grows?

46:30 Unique advantage vs USP: what actually differentiates a service business and why people need to know you in depth

49:00 Where Simon's Models Method and PPOS solve the same problem from different angles

51:00 Closing: where to find Charlie and how to connect

Charles E. Gaudet II is the CEO and founder of Predictable Profits, the operating system for six, seven, and eight-figure founder-led companies. Known as The CEO Whisperer by Yahoo Finance and named The Go-To Business Coach for 7 & 8-Figure Businesses by International Business Times, Charlie has spent over two decades helping founders escape The Founder's Trap®: the condition in which the business built to create freedom becomes the thing that takes it away.

Charlie built his first multi-million-dollar company at 24. After hitting his own Founder's Trap, he assembled the team that architected the Predictable Profits Operating System, refined across 1,000+ founders in 55+ industries, generating well over a billion dollars in client revenue. He and his co-founders have scaled organisations from startup to $3.1 billion in revenue. His work has been featured in Forbes, Inc., Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC, Entrepreneur Magazine, Yahoo Finance, and Success. He is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor and three-time state wrestling champion.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesgaudet/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PredictableProfits/

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Simon has spent over two decades working with influential leaders across complex industries. His focus is on elevating thinking in organisations, recognising that success is directly proportional to the quality of thinking and ideas within a business. Simon leads the renaissance of thinking through his work with global leaders and organisations.

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In this episode of The Wisdom Of… Show, Simon Bowen speaks with Chris Cooper, leadership and business elevation strategist, speaker, author, and one of the world's most experienced broadcasters. Chris founded Business Elevation in 2006, inspired by the culture his father experienced in the Steelworks of Northern England. Since 2011, he has hosted The Business Elevation Show, which reached 630+ episodes and more than 3 million downloads by 2026, and was the most accessed business programme on Voice America's platform globally by 2019. He is co-author of The Power To Get Things Done (Penguin Random House New York) and founder of The Elevation Collective™: an international community of extraordinary individuals amplifying good in the world.

Simon and Chris build a live visual model in the episode: the Elevation Architecture, mapping the layered system behind genuine elevation at the individual, leadership, team, culture, and organisational levels.

00:00 Welcome to The Wisdom Of… Show and introduction of Chris Cooper

02:30 The Steelworks of Northern England: Chris's father, the culture that diminished him, and the question that started everything

07:00 The procurement consultancy that reached £3M in three years, and why Chris walked away from it

11:00 "People are everything": the three words a retiring manager said to a young graduate, then walked away

15:00 Elevation is not training: the distinction that changes how leaders invest in their people

18:00 Culture is not a programme: why calling it one means you've already lost the room

20:00 LIVE MODEL BUILD: The Elevation Architecture

28:00 Individual, leadership, team, culture, organisation: the five levels and how they depend on each other

31:00 What 630 episodes and 3 million downloads teaches you about human nature, wisdom, and genuine conversation

33:30 The Elevation Collective™: how to curate a room of extraordinary people and what becomes possible when the right people are together

35:30 AI, human potential, and what sits above the line that technology cannot consume

37:00 "Is this the best thing for people?" The leadership question every business decision should begin with

38:00 Closing wisdom and farewell

Chris Cooper is a leadership and business elevation strategist, speaker, broadcaster, and author with a career spanning over three decades across the UK and internationally. He founded Business Elevation in 2006 after a corporate career with Leyland DAF, Mars, United Biscuits, and the Punch and Spirit Pub Companies, spanning sales, marketing, training, procurement, logistics, and HR to board level. He co-founded a procurement consultancy that grew to £3 million turnover in three years before pivoting to follow his true purpose: helping people realise their potential.

Since 2011, Chris has hosted The Business Elevation Show on Voice America, which reached 630+ episodes and 3 million+ downloads by 2026, and was the world's most accessed business programme on the platform by 2019. He is co-author of The Power To Get Things Done (Whether You Feel Like It Or Not) (Perigee/Penguin Random House New York), a contributor to the 2021 international bestseller Play The Game, and a contributor to Rumi: Power of Love (2024).

