The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week’s guest is Kevin Hancock, CEO of one of the oldest family businesses in the United States. Kevin used to be a hard-charging, traditional leader, until one day, when felt his throat tightening and found it difficult to speak or be understood. His diagnosis: spasmodic dysphonia, an incurable and rare condition...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week’s guest is perhaps one of the most experienced change leaders and advisors on the planet, Jake Jacobs. For over 35 years, he has worked in 61 industries, helping over 210.000 people implement changes in their businesses. What I love about Jake is his fearlessness in calling out what leaders really must do to...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Dr Will Van Derveer. Will is the founder and medical director of the Integrative Psychiatric Healing Center where he has practised integrative psychiatry for 15 years. After discovering that his conventional psychiatric training was inadequate to answer many of his patients' challen...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human has one of the most extraordinary life stories of anyone I’ve met. I give you Guy Felicella. Guy grew up in a middle-class home but fell into addiction at a young age. He spent 30 years in the repeated cycle of gangs, addiction, treatment, and jail. But a pivotal meeting with one of Ca...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame. I love Darcia's work because, unlike other psychologists, she doesn't simply look at our society's current pathologies and ask, how do we fix this? She takes in the broad sweep of human societal evoluti...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is complexity theorist and author Ian Snape. A former research leader and executive at the Australian Antarctic Division, he has led teams on expeditions to both polar regions before focusing on coaching and training CEOs, Olympic athletes, and frontline professionals. We discuss how r...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Christopher D. Lee, PhD, author and the HR Director at one of the USA's oldest and most prestigious colleges, William & Mary. Christopher has a passion for human performance. There are three things we know about traditional performance appraisals: they are widely used, universally d...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is psychiatrist, empath and author Judith Orloff. Judith is the bestselling author of "The Power of Surrender", where she advocates for the art of letting go as the secret key to manifesting power and success in all areas of life, including work, relationships, sexuality, radiant aging...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is peace-pilgrim, life-long activist and former monk, Satish Kumar. As a teenager, Satish trekked from India to America via Russia to deliver ‘peace tea’ to the leaders of, what were then, the four major nuclear powers. He walked 8,000 miles without any money totally depending on the g...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is facilitator and author Corena Chase. Corena is co-author of The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lose Them and How to Get Them Back. Corena believes that everyone has superpowers when they are a child. While we tend to lose track of them as we grow up, they’re always there, right below...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is intuitive healer, mentor and life teacher Fiona Arrigo. What I found so compelling about Fiona is her profound belief that we can heal ourselves. With so many of us right now - including me sometimes - seeking external sources for our wellbeing, she's part of a growing movement of p...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is ecological economist and writer Tim Jackson. Tim's view is that we need to give up our obsession with GDP and focus instead on human progress. He envisions a return to a focus on virtue and a re-prised role for institutions to integrate the desires of individuals with their social o...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Marina Efaimoglou. She has an interesting life story, to say the least. Whilst still in her twenties she was running her own investment firm having survived a cancer with 25% survival odds. The scare caused her re-evaluate her life. She later received a second diagnosis. This time,...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is educator, mental health counsellor, yoga teacher and co-founder of the Center for Trauma and Embodiment (CFTE), Jenn Turner. Trauma is a pervasive aspect of all human experience. Understandably, it's one that no one wants to talk about, and yogis are no exception. Jenn's work is pie...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Professor of Economics Steve Keen. Professor Keen has been on a mission to expose the failings of mainstream economic theory and policy. An economics dissident and author of 2001’s Debunking Economics, he warned about the 2008 economic crisis long before it happened. We talk: Why...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when materially we seem to have it so good? This is a question that my guest this week, Mark Blyth has set out to discover. In his book Angrynomics, Mark explores the rising tide of anger and proposes radical new solutions for an increasingly polarized world. Mark...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ How many of us during our school years learned the teachings of Epictetus or Seneca? Perhaps you were lucky. With the world as it is right now, there's a great need for the perennial wisdom of the ancients. My guest this week, Kayvan Kian, has been leading a series of philosophical dialogues within the Young Leaders F...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Why are some people magnetic, confident, comfortable in their skin, and in charge of their destinies? What’s their secret? This week's author Leslie Ehm, believes she has the answer in one word: Swagger. Leslie talks about how her philosophy shatters the myths around “fake it ’til you make it”, and we why need to dig...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ What does it mean to be a good organisation in a world of unbounded individualism and ferocious social Darwinism? A rebellious professor and a business insurgent believe they have an answer. Professor at the University of St. Gallen Antoinette Weibel and Otti Vogt, ex-COO of ING, join us this week to talk about the ne...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ We're back with much loved former guest, David Chislett. David is a South African punk rocker-turned-creativity consultant, now living deep in a Dutch forest. As well as helping companies to unleash his weapons of mass creation, David is a poet supported by a band of loyal Patreon subscribers. David shares with us his...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ What if being honest with ourselves and others made us be better business leaders? That is the issue this week's guest, Ron Carucci, addresses in his book, To Be Honest. The origins of his book are fascinating. He put hundreds of his firm's past client interviews through IBM Watson's AI engine to uncover patterns asso...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Jillian Lavender used to run a large division of an international publisher, always between two planes and walking right up to the line of major burnout. On the recommendation of a friend, and with some scepticism, she took a meditation course. From that point, things changed for her in a big way. She could handle her...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ Over the next few years, we will experience more disruption than in the previous 100 years. Yet are things changing too fast and too regularly to notice?  Futurist Eric Pilon-Bignell sees modern change presents as a giant, rogue wave emerging on the horizon. He asks, will we surf these waves with mastery? Or will we l...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with John Kay, one of Britain's leading economists, whose career has spanned the academic world, business and public affairs In his recent book, Radical Uncertainty with Mervyn King, he describes how, as a society, we regularly crave certainties which cannot exist and invent kno...

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter:  http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Paul Collier, the author of the barn-storming new economic treatise 'The Future of Capitalism'. From humble beginnings in Sheffield, England, to life as an Oxford don, Paul understands the power and limitations of capitalism from both sides of the tracks.  In our conversati...