Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with George Bou-Rizk, Co-CEO and Software Engineering Manager at Genesys Design, to explore succession, culture, shared leadership and what becomes possible when growth strengthens a business rather than pulling it away from its foundations. George joined Genesys Design as an intern while at university and, over eleven years...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Ruth Kudzi, Founder and CEO of Optimus Coach Academy, to explore identity, ADHD, coaching, self-trust and what changes when we stop searching outside ourselves for the answers we've carried all along. Ruth named something many people carry: the belief that the answer must be somewhere outside us. For years, she built a...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Suthan Naganayagam, Co-Founder and CEO of Niki’s Natural Wipes and Niki’s Active, to explore family health, product integrity, entrepreneurship and what happens when a lived experience becomes the foundation for a purpose-led business. Suthan and his wife, Dirka, began their start up journey in hospital when their newbo...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Nicole Bowles, CEO of Basketball ACT, to explore female leadership, community, motherhood and what changes when leadership shifts from proving ourselves to building trust, presence and regenerative growth. As the first female CEO in Basketball ACT’s 75-year history, Nicole leads one of Australia’s fastest-growing basket...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO & VC Podcast, I connected with Derin Sonmez, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Aeqor Partners, to explore entrepreneurship through acquisition, leadership, business design and what becomes possible when creativity moves beyond ideas and begins creating long-term value inside out. Having started his career designing iconic vehicles, along th...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO and VC Podcast, I connected with Oscar Ramos, Managing Partner at Orbit Ventures, to explore venture capital, emerging markets, real economy transformation and what becomes possible when capital is measured not only by what it returns, by what it helps create. Oscar has spent more than two decades working across technology, venture and emerging...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO and VC Podcast, I connected with Todd Perman, CEO and General Partner of Seed Healthcare and host of the Kill or Cure Podcast, to explore preventative healthcare, longevity, conscious capital and what becomes possible when we stop optimising a broken system and start building the one we actually need. After more than three decades across medical...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Zappy Zapolin, Co-Founder of Psychedelic Concierge, filmmaker and consciousness explorer, to explore healing, psychedelics, business and the journey back to ourselves from the inside out. After building success across Wall Street, Silicon Valley and the internet domain world, Zappy reached a point where external achieve...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Marie-Noelle Keijzer, CEO and Co-Founder of WeForest, to explore purpose, regeneration and what it truly means to become stewards of the future by reshaping the way we lead, live and relate to the natural world from the inside out. After nearly two decades leading businesses, Marie-Noelle reached a point where success a...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Angelique Green, Founder of The Mighty Shed and creator of The Pleasure Codes, to explore trust, pleasure and what it means to stay human in a world increasingly driven by performance, data and certainty. After more than three decades helping brands including Starbucks, Coca-Cola and Formula One understand human behavio...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Yvette Adams, Founder, Business Partner, Communications Strategist, AI Keynote Speaker and Trainer, to explore life, leadership, business, reinvention, AI and what happens when life forces us to completely reshape the way we live and work. Yvette launched her first business at just 17, and it was surviving multiple stro...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Erin Cunningham, CEO and Executive Director of RecycleBalls, to explore life, leadership, business, regeneration, community and the liminal space between what is ending and what is becoming possible next. Erin leads an organisation transforming sports recycling, collecting and repurposing millions of used tennis balls e...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO & VC Podcast, I connected with Rudi Adigbli, Founder of Reewire VC, to explore one of the biggest questions facing founders, leaders and investors today: What if the greatest opportunity of the next decade isn’t artificial intelligence… instead human intelligence? As technology accelerates, attention is shrinking, mental health is declining...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Janelle Bridge, Psychic Pattern Disruptor, author of The Process of Breaking Open and host of The Inner Know Podcast, to explore life, leadership, motherhood, learnings from a being a celebrant spirituality, feminine power, intuition, pattern disruption and what happens when we stop looking outside ourselves for permiss...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO & VC Podcast, I connected with Bryce Gilleland, Managing Partner at California Innovation Fund, to explore life, leadership, venture capital, founder alignment, innovation, energy, spirituality, purpose and what happens when performance is no longer enough on its own. Bryce’s career has included leading the world’s top performing hedge fund...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO & VC Podcast, I connected with CiCi Bellis, Founder and General Partner of Cartan Capital, former professional tennis player and Forbes 30 Under 30 honouree, to explore life, leadership, venture capital, human performance, women in VC, confidence, reinvention and what happens when one high performance chapter ends and another begins. CiCi re...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Dani Wallace, Founder of The BIG Festoon and known as The Queen Bee, to explore life, leadership, identity, visibility, community, speaking, self-trust and what happens when the business you have built asks you to become someone new. As two self-confessed "queen bees" meeting across opposite sides of the world, our conv...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Mason Taylor, Founder and CEO of SuperFeast, to explore life, leadership, longevity, tonic herbs, medicinal mushrooms, business essence, founder identity and what it means to build a company around vitality rather than extraction. What began as a passion project has grown into one of Australia’s leading suppliers of Di...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Robert Hangu, Founder of NextOps Agency and Host of the Operational Clarity Podcast, to explore life, leadership, operational clarity, human judgement, AI, founder resilience and what happens when technology starts taking on more of the repetitive work that quietly consumes our time, focus and energy. Robert helps body...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO & VC Podcast, I connected with Paul Anthony Claxton, Founder and General Partner of Digerati Investments and Managing Partner at Reciprocity ROI, to explore life, leadership, venture capital, founder readiness, diligence, discipline and what it takes to build companies that can withstand pressure. Paul’s perspective is shaped by far more tha...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Lindsay LaShell, Founder and Lead Navigator of Buffalo Collective, to explore life, leadership, regenerative business, matriarchal economics, integrated leadership and what's possible when business is rebuilt from relationship rather than extraction. Lindsay describes herself as a doula for the matriarchal economy, her...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Jacob Chase, Founder and CEO of The INFIN, to explore life, leadership, human contribution, meritocracy, performance, value creation and what happens when the people creating real value inside organisations remain unseen. After building a real estate business with more than 100 people, Jacob became increasingly interest...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO & VC Podcast, I connected with Robin Butler, Partner at Sturgeon Capital, to explore life, leadership, venture capital, emerging markets, ecosystem building, adaptation and what it takes to invest before the world is paying attention. Robin has spent years helping build venture ecosystems across Central Asia and the Caucasus through Sturgeon...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Barry Lynch, Co-Founder and CEO of ηezo, to explore life, leadership, construction, sustainability, startup life, founder antifragility and what happens when stability stops being the goal. Barry spent more than 20 years in construction consultancy before deciding that stability was overrated. After building and selling...

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven CEO Podcast, I connected with Norbert Herrmann, Founder and Chief Product Officer of Liively, to explore life, leadership, entrepreneurship, live events, hospitality technology, founder resilience and what happens when building a business becomes less about control and more about learning through chaos. Norbert has spent more than 30 years working a...