Change Makers: an invitation to think differently

Change Makers An invitation to think differently

Remarkable times are an invitation to think differently.

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On Space and Time

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The Episodes

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The future is in our hands

How to understand the world

ARA KUSUMA

SIR MICHAEL MORPURGO OBE

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Why the planet needs to be in fashion

Bring out the entrepreneur in everyone

ARIZONA MUSE

PROFESSOR MUHAMMAD YUNUS

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Why fortune favours the prepared mind GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS

How sport can change your life NANA BADU

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What it means to truly listen

Living a life: make it happy not perfect

DAME EVELYN GLENNIE

POPPY JAMIE

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Taking action with a loving heart

Pushing your boundaries: how to see it

KERRY KENNEDY

SHARMADEAN REID MBE

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Stories can make us fly

Dare to think: always speak your mind

MARK GATISS

YANIS VAROUFAKIS

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The Collaborations

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Contents

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An introduction to Change Makers Change Makers host Michael Hayman explains the ethos of the podcast, what his guests all have in common and why questions are as important as answers.

From Baroness Helena Morrissey and Lord Bilimoria to Lord Dubs and Beatie Wolfe, via Arizona Muse, Sir Michael Morpurgo MBE and General David Petraeus; these names, with hugely different career trajectories and spheres of influence, are united by an active commitment to change.

Their fascinating lives and opinions have been explored over the past year as part of Change Makers, powered by Seven Hills. “A tapestry of tales about the human experience” is how its host

– entrepreneur, author and broadcaster Michael Hayman – describes the podcast.

“I’m speaking to the contrarians and the positivists in challenging times – think of it as a Canterbury Tales for the lockdown era. At its heart are the many different experiences that shape lives.” Michael has interviewed activists and writers, politicians and business leaders about the experiences and ideas that have shaped their lives, the insights they can share as a result and thoughts on ‘what’s next’ for the world.

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Of utmost importance, says Michael, has been knowing how to listen; really listen. “Our guests have such incredible stories, and when you listen carefully you can think differently and in so doing, help to reveal an inner truth.” He does prepare a ‘story arc’, following extensive research, which aims to open up where a guest’s story might take him.

“Sometimes you call it completely wrong. [Economist] Yanis Varoufakis, for example – my research had told me that this was a man who had made up his mind, and that’s what gave him the firepower of belief and certainty. And as it turns out that wasn’t the right story; he’s full of doubt and questions about his views and where things go from here.

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The podcast launched in May 2020 but prior to that, Michael had hosted Change Makers as an annual event to bring together the many people who seek to deliver on the promise of business as a force for good. “I was encouraged by one of our early guests, big data pioneer David Richards, to turn it into a podcast. It was very much his encouragement that got me thinking about it. With the pandemic, it became clear this was a time where countercultural thinking was going to lead the way and give us the breadcrumb trails to what the future might look like. Change Makers has always been a big idea because it was all about the human experience, and how to try and flip life from a glass half empty to a glass half full.”

This takes confidence, and the experience gained by conducting 83 episodes of Change Makers, and counting. A pivotal interview came with Russ Shaw. “At face value it was the story of a very successful American technology entrepreneur,” explains Michael. “Once we got going, it became quite clear there were interesting, important parts of the story not commonly told… My established script was null and void. I felt that it was a breakthrough interview; the podcast took on a different style [after that], to try and get behind the story.”

It reminded me: ‘Don’t die by your own script; listen to what’s being said.’ I go in very well prepared, but it’s also my responsibility to follow where a guest is taking me.”

This style is fast-paced, affectionate, humorous and “with, we hope, reach for listeners”, says Michael. It’s a home for meaningful conversation, where Michael asks questions on behalf of listeners, one of whom described the podcast as ‘egofree interviewing’; Michael’s response is to point out that “the

problem with a lot of celebrity interviews is that their ‘celebrity’ can get in the way of the questions. Good interviewing is about good questions, and putting guests at ease”.

While this is a priority, Michael admits he does get nervous.

“I feel amazing afterwards – usually I’m fizzing with ideas and a huge amount of gratitude to have been in the company of people who are choosing to reveal something about themselves. The run-up is a bit like revising for an exam; cramming a lifetime’s worth of knowledge into 30 minutes, so I can do justice to all of the nuances of a conversation, and get beyond the often-told story. Fortune favours the prepared mind – it’s my favourite quote, because all the preparation doesn’t go to waste if it supplies you with a really powerful backstory and understanding.”

Michael ends by recommending Ara Kusuma’s episode (turn to page 18 for a preview) because “it really captures what Change Makers is all about, telling the stories of people doing incredible things – names you’ll know, and those you won’t have heard of before. I’m interested in the stories of people’s lives, because most lives are fascinating.”

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Change Makers - A Year in Change

On space and time The new Change Makers podcast track was created by Beatie Wolfe, the brilliantly talented and innovative ‘musical weirdo and visionary’ who is breaking boundaries with every new project.

“So much of the magic of life is around us but we’re blind to it. Nature is simultaneously imagination itself, inspiring our greatest art, but it’s also the great technology of all.

We could learn so much from looking at ecosystems and how species have evolved over millions of years.” These are the words of Beatie Wolfe, expanding on her relationship with the natural world as part of her Change Makers interview with Michael Hayman, less than a month after she graced the virtual Main Stage at the Nobel Prize Summit.

Before her were former US Vice President Al Gore and Sir David Attenborough.

These speakers, and everyone else tuned in, had the opportunity to see and hear Beatie’s latest work From Green to Red, an environmental protest about the human impact on the planet; using 800,000 years of historic NASA data, Beatie created a visualisation of the CO2 concentration in the Earth’s atmosphere and was “beyond honoured” to be invited to speak and perform. The summit, themed One Planet, One Future, asked questions about how humankind’s future on Earth will be achieved and shaped; as Beatie explained in her conversation with Michael, these

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The name of Beatie’s performance was taken from the title of a song she wrote in 2006 after seeing An Inconvenient Truth, and asking the question: is it too late to turn back?

Beatie reimagines the music video format (and protest song), taking the audience on a journey through our planet’s timeline. “This piece is about re-presenting data in a way that people can literally see differently, using the power of art and music to make it evocative and relatable, so that people can really get a sense of where we are right now.”

Pure Being was played as part of this performance and Beatie has very kindly allowed Change Makers to use the song as its

soundtrack. Podcast host Michael is “personally thrilled. Beatie’s music speaks to the journey of life, and its questions, which are so consistent with the themes of Change Makers. Everything Beatie is about, as evidenced by her episode, feels like the right influences for the show. She is an incredible musician and for us to have her music gracing the show is just wonderful.”

