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Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#91 Jessica Rolph: Lovevery & the importance of early life & child brain developmentIn this episdoe, we are speaking to serial entrepreneur and category creator Jessica Rolph. She is the co-founder and CEO of Lovevery, a child development company helping parents feel confident they are making the most of each learning stage.
Lovevery has won awards from TIME Magazine, Fast Company, Red Dot, and Parents' Choice. In 2021, Lovevery generated more than $100 million in subscription with recurring revenue growing by more than 100% year-on-year. Lovevery closed $100M in Series C with a valuation of $800M.
Before Lovevery, Jessica was the co-founder of Happy Family, where she helped lead to become th...2024-08-2932 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#090 Taya Stapelfeldt: Trauma & the body's intelligence - mastering your innate powerIn this episode, we are speaking to Taya Stapelfeldt - a somatic leadership coach, mentor and embodiment trainer for women who want it all - a soul partner, motherhood and a purpose-drive, flourishing business. Her unique approach to somatic mastery combines many years of spiritual practice with leadership coaching, mindset, movement, breath and energy work that enables clients to transform at every level.
She is called ‘the woman with the key’ who has ‘direct access to the truth’, where the essence of magic can be felt working with her because there is an element of the unexplainable with her...2024-07-3145 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#089 Peggy Chan: Zero Foodprints Asia - Eating our way out of the climate crisisIn this episode, we are speaking to Peggy Chan, WFPB Chef-Restaurateur, social entrepreneur, systems educator and Executive Director at Zero Footprint Asia. Previously she ran the most successful plant-based restaurant in Hong Kong - Grassroots Pantry. She’s on a mission to scale traceable, regenerative and circular food systems in Asia.
Over the years Peggy has emerged as one of the region’s most authoritative voices on organic sourcing and systems thinking design. She is an alumni of Global Shapers Hong Kong, World Economic Forum, an active member of the Chefs' Manifesto SDG2 Advocacy Hub, a two time...2024-04-1033 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#088 Lilly Gilbert: Can this continue? The decade that matters. Feeding a global population & staying positive.In this epsiode, we are speaking to Lilly Gilbert, Chief Sustainability Officer at Mandala Club and the co-founder of the Circular Community Singapore and UK.
Lilly is a sustainability professional and impact investor with over 15 years of experience in the private sector and for NGOs across Europe and Asia.
She advises on on carbon, waste and sourcing strategy, and helps companies develop their sustainability agenda, embed it in operations and communicate it to customers.
We talk about true cost accounting, the challenges and opportunities in feeding a growing global population, why we need to b...2024-03-2738 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#087 Dan Sherrard-Smith: How green is your money? Fund the future you wantIn this episode, we are speaking to Dan Sherrard-Smith the Founder & CEO of MyMotherTree, the world's first money carbon calculator. They help businesses and individual to maximise their impact by greening finances - so that we can fund the future we want.
This is such an important topic because when we include financial emissions, the average carbon footprint for an SME doubles!
Previously Dan built Look After My Bills that achieved the best-ever deal on Dragons' Den.
We talk about how we can decarbonise businesses and individuals money carbon, which pockets of money an...2024-03-1328 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#086 Osprey Orielle Lake: how to remake a world in crisesIn this episode, we are speaking to author, activist, and changemaker Osprey Orielle Lake. She is the founder of Women's Earth and Climate Action Network( WECAN), sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
She works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean energy future.
We talk about the legal system we need to protect nature, why indigenous people a...2024-02-1437 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#085: Arizona Muse: From super model to climate activist - fashion as a climate solutionThis week we have a special episode, a fireside chat I moderated during our recent Conscious Festival in Singapore with the ever-inspiring Arizona Muse on the topic: fashion as a climate solution.
Arizona Muse, credited as the new face of American fashion nay Vogue, has graced the cover of over 40 international Vogue magazines.
But through the glitz and glam, she has kept her feet on the ground, figuratively and literally—in the soil—and has found that that has resonated the most.
Her life’s mission is to raise awareness about the climate emergency...2024-02-0139 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#084 Angela Sim and Lynn Yeo: From banking to toilet paper, the Cloversoft story - making sustainability convenientHey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. Thank you for being one of our listeners in 88 countries around the world.
Today we are speaking to Angela Sim and Lynn Yeo the founders of Cloversoft. Founded in 2014, Cloversoft is committed to creating and producing toxin-free and eco-friendly daily consumables for sustainable living at affordable prices for all. The two are both prestige 40 under 40.
