The Human Edge
If you think successful people don't have the same insecurities as you - you're mistaken!
This podcast is filled with conversations with fascinating people who have achieved success, in all walks of life, demonstrating that the guests are really no different from you or me.
If they can overcome their insecurities and achieve what they've achieved, you can create what you've always wanted to create too.
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Episodes
27 episodes
When Something Goes Wrong, Own Up To It - Nicolas Trindade
Nicolas Trindade is a Senior Portfolio Manager at AXA Investment Managers, responsible for managing global and sterling credit portfolios running into hundreds of millions of pounds.If you're thinking "this is going to be a dry episode"...
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Episode 27
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53:22
Look Inside Yourself To Find Your Unique Gifts - David Brown
David Brown is a life coach, a former Antarctic research scientist, and a martial arts instructor. David is also founder of the Institute of Sovereign Leadership.This is one of my favourite conversations to date. I loved David's thought...
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Episode 26
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1:05:43
A Really Good Novel Helps To Heal People - Amanda Craig
Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. Born in South Africa in 1959, she grew up in Italy, where her parents worked for the UN, and was educated at Bedales School and Clare College Cambridge.After a brief tim...
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Episode 25
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1:08:17
Breaking Barriers - Euphemia Annor Rwigema
Sometimes you meet someone in life who has such an extraordinary journey that you want to have them share it with you. Euphemia began life in a small village in Ghana and now leads the legal team for Kraft Heinz’s Northern Europe b...
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Episode 24
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59:02
It's Become Increasingly Difficult To Separate The Political From The Personal - Conor Gearty KC
Conor Gearty KC is a founder member of Matrix Chambers. His practice as a barrister is primarily in human rights law and in public law, together with work in the field of corporate social responsibility. Apart from his work as a ba...
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38:58
Is University Really The Key To A Good Life? - Madeleine Holt
Madeleine Holt is a filmmaker, entrepreneur and campaigner in education. Formerly culture correspondent on BBC Newsnight, she makes films about innovative, community-minded comprehensive schools through her enterprise, Schools on Screen. She ru...
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Episode 22
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56:33
The Satisfaction Is In The Challenge - Professor Mark Peters
Professor Mark Peters is Consultant Paediatric Intensivist at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), Professor of Paediatric Intensive Care at UCL Great Ormond St Institute of Child Health, and lead author in a landmark NHS study, which has found...
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Episode 21
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50:26
The Granddaddy of Gaming - Andy Payne OBE
Andy Payne is without doubt one of the pre-eminent figures in the UK's video games industry.A 40 year (and counting career) has seen him, among many other things, run Mastertronic from 1988 – 2015, chaired trade body Ukie from 2005-2015...
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Episode 20
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1:09:39
The Trauma Still Sits With Me Today - Stevie Griffiths
Stevie Griffiths started his working life in the boxing ring, turning professional at an early age. After retirement, he found a new passion in youth work and is now a social entrepreneur, bringing together communities in the King's Cross area ...
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Episode 19
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1:09:50
Not Spending Enough Time With My Kids Gave Me Toxic Levels Of Guilt - Paula Keve
Paula Keve is a PR powerhouse! She now owns and runs her own consultancy (Intra PR) and across her 20+ year career in PR has worked with well known brands such as Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, BNP Paribas, Headspace and Tinder.Thi...
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51:42
Who Are You Outside Of What You Do? - Sydney Sam
Sydney Sam is an African entrepreneur on a mission to transform the continent, one creative solution at a time. He's a four times founder, a global speaker, an entrepreneurship educator, a brand/marketing leader and in 2019 made the Forbes 30 u...
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Episode 17
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57:19
A Life Full of Wildness - Mark Dowds
Mark Dowds is a serial entrepreneur, currently scaling the Belfast based RESPONSIBLE, a pioneering tech company in the resale industry. Mark was formerly a Church Minister, and brings a uniquely spiritual approach to business and to life. Mark'...