Beatie, recognised by WIRED as someone who is “changing the world” and by the UN as an innovator who is Impossible to Ignore, is someone Michael was delighted to welcome on the podcast. Her career has been a creative daisy chain of ‘firsts’; she released her third album Raw Space as an ‘anti-stream’ from the quietest room on earth (and beamed it into space via the Big Bang horn), created a wearable record jacket and co-founded a ground-breaking project looking into the power of music for people with dementia.

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are topics about which she is passionate: “Music and art and nature are these wonderful instant connectors that make us present, that make us aware and keep us alive inside”.

Born in London and now living in LA, Beatie has spent her whole life dreaming up new ways of consuming music that bridge the digital and the physical. Michael noted that there is innovative technology running through all of her work – which Beatie modestly describes as “just having a fondness for bringing together things that enhance each other”, but she warned against technology taking centre stage. “Art has to humanise technology and technology has to be of service to art, or facilitate art. Technology can never lead. Art and nature are core to our humanity – this was something neurologist Oliver Sacks identified. These two things really make us vital – technology is not core to our humanity… ironically perhaps I use technology to reintroduce a more tangible, old-school, ceremonial experience around music and art in general, in a way that is totally invisible, and not done for the sake of doing it.”

For someone only in her early 30s, Beatie’s approach to time, and her legacy, reflects a wisdom beyond her years. “I’ve always wanted to make music for generations to come, to leave behind a great catalogue. And on the entrepreneurial

The song Pure Being is about being over doing. It’s about finding that different place and space to exist from and the magic that opens up.

side, to open people’s eyes to what music can do.” And, when it comes to the generations before us, Beatie is just as committed, having launched a pioneering study in 2014 that The Times described as ‘profound’. Beatie’s aim was to objectively prove the power of music, in this case music unconnected to memory, for people living with dementia. The results are hugely positive and provide compelling data which can significantly alter the way people care for those living with dementia and how they can engage and connect via the power of music. “If it is music and not simply memory stirring the soul and creating the magic,” Beatie says, “then the field opens up to new and wonderful possibilities for dementia care”.

Her aim in life, as she told Michael, is to defy the limitations of boxes and labels by “opening up a lot of those boxes, and connecting fields that were traditionally siloed”. The future is bright for all who are touched by Beatie’s “weird and wonderful explorations”, resolutely unique to this artist, and curated with care, curiosity and huge creativity.

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The Episodes

Lessons from a contrarian

Is it “a good time to be a girl”?

David Richards Co-founder and CEO, WANdisco

Baroness Helena Morrissey DBE Founder, 30% Club

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The guts to go for it

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Re-writing the art of possible

Lord Bilimoria President, CBI; Founder and Chairman, Cobra Beer

Stephen Welton Executive Chairman, BGF

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Why mindset matters: make it positive

Ideas to live by: more than a pandemic

Renée Elliott

Will Butler-Adams OBE

Founder, Planet Organic and Beluga Bean

CEO, Brompton Bicycle

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Why disability is our business

Make it good: top tips for a life well led

Caroline Casey

Wayne Hemingway MBE

Founder, The Valuable 500

Co-founder, Hemingway Design

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Campaigning for the future of tech

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Make your voice count: building a movement

Russ Shaw CBE Founder, Tech London Advocates LI ST EN N O W

Changing the narrative around British black men Cephas Williams Founder, 56 Black Men LI ST EN N O W

Kate and Ella Robertson One Young World L I S T E N NO W

Making progress: how to do it Dayne Turbitt and Margarete McGrath Dell Technologies UK & Ireland L I S T E N NO W

Ara Kusuma Social entrepreneur, Ashoka Young Changemaker and National Geographic Young Explorer Committed to improving the lives of those around her, and still just 24 years old

“Cows were my first love; they are my source of energy and happiness.” Eightyear-old Ara asked for one of her own and found that methods for cow-rearing varied hugely from farm to farm. She questioned why all animals couldn’t live in the best conditions; with support from her parents, the answer was Project Moo: For the Welfare of All, which brought together 150 farmers, all testing the new approaches and sharing what worked for the benefit of all. The processes became cleaner and income from new dairy products and sustainable fertiliser increased. At just 11,

Ara was elected a Young Changemaker

by Ashoka, the global platform for social entrepreneurs. She studied marketing and management in Singapore, returned to Indonesia and has gone on to launch a number of organisations. These include URTravelearner, to help others envision changemaker lives by seeing social entrepreneurs in action, and Aha! Project, to improve the access to study resources for children during the pandemic. Ara is dedicated to righting the wrongs she sees in the world and making lasting change.

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A key question

Ara: “I received a lot of ‘No’ as well. If we imagine the heart with several layers, the outer layer is a tough one… but the inside layer is the soft one, where we have the empathy to understand other people’s perspective, and why they’re saying no. By understanding their perspectives, I could understand why they said no and overcome that.”

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State of mind: “Once you have a changemaker mindset, when you see that some things could be improved, you can take the step and make the change.”

Digital connectivity: “[The internet means that] we are able to not only aim for those locally but also nationally and internationally…

But growing up with technology has made me realise how important humanity is, and connectivity.”

Individual agency: “We need every single person to own their power and agency in making a difference, instead of waiting for a handful of leaders or organisations to take action. To be an active player, every young person should learn and practice change making.”

Generation Change: “The Young Changemakers are from India, Indonesia, Brazil, Bangladesh, the US, working on so many different issues. It is still not the norm for young kids in our countries to make a change but it’s not impossible.”

What are you watching?

Our Planet and The Adventures of Merlin.

Who is your biggest inspiration?

My mother. She respects and appreciates the slightest thing, which may be overlooked or underestimated by others, such as and especially her role as a mother and a housewife.

Best tip for life?

Think of it as if you’re going to make a history – everyone has their own pace and path, but those who give up will never make one. How do you want to be remembered?

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Michael: “When I interviewed British entrepreneur and political leader Lord Bilimoria, he said for him the biggest challenge had always been overcoming No. In those early days, when you were talking to farmers who might well have been doubtful, to what degree did being told no actually embolden you to say ‘I’m going to get to Yes’?”

Ara’s Lockdown List

Arizona Muse Environmental activist, sustainability consultant and model Once endorsed by Vogue as “the new face of American fashion”, now fashion’s new face of activism

Since the start of her career in 2010, Arizona has fronted campaigns and walked in shows for every designer from Burberry to Dior, as well as appearing on the cover of each major Vogue.

Her career trajectory as a model was remarkable, and her success in the industry significant; Arizona is now using this deeprooted influence to campaign for a more sustainable, environmentally conscious and transformative future of fashion. She has protested alongside Extinction Rebellion and embraced the role of sustainability consultant for fashion companies who

wish to review their environmental impact.

