Best Mats and Ariel Andersson Podcasts (2024)

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Corry Robertson - A leadership coach teaching with empathy and heart 54:55

4y ago54:55

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This week Mats meet Corry Robertson. Corry is a leadership Coach from Canada specialized in leadership coaching and organizational culture. Corry and Mats discuss a number of interesting topics: - Emotional intelligence and the importance of that in the workplace - The impact of Zoom working on family life and the importance for managers have staff…

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TCC Statistics and promotion of Webinar with Dr Anders Tegnell 12:45

4y ago12:45

12:45

Mats is sharing some of the statistics for TCC. Which episodes have been the most listened? From which countries and cities are people listening in? Which device and platform is the most used to listen? An episode for statistical nerds. Mats is also promoting the Webinar he is going to hold with Dr Anders Tegnell, the Chief Architect of the rather …

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Camille Bonhoure - A French Lawyer incarnating the European idea 57:47

4y ago57:47

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This week Mats sits down with Camille Bonhoure, a young French lawyer and the first French guest on the podcast. Camille grow up in the SouthWest of France and already as a kid beeing part of the local choir group he travelled around Europe to sing. He did a part of his university studies in Denmark where he also worked for the Danish-French chambe…

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From Atheist to Pastor to Business Coach - the fascinating story of Dr. Matthew Gamble 1:06:01

4y ago1:06:01

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In this episode Mats sits down with Dr. Matthew Gamble and discovers a fascinating story about someone who grew up as a kid being atheist but who became a man of faith after smuggling 3 pounds of Marijuana into the United States from Jamaica and not being caught and taking it as a sign of some higher spirit. After that enrolling in the Seventh-Adve…

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Mats talks about his new challenge, Zoom meetings and podcast not being produced 16:17

4y ago16:17

16:17

A new episode with Mats trying to explain why he has been so slow lately in producing new episodes of the Podcast. He talks about his new job to lead the Swedish-American Chamber of San Fransisco & Silicon Valley, how he talks Swedish at work for the first time in 27 years and how it is to lead a remote office and get up to speed in his new role. H…

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Arend Dittmer - A German Googler in San Francisco 43:33

4y ago43:33

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In today's episode Mats meets with Arend Dittmer from Germany working for Google in San Francisco. Arend is the first Googler in The Corporate Corner and he has an international career that took him from Germany to Canada and then to California. They discuss a multitude of subjects and here is some of things you will here: - How is Google Managemen…

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Mats Solo - Mindfulness and meditation in Corporate World - Can it make a difference? 20:01

4y ago20:01

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This week Mats is doing a solo about his mindfulness journey that has gone from being a constant worrier to be more in peace and less impacted by the ups and downs and curveballs that life is throwing you. He is aware that he might be living in an illusion and that potentially one could lose his/her edge by entering into a meditation world but does…

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John Ireland - Emotional Intelligence at its excellence 1:14:27

4y ago1:14:27

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This week Mats sits down with someone who has meant a lot to himself, John Ireland from England. John is a coach, leadership developer and very experienced trainer to leaders at all levels and he is delivering a very popular emotional intelligence training. They talk about John's background and his upbringing in Northern England and how espcially t…

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Philip Hilm - from broke to professional poker player 52:18

4y ago52:18

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In this weeks episode Mats sits down with his Nordic friend, Philip Hilm from Denmark and talk about Philip's exciting life and career as a professional poker player. We'll hear the story about a young Danish man who as a kid didn't naturally read the social cues between people and then spent a lot of energy and time to learn everything about it an…

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Mike Robbins - We're all in this together 50:32

4y ago50:32

50:32

In this weeks episode I, Mats meet with Mike Robbins, who is an expert in emotional intelligence, leadership, teamwork and company culture. Mike is the author of several books and he just came out with his last book with the for the moment perfect title "WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER". It's a book with the subtitle "Creating a Team Culture of High Per…

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Alain Hunkins - Cracking the Leadership Code 47:11

4y ago47:11

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This week Mats sits down with Alain Hunkins. Alain is a leadership coach and has worked with thousands of groups and leaders in the last decades. He is also the author of his first book: "Cracking the Leadership code: Three Secrets of Building Strong Leaders" We talk about the book and some concrete trips and tricks for leaders. We touch upon a lot…

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Steffen Kaiser, German CFO on corporate culture and importance of better taking people into consideration 45:34

4y ago45:34

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This week we meet Steffen Kaiser from Germany. Steffen is an experienced CFO and has been in a multitude of executive management positions. He has also been the person coming in to a company and having the tough task to massively lay off people, something that deeply affected him. A sample of things discussed in this episode: The challenge for mana…

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TCC Express Corona Impact and thoughts 8:28