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Episode 16
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1:10:32
For Me Failure Means Staying Still - Kitch
Kitch is a 25 year old rapper from Walthamstow, East London. He was born with a speech impediment and it wasn’t until he found fluency in rap that his journey as a once frustrated young man, blossomed into that of an artist expressing his voice...
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Episode 15
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1:00:34
Some Surgeons Really Do Have A God Complex - Jeremy Crane
Jeremy Crane is a consultant transplant and vascular surgeon based in London. His practice encompasses kidney and pancreas transplantation, dialysis access surgery, vascular surgery (including varicose vein surgery) and he has a specialist inte...
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Episode 14
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53:50
How I Cured Myself Of Anxiety - Sam Kukathas
Sam Kukathas has pioneered a new approach in personal development and transformative guidance called Neuro Resonance Optimisation™️ - a revolutionary system using self-generated sound which helps leaders to break through the emotional, mental a...
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Episode 13
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57:16
A Customer Service Masterclass - Muktaru Kargbo
Mucktaru Kargbo, or MK, as most people know him, is a multi-award winning, high-end barber, who is as skilled cutting European hair as he is cutting African hair. He's worked in salons, on TV, in film, for the catwalk, in session s...
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1:13:31
Beyond The Brink Is The Beginning - Richard Wain
For over 14 years, Richard Wain has been supporting local businesses and organisations to impact the world positively through their digital marketing activities and to connect with their clients through authentic storytelling as the founding di...
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Episode 11
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58:21
I Had To Protect My Mental Health For The Sake Of My Business - Frank Reeves
Frank Reeves is an entrepreneur and tech investor. He co-founded and was the CEO of avvio.com and allora.ai, until his exit in 2022. He is now the Founding Partner at Voyria, a fund investing in start-ups in the travel sector.Frank and ...
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Episode 10
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1:03:07
After Silicon Valley I Wanted To Put Something Back - Richard Morris
Richard Morris was a pioneer in Silicon Valley, building the internet infrastructure and services we use as utilities today. After a successful exit and moving back to the UK, Richard wanted to focus more on social impact and co-fo...
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Episode 9
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40:29
Fame Filled Me With Dread So I Said "I'm Out" - Leo Elstob
Leo Elstob, aka Leo Zero, is a true creative - a graphic designer, a radio presenter, a DJ and a remixer for the likes of Dua Lipa, Florence and the Machine, David Bowie and Lou Reed, among other things.Whether you're a creative person,...
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Episode 8
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1:22:50
How I Trained My Mind For Success - Mark Ridderhof
Mark Ridderhof is a former professional basketball player and is now Head of Sales of a UK-based scale-up.Mark is passionate about people and companies and helping to empower them to reach their goals. He is endlessly curious about why ...
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Episode 7
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59:53
I Believe I Was Supposed To Go To Prison - Patrick Onyido
Patrick Onyido is a super-talented, self-taught baker. He's the owner of a bakery and cafe business in North London, Paddy Cakes, which has become a hub for the local community, and has a loyal following of customers as a result of the sensatio...
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Episode 6
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1:01:09
There Is Nothing More Beautiful Than Self-Confidence - Mia Maugé
Mia is a model, with collaborations including Vichy, L’Oreal Paris, Armani, Max Factor, and M&S. She is also a panel speaker, a content creator, and a writer. She’s done commercial voiceovers, and landed a role as Disney’s first bl...
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47:36
How I Went From Doctor to CEO - Rich Scott
Rich Scott is CEO of Genomics England, a UK government owned organisation that partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics, helping to find the causes of disease and the development of new treatments.This was a ...
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Episode 4
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54:42
Taking Action In The Face of Fear - Gabriel Van Rel
Gabriel Van Rel began studying the various martial arts of Aikido, Judo and Tae Kwondo from the age of seven. At sixteen, he was invited to represent Team USA at the North American Cup, winning silver and bronze medals. In 1993, he was the youn...
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