She sits on the board of The Sustainable Angle, a non-profit organisation that initiates and supports projects that minimise the environmental impact of the fashion industry, and contributes to Fashion Revolution, a team of brands, business leaders and policymakers who work towards radically changing the way clothes are sourced, produced, and consumed. “This season’s must-have is the continuation of life on Earth” sums up her motivation and sense of urgency to save a world that is running out of time.

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@Arizona_Muse @arizona_muse

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A key question Michael: “I interviewed Tristram Stuart, the Toast Ale founder, and he said: ‘If you want to change the world, you have to throw a better party than those who are destroying it’. Is that part of your vantage point, that you can see things through a different lens when it comes to issues like climate action? You have something different, something new, that can move people and bring a different dialogue into their lives when it comes to the way they consider the future of the planet?”

Arizona: “So much so. Continuing with that party analogy, I have been to some of the world’s best parties and yet I am having so much more fun now in my activism and my sustainable life than I did before.”

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The nature of activism: “It doesn’t have to be shouty and it doesn’t have to be aggressive; it can be whatever you want it to be.”

Arizona’s Lockdown List What are you watching?

One Strange Rock on Netflix Who is your biggest inspiration?

Rachel Carson, the biologist who bravely started the environmental movement with her book Silent Spring.

Best tip for life?

Grow. Whether you are developing yourself or nursing a houseplant – progression is immensely satisfying.

The balance between action and knowledge: “We must keep asking why until we get to the truth.”

The power of publicity: “Imagine if the world responded to the climate emergency like it has to coronavirus; what action would we take?”

Democratising ethical fashion: “Sustainability has never been so stylish, but how can we overcome barriers to entry?“

The urgency of now: “A farmer once said to me, ‘Humans do their best work when they are in a hurry’. We do do our best work in a hurry.

It really helped me feel that we’re going to do it together, and we’re going to do it fast.”

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Motherhood: “No one ever said I wish I’d spend less time enjoying life, and less time with my kids.”

How to make your purpose count

The art of happiness Sir Anthony Seldon

Natalie Campbell

Contemporary Historian

CEO, Belu Water

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Finding the future: the tech story Eileen Burbidge MBE Founding Partner, Passion Capital

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Learning to laugh: how to keep upbeat Rory Bremner Comedian and ADHD campaigner L I S T E N NO W

Releasing the power of imagination

Taking action with a loving heart

Benn Cunningham and Charlotte Ansbergs

Kerry Kennedy

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra LI ST EN N O W

President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

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Get active: make a difference Paul Lindley OBE Founder, Ella’s Kitchen

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Fearless leadership Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith CBE President, British Chambers of Commerce

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The Greatest Showman: advertising

Newsroom: narrating great events

Matt Scheckner

Justin Webb

Global CEO, Advertising Week

Journalist & Broadcaster

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Incredible women: how to live and love

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Doing the right thing: make it your adventure

Anne Sebba Author, Presenter and Lecturer LI ST EN N O W

Maurice Ostro OBE Chair, Business Action Council L I S T E N NO W

General David Petraeus US Army General, Former Director of the CIA, professor and strategic leader Big ideas, communication, oversight and the twinned power of preparation and opportunity

General David Petraeus served almost 40 years in the US Army; CNN described him as the most effective US military commander since Eisenhower and his military career culminated with six consecutive commands, five of which were in combat. After Senate confirmation by a vote of 94-0, he then served as Director of the CIA. Today he is a partner with global investment firm KKR and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute, which he established in 2013. He is on the board of directors at

Optiv and FirstStream, a venture investor in more than 15 start-ups, and engaged in a variety of academic endeavours.

Accolades include being named one of America’s 25 Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report, and being awarded four Defence Distinguished Service Medals.

Napoleon famously said, “Give me lucky generals” – Petraeus believes in the words of philosopher Seneca; “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”.

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A key question

David: “One of the aspects [of my attitude] is a recognition that life is a competitive endeavour and you have to embrace that reality. You don’t get a trophy just for showing up in the real world. You do have to commit to being the very best you can be. And I mean this. It has to be pursued with a very considerable amount of intensity.”

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Lessons from losing: “Life has adversity; life has setbacks as well as successes. And the truth is that the mark of the individual is generally more how he or she responds to setbacks, especially if they’ve been personally inflicted, frankly, than how he or she responds to successes.”

Cumulative wins over big victories: “It’s going to be a set of small successes and setbacks along the way. It will be the gradual accumulation, the gradual achievement of progress that does then start to accumulate over time. And you can map it, you can see it, you can feel it.”

Competitive instinct: “The business world is fiercely competitive.

The rewards are extraordinary and the penalties for coming in second or third can often be Chapter 11 – bankruptcy.”

Big ideas: “You have to seek every opportunity, make use of it, exploit it. Every medium, every possible way in which you can communicate the big ideas as effectively as possible throughout the breadth and depth of the organisation.”

What are you watching?

An iPad on which the Zwift digital cycling app is running – which inevitably spurs my competitive instincts into high gear as I peddle my road bike, with the rear wheel removed so that it is on a Wahoo trainer that works with the app.

Who is your biggest inspiration?

Our children and their spouses – and, now, their children! Our kids have made their own way in the world, despite endless moves while they were growing up.

Best tip for life?

Life is a competitive endeavour, embrace that reality and compete – not just to be best overall, but the best you can be, including the best team player you can be.

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Michael: “One of your favourite recent reads was Andrew Roberts’ ‘masterful’ biography of Churchill. He is often quoted as having said, ‘Attitude is the small thing that makes a very big difference.’ Is there a ‘Petraeus attitude’?”

David’s Lockdown List

Dame Evelyn Glennie Award-winning percussionist, public speaker and author This musician’s remarkable career has placed the power of listening front and centre

After beginning to lose her hearing at the age of eight, Evelyn, with the help of her percussion teacher, honed her awareness of sound to the extent that she now describes her body as a “resonating chamber”.

Evelyn was the first solo percussionist and first hearing-impaired student to be accepted in the Royal Academy of Music, and played the first percussion concerto in the history of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in 1992. She has since become the

first person to create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist, recognised when she led 1,000 drummers in the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Today she performs worldwide with the greatest orchestras, conductors and artist, with two GRAMMYs and more than 100 international awards to her name. Evelyn’s mission is ‘To teach the world to listen’, inspire creativity, and improve access to the arts for all children.

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@DameEvelyn @dameevelynglennie

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A key question Michael: “Let’s start with: ‘Really pay attention – that’s what listening is all about’. Do explain that to us.”

