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My name is J.Nichole Smith, but you can call me Nic. I’m an author, artist, brand architect, and colour + design psychology expert. The Joy First podcast is for founders, workaholics, perfectionists, and parents who would love to experience more joy in their home and work lives, but feel like they never seem to have time. Many of our cultures programme us to believe that joy is “extra” and must be earned. In the podcast I make the case for why joy is a birthright and an essential part of our well-being, as well as provide simple, actionable ways to find, choose, and share more joy each day… without it being just another thing added to the never-ending “to-do” list.
How did the idea for Joy First come about?
At work: Over the past 20 years as a brand architect I’ve specialized in building luxury and “happy” brands that centre “the good life”, so I’ve become an expert using joy and desire to sell (instead of the feelings of fear and unworthiness that most businesses use to drive purchase). It’s important to me that any project I work on is “joy first” – leaving people feeling better about themselves, not worse.
In life: I started my business in my early twenties and burnt out before I was 25. I had to navigate some really huge obstacles early-on, and so by 30 I had really internalized the importance of putting happiness over hustle. I mean, what’s the point of having a successful business if it ruins your health and relationships? I’ve supported hundreds if not thousands of entrepreneurs to do the same: ride the wild rollercoaster of running your own business by embracing the fear and learning to put joy first in life and work.
Applied Colour Psychology is mentioned a lot in the podcast – could you give our readers a brief explanation of what this is please?
In my work and life I’ve had two intertwined obsessions: as humans what is it that really makes us happy? For brands, what’s the straightest-line to making our impact more predictable?
I studied positive psychology, poured through all the self-help protocols, and personality profiles and completed a Masters in Marketing at one of London’s top business schools in search of answers. It wasn’t until I discovered Applied Colour Psychology that I had a huge breakthrough in both. Applied Colour Psychology is the crossover between Colour Physics (how colour works), Colour Psychology (how colour impacts us as humans), and Jungian Personality Analysis. The most basic colours can be divided into one of 4 groups, and so can all people. Research shows each group of people has a strong preference for each group of colour – and not only that – but these colours tend to be the most flattering for them aesthetically as well. Wild right?
It’s similar to the idea of having a “season” of colour that looks best on you, but importantly this analysis is based more on personality than skin tone… for me it’s so much more about carving out the space for more authentic self-expression, colour harmony, and joy – than it is about getting your exact shade of lipstick “right”. Want to find your “type” and colour group? Pop over and take the quiz on our website.
Can you remember which podcast was the first you ever listened to?
I believe the first ever podcast I listened to was Desert Island Discs. I’ve been obsessed for well over a decade (in fact we even had a Desert Island Discs themed wedding! I even was lucky enough to get Kristy Young to record an intro for the CD of ‘Desert Island Tracks’ that was our wedding favour for guests – it was a surprise for my husband – he didn’t know until we played it for him at our reception – super geeky cool!)
Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?
I love sensory-rich, investigative podcasts like Serial – I’m looking forward to expanding into higher production and richer storytelling like this as we grow. I also love shows where the hosts’ voice is totally enveloping – there was a show called Wellpreneur, which became Alchemy & Action that I just adored because I could listen to the host, Amanda Cook, for hours and hours (to be fair that’s probably why I got into Desert Island Discs – Kirsty Young’s voice is like velvet!)
Recently I’ve really got into the Autistic Culture podcast – I love a co-host show and I love how instead of focusing on the medical side of Autism, the hosts are sharing the shared culture of “Autistica” – it’s fascinating! The Martha Stewart episode totally sucked me in.
Who’s your dream guest for the podcast?
Right now, my dream guest would be Michelle Obama. I’d love to have a deep conversation with her about the joy crisis we’re facing now – and how to hold onto hope and focus on joy and impact in our little circles of influence when the world feels dark and out of control.
Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?
Maybe it’s boring, but the ‘why does joy matter’ episode (S1, E1) is the perfect place to start with Joy First – the first season takes a whirlwind tour through my favourite entry into joy first living and working: colour. How to understand your personality type and begin the journey of using your colours as tools for being more intentional about the way you want to be, be seen, and “do life”.
What are your plans for the podcast moving forward?
Season 2, coming up in March, is all about “joy first ways of working” – and we’ve got loads of interviews with mostly female founders, sharing what “joy first” work looks like at this stage of life and business. What they had to embrace, learn, let go of, and build in order to define and create lives and businesses that are successful and joyful.
Where can the Pod Bible readers find out more about you?
You can find us at joyfirstworld.com (podcast is here) find me on instagram @jnicholesmith or LinkedIn.
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My name is Sneha Jain Kirloskar (SJK) and I am also the Founder & Trustee of an educational non-profit in India. I have also worked in my own energy metre company seeing its initiation, expansion, and strategic sale. In spite of having worked in social entrepreneurship and the energy business, my secret obsession, which is now out in the open, is “human energy”. I believe we have immense power within and this internal energy needs to be tapped into, as it shapes the way everything pans out in our lives.
I did my undergraduate in Economics & Finance from Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU & completed a Masters in Energy Policy from the University of Sussex, UK. I play the piano and write inspirational and empowering songs on human potential and energy. I recently released two singles called “Universe Within” and “Misaligning My Destiny” under ‘Lyrics by SJK’. I live in London with my husband and love being in the countryside.
My podcast, On the Journey with SJK, is an on-the go spiritual self-help podcast which deep dives, in a simplified manner, into how individual thoughts, words and actions are creative forces that shape our lives & outcomes. Whether you’re aiming for personal growth, seeking to improve your business or relationships, looking to overcome challenges in your life, or just hoping to create a better version of yourself, this podcast is for you. On the Journey is a compilation of different spiritual modalities, mixing it up with metaphysics thinking, the Law of Attraction and teachings from various spiritual gurus and manifestation experts.
Sneha Jain Kirloskar
Why did you decide to start On the Journey with SJK?
