Chasing The White Rabbit
Join Sid Shah to understand how new life trajectories were created because of taking risks and going down the rabbit hole. Chasing The White Rabbit is a podcast where successful people speak about the journey and circumstances before they decided to take a major risk and how their world changed. In intimate, one-to-one conversations, find out what the other side of the rabbit hole is truly like. Hear how the guest's new realities have resulted in opportunities unimagined, and how their base fundamentals and assumptions have shifted.
Episodes
23 episodes
#23: Casey Lau (Co-Host Rise Conference): The conference industry post Covid
Casey Lau (Co-Host Rise Conference) and I discuss the conference business post-Covid:Are people getting Zoom fatigue?How the conference industry will change post CovidNew competition models such as Clubhouse, Pod...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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25:41
#22: Maria Nguyen (Founder, Art of Plating): Everything you need to know about the Art of Plating
Maria Nguyen (Founder of the Art of Plating) and I talk about this unique aspect of the culinary experience:What is plating?The personal expression involved in serving your foodSimple tactics to up your plating e...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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20:36
#21: Dr. Watson (nationally renown GI): Everything you need to know about poops, probiotics, and clean living
Dr. Rabindra Watson (nationally renown medical GI) and I talk about why the Gut is so interesting and as important as the brain, we discuss:The comparisons of the complexities and unknowns of the Amazon forest to the Gut
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Season 1
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32:13
#20: Todd Gitlin (is BACK!): Qualities to get hired, tech companies are hiring, and the funding landscape
Todd Gitlin of Safire Partners discusses the landscape for start-ups, the funding stages, and valuations, and:What companies are telling him about recruiting top talent The qualitative levers to pull to get hired: b...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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34:32
#19 Matthew Hertz (Supply Chain Guru): Supply chains AC (After Covid) and BC (Before Covid)
This week I get to speak to Matthew Hertz (supply chain guru) on the impact of Covid on supply chains and how that affects the consumer, we talk about:The archetypes of supply chains AC (After Covid)Redundancies and conti...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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32:41
#18 Miss Malini: From back-up dancer to media mogul
Miss Malini is Founder of Miss Malini Media: hear how she started as a back-up dancer, took a massive risk to jump on the radio, and then do it again to blog (when that wasn't a thing)How to draw the line between positivity, authe...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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29:51
#17 Lydia Fenet: From an intern to the most powerful woman in the room
Lydia Fenet is a MD at Christies Auction house, listen to how she wiggled her way into an internship with the top auction house in the world, The story of how she parlayed the internship into creating her own department, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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27:04
#16 Yancey Strickler: From founding Kickstarter to developing Bentoism
Excited talk to Yancy Strickler, founder of Kickstarter on the podcast to discuss a lot of topics around Bentoism and the flow state of life, How kickstarter was founded in the last downturn, Bentoism and our li...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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38:04
#15 Jason Baumgarten: Advice from a top executive recruiter on being a 'good' leader in crisis
Jason Baumgarten is part of the leadership team at Spencer Stuart, The premier executive search firm places board members, executives and CEOs for some of the most important global companies, He highligh...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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44:39
#12 Shaan Puri: Frameworks for living an interesting life - from sushi to acquisitions, Twitch and podcasting
Looking at his life as seasons of a TV series or chapters in a book led Shaan Puri to make waves in various different industries. His philosophy is that you should follow your curiosities and passions, try new things, take risks and experiment....
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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36:58
#11 Sid Shah: Reflections on the podcast
Chasing The White Rabbit is all about sharing stories of incredible and inspirational people who’ve achieved success. It’s about digging into the life-altering moments that culminate in something beyond your wildest imagination. Success is so m...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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11:13
#10 Yu-Kai Chou: From gamer to the pioneer of gamification
It began as an intense passion for gaming and grew into a philosophy – a way of life. Yu-Kai Chou is one of the earliest pioneers of a concept called ‘gamification’. Having put his “heart and soul” into the game ‘Diablo II’ and spending countle...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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32:33
#9 Alex Masmej: From crypto to decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO’s)
At just 23 years old, Alex Masmej is already making waves in the crypto space. He believes technology has the ability to change the world and views the blockchain revolution as the key to achieving this. His main focus is decentralized autonomo...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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36:21
#8 Professor Kevin Folta: Produce, pesticides, organic and GMO; going down the rabbit hole of health
This week’s white rabbit is health, one which we are forever chasing, whilst often going in the wrong direction. Professor Kevin Folta is on a mission to help people make sense of the rights and wrongs of what to eat. Kevin is a horticultural s...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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39:00
#7 Alex Lawrence: From building communities to leading a prestigious business school
From extensive work with nonprofits, to work on the Riordan fellowships at Anderson Business School, Alex Lawrence now sits as the assistant dean of Anderson and has built his life around giving back to the community. He’s made mentoring and he...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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26:39
#6 Karan Wadhera: From the cushy world of Goldman Sachs to the Wild West of cannabis
Following a long career in sales and trading at Goldman Sachs and Nomura, Karan Wadhera went on to make a string of exciting career moves. In college, he worked with the likes of Snoop Dogg and John Legend on raising their digital profiles. He ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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30:17
#5 Ajay Fresh: Giving back - a catalyst for exciting opportunities
What began as a last-minute attempt to do something good grew into an initiative spanning 150 cities around the world. HashtagLunchbag was born one Christmas in LA when AJ Fresh gathered his friends and headed to the local grocery store to buy ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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21:23
#4 Todd Gitlin: A framework to take the uncertainty out of major career decisions
When you’re looking to quit your job to start something big, you can’t take an average approach. Whether you want to be an operator, an investor, an advisor or director, or to lead an organization, Todd Gitlin has a six-dimensional framework yo...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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25:28
#3 Pia Lindstrom: How a woman from Sweden disrupted the LA nightlife scene at 23 and built a career around creating opportunities
It started as a desire to create an epic after-party, a space to bring together creatives and like-minded individuals. But Xenii quickly became one of the most exciting production companies in Los Angeles, and the local nightclubs feared the co...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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25:44
#2 Jason of Beverly Hills: From trinkets to celebrity bling; turning $400 into a global jewellery empire
Having no knowledge of jewellery didn’t stop Jason Arashben from becoming one of LA’s most successful jewellers. Now CEO of Jason of Beverly Hills, he has tapped into his incredible skills as a communicator, creating a multi-million dollar oper...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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30:17
#1 Dee Murthy: The road to fame and how that reduced customer acquisition cost
The road to success can be fraught with difficulties, but for Dee Murthy it truly has been a journey of discovery. He is co-founder of the LA-based fashion brands Five Four Group and Young & Reckless, and is also a presenter of the Deetour ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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32:05
#14 Dr Michael Gillam: Dark Data, Exponential Computing, and the Age of Biotech
Dr Michael Gillam is CEO of HealthLabThe company uses AI to analyse “dark data”He highlights the enormous scale of data available to usExplains the power of “backcasting” in decision makingDiscusses our ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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32:24
#13 Neil Harbisson and Manel De Aguas: Life as a cyborg and the transpecies movement
In this episode, we meet two people who consider themselves cyborgs. The cultural challenges of being born colorblind led Neil Harbisson on a mission to create a system that would allow him to defy his limitations. Astonishingly, he did it! Whe...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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30:33