The Impossible Network

Guest Overview A conviction in the power of sport to engage, impact and inspire communities, a relentless curiosity to explore new ways to apply innovative thinking to build educational outreach for one of the world's largest football clubs and brands, is this week’s guest, Head of Education & Innovation at Chelsea Foundation, Matt Mead. Growing up in the South of England, Matt’s upbringing pr...

Guest Overview An entrepreneur at school and university, an innovator in digital branded content, founder and CEO of Bibblio and an attention economy thought leader is this weeks’ guest, Mads Holmen In this episode, Danish born, London based Mads discusses his parents contribution, and the impact of the Italian educational philosophy Reggio Emilia on his self-belief, and his curiosity. Also how se...

Guest Overview New York born, Hollywood stylist, creator of the first expert management agency, a trend spotter and teacher, and co-founder of moms' charity YourMomCares.org, is this week's guest, the irrepressible and inspirational Sharon Feldstein. Leaving her beloved NYC aged 19, Sharon earned an early break as a costume designer on 70’s hit TV sitcom, TAXI. Never looking back Sharon became a H...

Guest Overview An expert in the economics of the data on the dark web, an advisor on cyber-crime and security and respected specialist on geopolitical risk, trends and their impact on business and society, welcome to this week's guest, Munish Walther puri. Born in California to Physician parents, we discuss the impact of Munish’s upbringing as part of the Indian diaspora, how the cross-cultural in...

Guest Overview A Pratt Industrial Design Alum and Professor, a former George Nelson senior designer, a career spanning over 60 years, creator of the iconic Dunkin Donuts logo and timeless products that still sell in high-end design stores, this week’s guest is 91-year-old, Lucia DeRespinis. Lucia's life could not be described as easy or predictable. Moving home as a child every two years, her fath...

Guest Overview A black belt in Karate by 12, a nationally certified, accomplished celebrity trainer in his 20’s, and a holistic fitness expert in exercise science, biomechanics, and nutrition by 30, just some of the accomplishments of this week’s guest Joshua Holland. Josh has developed personalized techniques and programs to transform the bodies of a host of celebrities including Madonna, Oscar I...

In this short bonus episode Josh answers some questions we didn’t ask in last weeks interview. Who’s surprised him and who’s made him reevaluate himself and the differences when training celebrities with time and money and the normal everyday clients he also trains.  Please enjoy this short bonus episode. Part Two of Josh Holland and his health insights and nutrition advice drops later this w...

Guest Overview A black belt in Karate by 12, a nationally certified, accomplished celebrity trainer in his 20’s, and a holistic fitness expert in exercise science, biomechanics, and nutrition by 30, just some of the accomplishments of this week’s guest Joshua Holland. Josh has developed personalized techniques and programs to transform the bodies of a host of celebrities including Madonna, Oscar I...

Guest overview This week’s guest is Kenyatta Johnson. Following the murder of his cousin in 1998, he formed Peace Not Guns, a non for profit he formed to end and prevent gun violence through education and programs created to give children an alternative to the streets. His activism led to a successful run for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and in 2012 he became the youngest elected Coun...

Guest overview A world-class ballet dancer, a Ph. D. in Quantum Optics, a participant in the BBC Astronaut training series ' Have You Got What Takes', being featured in the book 'Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls' and listed in Forbes '30 under 30', all by the age of 30; these are some of the not so small accomplishments in the impossible story of Dr. Merritt Moore. LA born, of a Korean mother an...

Guest overview Anyone that’s ever embarked on a creative task or endeavor, will probably have experienced procrastination. It’s a feeling and behavior that is loaded with guilt and negative emotions. However, I’ve always had a gut feeling that procrastination or delay can result in better creative outcomes or even something serendipitous. That’s why I was looking forward to meeting this week’s gue...

Guest Overview This week’s guest is author, consultant, speaker, mentor and curiosity charged connector, Nicole Yershon. Since starting her career in advertising at aged nineteen, Nicole has been forging the path of change, driving digital disruption inside traditional ad agencies and beyond. Hired to initiate innovation at advertising institution Ogilvy & Mather Group, her lab inspired in...