For years, I’ve pondered over life – is everything just a random event or are we shaping our lives and destinies? How powerful are we as creators? I studied a lot of Nichiren Buddhist principles, heard from some of the biggest life coaches and had certain experiences in my own life which led me to realise the power that we carry within. I started making my notes from different sources and I wanted to share that with the world, which is why I decided to make a podcast. I think being able to focus on spirituality is a big luxury and everyone may not have the time to get into it so deeply. Nevertheless, getting some basic principles right is important for us humans. Through On The Journey with SJK I want to provide my listeners with different techniques and tools that can help us shift our lives in meaningful and practical ways, and harness the energy source within.
What do you hope listeners will gain from listening to your podcast?
I want my listeners to gain practical tools they can use to improve their daily lives. Often people are overwhelmed by their circumstances and the thought of solving big problems can be intimidating. We often brush some of our bigger challenges under the carpet because we don’t feel like we have the tools to deal with the issue at hand. Through my podcast, I want to equip my listeners with some practical techniques and tools that helped me sort many situations in life. I want my listeners to really harness the power that they have within, and realise that often this energy comes not from some big change overnight, but from small incremental steady changes in thoughts, words and actions, that can be life-changing!
What sets your podcast apart from others in the same niche?
My podcast is a compilation from modern day and ancient spiritual philosophies (Hinduism and Nichiren Buddhism), spiritual gurus, life coaches, and manifestation experts. Over the years, I’ve studied different spiritual schools of thoughts and made notes of myself. My podcast is a way of sharing everything that I’ve learned, through reading and personal life lessons and experiences. It’s a compilation of different modalities but I’ve tried to create a podcast that can appeal to people of all ages, nationalities, cultures, and professions. By virtue of running a business and a social foundation, as well as having passions such as music and spirituality in my life, I believe I can connect with listeners from all kinds of backgrounds. Growing up in a big family in India, having studied in New York and Italy, and now living in London, I’ve interacted with so many personality types, which has enriched my understanding of people.
What was the first podcast you ever listened to?
To be honest, I was someone who always listened to speakers on YouTube such as Joe Dispenza, Louise Hay, Sister Shivani, Tony Robbins etc., but the first podcast I heard was Mel Robbins, I think.
Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Buddhability, etc.
As you look back on creating season one of On the Journey with SJK, what challenges have you faced, and how have you overcome them to keep the show growing?
This is my first season & to be honest, there was no big challenge because I felt that the content had been created by me for a very long time – it was just sitting in my notebooks and emails. But I guess compiling it all together in a way that would appeal to people at different stages of their lives was something that had to be kept in mind. I want to create content that people really benefit from, can relate to, and actually apply in their lives.
Which one podcast episode of your own means the most to you?
They are all very special to me. But in Episode 4 of my first season, I make the listeners do an easy exercise examining all aspects of their lives. This really puts life into perspective and gives us a tool to see where we operate with respect to everything. It is from this place of awareness, that we can actually start making positive changes.
Which one podcast episode (not of your own) has had the biggest impact/influence on you?
BK Sister Shivani’s episode on “How to Reprogram your Subconscious Mind”. She talks about how we consciously need to choose the thoughts that we record in our minds, and how that influences our energy and vibration.
What are your plans for the podcast moving forward?
I would now like to invite on my show, thought-leaders from different parts of the world to speak on spirituality, energy, manifestation, power of the mind, neuroscience etc.
I want On the Journey with SJK to be the go-to platform when someone wants a burst of positive energy and is looking for answers or practical tips on how to improve their lives.
Where can the Pod Bible readers find out more about you/the podcast?
I share a lot of positive quotes on Instagram so I would love to be followed on that. I also encourage my listeners to reach out to me by email and am happy to have a discussion with them if they are facing any kind of challenges or blocks and want a new way to think through things. In addition, I write inspirational lyrics on life and destiny and I’d like my listeners to hear my songs for a burst of positive energy!
Links
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onthejourneywithsjk/
Website: www.onthejourneywithsjk.com
Email: info@onthejourneywithsjk.com
Songs:
Misaligning My Destiny:
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/misaligning-my-destiny/1771502830?i=1771502978
Universe Within:
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/universe-within/1767222410?i=1767222419
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Lee: I started out as a football translator – a bit like José Mourinho but without the coaching ability – and moved into podcasting after I left the UK for Vienna, Austria, where I’ve lived since 2014. But I still work as an interpreter and translator for football clubs in the German Bundesliga too. The Sweeper is a podcast about football across the world – we talk about all 211 countries in FIFA and sometimes non-FIFA places too, such as Greenland. In fact, it was Greenlandic football that brought Paul and I together in the first place.
Paul: I started off as a journalist for Football Italia but refused to give up on my very unrealistic dream of playing international football, so a mate of mine and I decided to find the world’s lowest ranked national team and naturalise to play for them! That ended up changing to the slightly more realistic goal of coaching and I coached the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia for 18 months. When I came back to the UK I wanted to get back into journalism but focusing on the less travelled places, so I wrote a piece on Greenland’s national championship, which only lasts a week, for Four Four Two, and Lee happened to read that and got in touch. I’d followed his work for some time and we had a shared love for the less obvious places in world football, so we joined forces!
Lee & Paul podcasting in London
Why did you decide to start podcasting in the first place?
Lee: I had already started another podcast called “The Other Bundesliga” all about football in Austria. It was a way to get to know the country I was living in better and I was amazed to see how much interest there was in a country not regarded as a major footballing nation. I thought: If there is this much interest in Austria, imagine how much there could be in a podcast encompassing every nation around the world. And so The Sweeper was born.
Paul: I’d been appearing on other people’s podcasts as a guest for some time and still do get a semi-regular slot on Guardian Football Weekly, which I love, but I wanted somewhere I could go into more depth on the stories that interested me. When Lee and I decided to relaunch The Sweeper podcast, that was the chance to do exactly that.
Lee: Yes, I initially founded The Sweeper in 2021 with one of our now editors Tom Middler but the show wasn’t running anymore and we were only operating as a Twitter page for a while. Paul getting on board in January 2023 was the perfect opportunity to bring it back!
Can you tell us about your collaboration with FIFA+?