He is the founder of The Elevation Collective™, an international community bringing together extraordinary individuals for the greater good. He is an Ambassador for Hopefull (providing 5,000+ free meals daily to the people of Ukraine) and for The Global Angels Foundation.

Website: https://chriscooper.co.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisdcooper

Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/chrisdcooper

The Elevation Collective™: https://chriscooper.co.uk/the-elevation-collective

Simon has spent over two decades working with influential leaders across complex industries. His focus is on elevating thinking in organisations, recognising that success is directly proportional to the quality of thinking and ideas within a business. Simon leads the renaissance of thinking through his work with global leaders and organisations.

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In this episode of The Wisdom Of … Show, Simon Bowen speaks with Jeffrey Feldberg, co-founder of Deep Wealth, host of The Deep Wealth Podcast with over 400 episodes, and creator of Deep Wealth Mastery. Jeffrey built his eLearning company, Embanet, from his parents' attic, turned down a 7-figure acquisition offer, and, 24 months later, secured a 9-figure exit. That experience became the foundation of Deep Wealth Mastery: a 90-day system for founders who want to build genuinely valuable businesses, with the freedom to keep them forever or sell them tomorrow.

Simon and Jeffrey build a live visual model in the episode: the Deep Wealth Exit Readiness System, mapping the 9-step framework that separates founders who exit on their terms from those who find out too late what their business was actually worth.

00:00 Welcome to The Wisdom Of … Show and introduction of Jeffrey Feldberg

02:30 From the parents' attic to a 7-figure offer: the origin of Embanet and the decision that changed everything

07:00 "When you point a finger, all the others are pointing back at you": what Jeffrey learned about his own preparation from the offer he turned down

12:00 The 24 months between 7 figures and 9 figures: what changed and why

16:30 Growing vs genuinely valuable: the distinction most founders have never thought about

21:00 "I want to have a business I can keep forever or sell tomorrow": the philosophy of Deep Wealth

25:30 What buyers actually pay a premium for, and why it has nothing to do with the revenue line

30:00 LIVE MODEL BUILD: The Deep Wealth Exit Readiness System

42:00 Founder dependency: why most founders are convinced their business runs without them, and why due diligence reveals otherwise

47:00 The AI Mirage: why AI creates leverage only when it improves revenue, profit, cash flow, or customer experience

50:30 The AI line: what technology will and won't consume, and why compassion, conscience, and care remain the last human advantages

54:00 Resilience trumps resources: where the mantra comes from and what it actually means under pressure

56:30 Impostor syndrome, doubt, and what Jeffrey would tell his younger self

Jeffrey Feldberg is the co-founder of Deep Wealth and host of The Deep Wealth Podcast. He built his eLearning company, Embanet, from a startup in his parents' attic to a 9-figure exit, after first walking away from a 7-figure offer. Along the way, he learned what most founders only discover when it is too late. That experience became Deep Wealth Mastery: a 90-day system that helps founders grow profits, uncover hidden risks, and build stronger, more valuable businesses with more freedom and more options. His work is founder-to-founder, from the trenches, not theory.

Website: https://www.deepwealth.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyfeldberg

X: https://x.com/JeffreyFeldberg

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeffreyfeldberg

Simon has spent over two decades working with influential leaders across complex industries. His focus is on elevating thinking in organisations, recognising that success is directly proportional to the quality of thinking and ideas within a business. Simon leads the renaissance of thinking through his work with global leaders and organisations.

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In this episode of The Wisdom Of … Show, I speak with Maeve Ferguson, The Authority Architect, Founder and CEO of Maeve Ferguson Consulting, and Creator of The Client Engine™. With a background in Big Four accounting at Ernst & Young and private equity leadership, Maeve brings forensic data precision to the challenge of turning a thought leader's unstructured expertise into diagnostic infrastructure that qualifies, converts, and scales without them in the room. Her clients include Arthur Brooks, Jen Kem, Selena Soo, Mike Kim, and The Hyatts. Her assessments rival Myers-Briggs and StrengthsFinder in sophistication.

After a virus left her bedridden for four years, she rebuilt her entire business around systems that work without her presence, and now runs her global practice from a working horse farm in Northern Ireland while raising two young children.

