Mental, moral and physical laziness - how to beat our modern addictions

Alex Dunsdon is a Partner at Saatchi Invest and founder of Potential VC building a generation of impact VCs. Their mission is to find, foster and fund crazy, unusual, and innovative startups helping the world. Alex was also a seed cheque investor into Citymapper, Farewill and Ometria. Alex joins me this week to deliver his ultimate breakthroughs and formula for decisions, whether it is about your career path or your life. Resources The Science of Serendipity: How to Unlock the Promise of Innovation Book by Matt Kingdon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Serendipity-1e-P-Kingdon/dp/111847810X) - - - Connect with Alex Potential (www.potential.co) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexdunsdon) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/alexdunsdon) Twitter (https://twitter.com/alexdunsdon) - - - Growth Mindset podSam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create. Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com Insta - SamJam.zen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

8 Feb 202245min

Tessa Clarke Tessa is a startup founder who thrives in challenging environments, and has a strong track record of driving change. She grew up on a farm and knows how much hard work goes into producing the food we all eat, and absolutely 'hates' throwing it away. When she was moving country and the removal men said she has to bin their food, she couldn't do it and it was when the OLIO app was born. OLIO is now helping save millions of food items from being thrown away. It's also changing peoples relationships with food and increasing connections with neighbours. And they are just getting started! Tessa is a systems thinker and despite facing massive challenges against her, she has been able to positively shift the mindsets of people to create positive change in the world. Tessa is truly an inspiration and in this episode we could only touch on some of the brilliance of her thoughts and how she goes about changing herself and the world. - - - Resources Dana Kanze TedTalk speech (https://www.ted.com/talks/dana_kanze_the_real_reason_female_entrepreneurs_get_less_funding?language=en) The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lean-Startup-Innovation-Successful-Businesses/dp/0670921602) - - - Connect with Tessa Olio (https://olioex.com/) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tecook/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tlfclarke) Twitter (https://twitter.com/TessaLFClarke) - - - Growth Mindset podSam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create. Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com Insta - SamJam.zen - - - Chapters: 03:03 - Knowing Who is Tessa and her life 07:14 - Tessa's Advise 10:07 - What is Olio? 11:33 - Funding and Community of Olio 12:40 - Seed Round 16:55 - Overcoming Barriers 21:51 - Olio's Competition 24:04 - Childhood Character and Development 30:20 - Lifestyle of the Present World 35:49 - _Leading a Sustainable Lifestyle 39:35 - Growth Mindset 43:17Mindset in Climate Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1 Feb 202251min

Perfectionism and Celebrating Your Wins Most of us are trying to be perfect and set high standards that are likely we could not meet and maybe even get disappointed with ourselves because we could not meet the expectations at all. Some of us create many big goals and focus on the destination rather than the small and significant steps we need to take to get us there. In this episode, we will talk about perfectionism and celebrating our wins. Growth Mindset podSam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create. Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com Insta - SamJam.zen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

21 Jan 202224min

Roeland Decorte is the CEO and Founder of Decorte Future Industries (DFI). They are building a groundbreaking AI for health data extraction from audio. His doctoral work on code-breaking is cited by world experts in his field. He started DFI inventing and personally engineering the exoskeleton tech. Roeland also has experience in mechanical engineering, prototyping, fundraising, politics, political economics and academia. He was the youngest student from Belgium to have joined the University of Cambridge in its 800-year history. Takeaways * If you want to do something really meaningful, it will by definition almost always be hard. * Chase the things that challenge you – keep going and throwing yourself at things that seem impossible. * Mistakes are only that if you don’t learn from them, consider them learnings instead. * There will come a point in your business where you need to shift from “we’re all friends here” to a clear hierarchy with a well-defined structure. * Equally important to building your business is keeping in touch with people in the field and keeping them informed as to what you’re doing. - - - Connect with Roeland Decorte Future Industries (https://decorte.co.uk/) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-roeland-p-j-e-decorte-340066185) Twitter (https://twitter.com/decortedr) - - - Growth Mindset podSam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create. Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com Insta - SamJam.zen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

13 Jan 202241min

We often hear the "New Year, New You" phrases as every new year comes. And in this episode, Sam conveyed improving in a more holistic approach. Takeaways You might have already written down your plans that you want to do or change this year, but we should also be open to things that may arise and haven't thought of happening. From the list of plans you have for this year, pick one thing/s that scares you and try doing those. - - - Growth Mindset podSam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create. Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com Insta - SamJam.zen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

4 Jan 202215min

Lorenzo is the Managing Director of Gaingels and a co-founding chairman of StartOut, two of the leading groups dedicated to support and elevate LGBTQ+ leaders in the venture startup ecosystem. He is also a Tony-Award and Drama Desk winning Broadway producer and the co-creator and lead producer of Allegiance, the Broadway musical. Lorenzo previously co-founded startups Powerset, which was acquired later on by Microsoft. He is also an investor, board member, and advisor for startups such as Figure Eight (now Appian), Weights & Biases, CrowdMed, Famo.us, Gobble, Just, and Lucid, and many more. He's an outspoken LGBT advocate and was named one of the most influential LGBT people in tech in 2014 and 2018 by Business Insider. - - - Connect with Lorenzo Gaingels (https://gaingels.com/) StartOut (https://startout.org/) Allegiance (https://allegiancemusical.com/) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenzothione/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/lorenzosfnyc) Twitter (https://twitter.com/thione) - - - Growth Mindset podSam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create. Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com Insta - SamJam.zen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

7 Dec 202143min

Bryony Thomas is one of the UK's foremost marketing thinkers. She is the author of Watertight Marketing, which has been in its best-sellers list consistently for over five years, with no gimmicks. Watertight Marketing is one of the best business books I have ever read. In this episode, Bryony shows how she succeed and what mindset she has despite of setbacks and risks. - - - Connect with Bryony Watertight Marketing (https://watertightmarketing.com/) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryonythomas) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/bryonywatertightmkg) Twitter (https://twitter.com/bryonythomas) - - - Growth Mindset podSam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create. Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com Insta - SamJam.zen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

2 Dec 202113min

Elizabeth is the CEO and Founder of Cypher Coders, the UK’s leading coding school for children, as well as a highly experienced AI creator, author and entrepreneur. Her mission is to empower children to move freely and confidently through the changing world around us, fluent in the universal language of code in order to become future-ready.CONNECT WITH ELIZABETHCypher Coders (www.cyphercoders.com)LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethtweedale)Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/nottinghillmummy)Twitter (https://twitter.com/nottinghillmmmy)ABOUT THE HOSTMy name is Sam Harris. I am a British entrepreneur, investor and explorer. From hitchhiking across Kazakstan to programming AI doctors I am always pushing myself in the spirit of curiosity and Growth. My background is in Biology and Psychology with a passion for improving the world and human behaviour. I have built and sold companies from an early age and love coming up with unique ways to make life more enjoyable and meaningful.Connect with Sam:Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/samjamharris/)Twitter (https://twitter.com/samjamharris)LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharris48/)Wiser than Yesterday (https://www.wiserpod.com)ReasonFM (https://reason.fm/podcast/growth-mindset-podcast)Sam's blog - SamWebsterHarris.com (https://samwebsterharris.com/)Support the Show - Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/growthmindset)Subscribe!If you enjoyed the podcast please subscribe and rate it. And of course, share with your friends! Special Guest: Elizabeth Tweedale. Don't Forget to leave a comment on this episode See podvine.com/privacy-policy for podcast listener privacy info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

16 Nov 202150min