The Next Iteration Podcast

Timestamps: 4:25 - What underpins your success at such a young age? 12:30 - Stanford’s climate research program 16:40 - Fast Fashion 21:35 - How TKS changed her life 39:11 - Publishing your first book 50:45 - The importance of failure

Continuing the conversation surrounding education and its constant evolution -- we have Dr. Keshavjee, director of the Master of Health Informatics program at the University of Toronto. We believe that these conversations are extremely valuable to have, in order to understand how the individuals leading our education system today envision the future. How do they plan to grow and suit the ever-chan...

Enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Ishwar Puri, distinguished academic and educator. We dig into his insights surrounding his vision for McMaster Engineering keeping pace with education's evolution, distinguishing yourself along the way to becoming a great leader, and what some of those late-night thoughts look like for someone who has accomplished so much. This was a pleasure to record...

So, to get a job as a PM, you have to already be a PM? 

Doesn’t that mean no one can ever become a PM unless they’re already one first? How do you solve that circular problem? 

Helen and Sefunmi already have, over at CoLab. 

Today’s episode of the Next Iteration Podcast features their story of starting a platform that allows people from non-traditional backgrounds to gain real-world experience...

Excited to announce the newest addition to the Next Iteration Podcast team, Hesham Nammari! Hesham is our new Head of Growth at the podcast, and we're very excited to be working with him. He's got an interesting story of going viral on LinkedIn off a memepost, so hopefully he can bring that same energy to the podcast team 👀. Tune in for a fun, laid back convo, on Hesham's journey to defining his...

What does it take to get a job at Google X, the Moonshot Factory? 

| After talking to Iris, it’s evident that it takes a whole lotta passion, grit, and competitiveness. 

 Iris is a Product Manager at Google X, working on some of the most innovative projects that’ll impact the future of humanity. She’s also super passionate about using product for social good, and has founded companies like OpenM...

What if you could create a startup accelerator, but for people? 
 
Imagine an organization that prepares students to be 10x impact makers in the world’s most important and exciting fields; quantum computing, clean energy, space travel, and more. 
 
That’s what Navid is accomplishing with TKS. 
 TKS is a worldwide organization educating hundreds of kids, giving them olympic level training, through...

Ever had that one friend that thinks they know everything?

 They could have just started learning something, let’s say an instrument, but they feel like they’re experts.

 This phenomena is called the Dunning-Kruger effect, and happens when people of low ability overestimate their strengths. They don’t know what they don’t know, and so they think they’re more advanced than they are. 

 Conversely...

Yesterday’s verdict of Derek Chauvin was good news, but there’s still so much work to be done.

 People of color still face so many barriers; even in the tech world, which we like to think is a meritocracy. They face a lack of representation in upper management and products that simply aren’t designed for them. 

 There’s a difference between a product that is “made for everyone” and a product tha...

“You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great — and I can’t think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars” - Elon Musk

 Today’s episode features Arnau, a literal rocket scientist who did his PhD at Purdue and is the Chair of the Space Generation Advisory Council, a nonprofit that represents the voice of the youth in the space indust...

Jack Dorsey sold his first tweet ever for 2.5 MILLION dollars. 

If you didn’t care about NFTs before, you should now. Tune in today’s episode to hear from @Danish Ajmeri, head of Crypto at Wealthsimple, Canada’s first fintech unicorn.

We talk about Bitcoin, how NFTs are revolutionizing digital art, and his philosophy towards risk taking.

Here are some time stamps if you want to skip to the acti...

Did anyone else have a religious reckoning in high school? Joseph, Damien, and I sure did. 

On today’s episode we interview the founder of Tech Pod, Joseph Choi. Our conversation covers a ton of ground. He shares his views of the American Political system and what it needs to change, his political work with Andrew Yang, and how he came to terms with his spirituality. Here are some time stamps if...