Maeve and I build a live visual model in this episode - The Authority Architecture, mapping the three-stage journey from Invisible Genius to Category of One.

00:00 Welcome to The Wisdom Of … Show and introduction of Maeve Ferguson

02:30 Equine science, Ernst & Young, and private equity: the unlikely path to diagnostic architecture

07:00 The virus, four years bedridden, and the principle that rebuilt everything: systems that work without you

12:00 "Respected but replaceable": what that phrase means for even the most recognised thought leaders

16:30 Tetris Brain: how Maeve extracts unstructured IP into diagnostic frameworks in real time

22:00 The difference between a quiz funnel and genuine diagnostic authority: sophistication, data, and what the market can now smell

28:00 LIVE MODEL BUILD: The Authority Architecture: Invisible Genius → Structured IP → Diagnostic Authority

38:00 The three types of diagnostic infrastructure: quiz funnel, score-based assessment, multi-dimensional diagnostic

43:00 AI, real IP, and why the market is about to separate those with genuine depth from those who only appear to have it

46:30 92 AI agents, KPI dashboards, and how Maeve has applied her own methodology to her own business

49:00 The IP to PD transition: intellectual property becoming proprietary data, and why that changes the value conversation

52:00 Closing lesson: "Be ready"

54:30 What most people don't know about Maeve Ferguson: foaling season on a horse farm in Northern Ireland

Maeve Ferguson is The Authority Architect, founder and CEO of Maeve Ferguson Consulting, and creator of The Client Engine™. Her methodology transforms established thought leaders from "respected but replaceable" to Category of One by turning their unstructured intellectual property into diagnostic infrastructure that qualifies, converts, and scales without them in the room.

With a background in Big Four accounting (Ernst & Young) and private equity leadership, Maeve brings data-driven precision to an industry long dominated by tactics. Her signature "Tetris Brain" capability allows her to extract a thought leader's unstructured IP into measurable diagnostic frameworks in real time. She has built 10,000 hours of diagnostic architecture across dozens of verticals. Her assessments rival Myers-Briggs and StrengthsFinder in sophistication. Her clients include Arthur Brooks, Jen Kem, Selena Soo, Mike Kim, and The Hyatts.

After a virus left her bedridden for four years, Maeve rebuilt her practice on a single principle: systems that work whether she's in the room or not. She now runs her global consulting firm from a working horse farm in Northern Ireland while raising two young children.

Website: https://www.maevefergusonconsulting.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maeveferguson/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iammaeveferguson/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@maeveferguson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iammaeveferguson/

Simon has spent over two decades working with influential leaders across complex industries. His focus is on elevating thinking in organisations, recognising that success is directly proportional to the quality of thinking and ideas within a business. Simon leads the renaissance of thinking through his work with global leaders and organisations.

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In this episode of The Wisdom Of … Show, Simon Bowen speaks with Jennifer Hill, CEO and co-founder of OptiMatch, co-founder of MetaBizics LLC, founder of The Jen Hill Tribe, and one of the most interesting thinkers on the question of self-leadership as the foundation for business leadership. Jennifer sold her first company in 2018, has spoken to over 100,000 people from a single stage, hosts the podcast Regarding Consciousness with guests including Bruce Lipton and Gregg Braden, and is building an alignment algorithm at OptiMatch that makes the traditionally unmeasurable work of human connection systematic.

Jennifer and Simon build a live visual model in the episode - the CEO of Your Own Life Framework, a three-pillar architecture of Clarity, Courage, and Connection built on the foundation of a regulated nervous system.

00:00 Welcome to The Wisdom Of … Show and introduction of Jennifer Hill

03:00 The 2018 exit: what the success moment actually felt like, and what it taught her about building

07:30 The lesson about key relationships during acquisition: what she'd do differently

12:00 "Who you are as a leader shapes everything you build": the premise behind all of Jennifer's work

16:00 Clarity, Courage, Connection: the three pillars of the CEO of Your Own Life philosophy

21:30 Creating from a regulated nervous system: what it actually means to build from groundedness

27:00 Speaking to 100,000 people from a single stage: what scale teaches you about human transformation

31:30 LIVE MODEL BUILD: The CEO of Your Own Life Framework

42:00 OptiMatch: building a proprietary alignment algorithm and why human connection can be made systematic

47:30 The mismatch of coherence: how misaligned relationships drain energy that could go toward the work

51:00 Motivation matching: what OptiMatch measures and why it changes how teams are built

54:00 Closing wisdom: "You already have a miraculous life. You've just forgotten how to look for it."