Lee: We’ve had podcast sponsorships and collaborations before and we know from experience it always feels much more natural and authentic when you use the product you’re talking about yourself. Paul and I have been using FIFA+, which is FIFA’s free platform showing live football all over the world, to watch matches for some time. We knew our audience would love it too and so when FIFA+ got in contact, it just seemed the perfect fit!
Paul: We’re very picky in that we don’t want to promote things we don’t believe in. So when FIFA+ approached it was a great chance for us because we genuinely do use it to watch many of the remote games we talk about. And our audience loves it too. They are often telling us about the games they’ve been watching – from Bolivia to Bhutan!
Lee at Stadio Druso, Bolzano, Italy
What was the first podcast you ever listened to?
Lee: Oh, that’s a good question. That will have been years ago, I think it must have been Guardian Football Weekly actually. I used to listen to it as a teenager. I never thought back then I’d be speaking on a podcast of my own one day.
Paul: I think it was also Guardian Football Weekly! When I was first asked to be a guest I was really star-struck!
Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?
Lee: Well, Guardian Football Weekly would fall into that category. I think I like it because it is done by journalists rather than ex-players, who tend to dominate the football punditry scene, and gets the balance just right between informative and fun. That’s a balance we try to have with The Sweeper now. I also like The Rest Is… series from the Goalhanger network because their hosts have such good rapport and bounce off each other so well. And finally, I also love Wondery shows such as British Scandal and The Spy Who. They master the art of storytelling so well and the presenters are great.
Paul: I find the Football Ramble pretty inspirational. The fact that pod started out being recorded in a bedroom and is now this huge phenomenon with a whole stable of podcasts attached to it.
Who would be your dream guest for the podcast?
Lee: That’s a tough one. We tell so many different stories on the podcast that we have mentioned every country in the world at least once on our 70-odd episodes to date. So it’s not like we are talking about the same people often. But given our love for the underdog, maybe San Marino coach Roberto Cevoli would be a good one to have. We would love to find out the inside story of how the world’s lowest ranked nation has turned its fortunes around so dramatically.
Paul: I’m a huge fan of James Montague and I’d love to get him on – he’s written some of the best books about football that exist in my opinion and touched on some nations and places that we cover. I’d like to get the Andorran legend Ildefons Lima on someday, after 26 years of playing for a minnow nation like Andorra you must have a few stories! Lee and I don’t tend to have so many guests but journalist Daniel Storey joined us to tell us about his trip to the Faroe Islands and blogger Matthew Eide told about his trip to Bhutan. That was great!
Paul in Pohnpei, Micronesia for the 2023 Futsal Tournament
Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?
Lee: We would like to think new listeners could join at any point and enjoy our shows right away. They are fortnightly round-ups of football all over the world and so it’s not like you need to have listened to the previous episode to understand the latest one. But the one entitled ‘A SAN MARINO PROMOTION, Hispaniola at the Gold Cup & Coupe de France controversy’ is probably a good one. It includes some of our favourite topics: we have been tracking San Marino’s 20-year winless run for some time and the French Cup provides some great away days. The episode also includes a bit of history, geography and geopolitics, as well as a good few laughs too, so it’s quite representative of what we’re about.
Paul: What is nice is that although we are responding to current events with our pods they stay pretty timeless, so if there’s a place in one that piques your interest you can still go back and listen to old episodes. I feel like our recent episode ‘Bhutanese monk ultras, a golden era for micro-states & the Southgate of the Solomons’ was a great example of how global the pod is but also telling stories you just won’t hear anywhere else. Where else would you learn about Bhutanese football fan, culture!
Do you have a favourite episode of the podcast, or one you are proudest of?
Lee: I’d say I am proud of ‘Switalian adventures, Welsh routes into Europe & the Vatican on tour’. I had just gotten home from a trip watching football in Switzerland and Italy, having spent two days on trains, and was so tired. Paul was ill. And the episode ended up being our second most popular ever.
Paul: It sounds like a cop-out but I do feel that the pod keeps improving. We’ve been doing this now for getting on for two years and I think now we know very well how the other works and how we can bounce off that. We’ve also learned better how to pack in lots of great stories but also have the freedom to just enjoy the chat rather than moving on too quickly.
As you look back on your podcasting journey, what challenges have you faced, and how have you overcome them to keep the show growing?
Lee: I would say that to do a research-intensive pod like ours well without earning any money from it at the start is a big challenge. It’s almost like having two full-time jobs and we definitely underestimated the difficulty of that. It’s also hard as an independent podcaster to get the word out there and grow. That has been tough but we’ve tried to appear on as many other shows as possible and we now have a growing community that we’re really proud of.
Paul: I do think people maybe don’t see how much work goes into the pod, but I suppose that maybe goes for all podcasts and you sort of don’t want the audience to just feel like it all comes together naturally and easily! I would say we have been very lucky to find superb editors in Tom Middler and Ralph Foster – they have done incredible work and without them we just wouldn’t have the pod we have.
Lee, Paul, and listeners celebrate San Marino’s first win in 20 years!
Football fans tend to be a devoted and loyal bunch – have you found that to be the case with The Sweeper listeners too? How important is audience interaction to the podcast?
Lee: They are but because we tell a lot of underdog stories and talk a lot about countries and leagues the listeners don’t really know so well, it’s not tribal at all. It’s just a really nice bunch of people who are interested in football across the wider world rather than just their Premier League team. But because we have followed San Marino so closely, most of our listeners have started to support them too. We try to interact with our listeners at every possible opportunity: some have joined us at matches, some talk to us on Discord. And we recently found out we had a nine-year-old listener called Albert and designed a quiz specifically for him. We wouldn’t be doing what we do without our audience so we try to show them how important they are to us whenever we can.
Paul: Our following is amazing and to have found this community of like-minded people is one of the great joys of The Sweeper. Sometimes you take a step back and look at the number of people who listen to your voice each episode and it’s hard to even imagine it.
What are your future plans for the podcast? Do you have any exciting projects or collaborations in the works?
