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It's easy to relate to like-minded people, but what about those who are not like-minded? Those who live differently, in another part of the world, with different priorities, experiences, cultures, and contexts. They see the world differently from you, but can you understand them? Are you listening for the things that make us all more alike than we are different? In an increasingly "us and them" world, where connecting with 'like-minded' individuals is encouraged, this is a show for the non-l ...
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Unboxing What Matters’ is a Podcast that aims to spark stimulating conversations by bringing together thoughts from outside the box that is topical, inspiring, and impactful for our audiences. The podcast will provide a platform for experts on diverse, timely, and pertinent topics of discussion to share advice and ideas that can shape the future of business, people and communities in Asia. In the first season of Unboxing What Matters, our Host Mimi Nicklin uncovers powerful ideas and thought ...
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In our Back to the F**kture podcast, hosted by The Future Laboratory co-founder Martin Raymond, we ask a future-thinker to put foresight predictions under the hindsight spotlight and explore how trends were disrupted and what this has meant for the future.
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In this episode, we chat with Simon Alexander Ong, an award-winning life coach, speaker, and author of the bestseller "Energize." Simon shares his insights on energy management and how it can transform your life and career. Discover why energy management is crucial for maximizing creativity and productivity, and learn about Simon’s inspiring journe…
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Welcome to the Vela Media channel, where we explore the intersection of content creation, business innovation, and personal transformation. Host Lara Varlamova sits down with Dave Catudal, Co-founder of Lyvely. With a rich background in tech and wellness, Dave shares his journey from founding a leading D2C health supplement brand in the GCC region …
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In the 11th episode of the Step 2024 Conference series, host Lara Varlamova sits down with Bassem Saber, co-founder and CMO at weareigloo.com. Dive into the dynamic world of B2B marketing as Bassem shares his expertise on leveraging inbound and outbound strategies, creating impactful content, and forming strategic partnerships. Discover why "In 202…
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Join our host Lara Varlamova in this insightful conversation with Vanhishikha Bhargava, the Founder of Contensify, in episode 10 of the Step Conference 2024 serial. They dive deep into the importance of starting your marketing efforts early to avoid getting lost in the ever-increasing noise of the digital world. Vanhishikha shares her expert insigh…
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Join our Lara Varlamova as she chats with Mimi Nicklin, a bestselling author, CEO, empathy advocate, and podcaster. In this episode, they explore the incredible power of empathy in our lives and workplaces. Often considered a buzzword today, empathy is essential for fostering genuine connections and improving well-being. Mimi shares her journey and…
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Join our host Lara Varlamova as she welcomes PR Professional & Business Advisor Anastasiya Golovatenko in the new #Step2024 episode. In this insightful episode, Anastasiya shares her experiences and strategies from the mentor sessions, discussing the importance of strategic communication, content creation, and scaling businesses effectively. Discov…
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Welcome to the new Step Conference 2024 episode! In this insightful interview, Lara Varlamova hosts Eric Fulwiler, Co-Founder & CEO of Rival, to explore the future of #marketing. Discover how modern marketing strategies involve thinking and acting like a #mediacompany, focusing on creating valuable content and engaging experiences for your audience…
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Join us for an insightful conversation with Stefania, a speaker at the 2024 #STEPConference, as she discusses the importance of mindfulness in leadership. Stefania shares valuable insights on how startup founders can balance high achievement with personal well-being and offers practical mindfulness techniques to help leaders stay focused and resili…
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Welcome to a new interview from the #STEP2024 conference! In this episode, Lara sits down with Lubna Forzley, MA, PCC — Board Member, Founder & CEO of Stories, TEDx Speaker, and Executive Coach. They dive into the challenges of burnout and stress among entrepreneurs, with Lubna sharing key insights from her panel discussion. Learn why 72% of entrep…
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We’ve covered a lot about green cities and the rise of blue zone city districts on LS:N Global, but what if we have been too simplistic, judgemental and morally narrow in our approach and understanding that green is good and the concrete grey of the city is inevitably bad for our physical, spiritual and moral wellbeing? Professor Des Fitzgerald rem…
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Can you imagine waking up one day and being thrown out of the country you have grown up in? Can you imagine having to call your girlfriend to say "goodbye" and that you will never see her again, and then getting on a plane with only your father, leaving your mother and sister to be flown to an entirely different country to never see them again? Can…