Evelyn: “Listening is the thing that glues us all together and I do feel that listening has to start from within. It’s nothing mysterious or zenlike, it’s not attached to religion or anything like that – it’s simply a function that we are all able to do. We all have access to it, and the opportunity. I feel in order to slow our bodies down a bit, we have to pay attention. That’s what listening is. When I glue one note to another note, when I play music, that’s what listening is.”

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Carving a unique path: “I wanted to be a solo percussionist; this did not exist on a full-time basis. So that was completely about listening to my gut instinct… How do I imagine the repertoire that doesn’t even exist yet in order to sustain this career?”

Evelyn’s Lockdown List What are you watching?

Past videos of the great Jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette.

Who is your biggest inspiration?

My dad, because it was what he didn’t say that was important.

Best tip for life?

Listen to yourself.

Rejection: “If [the Royal Academy of Music] refuses me for [my deafness] as opposed to the ability to perform, and to understand, and love the art of creating sound, then we have to think very, very hard about the people you do actually accept.”

The importance of detail: “When I began to lose my hearing, I found myself really paying attention to minute detail that didn’t necessarily create sound; someone’s face, how their eyes moved, what the mouth was doing, the hand gestures and so on.”

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Career longevity: “It takes time, discovery and curiosity; it takes all the ups and downs to give you that experience and resilience.

With listening you’re always trying to engage with a story – we all have a story to tell.”

Imagine: making hope your strategy Valerie Keller Co-founder & Co-chair, IMAGINE

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The path less travelled

The moonshot moment: how to create impact James Chen Philanthropist L I S T E N NO W

Living a life: make it happy not perfect

Mathieu Flamini Professional Footballer and Co-founder of GFBiochemicals

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Poppy Jamie Founder, Happy Not Perfect

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Innovators and visionaries

How sport can change your life

Gavin Poole

Nana Badu

CEO, Here East

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Founder, Badu Sports & Badu Community

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Plant a garden to believe in tomorrow

Diversity is the real deal: inspiring future leaders

Whitney Bromberg Hawkings

Izzy Obeng

Founder, FLOWERBX

Founding Director, Foundervine

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Reflections from the front line of great events

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Why fortune favours the prepared mind General David Petraeus

Sir Max Hastings

Former Director of the CIA

Writer and Historian LI ST EN N O W

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Do what you love: how to find your own path

Kindness and courage: make your own rules

Holly Tucker MBE

Charmian Love

Founder, Holly & Co and Notonthehighstreet

Co-founder and Chair, B Lab UK

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Kerry Kennedy President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, activist and lawyer On global leadership, a life of activism, her father’s legacy and her vision for a kinder world

Kerry, the seventh of Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy’s 11 children, has devoted more than 40 years to the pursuit of equal justice, the promotion and protection of basic rights, and the preservation of the rule of law. As President of RFK Human Rights, she works on a range of issues, including child labour, women’s rights, indigenous land rights, judicial independence, freedom of expression, ethnic violence, immigration,

impunity, and environmental justice; she has led hundreds of human rights delegations in support of these causes. Kerry authored New York Times bestseller Being Catholic Now, as well as Speak Truth to Power and Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope. As her father said, “each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”

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@KerryKennedyRFK @kerrykennedyrfk

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A key question Michael: “We spoke about the legacy of the message you are sharing – it leaves a ‘world of people who are on our side’ is how you described it.

In terms of that message, and ripples of hope for this year and beyond, how do you see things hereon in?”

Kerry: Of the sustainable development goals – two are on track and the other 15 are not on track to fulfilment. We’ve got a long way to go in our communities and our countries and in our world, but that said, maybe because of this isolation during Corona, people have slowed down and had a chance to grieve, to reacquaint themselves with their families, to understand what’s really important and to long for the earth – to long to take a walk outside, to see trees and flowers. There is this moment of re-appreciation, community, connection and this is our moment, to take that loving, kind energy and say ‘that’s the world we want to create and we are going to work towards that world’. We’re going to make that world happen.”

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Kerry’s Lockdown List What are you watching?

Hamilton.

Who is your biggest inspiration?

Robert F. Kennedy.

Best tip for life?

The difference between a victim and a hero is that a hero takes action with a loving heart: Mandela, King, Malala, Maathai, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the kids from Marjory Stoneham Douglas High, Tony Fauci, Colin Kaepernick.

Ripples of hope: “When I started working in human rights in the 1980s, all of Latin America was under right wing military dictatorships; today there’s not one left standing. All of Eastern Europe was under Communist rule; today there’s not a Communist government left. South Africa was at the height of apartheid… Women’s rights were not on the international agenda at all… All of these different movements happened not because governments or armies or multinational corporations wanted them to… but because small groups of determined people created change.”

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Accountability: “Today, of the 100 largest economies on earth, 70 of them are corporations. Five years ago, it was 50 – corporations are more and more powerful than governments so we need to hold them to account.”

Mark Gatiss Screenwriter, actor, comedian, producer and director How this storyteller has remained true to his roots, and optimistic

Mark is one of British television’s most storied names. He rose to prominence 25 years ago, as part of the hugely influential team behind The League of Gentlemen.

Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Jeremy Dyson and Mark brought their unique brand of humour to the mainstream, creating a critically-acclaimed series combining laughter, irreverence and horror. Mark’s

career has since taken him from Dr Who to Dracula, Wolf Hall to Westeros and perhaps most notably, 221B Baker Street as the co-creator of the BBC’s Sherlock alongside Steven Moffatt, where he also took a star turn as the eponymous Holmes’ brother, Mycroft. A story Mark is helping to tell today is that of Britain’s LGBTQ+ history, as a supporter of Queer Britain.

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Change Makers

A key question

Mark: “That line – ‘Never lose sight of your horizons’ – is from Doctor Who, and a not very well-regarded story from the mid-80s.

It’s a great line and it struck me very much at the time as rather beautiful, and a good maxim for life. It’s important to move on, to grow but it’s important to know where you’ve come from, and to keep looking back to it.”

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His early years: “History is a story told by the winners – that’s what they say – and I’ve always found that interesting. I was obsessed with history as a kid, one of my favourite subjects at school. I remember so much of it appealing to me. But you never really question at that age what version you might be being told.”

Pastimes: “Alan Bennett says in his diaries, when you read something in a book written 200 years ago which makes you sit up and think ‘that’s my life’, it’s like someone has reached out a hand from the past. It’s a beautiful feeling.”

The UK’s first LGBTQ+ museum: “[As a supporter of Queer Britain] this is an initiative to rescue so much of gay history. Before the 60s, it tends to be observed through the prism only of police records, which is extraordinary.”

Who is your biggest inspiration?

Alan Bennett and Nigel Kneale.

Between those two extraordinary talents lies my field of interest!

Bennett has a beautiful ability to combine laughs and melancholy and uncanny eye for the absurdities of ordinary life. Kneale was a true visionary. A man who ‘could see round corners’. His speculative science fiction is just extraordinary.