Paul: We’ve been able to partner with some great content producers already, such as Copa 90, Away Days and The Tim Traveller, and we have some more collaborations in the pipeline. We’re also exploring live events we can do, whether that’s online or in person.
Lee: We also want to do more trips. For example, the Vatican has several football competitions but because it’s the world’s smallest sovereign state, there is no room for a pitch and they play in Rome instead. That would be a great story we’d love to tell. Mostly though, we want to grow the podcast to the point where we can dedicate ourselves to it fully without having to divide our time. Then we think we can make the Sweeper even better. And we already have an average rating of 5 stars from 700+ reviews on Apple and Spotify.
Where can the Pod Bible readers find out more about you?
Lee: We’re on basically every social media platform under the same handle: @sweeperpod. We post a lot of world football updates on Twitter and BlueSky but we are also active on Instagram and Facebook with plenty of content from our travels. You can also search for ‘The Sweeper – A World Football Podcast’ on your podcast platform of choice. We’re on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the other usual places.
Paul: We release a main podcast every fortnight on a Wednesday and our Patreon subscribers get a bonus pod to fill the off weeks, plus they get a newsletter each week packed with additional exclusive stories, some of which aren’t featured on any of our pods. We also have a Discord chat community, run some great football shirt giveaways, release bonus blogs and give our patrons a sneak preview of our podcast agenda.
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My name is Sanam Naraghi Anderlini. I’m Iranian by birth, British by education, Italian by former marriage, American by migration, and global in my work and vocation. I’m the Founder and CEO of the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International Public Affairs (SIPA) and a Richard von Weizsacker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. I am also mother to identical twin girls, aged 23, and come from a close-knit global family.
For nearly 30 years, I’ve worked at the frontlines of a field of practice known as “women peace and security”. It took me to New York and the UN, chasing diplomats and writing the draft of UN Security Council resolution 1325 that with much editing – got passed – and has been among the most radical, potentially transformative developments for peace, of the past decades. Because I was there when it all got started, I’ve had the chance to explore and discover, create, advocate, and practice what I was preaching.
I did research in 15 countries and wrote a book called Women Building Peace: What They Do, Why It Matters, The UN asked me back to train staff and lead more research – this time on men and what makes them vulnerable to becoming violent or joining militant groups. All this led me to study the rise of identity-based extremism from Jihadis to white supremacists and identify effective ways of preventing and offering alternatives.
Since I believed in and was inspired by the women I met, I started ICAN out of an old wing-backed armchair in my living room. It was an idea that has become reality: a small organization leading a global network – like the league of extraordinary women. We have over 90 partners in 43 countries, set up a fund and disbursed $11M and counting in over 30 countries, and continue to influence government policies, and trying to bring peace actors to peace negotiations. I was stunned to receive an MBE in 2020 for my work on “International peacebuilding and women’s rights”.
Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
It took me to all manner of places; a gala dinner in Johannesburg where I got to kiss (and be kissed) by Nelson Mandela, tea with the Maoists in Nepal, comparing parenting notes and fears of death with gangsters in Jamaica, debating manhood and masculinity with guerillas in Liberia, a brush with the law and the revolutionary courts in Iran, talking Security sector reform with the paramount chiefs in Fiji, backroom meetings with Muslim women who neighboured the men who blew themselves up and killed hundreds of people on an Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka’s chicest hotels. It also meant that in 2021 when the Taliban took over Afghanistan, at ICAN, I decided we would try to live up to our name and do what we could to help our partners. We were able to help 1100 people – mainly women peacebuilders and their families to safety in Germany, the US, Canada, and the UK. We are still channelling money to women’s organizations active across the country.
It’s all part of the ongoing 45-year odyssey of an 11-year Persian girl who danced to the tune of Boney M on the balmy summer nights of ’78 when the military curfews cracked their guns and the “Allah o Akbars” ricocheted off building blocks in north Tehran. She went on a 10-day vacation with a suitcase full of schoolbooks and ski clothes, and never returned to that life. I’m a girl who lost her home and land, a young woman who felt compelled to help others avoid the same fate, a working mom, and an immigrant who calls the world home.
The podcast series focuses on global challenges and issues of our times, with emphasis on solutions, possibilities, and hope. It counters the trend of issues being polarized by politicians, sensationalized by the media, and oversimplified on social media, by creating the space for complexity, nuance, and actionable solutions. With a pivot away from the usual pundits, I put the spotlight on the frontline, roll-up-their-sleeves “do-ers”. From extreme capitalism to nature conservation, the future of feminism and peace in the Middle East, each podcast is an informal but in-depth conversation with the imaginers, and innovators focusing on their work and solutions, and what else could be done if they were in charge.
The format allows for a wide range of topics and solutions, big and small. Importantly, the podcast bridges the gap between specialist knowledge and general audiences. By demystifying the issues, If You Were in Charge also aims to educate, empower, and inspire listeners to imagine what they too could do, about the issues they care about.
Why did you decide to start If You Were In Charge?
I started If You Were in Charge, with the aim of amplifying the work and perspectives of people who have dedicated their lives to tackling some of the world’s most complex problems. In my line of work and community of practice I meet so many wonderful people doing extraordinary work. Many of us have innovative and practical solutions that could have transformative impact, but too often the daily work of “doing” means there is little time left for the writing and sharing of ideas. This is particularly true for women. Despite all the progress on equality, most of us are juggling our family and professional responsibilities. Having the brain space to write and publish becomes a luxury that few have.
The simple premise of If You Were in Charge is to give the “do-ers” the space, and enable them to share their solutions, if they had the power and the resources to do so, and hopefully inform, inspire, and energize audiences.
I was also motivated by my frustration with the armchair pundits that offer erudite critiques of all that is going wrong, but rarely offer solutions. I find the prevailing sense of pessimism disturbing, because ultimately to be pessimistic about the future is a privilege of the privileged. I also get exhausted listening to the “what’s wrongs” and the problems. It is demoralizing and often sucks the energy out of the room. I think audiences are also fatigued generally, so people switch off. But I’ve also found that when I ask experts what their solutions are, or what they’d do if they were in charge, their entire demeanour changes.
