The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal

Welcome to episode #65 with Prisca Ongonga-Daehn ! Here are 5 key takeaways that I think you will learn from this episode today: How growing up in Kenya inspired her drive for fairness, accountability and helping others Experiences living in Africa, Asia, and Australia How Prisca first connected with sustainability First steps to building Baresop and participating in startup accelerators Exploring...

Hear from John Carroll , co-founder at Vexev : Imaging, reimagined in the fight against vascular disease and welcome to episode 3 of this new segment taking you inside topics, companies and industries.  Please enjoy exploring your curiosity as I did mine through this conversation! *** KEY POINTS COVERED 03:45 - What does Vexev do?   06:10 - What is vascular disease and how it can affect you?   07:...

Welcome to episode #63 with Hunter Johnson ! Here are 5 key takeaways that I think you will learn from this episode today: How rebelling against family values and society growing up shaped his character to do good  At age 21, having his dream to play professional sport crushed through injury: How he carved out a path to re-create a new life How he's built has the Man Cave brand to become attractiv...

Hear from Mainak Dhar , Best selling author and leader of India & South Asia at Kimberly Clark; and welcome to episode 2 of Curiosity Center. Please enjoy exploring your curiosity as I did mine through this conversation! *** KEY POINTS COVERED 04:05 - What does Mainak do?   05:40 - What led to writing his 26th book, “leadership in 100 words”   08:30 - How to get better at writing and Mainak’s lear...

Welcome to episode #61 with Steve Solomon ! Here are 5 key takeaways that I think you will learn from this episode today: Steve's advice to parents with kids showing athletic potential (context: Steve didn't consider Athletics seriously till age Critical learning from not qualifying for the 2016 Olympics by 4/100th of a second that's now made him a better athlete Why sport is the perfect vehicle t...

Please do consider supporting the show with a rating and review on your Apple Podcasts or Spotify app so we can continue to have brilliant guests join us. Article 2 of my curiosity centre newsletter is live! I wrote about the power of play, and who can solve more problems: MBA’s, engineers or kids? Read here: https://vidags10.substack.com/p/the-power-of-play *** Welcome to episode #60 with Josh Is...

Hear from Tyson Day , co-founder of Arrive & Thrive and welcome to episode 1 of Curiosity Center. Arrive & Thrive is a career education social enterprise, helping students set and achieve career goals with school based workshops, coaching and facilitation. Tyson and his team have worked with 53 schools and supported 12,000 students with their 12 programs. Today, you’ll learn about how this busines...

Inspiring and raw conversation with Michelle Hu , founder of founder of Etoile Collective, online beauty accessories store with operations in Melbourne and recently New York. Hear Michelle share her sunrise with immigrant parents moving to Australia from China, and instilling the importance of working and studying hard. You will hear Michelle talk about how seeing her parents not have much inspire...

Knowledge packed episode with the one and only Michael Batko !  Batko was born in Vienna, Austria to polish parents and had quite a humble sunrise. His explorer love took him to Australia, where he’s been for the past 7 years in Sydney or Melbourne. A number of people I spoke to in the lead up to his recording spoke to Batko’s drive for excellence, his habits and routines and being a very reliable...

You only need to google Ed Cowan to find out about his accomplishments on the sporting field, transitioning to becoming an investor at TDM Growth Partners which meant working with his older brother, Tom + founding Tripod Coffee and hosting his own podcast!  This is a candid, self reflective and inside the mind of the former Australian Cricket player — his journey to that goal, only playing cricket...

The brilliant and inspiring Michael Fox   and I chat about his sunrise in broken hill NSW with dad being a mining engineer and mum a part time accountant who went back to uni later on to do a masters and PHD! Hear about the importance of optimising for rate of learning, particularly early in your career: as Michael shares his experiences in law, retail and tech which then led to founding Shoes of...

Introducing Curiosity Center! Listen in to find out: Show highlights of 2021 Why, How and where for Curiosity Center   Subscribe to the curiosity center newsletter here to receive every article directly in your inbox: https://vidags10.substack.com/welcome Follow Curiosity Center on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/curiositycentre/ Follow Curiosity Center on LinkedIn here: https://www.link...