Yet he was also deeply rooted in the ordinary.

Best tip for life?

What is a book that changed your life? I suppose my very first was Great Expectations – which I got as a Christmas present when I was four! When I was finally old enough to read it, the twist made my head reel. I saw the power of story-telling right there

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Michael: “You are a master of observation. I grew up in Sheffield, you grew up in County Durham. I love your line ‘Never lose sight of your horizons’. It feels like you have brought so much of your own story and your own observations into everything that you do. When you talk about the restoration of big characters – Holmes and others – it’s also the restoration of stories that have had an influence on you over the years.”

Mark’s Lockdown List

A life in balance Lucy Cleland Editorial Director, Country & Town House

The search for meaning: how you find it Edeline Lee Fashion Designer

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Pushing your boundaries: how to see it

Bright ideas: how to make them reality

Sharmadean Reid MBE

Dr Jeremy Silver

Founder & CEO, Beautystack

CEO, Digital Catapult

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Thinking big: be a force for good

Bring out the entrepreneur in everyone

Nigel Wilson

Professor Muhammad Yunus

CEO, Legal & General

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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

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Cracking the code for girls

The great escape Tamara Lohan MBE

Anna Brailsford CEO, Code First Girls

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Founder & CEO, Mr & Mrs Smith

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Control how you feel: listen, learn and lead

Never run from danger: what it takes to serve

Alison Goldsworthy

Ryan C. Crocker

CEO, The Depolarization Project LI ST EN N O W

Predicting the unpredictable: see what others don’t

Career Ambassador & Diplomat-in-Residence, Princeton University L I S T E N NO W

Calling it right: the power of prediction Lord Jim O’Neill

Dr Pippa Malmgren

Economist

Economist & Author LI ST EN N O W

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Sir Michael Morpurgo OBE Author, former Children’s Laureate and founder of Farms for City Children Bringing to life the wonder of the world around us through the power of imagination

Sir Michael is renowned for bringing wonder to children and adults alike through his magical storytelling. Having loved Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories as a child, he didn’t begin writing until the early 1970s, in response to the children at the primary school where he taught in Kent. Appointed Children’s Laureate in 2003, a post he had helped to set up with Ted Hughes in 1999, he was awarded an OBE in 2007 and a Knighthood for services to literature

and charity in 2018. He has written more than 130 bestselling books, including War Horse, adapted for a hugely successful stage production by the National Theatre and for a film directed by Steven Spielberg.

With his wife Clare, he set up Farms for City Children in 1976, which offers children and teachers from inner-city primary schools the chance to live and work for a week at one of the charity’s three farms. Over 100,000 children have visited to date.

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A key question Michael H: “That creative spark, that sudden burst of imagination.

Let’s stay with the horse; you see the horse and as the writer, tell us what you saw; about the inspiration that lit up in your mind.”

Michael M: “The inspiration, as it very often is, is something practical.

About 40 years ago now, I met in my pub in Devon one of the three old men who lived in the village who had been in the First World War. I got talking to him and he told me about how he’d been there as a 17-year-old with his horse, who’d been his best friend. I thought that was an interesting story and when I read around it, I discovered, while we’d lost in the region of a million men, about a million horses hadn’t come back as well. There was some kind of connection between the men and the horses… I didn’t know what to do with that, until I thought that most of the novels and poetry about the war tend to be written from one side or the other… Here was an opportunity to tell the story of the universal suffering of that war, through a neutral narrator – and the only neutral narrator I could think of was a horse… Then I got really lucky.

I witnessed a small boy, Billy, a non-speaking boy who’d come to our farm as part of Farms for City Children, in his slippers and dressing gown talking to this horse – talking nineteen to the dozen to the horse.

And I thought it was wonderful, that the horse was listening.”

Michael’s Lockdown List What are you watching?

Sunshine on Leith has comforted us through several evenings. A film that grows out of its music – music and songs by The Proclaimers – it is the story of the homecoming to Leith and Edinburgh of two Scottish soldiers during the war in Afghanistan. The hopes and expectations are high. They have survived. All will be well. But fortune and love are as fickle.

Best tip for life?

Always look on the bright side of it.

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A case for kindness: “The only way we cure the difficulties of society and the world is [through] empathy.”

The joy of children: “I find children fascinating. It’s because they come to life spontaneously. They respond as they feel – as they think.”

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From teaching to writing: “I ran out of other writers’ stories to read, so started making up some of my own… I still do now what I did in front of my class of year 6. I tell stories with complete conviction.”

Professor Muhammad Yunus Academic, activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner When a big idea takes hold, the impossible really does become possible

Professor Muhammad Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983, fuelled by the belief that credit is a fundamental human right. His objective was to help poor people escape from poverty by providing loans on terms suitable to them and by teaching them a few sound financial principles so they could help themselves.

From Professor Yunus’ personal loan of small amounts of money to destitute

basket weavers in Bangladesh in the mid70s, the Grameen Bank has advanced to the forefront of a burgeoning world movement toward eradicating poverty through microlending. Replicas of this model operate in more than 100 countries worldwide and Professor Yunus has been the recipient of numerous international awards for his ideas and endeavours, including the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

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A key question Michael: “The big idea for you is microfinancing. It led to you receiving the Nobel Peace Prize and has brought millions out of poverty. This began with you lending $27 to just 42 people. You by definition are most definitely an entrepreneur. For those unfamiliar with microfinancing, explain the theory and how this journey began for you.”

Muhammad: “Poverty is not created by poor people; it is created by the system... Society doesn’t give those people space so that he and she can grow as tall as everybody else. Creativity inside human beings, irrespective of if you were born in a palace or born on the street, you have the same capability. The system keeps you down and makes other guys go up. We have to fix the system so that everybody can grow as tall as everyone else. So that’s where entrepreneurship comes [in]. I created microcredits because I saw the victims of loan sharks.”

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Muhammad’s Lockdown List In one sentence, describe your new normal.

The pandemic has given us a chance to change the direction of the world from total annihilation to creating a new civilisation of sharing and caring, and making the planet perpetually safe.

Best tip for life?

Imagine the world you want to be in, and go for it, defying everything that tries to stop you.

Human traditions: “Human beings are not born to work for anybody else. For millions of years that we were on the planet, we never worked for anybody. We are go-getters. We are farmers. We are hunters. We lived in caves and we found our own food; we didn’t send job applications.

So this is our tradition.”

Women in microfinance: “Women and young people perhaps understand these problems better because they are most affected by them.”

Future optimism: “Many, many impossibles have become possible.

On those grounds, you can conclude that nothing is impossible for human beings. If something remains impossible, we are not paying enough attention to it.”