In this episode, we talk about how the duo went from banking to creating toilet paper, and a sleuth of sustainable household products after, the toxic load of pro...2024-01-1736 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#083 Minister Grace Fu, Darian McBain, Esther An, and MJ Kong: on changing the narrative on climate futuresThis is a special episode, a panel discussion I moderated during our recent Conscious Festival in Singapore on changing the narrative on climate futures. We had an all-star, all-female panel with:
> Minister Grace Fu - Minister for Sustainability and the Environment
> Esther An - Chief Sustainability Officer of City Developments Limited - one of TIME 100 Climate, an SDG Pioneer in 2018, Vice Chair of the World Green Building Council Corporate Advisory Board among many others.
> Dr. Darian McBain - CEO of Outsourced Chief Sustainability Officer Asia and previously the first Chief Sustainability Officer for th...2023-12-1257 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#082 Tez Steinberg: Finding your ocean and the courage to cross itIn this episdoe, we are speaking to Tez Steinberg who was the first person in history to row across the Pacific Ocean alone from California to Hawaii with no prior rowing experience. The journey took 71 days and 2,700 miles, powered only by sheer will and two oars.
Tez was named one of the "50 Best Young Minds in the World" by the World Economic Forum and you can see why. Hearing his story of resilience, determination and simple yet precise wisdom blew me away.
We talk about the comfort crises, finding our ocean and the courage to cros...2023-11-2926 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#081 Alina Truhina: From refugee to global citizen and impact VC, The Radical FundIn this episode we are speaking to Alina Truhina, CEO and Managing Partner of The Radical Fund, an early-stage VC fund investing in founders who are delivering climate resilience for Southeast Asia.
Alina is also the Co-Founder of Founders Factory Africa, the pan-African venture studio and VC Fund, where she raised over US$140million from LPs and investors. Before that she helped scale over 76 tech ventures in 9 countries across East Africa and South Asia. And spent seven years at the World Bank.
We talk about the inclusive climate transition and the unfair advantage of Silicon V...2023-11-1529 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#080 Dr Loretta Chen: being a multi-hyphenate, conflict resolution, a decentralised futureIn this episode, we are speaking to the incredible Dr Loretta Chen, co-founder and CEO of Smobler Studio, a leading virtual architecture firm building in The Sandbox. An acclaimed creative director, a Straits Times bestselling author and a respected professor, Loretta is hailed as “a force of nature” and “Asia’s Anna Wintour. She was also shortlisted as a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore and is an International Consultant to the investment arm of the Royal Government of Bhutan.
We talk about being a multi-hyphenate, why creativity and conflict are more similar than they are diverse, finding g...2023-11-0147 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#079 Chris Wedding: on climate tech, being an expert in failure & micro practisesIn this episode, we are speaking to Chris Wedding founder of Entrepreneurs For Impact (climate CEO mastermind peer groups) and a professor at Duke University. Chris is a former private equity investor, award-winning professor, startup founder, investment banker, and executive coach, with over $1 billion of investment experience and 75,000 professional students taught.
I first discovered Chris through his amazing newsletter which talks about climate, startups, productivity, leadership - and always has a skimmable summary of what’s happening and excellent resources.
In this episode, we talk about the exciting and terrifying of climate tech, being an expe...2023-09-2037 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#078 Marc Nicholson: on conversations as a catalyst for change and the future of humanityIn this episode, we are speaking to Marc Nicholson, founder of private members club 1880.
Marc Nicholson has been an entrepreneur for 17 years. With a colourful past including child acting, manning a suicide hotline, coaching Cyprus’s national squash team, volunteering in an Indonesian village, venture capital, advertising, men’s grooming and even a sting in the US Naval Academy.
In this episode, we talk about the power of conversations, the importance of human connection, the future of humanity, being lost and big transformations, why listening is good for our health and so much more.
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Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#077 Brandy Dallas: waste neutral fashion, cradle to grave impact and the beauty that is bambooIn this episode, we are speaking to Brandy Dallas, the founder of waste-neutral sustainable fashion brand SANS FAFF, a Vogue Innovation Prize Finalist.
Brandy worked in luxury as the former marketing manager at Tiffany’s and Marina Bay Sands for the Shoppes. Deciding if she was going to work as hard as she was it might as well be for herself, she decided to be part of the solution to bring fashion, luxury, sustainability and affordability together in a modern minimalist label.
We talk about waste-neutral fashion, building a sustainable fashion brand from cradle to grav...2023-09-0630 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#076 Laura Storm: on regenerative leadership inspired by nature’s wisdom, inner & outer ecosystemsIn this episode, we are speaking to Laura Storm, founder of Regenerators and co-author of the best-selling book Regenerative Leadership. Laura has spent her entire career working at the intersection of sustainability, organizational development, climate change policy and the intelligence of nature.
She has started and led multiple international organisations including the Copenhagen Climate Council and Sustainia.
