When AI Grow Up

This episode was recorded on Tuesday 9 December . In it, Dr Mei-Ling Doery refers to "the Bondi massacre," meaning the Bondi Junction attack of April 2024 . At the time, we could not have known that another massacre would occur at Bondi Beach that following Sunday. Bondi is a place I once called home, and the closeness of these events is deeply felt. After careful reflection, we have chosen to rel...

Modern men are struggling with identity, purpose, dating, confidence, mental health, and direction. In this raw and honest conversation with host Peter Ostick and Ronen Heine (scientist-turned-lawyer, founder of Luna, lecturer and advisor to startups and VCs), we break down the real crisis facing men today and what needs to change. We talk about: Biological reality vs social shame — how young men'...

Lee Kuan Yew was the founder of modern-day Singapore.  He took Singapore from third world to first in one generation.  His candour in analysing other counties such as the UK, US & China is incredibly insightful. So here is what you are in for the next 45 minutes of your life.  I want to look at: Who was Lee Kuan Yew? What was the back story to Singapore we see today? What were his principles and g...

In this podcast, I use Will & Ariel Durant's book Lessons from history to examine why there is a tension between freedom and equality. "Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias.  For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies." I look at examples such as Andrew Carnegie, Bill Gates, John D Rockefeller and Jeff Bezos and que...

I want to dive into the Roman Stoic's and in particular why the believed tranquillity or peace of mind should be an ultimate goal.   First, we need an introduction into the Roman Stoics, second why the goal of tranquillity or peace of mind was deemed so important and finally, I think more importantly I want to share some of the techniques that the stoics practiced for peace of mind.  Hopefully giv...

I am currently going deep into how technology is impacting Healthcare. As part of that I am speaking to early-stage entrepreneurs in the initial staging of funding, but as part of my research, I came across Rami Weiss who is the CEO of a fully scaled up health tech business called Healthshare, which is building innovative products that improve access to health information and health practitioners....

One of the areas that I have thought a lot about over the years, is the financial sustainability of social ventures. I think it's fair to say that my track record on this is mixed.   The positive intention has without doubt been there.    For example, I started writing the outline for the business that became TVN in the foreword of the book by Mathew Bishop Philanthrocapitalism    I bonded with TV...

It's June 30th 2017 and Josh Ismin and myself are at the end of a two-year earn-out for the acquisition of our company TVN, the digital video marketplace we started in my basement in Tamarama 7 years ago.  All the vital signs of the company are great:  Our revenue is pushing $45million, we are operating in 9 different countries in Asia Pacific,  we have survived competition from Google and Faceboo...

Let's be honest, there are lots of well-documented problems in the world and luckily there are also people in the world who see those problems and are driven to take massive action. On the podcast today we have one of those people, Bronwyn Sheehan founder and CEO of the Pyjama Foundation an organisation that promotes numeracy and literacy to children in the foster care system.   I have got to know...

What should western organisations consider when thinking about launching in Asian countries?  What is it like to be a non-native speaker running Google in Thailand? Why is the digital economy in China accelerating so quickly? Where is Google headed in Machine Learning? How does a sporting career influence building high performing corporate teams?  I discuss all this and more with my good friend Be...

How do you balance creative thinking whilst ensuring you have output? Can you apply the scientific method to art? What is the future of art in an ever more technological world? My guest this week Charlotte Rose Hamlyn, is a renaissance human, whose creative output across various platforms whilst pondering the scientific method would have made Leonardo smile.   Charlotte is a published author with...

Mike Lee (@officialmikelee) is not your average pro boxer. He has a 21-0 record holding the N A B O boxing title, but on top of that he is super smart, a business school graduate of Notre Dame, who has turned his business acumen to found Soul CBD  https://mysoulcbd.com/ which is experiencing crazy growth right now. We speak about taking calculated risks, visualising elite performance, the benefits...

This episode is all about balance.  A few months back I was joined by Yoga superstar Persia Juliet.  Persia is an incredible Yoga practitioner, teacher, writer and business women and benefits from an incredibly soothing voice!   Having grown up on both sides of the Atlantic ocean, and then having living spells in Australia and currently calling Bali home, Persia has an incredible worldview and per...

Exploring human potential through the eyes of world-class leaders in technology, business, sport and health.   On this week's show, we have my good friend, mentor and business partner Gary Gorrow.  Gary is a leading Vedic meditation teacher, surfer, and general wise soul.   He works with a host of celebrities, executives, sports teams.   I first met Gary when my life from everything from my busine...

For me, the last 18 months following the development of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency has been a little bit of an emotional rollercoaster.  I have gone from.... this changes everything, to just drive the UBER I don't want to buy into your ICO. Today we are hopefully passed peak hype and I am actively involved as an advisor in companies with blockchain at there core.  So I was particularly intrigue...

If you have ever wondered how high performance in elite sport was attained then this is going to be a great episode for you. On this weeks show we have Paul Devlin Head of High Performance at Australian NRL giants The South Sydney Rabbitohs.  Having played professional rugby for European cup winners Munster, Sale Sharks and our hometown team of Widnes Vikings he has played with legends such as Jas...

This episode is what it says on the tin and is for all the golfers out there in the constant search to get better.  Bobby Walia is a certified instructor, who has played professionally on the sunshine tour, he's played the best golf courses in the world as the onboard instructor of the ship called The world and is an all-around great human and teacher.     With more time on my hands these days I a...

  This episode follows the founder's journey of Brad Shofer, founder of the now iconic accounting software MYOB. MYOB was one of the first high profile tech IPO's in Australia and Brad's journey was really enjoyable to listen to and remarkably shared many coincidences with the journey that I went through with TVN. As with many of the successful guests that I have interviewed on the Podcast, Brad h...