
Don't Stop Us Now AI Edition
Claire Hatton & Greta Thomas
Artificial Intelligence is the most transformative technology since the harnessing of electricity according to former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt. A world where personal AI agents anticipate our every need and are our closest companions is potentially just around the corner.
And that’s where Don’t Stop Us Now AI Edition comes in. Convinced about the mammoth impact of AI, we’re going all in on AI for the foreseeable future. Together with leading experts, we’ll explore how your job may change or what new skills you may want to develop to stay relevant. We’ll bring you the smartest of AI tools and tips you can try out now, and our impressive guests will paint vivid, and sometimes mind blowing, pictures of how their industries will change in the coming years.
Keep listening for all you need to know and actionable insights.
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Future Proof Me - Navigating Tech When You're Not a Techie
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05/12/20 • 7 min
Welcome to our second Future Proof Me mini episode. These mini episodes will be uploaded in the weeks between our usual, longer interview and ‘How To’ episodes. They are designed to snappily share nuggets of ideas or insights to help us all thrive in future.
This week’s nugget is all about how important technology is to our future regardless of whether we consider ourselves as ‘tech-people’.
First you’ll hear from Martha Lane Fox, one of the UK’s most respected technology leaders and entrepreneurs. These days she has an illustrious board career, sits in the House of Lords, and she campaigns for responsible technology through her foundation, Doteveryone.
Martha shares great advice around positioning yourself in your career and how important it is to be curious about technology. She then goes on to talk about how, with the quickening pace of change, we need to be prepared to have multiple different careers.
Then we hear from the Artificial Intelligence expert, Kriti Sharma. She builds really practically on Martha’s point about learning about tech, and specifically talks about how we can all get more informed and familiar with the important topic of AI.
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Enjoy this mini episode with Martha Lane Fox and Kriti Sharma.
Links to the longer interviews:
What is Artificial Intelligence
Other Useful Resources
Dot Everyone Digital Understanding Resources
Elements of AI from the Finnish Government
Digital Unite - Technology Guides
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How to Manage Your Inner Critic
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06/06/18 • 15 min
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Heidi Hackemer - On Navigating the Worst
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04/27/21 • 29 min
We have a very special episode this week because we’re sharing the vulnerable story of how one of our guests was subsequently fired from a high profile role in the US and how she navigated her way through the dark times that followed.
That guest is Heidi Hackemer and what she shares in this episode is so generous and valuable for all of us to hear; after all nothing is permanent and plans fall over on a regular basis.
Heidi is a leading creative who had her own brand agency in New York and also headed up the Creative Studio at the philanthropic Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) in California.
Not long after our first conversation with Heidi in July 2018 things went wrong, very wrong. Heidi was fired from CZI and not only that, when she got back to New York, she had to close her brand strategy agency, W&W too. We learnt about this because Heidi wrote an extremely brave and vulnerable article on Medium (link below) describing what had happened and how low she was feeling.
Admiring her generous honesty, we reached out to her just as COVID was taking hold everywhere round the world last year. Heidi agreed to speak with us.
After our conversation, we made a decision not to publish the interview last year, as it just felt too raw. With Heidi’s permission, we’ve all agreed that now is the right time to share the story she has been so generous in sharing with us. She’s well and truly bounced back from the lows she describes and is now the Executive Creative Director for North America at the booming global company, Oatly.
In this episode Heidi shares:
- How, after being fired, she initially couldn’t stop worrying about money
- Her advice for others who lose their jobs
- Heidi’s generous sharing of all the things she did to pull herself out of depression and bounce back,
- And the inspiring reason she shared her extraordinary piece on Medium
Even if you are securely employed right now, we really recommend you listen to this unique conversation. And if you know someone who’s lost their job make sure they listen to this too! They’ll thank you later.
Enjoy this episode with the generous, and very thoughtful, Heidi Hackemer.
Useful Links
Medium article that prompted this second interview
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It’s Not About Me - Joanna Flint
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03/30/22 • 36 min
We’re back from Covid (hooray!) and so even more excited about this week’s inspiring guest!
Joanna Flint is Chief Commercial Officer for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group where she’s responsible for its global marketing, sales, revenue management, brand and distribution functions. She is also a member of the company’s Board.
Joanna joined the luxury brand last year after more than twelve years with Google in Asia where, amongst other roles, she was Managing Director of Google Singapore. Based in Singapore with her family, after 20 years living in Asia, Joanna is also a member of YPO and a mentor to early stage start-ups.