Guest Overview Three time Foreign Correspondent of the Year nominee (the UK equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize), a dozen major International Prizes for Reporting including four Amnesty International Awards for Outstanding Human Rights Journalism, a Royal Television Society Award for Documentary-Making and a Martha Gellhorn Prize Nominee for War Reporting, Foreign Press Association of London write...

Guest Overview New York-based, Virginia-born, podcaster, rapper and songwriter, Corey Cambridge is a creative force of nature and a man on a journey. In his early career as a rapper and songwriter, he opened up acts such as J. Cole, N.E.R.D., and Kid Cudi and along the way garnering over 2 million YouTube views (and growing). In 2017 he launched Giant Umbrella, a content company, and podcast netwo...

Guest Overview Today’s guest is Ryder Carroll, the creator of The Bullet Journal® method (or BuJo® for short) and author of the recent Bullet Journal book. Ryder, a digital product designer by trade, was diagnosed with A.D.D., a learning disability, early in life. This forced him to figure out alternate ways to be focused and productive. Through years of trial and error, he developed a methodology...

Guest Overview On Linkedin, Dave Birss describes himself as an Author. Public speaker. Consultant. Film-maker. Chap. I know him as one of the most interesting creative thinkers on idea development, innovation and why organizations and educational institutions must embrace creativity to prepare for our AI-powered future. With an award-winning career as a digital creative director in some of London’...

Guest Overview This week’s guest is Dr. Courtney Rennicke, founder of Rennicke Associates, a Manhattan-based Psychotherapy Practice that provides treatments for children, teens, and adults, dealing with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorders, and post-adoption issues. As a Massachusetts born, and Columbia University, trained clinical psychologist, Courtney has a mission to offer adults, children a...

Guest Overview On this week’s episode, we interview Gordon Young –  co-founder of The Drum, Europe’s largest and most awarded marketing website and magazine. Since launching his first print publication as a schoolboy in Glasgow, Scotland, Gordon’s impossible creative journey has taken on a path of increasing media influence, scale and reach.   Driven by the core belief that marketing has the power...

Guest Overview This week’s guest is Natalie Bridgeman Fields , a fierce advocate, and pioneer in international human rights, environmental law and founder of Accountability Counsel With parents that instilled in her a deep sense of the inequity in the world, her ethical foundation was formed at an early age However, it was in 1998 that her journey and fight for social justice was sparked by a sere...

Guest Overview This weeks guest is Michael Ventura – Founder of NYC Brand Strategy and Design Practice, Sub Rosa,  author of the new book Applied Empathy and alternative medicine healer. At age 10 Michael Ventura told his parents he wanted to be an ideas man. Arguably that was the moment that defined his course and set him on his impossible journey to change brands, organizations, and some day, ev...

Guest Overview Growing up in a small village in the depths of The Amazon Rainforest Ale’s impossible journey has taken her from making and selling perfume in junior school to learning to code in the early 90 at a university in Rio to an become an early pioneer in digital creativity in London’s digital agency scene. In 2007 she was hired by McCann NYC as their first digital creative director. By 20...

Guest Overview Colby Gains, Emmy Nominated producer and Founder of the TV production company, Back Roads Entertainment. His reality-based programming successes include American Restoration, Pawn Stars and the recent 50 Central with 50Cent. Colby’s impossible journey has seen him take an uncharted course from his Texan roots through the back roads NYC and back to Austin Texas. Along the way, serend...

Guest Overview Tyrique (Rique) Glasgow’s world revolved around the corner of Taney and Tasker Streets, in South Philadelphia. Described as a world he’d been willing to die for, willing to kill for and had gone to war for; Rique has now transformed this corner to a world of hope and opportunity. Running the Young Chances Foundation for the kids of this South Philly community, this is Rique’s story....