• Finnish Kung Fu Movie in China

    Antti-Jussi Annila is a film director whose first film Jade Warrior (2006) had the highest budget ever for a first time director in Finland. Here, AJ talks about how he handled that pressure while managing a very ambitious shoot in China. We also…

  • TV Presenting Skills Useful in Real Life?

    Nikki is an experienced TV Presenter and Technology Communicator. We had a really cool chat about the importance of communicating, listening, freelance work, teaching our kids that it’s ok to make a mess once in a while… and of course my…

  • ‘Britain’s Best Boss’ Shares Philosophy

    My guest in this episode is Lee McAteer. He is the Associate Director at Tranmere Rovers football club in the English league. He is the founder of multiple successful companies including AmeriCamp, Wrestling Travel, Camp Thailand and Invasion.  This podcast was recorded…

  • 17yo British CEO’s First Trip to Silicon Valley

    Baran Korkmaz is the 17-year-old founder and CEO of ARWAY – a London based startup whose vision is to create context aware Augmented Reality solutions accessible to everyone.  He talks about how he started his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 14,…

  • Reading 33 Books in 7 Months

    Dima is the founder and CEO of Finnish startup Panda-Training. He recently read 33 business/self development books in 7 months. So I asked him to share some of the insights he learned from the best ones: The Listening Society, Homo Deus, Atomic Habits…

  • Emigrating into Animation in Sydney

    G’day! In this episode, I speak to Debbie Steer who is an Animation Producer based in Sydney – currently busy revitalising the hand-drawn industry in Australia. We became friends 13 years ago as struggling filmmakers in Manchester, England. Debbie shares her story…

  • Fail Well, Experiment and Trust Your Processes

    This was one of my favorite episodes because I got a rare chance to talk about marketing and basketball! My guest is David Blinov. He’s from Latvia and he’s the Founder of The F Company – a Growth Marketing agency based here in Helsinki.…

  • Mentality of Doing Difficult Things.

    I had a really good conversation about the art of ‘Doing Difficult Things’ with Marko Lauhiala. He’s a founder, a CEO and CTO of a startup but now he’s also a long distance runner. He’s shares the story of how…

  • Psychology of Language

    My friend Rachel Akili recently started telling me about Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). It was something that I was not too familiar with but being a linguistic geek and a brain nerd, I was immediately intrigued. And I thought it would be a…

  • Corporate World to Entrepreneurship

    “A lot of people, when they start a business they will throw themselves into getting out there doing the marketing, ‘I must get clients, I must get leads.’ Stop for a minute, get yourself a cup of tea. And write…