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Moment of reset: “If we follow the old ideas, old thinking, old structures, we will follow the same path of destruction that the planet was on before.”

Dare to think: always speak your mind

How to understand the world

Yanis Varoufakis

Sir Michael Morpurgo

Economist, Politician & Author

OBE

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Shining light on a hidden history

Author L I S T E N NO W

Stories can make us fly: how to see and observe

Joseph Galliano Co-founder and CEO, Queer Britain

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Creating opportunity: how to go far Richard Butler and Daniel Nurse

Mark Gatiss Screenwriter & Actor L I S T E N NO W

Pioneering sisters Colleen Amos OBE and Baroness Amos Founders, The Amos Bursary

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Make your mark: getting the job done

Injustice in the world: how to correct it

Lord Michael Grade CBE Television Executive

Stephanie Boyce President, The Law Society

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What happens when everything changes?

The mind’s eye: why love and compassion will win

Melanie Reid MBE

Terry Waite CBE

Award-winning Journalist LI ST EN N O W

Going for good: how to change the conversation Amy Williams Founder & CEO, Good-Loop LI ST EN N O W

Humanitarian & Author L I S T E N NO W

Doing it right: lessons from the greengrocer Richard Walker Managing Director, Iceland Foods L I S T E N NO W

Nana Badu Social enterprise founder of Badu Sports and entrepreneur Empowering young people through sports and mentoring

Nana is founder of Badu Sports & Badu Community, providing top quality PE specialists who mentor and develop children and young people, while simultaneously extending their learning on matters both within and beyond the classroom walls. At Badu Community Nana and his team support young people during critical stages of their lives, from primary school age and working with them as individuals as well as working with their

families. Nana moved to the UK from Ghana aged 10 and faced social exclusion throughout his own childhood; sport motivated him, helped him to understand his worth and gave him direction. Today he is using the lessons he learned to help 5,000 young people in east London each year to stay on the right path and achieve their goals. Nana is backed by Nike, the Mayor of London and the innovation centre Plexal at Here East on the Olympic Park.

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A key question Michael: “At what point did you realise you had agency and empowerment to take control of your life? When did you feel there was a future you could build, from what looked like a very difficult and unpromising set of circumstances?”

Nana: “Everything about my upbringing and background, and [that of] most of the young people we work with, is almost set to make you fail, and not thrive. You’re just in constant survival mode. I got sick and tired of having to work 10 or 15 times harder, and still having the door shut in my face. Still not being supported. I tried to find a way round the excuses… Sport was one of the key things for me. I met people from different walks of life; I spoke to them and they spoke differently. That was the turning point. Why are you dreaming? Thinking of building a house and having holidays, and a family? My mindset was how am I going to eat tomorrow? How’s that fair? We are in the same team wearing the same shirt.”

Nana’s Lockdown List In one sentence describe your new normal.

Taking time to appreciate what is around me but striving for scale up and a new narrative.

Who is your biggest inspiration and why?

See the change in confidence about life, when people are inspired.

Best tip for life?

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“The dream is free; the hustle is sold separately.”

The power of sport: “In sport I had to do something; show a skill and I was praised for my skill. Not my colour, not my ability to be nice and not a threat; it was just because I had a skill and I was good at it.”

Change in 2020 and beyond: “This was an opportunity for the world to stop looking away and changing the channel or the conversation because they were uncomfortable. More people know, and are listening”

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Fitting in: “It’s [giving young people] options. Seeing yourself in a different light… Try spending every day of your life trying not to look like a criminal, a problem. It’s mentally breaking. You’re walking around with one ball in your hand and if you drop it you’ve failed… How do we create the element of belonging?”

Poppy Jamie Entrepreneur, influencer, former broadcaster and author ‘Happy not perfect’: finding ways of feeling good from the inside out

Entrepreneur Poppy is the founder of wellness start-up Happy Not Perfect and co-founder of fashion accessories brand Pop & Suki. Poppy shares her story of why she launched her app back in 2018 after experiencing anxiety in her career, juggling multiple roles and eventually reaching burnout; she was the youngest entertainment presenter at ITN at 19 and by 23, she had moved to the US to work for MTV International, ITV2 and Extra and

launch the first talk show on Snapchat.

This led her to launch a mindfulness app designed for millennials and Gen Z about how to help us feel happier, less anxious and more positive. She delivered a TEDxHollywood talk entitled ‘Addicted to Likes’ where she explored the psychological impact technology has had on our lives and in 2017, Forbes named Poppy one of its ‘30 under 30’.

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A key question Michael: “Is there something about happiness as a journey, and perfection the ultimate unachievable destination?”

Poppy: “I always said I was running after the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and never got quite there, like you never can.

That has been the greatest shift for me, in my work and mental health over the last five years. You have those ‘aha’ moments about the simplest of things. We are always in constant change and growth mode; that is human life. We never ‘arrive’. Having an acceptance of that journeying – I was finally like: that is what happiness is about.”

Poppy’s Lockdown List What book has changed your life?

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom.

In one sentence, describe your new normal.

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Spending a lot of time in nature and I love it.

Self-discovery: “With every challenge [such as the pandemic] there is a tremendous opportunity for us, to have had this pause, to reflect what we did like about what we were doing before and what we didn’t like… This is a great lesson, for me anyway, in the process of surrendering, of giving in.”

Who is your biggest inspiration?

Oprah.

Best tip for life?

Move your body first thing.

Persuit of perfection: “I have always been quite an extreme person, in all aspects of my life… I think all humans have insecurity about whether they’re loved, whether they’re enough, whether they’re safe – my answer to ‘am I enough?’ was ‘if I’m perfect maybe I’ll be happier and have no problems’. Life doesn’t work like that.”

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Finding happiness: “The Ancient Greeks said know thyself, know thyself, know thyself…Rather than doing something it’s about doing less and going inside rather than outside. I used to think it was about attaining and accumulating – the process of understanding your unique self and tastes almost gives you a shortcut to a happier life.”