The framing allows for extraordinary breadth in terms of the topics we could select.
Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
What do you hope listeners will take away from your podcast?
New insights into issues they often hear about but have become background noise “problems”.
Inspiration, hope and respect for my guests and their work and insights.
A “can-do” sense about big issues and positive momentum.
A sense of the “ordinariness” of these extraordinary people with whom I talk. So often activists and advocates are seen as unidimensional and distant. I want to show how approachable people are, and how relatable they are. It’s a way of showing that each of us has the capacity to have an impact if we care enough, if we are committed enough, and have the courage and imagination.
You have a section at the beginning of the podcast where you talk to your daughter Soleh (and occasionally her twin sister Lydia) about the guest and/or theme of that week’s episode. What made you decide to include your daughters on the podcast?
My kids, all the kids around us, are the future. We are handing them a world full of problems. It’s unfair because we as GenX, or earlier generations, especially the post-war and the boomers have had the very best of the world. Yet we have squandered all that was given to us – be it in terms of the environment, peace and stability, human rights, or socio-economic opportunities.
We owe our children some light and hope in this increasingly tough environment. I have enormous respect for GenZ as they are attuned to many of the critical challenges we face in the world. They know from first-hand experience what gun violence in the US means, and how climate change affects them and the future. They are savvy about social media and political manipulation. They are also irreverent and funny.
But I worry also that sometimes knowledge leads to inertia and pessimism. That’s also unfair to the younger generation. We need to share with them how things are done, what is still possible and how important it is to imagine solutions and create new approaches.
I wanted to have a chance to hear from them, have them inform my discussions with the various guests, and for them to hear about the solutions that exist.
It’s also a nice way to spend time with my girls now that they’re both living their own lives. I have fun when they poke fun at me. I hope that their generation will listen in and relate to them, even if they find me old and stodgy.
Sanam with her twin daughters
What role do you think podcasts can play in sharing ideas and getting information to a wider audience?
I think podcasts are the antidote to social media. They provide a space to delve into issues with more nuance. They have rekindled the art of conversation and discussion.
The fact that I can provide a platform for people who rarely make it into the mainstream news yet are working on issues that are constantly in the news, is important to me. Traditional media likes to talk to the big names and celebrities. It’s bite-size quotes and problem oriented – often sensationalized. Or it’s a “gotcha” mentality, trying to catch people out.
On a podcast, you can have a diversity of guests from all walks of life, to share their perspectives and experiences – to show that you don’t have to be a president or billionaire to make an impact.
In fact, the self-empowerment of citizens is one of the repeated common themes across all the discussions from peace-making and advocacy against police violence to nature conservation and justice. With their own communities and families at risk, or because they have a love of nature or a passion for justice, people are taking matters in their own hands.
While money matters to their work, it is not sufficient. What really makes the difference is the quality of the cohorts of people who care enough to act. When they do, they inspire others through sharing their own courage and enthusiasm and imagination. While the actions may seem minuscule compared to the scale of the problem, every small win has an effect. It shows that change is possible.
We’re going to turn your lead question back on you now – if you were in charge, what would you change?
That’s easy and difficult.
1. I would change the entire way we think about war and peace. I would focus on ending the 56 major wars we have in the world. They are entirely human-made problems, so it means they can be entirely resolved by human beings, if we had the political will and interest.
So, I would put the prevention and resolution of wars as the singular priority of our time – because wars are a driver of destruction, refugee flows, environmental damage, and deep trauma. But we can control and stop them, because while conflict is natural, violence is a choice, and it is not inevitable.
I’d invest in radical diplomacy that, by definition, would be inclusive of the people affected by wars, and the local peacebuilders who are the agents of change. It’s putting peace actors at the tables of negotiations, so that violence is not the only ticket to the table and armed actors aren’t swapping military fatigues for fancy suits in a shift to “power sharing”.
I write and talk about these issues in detail and ad-nauseum, so I won’t go on, but suffice it to say, that our models of war and peace diplomacy are too archaic to be effective for contemporary complex wars. The good news is that we have models that can be effective. We know from experience that two factors are needed for sustainable peacemaking: political will and inclusivity. If we focus on the inclusivity, we can muster up the political will more effectively.
People often say, “peace is possible”. I prefer to say that “without peace everything else is impossible”, so we need to stop taking it for granted, and invest in it, foster it, value, and appreciate it.
2. I’d also change the narrative and tell the untold stories of peace heroism. Hobbes was wrong. Humanity is not de facto violent. In fact, our natural state is peaceful and seeking to co-exist. Violence is an aberration which serves a minority of humanity. The vast majority of men and especially women are not prone to violence as a primary act. War is also not good for business. It is bad for most businesses and only good for the weapons industry. So, we need to change the narratives, pull back the curtain and expose the sham of “national security expertise” and the minority who benefit from increasing militarization and perpetual war.
3. We can democratize security debates by engaging and enabling people to feel confident about talking about “what security means to them” – and in this way rethink our priorities to link human and national security together and allocate resources accordingly. I’d reduce defence spending and invest in education, health, environmental issues. I’m not naïve, I get that we may need deterrence, but whether we have 40 or 50 nuclear bombs or 1000 is almost irrelevant. Much of this weaponry is only useful if it stays entirely useless.
Episode one’s guest is Abigail Disney, grand niece of Walt Disney, and a philanthropist and social activist. Photograph: By U.S. Institute of Peace – Flickr, CC BY 2.0
Can you remember what the first podcast you ever listened to was?
Empire – with William Dalrymple and Anita Anand.
Which podcasts do you take inspiration from? And which podcasts have impacted you the most?
Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! – from NPR is always great. I like the humour.
My kids have shared episodes of You’re Wrong About which are fascinating – in part because I lived through some of the incidents in real time.
Legal ones like 5-4 are interesting – to get a perspective I don’t often hear and generally I like the discussions/podcasts where people who are practitioners and experts in their field, look under the hood, discuss, and analyse and make issues accessible.