56:00 The busyness etymology: what the Old English root reveals about how most leaders are actually operating

58:30 The miracle practice: writing down moments of awe, synchronicity, wonder, and miracles every day

Jennifer Hill is a keynote speaker, executive coach, community builder, and technology founder whose work centres on a single premise - who you are as a leader shapes everything you build. In 2018, she sold her first company to a subsidiary of Marcum LLP. Over the past decade she has spoken on hundreds of stages worldwide, including to audiences of over 100,000 people in India. She hosts Regarding Consciousness, a podcast featuring thinkers including Bruce Lipton and Gregg Braden, and founded The Jen Hill Tribe, a global community of entrepreneurs, leaders, creatives, and philanthropists.

She is currently co-founding OptiMatch, a platform powered by a proprietary algorithm designed to systematically improve alignment in businesses and communities, supporting stronger relationships, healthier teams, and greater psychological safety. She is a member of Evolutionary Leaders and has helped build two schools.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferkhill/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenhillspeaker/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetYourselftheJob

Website: https://jenniferkhill.com/

Simon has spent over two decades working with influential leaders across complex industries. His focus is on elevating thinking in organisations, recognising that success is directly proportional to the quality of thinking and ideas within a business. Simon leads the renaissance of thinking through his work with global leaders and organisations.

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In this episode of The Wisdom Of … Show, host Simon Bowen speaks with Tracey Spicer AM - journalist, broadcaster, author, and one of Australia's clearest voices on the intersection of technology, equity, and the future of responsible business. A multiple Walkley Award winner, Order of Australia recipient, Sydney Peace Prize recipient alongside Tarana Burke, and author of Man Made (winner, Australian Business Book Awards Social Responsibility category), Tracey has spent three decades in Australia's public life, and the last several years investigating the most significant design flaw in our emerging technological future … the bias being quietly written into the systems that will shape it.

Simon builds a live visual model in the episode, the AI Integrity Model, mapping the three-part framework for moving AI systems from bias to equity across data sets, algorithms, and machine learning.

00:00 Welcome to The Wisdom Of … Show and introduction of Tracey Spicer AM

03:00 Growing up on the outskirts of Brisbane: what social justice looks like as a lived value

08:30 "Give it a go. What's the worst that could happen?" The philosophy behind a 30-year career

11:45 The Lady Stripped Bare: the TEDx talk, 7 million views, the trolling, and what it actually meant

17:00 MeToo in Australia: listening as leadership, and how to open a conversation in a room that doesn't want to have it

22:00 The price of bias: widening inequality, the talent excluded from pipelines, and the cost of machine bias

26:00 Man Made: how an 11-year-old asking for a robot slave launched a forensic investigation into bias by design

32:00 The difference between performative and effective: what organisations doing AI governance well actually do differently

34:00 LIVE MODEL BUILD: The AI Integrity Model

44:00 Data sets, from bias to equity: clean, intentional, curated

47:00 Algorithms, from bias to equity: designer diversity, bias consciousness, continuous testing

50:00 Machine learning: human in the loop, agentic AI, and why the Amazon hiring tool story matters 55:00 What does the world look like in 14 years if we do this right? A toast to future generations

58:00 Personal philosophy: the leadership power of pause

Tracey Spicer AM is a multiple Walkley Award-winning journalist, broadcaster, author, and advocate with 30 years across Australia's major media networks, including the ABC, Network 10, and Sky News. She is the inaugural national convenor of Women in Media Australia, a Sydney Peace Prize recipient alongside Tarana Burke for her leadership of the MeToo movement in Australia, and an Order of Australia recipient.

