In this moment, Greg Hoffman breaks down why you should sweat the small stuff. A big believer in setting team values, the best teams have a code that they operate by whether the team leader is present or not. Getting a strong sense of culture in those teams is no easy task, but in this moment Greg breaks it down step by step. Greg explains how he wanted his team to be known for ‘Empathy, Curiosity, and Courage’, guided by the philosophy of seeing what others could see, but finding what they couldn’t. 

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/sxP6K2iUJtb

Greg: 

hhttps://www.instagram.com/ghoff70/ 

https://mobile.twitter.com/g_hoffm 

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Alex Scott is a television personality and former professional football player. With 140 England caps, she’s one of the best players this country has ever produced.

But there’s another side to Alex that she’s kept secret up to now. Because Alex’s early life was not one of safety or security. She’s bravely decided to speak up about the trauma of her abusive father, and how that has shaped her mentality to this day.

It’s never easy to admit something like this, and Alex Scott’s honesty in this conversation is courageous. It’s the same courageousness Alex has shown every day of her life, to achieve incredible things, no matter where she’s from, or what she’s overcome.

Topics:

• Early years
• Dealing with trauma & misfortune
• Your speech Impediment
• Your football Career
• End of your football career
• Depression
• Being along is a positive thing
• Therapy
• What do you want from the future?
• Relationship with your father now
• A letter to your mother
• The last guest question

Alex:

https://www.instagram.com/alexscott2/

https://twitter.com/alexscott

Alex's book: https://amzn.to/3dPryIj

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Maisie Williams is one of the biggest actors in the world today. One of the breakout stars of Game of Thrones, Maisie hasn’t known a normal life since she was 11 years old when she was cast in the biggest tv show in the world.

In this pathfinding and boundary-breaking conversation, Maisie reveals for the first time just how hard her start in life was. Even close to home, she had to overcome those who didn’t believe in her, and has had to battle through mental health issues ever since.

Few journeys we’ve seen of people being able to define and find meaning in their own life despite those who doubt them are as inspiring as the one we’ve seen with Maisie.  We are so proud of Maisie for bringing courage and honesty to the table today. It’s nothing less than the norm for her, because she’s shown courage and honesty all her life.

Maisie:

https://www.instagram.com/maisie_williams/

https://twitter.com/Maisie_Williams

Maisie recommends this website if you need to talk to someone, it has got her through some of her worst days: https://www.7cups.com/

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this moment, Tom Bilyeu walks us through how his struggles with anxiety have actually brought him to a place where he enjoys life to the fullest. He walks us through how he breaks his 'rehearsal of failure' and the worries that plague his head through meditation. Sometimes it takes issues in our life for us to see our position in most perspective. For Tom, his mental health battles are what made him sort out his diet, and get into a clear space in his own mind about what mattered to him. And when you have clarity, you can take action. When you take action, things change for the better.

Listen to the full episode here -https://g2ul0.app.link/8alYCXxbxtb

Tom: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/TomBilyeu?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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Julian Treasure is a prolific author who is the world-leading expert on how to make yourself heard and be an engaged and empathetic listener. One of the most popular Ted speakers of all time, his talk ‘How to Speak So People Want to Listen’ has been viewed over 50 million times.

When Julian speaks, people listen. And what we learned from Julian is that listening and speaking isn’t a simple case of give and take, one person speaking and another one listening. Instead, it’s a circle, the way one person talks effect the way the other person listens, and vice versa.

We also learn the ‘leeches’, or common mistakes, that hold people back from effective and clear communicating. Do you think you’re a good listener and speaker? If you sub-consciously answered yes, there might be a crucial skill that you’re missing…

Julian:  

https://twitter.com/juliantreasure?lang=en 

https://www.instagram.com/juliantreasure/?hl=en

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Mel C is a singer and ‘Sporty Spice’ from the Spice Girls, through her solo career and her time with the Spice Girls she’s sold over 100 million records, making her one of the best selling musical artists of all time.  Every single one of those records was against the odds of coming from a council estate near Liverpool, derogatory labels in the press calling her ‘Sumo Spice’, and music industry management that didn’t believe in her and sought to objectify her.  But she persevered and helped to build the biggest girlband of all time, as well as one of the most successful solo careers of any group member ever. The world is so glad she did because, as this conversation shows, she has so much to contribute when she’s let free to do things her way. Topics: Early years Dancing Not being taken care of a a child Discovering singing & joining the spice girls receiving horrible comments The come up of the spice girls The pressure being in a girlband Turning into a robot Depression Life after the spice girls Coming back together as the spice girls Wheres your line in sharing stuff The impact of your parents relationship on you The last guests question  Mel: https://www.twitter.com/melaniecmusic https://www.instagram.com/melaniecmusic/ Mels book: https://amzn.to/3R1ikGl Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb  Follow us on Telegram: https://g2ul0.app.link/E5re0ADNKsb  Sponsors:  Huel - https://g2ul0.app.link/wjmvak5nAsb Craftd - https://g2ul0.app.link/gZ8in6Dsvsb 

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this moment Mo Gawdat lays out a philosophy for how to admit when you’re wrong, and the right way to go about setting priorities in your life. As Mo powerfully says, ‘50% of what I know is wrong’, and this is true for everyone. Coming to life from this position of humbleness is the only way we can truly get our head straight on what our life is and where it’s taking us. There are things that you need, like food and human interaction, and there are things that you want, like status or expensive possessions. Interrogating the insecurity in our wants and why we really want them is the best way to be at peace with ourselves, and to cut out toxic habits from our life. Because as Mo never tires of pointing out, it’s not how much money we have, but what amount of money we’re happy with, that counts. 

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Mo: https://www.solveforhappy.com https://www.instagram.com/mo_gawdat/?hl=en

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Lewis Capaldi is one of the biggest singers and musicians in the world today whose last album went 4x platinum. His new single is Forget me and it’s out now. Known for his authentic and honest style, Lewis is unlike any poster that’s come before him.

But behind the everyman ‘boy from Glasgow’ persona is a vulnerable side to Lewis. After a 3 year hiatus from music he tells us, for the very first time, he opens up about his struggles with sometimes crippling anxiety, how he ‘hates recording albums’, and the intense pressure he puts himself under that drives everything he does.

This conversation is a hell of a ride. Expect what you thought you knew about Lewis to be turned upside down. But in the process of listening to this conversation with the pop star whose persona is that he has nothing to hide, you’ll see just how much he’s been holding back all this time. 

Topics:

• Early years 
• Hypochondria 
• Panic attacks
• Being self deprecating
• Comparing the first album to the new one
• The pandemic saved my panic attacks
• Questioning what I’m doing
• Tourettes 
• Mental health
• What would you liked to have been at 16? 
• How do others get where you are
• Social media marketing
• Writing songs
• Relationships
• Whats the questions you’e never been asked before?
• The downside of your passion becoming your profession
• Other people perception of you
• Are you confident
• Your new music
• Future goals 
• The last guest question

Lewis:

https://www.instagram.com/lewiscapaldi/

Lewis’ new album:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4GNC7GD6oZMSxPGyXy4MNB?autoplay=true

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Chris Kamara is a former professional footballer and pundit who lit up our screens as part of Sky Sports punditry team for 25 years before he left Sky this year. He now has a podcast, Kammy and Ben’s Proper Football podcast.  But there’s more to Chris than meets the eye. Behind the cheery facade is someone who’s had to overcome an incredibly hard start in life, from being one of the few black kids in his area to his family at times having to resort to beg for food. After a diagnosis with Apraxia, he is one of the most high-profile people with the disease.  Chris has always managed to look for the positives in life no matter what it throws at him. A self-described ‘people person’, despite going through experiences most of us can only imagine he’s always found his glass half full. And if he can, any of us can.   Chris: Twitter - https://bit.ly/3eGUuT3 Instagram - https://bit.ly/3xiaTUl Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb Follow us on Telegram: https://g2ul0.app.link/E5re0ADNKsb Sponsors: Craftd - https://g2ul0.app.link/gZ8in6Dsvsb Huel - https://g2ul0.app.link/wjmvak5nAsb

In this moment, Classpass founder Payal Kadakia takes us inside the mental dilemmas and burdens of running a billion dollar business. Because when you’ve built a global company from nothing, no matter how big it gets you always remember when it was small, vulnerable, and struggling. You’ll always see the tiny company it used to be, not the behemoth it’s become. 

Payal freely admits to paying a heavy price of being too wary of this fear. She missed birthdays, lost friends, and severely effected her mental health. It took a lot of maturing and growing for Payal to achieve balance, balance between her work life and her home life, but also balance between what she wanted, and what she knew she needed.

Full Episode - https://g2ul0.app.link/rpvHmKToatb 

Payal:

https://twitter.com/payalkadakia 

https://www.instagram.com/payal

Simon Sinek is back and I couldn’t be more excited for you to hear this. His name is one of the most searched terms on YouTube and the author of books that have sold millions and millions of copies. Sinek returns to Diary of a CEO after his last conversation was his ‘favourite interview’, in a conversation that goes into even more depth, provides even more inspiration, and generates even more meaning. 

Simon tells us about what he sees in the new, revolutionary generation coming into the workforce, the right way to go about fostering connection and caring for each other, and how even ten years on he’s more convinced than ever it all comes back to your ‘why’. 

Topics: 

What is your why? 

Do you ever give up on someone? 

Is mindset a privilege? 

The impact of covid in the work place 

Gen-z are the least resilience generation 

Monogamy, 

struggling relationships 

Most difficult conversations 

Are men having unmet needs in a changing world? 

Whats the best question I could ask you? 

The last guest question

Simon: 

https://twitter.com/simonsinek 

https://www.instagram.com/simonsinek/ 

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This week, we’re going to do something a little different, offering up four pearls of wisdom from our guests on how to find more connection in your life. Connection with other people, but also a better connection with yourself, what you really want, and what’s really good for you. 

These four incredible snippets from Mo Gawdat, Africa Brooke, Bear Grylls and Mel Robbins together offer inspiration on how to break through the mental barriers holding you back to feel more present in the moment and be clearer with yourself and others about your needs and desires.

When a guest steps into the kitchen and sits themselves down, they’re not just appearing on a podcast, they’re joining the Diary of a CEO community. Every single conversation adds new dimensions of truth, honesty, wisdom and integrity. By bringing these four passages together, it shines new light on the individual value of them all, but it also helps us understand the journey we’re all on together in more perspective.

Topics:

• Mo Gawdat - Retrain Your Brain 
• Africa Brooke - How To Overcome A Sexless Relationship 
• Bear Grylls - How To Build Resilience  
• Mel Robins - What to do when you're feeling stuck

Mo:

https://www.instagram.com/mo_gawdat/ 

https://twitter.com/mgawdat

Africa:

https://www.instagram.com/africabrooke/ 

https://africabrooke.com/

Bear:

https://twitter.com/BearGrylls 

https://www.instagram.com/beargrylls/?hl=en

Mel:

https://www.instagram.com/melrobbins/ 

https://twitter.com/melrobbins

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO. In this moment, Simon Sinek talks about how we can find purpose in our lives through attaching it to causes bigger than ourselves. There are things that we can achieve by ourselves, but true satisfaction and real pride in our achievements always comes from being part of a team or a collective. A wider cause or a group we care about is the only thing that would cause us to make real sacrifices. Simon’s thought long and hard about how we can take projects in the workplace and in our social lives and infuse them with real meaning for everyone involved with them. What’s emerged is a profound meditation on where human satisfaction really comes from, and a step by step guide on how to bring these principles into your life.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/bjurcFnPYsb

Simon:  https://twitter.com/simonsinek?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://www.instagram.com/simonsinek/?hl=en

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James Smith is a fitness influencer and the two-time best-selling author of Not a Life Coach and Not a Diet Book. His no holds barred approach to fitness advice makes him unlike any other fitness influencer today, and now he’s bringing his unique philosophy to improving people’s confidence.

According to James, we’ve been getting self confidence and how to achieve it all wrong. Confidence is not a surefire belief in ourselves to achieve great things, but rather confidence is being at peace with the idea of losing or things going wrong. When you know it isn’t the end of the world, you realise losing isn’t the same as being defeated.

Like James’ brutally honest fitness advice, there’s no quick fix to confidence, or any miracle cure. James starts, like he always does, by looking at himself honestly - and truthfully - in the mirror, and all he asks is we do the same as well. James’ book is out today.

Topics:

• Why did you write a book about confidence
• How deep are our confidence issues?
• Our pain points in confidence
• The base of confidence and how we build it
• what is audacity? A: Airing your opinions
• Happiness recipe
• Productivity
• Are you a workaholic
• Your relationships
• monogamy
• Dating
• How do I help my friend that isn't changing?
• What do you need to work on?
• Building confidence with evidence
• picking your passengers
• utility of deprivation concept
• what is your goal?
• The worst day of your life
• How can someone build confidence today?
• The opposite to happiness is boredom
• The last guests question

James’ book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Be-Confident-international-bestselling/dp/0008536449

James:

https://www.instagram.com/jamessmithpt/

https://mobile.twitter.com/jamessmithpt_

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Julian Metcalfe is the founder of Pret A Manger and Itsu, and since he’s been a young man has been on a mission to change the way we think about eating out and how we eat. His companies are together worth over $3 billion.