4+ y ago8:28

8:28

Mats is sharing his sympathy with everyone impacted by the Coronavirus. From people losing their lives, to sick people and others loosing their jobs. The world will forever be a pre and post Corona. How will this impact the world economy? A thought goes to all people lining up in the unemployment lines (without possiblity to do social distancing) a…

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Leigh Sembaluk, soccer pro, coach, author and startup founder all in one person 1:07:06

4+ y ago1:07:06

1:07:06

In todays episode Mats sits down with Leigh Sembaluk. Leigh is a young Canadian with multiple talents. He grew up being a passionate soccer player and reached his goal and became pro. Unfortunateley he was injured in his first season and turned into coaching. He became more and more interested in what really makes the best players the best and what…

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TCC 2.0 - Induction of 2nd Season of TCC 19:40

4+ y ago19:40

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Welcome to the 2nd season of The Corporate Corner. In this episode Mats will talk about the why for this 2nd season and also why the 1st season unexpectedly stopped. He will share the intention for this season which is to broaden the scope of the guests and also have some people on their way into the corporate life or who have recently left it. The…

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Rastislav "Rasto" Macko - The DevOps Surfer on giving up Corporate security and living your dream 48:54

5y ago48:54

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Would it be possible to change the order of things so that what we love to do in life is predominant and that we make money in the spare time? That is a question that Rasto asked himself and after a lot of hesitation he took a break in his corporate career to move to Bali and learn to surf and at his return from Bali he left the corporate security …

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Bruce Eckfeldt, Business consultant on why a CEO would need a coach and more 58:10

5y ago58:10

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In Today’s episode, Mats is sitting down (via Skype) with Bruce Eckfeldt. Bruce always wanted to become an architect and received two architect degrees at McGill university in Montreal. During his education, he was one of the first classes who had computers on hand and he quickly found himself interested in computer modelling and animation. Not lon…

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Janko Palenčár - Talks about organizational healing and finding your path 1:01:56

5y ago1:01:56

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In this weeks episode, Ariel Andersson sits down with Jan "Janko" Palenčár in a deep conversation about finding your path in life, being a servant and what it really means. Jan was interested in computers from an early age and started programming already at the age of 8. He started to work as a software engineer but quickly realized that he wanted …

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Per-Erik "Perka" Holmström about his unique journey 1:38:58

5y ago1:38:58

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This week Mats talks to Per-Erik "Perka" Holmström and we'll follow his journey that is a mixture of innovation, corporate life and last but not least Sport, which has been an integral part of Perkas whole life. Perka is a man with ideas and he will never take no for an answer when someone thinks that one of his ideas can not be implemented. Stubbo…

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Break the TCC schedule and how to stay in shape while in corporate life 10:09

5+ y ago10:09

10:09

Mats talks about new TCC Schedule ahead moving away from the weekly wednesday distribution and giving his view on how to stay in good shape while still in corporate. Support the showBy Mats Andersson

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A non conformist, non corporate soul in the corporate corner - Bert Muhleman 42:17

5+ y ago42:17

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Today’s guest is Bert Muhleman. Bert is a non conformist who has shied away from the corporate life and privileged travel, instead, meeting with other cultures and keeping a free soul and spirit. Bert shares his story and why he chose life outside the corporate world and how it is to live from job to job, from travel to travel, living life, his way…

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Mats solo: Targets and the bell curve - do we need them? 11:40

5+ y ago11:40

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In today's episode Mats is going on an exploration of targets, target settings and the bell curve. Have you got your targets? Have you made the targets for your staff? The corporate target settings for individuals is a cumbersome, administrative process in many places and often something that just have to be done. Very few are getting their real mo…

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Melissa Hahn - A journey into the beauty industry 1:09:59

5+ y ago1:09:59

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This week, we meet Melissa Hahn from California. Melissa has made her career in the beauty and luxury goods industry working mainly in marketing and sales for companies like Chanel, L'Oréal and Levis to mention a few. Her career has taken her to the Caribbean, Panama and Chile and of course California. We talk about the difficulty to sometimes be a…

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Ariel Solo Intuition in business- Listening to body in business and working more consciously 13:52

5+ y ago13:52

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Ariel shares ideas, tools and solutions to business and life decisions, through. Intuition. In Northern California words like Intuition, Conscious business and meditation were as common as bread and butter, or maybe I should say rice crackers and tofu. No, seriously, it was part of the norm. Yet, to the regular business world beyond West coast bord…

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Monika Hilm about Happiness at work, T-Rex leaders and importance of leading with the heart 1:20:22

5+ y ago1:20:22

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In this episode Mats sits down and talks with Monika Hilm. Monika is a Swedish international hotel manager, book author and driving force in the happiness at work movement. They talk about Monika's book, "PUT YOUR PEOPLE FIRST and the rest will follow" that she wrote while taking a year "off" and where she outlines her management ideas and how to c…

