For the change-makers, explorers and entrepreneurs by heart or practice, Hyper Curious podcast is a celebration of what’s best in human beings: OUR CURIOSITY.
Get ready to change your perception of what it means to be an 'overnight success'. Here you will listen to the most intriguing U-turns and A-ha moments of our guests, and how embracing changes (rather than fearing it) keeps them curious and evolving.
Your host is Beta Lucca, a successful BAFTA-winning entrepreneur and Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech who has failed, succeeded, and built a multimillion-dollar gaming business. Beta brings her upbeat energy, bold attitude and multipotentialite mindset to interview your favourite authors, poets, philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, founders and artists.
If you don’t know them already, you definitely will now!
Listening to these incredible human beings is the perfect start of your day. One that will provoke you to think differently, laterally, upside down, and offer you new fresh perspectives to help you act boldly. You’ll finish each episode feeling energised, inspired and empowered to reinvent your world and reinvent yourself.
For more information, visit http://hypercurious.fm
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For the change-makers, explorers and entrepreneurs by heart or practice, Hyper Curious podcast is a celebration of what’s best in human beings: OUR CURIOSITY.
Get ready to change your perception of what it means to be an 'overnight success'. Here you will listen to the most intriguing U-turns and A-ha moments of our guests, and how embracing changes (rather than fearing it) keeps them curious and evolving.
Your host is Beta Lucca, a successful BAFTA-winning entrepreneur and Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech who has failed, succeeded, and built a multimillion-dollar gaming business. Beta brings her upbeat energy, bold attitude and multipotentialite mindset to interview your favourite authors, poets, philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, founders and artists.
If you don’t know them already, you definitely will now!
Listening to these incredible human beings is the perfect start of your day. One that will provoke you to think differently, laterally, upside down, and offer you new fresh perspectives to help you act boldly. You’ll finish each episode feeling energised, inspired and empowered to reinvent your world and reinvent yourself.
For more information, visit http://hypercurious.fm
Don’t miss Jess Butcher, co-founder of Blippar, in this latest episode of Hyper Curious. We discuss the dilemma that all entrepreneurs have to balance our drive for business impact, versus personal matters, why we women should stop apologising for our decisions, and the need for nuanced conversations in our highly polarised world.
Key takeaways:
The superpower of a scrappy CV
The Blippar journey
Finding co-founders
Why the broader narrative around feminism is binary
Debunking unconscious bias
Dominic Jackson, founder of Escape The City discusses being lost in a large organisation and the process of leaving a corporate job to starting your own business, why his fear of failure is increasing, and surviving a break up with your co-founder. This is an incredibly emotional conversation with a very hyper curious entrepreneur.
Key takeaways:
The genesis of Escape The City
Chasing for impact, not money
Why his biggest fear is failure
Moving on from breaking up with a co-founder
Inspiring his team
Don’t miss British serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist with a track record of delivering accelerated growth: Lara Morgan, on this week’s episode. From having difficult conversations, to hiring the right people, to the importance of our choices, this is an inspiring conversation.
Key takeaways:
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard
How she defines success
The crossover between sport and business
Teach your kids to be tougher
Use enthusiasm to overcome fear
Set bigger goals
If you are curious about eSports, then you don’t want to miss this week’s episode of Hyper Curious with Challengermode CEO and co-founder, Robel Efrem, a curious, determined, funny, kind guy, who’s also very competitive and loves playing computer games.
Key takeaways:
Why eSports are the fastest growing sport in the world
His passion for eSports
His experience of selling his first company
The need for role models in eSports
Challenge of trying to become a unicorn
Hugh Thomas is the founder of Ugly Drinks, a challenger brand founded in 2015 in the UK, before launching in the US in 2018. Ugly is a hyper curious, super irreverent and rebellious new soda brand disrupting the market, taking on the sugary soda industry by making sparkling water accessible to all.
Key takeaways:
The systemic issues with sugar
Ugly is about being authentic
How to expand into US
Why they’ve stayed lean
Why you need to separate yourself as a founder from the brand
Jo Wood is so full of life. It’s hard to imagine she was once considered ‘just’ the wife of Rolling Stones frontman, Ronnie Wood. But today Jo is on a mission to be invisible no more. From Jo Wood Organics to aliens, don’t miss this insightful episode.
Key takeaways:
Finding the organic path
The impact her divorce had on her business
Finding the mental strength to do Strictly
The importance of pushing yourself
Curiosity around aliens and UFOs
The organic legacy she wants to leave behind
Pip Jamieson, founder of The Dots, is a human diversity advocate, who credits her neurodiversity as her superpower. We talk about how to create a platform that's optimised for kindness & happiness. And about the future of work when people embrace fluid careers and make money from their passions.
Key takeaways:
Why LinkedIn is an individualistic experience
The Dots algorithm is based on positivity & kindness
Building a community that cares about each other
The link between dyslexia & entrepreneurs
What we can learn from nature
Sam Harris is the endlessly curious entrepreneur & adventurer. Today he shares how his near death experiences changed the way he goes about life, why studying biology made him a braver creative entrepreneur, & the importance of leaning into your fears. If you want to learn to be less afraid, don’t miss this episode.
Key takeaways:
Why he’s proud to be annoyingly positive
Learning from his near death experience
Enjoying tangents
Learning to be less afraid
Finding freedom from desiring things
If you’re curious about how to improve your workplace culture, don’t miss this fantastic masterclass in everything people and culture as we talk today with Anouk Agussol, founder and CEO of Unleashed. Unleashed is not your average consultancy.
