AMA: Addiction, Networking and Irrational Fears

04/28/23 • 34 min

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Hello and welcome to the Danielle Newnham podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day.

To see out Season 9, I thought I would do my second ever AMA. I do these because I want to be helpful and because I think it’s important for listeners to know me and understand where I am coming from and why I do the podcast. So I asked my listeners across social media for questions they would like me to answer and in this episode, I am going to do my best to answer as many of them as possible. I discuss addiction, networking, growing a startup and irrational fears!

But before we start, there is one slight trigger warning – I do talk about death and alcoholism in my first answer so you may want to skip that part if you are listening to this with episode with children around.

Let me know what you think and if you want to hear more AMA's!

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Mentioned in this episode:

Shellye Archambeau episode here

Richard Browning episode here

Kevin Kelly episode here

Colin Caffell's book: In Search of The Rainbow's End

Hello and welcome to the Danielle Newnham podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day.

Let me know what you think and if you want to hear more AMA's!

Danielle Twitter / Instagram / Newsletter

Mentioned in this episode:

Shellye Archambeau episode here

Richard Browning episode here

Kevin Kelly episode here

Colin Caffell's book: In Search of The Rainbow's End

Previous Episode

Hana Walker-Brown: ADHD, Brain Injury and Living by Values

Today’s guest is Hana Walker Brown – Audio Documentary and Podcast Creator, a Composer, author and Creative Director.

In this really open conversation, Hana discusses how ADHD has informed her career, the impact an adult diagnosis had on her life and we dig deep into her work researching CTE which if I say it right is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy - a progressive and fatal brain disease associated with repeated traumatic brain injuries including concussions and repeated blows to the head.

As you might imagine this is common with various athletes from rugby players to footballers and boxers but what you might not realise is how rarely it’s discussed or accepted, how hard it is to diagnose (unless the brains of sportspeople are donated post death) and how CTE and associated ailments such as dementia are affecting younger and younger players.

Our conversation centres Hana’s book - A Delicate Game - which is out now in paperback but the story behind Hana’s journey with CTE started on a BMX track back in 2016 where she learned of the suicide of legendary BMX’er David Mirra and why it was most likely caused by CTE.

Hana is a storyteller and an innovator, pushing the boundary of what she believes she can do and what she feels compelled to do, all whilst bringing stories of importance and heartbreak, in equal measure, to the masses so that we too can learn the plight of her protagonists.

I learned a lot from Hana and I know you will too.

Enjoy!

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Buy Hana's book A Delicate Game: Brain Injury, Sport and Sacrifice here.

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Image of Hana: Liz Seabrook

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Series 10 Trailer

Welcome to the Danielle Newnham Podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day.

I know I probably say this every series but Series 10 might be my most favourite yet and I really can’t wait to share it with you! Upcoming guests this series include Simon Peyton Jones – Engineering Fellow at Epic Games, previously researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, and one of the designers behind the Haskell programming language. We also have Robert Langer - chemical engineer, scientist, entrepreneur and, inventor. Robert is the most cited engineer in history and is also a prolific entrepreneur, having founded more than 40 biotech companies including Moderna... which you may have heard of.

We also have Sarah Hamburg (a neuroscientist working in neuro-inspired computing and AI), Ian Livingstone – video game pioneer and co-founder of Games Workshop which launched Dungeons & Dragons in Europe, and is behind the cult-like Warhammer game, among many others. I will also be talking to Mike Slade (strategic advisor to Steve Jobs), and Kate Zernike (a Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter and author of The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT and the Fight For Women in Science, and many more.

So, as always, if you want to be the first to hear these episodes - please do make sure you subscribe to the Danielle Newnham Podcast wherever you get your podcasts from and I look forward to sharing these inspiring conversations with you over the coming weeks.

Enjoy.