Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership

In this episode, we are speaking to Nina Simons, the co-founder of Bioneers, a social entrepreneur who is passionate about reinventing leadership and co-creating a healthy, peaceful, and equitable world for all. In 2017, Nina Simons received the Goi Peace Award with her husband and partner Kenny Ausubel for “pioneering work to promote nature-inspired in...

In this episode, we are speaking to a dear friend and powerhouse Helena Wasserman. She’s on a mission to accelerate the transition to impact and sustainability as the default way of investing and building companies. Her career started at The Clinton Foundation and Ashoka and then moved into impact technology with Techstars and Big Data for Humans. She then went on to scale Top Tier Impact, the glo...

In this episode, we are speaking with Victoria Wong, Head of Engineering for Geo Mobility for Google and Grace Chua Corporate Communications Manager at Google. Two powerhouse women who I thoroughly enjoyed speaking to and learning from! Victoria leads efforts in products and engineering, which includes building new experiences on Google Maps and working with forward-thinking governments across the...

In this episode, we are speaking to John Pabon, sustainability author, consultant, and speaker. He has spent two decades in the business of saving our Earth. Having worked for the United Nations and McKinsey, John has studied sustainability firsthand from factories to inside Fortune 500 companies. He is the founder of Fulcrum Strategic Advisors, Programme Director for Asia Sustainability Leaders C...

In this episode, we are speaking to Julien Vincent, executive director of Market Forces, a campaigning organisation working to shift finance and investment away from fossil fuels in time to avoid runaway global warming. Market Forces believes that the banks, superannuation funds and governments that have custody of our money should use it to protect – not damage – our environment. Previously Julie...

In this episode, we speak with Taya Stapelfeldt, an Ibiza-based somatic leadership coach, mentor and embodiment trainer. She is known by her clients as the ‘woman with the key’ who has a deep and direct connection to the truth. She is a somatic strategist, whose approach combines many years of spiritual practice with leadership coaching, mindset, movement, breath and energy work that enables clien...

In this episode, we are speaking with Fabien Cousteau, Aquanaut, Oceanographic Explorer, Environmental Advocate and Founder of Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center & Proteus Ocean Group. As the first grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Fabien spent his early years aboard his famous grandfather’s ships. He is well known for his study of sharks and from 2000-2002, and was also an Explorer-at-Lar...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. Thank you for being one of our listeners in 88 countries around the world. Today we are speaking with David Aikman - Co-Founder & CEO of ESG DAO, an open, democratic, and credibly neutral ESG scoring system that will power a new wave of Web3 applications to engage consumers and incentivize companies to create pos...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast.  Today we are speaking with Damien Pommeret, the Regional Manager for Western Europe at the Woolmark Company. Committed to contributing to a vibrant, stable and profitable wool industry, Damien is in charge of supporting sustainability and fibre advocacy for The Woolmark Company through ongoing corporate activit...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. Thank you for being one of our listeners in 88 countries around the world. Today we are speaking to Aarav Chavda the Co-Founder and CEO at INVERSA Leathers, a fashion materials company that makes environmentally-regenerative leather from invasive species. As a longtime sub diver and environmentalist, after witnessing the damage to...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast.  I was blown away by today's guest. Manila Di Giovanni is Monaco’s youngest technopreneur at 21, seeking to create the world’s first-ever Virtual Economy that acts as a bridge between the real world and the virtual one - with her company DWorld. She is currently building the stater greener and more futuristic virtual twin in M...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. Thank you for being one of our listeners in 88 countries around the world. Today we are speaking to the charming charismatic change-maker that is Sean Lee Davies. An activist, visual artist, tech entrepreneur, and photographer, Sean was formally the Editorial Director of Tatler Asia’s 15 Magazines, where he interviewed and photogra...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. Today is a very special episode because I am reposting an episode from the How To Live podcast where I was interviewed. The reason I am doing that is because we went deep on anxiety and mental health. If you’ve been following me for a while you know this is a very important topic to me. I have been in and out of the darkness and ha...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast.  Today we’re chatting to 25-year-old Maanasa Gopal - who took a self-funded 5-year journey across all 7 continents - from hitchhiking across Iran, busking in South Africa, crossing from Zimbabwe to Zambia by foot, visiting the North Korean border, living in Sumatran jungle, flying an aircraft to Antarctica to name a few. She h...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. If you’ve ever wondered who you are or wanted to understand yourself better or worried about how technology can be used to harness, instead of harm, the future generations, then you will like our guest today. A conscious technologist that combines social impact, blockchain and philanthropy Arnaud Saint-Paul, believes that living in...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. By now, you’ve probably heard of the words blockchain, NFTs, web3 buzzing around. And maybe you’ve started to get curious about what it all means. I certainly have. And I’ve been seeing a lot of people who work in the environmental space starting to come out with projects. I’m intrigued about the potential applications and impact f...