But he’s also been on a mission to prove something to himself after the suicide of his mother and a life threatening car crash when he was still young uprooted his life as he knew it. Like all founders, he chose the long road back to being secure in himself

Julian spews with original thoughts on how to really take a company from zero to $1 billion+, from hiring and firing to knowing when to take the leap to expand your brand. Business is a game of thousands of little decisions, a few really big ones, and a hawks eye for knowing when to pounce. Few people we’ve encountered on the podcast had such a good gut instinct as Julian, nor were so good at articulating exactly how they did it.

Topics:

• Early years
• The affect your parents had on you
• The importance of transparency
• Affection & self esteem
• Was money driving you?
• what was the "specialness" that made Pret successful
• How I run my businesses
• Selling Pret
• Starting ITSU
• The hardest day of your career
• Finding out you had a daughter
• What are you scared of?
• Your happiness recipe
• The last guest question

Itsu:

https://www.itsu.com/

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

This moment is all about how to start your day the right way. Getting off on the right start is so important for how the rest of our day goes and the attitude we take into our tasks. A good morning can make a day, a bad morning can make it hard to recover from there. With Rangan’s simple three step guide to making sure you have a balanced, healthy morning, a great day is never further away than taking just five minutes to properly root yourself in the moment.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/DmC3uNmKMsb

Dr Rangan:

https://www.instagram.com/drchatterjee/?hl=en

https://drchatterjee.com

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Joe Sugg is an influencer who, after breakout success before he turned 21, decided to dial down the parties and temptations of fame in order to return to nature and make everything more low key.

After realising he didn’t enjoy his life as much as he was supposed to, some serious prioritisation about what his real values were and what really mattered to him was in order in order to refocus and rebalance his life. He hasn’t looked back since.

Joe’s new book Grow is out on the 15th September, it goes through the lessons he’s learnt and the strategies he’s adopted to help him find balance and harmony with his life.

Topics:

• Early Years
• Procrastination & self doubt
• The rapid success of early Youtubers & its impact
• Your Youtube journey
• Dealing with Imposter Syndrome
• The fall of the OG Youtubers
• Grow: Your new book
• Your struggles with mental health
• Dianne & You
• Our last guest’s question

Joe’s Book:

https://g2ul0.app.link/NIKf94xNKsb

Joe’s Instagram:

https://g2ul0.app.link/JDwObYVLKsb

Joe’s Twitter:

https://g2ul0.app.link/0OlGqk1MKsb

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The Liver King is an illusive internet sensation who says the secret to a healthy and happy life is to eat raw meat every day. An advocate of what he calls an 'ancestral lifestyle', we have to return to the lifestyle our hunter-gatherer forebears.

Returning to this way of living is most consistent with our DNA and what we're genetically coded to want according to the Liver King. A controversial figure, his advocating of this diet is disputed by many nutritionists, but the Liver King says it has transformed his life, that of his family, and his followers who take up his suggestion.

In this raw interview the Liver King opens up on criticism and his sometimes crippling anxieties for the first time, as well as how his ancestral lifestyle shapes his bond with his wife, the Liver Queen. It isn't always easy to be the king.

Topics:

• Early years
• Whats your dark side
• What made you become Liver King?
• Accountability
• The benefits of the 9 ancestral tenets
• The way you sleep
• Food - What are we doing wrong?
• Bonding and connection
• Are you optimistic in this digital world?
• Liver Kings brand
• Criticism
• The hardest moment of your adult life
• Depression & Anxiety
• Your business portfolio
• What role does money play in your life
• Liver queen
• Monogamy as a primal
• What do you need to work on?
• What are you teaching your kids about emotion?
• The last guest question
• Eating liver

Liver King:  

Instagram - https://g2ul0.app.link/PPY0tPb3Gsb

Twitter - https://g2ul0.app.link/LRMyYMe3Gsb

Youtube channel - https://g2ul0.app.link/EzKvK2h3Gsb 

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this weeks moment we uncover exactly how you can take responsibility in every area of your life. Matthew Hussey walks us through how to take a step back, reflect, and see our own actions from the perspective of others. Taking the wider view is always a good idea - for ourselves, in our relationships, in our friendships, and in our careers.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/xK3A11jtBsb

Matthew: https://www.instagram.com/thematthewhussey/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/matthewhussey?

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Gary Neville is a broadcaster, serial business founder and owner, and a winner of every possible club football title in his 20 years playing for Manchester United - with 2 Champions League medals, 8 Premier League medals, 3 FA Cup medals, a Club World Cup medal, and 2 League cup medals.

In one of his most emotional and heartfelt interviews to date, Gary opens up about precisely what drove him and his similarly successful siblings on - his brother is the England-capped footballer Philip Neville, while his sister is the former Head Coach of England Netball, Tracey Neville - despite their very humble origins.

A legend of Manchester United and a former captain of the club, he goes into detail about precisely what made the team culture of the Sir Alex Ferguson years so strong, why its so sorely lacking now, why he’s felt the need to speak out more on social and political issues, and why everything he does is for the city he grew up in and calls home. Even after all these years, he’s still bringing glory back to Manchester.

Topics:

• How did you and your family become so successful in sport?
• What the cost of your drive?
• You’re self disparaging about your skills
• Alex Ferguson’s mindset
• What you have you learnt from Sir Alex about culture?
• Why are Manchester United failing now?
• Your businesses 
• Politics
• Mental health
• Your dad
• The next 10 years
• If happiness was a recipe
• The last guest question

Gary's Twitter: https://g2ul0.app.link/At9sxqODAsb  

Gary's Instagram: https://g2ul0.app.link/G5IEbtQDAsb

Gary’s book, available for pre-order now:

https://g2ul0.app.link/3Y26i8G6ysb

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Nicola Mendelsohn is Meta’s (formerly Facebook) global head of advertising and routinely tops lists “most powerful person in UK tech. She’s juggled her high flying career with having a rare type of blood cancer since 2016.

That cancer is just one of the things that has held Nicola back, but, like her struggle against racial prejudice in her early years, she hasn’t let it define her. No one is ever going to get to define Nicola except her.

In this candid chat about how she’s seen her role and her company change as it’s come under increasing criticism in the last few years, Nicola holds nothing back on her critics, her fears, her highs, her lows, and what she still wants herself and the company to achieve.

Topics:

• What made you the person you are today?
• What did you learn from working in the marketing industry?
• Joining Facebook & leading the EMEA market
• Your journey with cancer
• How did it impact your work & life?
• Mark Zuckerberg & company culture
• From Facebook to Meta & what is the Metaverse
• The good and the bad of the digital world
• Mark Zuckerberg’s real personality
• Protecting young children online
• Personalised advertising and businesses
• Your core strengths and importance of being yourself
• Growth moments & speaking up for what you want
• New book & encouraging females to set up business
• Work-life balance
• Our last guest’s question

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Nicola’s Instagram:

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‘reliable and critical connectivity’:

https://www.vodafone.co.uk/network#faqs

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

This week’s moment is all about passion. Where to find it, how to nurture it, and how not to be afraid of it. Far too many people are afraid of just following their instincts to what makes them happiest and most fulfilled. Jonny Wilkinson doesn’t have time for any of that, or for following the expectations other people set. Jonny is interested in what makes you unique, and he thinks you should be too. Jonny’s also got a word of warning, though, because your real self is who you are when you’re alone with your own thoughts. And Jonny’s weren’t happy. He scaled as high as it’s possible to go in world rugby, but he found the process demoralising, and he wasn’t happy. It took Jonny a long time to find a way to be happy in his passion, but that makes his journey all the more interesting, and his advice for your journey all the more profound too.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/x7zSYKUwpsb

Johnny:

https://twitter.com/JonnyWilkinson?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://www.instagram.com/jonnywilkinsonofficial/?hl=en

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John Eckbert is the CEO of Five Guys in Europe. By far the most successful ‘posh burger’ chain in Britain, John tells us how he took a classic concept to a whole new content by inventing a unique business model.

Five Guys in Europe is not just a franchise, but John rather started from zero on a joint venture which has so managed to eclipse the dozens of other similar businesses that launched at the same time, and then some.

As well as dishing out profound business and management advice, John walks us through how a sea-change in his personal life left him feeling trapped and alone. But John fought fires at both home and work in order to make Five Guys what it is today. We’re so glad he did.

Topics:

• What shaped your business mentality?
• Five Guy’s journey
• Building a successful business without marketing
• How to stop employees becoming compliant
• Installing company values
• Hiring the best people
• Attention to detail
• How do you keep calm?
• Hardest moments & how to handle them
• Critical feedback, standards & customer service
• Business decisions and their impact
• What’s the biggest threat to Five Guys?
• What makes you happy?
• Self-awareness
• What’s are the foundations of your future?
• Our last guest’s question

Five Guys:

https://fiveguys.co.uk/

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Will is an author who brings out the unexpected ways that we’re vulnerable, and how to manage those vulnerabilities and turn them into strengths. The author of six books including Sunday Times bestsellers, he’s one of the most interesting voices on how we can manage our worst impulses to succeed in the modern world.

In a conversation that covers everything from are we more narcissistic than we used to be to how a desire for status underpins all of our ambitions, to how to deal with low self esteem and suicidal thoughts, Will held nothing back on this unfiltered exploration of the surprising strategies we can employ to deal with the dark sides of life.

Topics:

• Your early years, how was your self esteem shaped those years 
• Your book selfie, the inspiration
• Would you have been happier if you were told you could succeed?
• Am I actually making decisions?
• How our genes control us
• Story telling
• Why does status matter?
• Can we be to consumed by status?
• We live longer with a higher status
• Our pursuit of status is greater and our pursuit for money
• The part social cues play in the ‘status game’
• How do we advance in the status game?
• What ingredients create happiness for you?
• The last guest question

Will:

https://twitter.com/wstorr

https://www.instagram.com/williamstorr/

Will’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Status-Game-Will-Storr/

Will’s new book, The Status Game, is out now in the UK and in the US on the 23rd August.

Others books mentioned:

Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us

The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better

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Crafted - https://bit.ly/3JKOPFx

Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this moment, Lewis Howes lays down exactly why you need to stop being a people pleaser if you want lasting and deep relationships. What Lewis teaches us is that real relationships come from someone loving us for who we are, not from who we’re pretending to be. Any act or pretence we put on about ourselves will inevitably get found out. So you have to come as yourself, for better and for worse. How do you find an authentic way to express your true self? Let Lewis explain…

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/lPEJbP9Xdsb

Lewis:

https://www.instagram.com/lewishowes/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/LewisHowes?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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James Bay is a BRIT-award winning musician who’s sold over 5 million records, and one of the most personal and authentic artists working in the field today. Never afraid to wear his heart on his sleeve in his work, his artistry has helped millions of people articulate feelings in their own heart of love, regret, and friendships made and ended.

He’s definitely come a long way from the small town where he grew up, which he escaped through grasping every opportunity that came his way. There’s perhaps no industry tougher to succeed in than music, and this fear that there’s only a few that make it has haunted him at every step.

So settle down and let James walk you through every step of what the creative process looks like at the elite level - where inside him it comes from, what inspires it, and how he delivers his music. James’ new album ‘Leap’ is out now.

Topics:

• Childhood
• Idle time, insecurities & expectations
• Becoming a musician and its learnings
• How did it change your life? 
• Your albums and its influence
• Would you change anything?
• Your mental health
• The consequences and symptoms of your inner voice
• The cost of fame
• Your partner
• Your latest album 
•  Our last guest’s question

James:  

https://twitter.com/JamesBayMusic 

https://www.instagram.com/jamesbaymusic/

James’ new album: 

https://www.jamesbay.com

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Rory Sutherland is the author of Alchemy, a senior advertising executive, and the man who understands why some ideas connect with people and some ideas don’t. He’s a columnist, an innovator and a trailblazer in the world of marketing and advertising.

Rory doesn’t have time for business platitudes, but rather looks for the unconventional crazy ideas that really stand out. This is why he devoted years of his life to looking at business from a human behavioural perspective, to understand not just why people should do things, but why they actually do them.

Rory always seeks out the outlier and the unexplainable phenomena. He’s become an expert on why certain emotional triggers cause us to behave irrationally, how you can be aware of yourself when you aren’t making smart decisions, and how you can deploy those triggers when you’re trying to sell something yourself. Rory blessed us with his one of a kind knowledge to make this one of the most memorable conversations we’ve had with an author for a while.

Topics:

• The concept of how we value things
• Recursive Trends
• The brain's marketing function: Signalling
• technology making location irrelevant
• making something bad to give it value
• Scarcity of product
• personalisation
• how to deliver a product to the world
• Why business are focusing on the wrong thing
• Personal branding
• Why do you think you successful
• The last guest question

Rory:

https://twitter.com/rorysutherland?s=20&t=4azefUUEPFOUa986gpwmeg

Rory’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alchemy-Surprising-Power-Ideas-Sense/dp/0753556529

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

Marcus Buckingham, is one of the world's most in-demand career experts and the author of several best-selling business books focusing on strengths versus weaknesses, how to take feedback, how to love your work and identify leadership. In this moment I talk to Marcus about how we are supposed to build a great career that we love. 

The three main question points we all ask ourselves when we are in a working role is the ‘who’, the ‘what’ and the ‘why’. The ‘why’ is so important to think about - why are you doing doing what you are currently doing, why do you believe in the purpose of what you are doing? The ‘who’ is also crucial. Working with people you like, being in a great team, and amongst inspiring people plays a powerful role in our work. But for Marcus, the ‘what’ trumps the ‘who and ‘why’. What are the activities and roles you are actually doing? What do you love about them?  