Her book Man Made, a rigorously researched investigation into how historical bias is being embedded into AI and technology systems, won the Social Responsibility category at the Australian Business Book Awards. Her TEDx talk, "The Lady Stripped Bare," has 7 million views globally.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/traceyspicer/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TraceySpicer/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/traceyspicerjournalist/

Website: https://traceyspicer.com.au/

Simon has spent over two decades working with influential leaders across complex industries. His focus is on elevating thinking in organisations, recognising that success is directly proportional to the quality of thinking and ideas within a business. Simon leads the renaissance of thinking through his work with global leaders and organisations.

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In this episode of The Wisdom Of … Show, host Simon Bowen speaks with Jim Kwik, the world's #1 brain coach, New York Times bestselling author of Limitless, and Founder of Kwik Learning. Jim's reach spans 60 million podcast downloads across 195 countries, 200,000+ annual live attendees, and three decades of elite coaching with clients including Will Smith, Oprah, Hugh Jackman, Elon Musk's SpaceX team, the X-Men cast, and executives from Google, Virgin, Nike, and the United Nations.

After a childhood brain injury at age five left him labelled "the boy with the broken brain," Jim spent the next 30 years developing the methodology that would become the Limitless framework: a complete system for upgrading the mind through Mindset, Motivation, and Methods. His mission: no brain left behind.

Simon builds a live visual model in the episode, 'The Limitless Learning System,' mapping the precise framework behind how Jim coaches elite performers from every domain to unlock cognitive performance they didn't know was available to them.

00:00 Welcome to The Wisdom Of … Show and introduction of Jim Kwik

03:30 The childhood brain injury and what it's like growing up labelled "the boy with the broken brain"

11:00 How X-Men comics saved Jim's life and taught him to read when conventional education couldn't

18:30 The 18-year-old moment - a mentor's two questions that changed everything

33:45 The Limitless Framework - Mindset, Motivation, and Methods

42:10 Mindset deep dive - the difference between positive thinking and genuinely transforming a limiting belief

50:30 Motivation -where passion, purpose, and energy intersect, and how to access it when it's not there

58:15 Methods - the FASTER system, B.E.F.A.S.T. memory architecture, and speed reading protocols

01:06:00 LIVE MODEL BUILD - The Limitless Learning System

01:14:30 What Will Smith, Oprah, and the SpaceX team have in common in how they use their minds

01:22:00 The X-Men full-circle story - coached by comics, then coaching the cast

01:29:45 AI, human intelligence, and why learning becomes more important, not less, in an age of machines

01:36:00 No brain left behind - the mission, Alzheimer's research, and building schools globally

01:42:30 Closing wisdom - the one capability every leader should prioritise right now

Jim Kwik is the world's #1 brain coach, founder of Kwik Learning and the Kwik Brain Universe, and New York Times #1 bestselling author of Limitless (expanded edition 2024). After a childhood head injury at age five left him struggling in school for years, he developed the learning methodologies that now reach students in 195 countries, achieving 60+ million podcast downloads and serving 200,000+ people annually in live settings.

Jim has coached Hollywood's most celebrated performers, Fortune 500 executives, elite athletes, and tech innovators. His clients include Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Hugh Jackman, Elon Musk's SpaceX team, and the X-Men cast. He has taught his learning techniques at Harvard, CalTech, Singularity University, NYU, and Stanford, and in organisations including Google, Virgin, Nike, GE, and the United Nations.

His mission … no brain left behind.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimkwik/

Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/jimkwik

Instagram: @jimkwik

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JimKwik

Website: www.JimKwik.com

Simon has spent over two decades working with influential leaders across complex industries. His focus is on elevating thinking in organisations, recognising that success is directly proportional to the quality of thinking and ideas within a business. Simon leads the renaissance of thinking through his work with global leaders and organisations.

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In this episode of The Wisdom Of … Show, host Simon Bowen speaks with Michael Clark, author of Our Moment, Next Economy Strategist, and the former Mastercard leader who built the company's first open banking product. Operating from Dubai at the crossroads of emerging markets and global innovation, Michael has spent his career building the systems of tomorrow. He has advised C-suite executives worldwide on data, AI and the future of money, and is known as the voice decision-makers trust when it's time to lead, not follow.