It was a ton of fun recording this conversation with Shravan. He's had a lot of unique experiences in his life up till now — building the Industry Insights podcast, delivering a TedX talk, being selected as a Forbes under 30 scholar and getting to see how dazzlingly bright Quavo's diamond encrusted glasses really are up in person (apparently pictures don't do it justice), among many others. We div...

Think you know the right way to drink coffee? Think again. Today's episode features Liam Redmond. Liam helps drive growth at Clearbanc, and is a master in all things outbound marketing. Our convo today covered a ton of ground, including over 12 book suggestions, what the right way to brew coffee is, why Liam eats steak almost every day, and of course, how to craft a proper cold email (he went over...

Our first (of hopefully, many) interviews with professors! Dr. Haddara is Fuad's Microelectronics professor at McMaster University's Faculty of Engineering. This conversation was a pleasure to record, and we went over so many different topics. Everything from his path into Academia, how you should choose what stream to go into, the role of community and faith in a balanced lifestyle, and the futur...

When you live life knowing that everything you do will be written down, you live a little bit better. Journaling is one of the habits that have 10xed our quality of life. Whether it's the space and time for reflection journaling gives you, the ability to ponder what happened in your day, or just a way for you to look back on good memories, we believe that journaling truly has something for everyon...

WELCOME TO THE NEXT ITERATION PODCAST. AKA the podcast formerly known as Into the Adultverse We're super super super excited to bring you the re-launch of our podcast. We've got a ton of new guests featured, new topics to discuss, new music, and even a new logo! Without further ado, this is our first episode of the launch. In it, we do a recap of 2020, including how you can bounce back from 2020 a...

This episode is a continuation of last episode's discussion on aging, but instead tackling it from more of a scientific perspective. Our discussion largely centers around the concept of Blue Zones: areas in the world scientists have identified as the longest living places, with the longest lifespans. We talk about the principles those people leverage to live the longest, and how you can implement...

Time flies, so they say. Recently however, time's felt like it's been at a standstill. The pandemic has resulted in a slowdown of some of the fast paced aspects of life that we took for granted, and given us a time to reflect. As part of a 2 part series (with part 2, longevity dropping next), we explore age-old (pardon the pun) questions on aging; how it feels to age, and look forward into how agi...

How did Elon Musk revolutionize the aerospace industry, launching the first private aircraft into space and eventually forcing a paradigm shift in how we've thought about space exploration? First Principles Thinking. What is first principles thinking? How can you apply it to your life too? Listen to the episode to find out.

We've been feeling kinda stuck the past couple weeks; like we haven't been progressing in our goals as much. Here's an episode on slumps, and how to get out of them (hopefully we take our own advice). 9:00: break out of your environment by talking to someone that excites you 11:00 Take it as an opportunity to reflect 12:40 Realize that now, more than ever, our lives have more in common than you mi...

Back from a brief midterm-filled hiatus, we've got an interview episode for you guys! And boy, was it worth the wait. Today's interview is of Cyrus Belsoi, an amazing human being who actually interviewed Fuad for his podcast a while back. Long story short, we ended up becoming online friends, and we've learned so much from him about how he looks at the world. Hopefully you guys do too! You can fin...

How do you make tough decisions? When it really boils down to it, life is just a collection of decisions. On today's episode, Damien and I talk about some of the most important decisions we've made, and how we go about evaluating tradeoffs. Hopefully it helps you to be more confident in your next decision!

Today’s episode is one of our most valuable interview episodes yet! 

We brought on Nick Caldwell, VP Engineering at Twitter, who oversees a team of 700+ working on Twitter’s main consumer product. 

Nick has had a long and illustrious career in tech, starting his career at Microsoft, moving to help scale Reddit and Looker (now acquired by Google), and finally to Twitter. We talk about his story o...

This one hit hard. On this episode, we welcomed Melanie Deziel, the founder of StoryFuel and lifelong storyteller that's worked on stories for some of the biggest brands; Time, Fortune, People, and Netflix's Orange is the New Black. We get into a lot, but if you're interested at all in marketing, telling better stories, and making good decisions, this one's for you. Follow along with Melanie's adv...