Marcus has a theory about the different threads our days are made up of. These threads ultimately create the fabric of a work day; layers, structures, colours, textures, which can be interpreted into feelings, highs, lows, loves and loathes. The most successful people are able to identify what threads work well for them. In order for this to happen, we need an early framework and a sense of shared understanding about what we naturally lean into, our passions and skills.  If we start early on the right threads from a younger age, we will be able to create a career that we love.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/9JiFiCT71rb

Marcus:

https://www.instagram.com/marcusbuckingham/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/mwbuckingham?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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Krept is a rapper and one half of the the iconic rap duo Krept and Konan. The host of the Rap Game, Krept is a star of our tv screens as well as the recording studio. And with his multiple business successes, Krept has built empires from scratch in multiple areas of his life.

It’s a world away from experiencing crime and poverty as a young boy. Krept has routinely looked into the darkest areas of his psyche to find the motivation to propel himself forwards, finding unexpected truths about the human condition in the process.

Krept’s been stabbed, had to pull his business back from the suicide of his partner, and built his way out of Croydon. There’s so many times in his life where he’s had to bounce back after unimaginable setbacks. But he did it. In full context and with frank honesty, he tell us exactly how he did it.

Topics:

• Early years
• Could you see how things could have gone a different way?
• Going on tour
• Mental mental health
• Nash - Krept and Konan
• Finding out about Nash
• How are you feeling?
• When was it when everything changed for you?
• Your relationship with money
• The Hiphop culture making people want to spend money
• Nala's baby
• What have you learnt from Nala’s baby
• Being attacked backstage
• Cadet’s death
• The last guests question

Krept:

https://www.instagram.com/kreptplaydirty/?hl=en

Nala’s baby:

https://nalasbaby.com/

Our new apparel line:

https://thedoac.com/

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Nick Jones is the founder of Soho House, the worldwide exclusive private members club worth an incredible $2.8 billion. He’s rewritten the rulebook on hospitality, and his business covers restaurants, hotels, events, and so much more!

If you want to know not just how to build a business, but invent a whole industry, this is the conversation for you. If you want to know how to maintain worklife balance while making billions, this is the mentoring you needed to hear.

Nick is so calm and collected in his thoughts it’s strange to think it all came so close to crashing down, and his business was born out of his first initial business failure when he had nowhere else to turn. Because when you get knocked down, sometimes that forces you to come back in a whole new way.

Topics:

• Early years
• The first inspiration for soho house
• What did you have that others didn’t?
• Why dyslexia is a great gift
• Starting your own restaurant chain at 22
• The best marketing tactic
• Why did the first SoHo House work?
• the factors that made SoHo house what it is today
• The line between ambition & family
• What do you wish you had known?
• Whats hospitality taught you about life?
• Are you shy?
• Whats next?
• The last guests question

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Sponsors: Huel:

https://my.huel.com/Steven 

Crafted: https://bit.ly/3JKOPFx

In this Moment Daniel Pink opens up on how we can turn regret into our superpower. There is no emotion as forceful or driving to us as that niggling feeling when we didn't get it right. Rather than shut out or deny that emotion, Daniel takes us through step-by-step how we can turn the tables on our own regrets to make sure that we don't make the same mistakes again. Daniel brought such a positive attitude to this recording that our mistakes are opportunities for learning and a teachable moment, not burdens that have to dog us for the rest of our lives. Seeing the hidden power of regret is to realise everything is fixable, mendable and figure out-able.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/7X08IGEEQrb

Daniel:

https://twitter.com/DanielPink?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://www.danpink.com

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Malcolm Gladwell is an author who across his six bestsellers has sold millions and millions of books, and his podcast Revisionist History is listened to by millions and millions of listeners every week.

Malcolm blessed us with his insights on everything on how to deal with regrets to how to keep the memory of our loved ones alive, from America’s mass incarceration crisis to what was Steve Jobs actually good at?

Malcolm’s book, The Bomber Mafia, is out now in paperback, and his podcast, Revision History, is currently releasing its seventh season.

Topics:

• Early years
• How did you learn humility
• When did you know you'd be a journalist?
• The impact location has on your career
• Are people that work too much happy?
• If you could make an amazing contribution to society at the cost of your happiness?
• The key to Innovation is delusion and lucky timing
• The importance of timing
• The power of writing
• Public speaking tactics
• Are you an emotional person?
• Why some relationships last and other don’t
• Feedback & meaningful work
• Why too much information is bad
• Is alcohol bad?
• Last guest question

Malcolm:

https://www.instagram.com/malcolmgladwell/

https://mobile.twitter.com/gladwell

Malcolms book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bomber-Mafia-Story-Set-War/dp/024153500X

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Brian is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, a company thats reached highs of a valuation of $100 billion. After an adolescence and youth searching for independence where no one could be his boss, he’s come a long way, but he’s realised he’s had to change a lot too.

Before anyone had heard of Bitcoin, there was Coinbase. Taking a punt on an industry no one knew and no one understood, Brian quit his lucrative career to be his own man. No one encouraged him. No one. He’d told the idea to hundreds of people before someone told him it could work.

In this conversation, Brian brought a wisdom and a nuance about how to run and build a business like very few conversations we’ve had on this podcast. If you want to know how the best in the world take an idea from drawboard to $100 billion, this is the story of how it happened.

Topics:

• What made you the person you are today
• Lessons learnt from my first business
• How traveling shaped me
• Working for AirB&B and what made it successful
• The mistake a lot of entrepreneurs make
• How to build a sustainable company
• How to incentive your team to take risks
• My journey starting Coinbase
• Mistakes & key learnings when starting up
• Leadership lessons
• Fake news and dealing with it
• No politics in the workplace
• Hiring the best people & layoffs
• What are the ingredients in your happiness recipe

Brian Armstrong:

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong

Thirdweb:

https://thirdweb.com/ 

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In this moment, Karren Brady tells us about how she finds balance in all parts of her life, juggling leading a premier league club with relationships. There is no more relentless entrepreneur than Karren, and no one who works as hard, but there's also no one who cares about their family more. Karren opens up about how constant communication and compromise allows both her and husband the space and the breathing room to live their lives to their fullest potential. Both of them have been so successful because both of them want the other to be successful, and this generosity of spirit is something we can all bring to our own lives.

Listen to the full episode here -  https://g2ul0.app.link/e8DcqM1RErb

Karren:

https://twitter.com/karren_brady?s=20&t=FeA1tytuSw8D0GiMF6LSHA 

https://www.instagram.com/karren_brady_official/channel/?hl=en

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Africa Brooke is a speaker and podcast host, who has built a community that has helped hundreds of thousands of young people navigate the unique pressures of the world today. From binge drinking to cancel culture, sexual empowerment to race and politics - Africa isn’t afraid to speak completely honestly and frankly about anything.

No one has come in to speak to us with as much honesty and vulnerability as Africa. This is a one-of-a-kind conversation that left us speechless.

There's never a topic on Diary of a CEO that’s off-limits, we will always bring you the world’s leading people telling their honest truth. What to make of their opinions is up to you, but as soon as Africa walked through the door of my kitchen to record, any pre-conceptions of what she was about to say were left on the other side. She certainly didn’t hold anything back.

Africa:

Topics:

• Early years - my father
• What is your dark side?
• What was the cost?
• How to break out of a negative reinforcing cycle?
• What do you still self sabotage
• Left vs Right
• Accountability
• Selfawareness
• A journey with sex and sexuality
• What is the pain you enjoy having?
• What ideas do you hold to be true that everyone else disagrees with?
• The ingredient for happiness
• Last guest question

Africa:

https://www.instagram.com/africabrooke/

https://africabrooke.com/

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Chris Eubank Jr. is a boxer on his way to being the best in the world. A journey into boxing like no other, Chris didn’t just have to step out of the shadows of his own demons to make his name in the ring, but out of the shadow of his own father.

But Chris’s journey to the top hasn’t been seamless. He’s been knocked back by some bruising defeats, and - as he explains - by tragedy. When his brother tragically died of a heart attack, Chris’s world almost fell apart.

But it isn’t how you get knocked down, it’s how you get back up. Over and over again in Chris’s life, he’s had to look deep within himself to find his inner strength to match his outward toughness. It hasn’t been easy for him, but he wouldn’t have had it any other way.

Topics:

• Where did your discipline & strength come from?
• Why I never give up
• What made you different from everyone else?
• Are you emotional?
• Have you spoken to your dad about emotions?
• The death of your brother & how it changed you
• Keeping relationships private
• Boxing and its health implications
• Anxiety & online trolls
• What’s next for you
• Our last guest’s question
• 
  

Chris:

https://twitter.com/chriseubankjr

https://www.instagram.com/chriseubankjr/

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this moment, Jimmy Carr walks us through how exactly to find out what it is that's going to bring you happiness, and how to find satisfaction in your life. He tells us exactly how to interpret your actions and interrogate your feelings to bring out your true desires. It took Jimmy a long time to find out what he really wanted from life, and he was nearly trapped by the expectations he and other people put on himself when he felt himself moving towards a corporate life he didnt want. Jimmy set himself free, and in this moment he explains how you can set yourself free too.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/I7QKadbntrb

Jimmy - https://www.instagram.com/jimmycarr/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/jimmycarr?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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Michael Pollan is an author who between his five bestsellers has sold millions of books. Through exploring our connection to the natural world, he reveals sides of ourselves that we never knew we had.

As an author and a journalist, it’s Michael’s job to question everything. But in his 50s he turned the tables on himself and began to question his own assumptions. What followed was a one-of-a-kind journey that took him to explore the nature of his own perception of the world which would take him into trying going caffeine-free and trying psychedelic drugs.

Now, he shares what he’s learnt from that journey with us. Michael’s book, This is Your Mind on Plants, is out in paperback this summer, and his Netflix series How to Change Your Mind drops July 12th.

Topics:

• Follow your passion
• Immersive journalism
• Trying to solve systemic problems with individual acts, BLM & food system
• Caffeine and its impact on us
• Pollination & drugs
• Psychedelics
• Are psychedelics the cure to mental health problems?
• When to do psychedelics
• How to freshen your mind & get out of your comfort zone
• Our last guest’s question

Michael:

https://www.instagram.com/michael.pollan/

https://twitter.com/michaelpollan/

Michael’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Your-Plants-Michael-Pollan/

Michael’s Netflix series:

https://www.netflix.com/title/80229847

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James Watt is the CEO and founder of Brewdog, the Scottish craft beer sensation that is now valued at $2 billion. A former sea captain, he’s had to navigate increasingly choppy waters at Brewdog.

But after a string of allegations rocked the company, ranging from personal impropriety to financial misconduct to marketing scams, James has had to start from scratch in Brewdog’s reputation, and on his own management style. For the first time, James walks us through his mistakes, what he denies, and what he defends.

Where does the line blur between a hard-driving start-up and a toxic culture. It’s a tricky balance many challenger companies have to contend with. James’ is a story where he sailed a little close to the wind, when the revelations dropped it looked like everything he built could slip away. Can he navigate Brewdog back to dry land? He tells us exclusively how he plans to.

Topics:

• Your early years
• Being a sea captain & what it taught you 
• The start of Brewdog
• Your marketing principles
• Adjustments from being a fisherman to CEO of a global company
• Your leadership evolution
• Why don't you step down as CEO?
• Did you ever imagine you’d be here?
• Forgiving your mother for creating 'that voice?
• Punks with purpose letter
• Horrific interviewing techniques
• Why did you invest in Heineken?
• Autism
• Whats the silver lining here?
• Anxiety & therapy
• The future of Brewdog - sustainability
• Finance advice
• The last guests question

James:

https://www.instagram.com/brewdogjames/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/BrewDogJames?s=20&t=wXnTEyTvBKbmeTrXwFFrcg

Shows mentioned Good Ship BrewDog, BBC sounds - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0cfkklv?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

The Truth about BrewDog - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013yfj

Books mentioned:

Ben Horowitz - amazon.co.uk/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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https://bit.ly/3AuPKsA

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this moment, Patricia Bright lays out the benefits - and the potential pitfalls - of following your passion. We always have to stay authentically in touch with what we love to do, and why we love doing it. This moment lays out how people can lose their way in following their passion, and how to avoid it. It’s a rare gem who can persevere with their passion to the point where it’s not only their work, but work they love to do and feel themselves doing. We’re so glad she did, and we think you’ll be glad she did too.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/tPEORY7Uhrb

Patricia - https://www.youtube.com/c/PatriciaBright

https://www.instagram.com/thepatriciabright/?hl=en

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Tony Bellew is a professional boxer and a former British, Commonwealth and World Champion. As well as this, he is also an actor, and the star of Creed with Sylvester Stallone, and the author of last year's bestselling book, Everybody Has A Plan Until They Get Punched in the Face.

In this raw, honest and emotional interview, Tony breaks down exactly why people dedicate their life to fighting, and how it’s often because they have no other choice. But also because it comes to fill a need inside of them, and Tony opens up on what this inner need can do to you if you leave it unchecked.

Many times, Tony has had to bring his life back from the brink - of poverty, bullying, defeats, and his own emotional instincts. His story is a fascinating example of how it’s often things we’re good at that cause us the most trouble, but when we face that honestly we can come through stronger the other side.

