The Curiosity Dividend Podcast

In this episode I meet Tim Strange in his beautiful beach hut on England's South Coast. Tim is an artist, photographer, educator and, notably, one of only 1,881 people to have completed a solo swim of the English Channel (as at 31st January 2025). Tim talks with great clarity about how he came to take on the challenge of the Channel swim. To put this achievement into perspective as at December 2024 7,120 different people have reached the summit of Mount Everest. Tim also talks about studying fine

A conversation with all round New York City cool cat Shana Dressler, about art practices, unrequited love, family tragedy, rebounding from failure, Jaques Cousteau, patenting McDonald's Golden Arches and Hugh Heffner's Playboy logo, and social impact. Shana gives a very personal, visceral and searingly honest insight into her life, her love of travel and cultural exploration and how she has switched her professional focus from personal goals to supporting emergent businesses seeking to effect

Dan Kieran is a writer, entrepreneur, lecturer, speaker and mentor.The start of my meandering podcast journey was an eclectic conversation with Dan Kieran around the office kitchen table at Unbound, the crowd funding publishing platform that he co-founded to liberate writers - putting them and their readers into a direct relationship. Like a physical Substack of sorts. At the time Dan was growing Unbound as CEO.Channelling an off-piste skier mentality we went all over the place searching for the

I share a somewhat unstructured, whiskey fuelled conversation with the fabulous Dr James Taplin. James is an innovation expert, maker, grower, community anchor and adventurer. James is as humble as apple pie, always puts others first, and is a Trojan behind the success of the Do Lectures. Recorded back in the late phase of the Covid pandemic remotely, James is a wonderful, natural storyteller, and shares all sorts of eclectic