It reminds me of Einstein’s quote (or attributed to him) that if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t know the topic well enough.
Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?
Episode 1 with Abigail Disney is a great introduction. Not only does she talk about the challenges and dangers of extreme capitalism to society, and offer her solutions, but she also discusses the links to other issues that come up in future episodes.
Episode 2 with Kelly Ghaisar is another great example – as it’s the story of a family, and a woman who was a professional interior designer, suddenly having her life ripped apart, being lurched into the universe of police violence and impunity, and deciding to take charge. Her convictions and integrity are so strong, that they give her inordinate courage and power. It’s very moving.
I could go on because every episode has its unique quality and topic.
Could you tell us more about the guests you have coming up on this first season of If You Were In Charge?
So far, I’ve had Abigail Disney, Kelly Ghaisar, Dame EJ Milner-Gulland, Kavita Nandini Ramdas.
I have had Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger on November 12th discussing the issue of Jewish settlers/settlements in the Occupied West Bank, and Mohammad Darwashe on educating for peace and equal coexistence in Israel on November 18th.
Meredith Whittaker who is CEO of the Signal Foundation (Signal app) joined me to discuss AI, cyber security and surveillance issues, and Professor Stephen Walt of Harvard’s Kennedy School joined me to talk about hypocrisy in US Foreign policy, academic freedom, and the price you pay for speaking truth to power.
Episode eight’s guest is Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, seen here on the Future Societies stage of the Web Summit 2022, Portugal. Photo by Sam Barnes/Web Summit via Sportsfile
Who would be your dream guest for the podcast?
Funny thing is so far I’ve had my dream guests.
I would love to invite:
- Dr. Hanan Ashrawi – CEO of Miftah & Former spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority
- Steve Balmer -Ex-CEO of Microsoft and now head of Usafacts
- Kamala Harris now that she’s lost the elections, to discuss how she’d do things differently.
If I could reach up to the heavens, I’d invite Nelson Mandela and Princess Diana. People forget that at just aged 36 when she passed away, she had already made a profound impact on public attitudes regarding HIV/AIDs and on the Campaign to Ban Landmines. Imagine if she had survived and continued her advocacy for critical causes.
Where can the Pod Bible readers find out more about you/the podcast?
You can find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and everywhere else you get your podcasts. For more about my work and organization please check out Icanpeacework.org
Twitter/X I often comment (still) at my handle @sanambna & @Whatthewomensay
Instagram @Albaloo2910 and @whatthewomensay
LinkedIn @sanam Naraghi Anderlini and @International Civil Society Action Network.
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My name is Bruce Whitfield. I am a nosy sod who has worked as a financial journalist and broadcaster for 25 years challenging business leaders, founders and policymakers live on radio about their decisions.
It struck me that if the world was to have just one more podcast, it should be about learning from those who successfully make complex, high quality decisions from which I distil key lessons for my audience to help them make better choices.
We all make thousands of decisions everyday ranging from the mundanity of what to wear, what to have for lunch, the words we utter, the ideas we act on, to what brands we consume. Plus of course, there are those life-altering calls around our relationships or where we should live, work and spend our lives.
Why did you decide to start The Art of Deciding?
I am fascinated by brilliant people. I have a deep curiosity about what makes those who are the most successful in their fields great at what they do. I have learned that it all boils down to the quality of their decision making, the trade-offs they are prepared to make and the risks they will take in order to bring an idea or project to fruition. The Art of Deciding is about drawing lessons from those people and challenging ourselves to think more deeply about the decisions we make.
The Art of Deciding host, Bruce Whitfield
What was the first podcast you ever listened to?
The News Quiz! It was hosted by Sandi Toksvig who uttered the immortal line: “…and the Tories who have put the ‘n’ into cuts….” I was hooked. I know it was a radio show that became a podcast but it was the first time that I became aware that there was a new way of sharing audio content via smartphones on demand and that it was going to change everything.
Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?
I love great storytelling – I found Stephen Fry’s Seven Deadly Sins captivating. I enjoy Dan Snow’s approach to history, the depth of “The Rest is…” series and the choreographed madness of No Such Thing as a Fish. There is so much really good, focussed work by specialists in their field available, but those are great examples of professionals sharing their brilliance.
Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?
That depends on what you want. and no, that is not a cop out.
The content on The Art of Deciding podcast is massively diverse and each episode is connected to the others via the single golden thread of decision making.
In episode one, the Jack Reacher creator Lee Child explains why he moulded his hero in the way that he did, why he chose to “write a bestseller” instead of following his ex TV colleagues into new jobs doing the same thing as they always had. His is a story of courage in the face of disaster. It also contains a vital parable around the myth of job security. His biggest decision was to create his own income stream without being beholden to the vagaries of corporate life.
Sharmadean Read is also all about self belief and the power of implementing your own ideas and your ability to execute those in a unique way.
Former Bank of England chairman Sir Brad Fried’s desire to expand his global horizons and how the decision to pick up the phone to the most respected man on Wall Street at the time, changed his life. What is the worst that could have happened if he had asked for help and had been rejected?
Lee Child at Bouchercon XLI, 2010. Photograph: Mark Coggins (CC by 2.0)
Lord Karan Bilimoria’s decision to break with a long family tradition of joining the Indian army led to the creation of Cobra beer. He is a big believer in serendipity. Some might call it luck; but his definition: “Serendipity is seeing what everyone else sees, but thinking what no one else has thought,” is a key differentiator between those who always seem to be in the right place at the right time and those who wonder how they do it.
So often we make decisions from a position of fear or insecurity, and invariably that makes us more risk averse than perhaps we can afford to be. Having options, and calculating the odds in the knowledge that no decision is ever likely to be perfect is preferable to leaving our lives to chance.
As former world poker champion Liv Boree tells us, it is all about rational decision making – she describes rationality as a dance between intuition and logic – and what is intuition but the result of our experience which shapes the way we approach new situations?
