Mister Kindness Podcast

Mister Kindness Podcast 47. Joining us from Glasgow, Scotland is the delightful Keren McKean, former manager of the band Snow Patrol and music business insider with decades of experience in the game. A true creative, she manages artists, festivals and is deep into the next big thing for the industry - virtual reality. This is a good one to listen to if you've ever dreamed of being a star. We...

Mister Kindness Podcast 46. Joining us from Geneva, Switzerland is Lachlan McIver, an Australian doctor working for Medecins Sans Frontieres (msf.org). He learned his craft as a doctor in super remote areas of Australia and the Pacific Islands. We talk about his training, global health crises of our time, then take a hard left into ayahuasca and other psychedelic treatments for depression and PTSD...

Mister Kindness Podcast 45. Named as one of the "Top 99 Investors in the World", Anton Tagliaferro joins us to give his take of the current chaotic economic situation. He set up Australian fund manager Investors Mutual in the 90's and gives us common people some good advice on how to invest in these strange times. Anton is also a philanthropist, patron of author James Vella Bardon (...

Mister Kindness Podcast 44.  Joining from Sydney, Australia via Pasadena, California is musician, singer and producer Steve Clisby. He's a veteran of the music industry stretching way back to the 60's and still going strong aged 77. Starting in Hollywood he's made his way round the world, gigging with best as he went. Steve settled in Australia where he made a name for himself on Th...

Mister Kindness Podcast 43.  Joining us from the Mediterranean island of Malta is Thomas Cremona. Dealt a bad hand as a child, he survived leukemia and went on to rack up some impressive achievements: Ironman triathlons, Marathon des Sables, rowed from Morocco to Barbados bagging a world record on the way. That kind of thing. Just goes to show there's nothing really stopping you if you'v...

Mister Kindness Podcast 42. Dialing in from London is up and coming actor Andrei Claude. You will have seen him as the Dothraki lord Khal Rhalko in Game of Thrones. In another of my favourite shows he's Ganbaatar, the baddie Rus Viking in Season 6 of Vikings - along with many other movie roles. You can't be a Dothraki if you're in bad shape and Andrei has his own fitness programme c...

Mister Kindness Podcast 41. Joining us from Sydney, Australia is award winning author and all round good guy James Vella Bardon. Despite being a family man with a full time career in the corporate world, James somehow finds the time to be a prolific writer. His first novel, The Sheriff's Catch, I had the pleasure to read recently. I love historical fiction and it's a barnstorming page-tu...

Mister Kindness Podcast 40. Absolute pleasure for Chris and I to chat with David Caldwell. A talented footballer of the 70s and 80s who probably should have played at the highest level. Instead, he played in the lower leagues of Scotland and England where his taste for nightlife was better suited. But that's not the point. His stories are incredible, starring Pele, David Hasslehof and a host...

Mister Kindness Podcast 39. This one goes DEEP. Joining us from bustling Kathmandu is Krish Thapa. What he's achieved is difficult to believe: 19 years a monk in the Himalayas, served as a Gurkha in the British Army and one of the first two Gurkhas to pass Special Forces selection (the other one has the most watched documentary on Netflix, 14 Peaks). During his time in the military Krish expe...

Mister Kindness Podcast 38. Great to have this guy back on the show. Ed Holme is a retired Major from the Special Forces of the British Army, currently an entrepreneur and founder of a mental health charity in his native Zimbabwe. It's hard to wrap your head around how someone so mentally resilient could fall prey to the grip of alcoholism.  Ed is 7 years sober and talks with searing honesty...

Mister Kindness podcast 37. Joining us is James Bonney - investor, bitcoiner and lover of life. His project, Superforest, capitalises ecosystem restoration by planting trees worldwide. By gifting a tree to your friends, family or clients you can help make our planet a nicer place to live. Apart from this, we discuss all manner of things with many tangents and rabbit holes along the way. Enjoy... H...

Mister Kindness Podcast 36. New Zealander Bruce Barclay is a professional investor who's spent the last decade investing in new technologies to improve longevity. Big money is being spent to help people live beyond 100. Bruce is more interested in products to keep you in good physical and mental shape in your twilight years. Lots of great info here at the sharp edge of science. Enjoy... He go...