Thanks to Chloe Temple for inviting the host of this show, Vidit Agarwal on the Leadership Confidence series! ***** Points covered/ timestamps: 02:10 - celebrating 50 episodes of The High Flyers Podcast 02:55 - Did Vidit start the podcast with a goal to do 50 episodes? 04:10 - Release pattern of episodes: weekly vs fortnightly 05:35 - what is the definition of a high flyer and how did Vidit choose...

Take flight into Tom's journey - Sunrise in Melbourne, with Italian influences including how his parents meeting at an Italian restaurant, his dad being a chef, and early memories of working in his family’s restaurant business learning how to take orders, process bills and more. We go into Tom’s time working as a doctor including his - reflections on spending 10 years in the public health system a...

Take flight into Andy's journey -- sunrise in Brisbane, Australia with inspector gadget as his childhood hero, and a desire to be a doctor that ultimately turned into a career in the creative industry, focused on brand, marketing, strategy and story telling. Traveled 10 countries in 10 days in pyjamas and recently co-founding Heaps Normal , an independent, alcohol-free beer company supporting ever...

Take flight into Shane's journey - sunrise in Bundaberg, a smallish town in QLD, Australia having varied interests as Shane describes it following themes rather than a specific path whether that be trying the trades, to then studying business because his girlfriend was doing it, how good! and then spending 7 years as a pastor involved with the church community which started from helping his friend...

Take flight into Nick's journey -- You know those conversations, we all have them where you have so many questions but the discussion actually covers a lot of ground? That’s how this episode went. Nick Crocker shares his idyllic upbringing in QLD, Australia (which for our global listeners that may not be as aware, QLD is Australia’s bush country, laid back with a big % of nature and bush. Hear abo...

A bonus episode, the second in this series! The first we had Matt Dwyer from Tennis Australia take us behind the scenes of the Australian Open tennis grand slam, being the first sporting event held in a covid normal. This conversation with David was focused on the business he has co-founded called Buttons , a disability support agency based in Melbourne, Australia. I ask David about how he started...

Take flight into Chloe's journey - growing up in the UK in a small tight knit family, looking up to her parents with dad being a business owner and mum as marketing director for a large corporate. Chloe talks candidly about dealing with realisation that University was challenging and how ego and arrogance made Chloe choose economics. Through preserving and hard work, things started to look up with...

Take flight into Minal's journey -- growing up in India,  learning ambition and owning yourself from her mother and the drive to be better from her father; and then going to Singapore to finish her last years of high school!  Post high school, Minal secured a full scholar to Stanford University, which started her journey in the US and Minal’s foray into tech in the early 2000’s working at Expedia...

Holly's favourite quote is “Never doubt that a group of thoughtful and committed citizens can change the world, its the only thing that ever has” - Margaret Meed Take flight into Holly's journey - growing up in Perth, Australia and then around the world, her routines, learnings, perspectives and insights on a number of specifics and much much more. I must admit this is the first time in 44 episode...

“The whole program culminated with an award ceremony at Buckingham Palace, and thorough the whole program I guess we were at this big point of Little Dreamers where we had to decide whether to go all in or not. The belief in myself this Queen's Young Leader Program instilled in me and the mentors I met showed me I may as well try. What's the worst that could happen, you are 24 years old -- you jum...

“That experience in Dubai taught me how to really get things done, how to facilitate business -- fantastic stories of ingenuity in terms of closing deals in two languages, Arabic and English; getting documents signed by sheiks. I once bought a printer and drove it with a laptop and set up an office, to get a document done which was going to take 6 weeks. That kind of hustle, I learnt from being in...

“I've been so privileged to have role modelled to me is that introversion and kindness and sensitivity as great strengths in the world, not weakness. I've had the benefit of growing up in a household, encouraged to be more of who we really are, as opposed to fit in to the mould." Take flight into Rosie's journey - We can all probably relate to experiences growing up, whether directly or indirectly...

WOW! Thank you for being on this experience to date.  A journey with this show that was born out of adversity and now hitting 40 episodes. How do you celebrate? I asked 2 of my good friends to join me for a chat! And this is a special chat with Flo, based in Melbourne & Ed, based in California in the US. Growing up in the Netherlands and moving to Australia 6 years ago to be with his girlfriend, F...