We’ve all watched police dramas with interrogators hammering their fists on a table with paper cups of half drunk “coffee” as they have sought to badger confessions out of suspects. Former police superintendent Asbjorn Rachlew, charged with overseeing the interrogation of mass murderer Anders Breijvik is revolutionising the way police question suspects – insisting they take nothing at face value. Ever. “What if the opposite is true?” is his mantra. It’s an approach all of us can use when making a big decision. We vote for our favourite candidate based on their campaign promises – can we live with our call if they prove disappointing?
Any one of the episodes is a perfectly good entry point to the series, and series two, poised for the new year, includes one of the most successful West End producers of this generation, a world leading expert on how to decide who does and does not remain within your inner circle, and a wonderful discussion about whether AI is going to make it easier or harder for us to make decisions that will serve us well.
Are there any decision-making tips or skills mentioned by your guests that have particularly stood out to you?
Brad Fried: Never allow yourself to be in a position where you are forced to make a decision, which if it does not work out, can break you, financially, emotionally or reputationally.
Lee Child: Be wary of being timid. His biggest regrets stem from being fearful about taking big decisions as a younger man. Ironic, considering his biggest was sitting down to write a book he hoped would be a bestseller rather than find a safer, salaried job.
Sharmadean Reid: Back yourself, but also never launch anything new until you have done proper market research. Never stop asking questions. You do not know everything, no matter how smart and connected you think you are.
Karan Bilimoria: Fortune favours the brave. Trust serendipity, provided of course you are able to think what no-one else is thinking when presented with an opportunity, using precisely the same dry facts.
Liv Boree: Suspend emotion. Focus on the facts. And never, ever, allow your emotions to get the better of you at critical inflection points in life.
Asbjorn Rachlew: Keep an open mind. Mind your own incentives, emotions and beliefs, they can often cloud your judgement.
What do you hope listeners will gain from listening to your podcast?
They will learn that there is no such thing as a perfect decision. Everything worthwhile requires a trade-off of some kind. They will also learn that it’s perfectly acceptable and even essential to own up to a bad call and deal with it sooner rather than later. They will learn to keep an open mind at all times and realise that the moment you make a decision, every assumption and piece of information you used to reach your conclusion, is already out of date. It doesn’t provide an opt-out and leave critical outcomes to chance, it just means that you should never allow yourself to be boxed into a corner where you are forced to choose a least-worst outcome rather than what is best for you. Lee Child speaks about decision making as a writer: “When you have a blank sheet in front of you, you have endless possibilities, the moment you write a single line, you have reduced the number of potential outcomes considerably.” The same is true for any decision you make. Your viable options reduce each time you make a decision.
Who would be your dream guest for The Art of Deciding?
Give me a break! I have had six, but if there was to be one more…it seems too easy to say Elon Musk…how about Salman Rushdie on forgiveness…but also Richard Shotton, Nuala Walsh, Annie Duke, Adam Grant, Gary Kasparov, Brené Brown, Steven Levitt, Dan Ariely, Angela Duckworth, Malcolm Gladwell…right now, just one? Would have to be Rushdie, followed by all the others and I wouldn’t be picky about the order.
If you could go back to just before you recorded the first episode of your podcast and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be? Are there any decisions that you would change?
Trust the process. The concept is strong. The guests are brilliant. Stay insanely curious…That’s lots of one things…Trust the process, understand it will take longer than you hope, cost more than you want, but that the end result is non-negotiable. It’s a massively competitive landscape. You are asking potential listeners to give you some of their most valuable and finite commodity: time. Respect that. One thing: Focus on making it great.
Where can the Pod Bible readers find out more about you/the podcast?
www.brucewhitfield.com is the central repository for all information into the World of Bruce.
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I am the owner of the London Standard and a member of the House of Lords. My podcast is about the cutting edge of science and medicine, and the future of humanity.
We understand that your grandfather, Vladimir Sokolov, was one of your inspirations for the podcast, could you tell us a little about him, and how he inspired you?
My grandfather was one of the most important scientists in the Soviet Union. He was an ecologist, zoologist, and a pioneer of the USSR’s environmental movement; an early sustainability advocate who did much to advance the global interest in wildlife conservation.
As a child, I would frequently join him on field trips for months at a time, participating in scientific work along the steppes of Mongolia, deep in the Amazon Rainforest or the reefs of Vietnam. My very first trip with him was to Chernobyl, where we went to hunt ducks with a Geiger counter to measure their radioactive levels following the 1986 disaster. We then went on many expeditions to Africa, which inspired my love of the continent and where I have supported conservation charities throughout my adult life. More widely, my grandfather inspired me to engage passionately with the world and work towards a better future for humankind: protecting nature, improving health outcomes, and supporting cutting edge medicine.
Why did you decide to start podcasting in the first place? What do you hope listeners will gain from listening to Brave New World?
Lockdown brought us all to a standstill. In my case, it inspired a period of reflection. I was able to turn my attention to ideas and projects which I’d been ignoring or delaying.
I’ve always been interested in science, for all the reasons outlined above, and it felt like the right time to do something about it.
The idea behind the podcast came about largely due to my interest in longevity science. I have spoken about this in the House of Lords and am a firm believer in the virtues of anti-ageing technology. I am also fascinated by the ethical and cultural implications of a movement that seeks to extend life – potentially, some argue, towards infinity.
More universally, we all became preoccupied with health and wellness during the pandemic – and more conscious than ever before of the health crisis befalling our country. Brave New World seeks to address the issues ripe for reform, as outlined by the Health Secretary last month. Namely: how we treat anxiety, depression, chronic disease, sleep deprivation, obesity, and age-related illness.
The podcast hears from those who seek to revolutionise healthcare and bring new treatments to the fore: psychedelics, nootropics, biohacking, etc. I hope listeners come away from it enlightened and better informed about the options out there for them.
What was the first podcast you ever listened to?
It was either the Lex Fridman podcast or Philosophize This with Stephen West.
Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?
Making Sense with Sam Harris and The Joe Rogan Experience.
Can you tell us about some of the guests you have coming up in series three of Brave New World?