If you’re contemplating your career or thinking about changing roles then you have come to the right place because Joanna has some of the most thoughtful musings on this topic we’ve heard.
In this episode you’ll learn:
- The incredible story of why Joanna nearly didn’t apply for the top job at Google in Singapore and what happened to make her change her mind
- The opportunities she feels she wasted because she wasn’t super clear about what she wanted next in her career
- Exactly how Joanna got that clarity on what her next role needed to look like
- And how she manages the challenges of leading a truly global team without working 24/7.
We know you’ll love the amazing insights and advice shared in this conversation, so enjoy this episode with the insightful and passionate Joanna Flint.
A quick P.S. from us that we are giving our mini episodes a little break for a while, so we’ll be back in two weeks time with our next conversation with an amazing, pioneering female leader. Hint - she’s ‘uber’ cool.
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Jacqueline Novogratz - Revolutionary For a Better World
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05/19/20 • 42 min
We have a real treat in store for you today with a truly remarkable changemaker and NY Times bestselling author as our guest.
Acumen Founder and CEO, Jacqueline Novogratz, has been named one of the 25 Smartest People of the Decade by the Daily Beast, and one of the world’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds by Forbes, amongst numerous other honours.
Jacqueline pioneered the notion of 'patient capital', investing in social entrepreneurs around the world. Acumen supports them to establish sustainable businesses that serve some of the world’s poorest people.
What makes this episode a particularly fascinating one is that all this work with entrepreneurs has taught Jacqueline and her team so much about what it takes to succeed when trying to create change. And now she’s also just released a new book sharing what it takes to be a changemaker. It's called Manifesto for a Moral Revolution (and there’s a free course too if you buy the book).
In this episode you’ll hear:
- How her early attempts at social change in Africa seriously failed to impress the locals;
- What she learnt about humanity when she became one of the first people to visit in jail someone she’d known well who’d gone on to become a major perpetrator in the Rwandan Genocide;
- How Jacqueline sees investment as a means to solving problems rather than making profit as the primary goal; and ....
- How she’s seeing women entrepreneurs successfully breaking the rules particularly now during the coronavirus crisis.
Enjoy this episode with the incredibly inspiring Jacqueline Novogratz...
Links of Interest
Jacqueline’s Books:
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution - Practices to Build a Better World - her latest book. If you buy a copy you can sign up for free to her 11 week course ‘The Path of Moral Leadership’ (usually it's US$195)
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How to Game Plan If You Lose Your Job
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04/21/20 • 24 min
This week as the economic impact from COVID-19 continues to unfold, we wanted to give anyone affected, or anyone who fears they may be affected in future, something seriously practical and useful to action.
One thing we know for sure is that the best and fastest way to reduce your anxiety and stress over financial or employment issues is to have a plan.
This episode will give you the steps to create your very own game plan so you too can feel prepared for whatever happens.
Not only that, we’re super excited that this episode shares invaluable advice from an international resume writing expert who is also a former long-time recruiter and search consultant. Handy eh?
Yes indeed, no mucking around here, if you want some amazing advice to help you bounce back and ‘get that job’ then you are in the right place.
In this episode you’ll learn:
- 3 key areas to focus your game plan on
- Why it’s important to know where you stand financially
- Winning tips to create a fantastic resume / CV
- A little-known ‘insider’s’ tip for using LinkedIn
Whatever your circumstance, you’ll feel more resilient, more prepared and readier than ever for the right opportunity by following the advice in this episode.
Useful Links
Register your interest for our ‘Get the Job’ Interview here
Executive Resume Writer, Donna Svei’s website
Heidi’s powerful Medium article
Awesome list of Side Hustle ideas
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AI Visionary - Lee Yearsley
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04/11/24 • 32 min
Every now and then we meet with a guest who blows us away by the scale and worthiness of their vision. And there’s no doubting this week’s guest is one of those.
Lee Yearsley is an AI veteran and entrepreneur with a unique track record that speaks to her skill of anticipating the future. Raised in Zimbabwe and South Africa, Lee sold her last AI company 10 years ago to IBM. It was the first company in the world to deploy AI in businesses such as banks, insurance companies and health care.
And now Lee’s at it again channelling her philosophy of building a global AI company that the world will need, not today, but in 5 years time. Her vision is big; she wants to reach more than 100 million customers worldwide.
Lee’s business is called Akin and her determination to use technology for good has seen her incorporate as a public benefit corporation (that’s an American legal entity that embeds a business model that benefits both shareholders and society).