How to be the change you want to see

Why everyone can be a change maker

Ara Kusuma

Bill Drayton

Ashoka Young Changemaker

Founder & CEO, Ashoka

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Living in the moment: the melody of change John Rutter CBE Composer & Conductor LI ST EN N O W

Good growth: bringing out the best in business

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The art of truly listening Dame Evelyn Glennie DBE

Percussionist

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Why democracy begins at home Imandeep Kaur

Paul Drechsler CBE Chair, London First LI ST EN N O W

Co-founder & Director, CIVIC SQUARE

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The good stuff we do: how to do it right

Running out of time: why the planet needs to be in fashion

Mark Cuddigan CEO, Ella’s Kitchen

Arizona Muse Model & Activist

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Wellness: drinking yourself healthy

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How to find new ways to live your life Rob Law MBE

Claire Warner

Founder & CEO, Trunki

Co-founder, Æcorn LI ST EN N O W

Pioneering change Baroness Nicola Blackwood Chair, Genomics England

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Health matters: how to take control Brigette Bard Founder & CEO, BioSure UK L I S T E N NO W

Sharmadean Reid MBE Entrepreneur, CEO, digital innovator and social reformer Empowering women in the beauty and wellness industry through technology

Throughout her whole career, Sharmadean has been pushing boundaries when it comes to how businesses can adopt and use technology. A former fashion stylist and brand consultant who started WAH as a hip-hop magazine for girls in 2006 while still at university, in 2009 Sharmadean founded WAH Nails as a side project, which changed the beauty landscape with its millennial voice, feminist attitude and innovative salon space. In 2016 she

opened a salon in London, showcasing a Virtual Reality Nail Design app. She then founded Beautystack, a new way to book beauty through images, with the simple motto, See it, like it, book it; the brand raised £4 million in seed funding last year. Sharmadean is passionate about driving equality in the entrepreneurial and tech ecosystems, and her business events for young female entrepreneurs culminated in www.futuregirlcorp.com.

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A key question

Sharmadean: “We’re not a scale-up yet, particularly after the pandemic which has put us a year behind… With WAH I was good at it, and I loved it, and even now people still message me about it, but it wasn’t where I wanted my life to be. I didn’t enjoy running retail space or property of any sort. I didn’t like the logistics… That’s when I took time out and thought: what is it that I actually enjoy doing? This led me to Beautystack; I love the technology, I love seeing women earn more money and I love creating space, even if that space is digital, not physical. I came back to London after my brief break in Wolverhampton, opened a new salon and positioned myself as a person who would use technology to push the booking experience… [and] how can I scale Beautystack? Through software.”

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Beauty empowerment: “For me, beauty services are empowering because they allow women who contribute massively to the workforce to have flexible, meaningful social work. That’s critical.”

Activism: “I’m not an activist; I’m a social reformer… I think I can create change through business; it’s just that everyone, from protestors and activists to businesspeople, must pull in the same direction to make change… How can I get into the positions of power that decide how women are treated by the public officials?”

Childcare: “How can women possibly go and work in a start-up environment, which is typically long hours with a frantic pace [without childcare]? Instead, they’re forced to have this five-year gap where they get out of the loop.”

What is a book that has changed your life?

Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own. Aside from the delicious writing, it succinctly voiced everything I had felt about being a woman. I was just sad that it was about 100 years old and still relevant.

What were you watching during lockdown?

Interviews with Oprah. It’s easy to forget in a world of self-help gurus and motivational quotes on Instagram that she is the OG influencer.

Best tip for life?

Set your intention, know your values.

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Michael: “A lot of entrepreneurs have a very visual sense of what their goal is, and when they envision it it’s more likely to happen. What took you from the young start-up entrepreneur into that scale-up and new proposition?”

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Yanis Varoufakis Economist, author and former Finance Minister of Greece Finding a new way forward for economics and dividing opinions as he does so

Yanis is a member of Greece’s Parliament and parliamentary leader of MeRA25, the political party belonging to DiEM25; he served as Greece’s Finance Minister during the first half of 2015. Yanis read Mathematics and Economics at the Universities of Essex and Birmingham and subsequently taught Economics at the Universities of East Anglia, Cambridge, Sydney, Glasgow, Texas and Athens where he still holds a Chair in Political Economy and Economic Theory. He is the

author of a number of best-selling books, including Another Now: Dispatches from an alternative present and Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A brief history of capitalism. In 2016 Yanis cofounded DiEM25, the Democracy in Europe Movement – Europe’s first transnational movement – and in March 2018 DiEM25 founded MeRA25, its Greek political party.

Led by Yanis, MeRA25 entered Parliament with nine MPs in the 2019 General Election.

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A key question Michael: “Your interview is one in a series of three with world-renowned economists: Dr Pippa Malmgren, Lord Jim O’Neill and yourself, all with totally different views of the world. Pippa the optimist, Jim the positivist.

You have lots of doubt and ideas that are potentially conflicting. When you look at the to-do list of the world how does that leave you feeling?

You’ve got a new political party, and a new chapter ahead; a final thought about that future, from your perspective.”

Yanis: “Allow me to put this forward. The three of us that you’ve interviewed are three manifestations of modern defeat. The optimist who believes the markets always work – that’s Eva in my book, who gets her comeuppance in 2008 with the collapse of the financial sector. Jim O’Neil, the empiricist, is closer to the technologist Costa in my book, who believes that in the end technology and statistics and so on are going to see us through. That has also crashed and burned. And also I am another form of failure because I had to present the left-wing tradition that ended up with the defeat of social democracy and my defeat in 2015. Out of this combination and synthesis of defeats, humanity may be able to produce a success, not a triumph, but a success, and we must because we are facing serious challenges... It is imperative we combine notes from our different defeats, and push for a series of solutions that do not just follow the path of least resistance.”

Yanis’ Lockdown List What book has changed your life?

Homer’s Odyssey as translated and re-worked by Nikos Kazantzakis.

What did you watch in lockdown?

Star Trek episodes of all vintages / series; what else?

In one sentence, describe your new normal.

The end of normal – and of any interest in reviving it.

Altriusm and happiness: “Virtuous deeds are done for the hell of it – and they feel divine as a result. We are all concerned with a successful life – we have different definitions of it. Happiness is an impossible task to aim at. It’s like a beautiful butterfly. However hard you try it will never sit lightly upon your shoulder. It’s only when you’re not trying that it will happen. It’s like love.”

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Create, don’t conform: how to break out of the box

How not to be wrong: the art of changing your mind

Beatie Wolfe

James O’Brien

Musician

Broadcaster & Author

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Be the business: how to be ambitious

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Paving the way for a new generation Neeta Patel CBE

Sir Charlie Mayfield Chair, Be the Business LI ST EN N O W

CEO, Centre for Entrepreneurs

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Why the world needs more entrepreneurs

Following your own path

Carl Schramm

Lord William Waldegrave

Economist & Author

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Politician and Provost, Eton College

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Finding courage in all circumstances

Learning to love yourself Revd Joanna Jepson

Lord Alf Dubs Politician & Refugee Campaigner LI ST EN N O W

The plan for peace: how to transform conflict

Anglican Priest, Campaigner & Author

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Life: the ultimate roadtrip Charley Boorman

Dr Scilla Elworthy Peace Builder LI ST EN N O W

Travel Writer, Adventurer & Presenter L I S T E N NO W

Live it: if you don’t try you’ll never know

Love, actually: why it’s all around you

Nick English

Richard Curtis CBE

Co-Founder, Bremont

Screenwriter, Director & Campaigner

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How to create your own reality Deborah Williams Founder, The Women’s Association LI ST EN N O W