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The Tribal Leadership book with Halee Fischer-Wright 43:43

5+ y ago43:43

43:43

Mats and Halee Fischer-Wright talk about the book she co-authored, The Tribal Leadership. Halee explains what is a tribe and the 5 different stages that individuals and corporations cycle through. Stage 1 - Life Sucks Stage 2 - My Life Sucks Stage 3 - I am great you are not Stage 4 - We are great and better than them Stage 5 - We are creating somet…

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Mats first solo in a 15 minutes TCC Express talking about various topics 14:19

5+ y ago14:19

14:19

In this episode Mats goes solo, for the first time. Mats talks about the suffering he sees around him, in daily life, and how often it is linked to the person that is directly managing someone. As well, he talks about the importance of the direct line manager and how that person can make all the difference. Mats reminds us that speaking your mind i…

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David Sobeski Part II, about being fearless, speaking your mind and listening 1:54:19

5+ y ago1:54:19

1:54:19

This week we are back with David Sobeski and Part II of the talk with him. David talks about his interpretation of the Oprah Winfrey theory and how it can be applied in management. He tells us how he is using 1 on 1 walks with his direct reports to get out of the confined environment that is the office space and how that changes things. We talk ext…

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David Sobeski, a true technologist and Computer Artist, Part 1 1:34:16

5+ y ago1:34:16

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This week Mats talks to David Sobeski in a conversation that lasted for nearly 3 hours so it will come in 2 parts. In part 1 we cover: David talks about how he grow up in an American middle class family in Pennsylvania on the US East Coast. He talks about his early interest for computers and how he got his first computer as an 8 year old and starte…

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Mats & Ariel with various topics in a TCC express 25:14

5+ y ago25:14

25:14

Mats & Ariel are back talking in The Cororate Corner, this episode. They share TCC’s first reviews on Apple Podcasts (yeah!) with the listeners and also share some more suprising feedback they had from their first episodes. Ariel shares her view on how each of us have a unique story to share regardless of which position we have in the hierarchy of …

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David Dostal, a German entrepreneur and freedom seeker in Czech Republic 58:10

5+ y ago58:10

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In this weeks episode we meet David Dostal, a German entrepreneur who values freedom above anything else in life. David was born in Germany the year after his Czechoslovakian parents flew the communist regime in Czechoslovakia and this has tainted David's life in his quest for freedom. We talk about his dream of setting up his own company and how h…

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Tony Schiavo, Wall Street FinTec CTO 1:58:50

5+ y ago1:58:50

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The Corporate corner meets with Tony Schiavo a Wall Street FinTec CTO. We look at Tony’s career that took him to several Wall Street banks and how he was part of transforming the electronic trading systems in these banks for the last decades. We talk about the challenges of managing people, how to lead by influence and the difficulty of having to l…

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Katri Lampinen on stress 26:51

5+ y ago26:51

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Katri Lampinen from Sweden, an expert on stress related questions at the workplace is our guest today. She talks about how the holiday season is creating sky rocketing figures in the long term sickness leave after the December holidays in Sweden. She also reflects on some causes on why people are so stressed and what can be done about it at the wor…

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Podcast launch realities - Recruitment experiences 33:36

5+ y ago33:36

33:36

In this episode Ariel and Mats are back small talking about various recent experiences. Ariel and Mats talk about their reality over the last few months, the podcast launch, podcast as a media and they as well extensively discuss recruitment from both sides of the equation. Podcasting has been a challenge. Yet, has played an important role, creatin…

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Shuchi Tandon from India on difference in work life balance between US and Europe 1:07:59

5+ y ago1:07:59

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Meet Shuchi Tandon. She has a unique story. She grew up in India and moved to Prague, Czech Republic to study university and there she started her first job for the development center of the German Stock Exchange in Prague. After that she moved to New York, USA and started to work as a consultant for Goldman Sachs and then moved on to work as a sof…

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Mike Kubena, former senior executive of PwC 1:20:34

5+ y ago1:20:34

1:20:34

Mats interviews Mike Kubena, former member of PwC Global Strategy Council and CEO of PwC Central and Eastern Europe. A truly inspiring and thoughtful man on a reflective journey. Mike’s journey started from San Antonio, Texas, where he grow up, and started his career and moves to where he left, as a 26 year old, to embark on a very successful caree…

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The Corporate Corner Inception 28:46

5+ y ago28:46

28:46

Mats and Ariel Andersson talk about, corporate thoughts and ideas, expectations, interviews ahead and TCC inception. Going below the surface, beyond the usual topics and discussions, they look to take you on a path of new discovery through depth and authenticity. Both the corporate conscious and unconscious are present at every turn. Here, they hop…

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