#TheNewAbnormal podcast (150,000+ downloads) focuses on understanding today and anticipating the future. Discussing these subjects via the personal stories and insightful viewpoints of my guests has led to some fascinating conversations with activists, creatives, writers, philosophers, strategists, psychologists, lecturers, futurists, etc. (Re: my bio, I'm a strategist, author and public speaker. My first book went to No1 in the business charts, whilst my second was shortlisted for the 'Busi ...
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Henry Coutinho-Mason 'The Future Normal - how we will live, work and thrive in the next decade'
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Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal features Henry Coutinho-Mason, who is obsessed with new perspectives on the biggest question in business: "what will people want next?" I've been lucky enough to have been given an advance copy of his new book “The Future Normal: How We Will Live, Work & Thrive In The Coming Decade” which was written in …
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Tom Lombardo 'The History of Futurism & Futures Studies'
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This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features a fascinating interview with a renowned futurist, Tom Lombardo. He's a Director at the Center for Future Consciousness, which offers educational experiences that challenge and stimulate the mind, expand conscious awareness, empower creativity, deepen understanding, enhance ethics and promote social g…
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Jacob Ellis 'Policy Development re: the needs of Future Generations'
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This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Jacob Ellis, an experienced public affairs and international relations advisor with a demonstrated history of working to improve policy-making in Wales and globally. He's worked with United Nations, World Cities Culture Forum and One Young World, and is committed to ensuring the needs of future gener…
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Hilary Sutcliffe 'The Seven Signals of Trustworthiness'
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This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Hilary Sutcliffe, Director of SocietyInside, who bring together people and ideas to help tech and its governance earn the trust of society. The name #SocietyInside is a riff off the famous brand ‘IntelInside’ and aims to encapsulate their aspiration that we reverse-engineer innovation from the nee…
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Maurice NDiaye 'Reinventing strategy-making under uncertainty'
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This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Maurice NDiaye, Founder and CEO at Descartes & Mauss, the first Stratech and a new breed of AI-powered consulting firm. Maurice has devoted his career to using artificial intelligence to solve the most complex business challenges: with a dual professional background as an Ecole Polytechnique Engin…
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Art Kleiner 'The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology'
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This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Art Kleiner, a renowned expert on management thinking, thought leadership, organisational learning and scenario planning. In his new book 'The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology' he illuminates a belief that AI holds incredible promise to improve virtually every aspect of our live…
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Keely Adler 'Helping brands understand themselves in shifting contexts'
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Series Three This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Chicago-based Keely Adler, cultural futurist at Dentsu and core team at Radar. A brand strategist by trade, time-traveling futurist at heart and with a nearly decade-long career grounded in creative strategy and qualitative consumer research, Keely has spent her time working across a ra…
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Laura de Moliere 'ChatGPT and Behavioural Science'
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Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Laura de Moliere, Partner and Co-founder at the Germany-based consultancy, Decision-Context. She's also the ex-Head of Behavioural Science at the UK Govt's Cabinet Office, before which she's was in senior roles at other Government Departments. In this podcast, she gives a fascinating ove…
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Frank Spencer 'Implementing foresight - pulling the future towards us'
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Series Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Frank Spencer, Founder & Creative Director at TFSX (Foresight, Innovation, Strategic Design and Learning). TFSX, based in Florida, help their clients to thrive in a world of complex ideas and practices, uncover emerging trends on the horizon that will impact their business, and discover u…
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Roger Spitz 'The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption'
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Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Roger Spitz, who is an international bestselling author, President of Techistential and Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute. Based in San Francisco, he’s an authority on foresight, sustainability, and systemic change. He also publishes extensively on decision-making in uncertain an…
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Lauren Razavi 'The Future of Work and the Digital Nomad Community'
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Series Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview the award-winning multimedia journalist Lauren Razavi, who specialises in subjects including the Future of Work, Future Cities, Tech Policy and Ethics. She therefore reports on topics at the intersection of technology, business, policy and human behaviour - and has also spent years delive…
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Nikolas Badminton 'Foresight: the missing link...'