This is a conversation about structural gaps - in accounting, in education, in how leaders make decisions - and why this specific moment in history is the window that matters. Michael reframes the entire AI conversation - the customer is no longer human, data is not undervalued but mispriced, AI is not artificial intelligence but collaborative intelligence and the biggest debate of 2026, fresh from Davos, is the role of humanity alongside the machine.

Simon builds a live visual model with Michael, the Meta Decision Making Model, structured around three Cs - Context, Concept, and Consequence. A framework built for leaders who want to stop making narrow decisions and start thinking at the level of second and third order consequence.

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00:00 Introduction: Our Moment and the urgency behind the title

05:15 Why the digital economy was never actually a new economy

11:40 The accounting problem - why data and people can't appear on the balance sheet

17:30 Data as an asset - "it's not that it's not valued, it's just mispriced"

22:00 Data ownership - what you actually own, and the question of who owns your prompts

28:10 Your customer is no longer human - what this demands of every business leader

33:50 Collaborative intelligence - why Michael refuses to use the term "artificial intelligence"

38:00 AI is exposing educational gaps that should have been addressed decades ago

42:15 Abilities-based learning - the three buckets every person and organisation needs

44:30 The 100-day CEO plan and why most leaders never make decisions that outlive their tenure

49:00 Live model build: the Meta Decision Making Model - Context, Concept, Consequence

58:00 "Clarity before consequences" and why most AI failures happen in execution, not strategy

01:02:00 There is only one strategy in any business

01:05:30 The unexpected consequence - what Michael still asks himself every day

01:08:00 The biggest debate of 2026 - the role of humanity alongside AI

Michael Clark is pioneering the next economy, where data becomes an asset, intelligence is shared, and new models of value and education emerge. A former Mastercard leader who built the company's first open banking product and advised C-suite executives worldwide on data, AI and the future of money, Michael is a builder shaping the systems of tomorrow, not just talking about them.

He is the author of Our Moment, a groundbreaking modern fable redefining how data, AI and human potential can reshape how we learn, work and lead. He helped write data regulation in Dubai, developed a school's AI curriculum, and works globally with leaders and organisations at the frontier of next economy transformation. Known for his ability to join the dots across industries, he is the voice decision-makers trust when it's time to lead, not follow.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/futureofmichael/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michael.clarkjr/

Twitter: @futureofmichael

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In this episode of The Wisdom Of ... Show, host Simon Bowen speaks with Dr Naba Alfayadh, emergency medicine doctor, social entrepreneur, Stanford-trained innovator, and Founder and CEO of Rahma Health. Naba's organisation has reached over 3 million Arabic-speaking families globally, achieved 95% parent behaviour change in under 10 minutes, and in 2025 won three simultaneous national Telstra awards, including Business of the Year. A former Iraqi refugee who fled war at age 10, Naba has built a life and an organisation at the intersection of medicine, technology, and the most foundational force she's identified in human development … love.

Simon builds a live visual model, ‘The Rahma Health Behaviour Change Pathway’, capturing the precise framework behind how cultural safety becomes the gateway to real, measurable transformation.

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00:00 Welcome to The Wisdom Of ... Show and introduction of Dr Naba Alfayadh

04:15 From Iraq to Australia, the refugee journey that shaped everything

10:30 Founding Happy Brain Education at 22: what a student sees that institutions miss

17:45 The genesis of Rahma Health and why COVID turned out to be the moment

24:10 What "culturally safe" actually means and why it's a performance variable, not a value statement

31:55 The behaviour change data: how 5–10 minutes produces 95% change and doubled health literacy

38:20 LIVE MODEL BUILD: The Rahma Health Behaviour Change Pathway

47:00 Intergenerational trauma, the precise mechanism by which conditional love becomes a survival programme

55:30 Unconditional love as leadership: what the research shows and why it's not soft

01:03:15 The three principles for leading across cultures: listening, respect, and love

01:10:40 Kookaburra Kindness, writing a children's book with her daughter in response to the Bondi tragedy

01:17:00 What it means to build something. Not to become a billionaire, but because there are things to be done.

01:17:53 Closing reflections and the green line

Dr Naba Alfayadh is a General Practice Registrar, emergency medicine doctor, public health leader, and serial social entrepreneur whose work has supported more than three million people globally. She is the Founder and CEO of Rahma Health, an award-winning Australian charity creating culturally and psychologically safe health and parenting resources for Arabic-speaking families worldwide.