Key takeaways:
Why traditional HR is dead
Founders can’t delegate culture
How to hold culture together when WFH
How leaders can motivate through vulnerability
How to prevent a toxic culture
Inclusivity before diversity
Modernising parental leave policies
Today we’re going meta as we explore the topic of curiosity with Costas Andriopoulos. Costas is a curious innovation and entrepreneurship researcher, passionate about teaching founders and leaders to make decisions that can improve lives.
Key takeaways:
Unexpected patterns of curious people
How curious people conquer their fears
Connection between resilience and curiosity
Don’t look at today and miss the vision of tomorrow
Balance innovation and profits
Successful entrepreneurs never stop searching
For all of us who are motivated to learn new things, Tom Vanderbilt is an inspiration. In this episode, we talk about the beginner's mind and why adults stop learning, how absorbing new skills triggers your curiosity to look at the world around you with a fresh perspective, and why we should be inspired by kids.
Key takeaways:
Why he wrote Beginners
The main traits of hyper curious people
The risk of being a generalist
How the pandemic induced collective behaviour change
Don’t rely on goals
If you’re a parent, you’ll know what a minefield childcare is, not to mention how inaccessible & unaffordable it can be. Which is why we’re super excited to talk to Rachel Carrell, founder & CEO of Koru Kids, who is on a mission to build the world's best childcare service.
Key takeaways:
The best and worst things about being CEO
The magic of setting a powerful vision
Advice to female founders who are fundraising
The help she has at home
Relaxing through transcendental meditation & a bed of nails
Dan Murray-Serter is a serial entrepreneur. In this episode learn about why you need to do more of the things that feed your soul & give you energy, about the concept of brain care & how much nutrition impacts our mental health, & the importance of being an outsider asking the most basic questions & following your curiosity to make great products.
Key takeaways:
Link between nutrition and mental health
Time boxing to keep focused
Embrace failure
How to combat brain shrinkage
Mental health care at work
We are thrilled to have the incredible multi-hyphenate, Viv Groskop, on Hyper Curious. We learn how it’s our failures that lead us to our eventual path, why we need to tell our own story, why we should stop putting other people on a pedestal, why we need to to leave the good girl behaviour behind, & why doing less is the best way to become your most authentic self.
Key takeaways:
Do what’s fun for you
Life is a series of wrong turns
Nothing matters on paper
Tell a story from within
Do you find yourself endlessly distracted? Do you struggle to get traction with things you need to prioritize? Welcome back to Season two of Hyper Curious. Kicking things off is Nir Eyal, the author of two best selling and the most impactful books every founder must read - Hooked and Indistractable.
Key takeaways:
Why we get distracted
Hooked v Indistractable
The concept of traction
The four pillars of the model of Indistractable
Distraction is a company culture issue
Making timeboxing work for you
This is the final episode of Season One. We’ve had our curiosity piqued in myriad ways by inspiring guests as they’ve opened up and shared their curiosities. This final episode combines together all of the advice our fictional protagonist Olivia has been given. Perhaps in seeing her story as a whole, you may find answers to your own curious questions.
Key takeaways:
Beta’s a-ha moments in life and business
The power of letting go
Olivia ‘game’ reflections
Success is never linear
What had you achieved by the age of 24? Today’s guest, Timo Armoo, founder and CEO of Fanbytes, is already onto his third company. Fanbytes helps companies reach Gen Z social media influencers.
Key takeaways:
Gen Z see the world through their phone
When creators don’t understand the content on their platform
Do people care that social media platforms are getting their data?
Why we are obsessed with defining ourselves
History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes
Top tips for building your personal brand
If you think it's too late in life to change vocation, Maria Sayans will show you it isn’t. Maria came to the world of gaming later in life and is now the CEO of ustwo games. She shares with listeners her journey and advice for anyone keen to follow in her footsteps.
Key takeaways:
How to find your path
The mindset you need to work in the games industry
Good questions lead you to good decisions
The importance of education in order to build strategic thinking
Why she’s curious about embodied cognition
DesignMyNight co-founder Nick Telson embodies what Hyper Curious is all about. Realising that a career trajectory at L’Oreal wasn’t for him, he was curious about following a different path and after a night out in NYC with co-founder Andrew Webster, he found his new direction.
Key takeaways:
The startups that Nick invests in
Taking the leap from the corporate world to entrepreneur
The best founders are the ones really in their industry
How to handle the entrepreneurial roller coaster
Trust your gut, trust your instinct
Nick’s advice to anyone thinking about becoming an entrepreneur
What throws two fingers up at the establishment more than an LGBTQ, black, woman investor? Meet Arlan Hamilton, Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital. 5 years ago, Arlan started a VC fund while homeless. Today, her $10m fund has invested in over 130 startups led by underrepresented founders.
Key takeaways:
Her secret to bravery is a tolerance for risk
How to filter knowledge and advice
Why struggling is normal
How to turn being weird into your power
How to define the impact you want to make
For the change-makers, explorers and entrepreneurs by heart or practice, Hyper Curious podcast is a celebration of what’s best in human beings: OUR CURIOSITY.
Get ready to change your perception of what it means to be an 'overnight success'. Here you will listen to the most intriguing U-turns and A-ha moments of our guests, and how embracing changes (rather than fearing it) keeps them curious and evolving.
Your host is Beta Lucca, a successful BAFTA-winning entrepreneur and Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech who has failed, succeeded, and built a multimillion-dollar gaming business. Beta brings her upbeat energy, bold attitude and multipotentialite mindset to interview your favourite authors, poets, philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, founders and artists.
If you don’t know them already, you definitely will now!
Listening to these incredible human beings is the perfect start of your day. One that will provoke you to think differently, laterally, upside down, and offer you new fresh perspectives to help you act boldly. You’ll finish each episode feeling energised, inspired and empowered to reinvent your world and reinvent yourself.
For more information, visit http://hypercurious.fm