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Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Nikolas Badminton, a world-renowned futurist who mentors leaders to create more connected, curious and creative teams that embrace futures design. He's spent 30+ years working with leaders at over 300 leading organisations at the frontline of foresight, strategy and disruption - includin…
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Andy Crysell 'Creating culturally charged commercial advantage'
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Series Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast, I interview Andy Crysell, Founder & CEO at Crowd DNA, the dynamic cultural insights and strategy consultancy who have offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Singapore, Sydney, Stockholm and Los Angeles. Formed in 2008, and operating across 70+ markets, they bring together trends specialists,…
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Update on / background to #TheNewAbnormal series…
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Hi there – this is an introduction to ‘The New Abnormal’ regarding me (your host), the sponsors and the background to the series. I’m Sean Pillot de Chenecey from the independent foresight/strategy /innovation consultancy Brand Positive, who specialise in #NowNextWhy projects for clients ranging from corporates to agencies to NGO’s, on a national a…
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Andrew Copson "What's it all for and how can I be happy?" (A guide to Humanism).
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Series Two In this episode of 'The New Abnormal' I interview Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of Humanists UK, the national charity working towards a tolerant world where rational thinking and kindness prevail. He's also President of Humanists International, the global umbrella organisation for humanist and other non-religious organisations, building…
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Gerry Hopkinson 'Making sense of a changing world'
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Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Gerry Hopkinson, CEO of Selbey Labs, part of Selbey Anderson - the UK's fastest growing independent marketing group. The mission of Selbey Labs is to deliver prediction powered by data, people and imagination. Gerry's interested in finding patterns and short-cuts to understand and predic…
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Mark Vernon 'Everything in philosophy is a footnote to Plato'. (And quite a lot is a footnote to Kant).
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Series Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast, I interviewed Mark Vernon, a psychodynamic psychotherapist, writer and broadcaster, who has a keen interest in spirituality and the inner life. He has a PhD in ancient philosophy, as well as degrees in physics and theology. His books (which have appeared in translation around the world) cover s…
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Anna Kirah 'Think long-term in a short-term world'
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Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features the renowned design anthropologist and psychologist Anna Kirah. She's an expert in pioneering qualitative research methods used to gather deep insights to understand people's motivations and expectations as well as their articulated and unarticulated needs, and to link this understanding…
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Johanna Hoffman 'Speculative Futures: illuminating the way ahead'
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Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features the designer, urbanist and strategist Johanna Hoffman, who explores the ties between design, planning, fiction and futures. She's the founder of California-based Design for Adaptation, a studio using strategic planning, interactive storytelling and speculative design to survey the impact…
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Tim Stock 'Understand subcultures to understand the future'
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Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Tim Stock, Global Cultural Foresight Leader at ScenarioDNA, who are experts at analysing trends and developing frameworks for understanding how & why culture is changing. He's also an Associate Teaching Professor at Parsons School of Design - The New School, one of the world's leading ar…
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Lucie Greene 'Humane Capitalism, the Social Contract and Super-Agile Teamwork'
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Series Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast, I interviewed Lucie Greene, who is a forecaster, strategist and author specialising in cultural trends, consumer insights and brand innovation. Having relocated to NYC from L.A. she set up her futures practice 'Light Years' having previously led JWT's global futures think tank JWT Intelligence.…
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Jonathan Wise 'Adland confronts the myth of Infinite Growth'
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Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Jonathan Wise, co-founder of Purpose Disruptors, who believes that the advertising industry needs to step into the responsibility of helping to address our climate and ecological emergency. His background is as a strategic planner, with 15 years experience in major London advertising age…
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Stephen Colegrave 'Radical Thinking, Independent Journalism & Catalytic Entertainment'
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Series Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Stephen Colegrave, the Executive Editor & Co-Founder of the Byline Times, Byline TV and Byline Festival. He's also a film producer and author of three books. The Byline Times is a fearless independent newspaper, featuring a daily national news and investigation site that's all about "what t…
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Alison Taylor 'How business can do the right thing in a turbulent world'
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Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features the dynamic Alison Taylor, who works on challenges at the intersection of corporate integrity, risk and responsibility. She's the Executive Director of Ethical Systems, which is part of NYU Stern School of Business and is a collaboration between leading academics working on behavioural s…
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David Shah 'Social Polarisation, Accelerated Trends, and the Rise of the Oligopolies'
