The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week, I sit down with Roberto Martinez, co-founder of the software company Nearsoft. As a follower of famous business radical Ricardo Semler, Roberto built a company culture based on: No formal hierarchy Meaning and belonging as foundations Transparency and decentralisation The number one message from Roberto th...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week, I sit down with Mick Spiers, long-time executive in the world of urban mobility and author of the new book You're a Leader, Now What?   We know that only 16% of people genuinely love their job and like their boss. People spend up to 1/3 of their lives in jobs and workplaces where they struggle to find mean...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week, I sit down with Meike Bartels, Professor in Genetics and Wellbeing at the Department of Biological Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She's also the president of the International Positive Psychology Association. Professor Bartels is one of the world's leading scholars of the science of well-being...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week, I sit down with Rebecca Ward, author of The Paper Tiger Syndrome. Can you remember a time when you felt genuinely fearless? When you knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that your world was safe? For the average person, consistently experiencing that kind of freedom sounds like wishful thinking. But what if...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week, I sit down with Diane Dreher, author of The Tao of Inner Peace. Translated more often than any other book except the Bible, the Tao Te Ching has been a spiritual guide for centuries, helping millions find peace within themselves, with each other, and with the natural world around them. Diane's The Tao of I...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week, I sit down with Kath Blackham, CEO of the revolutionary Australian digital transformation agency VERSA. She has used VERSA as a platform to move the needle on the things she's most passionate about—mental health in the workplace, diversity, flexibility and using technology for good. She famously instituted...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week, I sit down with Federico Zuppa and Jorge Silva, the founders of the Argentinian self-managing software company 10Pines. 10Pines is a company with a horizontal organisational structure, where nobody is above anyone else. They make decisions based on consent, not consensus or voting, making for a dynamic, h...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week, I sit down with fellow podcaster and YouTuber The Uneducated Economist. Four years ago, whilst selling lumber during the day, he spent hours researching economics in his free time. He tried to share his insights with his colleagues until one day; a colleague confessed that it was all going over their head...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week, I sit down with leadership and change consultant Dr Sharon Varney. She recently published 'Leadership in Complexity and Change: For a World in Constant Motion.' Sharon is adept at making complexity science accessible and has a wealth of experience applying it in business. We talk: How starlings demonstrat...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week, I sit down with Shanghai-based coach and author Jamie Dixon. As well as being a great storyteller himself, Jamie is also someone who helps others share their own stories.  Our conversation is one of two halves: at first, we look at productivity and how he managed to write his latest book in 24 hours flat....

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week's guest is former medical doctor, corporate retiree, and spiritual adept Kevin Krenitsky. Seven years ago, he left life as a successful executive to devote himself entirely to going within. He recently released The Still Point: The Simplicity of Spiritual Enlightenment. According to Kevin, we are amidst th...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week we see the return of a former guest to the podcast, Professor of Complexity and Management at The University of Hertfordshire Chris Mowles. He's back on the podcast to talk about his new book, Complexity: A Key Idea for Business and Society.   Drawing on the natural and social sciences, he describes how comp...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week we're releasing a talk I did with friend of the show Tom van der Lubbe at the Forward Summit, a conference dedicated to redefining leadership and management to create happier people and successful organizations.  We talk: - Applying The Golden Rule in business - Why being small is beautiful - Leading throu...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week's episode is very special to me, Bob Chapman, a man who's been a personal inspiration for many years. Bob is the award-winning CEO of Barry-Wehmiller and author of the critically acclaimed book Everybody Matters. Bob's life changed after a friend asked him what dream he most feared taking to his grave. Thi...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/   This week I speak with Henry Shukman, author and current Spiritual Director of The Mountain Cloud Zen Center. He teaches mindfulness and awakening practices to a wide range of students from all traditions and walks of life. Henry is a man who seems to have led several lives: author, singer and now Zen adept. His bat...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week I speak with Dr. Steven MacGregor, the founder of The Leadership Academy of Barcelona, Honorary Professor of Health and Wellbeing at the Glasgow School of Art, and External Advisor for McKinsey & Company. After completing his first degree, Steven continued his education, and athletic pursuits whilst his frie...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week I speak with an extraordinary woman, Dr. Ruby Gibson, the developer or the technique called Somatic Archaeology, a transgenerational approach to wellness and reclaiming memory. For the past 35 years, Dr. Gibson has been dedicated to the craft and science of Historical Trauma recovery internationally and amon...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ My extraordinary guest this week has dedicated his life to connecting to nature, out there as well as inside. ‘Uncle’ Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq is a shaman, traditional healer, storyteller and carrier of the Qilaut (winddrum), whose family belongs to the traditional healers of the Far North from Kalaallit Nunaat, Greenla...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Our guest this week is psychotherapist and executive coach Dr. Tom Cotton. He's a man who stands for the power of deep work. So much so that he invites people to spend three days with him in an abandoned village in the Haut-Languedoc mountains to get beneath their surface thinking.    We talk about exploring deep work...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ For any parents out there, our guest this week is Dr. Gordon Neufeld, author of Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. He speaks about the perils of peer attachment in our children and what we can do to win them back. I'm joined by a colleague in my co-working space, Suzanne, who is facin...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ I'm delighted to say that we're back this week with one of the most thoughtful guys I know, Kayvan Kian. He has a new book, What Is Wisdom?: A Collection of Practical Thoughts for Better Decisions in Life, in which he invites us to channel different philosophers to help us think through life's challenges and opportuni...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest is author and Jungian psychotherapist Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD. The lasting effects of individual trauma are now widely recognized. But what of the consequences of trauma two, three or four generations down the line? Tirzah's book Wounds Into Wisdom makes a compelling case that trauma legacies can...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest is Dr. Howard Schubiner, director of the Mind Body Medicine Center at Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan and Clinical Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine. According to Dr. Schubiner, our chronic pain is often a learned response or association, meaning that we have condi...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest is Jesse Thistle, author of the inspiring debut memoir, From the Ashes. Abandoned by his parents before becoming a high school dropout, Jesse is now a rising Indigenous scholar. His book charts the story of his life on the streets and how Jesse overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth abou...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest is Dr. Jeffrey Rediger, instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and medical director for the McLean South East Adult Psychiatric Programs.  A licensed physician and board-certified psychiatrist, he also has a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. Observing the c...