Method in Madness

" You only need 2% success in life". We are so trilled to have 4 times Olympian Reina-Flor Okori as our guest in Method in Madness. She is a champion athlete and a coach. She shares her journey, discipline and way forward. She shares valuable insights and 5 key areas that aspiring athlete should work on for a fullfilled life and success. 

Welcome to 2023 and welcome to madness. We start our journey in this new year with a special guest. Today we have Stephan Dekker, a world champion in sailing. Before he became the world champion he has also served for the Royal Marine. Today he is a high performance coach helping ambitious Entrepreneurs and Business Professionals with Habits, Planning, Time management, Daily routines, Structure, a...

Let's end the mad year of 2022 with some bad ideas. Yes. Today's guest is Rico Bakker. He is a speaker, podcast host and a very inspiring storyteller. His signature talk "The power of Bad idea" encourages leaders and change makers to be more creative, more engaging by taking the leap and liberty of welcome every idea, specially bad ideas in their group and teams. Today we hear more about his visio...

Today's guest is Tim Wesselink, CEO of 3devo. He is a leader with vision, mission and also vulnerability. He has seen success and and also turbulence with lockdown, scale-up challenges and have managed to steer 3devo from them all. Today he will share his story, his journey and a bit of his madness. 

Welcome to a brand new episode of Method in Madness. Today's guest is Aditya Maheswaran. Aditya shares his experience with Change, Transformation and public speaking. 

The next episode of Method in Madness is dedicated to all the amazing guests who have shared their thoughts, ideas and madness. In this episode Sarah interviews the host Sabyasachi, on his experience, learning and favourite moments from the podcast.

The 25th episode of Method in Madness is going to fun ride because our guest today is Raymond Mens. Raymond is a popular face on Dutch television. He is an author, keynote speaker, and an expert on US politics. His 2nd book " Nieuws als wapen" is releasing this month. He can explain, teach, give opinions with always a smile and that why I am honoured to have him as my guest for my landmark episode...

Today's guest is Reinier Roosen. He is the Managing Director at Assets Only. He started his new entrepreneur journey and was hit by an unprecedented uncertainty of Covid-19. Today he shares his story through that period of uncertainty and bounceback with this own methods and also madness. Please welcome Reinier. 

Have you ever wondered what limitation and difficulties a blind or a visually impaired person will face to live a "normal" life? Can something be done to takeaway these difficulties. My next guest Karthik Kannan, the co-founder of Envision, have invented a tool that helps people with visual impairment to live a more independent life, using AI. He shares his story, his madness and how we came up wi...

This episode of MIM will be about stories, confidence and even friendship. Introducing one of the top storytellers of Amsterdam Philipp Humm. Philipp shares his journey with adversity, change and bounceback. He speaks about his recent TEDx speech "The secret to building lasting confidence" that connected and resonated with so many people and is also featured in the TED website. He is also a dancer...

MIM brings another fun and mad episode with Sarah Burbedge - who is currently the Head of Change at BBC. Sarah has been a BBC TV and radio reporter and newsreader, turned live events producer, turned Head of Change, Sarah’s career has followed a Bridget Jones to W1A trajectory. Her methods make her erudite and her madness makes her unique. So today's episode is going to be a joy ride. Welcome Sara...

Madness is about to get double as we have Afrodite Zegers. She is Olympic athlete in sailing and secured the 4th position in Rio Olympics in 2016. The sea, the waves pull her towards the sea, but she has also started a new innings as a consultant. She brings best practises from her sailing world in terms commitment, goal setting and purpose to her new role. Let's hear her journey, road to the Olym...

Our next guest at Method in Madness is Nick Stals. Nick is the CEO of Yesty. He has been a serial entrepreneur, co-founder of BookerZzz (HotelSpecials and BungalowSpecials), a major online leisure travel agency in the Netherlands. He also co-founded and managed GiftFor2, an experience gift box and gift card company that became market leader in The Netherlands and that was sold to Wonderbox SAS in...

Please welcome our next guest to Method in Madness, Saskia Mass, the CEO of BOOM CHICAGO. If you live in Amsterdam then you know how iconic BOOM CHICAGO is to this city. Lets hear from Saskia how improvisation has helped her to build this joyous community that helps, inspires and transforms people and organisations in need.

Our next guest is Arthur Tolsma, startup entrepreneur, coach and speaker. He is currently the cofounder of Codean, a high-tech cybersecurity startup. What makes Arthur so inspirational is that not only he shares his success mantra with the world, but he is equally proud to talk about his failures and lessons learnt from that. His secret of handling adversity, " Do it with the confidence like you a...

Welcome Ankita Bhambri to Method in Madness. She is ranked as one of the top 10 female tennis players in India and one of the very few women to become a coach. She talks about her journey, her competition with the legendary Sania Mirza and her top sportsmen mentality that has helped her throughout her career. 

Method in Madness is back with another exciting episode. This week we have Advait Gupt. He is an entrepreneur, Forbes Asia 30 under 30. He started his career in investment banking and 5 years of romanticising spreadsheets  he decided to quit and together with his brother started a new journey to pursue opportunities in emerging digital content space. In last 9 years they have build 3  ve...

Method in Madness is back after a short break with India's top keynote speaker Yogesh Chabria. Yogesh share his story, secrets, methods and madness on how he became a Best selling author, top keynote speaker and lead a happy life. He shares his unique sales methods and techniques that make him special. Let's hear it from Yogesh himself.

Do you know what is Productive Failure? Let us hear it from Manu Kapur, a scientist, speaker and Professor who will share his thoughts on this concept, how he came up with this idea and why Productive Failure is one of the most effective ways of learning. 

Welcome to the 12th episode of Method in Madness. Today we talk about dreams and how to bounce back when that dream is crushed. Today's guest Lars Boom is the country head of Pensonia - the largest growing tech company in Europe- Country head. He shares his journey with his dream to become a professional athlete and how he bounced back when that dream was taken away due to an unfortunate incident.

Have you ever thought of having a side hustle? What would you like out of it? Money, more opportunities, success or a balance that helps you in life. Today's guest will share his tips on that.  Aloys Wijngaards works as a head of a department at DNB, the Dutch central bank and financial supervisory authority and also loves to teach Yin Yoga. He obtained his MA in religious studies and PhD on...

Let us kickstart 2022 with a bang. My 1st guest of 2022, is an inspiring leader. His name is Everth Flores. He is someone I have known for a while and is always smiling even in the most difficult times. Let's hear from him how he manages his adversities as a person, as a leader and what are his mantras for 2022. 

Today's guest Sudha Chandran is a symbol of a fightback. A trained dancer with dreams and aspirations lost her right leg in an accident at the age of 16. But that didn't stop her. She continued dancing with an artificial leg and never stopped since. Today she is an icon, a successful television actor in India, and an inspiration to many. She fights all her battles with a smile, grace and a little...

Imagine having a successful and flourishing career and then Covid-19 happens. Within months your business, outlook and planning go for a toss. Let's hear how did our guest Erik bounce back from that nadir. Erik is a speaker, author, entrepreneur, educator and adventurer. Today he will share his tips on bounceback, leadership and madness. Fasten your seatbelts, because this is going to be one hell...

What is the most important job of a leader? To take action or policies or build a connection with their people? Let us hear the story of our next guest Jerzy Soetekouw the CEO of VMCA and the former deputy mayor of Almere on the lesson he learnt in his leadership role that can be applied universally.