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Series Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview David Shah, the renowned Publisher and Owner at View-Publications; five leading-edge magazines specialising in textiles, colours and branding strategy. He's also the Director of DRS Consulting, which specialises in the design of private label brands for menswear and womenswear, and is a con…
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Martin Raymond 'The Shifting of the Overton Window and the push for Transformation'
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Series One Martin Raymond is an author, journalist and co-founder of The Future Laboratory - one of the world's most renowned futures consultancies. Established in 2000, they've worked with more than 1000 businesses in 50 countries. In this reposted episode, we discuss his thinking around a wide range of areas, including journalism being 'the last …
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Alex Durussel-Baker 'Design-thinking, design-sprints, and community innovation'
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Series Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Alex Durussel-Baker. The founder of CreativeMornings/Edinburgh, she's also a certified Design Sprint coach, an award-winning UX designer, produces awareness campaign @diabetesbydesign and is a coach at Tribe Women. With a background in startups and agency design, she founded Korero Studio -…
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Andrew Koppelman 'Burning Down the House: how libertarian philosophy was corrupted by delusion and greed'
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Series Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast, I interview Andrew Koppelman, who is the John Paul Stevens Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, and Philosophy Department Affiliated Faculty at Northwestern University. Andrew's scholarship focuses on issues at the intersection of law and political philosophy. He's been published…
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Martin Lindstrom 'Predicting the future - before anyone else'
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Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Martin Lindstrom, founder and chairman of Lindstrom Company, the world’s leading branding & culture transformation firm, which operates across five continents and in more than 30 countries, serving the "who’s who" of Fortune 100 companies. Martin has been featured as one of the world’s t…
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Martin Jensen 'Me, Myself, Online: Music and the New Abnormal'
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Series Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal series, I interviewed the billion-streamed, multi-platinum songwriter and producer Martin Jensen, who topped off a crazy year as an X-Factor judge. Martin’s breakthrough 'Solo Dance' had over a million streams daily upon its release and was the second-most played track of the past decade across BBC Radi…
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Elodie Marteau 'Connecting the dots - trend analysis'
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Series Two In this episode of The New Abnormal, I interview Elodie Marteau, a Paris-based foresight strategist & cultural analyst, who helps businesses identify cultural opportunities to future-proof their brand strategy. Her viewpoints have been published by a wide range of organisations including the Fashion Network, LS:N Global, Trend Atelier, C…
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Matt Rivitz 'How to stop funding hate - and change the Internet'
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Series Two In this reposted episode of #TheNewAbnormal I interviewed Matt Rivitz, founder of the activist community "Sleeping Giants". (He's also a freelance copywriter - his past jobs inc being Creative Director of TBWA/Chiat/Day and Senior Copywriter at Goodby Silverstein & Partners). After witnessing the public rise of racism and sexism in the m…
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Stefan Rollnick 'Using behavioural science to fight misinformation'
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Series Three In this episode of The New Abnormal, I interview Stefan Rollnick, Head of The Misinformation Cell at Lynn, a consultancy who believe that when you inject behavioural science into communications, you can build campaigns that do what’s important: create the behaviours needed to positively change the world. With a background in politics a…
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Livia Fioretti 'A dynamic viewpoint on MegaTrends & LATAM trends c/o TrendWatching'
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Series Two This episode of 'The New Abnormal' features Livia Fioretti, Head of Insights Academy at TrendWatching. She's ex-head of their amazing Global Insights Network, made up of 900+ professionals and trend enthusiasts across 80+ countries, that helps clients understand what's happening across regions as well as different cultures. Livia's respo…
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Dan Burgess 'Radical Collaboration...and grass roots innovation'
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Series Two This episode features the amazing Dan Burgess. He's spent 25 years working at the leading edge of creative engagement, eco-innovation, creative activism and cause-led campaigning. As he says "there's an enormous regenerative and creative potential in care, love, empathy, responsibility, generosity, co-creation and participation". In his …
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Simon Armstrong 'The Culture Wars - and why everything interesting is happening at the edge'
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In this early episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interviewed Simon Armstrong, who has the incredibly enviable job of being the book buyer for The Tate. He's a fascinating individual, with a background across an array of leading-edge cultural positions. In this interview, he describes his journey from a working-class background in the North East, to runn…
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Cailin O'Connor 'The war against truth and the social dynamics of alternative facts'
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Series Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interviewed Cailin O'Connor, who is an associate professor of logic and philosophy of science at the University of California. She's also the co-author of 'The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread' (published by Yale University Press. In our interview, we discuss Cailin's most recent writings…