Topics:

• What are the most pivotal moments of your childhood?
• Racism & its impact on you
• Your relationship with your father & his prison years
• Street life & lack of role models
• The death of your first trainer & his prediction of your success
• Becoming a world champion
• How much boxers actually make
• Chimp Paradox
• Dealing with grief & depression
• How to deal with hard moments
• Our last guest's question

Tony:

https://www.instagram.com/tonybellew/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/TonyBellew/

Tony’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everybody-Plan-Until-They-Punched/dp/1841884707

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Bear Grylls is a British adventurer and television host who has been an international sensation of survival shows for twenty years. The host of Man vs. Wild, You vs. Wild, Running Wild, The Island, and the author of Mud, Sweat and Tears and over twenty other books, he’s come in to talk to us about his new book - Never Give Up.

Bear has always told himself a story about himself that he’s ‘resilient’, he’s pushed through the toughest challenges the world has to offer - from climbing Everest to surviving in the desert - because he’s told himself he’s the type of person who survives. But now, he reflects to us about the costs of that mentality, and where it leaves you when you come up short.

Bear’s new book is a follow-up to his smash-hit bestseller Mud, Sweat and Tears. He’s spent five years writing it, written every single word himself, and shares some lessons from his life he’s never felt comfortable sharing before. It was a pleasure to read, and a pleasure to speak to him in my kitchen.

Topics:

• Confidence
• Imposter syndrome
• Resilience
• When to quit
• Are we always chasing a bigger challenge?
• Finding your faith
• Climbing Everest was humbling
• Struggling with fame
• Anxiety
• What were your darkest moments?
• What would you say to your father if he was alive?
• The importance of relationships
• Is your career complete?
• Your latest and most special book: What did it teach you?
• Our last guest's question

Bear: 

https://twitter.com/BearGrylls 

https://www.instagram.com/beargrylls/?hl=en  

Bear’s book: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Never-Give-extraordinary-autobiography-phenomenon/dp/

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this moment, Oliver Burkeman tells us about the power of positive, sustainable habits, or as he calls them - 'radical incrementalism'. It's possible that by making just a little change to our daily lives, a change we can really sustain and not just keep up for a few weeks, then the accumulative effects we see over a long period of time can be life-changing. By enabling just little changes in our actions the consequences compound into something truly extraordinary. Oliver's no-nonsense advice shows just how straightforward it can be to unlock transformative positive changes in your life.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/oMWiaQcd6qb

Marisa Peer is a world-leading therapist who specialises in helping people discover their best self, who doubles as a speaker, therapy trainer, and multiple best-selling author of You Are Enough, Tell Yourself a Better Lie and Ultimate Confidence.

Marissa has worked with thousands of people to help them overcome trauma in their lives, sometimes trauma they didn’t even know they had. According to her revolutionary theory, it’s only when people look into their own lives that they can find what’s holding them back in the outside world.

So, look within you. With Marissa we can go on a journey to retell and remould the story we tell ourselves about our own lives and our own journey. With persistence and perseverance, we can begin to tell ourselves a better lie.

Topics:

• Your early years
• Your teachers & techniques
• Stories are what cause us problems
• People living in ignorant bliss
• The Increase in mental health issues
• People putting themselves down
• How do you default to optimism
• Rewiring your thoughts
• Using words to change your actions
• Heartbreak cases
• Mistakes parents make
• Come with a question rather than judgement
• Taking responsibility
• I know who I want to be but I still go against it
• Your triple A process
• The last guest question

Marisa:

https://twitter.com/MarisaPeer

Marisa’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09PRMSBGV/

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Scott Harrison is the founder and CEO of Charity: Water, one of the most innovative non-profit organisations in the world. Bringing the Netflix model to the charity sector, Scott has built a positive community around trying to bring drinking water to the 700 million people who don’t have access to it.

For this episode, we’ve partnered with Charity: Water to ensure that all of the proceeds we receive from it will go towards providing drinking water to the people who need it the most.

The story of how Scott came to lead a global movement in water provision is unlike any other. A former nightclub promoter and owner, he was a user of every type of drug under the sun before he cleaned up his act and started again. Because when he asked himself what was most important, it wasn’t his own pleasure, but helping other people.

Topics:

• Early Years
• Attention seeking & becoming a nightclub promoter
• Being deprived of fun led me into drugs and alcohol abuse
• Death threads & finding my purpose
• Leaving my life and vice behind
• Humanitarian work in Africa and its impact on me
• How did it feel helping people & starting your own charity?
• Promoting clean water for the whole world
• What struggles did the charity face?
• Work-life balance
• The importance of giving and service
• Our last guest's question

To help Scott in his mission, we are donating 100% of the advertising revenue from this episode to help people access clean water. If you’d like to donate also, click here: 

charitywater.org/thediaryofaceo

Scott: 

https://www.instagram.com/scottharrison/ https://twitter.com/scottharrison/ 

Scott’s book: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thirst-Story-Redemption-Compassion-Mission/dp/1524762865/ 

Charity: Water:

https://www.charitywater.org/uk

Mentioned books: 

The Pursuit of God - Tozer, A. W 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pursuit-God-W-Tozer/dp/1940177103

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

With it being Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, I felt it was important in this week’s moment to focus on the importance of checking in with this prevalent topic in our current society. Roman Kemp tells us about the time he nearly lost his life, and how he was saved by a simple phone call from his mother checking up on him. Suffering from depression since he was a teenager, Roman has sometimes had trouble finding balance in his life. Thankfully, no one knew the ins and outs of his struggle like his mother. When she phoned him up asking how he was doing, he gave her an answer she was not expecting. She would never have imagined having to receive something like this from her son. Simple check ups with our friends and loved ones can have much more impact than we ever anticipate. Likewise, being open about our feelings can help to change them if they’ve gone down a bad path. I hope this moment from our conversation will help you to open up with your friends, and make this something normal to talk about.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/ogPdfQtzUqb

Roman - https://www.instagram.com/romankemp/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/romankemp?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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Example is a music artist, producer, writer and rapper who has been leading the way in the music industry for the last 16 years. A trailblazer and an innovator, Example started out as a rapper before moving over into dance, lighting up Glastonbury, Isle of Wight and Global Gathering among many, many other festivals.

After only being able to harness his traumas in order to be successful, he quit his hard-partying rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle and found happiness and balance in his life, and found a way to be happy in his music too.

One of the most popular live performers in the world, Example’s was one of the first shows post-COVID to completely sell out. His new album We May Grow Old But We Never Grow Up is out on the 17th June.

• Early years
• Aspergers
• Your demons
• Wanting to quit music
• Money and fame turning you into a monster
• Hating yourself
• Self medicating
• What made you get out of that reckless phase?
• Advice for someone in a reckless phase
• Spirituality and breath work
• The miscarriage
• Your future
• People thinking you’re no longer making music
• Competing with a former version of yourself
• The new album
• What matters?
• The last guest question

Example:

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/example/

https://twitter.com/Example

https://www.instagram.com/example

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Jane Wurwand is the co-founder of Dermalogica, which revolutionised skincare for millions of people worldwide. One of the first skincare brands when it launched in the 1980s, Jane got people to care about something they didn’t realise was important. Today she finally tells her incredible story in this conversation and in her new book, Skin in the Game.

Jane’s story to self-independence begins when she was in a toxic relationship with a controlling boyfriend, in a strange country she knew little about. She describes feeling the physical hand of her late father on her shoulder guiding her where to go next.

She picked herself up, and with a new partner used her new business as a fresh chapter in her life. Then, her industry was just one clinic in Los Angeles. Now, it’s a chain worth billions. Jane lit the touchpaper on a revolution, and in finding her own confidence, Jane helped millions of others find theirs too.

• How did you become the person you're today
• How did moving to South Africa impact you?
• Starting up as an entrepreneur and moving to LA
• What made you a good entrepreneur?
• Attention to detail
• How to turn your weakness into a strength
• Leadership and decision making
• Dermalogica's journey
• The cost of working hard
• Therapy and finding who you are
• Dealing with insomnia and anxiety
• Allocating time to your true priorities
• Acquisition of Dermalogica

Jane: 

https://www.instagram.com/janewurwand/?hl=en 

Jane’s book:

https://bit.ly/3KfGpqt

Dermalogica:

https://bit.ly/3uWKitZ

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this moment episode, Dr. Julie Smith offers a different way of trying to get to know your own instincts to stop bad habits in their tracks. Through the techniques she offers in this conversation, people can get through a breakup or a rough patch at work without it knocking them back. As she’ll explain, the trick is always to look for patterns in your own behaviour, and the story you tell yourself about your own behaviour, and your own past. Because it’s only when setbacks affect the narrative you tell you about yourself that they can become a trauma. Control the narrative, and your ability to direct the course of your own life comes easily.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/Sew3KrnPIqb

Dr Julie - https://www.instagram.com/drjulie/?hl=en

https://www.tiktok.com/@drjuliesmith?lang=en

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Greg Hoffman is the former Chief Marketing Officer at Nike, and the author of Emotion By Design, a book about how to find emotional ways to tell business stories and connect your ideas through creative storytelling.

Joining Nike when he was just in his early 20s, to becoming one of the most senior people of colour in corporate America, his life story is like no other. Here he tells us not just how to find new ways to get your story across, but delves into his own story as he tells us how he met his real family for the first time only a couple of years ago, and how that felt for him.

Greg is an entirely new voice on how to be a caring leader and deal with the stresses of high-level executive roles. Because when it’s your job to find ways to connect ideas with other people, you first have to connect those ideas to yourself.

Topics:

• Childhood, racism, and finding your voice
• What makes Nike successful?
• How to create a winning work culture
• How do you incentivize risk?
• Necessity sparks innovation
• Creating emotional connections
• Finding the right story & branding to make your business succeed
• Attention to detail
• Advice to become a successful marketer
• Finding out about your biological family
• Our last guest’s question

Greg’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emotion-Design-Creative-Leadership-Lifetime/

Greg:

https://www.instagram.com/ghoff70/

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Reshma is the founder of Girls Who Code, one of the most influential non-profits in the world which has introduced millions of women to coding and the tech industry. She is also the author of Pay Up, a book about how to get women further in the workplace.

Reshma was initially a prophet of the thinking that women could have it all, if only they tried twice as hard as everyone else they could achieve anything they wanted to. Now, she’s changed her mind. Trying to run an organisation with over 500 employees while looking after a young family full-time simply proved too much. Women simply have too much stacked against them having to juggle work and family life to properly pursue their careers without special consideration.

What really stands out about Reshma is the fact that having built an enterprise that was on its way to changing the world, she had the humility to change her mind about major parts of her philosophy. Reshma’s story is one of how to realise and bounce back from your mistakes, no matter who you are or how far you’ve come. It takes a lot of courage to do that, but courage is something that Reshma has never had in short supply.

Topics:

• Growing up as an immigrant
• University dept
• Running for congress
• Starting Girls Who Code
• The difficult parts of building girls who code
• What would you have done differently?
• Fixing the system not the women
• How is your mental health?
• How do you decide what to say yes or no to?
• Empowering women in a practical way
• What does success look like in your future?
• The last guests question

Reshma:

https://www.instagram.com/reshmasaujani/

https://twitter.com/reshmasaujani

Reshma’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pay-Up-Future-Women-Different/dp/1982191570

Girls Who Code:

https://girlswhocode.com/ 

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO. 

This is a favourite moment of mine because its so obviously clear that we should all be taking time for ourselves when we never do. This is a moment from my episode with Jay Shetty, the best-selling author of Think Like a Monk, host of the No. 1 podcast On Purpose and one of the most wise people I have ever met. Very few people can reach into depths of insight on such a wide array of topics like he does. I learnt so many things I didn't even realise I needed to know from this conversation, and I know you will too - this being one of them. Meditation. A difficult one to get on board with. 

We always hear that we must meditate more, but we never really practice it. Why? Because it's too woo-woo, or time wasting. Well here, Jay explains how much meditation can add value to our lives. All we have to do is put a time in our schedule that is time for us. Even if it’s 5 minutes a day, when we get that notification, we have to do something with it. 

The second step of meditation and taking time for ourselves is focusing on our breath. It's wildly underestimated yet it's one of the most important aspects of the human body. Our breath is connected to every single emotion, physicality and mentality.Meditation and breath are the practical tools we all need in our daily lives.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/bATwFLLBwqb

Jay - https://twitter.com/jayshetty?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://www.instagram.com/jayshetty/?hl=en

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Michael Horvath is the co-founder of Strava, the app to track and improve peoples fitness that’s used by millions of people worldwide. It’s his second business success, after he built a thriving online business in the 1990s.

But it hasn’t all been plain sailing for Michael. Initially quitting his first business, he spent several years as a family man before boredom launched him into starting his second. What he didn’t appreciate is that his calling as a family man would come back for him in a way he could never have imagined.

Michael took 5 years off from Strava to care for his wife until her tragic death, and then care for his children in the aftermath of that. When he returned to a struggling Strava as CEO in 2020, he had to build it again from the ground up. It was something he was ready equipped for, because it’s something he’s had to do many times before.

Topics:

• What made you different? 
• What role do you play in keeping life balance within your team 
• Strava's journey  
• How does Strava motivate people to stay healthy and fit? 
• How did the pandemic impact your work community? 
• What were the hardest challenges you faced when starting up? 
• Work-life balance & stepping down  
• What did you learn from the passing of your wife 
• Returning to Strava 
• Difficult moments in Strava

Michael: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtkhorvath/

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Chris Voss is the former lead negotiator for the FBI, and the author of Never Split the Difference, a book about how to negotiate and how to get what you want from other people which has sold millions of copies worldwide. He has handled practically every high stakes crisis management scenario imaginable.