She was awarded the title “world changer” by GreenBiz, named one of the 30 leading women in sustainability by Sustainable Brands, is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and Sustainability Expert and serve...2023-05-0346 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#075 Christopher Lafayette: on AI ethics, the intersection of humanity + technologyIn this episode, we are speaking to Christopher Lafayette, an emergent technologist, humanitarian in virtual and augmented reality applying his talents to the metaverse, ai, medtech, education, web3 and applied sciences.
Chris is the founder of GatherVerse, which fosters conversations about what the metaverse can and should be to benefit humanity. He is also the founder of The Black Technology Mentorship Program, supporting the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. And he sits on various advisory councils and boards, bringing thousands of communities and millions of people into the metaverse, humanely.
We talk about...2023-04-2649 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#074 Dain Heer: on the language of energy and how to use it to navigate your lifeIn this episode, we are speaking to Dr Dain Heer, author, speaker, change-maker and the co-creator of Access Consciousness - a powerful personal development company that invites you to value possibilities over problems to rewire negative thought processes.
He began his career journey as a chiropractor, and over the last twenty years, he developed his signature energy work called the Energetic Synthesis of Being, which invites a new level of awareness, communion and transformation with bodies. He also launched a sustainable resort in Italy called El Lugar.
This conversation spoke...2023-04-1953 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#073 Sophia Li & Maria Li: on no digital world without the natural world, web3 for good, the climate funding gap and climate optimismThere is no digital world without the natural world! In this episode, we are speaking to Sophia and Maria Li - two sisters and the co-founders of Steward using digital art to protect our natural world.
Sophia Li is an award-winning multimedia journalist and climate advocate. Harvard named her one of the top climate communicators of 2022 and she is an ambassador for the United Nations Human Rights Division. She is also the host of Meta’s podcast, Climate Talks, and was part of the founding team of Vogue.com.
Mar...2023-04-1249 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#072 Jojo Mehta: on making ecocide a crime against humanity and why it is a no brainerWhat is ecocide? Why should we care? What can we do? This week we are speaking to Jojo Mehta, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Stop Ecocide International, who is pursuing their goal to have Ecocide - mass damage and destruction of nature - added to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a fifth crime alongside Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Crimes of Aggression.
In this episode, we talk about the global ecocide movement and the momentum it is seeing, the impact and ripple effects of what this law would mean, activism, the importance of attention, and so...2023-04-0540 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#071 Dr Isla Myers-Smith: on understanding the greening of the Arctic, latest IPCC report and tipping pointsIn this episode of the Live Wide Awake podcast, we are speaking to Dr Isla Myers-Smith a global change ecologist, National Geographic Explorer, Chancellor's Fellow and Chair of Climate Change Ecology at the University of Edinburgh.
Her research examines the ‘greening of the Arctic’ and how plants are responding to climate warming and impacts including shrub expansion and permafrost thaw.
We talk about why the Arctic is warming 4 times as fast as the rest of the planet, the latest IPCC report what it means and what we can do, the greening of th...2023-03-2932 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#070 Linda Cruse: from gunpoint to meeting the Dalai Lama, an entrepreneurial approach to humanitarian workIn this episode, we are speaking to Linda Cruse, International humanitarian, world-class leadership coach, entrepreneur, speaker, author and founder of the Race4Good.
Counting the likes of the Dalai Lama, King Charles and Richard Branson as her mentors and guides, Linda inspires, motivates, and captivates audiences through her incredible life of adventure and misadventure, including escape from a rebel army, being held at gunpoint, surviving severe hypothermia, and suturing her own face.
In this episode, we talk about her will adventures over the last two decades, taking an entrepreneurial approach to h...2023-03-2235 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#069 Pete Phornprapha: on Wonderfruit, living in a world of grey and expanding the mindIn this episode, we are speaking to Pranitan “Pete” Phornprapha - the founder of Scratch First and the architect behind Wonderful - Asia’s leading arts, music and cultural sustainability festival.
Pete is the third generation of the Siam Motors family, is a Green Is The New Black Green Warrior and one of Prestige’s 300 high flyers.
In this episode, we talk about the evolution of Wonderful music festival, explorations of the mind, living in a world of grey, the importance of having a practice and so much more.
I hope you enjoy this smo...2023-03-1534 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#068 Mollie Jean De Dieu: on emotional inclusion and bringing back humanness at workIn this episode, we are speaking with Mollie Jean De Dieu is the founder of Emotional Inclusion, a speaker facilitator and General Manager for the French fashion and accessories company, Lonchamp for Singapore and Malaysia.
After two decades in the fashion industry, she realised the urgent need to have a safe platform in the corporate world for emotions to be heard, recognised and dealt with.
She is also currently writing a book for Penguin Publishing, that outlines her vision for humanising work cultures.