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Nick Shackleton-Jones 'Learning & Cognition: why Plato and Descartes got it all wrong'
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This episode of 'The New Abnormal' features Nick Shackleton-Jones, HR Director / Learning at Deloitte UK. He's also the author of 'How People Learn' and has a revolutionary perspective on...how we learn. Nick began professional life as a psychology lecturer (having studied psychology and philosophy at university) and has since worked for major cons…
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Lore Oxford 'Cultural Insights re: Brave New Worlds'
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Series Two This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Lore Oxford, Global Head of Cultural Insights at We Are Social, where she combines academic research methods with a digital-first approach to understand and track culture on a global scale. Her work is designed to unearth cutting edge insights that drive cultural impact for multinational b…
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John Seabrook 'The intersection between creativity and commerce re: tech, design, and music’
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This episode of 'The New Abnormal' features Brooklyn-based John Seabrook, a staff writer at The New Yorker since the 90's as well as being the author of a range of superb books including 'The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory' / 'Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing—The Marketing of Culture' / 'Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace / 'Flash of G…
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Luca Morena 'Generate: a major milestone in the evolution of trend forecasting'
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This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Luca Morena, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO at Nextatlas. They're a leader in the global market of digitally empowered marketing intelligence and trend anticipation services, who use unique AI focused early adopter detection to reveal evolving consumer behaviour and provide confident trend prediction for…
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Sabrina Faramarzi 'Internet Culture, Lifestyle Journalism and Trend Analysis'
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Series One In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast, I interview the features journalist, trend analyst and data storyteller Sabrina Faramarzi, who's particularly fascinated by internet culture and online communities. She's written for The Guardian, Wired, Vice and Culture Trip, and is the international newsrooms & content lead for Opinary in Ber…
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This episode of #TheNewAbnormal features Gustav Martner, Head of Creative (Nordics) at Greenpeace. Having worked with numerous leading agencies (inc being Exec Creative Director , EVP (Europe) and MD (Sweden) at CP+B ), he's also been a member of numerous award juries, including The ONE Show, Art Directors Club, Cannes Lions, D&AD, and NY Festivals…
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In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Matt Klein. He's a Cultural Theorist + CyberPsychologist + Strategist who helps organisations understand emerging social shifts and author preferred futures. As a quantitative futurist, Matt advises brands like Disney, L'Oréal and American Airlines, as well as TV producers, VC investors, startups, non…
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Stephanie Benedetto 'Queen of Raw - Turning Pollution into Profit'
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In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal I interview the incredibly dynamic Stephanie Benedetto. A corporate attorney turned climate fintech entrepreneur, Stephanie is the Co-Founder of Queen of Raw, no-code enterprise software to intelligently resell and recycle unused inventory on Raw Chain, measure, report, and turn pollution into profit. Prior to sta…
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Paul Kemp-Robertson 'The Power of Creativity and the Contagious Commandments'
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Series One This episode of #TheNewAbnormal features Paul Kemp-Robertson, the co-founder of Contagious Communications and co-author of 'The Contagious Commandments'. To put it mildly, he has a very deep knowledge of the global marketing communications industry. A graduate of Goldsmiths, and the ex-worldwide director of creative resources for Leo Bur…
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Ian Olasov 'Ask a Philosopher - answers to the most important questions'
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Series Two This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features the author & philosopher Ian Olasov. An adjunct professor and doctoral candidate at the City University of New York, he's twice won the American Philosophical Association's Public Philosophy Op-Ed Prize. He's also the author of "Ask a Philosopher: answers to the most important - and unexp…
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Sophy Roberts 'The Lost Pianos of Siberia'
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In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Sophy Roberts, journalist and author of 'The Lost Pianos of Siberia'. She focuses on travel stories in remote parts of the world, with a special interest in literature, history, culture and conversation. The ex-Travel Editor of The Economist and a Special Correspondent for Conde Nast Traveller, she sh…
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Mark Hanis 'The Ukraine Corporate Index: on which side of the war does your brand stand?'
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This episode of The New Abnormal podcast was recorded soon after the Russian attack on Ukraine, and features the serial social entrepreneur Mark Hanis, who co-founded the Ukraine Corporate Index, which tracks corporate stance re: Putin's Russia in the aftermath of its invasion. He also co-founded two startups: Inclusive America (a nonprofit to incr…
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David Nottoli 'Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Value Creation'
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Series Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview David Nottoli. He's an award-winning brand and communications strategist re: some of the world's top advertisers inc Hershey, Nike, Levi's, Coca Cola, Samsung, Best Buy, and Bank of America. Dave's built a track record of re-energizing big brands, helping small brands get noticed, and findi…
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