Vivid Imagination

Andrei Rosioru hails from the city of Brașov in Romania. He is an Astrologer, a student of Western Esotericism and a Polyglot who speaks no less than 8 different languages including Romanian, French, Russian, English, Italian, Hungarian, German and Chinese. Andrei has been a friend and a brother for many years and I have always found our conversations to be both uplifting and inspiring. On this ep...

Gabor Windt is founder and facilitator of All Male Area, a self awareness circle for men whose mission is to support men in today’s fast-paced world to find their way back to their true selves and to become capable of living a fulfilled, authentic life. Gabor has spent time in Buddhist monasteries in India and Nepal where he learned contemplative traditions of the east. He has also walked the ritu...

🌈🧡​ Tanya Griffin is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on women’s and family health. She is the Founder of oOYes a company that straddles the sexual wellness and cannabis industries producing edible sex play products direct-to-consumer and through licensed cannabis dispensaries. Tanya is also the Founder of WeFloYo ,  an early-stage web based app that tracks the intersection of drug use, dosage...

Imke Nabben and Ioana Pop are the co-founders of The Heart's Door Retreats. At the heart of their work is a simple and powerful intention: to help people reconnect with themselves. Their approach is down-to-earth, non-dogmatic, and grounded in both personal experience and professional integrity. Their retreats combine breath-work, meditation, tantra practices, psychedelic plant medicine and co...

Erica Farmer is a keynote speaker on AI and future skills. She believes the real AI advantage isn’t productivity — it’s happier, more resilient people who know how to partner with it. Erica aims to help HR, L&D and business leaders go from feeling exposed, overwhelmed and behind on AI to feeling confident, courageous and ready to lead meaningful AI adoption. Her recently published book, "...

Tom Frengos is a human potential facilitator and coach who has dedicated his life helping people achieve their potential and live a more meaningful life. He has recently published a book titled Fifteen Pauses: The life-changing silence and stillness of Japanese Ma. Fifteen Pauses unpacks our human reactions to the pause – like why we resist it, and why we need it. It explains how holding moments o...

Hema Purohit, FBCS is the Founder of Lotus Advisory and Consulting where she leads transformational initiatives in digital and generative AI that deliver measurable business outcomes and drive sustainable growth. Hema's career in technology spans over 30 years including senior leadership roles at Microsoft and Google . She is a fellow of the British Computer Society and leads digital and socia...

Nahal Yousefian is the Founder & CEO of The Bar Raisers . The organisation focuses on the interplay of design and behaviour to shape and execute change and aims to transform the way work is experienced, from individual tasks to organisational strategies. What I love most about Nahal is her curiosity and spirit of adventure. Having fled Iran in 1979 due to religious persecution, her life journe...

Kiran & Jivan are two amazing human beings that I had the pleasure of working with this year when I travelled to Romania with my wife to join their Tantra retreat for couples. Tantra is a Sanskrit word that means "woven together". Tantra practitioners weave together the physical and spiritual worlds with a non-dual perspective on life. The philosophy is present in many ancient traditions inclu...

Ted McKenna  is an accomplished sales and customer experience researcher whose work has appeared in the pages of Harvard Business Review. He is a founding partner of Selling Innovations , a customer understanding lab focused on using data and research-backed frameworks to help companies attract, engage, retain, and grow customer relationships. Ted is a co-author, with Matt Dixon , of the book, The...

Dr. Jack Kruse is a respected Neurosurgeon and a real pioneer in the field of Quantum Biology and decentralised medicine. His popular blog gets over 250,000 unique worldwide visitors per month providing a valuable resource for those interested in taking greater ownership of their health outcomes. On this episode I caught up with Jack at his home in El Salvador. We explore how Light shapes Life and...

Nairy McMahon is the Director of the Centre for Right Relationship UK (CRR UK), delivering training in Organisational Relationships Systems Coaching (ORSC) in the UK, Ireland and Nordics. On this episode we explore the importance of relationship first and other key principles when in comes to coaching teams. Find out more about the training CRR UK offers here .