What is unique about Chris’ technique is he emphasises seeing negotiation and deal making as a partnership, not a battle of wills. You only get what you want if you make an effort to understand what the other people really wants, and help them to understand what you want to. Making deals isn’t possible without a base of human-to-human connection.

In this conversation Chris opens up about a number of different type of dynamics we have to negotiate in our daily lives, from romantic relationships to friendships. We also get the inside scoop on what it’s like to handle some of the toughest situations, from bank robberies to hostage crises, anyone can imagine. What he learnt is that managing relations with other people is really about trying to help them, and all of us can do with a little of the help Chris brings us in this conversation.

Topics:

• Early years
• Beginning of your career
• The nature of human behaviour in business negotiations
• The first hostage negotiation job
• Hostage negotiation role play
• How important is it to listen?
• Different tone of voices for negotiations
• “labelling their pain”
• The power of “thats right”
• Negotiations in romantic relationships
• Was there an instants where it didn’t go right for you?
• Mirroring technique
• Black-swan group
• The last guests question

Chris:

https://www.instagram.com/thefbinegotiator/

Chris’ book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/1847941494

Books mention:

Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know  - https://www.amazon.com/Start-Negotiating-Tools-that-Pros/dp/0609608002

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO. 

James Smith is a bestselling author of Not A Life Coach and Not A Diet Book where he combines hard truths and empathy to his fans. He is also a personal trainer and fitness influencer with a unique philosophy that makes his message unlike any fitness advice you’ve ever heard before.

Here he talks about the way ‘out’. Whether that is the way out of a job, a relationship or a situation we are always so hesitant to follow through with our gut instincts. We are all here to live and time isn’t something we can friverously throw away. He mentions the phrase “you’re a long time dead”, and it's something he tells himself regularly. I hope this moment will give you that push to do the thing you’ve been wanting to do. 

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/xtr8UWEKlqb

James - https://www.instagram.com/jamessmithpt/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/jamessmithPT_?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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Tom Bilyeu is the host of Impact Theory, one of the biggest podcasts in the world, and the co-founder of Quest Nutrition, the company that’s now valued at over $1 billion which revolutionised protein bars and supplements and was, for a time, the second highest-growing company in North America.

It took Tom a long time to find something he was good at that he enjoyed. Tom was sleeping on mattresses and friends' floors, now he’s a multi-millionaire. Why? Because he says you can literally remould your brain to what you want.

Laying out his controversial theory in more detail than he ever has before, Tom also goes into how to find personal fulfillment that satisfies YOUR needs, how to take personal responsibility. In a conversation you don’t want to miss, Tom reveals all about his journey to personal happiness, and yours.

Topics:

• How did you become the successful person you are today?
• Anxiety
• How to improve people's mental health
• How do you find fulfillment?
• The importance of personal responsibility
• How do you get out of difficult situations?
• Where are we heading and how would you solve future global problems?
• How to keep a healthy & long term relationship
• Is there a place where you don't feel anxiety?
• Our last guest's question

Tom: 

https://twitter.com/tombilyeu 

https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu

Mentioned books: 

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order - Ray Dalio 

https://www.amazon.com/Changing-World-Order-Nations-Succeed/dp/1982160276/

A Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela 

https://www.amazon.com/Long-Walk-Freedom-Autobiography-Mandela/dp/0349106533/

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Simon Sinek is an author and public speaker, and one of the most interesting thinkers on business in the world today. His books ‘Start With Why’, ‘Leaders Eat Last’ and ‘The Infinite Game’ have sold millions and millions of copies.

In what he describes as ‘my favourite interview’, Simon goes into more detail about how to really run a business with ambition. Simon also opens our eyes about how being vulnerable online is a way to shield ourselves from true human connection.

One of the most thoughtful and inspiring guests to ever grace our show, Simon brings his knowledge and experience to a conversation that will leave you clearer about what issues are really important in the world today, and how they relate to you.

Topics:

• Drifting from your ‘why’
• How do we create continuous goals?
• How do you find purpose in life?
• The importance of assessment from others & nursing personal relationships
• Practical advice to create a culture of seeking feedback from others
• Long term negative impact of lying in your business
• How to make the young generation thrive and stay motivated
• Workplace flexibility
• Steven, what are the reasons you're doing DOAC
• What are you working on next?
• What is your dark side?
• Our last guest’s question

Simon:

https://twitter.com/simonsinek

https://www.instagram.com/simonsinek

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO. 

This week, I’ve chosen a section from my conversation with Mel Robbins. Mel is the author of The Five Second Rule, a business woman, a life coach, and a sensation in the world of self improvement. At a point in her life Mel was really struggling with huge amounts of depression, anxiety, and fear, making it extremely difficult for her to get out of bed in the morning and generally just be present in her life.

This moment describes the method that has changed Mel’s mindset to become who she is today. Mel got herself out of her dark side which saw her marinating in fear and anxiety, using her Five Second Rule. The rule was born from that window of hesitation that comes into our minds before we make a decision, a decision that could define your whole life. Inside that window lives fear, anxiety, procrastination and imposter syndrome, so we create patterns of feeling, patterns of behaviour, and patterns of thinking that tempt us to steer away from making that decision. 

It can be a dangerous cycle getting stuck in these broken patterns of denial so Mel brings this down to one fundamental method. The Five Second rule works because of its simplicity. You make yourself a promise, you count backwards - 5,4,3,2,1 then you do it.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/94zhHbl49pb

Mel - https://www.instagram.com/melrobbins/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/melrobbins?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer of Google X, it’s ‘moonshot’ division behind it’s most exciting and futuristic projects, as well as the author of Solve For Happy, Scary Smart and his new book, That Little Voice In Your Head, where he returns to the theme of happiness which made his last appearance on the podcast such a success.

Mo Gawdat’s first appearance on Diary of a CEO is still my, and I know many of your, personal favourite episodes. This reunion doesn’t disappoint, as we go more in depth and Mo shares his incredible wisdom on how to approach relationships, how to prevent human suffering and how to be at peace with your choices in life.

Mo’s new book, That Little Voice in Your Head, is available from the 26th May. Inspired by the life of his late son, Ali, he has set out to share a comprehensive model for how to achieve happiness, with an emphasis on generosity and empathy towards ourselves and others.

Topics:

• How have things changed for you since last time?
• The signal for you to “move and flow”
• Are you single?
• Recognising phases in your life
• Did you feel like something was missing?
• Why did you decide to write this book?
• What illusions did you live under?
• Our whole lives are a contradiction
• The economics of love
• Money is an illusion
• Not all thoughts are equal
• Changing the shape of our brain
• Masculine and Feminine energy
• Your one selfish request
• The last guest question

Mo:

https://www.instagram.com/mo_gawdat/

https://twitter.com/mgawdat

Mo’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/That-Little-Voice-Your-Head/

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

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Tim Grover is the performance expert who helped to raise the game of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant to the legendary levels everyone knows them for. Taking over Michael Jordan’s personal performance team when he was in his early twenties, he’s been working with the world’s top athletes for over three decades.

No one knows more about winning than Tim. No one knows more about fitness than Tim. No one knows more about mentality than Tim. But Tim also knows about our hidden insecurities, the ones that drive us and we need to use to our advantage.

Tim’s new book, Winning, opens the lid on what it was like to work with two of the greatest basketball players of all time. It is every bit as awe-inspiring as you would expect because none of Michael, Kobe, or Tim was interested in being anything except No. 1.

Topics:

• Confronting and learning from your dark side
• How did you go from a normal job to training Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant?
• Attention to detail and what made you succeed
• What do successful people end up missing?
• Happiness or winning at all costs, what’s the goal?
• What sacrifices did you make during your career?
• Consistency and performing at the highest level
• How to get the best out of teams
• Keeping the right people around you
• Showing up is not winning
• Impact of your work on your family
• Our last guest’s question

Tim:

https://twitter.com/attackathletics?lang=en

https://www.instagram.com/timgrover

Tim's book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Winning-Unforgiving-Greatness-Tim-Grover/dp/1398501905/

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO. 

David Brailsford is the Team Principal of INEOS and is the main behind the ‘marginal gains’ philosophy, which can be applied in life and business more broadly, that paying attention to the tiniest details, no matter how small, can add up and together produce a big difference. He has numerous gold medals and multiple Tour De Frances under his belt to show for his philosophy.

Here David puts us inside the minds of real champions and reveals the best ways to prepare for events and really place ourselves in the moment. Forgetting about the end result and rooting ourselves in the here and now are key. It might sound hard, but David has made it his business to train people for the biggest stages for twenty years. Want to know how it’s done? Let David explain…

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/Ajq3f7OsYpb

Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Matthew Hussey is one of the world’s most renowned experts on relationships and human connection. He’s not only helped thousands of people be more ready to meet the love of their life, but also how to have a meaningful relationship with them when you do.

In this conversation Matthew doesn’t just offer advice, but opens up about how he’s approached relationships in his own life. He freely admits mistakes he’s made, where his approach went wrong, and what he’s learnt.

This is some of the most mature and reflective relationship advice I think I’ve ever heard. Because Matthew doesn’t just specialise in how to prepare for the good moments, but how to deal with the bad ones as well.

Topics:

• Your insecurities
• How do we know when our ego is driving?
• What makes people feel disconnected
• The positive impact of personal responsibility
• The value of lessons learnt from previous trauma
• How to control emotions to bring yourself to a place of peace
• Learning to show vulnerabilities
• Why do partners trying to change us?
• Are you scared of being bored in your relationship?
• Do we have to be in the right place personally for a successful relationship?
• The last guests question

Matthew:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9HGzFGt7BLmWDqooUbWGBg

https://www.instagram.com/thematthewhussey/

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

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Payal is the founder of Classpass, the app that’s helped millions of users find their passion. Her own love of dancing encouraged her to start a business which enabled anyone, anywhere to find something they loved to do.

When Payal’s parents moved to America with no money and no connections, they had to completely start their life from scratch. Payal grew up in a home where her mother often wasn’t home, working late-night shifts to keep her family going. 

How far Payal has come. Today she shares exactly how she got there. The sheer determination with which she ruthlessly sets her goals and priorities, and then systematically chases after them with everything she’s got, was hugely inspiring to me, and I’m sure it will be to you too.

Topics:

• What made you different?
• Batling between your passion and 9-5 job
• Rebelling for your purpose
• Changing careers and finding new communities
• Confidence, purpose, and drive to success
• Why did you start ClassPass?
• What difficulties did you face starting your business?
• Living in line with your values
• What were you like as a manager?
• Why did you step away from Classpass?
• Work and family balance
• Therapy sessions
• Our last guest’s question

Payal:

https://twitter.com/payalkadakia

https://www.instagram.com/payal

Payal's book: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/LifePass-Groundbreaking-Approach-Goal-Setting/dp/1399706756

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/diaryofaceo

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO. 

Jaqueline Gold has been the CEO of AnnSummers for over thirty years, and has had to overcome a lot of demons and obstacles in her life. But the attitude she’s employed to tackle these is nothing short of incredible. In this moment, Jacqueline discusses how shy she first was and she overcame that. She reiterated here that we aren’t born shy. It’s often our situational environments that create and shape who we are later on. No matter how shy or inverted we are, everyone has a fire inside them, an ambition and a burning desire to do what they believe is right. Jacqueline is a great believer that courage comes first, it forces you out of your comfort zone, and when you do this, confidence will come and great things will happen.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/e4eJGthNMpb

Jacqueline - https://jacquelinegold.com https://www.instagram.com/jacquelinegoldcbe/

Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Marcus Buckingham, is one of the world's most in-demand career experts and the author of several best-selling business books including, ‘First, Break All The Rules’, ‘Nine Lies About Work’ and ‘Love + Work’. He is known as the world’s most prominent researcher on strengths and leadership at work, and today leads research at the ADP Research Institute.

Marcus is used to consulting with teams at brands such as Disney, Coca-Cola, Microsoft and Facebook and focuses on strengths versus weaknesses, how to take feedback, how to build on strengths and identify leadership.

From struggling with a stammer in his early teens, to becoming a prolific public speaker, Marcus opens up about how he overcame it as well as touching on many other insightful topics. We talk about how to become a great manager, how to make your employees happy and what a strength really is. I want to thank Marcus for his enthusiasm and true love for what he knows so much about. I hope you will learn something from this because I certainly did.

Topics:

• Overcoming a stammer to become a public speaker
• Starting your journey in Physiology
• How do I know what a strength is?
• How do I ask a good question?
• The biggest predictor of employee satisfaction
• How to manage under performers
• Dealing with people that don't do things the way you do them
• Your book Love + Work
• Should we be dragged by what we’re good at in a job we hate?
• How did you overcome your job challenges?
• Promotions and helping people grow
• How to have a successful relationship
• The last guest's question

Marcus'

book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Work-Find-What-Rest-ebook/dp/B08T24QK35

Marcus:

https://mobile.twitter.com/mwbuckingham

https://www.instagram.com/marcusbuckingham/

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

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• Jessie J is a singer and songwriter who has been singing professionally since she was 11 years old. In 2010 she shot to fame with the release of her first single, Do It Like A Dude. She has since sold millions of records, performed at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics, and been a judge on the talent shows The Voice and The Voice Kids.

