In this episode, we are speaking to a dear friend and powerhouse Helena Wasserman. She’s on a mission to accelerate the transition to impact and sustainability as the default way of investing and building companies. Her career started at The Clinton Foundation and Ashoka and then moved into impact technology with Techstars and Big Data for Humans. She then went on to scale Top Tier Impact, the global ecosystem for impact investors and leaders. And is an angel investor herself. Helena was a...

In this episode, we are speaking with Victoria Wong, Head of Engineering for Geo Mobility for Google and Grace Chua Corporate Communications Manager at Google. Two powerhouse women who I thoroughly enjoyed speaking to and learning from! Victoria leads efforts in products and engineering, which includes building new experiences on Google Maps and working with forward-thinking governments across the region to achieve a more sustainable future. Grace leads communications efforts in Singapore...

In this episode, we are speaking to John Pabon, sustainability author, consultant, and speaker. He has spent two decades in the business of saving our Earth. Having worked for the United Nations and McKinsey, John has studied sustainability firsthand from factories to inside Fortune 500 companies. He is the founder of Fulcrum Strategic Advisors, Programme Director for Asia Sustainability Leaders Council at the Conference Board, advisor to the US Green Chamber of Commence and author of...

In this episode, we are speaking to Julien Vincent, executive director of Market Forces, a campaigning organisation working to shift finance and investment away from fossil fuels in time to avoid runaway global warming. Market Forces believes that the banks, superannuation funds and governments that have custody of our money should use it to protect – not damage – our environment. Previously Julien spent 6 years as a campaigner with Greenpeace Australia. And he was recently one of 6 winners...

In this episode, we speak with Taya Stapelfeldt, an Ibiza-based somatic leadership coach, mentor and embodiment trainer. She is known by her clients as the ‘woman with the key’ who has a deep and direct connection to the truth. She is a somatic strategist, whose approach combines many years of spiritual practice with leadership coaching, mindset, movement, breath and energy work that enables clients to transform at every level. Trained and certified in the Grinberg Method and the Pantarei...

In this episode, we are speaking with Fabien Cousteau, Aquanaut, Oceanographic Explorer, Environmental Advocate and Founder of Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center & Proteus Ocean Group. As the first grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Fabien spent his early years aboard his famous grandfather’s ships. He is well known for his study of sharks and from 2000-2002, and was also an Explorer-at-Large for National Geographic. Having spent his life raising awareness, exploring and educating...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. Thank you for being one of our listeners in 88 countries around the world. Today we are speaking with David Aikman - Co-Founder & CEO of ESG DAO, an open, democratic, and credibly neutral ESG scoring system that will power a new wave of Web3 applications to engage consumers and incentivize companies to create positive change in the world. Over the last 25+ years, working for the International Olympic Committee and the...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast.  Today we are speaking with Damien Pommeret, the Regional Manager for Western Europe at the Woolmark Company. Committed to contributing to a vibrant, stable and profitable wool industry, Damien is in charge of supporting sustainability and fibre advocacy for The Woolmark Company through ongoing corporate activities. Woolmark is a not-for-profit organisation that works alongside Australia’s 60,000 woolgrowers to research,...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. Thank you for being one of our listeners in 88 countries around the world. Today we are speaking to Aarav Chavda the Co-Founder and CEO at INVERSA Leathers, a fashion materials company that makes environmentally-regenerative leather from invasive species. As a longtime sub diver and environmentalist, after witnessing the damage to coral reefs by the invasive lionfish in the Atlantic he was moved to do something about it. And...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast.  I was blown away by today's guest. Manila Di Giovanni is Monaco’s youngest technopreneur at 21, seeking to create the world’s first-ever Virtual Economy that acts as a bridge between the real world and the virtual one - with her company DWorld. She is currently building the stater greener and more futuristic virtual twin in Monaco. But it is not all metaverse hype - Manila wants to build sustainably and use virtual reality...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. Thank you for being one of our listeners in 88 countries around the world. Today we are speaking to the charming charismatic change-maker that is Sean Lee Davies. An activist, visual artist, tech entrepreneur, and photographer, Sean was formally the Editorial Director of Tatler Asia’s 15 Magazines, where he interviewed and photographed the likes of Marc Jacobs, Keanu Reeves, Leonardo Di Caprio, Catherine Zeta-Jones Yao Ming,...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. Today is a very special episode because I am reposting an episode from the How To Live podcast where I was interviewed. The reason I am doing that is because we went deep on anxiety and mental health. If you’ve been following me for a while you know this is a very important topic to me. I have been in and out of the darkness and have suffered from anxiety since I was 11 years old. And in this interview, I bare my soul, share...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast.  Today we’re chatting to 25-year-old Maanasa Gopal - who took a self-funded 5-year journey across all 7 continents - from hitchhiking across Iran, busking in South Africa, crossing from Zimbabwe to Zambia by foot, visiting the North Korean border, living in Sumatran jungle, flying an aircraft to Antarctica to name a few. She has been invested in crypto since she was 19 which came in handy in a recent carbon-negative...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. If you’ve ever wondered who you are or wanted to understand yourself better or worried about how technology can be used to harness, instead of harm, the future generations, then you will like our guest today. A conscious technologist that combines social impact, blockchain and philanthropy Arnaud Saint-Paul, believes that living in harmony is our birthright. Since an awakening at 13, he’s been on a relentless quest to...

