Delia Burgess

Growing Up with Delia Burgess

Society EN ↓ 143 episodes

Prisoners, prime ministers, ex KGB spies and baristas. Unedited conversations with humans. Read the Growing Up newsletter at deliaburgess.blog

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Delia Burgess

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Society

Podcast website

deliaburgess.blog

Latest episode

Oct 10, 2025

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Episodes

Ep. 17 - Dr John Collins, PhD: inventing the lab grown diamond 17.11.2022

John Collins has a PhD in nuclear physics. At 28 he was employed by De Beers to develop the world's first lab grown diamond. He is currently a non-faculty associate of the Cambridge Judge Business School and an Ethics & Responsible Innovation Advisor. His purpose is to help others achieve their purpose.

Ep. 16 - Andy Rose: from pushing shopping trolleys to buying a Porsche, & losing it to pursue his true passion at 43 15.11.2022

Andy Rose is the owner of Snow Camps Europe and a ski instructor at Ski School Oberschneider in Kaprun, Austria.

Ep. 15 - Gideon Rozner: becoming an arch right-winger 10.11.2022

Gideon Rozner is the Director of Policy at the Institute of Public Affairs. Gideon joined the IPA because of a lifelong interest in personal and economic freedom. Prior to joining the IPA, Gideon spent several years practicing as a lawyer at one of Australia’s largest commercial law firms, as well as several months as interim general counsel of an ASX-200 company. He has also served as an adviser...

Ep. 14 - Gareth Shanthikumar: transforming the desire to self harm into something positive 08.11.2022

Gareth Shanthikumar is a Tedx speaker, personal trainer, and co-founder of MAN UP WA MAN UP is a not-for-profit, peer-to-peer education service in Western Australia, with the goal of empowering young men and redefining masculinity. MAN UP runs workshops on various topics centered around men’s mental health and well-being, with an emphasis on transforming boys into confident, purpose-driven, and em...

Ep. 13 - Oliver James Plummer: rebuilding confidence after stage IV cancer at 24 03.11.2022

Oli teaches yoga & primal movement to combat modern living with a yin yoga focus at Compass Chelsea, London   Insta: @oliverjamesyoga

Ep. 12 - Gary Halai: suicide & self harm prevention / how to ask for help & how to talk to someone who's struggling 01.11.2022

Gary Halai is a qualified suicide prevention and intervention specialist. He is the Senior Safeguarding Lead at Shout, a free 24/7 mental health text support line in the UK. Gary previously volunteered at Samaritans and worked at Place2Be, overseeing counselling provision in primary schools across Manchester before joining Shout in 2018. If you need to speak to somebody, there are people who will...

Ep. 11 - Tony Burgess: are investment bankers greedy 27.10.2022

Dad is back for round 2: laying out the three principles he lives by. Tony Burgess is Chairman of Flagstaff Partners, an independent corporate finance advisory firm. Tony has over 40 years of experience in corporate finance in Melbourne, London and New York, and was previously Global Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Deutsche Bank AG. In this role he was based in London and was a Member of...

Ep. 10 - Neil Ganju: how to come back from failing second year uni 25.10.2022

Neil Ganju (formerly known as chaotic_zingerbox) is the National Digital Engineering Director, BMS for WSP, Australia. He has a Master of Construction Engineering from the University of Cambridge; his thesis focussed on the use of digital engineering in sustainable management of construction projects.

Ep. 9 - Patrick: the tropical jungle to the concrete jungle 20.10.2022

Patrick works in finance in New York. His story begins in East Africa (and... before I get accused of general ignorance about East Africa he came up with the episode title :) ).

Ep. 8 - Pietro Ferraro, PhD: is machine learning overrated? 18.10.2022

Pietro Ferraro is a Research Fellow at Imperial College London, a Research Scientist at IOTA Foundation and founder of Go Eve, electric vehicle charging solution (DC charge point multiplier). His research work focuses on cyber physical systems, control theory, smart grid, smart cities and mathematical modelling of distributed ledger technologies (blockchain).

Ep. 7 - Lola Digby-Diercks: working at McDonald’s to buying first property at 24 13.10.2022

Lola asked for her first pay rise 8 months into her first industry role. She hasn't been afraid to ask for them since. Recorded on 12 Oct 22

Ep. 6 - Bryan Kam: does faith make you happier? 11.10.2022

We were meant to be talking about the positive effects faith can have on one's life (data driven vibes not preachy vibes) and Buddhism (also not preachy vibes - in fact I wanted to ask Bryan about thinking about Buddhism as an ideology not a religion. Otherwise you'd have to call Communism a religion too (it's an argument Yuval makes in Sapiens...I'll ask him another time). Anyway somehow we ended...

Ep. 5 - Tony Burgess: paper boy to corporate finance big dog 06.10.2022

Tony Burgess is Chairman of Flagstaff Partners, an independent corporate finance advisory firm. Mr Burgess has over 40 years of experience in corporate finance in Melbourne, London and New York and was previously Global Co-Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for Deutsche Bank AG, based in London. Mr Burgess holds an MBA (Distinction) from Harvard Business School (1985) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Fir...

Ep. 4 - Isabella Sandak-Lewin on anorexia and losing her best friend to Covid 04.10.2022

Isabella Sandak-Lewin: biomedical engineer, pole dancer, and ray of sunshine 

Ep. 3 - Tonia Kefala Stavridi: an only child in Athens 29.09.2022

Tonia Kefala Stavridi · PhD candidate at Cambridge University | cryo-EM of human DNA repair mechanisms and early-stage drug discovery

Ep. 2 - Bryan Kam: homeschool to Princeton 26.09.2022

Bryan Kam is an absolute legend. Find him on twitter at twitter.com/bryankam  bryankam.substack.com bryankam.com patreon.com/bryankam

Ep. 1 - Joachim Brackx: learning to love yourself 21.09.2022

Joachim Brackx had a successful career as a singer and composer before turning to entrepreneurship. He co-founded and runs several companies remotely while helping others create the life they want. His mission is to experience, to grow, to connect, and to inspire. He is passionate about ethics in human relationships and business, and good food. --- "Did you know that there is only one relationship...

Ep. 0 - What are we doing here? 20.09.2022

SO EXCITED TO INTRODUCE THE GROWING UP PODCAST  I had a breakthrough over the weekend. I realised WHY I’m actually doing this thing, so thought it made sense to attempt to verbalise it here. Insta: deliaburgess_ Twitter: delia_burgess Stuff I've written: deliaburgess.blog/posts Growing Up newsletter: deliaburgess.blog

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