This episode with Jessie is a special conversation. She was candid and open about the highs and lows throughout her life, and shared with me some things that she has never voiced before. From her early childhood memories, to the fame and success of her music, to health issues and grief, Jessie spoke with such honesty and tenderness.

But she also talks about how she has enabled herself to break open and embrace the grief that she has stored up and hidden away. Jessie is someone who has always come out fighting, and here she goes into how that’s been possible in a way she never has before. We learn about how to stay grounded as you become famous, especially in the dizzying swirl of Los Angeles. I want to thank Jessie for her honesty and for taking the time to record this episode with me, it will certainly change how you think about a lot of things in life.

Topics:

• My childhood and health problems
• Growth in moments of sadness and pain
• Finding out about your fertility problems
• Dealing with everything hitting you at once
• What would you say to your old self?
• Not knowing who I was
• Were record labels defining who you were?
• Finding the right team for you
• Why did you disappear?
• How did the pandemic impact you?
• Jamal Edwards passing 
• Your miscarriage
• Your bodyguard’s passing
• Do you let people in?
• Love and relationships
• What’s your next chapter?
• Our last guest's question

Jessie J:

https://twitter.com/jessiej

https://www.instagram.com/jessiej

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/diaryofaceo

Sponsors:

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

This week I’m bringing back an episode from August last year with Ali Abdaal; a doctor, business entrepreneur, public speaker and all-round expert. It is important to resurface these ideas about productivity so that we can get the most out of our lives. This was an incredibly engaging conversation, as he tells me how he manages to squeeze every moment from his day. 

Ali mentions here that in order to do our tasks in the most efficient way, we should shift our mindset to think they are fun. This means that we become intrinsically motivated to complete them. One way in which we can do this is change ‘I have to…’ to ‘I get to…’. Shifting our mind to think that something is fun, will make us feel so much better about ourselves once the task is done. 

I also mentioned that when I have my own time to choose when I can be productive, I create time sensitive and task specific blocks in my mind. This helps to create a tick box mentality, and one which I can intertwine with what Ali says here.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/5r583D34Apb

Ali - https://twitter.com/AliAbdaal?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://www.instagram.com/aliabdaal/?hl=en

Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Terry Crews is a NFL player turned film and TV star, featuring in a wide range of hugely successful shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, White Chicks, Everybody Hates Chris and Idiocracy. Escaping his abusive father, and spending decades cultivating his bodybuilder physique and mentality, Terry then broke into the Hollywood scene.

This episode is the Terry Crews we have never seen before. We talk about some extremely deep, raw material and explore his deeply personal story of his childhood which led him into an addiction to appearing outwardly tough. His journey to where he is now is inspiring and the way he speaks about it is so humbling.

Certain areas of his life that became out of control such as violence, sex, relationships, racism, shame, made him learn how to seek control of himself and his environment. His latest book, Tough: My Journey to True Power, is a moving autobiography where Terry faces these insecurities and distressing memories.

Topics:

• What made you the person you are today?
• Domestic violence in your family
• Where did your dad's pain come from ?
• My pornography addiction
• How did porn impact your marriage?
• Cheating on my wife
• Opening up to my wife and its consequences
• Why do men avoid intimacy and vulnerability ?
• What was your lowest moment ?
• Your dad being aggressive in front of your children
• How and why did you change?
• How would your life be if you wouldn't have changed ?
• I was sexually assaulted by a Hollywood executive
• How my dark and bright side came from the same place
• Our last guest's question

Terry Crews:

https://twitter.com/terrycrews

https://www.instagram.com/terrycrews

Terry's book: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tough-My-Journey-True-Power/dp/0593329805/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1651096152&sr=8-2

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

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Piers Morgan is a journalist and television host who hasn't stayed out of the headlines since being made the youngest newspaper editor in Britain when he took over the News of the World at the age of 28, almost 30 years ago. Over the years he has attracted controversy for his disputed tactics in breaking news stories and television interviews. He is also the author of several best-selling memoirs.

His long affinity for journalism has seen him leaving and starting new roles across ITV, CNN and NBC. Some of the shows include Piers Morgan Life Stories, Good Morning Britain, Britain’s Got Talent, and his newest - Piers Morgan Uncensored, beginning April 24 on the new TalkTv. In this conversation we touch subjects of mental resilience, cancel-culture, mental health and veganism.

You may not like it, it may not be comfortable to listen to, but this interview was an important debate which made me think about many of the things we spoke about. Piers believes his voice of common sense, acts as a vital counter-narrative to have in society and encourages us to build resilience, stimulate debate and stop over labelling things.

Topics:

• What made you the person we see today?
• Mental resilience vs mental health
• How did you get ahead so quickly in your career?
• Marketing yourself using controversy
• How have you dealt with your ups and downs?
• What would it take for you and Meghan Markle to make up?
• The effect your media appearance has on your children
• When does Piers Morgan cry?
• Piers Morgan Uncensored
• The last guest's question

Piers:

https://twitter.com/piersmorgan

https://www.instagram.com/piersmorgan/

Piers Morgan Uncensored:

https://www.youtube.com/c/PiersMorganUncensored/featured

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

This week, I have chosen a clip from my episode with Rochelle Humes, who spoke to me so openly about her life, chasing the highest goals like never before. Rochelle has been performing professionally and presenting television since she was in school, and is also the entrepreneur behind innovative hair and skincare brand My Little Coco.

Rochelle found success by being true to herself, and following her instincts. We all know this can be hard to do, so here we talk about how to make those decisions easier. The 51% theory is something that I learnt off Barack Obama at a talk we both did in Brazil. It comes down to if we are always looking for 100% of the facts, data and certainty to get our decisions over the line, it leads to huge procrastination and time-wasting. Getting to that 51% is a much more efficient system, and it reassures us that it will be the right decision to make.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/6bwLmjTyppb

Rochelle - https://twitter.com/rochellehumes?lang=en

https://www.instagram.com/rochellehumes/

Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Lilly Singh is one of the biggest influencers on the planet who was the first woman of colour to have a syndicated talk show on network television, but after it was abruptly cancelled she’s had to start from scratch on what she wants to do and where she’s going.

With over 14 million youtube subscribers and over 11 million instagram followers, the world has always had a keen interest in Lilly’s story. She’s an incredible person who builds from her strong foundation of values, and has had to think increasingly more about what exactly those values are.

This is also the first instalment of The Diary of a CEO: USA, as I caught up with Lilly in California. Over the coming weeks and months, you will get to see some incredible conversations with guests the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Bringing more value, more incredible stories, and more world-beating expertise. Get ready, because this is going to be an unbelievable journey.

• Early Years - Having to prove I was worthy
• The reason for starting Youtube
• What helps you when you’re going through pain
• The skill that made you different
• Why are you wired to be disrupted?
• Do you think you are enough?
• Advice when stuck at a crossroad
• Your late-night talk show
• The impact the criticism had on you
• What happened after your show got cancelled?
• What makes up the foundation of your life?
• Panic attacks, meditation, and breath works
• Struggling to form friendships
• What does success mean to you?
• Relationships and expectations
• What's the hardest question you could be asked?
• The last guest's question

Lilly:

https://www.instagram.com/lilly/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfm4y4rHF5HGrSr-qbvOwOg

Lilly’s book:

https://www.amazon.com/Be-Triangle-Being-Getting-Shape/

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

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Craig David is a singer and DJ who has sold over 15 million records worldwide. With over 20 years in the music industry, he is one of the world’s best-known singers.

But when he found his career falling away beneath him, Craig had to reinvent himself. Coming back with the incredibly popular TS5, Craig has risen to the top, fallen back and then rebuilt himself back to exactly where he left off.

Nothing reveals the truth about yourself more than having it all and (most of it) being taken away. Craig had to dig deep and express what was true to himself, but first he had to find out what that meant.

Topics:

• Your early years
• Your model of relationships
• Growing up on a council estate 
• Your early music influences
• Your rise in music
• How were you dealing with your meteoric rise? 
• Losing yourself 
• Your mental health journey
• Being back and in a better place
• The last guests question

Craig: 

https://www.instagram.com/craigdavid/

https://mobile.twitter.com/craigdavid

Sponsors:

Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

Myenergi - https://bit.ly/3oeWGnl

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO. 

Johann Hari, is the man behind multiple bestselling books speculating on depression, anxiety, happiness, and loneliness. In this clip, we talk about the important role spending time reading plays in our lives. 

We are so absorbed in the information that we see across social media because of the short and fast forms they are presented to us in. Whether that’s twitter posts or Instagram captions, the medium of these messages make us impatient when it comes to reading a book. Johann calls it screen inferiority which diminishes our ability to retain information. 

He explains that instead of skimming (or scrolling) across loads of things, we need to take a bit of time to think about one thing. Slowing down, looking at one bit and spending time thinking about what you are actually reading is how we are going to increase our engagement.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/9vzo9qSXdpb

Johann - https://twitter.com/johannhari101?lang=en

https://www.instagram.com/johann.hari/

Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Lewis is the host of The School of Greatness podcast and the author of The Mask of Masculinity. An icon of American self-development, Lewis’ podcast has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times, and helped hundreds of millions of people.

But the first person Lewis had to help is himself. Someone who always ran towards things that made him feel safe, whether that be towards working out, towards the need to get girls to like him, or away from his trauma.

But an outside injury, and a reckoning with his inside trauma, meant Lewis had to start from zero. What strikes me about Lewis is someone who’s come so far after his life was turned upside down. When his world was spinning around, Lewis saw the way forwards.

Topics:

• Healing my childhood trauma
• What were the dynamics with your parents?
• What was the impact of your dad’s accident on you?
• Importance of communicating with your parents
• Learning the art of emotional regulation / Allowing myself to be vulnerable changed my life
• Why I didn’t compromise my core values (and being honest in your relationships)
• The power of honesty in relationships
• Knowing your values and vision
• Balancing work and relationships
• Biggest killer of relationships
• Overcoming my fear of public speaking
• How do I find meaning and happiness?
• Why does helping people matter to you?
• Our last guest's question

Lewis:

https://twitter.com/LewisHowes

https://www.instagram.com/lewishowes

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/diaryofaceo

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Karren Brady is a businesswoman, Vice Chairman of West Ham, a mainstay on BBC One’s The Apprentice for many years, and at the age of 23 became the youngest person to run a publicly traded company when she was put in charge of Birmingham City Football Club.

Not only was she the youngest person running a football club, but she was also one of the first women to be leaders in the industry. It is hard to imagine not only being one of the youngest people at the club you’re running, but one of the only women too.

What has underlined these advances is incredible energy, dedication and drive. For Karren, breaking glass ceilings and being a first to do things is reachable for everyone, it just means working twice as hard as everyone else.

• Early years
• How independence led me to success
• What made you stand out? What was the skill that made you stand out?
• My first big deal
• What was different about you?
• Importance of being candid in business
• Democracy within your business
• Running West Ham United F.C
• Do emotions compromise your decisions
• Should clubs be more transparent?
• Work and life balance
• Sexism in football and the workplace
• Your relationships
• Is there a need to maintain desire?
• Have you experienced anxiety?
• Feminism & your milestones
• What's your advice to young women

Karren:

https://twitter.com/karren_brady

https://www.instagram.com/karren_brady_official

Sponsors:

Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

Fearne Cotton is an author, presenter and podcast host with a goal to help all of her listeners find their own happy place. In this clip, we talk about one section of her book that hones in on the idea of being more self-compassionate. It's something I’ve spoken about a lot, talking about this voice inside our heads that talks to us. What Fearne says here is that we need to choose what we listen to, and what we focus on.

We need to focus on the stuff that we like about ourselves and the things that we really want to celebrate. It’s a matter of where we put our attention and focus, and that is a hard practical discipline that we need to work on. It’s so important that we learn to become more self-compassionate. I hope listening to Fearne’s episode will move you in the right direction.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/OrX6sjtZEob

Fearne - https://www.instagram.com/fearnecotton/channel/

Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Wretch 32 is a British rapper and the co-founder of Green Machine, a company that specialises in CBD products. One of the leading rappers of his generation, he is noted for his especially personal lyrics that movingly convey his making a better life for himself, as well as his relationship with those around him, especially his mother.

With every line and every bar he wrote, Wretch pulled his way out of his Tottenham estate and the circumstances he was born into. Growing up surrounded by gang conflict, Wretch has had to navigate right and wrong in a world that sometimes seemed upside down.

But what’s fascinating about Wretch is he didn’t move away or let success lead him into a new life. Instead, he stayed in Tottenham. Because he didn’t want success to change him, who his people were, and what was important to him.

Topics:

• Your Early Years
• Your beginnings as an artist
• How did you know you were going to succeed?
• How did it feel to reach your dream?
• Rap culture and materialism
• Staying true to yourself
• Impact of media pressure
• Imposter Syndrome
• Your CBD business
• Working with Def Jam Recordings
• Your relationships
• The modern music industry Influences
• Our last guest's question

Wretch:

https://www.instagram.com/officialwretch32/

https://twitter.com/wretch32

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/diaryofaceo

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Jonny Wilkinson is one of the most famous rugby players of all time. With a career spanning two decades, he has won the rugby World Cup, the Premiership, the Heineken Cup, the Six Nations, and the Top 14.