In this conversation, we talk about the power of showcasing...2023-03-0831 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#067 Christine Amour Levar: life lessons from leading expeditions through inhospitable placesIn this episode, we are speaking to Christine Amour-Levar the founder of two award-winning NGOs - Her Planet Earth and Women on a Mission. Christine is also a human rights and sustainability advisor, climate investor, best-selling Penguin author of the book Wild Wisdom, TEDx Speaker, board member and advisor to several purpose-led organisations.
Chistine’s career started strong in Japan at McCannn-Erickson and Phillippe Starck before moving to Nike in New York and around Asia. She then went on to lead Marketing & Communications at Temasek Trust, the Philanthropic arm of Singapore's Sovereign Wealth Fund, Temasek Holdings.
...2023-03-0141 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#066 Nina Simons: on biomimicry, reinventing leadership and balancing the masculine and feminineIn this episode, we are speaking to Nina Simons, the co-founder of Bioneers, a social entrepreneur who is passionate about reinventing leadership and co-creating a healthy, peaceful, and equitable world for all. In 2017, Nina Simons received the Goi Peace Award with her husband and partner Kenny Ausubel for “pioneering work to promote nature-inspired innovations for restoring the Earth and our human community.” Past honorees include Bill Gates, James Lovelock, and Deepak Chopra.
She is also the author of the award-winning book Nature, Culture & the Sacred, where she offers practical guidance and inspiration for anyone who aspires to grow into their...2023-02-2236 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#065 Helena Wasserman: on understanding angel and impact investing, resilience, and natural capitalIn this episode, we are speaking to a dear friend and powerhouse Helena Wasserman. She’s on a mission to accelerate the transition to impact and sustainability as the default way of investing and building companies. Her career started at The Clinton Foundation and Ashoka and then moved into impact technology with Techstars and Big Data for Humans. She then went on to scale Top Tier Impact, the global ecosystem for impact investors and leaders. And is an angel investor herself.
Helena was a Founder of the Future in 2016, Forbes 30 under 30 in 2017 and one of the 50 most in...2023-02-1432 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#064 Grace & Victoria: on Google solving for sustainability & making the green choice the easy choiceIn this episode, we are speaking with Victoria Wong, Head of Engineering for Geo Mobility for Google and Grace Chua Corporate Communications Manager at Google. Two powerhouse women who I thoroughly enjoyed speaking to and learning from!
Victoria leads efforts in products and engineering, which includes building new experiences on Google Maps and working with forward-thinking governments across the region to achieve a more sustainable future.
Grace leads communications efforts in Singapore and beyond for Google, which focuses more and more on their sustainability activities, products and activations. Previously she worked in comms for Uber...2023-02-0741 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#063 John Pabon: on cutting through the greenwashing BS, a history of sustainability & making it sexyIn this episode, we are speaking to John Pabon, sustainability author, consultant, and speaker. He has spent two decades in the business of saving our Earth. Having worked for the United Nations and McKinsey, John has studied sustainability firsthand from factories to inside Fortune 500 companies.
He is the founder of Fulcrum Strategic Advisors, Programme Director for Asia Sustainability Leaders Council at the Conference Board, advisor to the US Green Chamber of Commence and author of multiple books including - Sustainability and the rest of us, The Great Greenwashing and recently DocuSign’s ebook Is Paper Costing Us th...2023-01-3142 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#062 Julien Vincent: on life as a campaigner against fossil fuels, the outrageous fight for ESG finance, and always happy yet never satisfiedIn this episode, we are speaking to Julien Vincent, executive director of Market Forces, a campaigning organisation working to shift finance and investment away from fossil fuels in time to avoid runaway global warming.
Market Forces believes that the banks, superannuation funds and governments that have custody of our money should use it to protect – not damage – our environment.
Previously Julien spent 6 years as a campaigner with Greenpeace Australia. And he was recently one of 6 winners of the Goldman Award.
In this episode, we talk about life as a campaigner against fossil fuels, the...2022-12-1239 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#061 Taya Stapelfeldt: on the superpower we all have within us, how we are perfect and whole, and how to reconnect when feeling lostIn this episode, we speak with Taya Stapelfeldt, an Ibiza-based somatic leadership coach, mentor and embodiment trainer. She is known by her clients as the ‘woman with the key’ who has a deep and direct connection to the truth. She is a somatic strategist, whose approach combines many years of spiritual practice with leadership coaching, mindset, movement, breath and energy work that enables clients to transform at every level.
Trained and certified in the Grinberg Method and the Pantarei Approach. Her work has been featured on Mastermind Academy, the Meditation-moments app, BBC Radio and White Ibizia to name a...2022-12-0648 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#060 Fabien Cousteau: on building a space station for the ocean, his life as a aquanaut & how we’re all going bankruptIn this episode, we are speaking with Fabien Cousteau, Aquanaut, Oceanographic Explorer, Environmental Advocate and Founder of Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center & Proteus Ocean Group.