Born in Iraq, Dr Alfayadh fled to Australia in 2003 at age 10 during the Iraq War, after her school was bombed. She graduated from Monash University with MBBS/BMedSci degrees on a Merit and Equity Scholarship, and later studied Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Stanford University. She co-founded Happy Brain Education at age 22, growing it to serve 2,000+ students with 50 staff across two states, before founding Rahma Health in 2021.

Under her leadership, Rahma Health has reached over 3 million users globally, partnered with 50 international organisations, and published research with the Murdoch Children's Research Institute demonstrating that health literacy more than doubled after just 5–10 minutes of platform use, with 95% of parents reporting behaviour change. She currently serves on the Governance Committee, updating Maternity and Neonatal Handbooks for Safer Care Victoria.

In 2025, Dr Alfayadh was named Telstra Business of the Year, Telstra Championing Health, and Telstra Accelerating Women - three simultaneous national awards. She also received the Women's Health Medal of Distinction Australasia 2025 and the Monash Emerging Leaders Alumni Award. She is a Westpac Social Change Fellow and a Women's Agenda Leadership Awards Finalist.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nmalfayadh/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myrahmahealth/

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Website: https://rahma.health/about-rahma-health/

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In this episode of The Wisdom Of ... Show, host Simon Bowen speaks with Lindsay Davis, Founder & CEO of FemTech Association Asia, the region's first and largest femtech network representing 80+ companies across 10 countries. From her global expansion leadership at Quintessentially to building an ecosystem that didn't exist, Lindsay shares profound insights on courage, ecosystem orchestration, and what it takes to drive systemic change in women's health across vastly different cultures and markets.

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00:00 Introduction and the mission to advance women's health in Asia

04:32 The career pivot from luxury brand expansion to femtech ecosystem building

12:18 Why women's health receives only 4% of global R&D funding

19:45 Building something that doesn't exist: October 2021 to 80+ companies across 10 countries

28:36 The courage question - where resilience comes from

35:52 Having a high threshold for shame and being happy failing

42:28 The leadership lesson from someone who put aside their book

49:15 Orchestrating founders, investors, corporates, governments around a single mission

56:47 The UN ESCAP commission and defining transformational change

01:03:22 FemTech Connect Asia: Creating the region's first femtech conference

01:11:08 The suffragette movement insight and being part of the continuum

Lindsay Davis started her career in multicultural advertising in the USA, then was recruited by the world’s leading luxury lifestyle management brand, Quintessentially in the UK, to lead global expansion into 25 countries and oversee 60 offices worldwide, with secondments in NYC, China and Qatar. Davis was honoured on the Luxury Daily list of “Luxury Women in Watch” because of her global impact in the luxury sector. As the Founder & CEO of Singapore-based One Bee Consulting, Davis works with brands to develop and elevate loyalty solutions, customer experience and brand affinity through product development, content and programming, PR, community engagement and strategic partnerships.

With a vision of available, accessible and affordable healthcare for all women in Asia, Davis founded FemTech Association Asia in October 2021 as the region’s first and largest industry network for founders, professionals, and investors with the core focus on improving women’s health through technology solutions. The organisation represents 80+ companies across 10 countries in Asia. FemTech Asia was a Finalist in the GIOF – 2022 Business Inclusivity Awards and is a member of the UNFPA Equity 2030 Alliance and a Founding Member of the Milken Institute Women’s Health Network.

In 2023-24, Davis was commissioned by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) as a thought leader and researcher to define what is required to drive transformational and catalytic change in femtech in Southeast Asia. Davis is a contributor for the Milken Institute and sits on the Advisory Board for Women in Global Health – Singapore and Ovy Health in Indonesia.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsay-davis-2584812/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/femtechasia/

Website: www.femtechassociation.com

Simon has spent over two decades working with influential leaders across complex industries. His focus is on elevating thinking in organisations, recognising that success is directly proportional to the quality of thinking and ideas within a business. Simon leads the renaissance of thinking through his work with global leaders and organisations.

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