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The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton

Richard Atherton

Being Human is for people who want go deep on what it means to be a human making a difference. We’ll discover how to be better humans at work and in life. We’ll explore leadership, relationships and how to make changes in ourselves and our environments. Nothing will be off limits. Welcome.

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01:15:48

#248 Sawdust on the Factory Floor - with Melissa Swift

The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton ·

2023/03/20

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week I speak with Melissa Swift, author of the book Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace. Sawdust on the factory floor is the metaphor Melissa uses to describe the modern workplace. Just as un-cleared sawdust was a safety hazard in 1800s factories, our accelerated work regimes imperil workers today. As Transformation Leader at HR-focussed consultancy Mercer, Melissa has developed a

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01:03:22

#247 Handling Work Conflict - with Liz Kislik

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2023/03/13

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week I speak with Liz Kislik, a management consultant, executive coach, and prolific Harvard Business Review and Forbes contributor. During her time consulting businesses of all types and sizes for over 30 years, Liz has developed a wealth of experience in dealing with workplace conflict. We usually think of conflict as something that happens between people, but people are just the part of the story that’s

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#246 Developing Trauma Awareness - with Richard Atherton

The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton ·

2023/03/08

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week I go solo to share my perspective on the topic of trauma awareness in the workplace. Taking hints from the work of Dr Ingeborg Bosch and Daniela Seiff, both previous guests on the show, I talk: Defining trauma Why awareness is important How we defend against trauma Signs that people are triggered Links: Dr. Ingeborg Bosch's Episode Daniela Seiff's Episode

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01:00:13

#245 The Mindful Leader - with Reiner Kraft, PhD

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2023/02/27

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week I speak with human potential coach and technology leader Reiner Kraft, Phd. While working as the director of engineering at Yahoo, he started to notice a decrease in his performance, and early signs of burnout, ultimately culminating in getting hospitalised for an anxiety episode. He realised he needed to change. So began a journey of mindfulness and meditation. Reiner is a prolific innovator with 120

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01:15:00

#244 Lessons In Electing Corporate Leaders - with...

The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton ·

2023/02/14

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week I speak with serial founding entrepreneur, start-up investor and democracy reformer Hermann Arnold. In 2001, Hermann decided to ‘build a company to fix the traditional way of working’, developing HR software and naming the company Umantis. He chose to run that company on a democratic basis, having the staff vote for major direction decisions, striking a balance between two worlds: hierarchy and agility. We

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01:22:49

#243 Bridging The Tech-Business Divide - with Nik Silver

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2023/02/03

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week I speak with blogger and former Head of Technology at The Guardian Nik Silver. Nik has spent his career navigating the boundary between Tech teams and The Business. He shares his wisdom on how we can bridge the gap and his approach to leading interventions where communication has broken down. We talk: Start with a problem statement Listening with Clean Language The power of verbatim quotes Connecting coders

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01:23:02

#242 Tao Healing - with Paul Fletcher

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2023/01/27

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week I swing way out with teacher and healer Paul Fletcher. According to Paul, all challenges in life are due to negative information energy and matter that gets stored in your vibrational field (soul), while all success is due to a positive build-up. The secret everyone is looking for is to understand where and how the harmful accumulation occurs and how to remove it and maximize the positive. We

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01:12:03

#241 Beyond Empowerment - with Doug Kirkpatrick

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2023/01/22

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ I've got a great one for you this week. I speak with Doug Kirkpatrick, organizational change consultant, TEDx speaker, executive coach, and author. Doug began his career in the manufacturing sector, ultimately becoming one of the founding employees of The Morning Star Company, a world leader in the food industry that has become famous for its entirely self-managing workforce - that's right, a major blue-collar

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#240 Mister Happiness - with Arnaud Collery

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2023/01/14

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Arnaud Collery, a former stand-up comedian, a serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker and a coach in tech, entertainment and personal growth After 20 years of globe-trotting, he has settled in France, where he leads a personal growth platform called Humanava that teaches human skills through masterclasses. Arnaud is a raging dynamo in all things related to human thriving. We talk: Starting out

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01:29:45

#239 A New Consciousness - with Yuri van Geest

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2023/01/09

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Yuri van Geest, co-author of the book Exponential Organizations. Yuri is a master in helping companies scale and has worked closely with Ray Kurzweil's Singularity University. Until just a few years ago, he was delivering up to three hundred keynotes a year, but he was experiencing burnout. A moment of self-reflection made him re-evaluate his life. This new perspective led him to take a 300km

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#238 Show The Value of What You Do - with Patricia...