As the first grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Fabien spent his early years aboard his famous grandfather’s ships. He is well known for his study of sharks and from 2000-2002, and was also an Explorer-at-Large for National Geographic.
Having spent his life raising awareness, exploring and educating the world through multiple mediums about the ocean, he is now building a space station for the ocean.
In this conversation, we...2022-11-2931 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#059 David Aikman: on democratising ESG, understanding positive feedback loops & abundance with DAOsHey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. Thank you for being one of our listeners in 88 countries around the world.
Today we are speaking with David Aikman - Co-Founder & CEO of ESG DAO, an open, democratic, and credibly neutral ESG scoring system that will power a new wave of Web3 applications to engage consumers and incentivize companies to create positive change in the world.
Over the last 25+ years, working for the International Olympic Committee and the World Economic Forum, David has created, curated, and led innovative communities that have change...2022-11-231h 05
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#058 Damien Pommeret: on the good and the bad with the wool industry, and regenerative agricultureHey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast.
Today we are speaking with Damien Pommeret, the Regional Manager for Western Europe at the Woolmark Company. Committed to contributing to a vibrant, stable and profitable wool industry, Damien is in charge of supporting sustainability and fibre advocacy for The Woolmark Company through ongoing corporate activities.
Woolmark is a not-for-profit organisation that works alongside Australia’s 60,000 woolgrowers to research, develop and certify Australian wool. They are the global authority on Merino wool and owns the Woolmark logo, a quality assurance symbol applied to more than...2022-11-1536 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#057 Aarav Chavda: on fashion and the SDGs, regenerative leather and biodegradabilityHey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. Thank you for being one of our listeners in 88 countries around the world.
Today we are speaking to Aarav Chavda the Co-Founder and CEO at INVERSA Leathers, a fashion materials company that makes environmentally-regenerative leather from invasive species.
As a longtime sub diver and environmentalist, after witnessing the damage to coral reefs by the invasive lionfish in the Atlantic he was moved to do something about it. And so began his journey to become a materials scientist and nerd.
A gr...2022-11-0831 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#056 Manila Di Giovanni: on building the world’s first virtual economy - a green virtual twin and metaverse for MonacoHey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast.
I was blown away by today's guest. Manila Di Giovanni is Monaco’s youngest technopreneur at 21, seeking to create the world’s first-ever Virtual Economy that acts as a bridge between the real world and the virtual one - with her company DWorld.
She is currently building the stater greener and more futuristic virtual twin in Monaco. But it is not all metaverse hype - Manila wants to build sustainably and use virtual reality to develop the V-economy era, helping cities and countri...2022-11-0152 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#055 Sean Lee Davies: on being a realistic optimistic, hope making us human & reinventing the food systemHey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. Thank you for being one of our listeners in 88 countries around the world.
Today we are speaking to the charming charismatic change-maker that is Sean Lee Davies.
An activist, visual artist, tech entrepreneur, and photographer, Sean was formally the Editorial Director of Tatler Asia’s 15 Magazines, where he interviewed and photographed the likes of Marc Jacobs, Keanu Reeves, Leonardo Di Caprio, Catherine Zeta-Jones Yao Ming, Jackie Chan and David Beckham.
As an award-winning TV producer and host, for the last deca...2022-10-2557 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#054 Steph L Dickson: on living with the darkeness & why we need to fight the good fight togetherHey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast.
Today is a very special episode because I am reposting an episode from the How To Live podcast where I was interviewed. The reason I am doing that is because we went deep on anxiety and mental health. If you’ve been following me for a while you know this is a very important topic to me. I have been in and out of the darkness and have suffered from anxiety since I was 11 years old. And in this interview, I bare my soul, shar...2022-10-1839 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#053 Maanasa Gopal: on anything is possible if you don’t give up, 7 continents in 5 years & guilt activismHey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast.
Today we’re chatting to 25-year-old Maanasa Gopal - who took a self-funded 5-year journey across all 7 continents - from hitchhiking across Iran, busking in South Africa, crossing from Zimbabwe to Zambia by foot, visiting the North Korean border, living in Sumatran jungle, flying an aircraft to Antarctica to name a few. She has been invested in crypto since she was 19 which came in handy in a recent carbon-negative expedition, where she went to Antarctica to study the effects of climate change.
I’m s...2022-10-1147 min
How to Live#019 My experience with anxiety, a conversation with Stephanie DicksonThis is the second part of our conversation with Stephanie Dickson. Steph opens up about her struggles with anxiety and darkness. For background, Steph is a high performing entrepreneur - a pioneer in the space of sustainability and climate change in Asia. She founded Green is the new Black, Asia’s first conscious festival and media platform. She’s a two times TED X speaker, a Prestige 40 under 40, and a Leader of Tomorrow by Tatler. Having excelled at the highest levels, Steph has had her share of struggles with mental health. In today’s episode she talk openly...2022-07-0418 min
The Blue MarblePaving the way for a greener world - a conversation with Steph L DicksonSteph L Dickson is a leading voice in sustainability in Asia. She founded Green Is The New Black, Asia's first Conscious Festival and media platform, that uses stories, curated experiences to advocate for social & behavioural change that leads to little green steps with big impact. Her mission is to make conscious living mainstream, accessible and sexy.