For all those years, people didn’t really know what drove Jonny. Because when he was playing rugby, Jonny never felt good enough. Even the highest achievements in the sport would hold back his insecurities for only a few minutes.

The journey of how he was able to break this toxic cycle and appreciate himself and the world around him to the full is one of the most inspiring stories we’ve ever heard. Jonny’s own podcast, I Am, is available for download now.

Topics:

• What shaped you into who you are
• Going in search of your identity
• Is your mindset now conducive of a world cup champion
• Your mental health after the World Cup drop goal
• How does someone become all they can be
• Was winning the World Cup really your goal?
• What impact has being open and honest had on your life?
• Your mental health journey
• Are you happy?
• Your partner
• Your drink - Number 1 Living
• Being introspective
• The last guest question

Jonny:

https://twitter.com/JonnyWilkinson

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-am-with-jonny-wilkinson/

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/diaryofaceo

Sponsors:

Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this moment, Jordan Peterson tells us all about the importance of struggle. Presenting his controversial view, he says that we aren't born with our virtues, they're rather forged in adversity. Because it isn’t the destination, it's the journey that takes us there.

What people don't know about Jordan is that he's from a small town, in an oil town where alcoholism is very prevalent. Out of this Jordan had to find himself, forge himself.

The values he lives by today, the vow he took with his wife never to lie to her, the desire to conduct himself with integrity in all his actions, aren't abstract concepts, they're hard taught lessons.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/pVhukOYjQob

Jordan - https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://www.jordanbpeterson.com

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Daniel Pink is the best-selling author of books that show the hidden ways to motivate yourself and those around you. He’s the man behind Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, To Sell Is Human and Free Agent Nation. His new book is all about The Power of Regret.

Daniel was still in his 20s when he’d risen to be the chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, but he walked away from it all with no idea what he wanted to do next. He decided to bring his wisdom to all of us with his best-selling books.

Do you think regret is bad? Wrong. In his new book, Daniel shows how we all need regrets in our lives to guide us through how to bounce back from our mistakes, as well as appreciate our highs. This unconventional view might prove to be exactly what you need.

Topics:

• Where do your skills come from?
• How to be consistently motivated
• Manifestation
• How to keep people motivated
• How to fuel purpose
• The skill of sales
• The secret to pitching
• The type of sleeper you are
• The Power of Regret
• Counterfactual Thinking
• Me & Daniel: Sharing our regrets
• The power of experimentation and failure
• The last guest’s question

Daniel:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Regret-Looking-Backward-Forward

https://twitter.com/DanielPink

https://www.instagram.com/danielpink

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Rangan Chatterjee is the host of the Feel Better, Live More podcast, author of The Four Pillar Plan and Feel Better in 5, host of BBC One’s Doctor in the House, and a doctor unlike any you have heard or seen before.

Because what Rangan cares about is an all-encompassing concept of your health, not just if you are well. Disillusioned with the priorities of medicine and the healthcare industry, Rangan struck out on his own to to try ways not just to make you feel better, but be the healthiest version of yourself.

Rangan’s new book is Happy Mind, Happy Life, where he opens up about the defining moments in his journey like never before.

Topics:

• Your early years
• What invalidated you when you were younger?
• How do you find what you actually want in life?
• What happiness really is - The three core pillars
• Hoe does one build self awareness
• How changing your perspective makes you happier
• Being a victim
• Taking time to reflect
• Morning routines
• The importance of sleep
• The moment your child became ill
• What is your mission now?
• The dangers of being lonely
• The last guests question

Rangan:

https://drchatterjee.com/

https://www.instagram.com/drchatterjee/

https://drchatterjee.com/\

Rangan’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Happy-Mind-Life-Simple-Great/

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO. This week, I want to bring back to you a section from this incredible conversation I had with Stephanie Romiszewski, an experienced sleep physiologist and expert in developing bespoke treatment plans for sleep problems. Here we discuss the common misconceptions many people have about sleep, including the much perceived importance of getting those 7 or 8 hours of sleep a night. Her main piece of advice denotes that perfection is the enemy of the good; dictating our bedtime is the worst thing we can do to ourselves, and instead we should focus on the quality over the quantity of sleep and never expect to get that solid 8 hours that we have all been told to get.  Finding a reasonable sleep routine, and maintaining it will allow our bodies to regulate and rest, which will eventually train the brain to use our sleep window as a sleep opportunity. Such an overload of misconceptions can go wrong, and cause even more panic for people who have become crippled by their sleep patterns. We often forget how efficient our bodies are, so we need to stop worrying about sleep debt and instead focus on a good routine.Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/OrX6sjtZEob Stephanie- https://twitter.com/sleepyclinic https://sleepyheadclinic.co.uk/stephanie-romiszewski-sleep-expert/ Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Diplo is a DJ and music producer, who as well as being one of the biggest solo DJs in the world, is one half of Major Lazer and Silk City. His new album ‘Diplo’ is out now.

But when Diplo was growing up in the deep American south, the music world seemed a million miles away. A journey to expand his horizons and connect with new types of people and music would take him to Brazil, Japan, Jamaica and many, many more places.

DJs like Diplo are in the business of creating unforgettable moments and experiences for their audience, but what is it like to live those moments nearly every day, every time in a new city, every time in a new way?

Topics:

• Your early years
• What drove you to follow your passion?
• Faking being a DJ
• How travel and culture shaped your music
• How do you anticipate a hit record?
• Whats been the cost of your obsession?
• Your journey with mental health
• Your family
• How do you handle the highs and lows?
• Your new album
• Balancing relationships and being on the road
• Our last guest question

Diplo:

https://www.instagram.com/diplo/

https://open.spotify.com/album/2Lm2otWdTB4ChDfvbRXHIu

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Jaackmate is the host of the popular Happy Hour podcast and a youtuber with over one million subscribers. From humble beginnings in Norwich to one of the largest internet personalties working in Britain today, Jack has had a hell of a ride.

But more thought goes into Jack’s comedy and its targets than you might think. Because Jack doesn’t just mock anyone, but is always interrogating himself as to whether he’s mocking the right targets, and whether there’s a sufficient ‘why?’ to everything he does.

His ride to the top hasn’t been easy either, and Jack has had to overcome challenges he never expected along the way. From anxiety to dealing with criticism, Jack gives us the truth about inventing, and then reinventing, yourself on the internet.

Topics:

• Your early years
• Your fake Youtube persona
• Your YouTube journey and losing motivation
• Does money buy happiness
• Imposter syndrome
• Why stopped posting on Youtube
• Have you ever thought about the person on the other side of your criticism?
• Happy Hour Podcast
• Health Anxiety
• Your partner
• Whats the reason you’re sitting here today?
• The last guests question

Jack: 

https://twitter.com/Jaack?s=20&t=vmSg7Y60pTpQcFOWvrd8mg

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0BjnjltT8FEZyN3Iw5mN0Q  

The rapper NF that Jack Refers to https://www.youtube.com/c/NFrealmusicvideos/videos

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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this one, I’m taking a section from Steve Peters, a doctor, psychiatrist, professor and mental coach for the world's top athletes and business leaders. Here he shares his wisdom about how we can form healthy habits and ways in which to maintain them. He explains that habits can be formed both consciously, based on our belief system, and unconsciously, the ones we aren’t knowingly thinking about. When we look to battle those good habits from the bad, it is not straightforward, and they need to be subdivided. 

Steve is the author of “The Chimp Paradox”, which has sold millions of copies worldwide and put forward the groundbreaking ‘Chimp model’ for understanding how our brains work. The model focuses on the 3 parts of the brain and he talks briefly about one of them here. The ‘Chimp’ which is our desire to be irrational, emotional, impulsive and short-term. Basing habits on our beliefs and experiences is letting the Chimp make those decisions, and sometimes we need to connect the other parts of our brain; the ‘Human’ and the ‘Computer’ to manage and control the interaction they have with habits.

Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/wyvTqTz7sob

Steve - https://chimpmanagement.com/professor-steve-peters/

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Israel Adesanya is the reigning UFC Middleweight champion, and one of the meanest fighters in the world right now. But in this conversation Israel gives a glimpse on what really drives fighters on, because Mixed Martial Arts isn’t just a physical contest, it’s a mental one too.

Moving from Nigeria to New Zealand when he was still a child and different from other children in his class, fighting was Israel’s path out of bullying, seclusion, and low self-confidence. But winning alone hasn’t brought Israel happiness, in this episode you’ll find out what it’s REALLY like to be UFC World Champion.

He’s so much more than that kid with a dream now. An international phenomenon, Israel brings us the exclusive on his path to the top like he’s never told it before.

Topics:

• Your early years
• Impostor syndrome
• Your great depression
• Do you worry about what happens after all this is over?
• How have you dealt with fame
• Social media mob mentality
• Bening cancelled
• How do you balance personal life and work?
• Keeping the right people around you
• What drives you now?
• Are you happy?
• The last guests question

Israel:

https://twitter.com/stylebender

https://www.instagram.com/stylebender/

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• Why do you write about happiness?
• Happiness and meaning
• Embracing our limits 
• Why do we put our happiness on the future? 
• Pursuit of efficiency 
• Living up to your external reputation
• Procrastination
• How to prioritise
• The water melon problem
• Why self analysis is so important
• Why do we purse ambition over happiness
• We’re addicted to the speed of life
• Embracing small changes
• Embracing our irrelevance
• A question from your book
• The last guest question

John Caudwell is one of the richest people in the UK, for many years he has been the UK’s highest-paying taxpayer. Making his money on the back of the mobile phone revolution, he is worth £3 billion.

And he has built his fortune from nothing. Growing up in a sometimes unstable household, John ran his first business while working full time as an apprentice mechanic. His energy and drive sustained him throughout his money-making journey.

But this single-minded determination came at a cost. He sacrified friends and a social life, and has called his experience founding Phones 4u “twenty years of grief”. Perhaps no one has been more open with me about what it took to build their empire, and what it ultimately took from them. 

Topics:

• Your early years 
• What techniques have helped you become self-aware?
• Criticism vs recognition with employees 
• What skills made you great in business? 
• How does one build resilience 
• Your hardest moments in business 
• What was the cost of building businesses?
• When was the moment you decided to give away your wealth?
• Your child falling ill
• What have you learnt about what actually matters?
• Romantic relationships
• The last guests question

John:

https://www.instagram.com/johncaudwell/

https://twitter.com/JohnDCaudwell

Caudwell Children:
https://www.caudwellchildren.com/

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• Your early years
• Getting into presenting
• Your documentary - male suicide
• How have you found being in the spotlight?
• Do the super stars you meet seem happy?
• Your romantic life
• Looking forward to your future 
• How are you doing?
• The last guest question

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Dr. Julie Smith is a clinical psychologist with over 3 million followers on Tiktok, as well as the author of the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? Before she was famous, she practised therapy for over fifteen years with the NHS and the Ministry of Defence. 

Julie offers practical advice to her millions of followers on everything from how to lead a meaningful life, to how to cope and what to do if you find yourself mentally struggling, to how to find motivation. Julie has something for everyone. 

Julie’s new book is not designed to be read in its entirety in one go, but instead is packed with applicable and real-world advice for a wide range of problems. The reader can digest as they need it. Julie has helped millions of people, and she dropped in to tell me about her plan to help millions more. 

Topics:

• What made you want to help people?
• How did a therapist make it onto tiktok? 
• Dealing with rejection
• The consequences of having a big platform
• Having the right values & goals
• How do we make meaningful change?
• How do I change my mood? 
• How important is sleep?
• How to stay motivated 
• What is the cure for overload? 
• The balance of embracing emotions vs ignoring them
• The stigma around addressing a situation
• How do you build confidence
• How important is it to not make decisions in high emotion moments?
• Building self esteem by having a good relationship with failure
• Using our breathing to manage anxiety 
• Is it important to understand we’re going to die?
• The importance of relationships
• Are you happy?
• The last guest question

Julie’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241529719/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_V6BCCKNCQY8W6WBHK8W9

Julie:

https://www.tiktok.com/@drjuliesmith

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Matthew Hancock is the MP for West Suffolk, the former Secretary of State for Health, and was responsible for leading the country through the COVID-19 pandemic until his time as Health Secretary was brought controversially to an end in summer 2021. 

For the first time, Matt speaks candidly on what it was like to lead a country through a once-in-a-century pandemic, and the circumstances surrounding his resignation. When I started this podcast, I wanted to bring you conversations that allow us to see behind the scenes, to give the context and this conversation is no different. You do not have to agree with Matt but I think after this episode today we will have the answers we’ve all been waiting for. 

This is not your typical political interview. This is a conversation that definitely needed to happen.

Topics:

• Why did you want to have this conversation here?
• Your early years
• Diversity in politics 
• Why did you get into politics and why would you want to?
• How can you be the minister for all these different areas?
• You running for Prime Minister 
• When covid hit 
• What was your life like at that time?
• If you’d known a pandemic would roll in would you have taken the health secretary job?
• The care home mistake 
• Isn’t our high number of deaths an indicator that wrong decisions were made?
• The first vaccine - showing your emotions
• The CCTV footage 
• The parties at number 10 
• Dominic Cummings
• Your Dyslexia campaign 
• Do you feel like you’ve addressed what you wanted to from this conversation? 
• The last guest question    

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James Smith is a bestselling author of Not A Life Coach and Not A Diet Book, and a personal trainer and fitness influencer with a unique philosophy that makes his message unlike any fitness advice you’ve ever heard before. 