It’s episode 50! A special episode for today - I got to speak with one of the most recognised and followed rock climbers in the world, Alex Honnold (you may have seen the wild documentary about him called Free Solo), alongside Dr Bruce Means, a biologist specialising in herpetology and a National Geographic Explorer. This was a really special conversation about a new National Geographic documentar...

How can we be eco friendly but also have an epic time? What is regenerative hospitality? And how do we show others sustainability is not a liability? Big themes that we are deep diving into with Ronald Akili, CEO of the Potato Head Family. In this episode, we cover how to have great holidays and experiences in a better way, work as a playground, making sustainability beautiful and mindfulness as a...

How do we easily explain the climate system? What plays the role of our carbon locker room? And why is a solution mindset important? Big themes were deep-diving into with Liz Courtney an award-winning social entrepreneur and documentary-maker and the artist in resident at The Earth Observatory in Singapore. In this episode, we cover how what we do on one side of the world impacts the other si...

Why is reduction more important than more people going vegan? How do we bridge health and the environment? And what will the future of food look like? Big themes that we are deep diving into with serial social entrepreneur Sonalie Figueiras founder & editor-in-chief of Green Queen, founder of SourceGreenPackaging and Ekowarehouse for sourcing of organic products. It’s time to live wide aw...

Why do we need to go against societal thinking when it comes to self-love? How do we actually set ourselves up for success? And why do we need to stop creating stories? Big themes that we are deep diving into with Jamie Varon, writer, author of the upcoming book Radically Content, and creator of Live with Intention, a course on self-trust. In this episode, we cover why self love is not face masks...

How can we move out of darkness and into the light? How can we move out of fear and more into love, harmony and compassion? And how can we unite in a time of deep divisions? Big themes were deep diving into with Her Holiness Sri Sri Sri 1008 Guruji Poonamji. In this episode, we cover why its time to be united, reframing our relationship with the light, why the world needs more light warriors, why...

How do we continue to drive action? How has COP evolved over the years? And what can we learn from someone who has been a chief sustainability officer for 3 decades? Big themes that we are deep diving into with Esther An, Chief Sustainability Officer at City Developments Limited, awarded one of the top 10 most sustainable companies in the world. In this episode, we cover sustainability as the Nort...

How can we navigate greenwashing? Are there any carbon offsets that are effective? And why do we need to get back to the essentials? Big questions that we are deep diving into with environmentalist Kristy D-rutman, known as brown girl green, who also sits on the council of Intersectional Environmentalists. In this episode, we talk about our individual and societal avoidance patterns, what type of...

Is blockchain the future of transparency in fashion? Is the future of fashion circular? And if so, what does it look like? Big questions that we are deep diving into with Stephanie Crespin is the founder and CEO of Reflaunt and StyleTribute - using innovative technology to advance the luxury fashion industry to embrace the circular economy. In this episode, we talk about the scale and potential fo...