Steph is also the host of the Live Wide Awake podcast, which brings conversations to life at the intersections of consciousness and climate change, sustainability and Spirituality.
As a founding member of UNTAM3D, Steph is also part of...2022-06-2437 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#052 Arnaud Saint-Paul: a conscious technologist, aligning with your heart vision & blockchain teaching kids how to giveHey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast.
If you’ve ever wondered who you are or wanted to understand yourself better or worried about how technology can be used to harness, instead of harm, the future generations, then you will like our guest today.
A conscious technologist that combines social impact, blockchain and philanthropy Arnaud Saint-Paul, believes that living in harmony is our birthright.
Since an awakening at 13, he’s been on a relentless quest to understand himself. And now he is on a mission to help a bill...2022-06-0843 min
Soul SearchWonderIn this second episode of our "Welcome Your Life" series, we look at a vital, but often neglected, aspect of a healthy spirituality - wonder. As adults we tend to lose that unfiltered amazement of the world we had as children. Our agendas take over instead because we think wonder is a luxury we can no longer afford. But could it be that what we seem to have lost in our adult lives has never left us? And that recapturing wonder can reconnect us with what's always been most essential to us?We'll visit with Lacy Finn B...2022-05-3055 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#051 Matt Rickard: The carbon credit debate, using blockchain to maximise social environmental impact & utilityHey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast.
By now, you’ve probably heard of the words blockchain, NFTs, web3 buzzing around. And maybe you’ve started to get curious about what it all means. I certainly have.
And I’ve been seeing a lot of people who work in the environmental space starting to come out with projects. I’m intrigued about the potential applications and impact for society and the environment with this technology.
So today we’re speaking with Matt Rickard, Co-founder of Task.io, a Stellar-ba...2022-05-2440 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#050 Alex Honnold & Dr Bruce Means: “Explorer: The Last Tepui” - a crazy mission to explore islands in the sky with one of the boldest climbers in the worldIt’s episode 50! A special episode for today - I got to speak with one of the most recognised and followed rock climbers in the world, Alex Honnold (you may have seen the wild documentary about him called Free Solo), alongside Dr Bruce Means, a biologist specialising in herpetology and a National Geographic Explorer.
This was a really special conversation about a new National Geographic documentary, airing on Disney+, both Alex and Bruce star in, called “Explorer: The Last Tepui”.
It’s time to live wide awake.
Watch the film:
Disney+: https...2022-05-1123 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#049 Ronald Akili: on the Potato Head journey, regenerative hospitality, bridging the gap between eco friendly holidays and an epic timeHow can we be eco friendly but also have an epic time? What is regenerative hospitality? And how do we show others sustainability is not a liability?
Big themes that we are deep diving into with Ronald Akili, CEO of the Potato Head Family.
In this episode, we cover how to have great holidays and experiences in a better way, work as a playground, making sustainability beautiful and mindfulness as a lifelong journey.
It’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Ronald:
Website: https://potatohead.co/
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How to Live#014 Sustainability and climate change with Stephanie DicksonA conversation with Stephanie Dickson, entrepreneur and leading voice for sustainability on Asia. Steph is a two times TED X speaker, Prestige 40 under 40, Leader of tomorrow by Tatler. She founded Green is the new Black back in 2015, Asia's first conscious festival and media platform. CNBC describe her as the “sustainability entrepreneur helping Asian businesses combat climate change” She also hosts a successful podcast . Steph is on a mission to make conscious living mainstream, accessible and sexy. Steph and I spoke about the momentum behind climate change and sustainability and how there isn't a better time for us as i...2022-04-2522 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#048 Liz Courtney: swapping stilettos for snow boots, understanding our climate system & the carbon locker roomHow do we easily explain the climate system? What plays the role of our carbon locker room? And why is a solution mindset important?
Big themes were deep-diving into with Liz Courtney an award-winning social entrepreneur and documentary-maker and the artist in resident at The Earth Observatory in Singapore.
In this episode, we cover how what we do on one side of the world impacts the other side, simple ways to explain our changing climate and oceans, and why we can’t let fear determine our lives.
It’s time to live wide awake...2022-04-1450 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#047 Sonalie Figueiras: on Green Queen, from ethical meat to regional expert in alternative protein, & why reduction is so crucialWhy is reduction more important than more people going vegan? How do we bridge health and the environment? And what will the future of food look like?
