The Business Simplicity Podcast

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Juriaan Kamer, the author of Formula X, from the Netherlands. Jurriaan shares his journey from working in IT, and being frustrated with what he experienced, through discovering how Formula 1 continuously improves their performance and ultimately working with The Ready to help organisations embrace brave new ways of working. Jurriaan is the author...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Menno Valkenburg, the Project Pilot from the Netherlands. Menno shares his journey of discovering his true power as he has travelled throughout the world. He discovered that his power was being a pilot for large, complex projects.  He tells the story of what a ‘project pilot’ is during the conversation. We have fun talking about why projects fail...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Miguel Angel Rojas, the Transformation Architect from Spain. Miguel shares his journey from software developer to an award-winning public speaker. We discuss how travelling throughout the world has provided him a truly global perspective. He is working with both corporates and startups and is passionate about helping these people clarify their mis...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Andre Wiringa, the Chief Reverse Engineer from the Netherlands. Andre shared his journey over almost three decades of helping businesses improve their performance to his recently re-focused start-up: Start Reverse. His team helps the top companies in the world avoid becoming a commodity and “give soul to their brands.” We have a fun discussion abo...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with John Davis, the Corporate Action Hero from the United States. John shares his journey from suffering the tragedy of a paralyzing back injury to eventually jumping off a three-story building and scaling multiple peaks. His energy and mindset are infectious as he shared the basics of the 5F’s of the Corporate Action Mindset. We have fun talking abou...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Danielle Alice Desanges Aucéane Thiam Mékà de Goguenheim, sharing her vision on Exponential Technologies and Ethics, from Cameroon. Danielle shares her journey from telecom engineer to pursuing her purpose of empowering and leading with exponential technologies and ethics. We discuss how the OpenExO and Purpose Alliance communities have enabled he...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Janice Mandel, the Voice Tech Storyteller from the United States. Janice shares her journey over the years as a journalist covering emerging technologies and her perspective as part of the Ethical Use Task Force community of the Open Voice Network. We discuss some of the issues that can arise through the use of machine learning and artificial inte...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Shyamala Prayaga, the Founder of the Digital Assistant Academy, from the United States. Shyamala shares her vision of the future which is, “when the vehicle becomes the driver, a voice becomes a companion.” She is the founder of the Digital Assistant Academy and the lead for voice assistants in autonomous vehicles for a major automotive manufactur...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Shawn Smith, the Founder of Smith+co from the United Kingdom. Shares his journey over two decades of helping some of the world’s leading brands improve their customer experience. He shares some of his strong insights from the expertise, such as ‘best practice is bad practice.’ We have the chance to dive into two of his books, Bold and On Purpose,...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with John Vuong, the owner of Local SEO Search from Canada. John shares his journey from watching the decline of his Yellow Page ad sales to jumping in early on Seach Engine Optimisation and growing that to a successful international agency. We have fun talking about what not to do, and tips on where to start, with your SEO improvements. John has some...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Monique Drent, the Owner and Co-founder of the Swap Shop, from the Netherlands. Monique shares her journey from deciding to stop buying clothes in 2012 to co-founding a store concept that makes ‘swapping the new shopping.’  The Swap Shop just opened their second store in Amsterdam and are on the verge of launching their online store.  Monique shar...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Michelle Seiler Tucker, the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Inc, from the United States. Michelle shares her journey of having sold over a thousand businesses and how she has dedicated her work to helping business owners avoid contributing to the shocking statistic about business failure.  She walks us through the 6P model which is described in d...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Arjan Postma, otherwise known as Mr. Unconventional, from the Netherlands. Arjan shares his journey which is driven by his unconventional approaches. He explains the planned regeneration of the FreedomLab company, which literally rebooted every five years. We have a really nice discussion about the difference between ‘future-proof’ and ‘future rea...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Younis Hijazi, the Exponential Transformation Coach from Luxembourg. Younis shares how his experience as an expert on EU grants has enabled him to be a perfect partner for governments to become future-ready. Inspired by the attributes of the Exponential Organisations framework, he is leading the charge in bringing these new mindsets and methods to...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Remco Janssen, the Founder of Silicon Canals and Proudly Represents from the Netherlands. Remco shares his journey from walking along the canals of Amsterdam fourteen years ago to having the inspiration to start one of the leading start-up and tech news platforms in Europe: Silicon Canals. Based on his years of discovery covering the sector, we di...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Art Bell, the Author from the United States. Art shares his journey from having the inspiration over thirty years ago that the world needed a 24-hour comedy channel. This eventually became, with a tremendous amount of struggle and perseverance, the Comedy Channel of HBO. Later, this was merged with a competitor and Comedy Central was born. His mem...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Carlos Sentís, the CEO of the World Innovation Alliance from Spain. Carlos shares his inspirational journey through various professional roles which have been preparing him to launch his life mission project: the World Innovation Alliance for Social Impact. We discuss how he is preparing this international movement and go into details on the first...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Wineke van Aken, the Mindfulness Coach from the Netherlands. Wineke shares her journey from being a corporate communication professional to founding her mindfulness coaching business. Originally inspired by Jon Kabat-Zin’s mindfulness to reduce stress, she adapted and expanded the concepts to help people discover more happiness and meaning in life...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Luciana Ledesma, the Entrepreneur-as-a-Service from the Netherlands. Luciana shares her journey through various entrepreneurial experiences which have resulted in being an ‘entrepreneur as a service.’ We talk quite openly about her current initiative, which is currently on hold, and some of the lessons and thoughts about making the decision to sto...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Aernoudt Bottemanne, who is helping leaders Think Exponential in the Netherlands. Aernoudt shares his journey from being an expert in technology R&D to being an expert in enterprise sales. We discuss the fateful dinner in Toronto when his career changed, and how this has brought him to some of the top tech companies in the world. We touch on e...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Duncan Oyevaar, the Founder and Partner of Openbook.works in the Netherlands. Duncan shares how, since 2011, he has been working with teams around the world to create much better performance and engagement by creating a mind shift in commercial awareness.  He explains the mini-MBA where they train people on how to read business metrics to create v...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Kristjan Knigge, the Film Director and co-founder of Longship Films from The Netherlands. Kristjan shares the journey from an idea sparked at a film festival in Cardiff to having directed two feature films with a new method of movie production.  The approach can be called ‘seat of the pants filmmaking’ or even ‘agile filmmaking.’  We talk about th...

Part 2 of the Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Marc Prensky, discussing how 'empowerment is the new play' from the United States. Marc and Chris have a discussion about the changing dynamics around empowerment are impacting both children and their parents.  This conversation is part of a series that is being facilitated by Planet Pilots in support of Marc’s upcoming book on the t...

Part 1 of the Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Marc Prensky, discussing how 'empowerment is the new play' from the United States. Marc and Chris have a discussion about the changing dynamics around empowerment are impacting both children and their parents.  This conversation is part of a series that is being facilitated by Planet Pilots in support of Marc’s upcoming book on the t...

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with the Planet Pilots, who are sharing their vision for 2021 from everywhere. Lars Lin Villebæk, one of the facilitators of Planet Pilots, shares the ambition of the programme and how the Pilots have created their vision for 2021 and how they are preparing to have their dream machine be selected by MyMachine to be actually built. We then have a series...