We have groundbreaking scientists like Peter Attia, George Church, and Tim Spector; and thinkers like Steven Pinker who are reshaping how we think about the course and direction of humanity.
Who’s your dream guest for the podcast?
Sam Altman.
Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?
Mark Hyman on the rise of longevity medicine.
Do you have a favourite episode of the podcast, or one you are proudest of?
Where can the Pod Bible readers find out more about you/the podcast?
You can read interviews and editorial around the episodes on the Standard.
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My name is Rob Bell. I’m a TV Presenter and Engineer and more recently I have indulged my love of audio to host and produce Sketchplanations The Podcast, along with lifelong friends Jono Hey (designer, author, illustrator) and Tom Pellereau (The Apprentice winner from 2011 and business partner of Lord Alan Sugar).
It’s a podcast for the curious-minded who enjoy hearing about the more nuanced and hidden aspects of life in the modern world; be it science, behavioural economics, nature, psychology, business models, or even domestic life hacks. Each episode is based on a hand-drawn sketch by Jono that simplifies a phenomenon or observation. We discuss what it means for us in our own lives and how it might be of use to our listeners; to make life easier, more rewarding or just more fun.
Rob Bell
How did the idea for the podcast develop?
Sketchplanations started as a hobby for Jono about 10 years ago; producing a new sketch each week, explaining things he found interesting. He now has a collection of around 900 of them.
More recently, I was looking for a new creative project outside of TV that I could make my own and being able to share and enjoy it with close friends was really important to me. Tom and I had very casually attempted to start a podcast years before but without any real structure or anchor-point, we never got anywhere with it. This time, it was Tom who suggested we make a podcast to accompany Sketchplanations and we discussed in detail how we might pitch the idea to Jono – already very busy with work and family life, not to mention the added task of creating and publishing a thought-provoking sketch each week. Thankfully, Jono loved the idea as there was always so much more detail to the topics he covered in his sketches and through the podcast, we could explore that detail. We all got our hands on some microphones and away we went.
Additionally, we were all aware that the podcast would be a great way of having a regular date in the diary to get together, have an interesting chat, and a bit of a laugh doing it.
Sharpen the Saw sketch
What was the first podcast you ever listened to?
I remember speaking with The Comedian’s Comedian podcast host Stuart Goldsmith at an event he was comparing in 2009. He put me on to The Adam & Joe Show podcast (which I think was from their BBC 6 Music days by that time) and I never really looked back. I felt like I was part of a family of listeners who all shared a love of serious silliness.
Why did you decide to start podcasting in the first place?
I love talk radio. I always have done.
From the age of 8, I grew up on the outskirts of Paris and I would tune in to a very static-fuzzy, mediumwave BBC Radio 5 most evenings to listen to football commentary or the latest news analysis. At university I hosted a show on student radio and when I first moved to London I worked on various volunteer and hospital radio stations. And despite now working in TV I definitely consume more audio than visual content in my downtime.
In the last couple of years of making TV documentaries, I became increasingly frustrated that (rightly so) as the presenter, I have very little control over the final version of what actually gets broadcast.
But having my own podcast, the buck stops with me. I write my own scripts. I’ve devised a format and style. I keep in what I feel is good and edit out what’s not. Principally though, I get so much joy from sharing something I feel truly proud of.
Podcasting lets me broadcast what I want, and how I want, and putting the work in to produce each show feels just as comforting and familiar as switching on 5Live all those years ago.
Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?
I know that my podcast is heavily influenced by The Elis and John Show (by comedians Elis James and John Robins). I’m a massive fan and have listened loyally for years. It’s a similar type of production to The Adam & Joe Show in that it’s a silly, buddy podcast. And whilst there’s ribbing and micky-taking, it’s all done lovingly and with that family of listeners again at the centre of it all.
I think the same can be said for the other 2 podcasts I love to listen to: Three Bean Salad and Tailenders. It’s the friendship and relationship between the hosts that I totally buy into and feel part of as a listener – and it’s that magic combination I try to create with Sketchplanations The Podcast.
Finishing Lines sketch
Who’s your dream guest for the podcast?
Because of the buddy-show style I’m trying to create, Sketchplanations The Podcast only has guests about 40% of the time. We try to let the sketches dictate the conversation but if there’s an expert or someone particularly well versed in the topic and sketch we choose for each show, we’ll try to get them on and have had some wonderfully fun and insightful episodes because of that (the 2-part episode we recorded with botanist James Wong is the perfect example of this).
That said, I’d happily have Adam Buxton or John Robbins come on the show and choose any sketch they liked. Having listened to them both for so long, I feel like I know them a little bit and I’d love for them to feel part of my listenership family as much as I feel part of theirs.
Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?
I really enjoyed our episode on something called Crossmodal Perception – how our senses interact with each other to influence what we see, hear, smell, taste, and feel. For example, coffee tends to taste less sweet if drunk from a white mug and potato chips tend to taste stale if we can’t hear the crunch! It was really interesting to spend time talking about something we all experience every day without necessarily noticing and take a bit of a dive into the science behind these interactions.
It’s a great example of the podcast doing what I always wanted it to do: explaining something from the world around us that listeners will then hopefully notice a little more in their own lives, and perhaps enjoy telling others about too. We also love to hear our listeners’ stories and experiences of each topic we cover.
Do you have a favourite episode of the podcast/one you’re most proud of?
One of my favourite shows to record was the Bumper Pack Quickfire episode entitled Life on the Road – where we swiftly covered 12 different sketches that had something to do with cars, driving and roads. And to add a little theatre, we recorded it whilst actually driving up the M1 motorway on the way to a weekend away with friends. I hasten to add that one of those friends was our dedicated driver whose hands were firmly clasping the steering wheel rather than a microphone.
Where can the Pod Bible readers find out more about you?
You can find all our episodes, along with full transcripts, show notes and of course the wonderful sketches themselves at sketchplanations.com/podcast. Additionally we’re all relatively active on social media – Rob Bell: @rob.bell on Instagram, Jono Hey: @jonohey & @sketchplanations on Instagram, and Tom Pellereau: @inventor_tom on X.
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