Joining us is the remarkable and humble Paul 'Vic' Vicary. He served 37 years in the British Army - 22 of them in Special Forces. If that isn't enough, he's also a paramedic, author and polar explorer. Now his main passion is helping people with mental health issues. It's a very topical issue and more power to him. We talk about mental health, walking to the South and Nort...

Explorer Mark Wood joins us as we deep dive into the mindset of a solo explorer. Mark has completed over 30 major expeditions around the world including a solo expedition to the South Geographic Pole followed directly by a 200 mile solo crossing of the Arctic ocean to the Geographic North Pole. He's an impressive human being and a bloody nice fella. Check out Mark's website http://markwo...

Super chat with Maia Pia Dyson. After suffering burnout due to stress during her career in finance, she decided to go back to university and study medicine.  Whilst there, she realised 'Western medicine' was often ignoring the root causes of disease, and stress in particular. This led her to study Chinese medicine and use the best of both worlds to help her clients. I love this subject a...

Veteran of the film industry Roger Hall joins us for a chat about his life in the movies. As a Production Designer he has a pretty incredible filmography starting back in the 1960's. His first feature film was multiple Oscar winner 'Chariots Of Fire', for which he received a BAFTA nomination, followed by 'White Mischief', 'Power of One', 'Dreamchild', a...

We turn our guns on another overlooked part of human history which is incredibly important. This time there are no Nazis involved but something even more controversial: giant rocks from Outer Space. Yes, we discuss the catastrophic events from around 12,000 years ago which caused the extinction of the woolly mammoth, sabre-tooth tiger, etc. It also killed a colossal amount of humans and wiped out...

Lindsay Bruce is a former soldier but this isn't your typical military chat. Lindsay spent 6 years in the UK Special Forces building elite-level physical and mental strength. He's now a peak performance coach helping people who may think they're 'over the hill' to improve their lives physically, mentally, spiritually and more.  It's called The Modern Warrior Project....

In these uncertain times who better to discuss the current – and future – state of the economy is the Acid Capitalist himself, Hugh Hendry. He’s a former hedge fund manager with a proper understanding of how the world economy really works. He’s famous for sticking it to politicians on news programmes and that’s how he first got on my radar. Apart from the economy, we chat about clueless politician...

Joining us is soldier, lawyer, writer and literary agent Roger Field. This episode is more or less a book report about 'Rogue Male: Sabotage and seduction behind German lines with Geoffrey Gordon-Creed DSO, MC' which Roger wrote using the man's memoirs. Definitely one of the best books I've read so was a great pleasure to talk to Roger about it. Geoffrey Gordon-Creed joined the...

Joining us is top business coach and author Graham Eisner. After spending 10 years in the cutthroat world of private banking, Graham decided to use his experience to help thousands of people get ahead in business. With 30 years' experience and some massive clients under his belt, he wrote a book to show people how to expand their networks and grow their business. I really liked the book and u...

This is an absolute banger! Joining us to explain the situation is Sir Richard Shirreff who was a 4 star general in the British Army latterly serving in NATO as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. His experience of Russia's military and political system in unparalleled. In 2016 he wrote a fact-based novel called 'War with Russia' in which a hypothetical war breaks out between Ru...

Did the Nazis actually win World War 2? History tells us Germany lost - which they certainly did - but how did so many high ranking Nazis escape to South America and flourish? Where did all their loot go? Did Hitler himself make it to Argentina? We cover the sordid involvement of Allied Intelligence, the Vatican and even the Red Cross! We're not saying we necessarily believe all this but, for...

What is sophrology? I'd never even heard of it so joining me to explain is Annette Ebbinghaus who is a globally sought after mental fitness coach, master sophrologist, mentor and speaker. She specializes in helping adolescents transform anxious energy into calm confidence through her bespoke beChill programs. She works with professionals, individuals and athletes who seek better balance and p...

Sidsel Dalby is one of the most successful female diamond dealers and jewelers in a male-dominated industry. It takes a strong mindset to succeed. In 2009 she was kicked in the head by her horse and had to spend a YEAR in her quiet, dark bedroom in Denmark to recover. Surviving this brain trauma spurred her to get into the diamond business. It's a crazy success story that involves her mentor,...