Big themes that we are deep diving into with serial social entrepreneur Sonalie Figueiras founder & editor-in-chief of Green Queen, founder of SourceGreenPackaging and Ekowarehouse for sourcing of organic products.
It’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Sonalie:
Website: https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/ | https://www.sourcegreenpackaging.com/
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/greenqueenhk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/son...2022-03-2951 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#046 Jamie Varon: on why we have self love backwards, being satisfied in an endlessly dissatisfied world, & the radically content philosophyWhy do we need to go against societal thinking when it comes to self-love? How do we actually set ourselves up for success? And why do we need to stop creating stories?
Big themes that we are deep diving into with Jamie Varon, writer, author of the upcoming book Radically Content, and creator of Live with Intention, a course on self-trust.
In this episode, we cover why self love is not face masks and bubble baths, the danger with over simplifying, how we got the order all wrong, and how we can build satirised and...2022-03-2259 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#045 Her Holiness Guruji Poonamji: on finding her guru then becoming one, moving out of darkness into the light, & avoiding the word hopeHow can we move out of darkness and into the light? How can we move out of fear and more into love, harmony and compassion? And how can we unite in a time of deep divisions?
Big themes were deep diving into with Her Holiness Sri Sri Sri 1008 Guruji Poonamji.
In this episode, we cover why its time to be united, reframing our relationship with the light, why the world needs more light warriors, why we shouldn’t use the word hope and much more.
It’s time to live wide awake.
A...2022-03-151h 13
The Purpose EffectSustainable, Conscious Living with Steph L DicksonSteph L Dickson is the founder of Green is the New Black, a lifestyle, media and events platform dedicated to sustainable, conscious living. She is also the host of the Live Wide Awake podcast. In this episode, I talk to Steph about how to meet sustainability where you are, with what you have and go on an adventure with it. We also talk about exciting new developments in circular fashion, responsible carbon off-setting and how Covid forced her to innovate and create the first hybrid virtual / live Conscious Festival that was more successful that she could have i...2022-03-0748 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#044 Ether An: on 3 decades as a Chief Sustainability Officer & trouble maker, the race to zero, & the business case for doing good & doing wellHow do we continue to drive action? How has COP evolved over the years? And what can we learn from someone who has been a chief sustainability officer for 3 decades?
Big themes that we are deep diving into with Esther An, Chief Sustainability Officer at City Developments Limited, awarded one of the top 10 most sustainable companies in the world.
In this episode, we cover sustainability as the North Star, the shift of COP to focus on youth, producing sustainability reports for over 13 years, and why we have to continue to care.
It’s ti...2022-03-0152 min
Timeless Teachings with Yana Fry#32 Nomadic Life – Spirituality, Relationships and Evolution – Stephanie Dickson and Yana FryToday I have invited a dear friend of mine Stephanie Dickson to join me for a conversation about the experiences and lessons of the nomadic life. Both Steph and I have been through 15 places in less than a year, both of us are married, both of us are on a spiritual journey, both of us are social entrepreneurs and podcasts hosts. We are also considered to be one of the examples of the millennial generation that is well known for its quest for freedom, purpose and community. Conscious Moments to Listen For:What is a...2022-02-2848 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#043 Kristy Drutman: aka BrownGirlGreen on avoidance patterns, reframing the urgency, carbon offsets & the power of pauseHow can we navigate greenwashing? Are there any carbon offsets that are effective? And why do we need to get back to the essentials?
Big questions that we are deep diving into with environmentalist Kristy D-rutman, known as brown girl green, who also sits on the council of Intersectional Environmentalists.
In this episode, we talk about our individual and societal avoidance patterns, what type of carbon offsets are actually effective, reframing the urgency, and the power of pause.
It’s time to live wide awake.
Resources:
Book | Forest Bathing by...2022-02-2242 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#042 Stephanie Crespin: on the tech, transparency & circular future of fashionIs blockchain the future of transparency in fashion? Is the future of fashion circular? And if so, what does it look like?
Big questions that we are deep diving into with Stephanie Crespin is the founder and CEO of Reflaunt and StyleTribute - using innovative technology to advance the luxury fashion industry to embrace the circular economy.
In this episode, we talk about the scale and potential for a circular fashion industry, where 95% of inventory is locked up, where responsibility should lie, and why there is no finish line.