Seven ways to change the world Gordon Brown Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom & UN Envoy for Global Education L I S T E N NO W

The gender authority gap

To “frame” yo make sense of the world

Mary Ann Sieghart

Kenneth Cukier

Journalist, Broadcaster & Author

Author & Senior Editor, The Economist

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Force of nature: using food responsibly

The rise of Generation Now

Asma Khan

David Jones

Owner & Chef, Darjeeling Express

Founder, One Young World

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Demand more: Making change happen

Why it doesn’t matter where you start from

Sheree Atcheson

Sir Ken Olisa OBE

Computer Scientist & Global Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Peakon

Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London

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Igniting the human spark

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Leena Nair

Forging new roads with a technology trailblazer

The first female, first Asian and youngest ever Chief HR Officer for Unilever

Phil Libin

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The future of sustainable travel

Co-founder & CEO of mmhmm and All Turtles L I S T E N NO W

A blueprint for better Britain Gavin Esler

James and Tamara Lohan Founders, Mr & Mrs Smith

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Presenter, Journalist & Author

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Minding the generational gap

Centuries in the shaping: the value of time

Dr Eliza Filby

Count Benedikt and Donna Nencia Bolza

Generations Expert & Historian of Contemporary Values LI ST EN N O W

How to magnify your impact Maggie Miller and Hannah Nokes Founders, Magnify Impact

Founders, Hotel Castello di Reschio L I S T E N NO W

Perfecting the ‘Slowlife’: overcoming the storm Sonu Shivdasani and Eva Malmström Founders, Soneva

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Be different: grow it yourself Robin and Judy Hutson

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Resetting our relationship with technology

Founders, The Pig Hotel group

Bob Wigley Chair, UK Finance LI ST EN N O W

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Paving the way for sustainable tourism

The idea of identity: the life and times of

Wilbert Das and Bob Shevlin

Kamal Ahmed

Founders, Uxua Casa LI ST EN N O W

It’s healthy to talk

Editor-in-Chief and Co-founder, The News Movement

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Be more human: how to trust your gut

Maryam Meddin Founder & CEO, The Soke

Joe Foster Co-Founder, Reebok

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Joy is an act of resistance Anil Sebastian Artist, Producer and Vocalist

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Two feet on Earth: connecting to the world Galahad Clark Founder, Vivobarefoot

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Nurturing our future: how to repair the Earth

Taking baby steps for a better world

Thea Maria Carlson

Guy Schanschieff

Environmental Activist & Ambassador, Dirt Charity

Co-Founder, Bambino Mio

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Embracing the chaos: the story of Mumsnet Justine Roberts

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Developing the human story Roly Keating Chief Executive, The British Library

Founder, Mumsnet

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Exploring, reflecting and changing

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Take your time and prioritise precision: how to focus

Ben Saunders Polar Explorer & Motivational Speaker

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Christina Bengtsson Author & Lecturer L I S T E N NO W

Writing history: how to define truth

Sorrow and Bliss: the flow of a journey

Jane Thynne

Meg Mason

Author of Widowland

Author of Sorrow and Bliss

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You’ve not seen anything yet Peter Flavel

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Bring change your way Jeroo Billimoria Social Entrepreneur

CEO, Coutts

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Who’s coming up:

Dame Floella Benjamin Queen’s Green Canopy @floellabenjamin

Kanya King Founder, MOBO Awards @kanyaking

Vice-Chancellor of the University of London Wendy Thomson @wendy_thomson_

Group Chief Executive Officer, The Kaleidoscope Group of Companies Hardeep Rai @hardeepsrai

Performer & LGBTQ+ Activist Dan Glass @danglassisfull

Founder, Black British Network Cephas Williams @cephaswilliams

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Looking Forward

The Collaborations Change Makers works with a diverse group of brilliant partners to bring inspiration and ideas to life through different channels, covering everything from the future of travel to podcasts as aural history.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the UK’s most in-demand orchestra “We are immensely grateful to continue to work with the RPO in this, its 75th anniversary year,” says host Michael Hayman. The partnership between Change Makers and the British cultural institution began last year, when it became clear that “adding music was an important part of the development and style of the show”. Monthly playlists from the RPO mix music with inspiration, pairing music with the central themes of Change Makers interviews, including those titled Dreams and Imagine.

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University of London, one of the largest, most diverse universities in the UK How has Covid changed us?

A remarkable roll-call of interviewees will be asked for their view on this singular question: is this the ‘Great Reset’ everyone hopes it will be? In this exploration of education, politics and life lessons, the University of London intends to capture an aural history, as we live through a period in time that means we might never be quite the same again. “All of the Change Makers interviews so far have taken place through the lens of the pandemic,” Michael points out. “A hyper-stressful lens through which to tell one’s story but which gives the podcast added vibrancy and an element of technicolour.”

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Guests include: Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown Journalist and presenter Mary Ann Sieghart Campaigner Cephas Williams Generations expert Eliza Filby Author and journalist Kenneth Cukier British Library Chief Executive Roly Keating

Mr & Mrs Smith, the travel club for hotel lovers Around the World in 8 Episodes: Launching July 2021 How we move and travel is an inexorable part of the human experience. “In a world where people can’t move as easily as they once did,” says Michael, of this series, “we can bring the world to the listener”.

Change Makers has partnered with a brilliant double act – Tamara and James Lohan, the founders of Mr & Mrs Smith – to launch this series and, after interviewing the husband and wife duo, the stories of seven more Smith partners from around the world will feature. “All of the guests have an angle on the sustainable travel industry,” says Michael, “whether it’s food, technology or culture”.

Great British Brands, dedicated to supporting and celebrating British excellence This podcast series asks the question ‘what’s next for great British brands?’ in a unique collaboration with Country & Town House, featuring companies such as Theo Fennell, Musto and Hattingley Valley. These span art and culture, beauty and wellbeing, design, fashion, travel, jewellery and watches, food and drink, investment, engineering and property? What are the most exciting emerging brands doing, and how does their ambition contrast with those already established and revered in their field?

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Guests include:

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Founders of Mr & Mrs Smith, Tamara and James Lohan Paragon 700 founders, Pascale Lauber and Ulrike Bauschke Soneva founders, Sonu and Eva Malmström Shivdasani Reschio founders, Benedikt and Donna Nencia The PIG founder, Robin Hutson The Battery founders, Michael and Xochi Birch UXUA Casa founders, Wilbert Das and Bob Shevlin

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Change Makers presents fresh ideas and inspirational life stories from people with a passion: the campaigners, creators, connectors and contrarians making a difference.

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