Antifragile is a term coined by author Nassim Taleb that speaks to an ability to gain or grow from disorder. On this episode I am joined by two fellow performance coaches Dr. Nick Holton and Dr. Adam Wright co-founders of the Antifragile Academy. We talk about the concept of antifragility and their work to help individuals and organisations develop it as a capacity. A fascinating conversation in w...

Alexandra Borbolla is the co-founder of FlowXperience, an organisation dedicated to creating an environment that invokes the magic of a transcendental PEAK EXPERIENCE, unity, and a sense of something bigger, where individuals can embrace the unknown, trust their intuition, and connect deeply with nature and their true selves to FEEL LIFE. Alex is a fellow Human Potential Coach and previously worke...

Tom Carson was my first boss in the IT industry when I joined Compaq way back in 2000. He has held board level and CEO positions for global multinationals and for new business start-ups in Ireland, the UAE and the Caribbean region. What I always appreciated most about Tom's leadership style was the care he displayed towards his people. A great leader, mentor and sponsor to me personally over t...

João Dinis is my neighbour in the beautiful village of Dornes in Portugal. The village forms part of a mystical Knights Templar energy triangle encompassing Dornes, Tomar and Almourol. João along with his wife Marta run an historical and cultural rural tourism centre called Reinado de Dom Dinis . The centre takes its name from King Dom Dinis a key figure in Portuguese history and is also dedicated...

On this episode I join an ex-colleague of mine from Google, Jasmine Arora, on her podcast Heart on Sleeve . We discuss the important topic of feedback. Why feedback is a gift, and how to give and receive it skilfully. #Coaching #Leadership #Feedback #Potential #Performance #People #Growth #Awareness #Adaptability #Liberation

On this episode I am joined by world renowned neuropsychopharmacologist Professor David Nutt. Professor Nutt's research specialises on drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety and sleep. In Jan 2008 he was appointed as Chairman of the UK Government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs having previously been the chair of its technical committee for over 7 y...

Ben Yeger is the Founder and co Director of Moving Conflicts . Having served in the Israeli Army from 1983-86, in 2006 Ben became a Peace Activist and joined Combatants for Peace⁠ (CfP). In 2007 he became the UK representative of CfP, responsible for nurturing the inner process of both #Israeli and #Palestinian activists. His work centres on designing innovative and collaborative interventions, wh...

Delighted to welcome Nicholas Policarpio to the podcast to talk about his new project The Human Transformation School . Nic is a former mentee of mine from my time at Salesforce . Currently, he works as a Sales Director at SAP where he also runs weekly meditation classes for teams across the company globally. Nic draws on his training in different meditative practices including Taoism, Tantra, Pri...

On this episode I am delighted to share one of my own sources of inspiration. Anamaria Aristizabal is a Master Certified Coach (MCC), author of the absolutely succulent book Life re-Vision and founder  Re-Vision Academy , which offers learning journeys in purpose discovery and leadership. Anamaria experienced a monumental life re-vision herself after a double masters in business and environment fr...

An ability to engage with confidence and have impact at C-level is fundamental for any seller interested in closing complex solution deals. Enter Declan Tyrell , the CFO Whisperer , who supports sales professionals to communicate with authenticity, bravery and clarity at c-level and so better add value to the clients they serve. Declan is an associate at Vivid Imagination and we have worked togeth...

On this episode I sit down with Rory Lawson a former Scottish rugby international, entrepreneur and today leadership Coach at Ceannas . Having being capped 31 times for Scotland, Rory suffered a chronic injury that forced his retirement from the game in 2013. We discuss how he navigated his dark night of the soul to re-invent himself as a successful entrepreneur and the work he does today supporti...

Resilience is our ability to endure life, no matter what comes our way. With awareness and focus on very specific areas, we can actually train ourselves to be more resilient. On this episode I am joined by  Steve Howe , a former colleague of mine at HP and Founder of  ResilienceBuilder , a new assessment that offers a revolution in how to enhance our levels of resilience both individually and coll...

On this episode of the podcast I'm delighted to be joined by  Emmanuel Pacheco  a colleague, dear friend and master of Cubo Mágico. We explore how the cube offers a wonderful model for problem solving and the work Emmanuel has been doing to help others learn its secrets so they can apply it to the problems they face in life. What are you solving for? Whatever it is, you will not want to miss t...