James combines hard truths, he’s not afraid of saying words like ‘fat’, and an extra level of connection and empathy with his clients, he begins by asking them how many hours a week they can commit, and works around them. He has high expectations that work around you.

James is a special guy, and he didn’t hold back in this conversation. Fitness is a world where there’s a lot of bad advice, a lot of contradictory opinions, and it can be hard to tell the wood from the trees. For the plain facts on how to take your fitness to the next level, James is the fitness expert for you.

James:

https://www.instagram.com/jamessmithpt

https://twitter.com/jamessmithPT

James’ book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Life-Coach


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• Your early years
• How to deal with subconscious behaviour patterns 
• The Importance of surrounding yourself with good values
• You’re a very good quitter 
• Why do people label themselves in a certain way?
• Meditation
• Where do people start with Meditation, breathing techniques
• Good fear & bad fear 
• What do we want to improve personally?
• What can I do to have an impact on someones life?
• What do we require for a happy life?
• Your partnership with Calm
• Why was Jay Shetty successful?
• The last guests question

• Your early years
• Your Dad & your family
• The Saturdays
• Starting your business - My Little Coco 
• Black maternity scandal
• Relationships
• Fiver year plan and deciding to manage yourself
• Making tough decisions
• The last guests question

• Your early years
• Starting my first business - Firebox 
• My second business - Perplex City 
• My third business - Moshi monsters 
• The start of Calm
• Calm helping people sleep
• Misconceptions around sleep
• Tough times for you this year
• What you are doing now to change?
• Your relationships
• The foundations of good communication 
• How accurate is the 'hippie' stigma that comes with mindfulness? 
• Do you feel the good you've done in the world?
• Psychedelics curing mental health
• Our last guest question

• Your early years
• Imposter syndrome
• The consequences of acting
• Depression and panic attacks
• Making the decision to leave radio one
• Learning to have self compassion
• We aren’t our thoughts
• Women talking about their success
• What brings you meaning in your life
• Vision for Happy Place
• The last guests question

• Your early years
• Getting into cycling
• Helping people find their motivation
• C.O.R.E
• First principles
• Forgetting about the result
• How to build motivation after victory?
• How to make tough decisions
• Marginal gains 
• The cost of your obsession
• Your cancer scare
• Undergoing Heart surgery
• Individual approach vs team approach
• Struggling with failure 
• The last guests question

• Why did you write about focus
• What is the cost of losing our attention?
• Social Media
• Flow States
• What is the harm of interruption?
• The lack of sleep we all seem to be getting
• The importance of reading physical books
• Negativity bias
• Angry humans in an angry machine
• Is there hope?
• Food is messing up our focus 
• Our last guests question

• Speaking my truth - the consequences of acting
• How do you become who you want to be? 
• How do you build self-awareness?
• Whats the importance of struggle?
• Remote working
• What do we learn from change? 
• How do I encourage someone out of despair? 
• How are you doing?
• Our last guest question

• Your early years
• Co-founders
• Developing yourself personally & within Gymshark
• The Worst Character traits in business
• Learning how to speak in front of people & a camera
• Why are you vlogging inside gymshark?
• Gymshark through the pandemic
• What do you wish you knew sooner in business?
• Struggles with business personally
• The future of Gymshark
• Advice for young entrepreneurs  
• The last guests question

• Your early years
• Pickup artistry 
• Rejection and self worth in relationships
• Fundamental characteristics of a good relationship 
• Trying to find purpose 
• Why you have to treat people well
• How to figure out what you actually want
• The values that allow you to be fulfilled
• Personal responsibility
• Is happiness a choice?
• Mental health 
• Finding your new why
• The last guests question

• Your early years
• How do you balance your time?
• Love Island & wanting more
• Your social life
• What are the downsides to your success?
• How do you switch off?
• How do you stay relatable?
• Are you happy with all of this?
• The decision to remove the filler from your face 
• Impostor syndrome
• Money and finance lessons from all of this
• Pretty Little Thing - Creative Director role
• The break-in to your home
• Do you miss your old life?
• Whats it like being a women in business? 
• Tommy and your relationship
• Whats next for you?
• The last guests question
• Advice to a younger Molly Mae

• Your family
• Why you ultimately became a comedian
• Dealing with the high of comedy shows compared to normal life
• Getting into stand up 
• What are the key things that got you here?
• How does the laugh impact you
• Looking for the 'bit' in everything
• How do negative reviews impact you?
• Impostor syndrome
• Mental health implications and using fear as a motivator
• Therapy
• Your pre show rituals 
• The lowest moment of your life
• What would happen if you could never write a joke again?
• Are you happy?
• Your Netflix special 
• The last guests question

• What made you into who you are today? 
• The biggest flaw in the human design
• Dealing with anxiety my whole life  
• The layers of healing
• The 5 second rule
• The high five habit
• Manifestation and visualisation
• Understanding when you’re ‘stuck’ 
• The last guests question
• Do you still struggle with everything you talk about?
• Finally understanding why I do what I do 

• Humble beginnings
• Entrepreneurship
• Starting Starling bank & clashes with Tom at Monzo
• Raising funding
• What have you learnt about raising investment?
• Managing your emotions when running Starling
• Work life balance - maintaining relationships
• Key advice you would told your younger self
• Our last guests question

• Your early years
• Mental health and online connections
• Fatherhood
• Atheism
• Leaving the corporate world for comedy
• Find purpose and knowing you’re enough
• Whats happiness?
• Hard work
• Branding 
• Tax avoidance - anxiety and depression  
• Losing your virginity at 26 
• NLP - Neuro-linguistic programming 
• The last guests question

• Your early years
• Child abuse
• Your brother
• Toxic masculinity 
• What does football mean to you
• Joining Manchester United
• Sir Alex Ferguson
• You and Luis Suarez
• Being the best person you can be
• The last guests question

• Where do I best focus my time?
• Important character traits to build a successful business. 
• How to overcome imposter syndrome.
• How to reach out to senior level people.
• Three things to look out for to know you’re on the right path to success.
• What gets you out of bed in the morning.

• What is it about you that made you rise to the top?
• What role has luck played in your success
• How did your world change after you blew up 
• Impostor syndrome
• Criticism and internet trolling
• Insecurities 
• Anxiety, not fitting in & being bullied 
• Mental health 
• Are you at your happiest working?
• Are you happy?
• Starting a brand
• Question from previous guest

• Why did you write a book about happiness?
• The passing of your son Ali
• What is the cause of unhappiness
• Is happiness a choice?
• Why my brain is not me
• Time - The importance of being present
• The last thing Ali told me
• No one would rewrite their history
• How do I know which ambitions to follow?
• Gratitude
• Conditional love vs unconditional love
• Romantic love
• The greatest pandemic of our time
• Our question segment

• Your early years - a traumatic childhood
• Being a shy person
• Using work as an escape 
• Physical consequences from emotional trauma
• How hard times have shaped me - Breast cancer 
• The importance of being optimistic - The pandemic
• AnnSummers - your journey
• Receiving a bullet in the post
• Discrimination as a female CEO
• Putting a stop to a bully culture
• Your relationship with money
• Your worst day in business
• Your partner
• The passing of your child - IVF treatment
• Being poisoned by your nanny
• Your conclusive life advice
• Our new question segment 

• Your early years
• The gym & moving to New York
• The start of Bliss
• Attention to detail and maintaining a high standard
• What is it about you that made you successful
• Can you teach people to have good ideas
• Selling Bliss
• Starting Soap and Glory
• Coming up with new ideas
• Why was Soap and Glory so successful and selling it
• Having an entrepreneurial partner
• The death bed test
• Choosing yourself rather than others choosing you
• What are you playing for now
• Failures 
• Advice for people of where to start

• Your early years 
• Challenging your employees
• The start of Klarna
• The painful moments of Klarna
• Your relationship with money as a billionaire
• The death of your father
• Becoming a father yourself 

• Being an entrepreneur 
• Starting a business - Moon Pig
• Stepping back from MoonPig and hiring people  
• Your personal sacrifice 
• Maintaining Focus
• The importance of being able to communicate well 
• Dragons Den
• Selling Moonpig
• You seem very balanced 
• The next chapter of your life
• What to do if you don't like your job? 
• Being happy with where you are

• The basis of your work 
• Mental health 
• The chimp brain 
• How do we understand what drives us?
• How do we manage our emotional reactions?
• Stress & Alcoholism
• Forming habits 
• What does an everyday person do without you?
• Fear of failure 
• Setting your state in the morning 
• Gratitude

• Your early years 
• Building confidence & practicing gratitude 
• Playing out your dream to the detriment of myself 
• Hard work
• What made you go after your calling?
• How do you maintain meaningful relationships?
• Money
• How do you enjoy aspects outside the excitement of YouTube? 
• Your growth on Youtube
• The biggest misconceptions of you as a Youtuber
• What are your motivations now?

1. Consistency 
2. Getting your podcast discovered
3. Maintaining a high quality of work
4. Money
5. Why I started and new reasons to keep going

• Your early years 
• Losing orientation in your life 
• The Not On The High Street story 
• Optimism in business
• Hiring for a business 
• Losing myself within the business 
• Leaving not on the high street and 59:48 59:48 rediscovering myself 
• Helping people create a good-life business 
• Do what you love, love what you do

• Your early years
• Feeling out of place 
• Turning your hobby into a job 
• How did you find the confidence to shift careers 
• Being an influencer
• Being a woman on social media
• Finances - your new project
• Whats it like working with your husband?
• Your stalker
• Whats next for you?
• The underlying principles that made you successful 

• Where do you come from?
• What factors made you break out of your environment 
• what were your dreams for the future? 
• The key moments of failure in your life 
• Getting to know your shadow 
• The force thats driving you 
• The best and worst parts of your leadership style 
• The most key moment from all your films 
• Your relationship with money 
• Whats the importance of being your true self? 
• Romantic Relationships 
• How has your parents relationship affected you?
• What does the future look like for you? 
• In your view whats your potential? 

• Your early years
• What made you take on this industry? 
• Your riders being discriminated against 
• The name of the company at the start 
• Your co-founder
• What were some of your hardest challenges? 
• Your mental health journey  
• One of my hardest moments in Delieveroo 
• What do you do to relax? 
• Challenges of having a romantic relationship as a CEO 
• Delieveroo's IPO journey 
• I still do deliveries 
• Your thinking around competition
• Money 
• What are you aiming for? 

• Your early years 
• The rise of True Geordie 
• The fall of True Geordie
• You Mother
• Your Dad
• Your experiences with anxiety 
• Your depression
• You never relax
• Attaching your happiness to a future goal
• What the cost of being ambitious? 
• Whats the big ambition?
• Do you get the credit you deserve? 
• Do you think you’re happy?
• Reaching my goals or at least trying to
• How has fitness been for your mental health?
• You stopped podcasting & turned off comments?

• Why entrepreneurship?
• What made you want to disrupt an industry?
• Monzo & Starling rivalry 
• Starting Monzo
• Wanting to be seen to be a success
• What were the good times at Monzo?
• What were the bad times at Mozo?
• Was the business model of Monzo bad?
• Leaving Monzo
• Not sleeping because of the stress of the business
• How was holding down a relationship while running the business?
• The “red phone” in your bedroom
• What was your life like outside of the business? 
• The road to leaving Monzo
• The urge to go back
• Death Threats
• Enjoying the small things in life and relationships
• Your purpose in life
• Crypto currencies
• The good things about being a CEO

• Your early years
• Your most painful moments
• Remote working
• Losing myself in the madness
• Labelling your sexuality 
• Listing to your intuition
• Advice for the younger generation
• So you don’t get excited either?
• Making businesses kinder
• What does it mean for businesses to be kinder?
• Meditation 
• Have you struggled with relationships because of business? 

• How do you define success 
• Mindset
• Failure & moving out of your comfort zone
• The importance of creating diversity
• How do we create innovation within teams?
• Social media, how do I keep up?
• Human psychology 
• What stops people reaching their full potential?
• Whats the biggest things you're a contradiction on
• Wokery & cancel culture
• How does one find confidence and self-belief?
• How to become a better leader  

• Lockdown & the gym
• Dealing with being famous
• Your relationship status
• Being a perfectionist
• Alcoholism
• One Direction & the costs
• Your NFT project
• Where would you be if you hadn't gone on X-Factor 
• Your relationship with the rest of boys & touring
• I am lucky to be here, have I hit my rock bottom
• You made a movie?
• What does the next 10 years looks like for you? 
• Your relationship with money
• Your son applies to X-Factor what do you say?
• What don’t we know about you?
• Social media
• What makes you happy? 
• What's your next ‘mountain’?

• Why do you like writing books? 
• Rat Park
• Working from home, living through screens 
• Finding meaning within the machine
• Are we struggling to form meaningful connections  
• How good are you at making connections
• Psychedelics 
• Is Social media helping us rally together  
• Your new book & your writing style
• Social media

• Where does your thirst for challenge come from? 
• Overthinking & building confidence 
• conforming 
• I don't know if I'll ever find who I really am 
• Money value 
• Social media and Trolling 
• Wokness 
• Failure, self doubt and self belief
• Your wife, preventative marriage concealing 
• Anxiety and looking for happiness 
• What is your goal? 
• Are you scared of dying? 
• Have you got any regrets? 
• Advice for unconfident people