For the latest episode of Getahead - Behind The Curtain we welcome Morning Gloryville's Neil Greenwood to the pod. We talk about his background in recruitment, and the transition from that to becoming the "magical maestro" at the original sober morning rave!
A slightly different episode, this one recorded live at the first Getahead Festival, with founder Dan Kirby speaking to Michael Acton Smith, the CEO of the Calm meditation app, creator of Moshi Monsters, and someone who has really been there, done it when it comes to the rollercoaster ride that is entrepreneurship! Really fascinating conversation, and this is where the phrase "Behind The Curtain" slipped into the Getahead lexicon. It's fascinating to hear a man who seemingly has it all talk about his private fears, stresses and challenges, and how he dealt with these things. Enormous credit must go to Michael Acton Smith, who actually reached out to Getahead after somehow hearing about our first festival, and offered his services. We're incredibly grateful for his time and support, and we hope that there is something in this interview for you, our wonderful listeners!
Will Kirby at Getahead - Behind The Curtain is joined by Jon Salmon for the latest interview. Jon has been involved with Getahead since the very early days, speaking at several of their events. He's had a successful career, creating an award-winning production studio, is a pioneer of live-streaming from festivals, and co-founded branded entertainment agency Byte Entertainment. He is also a passionate mental health campaigner, something driven by his own experiences, losing his father to suicide as a teenager, being sectioned in the late 90s, and then hiding this fact from his friends for nearly 20 years, until another suicide made him reassess, with an unexpected chance to speak on a platform provided by the Royal Family led him to his mental health campaigning. We sat down and discussed his life and work, how he balances these things with a family and his own needs, what techniques he uses to get the most out of life and avoid falling into old traps, the importance of running to him, his passion for music, and much more.
For the latest episode of Getahead - Behind The Curtain, we welcome Wez Saunders, Managing Director of Defected Records, the incredibly successful house music record label and events company, and discuss all manner of topics, ranging from his own personal journey and battles with grief-related depression, changing career as a result of those experiences, all the way through to the considerable success he has enjoyed at Defected, including a trip to the Grammy Awards.
Today, Getahead - Behind The Curtain welcome's James Sutcliffe, Marketing Director at Monster Energy, for a chat about his life, work and ideas - we covered a lot of ground, including his own 2 brushes with cancer and how that impacted him, his role at Monster and what they do for developing musicians, including working with Stormzy. The topics of physical and mental health come up, as does the normalisation of drugs in UK society, and how that relates to mental health.
The 3rd and final interview recorded at Getahead Festival in London, this time with Charlie Walker from Harmonic Finance, one of Getahead's sponsors. He told me about his history building businesses, his struggled balancing the demands of entrepreneurship and family life, health scares, an interesting anecdote about a member of his family who's gone into politics and done rather well, and much more
The 2nd Behind The Curtain recorded at Getahead Festival, which took place at Omeara and The Ministry in London on Friday June 14th 2019. For this episode, I spoke with Emma Mamo, head of workplace wellbeing at the brilliant charity Mind. She gave some great ideas and insights in our short conversation, we touched on how stress and pressure can spill over into mental health issues if not tackled by management, how early on in her career at Mind she had some challenges that required help from more senior figures at the charity, as well as finding out about her habits and routines, and much more. Lots packed into a short pod!
On Friday June 14th 2019 we had the 2nd Getahead festival, our annual 24 hour event. It took place across Omeara and The Ministry in London, with a packed programme of talks, panels, workshops, exercise and meditation classes, all geared towards wellbeing and wellness while getting ahead and making the best of your life and career. I spoke with world-renowned sleep expert Nick Littlehales ahead of his appearance, and got to find out some fascinating ideas and insights.
Our first episode proper! Back in January, Will Kirby had the honour of interviewing Melody Kane live on stage at Omeara as part of Flat Iron Square's Wellness Week. Melody Kane is a renowned club and radio DJ, with a BBC 1xtra residency, and also runs the awesome fitness event No Kane No Gain, which has appeared at various Getahead events, and is fantastic fun! In this conversation we spoke a bit about the surprising influence of LL Cool J on the early days of her DJ career, the importance of sleep and her morning routine and what that consists of, her charity work in Kenya, her belief in gratitude, and much more along the way.
This is just a short introductory episode to tell you a little bit about Getahead, a little bit about the host Will Kirby (aka Santero), and a little about what this podcast will be about - interviews with people about their lives "behind the curtain", away from their public personas, the way they maintain physical and mental health, and through these conversations looking to draw some useful advice and ideas that our listeners can apply to their own lives to better themselves at home and at work. Be sure to subscribe to the show!
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