Akin is bringing a new and more advanced type of AI to market, called Adaptive Reasoning.
It already has customers ranging from NASA to healthcare companies with disabled clients.
Now despite the fact Lee has a track record of founding and exiting several businesses, she shares with us just how difficult it is to raise funding as a female founder.
In this episode you’ll hear how:
- Lee was positively dissuaded, if not barred, from studying computer science at Uni because she was a woman
- She says she ignores the accepted wisdom of how to build a successful startup and that others should ignore it too
- Pervasive AI systems already are and how much they’re influencing the decisions we make in a negative way; and
- The creative and unique way Lee goes about envisioning, building and growing her business.
We were lucky to spend time with Lee after she spoke at the Impact Investment Summit in Sydney recently.
Enjoy this episode with the visionary and genuinely pioneering Lee Yearsley.
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Cindy Gallop – Blowing Shit Up!
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09/25/18 • 35 min
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Compassion + Contribution - Dr Lineo Thahane
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11/17/23 • 36 min
If you’re anything like us and fed up with all the bleak news, then this week’s episode may be just what you need; a guaranteed dose of positivity, progress and inspiration!
We're joined by the humble and impressive Dr Lineo Thahane. Lineo is a paediatrician and is Executive Director of a major medical clinic in the Kingdom of Lesotho called the Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation Lesotho.
Lesotho, a tiny country in southern Africa, is ranked number two in terms of the countries with the highest proportion of its adult population living with HIV in the world. Nearly one in 4 adults is HIV positive and many children are too.
Lineo was born and raised in the US but her parents were both from Lesotho and so Lineo spent summer holidays back in Lesotho with her extended family. There, she was able to experience what it was like to live in her parents’ country of birth and, as she grew older, she felt a deep sense of unfairness at the differences in the standard of living in the US versus that of Lesotho.
As you will hear, this convinced Lineo to follow in her mother’s footsteps and become a doctor so that she could return to Lesotho and help make a difference to the quality of healthcare the average person could receive there.
In this episode you’ll learn:
- How nearly 10% of Lesotho’s children are orphans
- How Lineo stays positive despite the sometimes confronting experiences and challenges she has faced treating sick babies and children
- Why she continues to work in Lesotho when she could be living comfortably in the US,
- And what Lineo has learnt about the challenges of transitioning from being a specialist doctor to becoming a leader of a large organisation with nearly 800 employees.
This is a fascinating, moving and uplifting conversation. Don’t miss this episode with the compassionate and dedicated Dr Lineo Thahane.
Useful Links:
Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation website
Texas Children's Global Health - Lesotho
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Stewarding the Man United Brand - Ellie Norman
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02/14/24 • 40 min
We are back!! Yes, we know, we’ve had a long and awesome holiday :-)! We hope your year has got off to a great start too.
We have a blockbuster episode to leap into 2024 and it’s all about someone who stewards equally blockbusting brands.
Ellie Norman runs marketing, communications and fan engagement at one of the world’s biggest sporting brands, the famed football club, Manchester United. Our minds were officially blown when Ellie told us she has to market to 1.1 billion fans around the world. That’s an incredible audience for any marketer.
It’s not just the iconic Man United sporting brand that Ellie has experience with; she’s also been Global Director for Marketing and Communications at Formula One where she helped popularise the franchise.
In fact, Ellie’s career has featured a lot of male-dominated industries and sectors as she also spent six years in marketing roles with Honda Motors in Europe. Her take on how to thrive and succeed in these environments is uplifting.
We were struck by Ellie’s refreshing and inspiring way of thinking about her work on the global stage and, as you’ll hear, she shares: . . .
- How not going to University has driven her career choices in a good way
- How Ellie makes big decisions about her career
- Why sports marketing flips the traditional marketing model on its head
- How she helped popularise the Formula 1 brand and make it less elitist
- And how she handles the Man United brand and its legion of distraught fans when the team isn’t performing on the field.
We think you’ll love this inspiring conversation with the positive and gutsy Ellie Norman.
Useful Links
Manchester United on Instagram
If you loved this podcast, you might like our interview with Lucinda Barlow, Head of International Marketing at Uber
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The podcast is about Career Advice, Future Of Work, Leadership, Women, Future, Podcast, Podcasts, Technology, Entrepreneurs, Business, Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, Interviews and Careers.
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The episode title 'Future Proof Me - Advice on Getting Out of Your Own Way' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Don't Stop Us Now AI Edition is 27 minutes.
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