The Zone

With more than 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles within the global life sciences sector, Guru Ramamurthy is US Chief Financial Officer at Bayer and Chief Financial Officer at Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. (AskBio). In this thought provoking Zone Podcast Episode, Guru sits down with Zone Partner, Melissa Palazzo-Hart where she deep dives into understanding the being and doing be...

INTRODUCTION - 0:55   UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM - 2:28   NEXT GENERATION OF ENTREPRENEURS - 4:15   SOLVING A PROBLEM - 5:20   IMPORTANCE OF STAKEHOLDERS - 6:20   AGE OF THE INDIVIDUAL - 8:10   EXPERTISE - 9:15   EMBRACING NEW IDEAS - 10:20   COLLABORATION - 11:45   A NEW OUTCOME - 12:58   SCALING UP BUSINESS - 14:30   BACKWARDS STRATERGY - 15:...

Introduction - 1:10   Transcending life's challenges - 2:16   Starting the journey - 3:21   A great decision - 5:09   A slippery slope -7:00   Suggestibility test - 8:10   The twist in the story - 9:15   Seekers, Hero’s and Villagers - 10:20   Trying to prove something - 11:40   Relationships - 12:10   Creating the human experience - 13:15 &nb...

Introduction: 1:50     Human side to business: 2:15   Doing what you love: 3:00   Personal stories: 4:30   Founder of a new business: 5:45   Being grateful: 6:40   Run your own business: 8:50   What happens after success: 10:30   The gift of clarity: 13:00   Breaking down his business: 14:40   Message marketing: 16:30   Mixing passion in...

Introduction: 1:30   Health and wellbeing: 2:40   Leading to burn out: 4:15   Incredible changes: 5:40   Changing career: 7:10   Always a broadcaster: 8:26   Sustainable health: 9:40   It starts with food: 11:05   Tired of decisions: 12:40   Don’t buy it: 13:20   Social isolation: 14:00   Best version of yourself: 15:15   When was the las...

0:30 - Introduction     1:30 - Taking a fresh look   3:00 - Forging a new career path   6:00 - Only seeing what you need   7:10 - Changing your journey   8:40 - De-cluttering the brain first   9:35 - Finding the real you   10:15 - The meaning within your space   11:20 - Setting up systems   14:00 - Clutter and mental health   16:15 - Look at t...

Introduction: 1:30   Learn how to ask the right questions: 2:50   Nobody is the same: 3:50   Smaller business but bigger change:   5:00   Opposite ends of the world: 6:00   Using LinkedIn to grow your business: 7:40   Business and social media: 8:55   Overcoming personal barriers: 10:20   Engaging with others: 12:00   Having control of your persona...

Introduction: 1:00 Podcasting: 2:50 Never to young to start a business: 3:50 Follow what you love: 4:40 A spanner in the works: 6:20 Finding a new business path: 8:15 EOS: 10:45 What is life all about: 12:45 Planning the whole year: 14:00 Putting yourself first: 16:00 Always learning: 17:45 How to grow sustainably: 19:15 Delegate and elevate: 20:00 People pleasing and pushing boundaries: 21:15 Fin...

Introduction 1:00 Creative to Business: 1:50 Building new processes in a company with 120,000 people: 2:30 Independence to being a part of a team: 3:20 Never a moment to not be learning: 4:20 Changes and challenges: 6:00 Poetry to starting a business 7:15 Flexibility and fearlessness 8:40 Humanising the corporate world 10:30 Balancing change and how to be adaptable: 12:00 Problem solving professor...

🎢 Life is a rollercoaster: From India to Dubai. 01:03 🌞 Vishal took a Reboot program last minute: transformation he experienced. 01:57 🤩 Having the courage to accept truth and reality: the exercise of removing transgressions. 04:28 😇 Learning to be present during work and also with the family. 06:30 📵 Not using a phone the first hour in the morning and the last hour in the day. 07:41 🧠 Visha...

🥣 Bringing Semsom’s Lebanon hummus to NY: cooking 200 tons of hummus.  01:22 👑 Carine as  Queen of Excel: solving problems through weird and convoluted formulas. 03:11 👩‍💼 Embracing all your passions: Journey from graphic design, consulting, restaurant owner to an executive advisor. 04:47 👠 True feminism: we can do whatever we want, but we don't need to do it all at once. 07:11 🎯 T...

🏖️ Every surfer’s dream: Nico is now in Nicaragua, and he loves the smiling people there. 01:14 🧑‍⚕️ Enabling private health care and unlimited doctor and psychology consultations to people of Central America and the Caribbean. 04:23 ⚽ Former soccer player now startup owner who partners up with big companies: 70% of the population can be treated through telehealth. 06:56 🥅 Being egoless to crea...

💆 Relax, and enjoy the journey. 01:03 🛑 When life pushes back against what you're trying to do, it is time to stop pushing. 01:45 🛳️ Traveling for three and half years helped Dean find himself. 05:02 🧘‍♂️ Dean’s background is working as a personal trainer in sports rehab: mental and emotional impact on the body. 06:54 🧠 There are no short-term results: The mind needs repetition too. 09:36 🤏 M...