It’s time to li...2022-02-0851 min
The Decade Podcast#31 Sustainability Inside Out with Steph L DicksonTodays guest, Steph L Dickson is an incredible voice for sustainability. Amongst other things, she’s the founder and CEO of Green is the new black, founder and host of the Live Wide Awake Podcast, and a two times TEDx speaker. In 2014 she was working in the fashion industry when she had a quite rude awakening that the industry she was so deeply invested in was in fact one of the biggest polluting industries in the world. She decided that she wanted to stop being a part of the problem and instead work towards being a part of the so...2022-02-0257 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#041 Mo Gawdat: on scary smart artificial intelligence, why we need to be parents to the machines & how to engineer happinessWill humans peril in the age of the machines? Why is artificial intelligence one of the scariest and most under-discussed topics of our time? And can we engineer ourselves to happiness?
Big questions we are deep diving into with Mo Gawdat, the former Chief Business Officer of Google [X], author of the international bestseller, Solve for Happy and newly released Scary Smart, and host of the Slo Mo podcast.
In this episode, we discuss how Mo is on a mission to spread happiness to millions of people around the world, how he has figured out...2022-02-011h 05
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#040 Georgette Tan: on challenging the patriarchy of leadership, championing female empowerment & anti-violenceWill we see gender equality within our lifetimes? What is the role of men and boys in the future of leadership? And how do we address domestic violence?
Big questions that we are deep diving into with Georgette Tan, President of United Women Singapore, who previously headed up Communications and CSR at MasterCard Asia Pacific.
In this episode we deep-diving into the need and struggle to change mindsets around women’s roles, challenging the patriarchy in leadership, the importance of women in sustainability, and the five Ss to keep you sane.
It’s time...2022-01-2549 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#039 Jonas Rosen: on the power of psychedelics, consciousness, the connectivity of science & spiritualityWho am I? What is consciousness? Can science and spirituality unify as one? How can psychedelics help us to unlock a universe of possibilities?
Big questions that we are deep diving into with Jonas Rosen, founder of Inner Vision Psychedelics, creator of the popular YouTube channel Cosmic Consciousness with Jonas and a psychedelic facilitator at a legal retreat centre called MycoMeditation.
In this episode, we explore one of the biggest mysteries of life - consciousness, the power of psychedelics and plant-based medicine to help, the balance and connectivity of science and spirituality, and why healing...2022-01-181h 07
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#038 Kwabi Amoah-Forson: on the magic peace bus - manifesting humanity, planting seeds of peace across a nationWhy is peace one of the most important things we can ever do? What is band-aid safety and how can we avoid it and create real safety instead? And what does peace look like in our society?
Big questions that we are deep diving into with Kwabi Amoah-Forson founder of The Peace Bus Humanitarian Aid Organization, on a mission to build a better future through a new movement of peace.
In this episode, we talk about what peace means around the world, why it is inextricably linked to human progress, planting seeds of peace across...2022-01-1133 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#037 Pujan Swami: on who am I? Wild Wild Country, polyamory & a life of spiritual seekingWhat is real and what is not real? Who are we? What is freedom really? And why should we embrace brutal self-acceptance?
Big questions that we are deep diving into with Pujan Swami, a German-born Psychologist who studied Yoga Philosophy (Jnana Yoga) in India and Australia with renowned teachers Bhagavan Shree Rajneesh, later known as Osho, and James Schwartz among others.
In this episode, we are taken on a fascinating journey of lifelong spiritual seeking, answering one of life’s biggest questions - who are we, polyamory and freedom in all sense of the experience....2021-09-071h 05
All Joy PodcastThe Worship Mindset (with Steph McGown)Send us a textJoin Clodagh and Alanna as they welcome their first intercontinental guest - Steph McGown! Steph shares about she ended up serving in Manitoba, Canada as a Worship Director. She shares about what worship is and the worship mindset we should seek have in life. Disclaimer - At the time of recording, Clodagh was very pregnant so please excuse any larbored breathing 😅2021-09-0635 min
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#036 Daniel Mangena: from bankrupt in prison to abundant in life, battling expectations, and creating a life filled with celebrationHow can we truly create a life of abundance? What can we do if our mind is negatively polluted? How can we win in the battle against expectations?
Big questions that we are deep diving into with Daniel Man-gena, best-selling author, motivational speaker, coach and contributing writer to Entrepreneur and Brainz Magazine.
In this episode, we talk about how one man turned his life from misery (depressed in jail) to life-altering (being diagnosed with Asperger’s at 27) to celebration. We also talk about letting go of trying to manage uncertainty, finding the right tools you nee...2021-09-011h 06
Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership#035 Tori Tsui: on being a bad activist, environ[mental] health, joy as a radicle act and rest as resistanceWhy should we be bad activists? How is our mental health linked to environmental health? Why should we go slower to progress better?
Big questions that we are deep diving into with Tori Choi, Intersectional climate activist, mental health advocate, and founder of Bad Activist Collective.
In this episode, we talk about why perfectionism is detrimental to movements, that mental health can’t be separated from our environment, burnout, rest and grounding deeply in joy.
It’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Tori:
Websites: https://www.tori...2021-08-2448 min