As the product of immigration, integration, and innovation, Desh Amila is a Documentary Filmmaker and a Serial Entrepreneur who founded This Is 42 and Think Inc. His life mission is to make being intelligent cool.
In this conversation, Allie and Desh explore:
- His journey from growing up in Sri Lanka and living through a civil war for over 2 decades to moving to Australia and becoming an entrepreneur, entertainer, and educator on a global scale
- How Desh is out to revolutionize the ultimate cool — intelligent conversations — and how this vision started by running large scale events for hip hop and R&B artists
- Desh's passion for ‘edutainment’ — part education and part entertainment — and how he creates global movements led by scientists, philosophers, and the greatest thinkers of our time around this concept
- How progress has happened throughout history in 2 ways — violence and conversation — and why now is the time to advance humankind and lead societal change through civil dialogue
- Tools for productive conversations with people and communities we fundamentally do not agree with
- The truth about overnight success: it takes over a decade of hard work to create it
- The keys to living a life full of confidence, drive, and freedom
- Desh’s second documentary Better Left Unsaidabout the current polarizing environment of politics
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This episode was co-produced by Lucca Petrucci and Allie Nunzi mixed and mastered by Alec Kwo.