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2022/12/30

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Patricia Pulliam Phillips and Jack J. Phillips, authors of the book Show the Value of What You Do. Jack’s journey started in Learning and Development at Lockheed Martin when he had to justify why the company should continue investing in free college tuition for new recruits. He won his case and so started a lifelong passion for helping others prove the value of their projects, however

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#237 Happy Hour is 9 to 5 - with Alexander Kjerulf

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2022/12/18

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Alexander Kjerulf, author of the book Happy Hour is 9 to 5: How to Love Your Job, Love Your Life and Kick Butt at Work. Alexander gives detailed, practical advice on building the skills and energy to become happier and more successful at work and on learning how to deal with everything from nightmare bosses, bullies, miserable co-workers, long-running conflicts, stifling bureaucracy and

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#236 Connect To The Elements - with Justine Clement

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2022/12/05

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Justine Clement, breath coach, founder of multiple companies and a formerly self-confessed ‘on-the-go’ CEO. For many years, she was CEO of an experiential travel company, and no words of warning from others about the importance of slowing down could stop her. She only started to listen after a series of injuries forced her to stop. Her slow recovery invited her to start learning how to ‘be’

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#235 G Cubed - with Lloyd Roberts

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2022/11/25

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Lloyd Roberts, author, serial entrepreneur and tech company co-founder. His book G Cubed: The Only Formula You Will Ever Need to Become Personally Fulfilled, is a powerful self-help guide that pairs real-life stories with a practical recipe for a personal fulfilment formula that will revitalize your potential, activate your success, and level up your entire world. We talk: How losing his

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#234 Making Mondays Great - with Julius Manni

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2022/11/21

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Julius Manni, CEO of the Finnish tech company Vincit. Vincit was originally founded in 2007 with a motto. To be a workplace that wouldn’t suck – not even on Mondays. Starting there, they're blossomed into The Best Place to Work in Finland. They've managed to do that using something they call Leadership as a Service, whereby employees are encouraged to develop themselves and their skills through

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#233 Yang Sheng - with Katie Brindle

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2022/11/12

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Katie Brindle - a force of nature, life healer and expert Chinese Medicine practitioner. After a car accident ended her dreams of becoming an opera singer, she eventually found healing through a visit to a Chinese Doctor on the King's Road in London. The experience was so profound it inspired her to train as a practitioner. Katie's approach focuses on the gap that Western medicine doesn't

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01:04:46

#232 The Factory with No Bosses - with Paul Green, Jr.

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2022/11/08

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Paul Green, Jr., Assistant Professor of Management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin. Paul has a fascinating life story. What started for Paul as a seasonal job testing tomato juice became the start of an adventure in researching and understanding The Morning Star Company. Morning Star is the largest tomato processor in California. With no bosses, it has been

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01:03:57

#231 How to Build a ”WE” Culture - with Kyle McDowell

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2022/10/29

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Kyle McDowell, author, leadership coach and former top executive. Kyle has had an extraordinary career. He left high school to work in a call centre, paid his way through college and ended his corporate career managing tens of thousands of people. In his book, Begin With WE: 10 Principles for Building and Sustaining a Culture of Excellence, Kyle examines the root causes of dysfunction in the

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#230 Axing Line Management - with Philippa Kindon &...

The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton ·

2022/10/22

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Philippa Kindon & Taryn Burden, representing the UK software development company Mayden. Philippa and Taryn share Mayden's genuinely pioneering culture. Mayden has taken self-management from the software team and applied it to the whole company. Philippa and Taryn absolutely give the lie to the belief that removing formal hierarchy inevitably leads to chaos. In fact, it's given them an

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#229 Chase the Light - with Cesar Perez

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2022/10/03

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week, I speak with Cesar Perez, author of Chase the Light. A professional actor with a promising career, Cesar was on a meteoric rise until a car accident left him with a severe brain injury and almost entirely incapacitated. His remarkable resilience, through a grueling physical recovery and the breakdown of his relationship, forms the core of our conversation. We talk: Being coached by an extraordinary

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