😇 Carla’s relationship with values: making choices while discovering her values. 01:02 👩‍💼 Waking up and feeling anxious and not having time for herself: asking herself the same things as others about values. 03:52 🕵️‍♀️ Examine your triggers and reactions. 07:32 🔢 Value hierarchy work: non-negotiable things in your life. 09:04 😮‍💨 “Values are like oxygen; they are essential to your happines...

🇨🇿 Radka is from Prague, Czech Republic. 01:13 🗽 MBA from Harvard: a crisis period when she redefined her purpose. 02:16 🙃 Re-inventing leadership: content element and a flow with form element 05:23  🤓 Strategic choices: focus, creating series with the most relevant topics, empowerment, and live sessions. 09:19 ⏩ The two-speed leadership concept and changes COVID brought: fast innovation...

😍 A successful love story: Liz made her home in Houston, TX.  01:11 🧠 Mental health is a global pandemic no one is talking about: my zone is me.  03:29 😟 Fear of judgment: Liz’s story about living in depression. 07:21 👩‍⚖️ Getting professional help, learning to hide, judging herself, living a lie.  09:23 💊 The most profound depression period and self-medicating: Liz became suic...

👦 Badge of honor: Getting his inhaler from the emergency. 01:27 😇 Liam’s kids: Remy, Felix, and Vivi. 03:04 👨‍💼 Liam is a primary school principal and local leader in education. 03:35 🆙 A strategic and technical overview: An incredible amount of hard work is needed to develop a professional culture that drives you forward. 05:41 🎯 Modeling culture example: rewinding all he did before, showin...

😷 March 11th, 2020 for Carla was not only about COVID. 02:53 👨‍👧 Carla’s dad was an amazing man, with international leadership and a focus on legacy. 04:39 🙋‍♀️ ‘I know how to help!’ - but she was playing small. 07:45 🤝 Systemic solution with Brilliantly Engaged:  three ways to connect people across organizations. 10:08 🎇 Collaborations with other companies and higher-end events. 11:55...

🖥️ AJ is a nickname from his first business - a clickbait site that caused a lot of trouble and taught him many lessons. 01:29 🩸 With a family background in the medical field, AJ decided to study programming and work to impact the medical space. 06:41 💪🏼 Big challenge: working on hard things. 07:59 🎯 His dream is to be a part of multiple MedTech startups to create better, longer lives. 08:46...

🥨 Craig’s work with kids: movements, snacking, and adaptation of behavior change and habit formation. 01:49 🤸 Falling in love with play and movement: Helping adolescents incorporate these fundamental pieces into their lives.  04:37 🙃 How to connect with the foundational skills and fall in love with movement? 08:28 🧠 Mental health of young children and identity formation: Effects of removi...

💂 Growing up in the UK and thirst for knowledge: Hament chose a career in medicine. 01:01 👨🏽‍⚕️ Being swept up with life: Realization that he is living in the Matrix and moving to New Zealand. 04:31 🩺 His knowledge in PET CT scanning resulted in collaboration with other doctors, institutions, and private practices. 07:00 👔 Hament’s entrepreneurial bug: Bringing new ways of imaging in radiolog...

🏖️ Birds are singing, and Steve is on vacation. 01:19 🍇 New Zealand vines and picking each grape by hand gives outstanding vine quality. 02:11 🍷 Steve’s birthplace: Hawke's Bay has some of the best wines in the world. 03:20 🌟 Steve’s philosophy on finding purpose. 03:43 🤓 A customer-centric kind of thinking: finding the purpose behind products or people. 04:46 ⚡ An epiphany on his 50th birthd...

🦁 Big lion with Aboriginal spirit work behind Joshua. 01:31 👨‍🎓 Becoming a tennis coach at 15, and burnout from doing so many things he loved in college. 03:20 🦸‍♂️ Cookie jar: What is a real superpower? 07:44 🤯 David Goggins’ story and motivational power he has on Joshua.  08:54 📈 Journey from 40% and how to build up that other 60%? The answer is in your mind. 13:19 🤔 What is the inte...

🤿 Caroline dove into a different world. 00:20 😃 She and Liam met in California and clicked instantly. 02:08 ✈️ Quitting corporate America and buying a one-way ticket to travel. 02:58 🤫 Trying out something different: Swapping marathons and triathlons with a silent retreat in Thailand.  04:43 ☯️ As a high-energy person, Caroline learned to redirect it internally and learned things from this...

🇮🇪 Lisa is from Dublin, Ireland. 01:13 📚 Lisa’s bookshelves. 02:03 ✒️ What moves Lisa in Seamus Heaney’s poetry? 02:45 😇 Her journey to endometriosis diagnosis and a self-care path. 03:55 🗓️ Looking at your body holistically: The cyclical nature of hormones in one month. 06:24 🧘‍♀️ Get to know your nervous system, your body, and intuition. 09:36 💆‍♀️ Mindfulness practice for the female cycle....