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. By now, you’ve probably heard of the words blockchain, NFTs, web3 buzzing around. And maybe you’ve started to get curious about what it all means. I certainly have. And I’ve been seeing a lot of people who work in the environmental space starting to come out with projects. I’m intrigued about the potential applications and impact for society and the environment with this technology. So today we’re speaking with Matt...

It’s episode 50! A special episode for today - I got to speak with one of the most recognised and followed rock climbers in the world, Alex Honnold (you may have seen the wild documentary about him called Free Solo), alongside Dr Bruce Means, a biologist specialising in herpetology and a National Geographic Explorer. This was a really special conversation about a new National Geographic documentary, airing on Disney+, both Alex and Bruce star in, called “Explorer: The Last Tepui”. It’s time...

How can we be eco friendly but also have an epic time? What is regenerative hospitality? And how do we show others sustainability is not a liability? Big themes that we are deep diving into with Ronald Akili, CEO of the Potato Head Family. In this episode, we cover how to have great holidays and experiences in a better way, work as a playground, making sustainability beautiful and mindfulness as a lifelong journey. It’s time to live wide awake. Stay connected with Ronald: Website:...

How do we easily explain the climate system? What plays the role of our carbon locker room? And why is a solution mindset important? Big themes were deep-diving into with Liz Courtney an award-winning social entrepreneur and documentary-maker and the artist in resident at The Earth Observatory in Singapore. In this episode, we cover how what we do on one side of the world impacts the other side, simple ways to explain our changing climate and oceans, and why we can’t let fear determine our...

Why is reduction more important than more people going vegan? How do we bridge health and the environment? And what will the future of food look like? Big themes that we are deep diving into with serial social entrepreneur Sonalie Figueiras founder & editor-in-chief of Green Queen, founder of SourceGreenPackaging and Ekowarehouse for sourcing of organic products. It’s time to live wide awake. Stay connected with Sonalie: Website: https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/ |...

Why do we need to go against societal thinking when it comes to self-love? How do we actually set ourselves up for success? And why do we need to stop creating stories? Big themes that we are deep diving into with Jamie Varon, writer, author of the upcoming book Radically Content, and creator of Live with Intention, a course on self-trust. In this episode, we cover why self love is not face masks and bubble baths, the danger with over simplifying, how we got the order all wrong, and how we...

How can we move out of darkness and into the light? How can we move out of fear and more into love, harmony and compassion? And how can we unite in a time of deep divisions? Big themes were deep diving into with Her Holiness Sri Sri Sri 1008 Guruji Poonamji. In this episode, we cover why its time to be united, reframing our relationship with the light, why the world needs more light warriors, why we shouldn’t use the word hope and much more. It’s time to live wide awake. A small note for...

How do we continue to drive action? How has COP evolved over the years? And what can we learn from someone who has been a chief sustainability officer for 3 decades? Big themes that we are deep diving into with Esther An, Chief Sustainability Officer at City Developments Limited, awarded one of the top 10 most sustainable companies in the world. In this episode, we cover sustainability as the North Star, the shift of COP to focus on youth, producing sustainability reports for over 13 years,...

How can we navigate greenwashing? Are there any carbon offsets that are effective? And why do we need to get back to the essentials? Big questions that we are deep diving into with environmentalist Kristy D-rutman, known as brown girl green, who also sits on the council of Intersectional Environmentalists. In this episode, we talk about our individual and societal avoidance patterns, what type of carbon offsets are actually effective, reframing the urgency, and the power of pause. It’s...

Is blockchain the future of transparency in fashion? Is the future of fashion circular? And if so, what does it look like? Big questions that we are deep diving into with Stephanie Crespin is the founder and CEO of Reflaunt and StyleTribute - using innovative technology to advance the luxury fashion industry to embrace the circular economy. In this episode, we talk about the scale and potential for a circular fashion industry, where 95% of inventory is locked up, where responsibility should...

Will humans peril in the age of the machines? Why is artificial intelligence one of the scariest and most under-discussed topics of our time? And can we engineer ourselves to happiness? Big questions we are deep diving into with Mo Gawdat, the former Chief Business Officer of Google [X], author of the international bestseller, Solve for Happy and newly released Scary Smart, and host of the Slo Mo podcast. In this episode, we discuss how Mo is on a mission to spread happiness to millions of...