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Dan Sodergren shares his views on the future of work and his positive outlook on how we can all move towards a world where we love the work we do.

Lewis Wedlock is an Activist, academic & Social Psychologist. As one of the UK's youngest lecturers, Lewis' work centers around exploring and challenging structures that limit expression. We discuss Lewis’s views on Toxic masculinity.

Creative Jason Lancaster discusses how reading the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwel changed the way he looked at the world forever. Following a chance visit to a remote Scottish Island Jason uprooted his London life and now lives full time among the sheep and crystal clean blue ocean. We discuss the impact of this move on his career, happiness and performance. This episode will make you stop and list...

Matt Phelan Co-Founder and Co-CEO of the Happiness Index sits down with Ben RainforthGott Ben is a Strategic Group HR Director. He has extensive international HR & business transformation through optimisation of agile, commercial, and adaptive HR functions, A strategic thinker & agile operator with substantial experience in all facets of Human Resource management and proven expertise in business c...

Karen Robinson Founding Director of The Flockist sits down with Matt Phelan the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of The Happiness Index to discuss Karen's mission to rebrand leadership. Karen will help you find your voice in the workplace and make a difference without compromising your values or falling over with stress. In this episode of Happiness and Humans Matt asks Karen the following questions; What ma...

Leadership expert Steve Rush and Co-Founder of The Happiness Index Matt Phelan sit down to discuss Leadership. Steve helps people and teams explore new ways of working, new behaviours and processes through learning by unlocking their AH-HA moments. Matt asks Steve the following questions What makes you happy? Do the fiance sector care about their employees? How did your Leadership podcast go so cr...

Kate Druhan head of community and environment at the Green School Bali joins Matthew Phelan Co-Founder and Co-CEO The Happiness Index to discuss What is a Green School? Does the school consider the happiness of students important? Do you think nature has a role to play in happiness? What can the world of work learn from what you have learnt at the Green School so far? Green School's mission is a '...

The Co-Founders of The Happiness Index Tony Latter, Chris Hyland and Matt Phelan sit down to review the year and discuss what could have gone better, what went well and their ambitions for 2022.

Adam Shaikh helps us unbox mental health and ethnicity. Adam helps draw the line between mental health and ethnicity and shows us why that is important from personal experience but also my macro data.  Studies show Black, Asian and other ethnic minorities reported a 14% deterioration in their mental health from April 2017 to April 2020; for whites it was 6.5% The numbers are even more harrowi...

Andrew discusses his mission to End Career Based Misery. Andrew a career experts talks openly about getting fired and how it was the best thing that happened to him. Matt and Andrew discuss tips for your career and how you can become happy in your career and life. Andrew describes himself as a Father, Career Coach, Guinness lover, Business Advisor, Speaker, Author, Founder, Positivity Dispenser an...

Matt Phelan and Fiona McDonnel l sit down to discuss Fiona's new book ' Two Mirrors and a Cheetah : Think Differently, Own Your Career & Succeed by Being Yourself'. Two Mirrors and a Cheetah will help you to challenge the assumptions and choices that hold you back, and inspire you to find real career fulfilment just by being yourself . Providing insights, examples and simple exercises, this bo...

Matt Phelan from The Happiness Index and Emily Cummin from Untangle ( https://l.linklyhq.com/l/d6Z9 ) discuss how to support employees through times of bereavement. This discussion covers What typically happens after a loss? How can employers help? How to support managers who have some in their team who has a bereavement ? What can managers and leaders do to support people? What to do and say? Ret...

Chief People officer Steven Bianchi and Matt Phelan discuss the concept of HR Debt in high growth businesses. Steven explains the difference between scaling and growing. Steven also answers; Does money change culture? Can you build culture in a fast growth environment, how to deal with with Hyper growth, how to deal with resource dis-economies of scale as your team expands and how to deal with the...

Matt and Sope discuss the power of learning and the importance of the people you consciously surround yourself with.

Entrepreneur Dominic McGregor at 21 co-founded the Manchester-based social media marketing agency Social Chain and helped grow it to a $200m turnover business with 750 staff in offices all around the world. Dom was one of the first people to hire a happiness manager to help support his growing business. Having floated Social Chain Dom has now exited the business to start the next stage of his care...

Matt Phelan and Gabe Barrett sit down during Pride month to discuss Gabe's unique perspective on the world of work. Having transitioned Gender Gabe offers us all a unique perspective on subjects ranging from belonging to building teams. Gabe is a data expert and now works to help companies build teams in a Hybrid work world. Matt asks Gabe the following questions Tell us your story? How do you sup...

Femi started his business journey as an 11 year old with the support of his amazing Mum Grace. Now at 15 Femi is a veteran of the tech world and we discuss everything from their mother and son partnership to building an inclusive culture. We talk about dealing with Tourettes Syndrome to training school children to code. I ask Femi and Grace the following questions What makes you happy? How do you...

Matt Phelan and Emily Franklin discuss Employee Voice and the importance of listening to your people. Matt asks Emily the following questions What makes you happy? Why did you get involved in the people space? Why do you share stories on your blog? What is employee voice Not? What is Employee voice? Why employee voice important?

This episode discusses emotions at work and why they are so important. What are emotions? Why is being emotional associated with being unprofessional? How do you engage with emotions effectively? Should we talk about emotions at work?

Matt Phelan interviews UX expert Leslie Fountain on everything from design, leadership,UX, motivation and designing for human life.

Guest host Susan Furber interviews Clive Hyland on his new book The Quantum Way. Clive's book explores the Science Behind Happiness and Workplace Engagement. What makes you happy? How does this book link to Freedom To Be Happy Why did you write The Quantum Way? What is in The Quantum Way? What are your influences?  If someone has your read book and become inspired what is the next step? Susan asks...

Editor of Freedom to Be Happy Susan Furber guest hosts this podcast to interview Matt Phelan on his best selling debut book Freedom to Be Happy: The Business Case for Happiness. Questions include What makes you happy? Talk to me about the process of writing a book? Why did you write Freedom to be Happy? What is in Freedom to Be Happy? What are your influences? What does the future look like?

Product manager Dylan Sellberg discusses the Human side of building tech. I invited Dylan on after reading his tweet  "My favorite part about building product is that I can be told my work is "unstoppably great" and "the 667th layer of hell" in the same day". I ask Dylan what makes you happy? what is a product manager? take us through the humans side if building great product?

Sope Agbelusi and Matt Phelan discuss the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report. Matt asks Sope the following questions. What is the report? What are your views on the report? Why has it been so widely criticised? Was there anything useful in the report? How can we learn from this?

I ask Gethin Nadin the following questions about the recent COVID-19 Recovery & Employee Mental Health by Engage For Success Who are Engage for Success? Why is this COVID-19 Recovery & Employee Mental Health report important and why now? What's in it? What most surprised you in the report? What are you key take away? Where can we find the report ? “As we enter the second year of the pandemic, we s...