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Join our host Lara Varlamova in this Step 2024 episode as she engages in a captivating conversation with Lucy Chow, recognized as one of the Women of the Future Top 100 and Women in Games Ambassador. Lucy shares insights on the challenges and rewards of early-stage investing, the underrepresentation of female founders in venture capital, and the im…
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In this episode of her podcast, Lara Varlamova sits down with the multifaceted Margarita Alex. Margarita is a renowned coach, public speaker, and model who has achieved success in various industries. She shares her empowering journey, from navigating the demanding waters of the modelling industry and overcoming personal obstacles to successfully tr…
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In episode 4 of Step 2024, our host, Lara, talks to Elnora Berialova, Director of Public Relations at Luna PR. Join them as they explore the balance between personalized technology and privacy, discuss how to leverage the benefits of advanced tech, and examine the implications for our digital rights. They also delve into the media’s role in shaping…
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In Episode 2 of Step 2024, Lara Varlamova hosts Lama Masri, Commercial Director at Mawdoo3 Group and former executive at Podeo, to discuss new trends in podcasting, the latest hacks for podcast discoverability, and new platforms for podcast publishing. Join them in this insightful conversation to hear more about all things podcasting. Larisa Varlam…
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In episode 3 of the Step Conference 2024 series, our host Lara chats with Racha Ghamlouch, co-founder of Digital Digest. Join them as they delve into the evolving landscape of entrepreneurship and discuss its current state in Dubai and around the world. Larisa Varlamova On Speaking Terms B2B Podcast Channel Connect on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.…
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In the first episode of Step Conference 2024, Lara Varlamova interviews a regional TikTok star who hacked the TikTok algorithm and mastered the art of going viral. Tune in to discover the secrets behind creating viral content, understanding how the TikTok algorithm works, and learning the essentials of good content creation. Larisa Varlamova On Spe…
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Can you imagine growing up in a home where you have to compete with your siblings in order to be able to eat, go to school, and sleep? Our guest today can, as that was her reality growing up in a polygamist home in Nigeria with eight siblings. Growing up in the slums, our guest was exposed to young girls being raped and teenage pregnancies from an …
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Do women's lives always matter? It's a question with such a seemingly obvious answer and yet in so many parts of the world this is not a given. Our guests in this show shares her powerful - and yet often controversial - work in women's rights with specific focus on the right to choose an abortion, safely. She explains the stories of women from arou…
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Can you imagine leaving home for work not knowing if you'd come back alive to your children and family? Every single day. Today's guest faces that reality. The reality of not knowing whether she'd live to see another day as soon as she steps out of her home every day. Living amidst The Anglophone Crisis where Cameroon is losing all of its sons and …
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In this episode, we are joined by a woman living deep in Northern Nigeria with the terror of Boko Haram. She joins the show today because she sees her story as her superpower and that sharing her story far and wide is important for her because “You never can tell who you are influencing, you never can tell who will empathise with your story and som…
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In this podcast episode, Lara Varlamova, the host of "On Speaking Terms," interviews Kuralay from Energy Marketing. They delve into the transition from a corporate career to founding her own marketing agency, the role of healthy self-confidence, authenticity, competition, and psychology in this transformative career journey. Larisa Varlamova On Spe…
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В новом эпизоде VeelaMedia, Лара Варламова разговаривает с соосвателями бизнес-школы Synergy Business School в Дубае о том как им удалось сохранить и расширить свой бизнес несмотря на ковид, о том какие бизнес программы действительно стоит проходить. Гагик и Геворг рассказали о том как привозили и привозят именитых спикеров на бизнес мероприятия, к…
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In this episode of her podcast, Lara Varlamova sits down with Alexander D. Bare, a founder of Burger28, a chain of restaurants in Dubai, a serial entrepreneur, and social media enthusiast. They discuss the power of humor in standing out, the significance of authenticity, and share insights on using modern media to promote yourself and your business…
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In our latest Back to the F**kture podcast, Dr Susanne Etti talks carbon labelling and more collaborative and constructive ways to tackle the climate crisis through her role and work with sustainable travel group, Intrepid. Dr Susanne Etti and I hit it off straight away. For one, she lives in Melbourne – my favourite maritime city and skinny white …
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According to the World Health Organization, good health isn’t ‘merely the absence of disease’, but ‘complete physical, mental and social wellbeing’. Dr Tasha Golden, my latest guest on Back to the F**kture, concurs. But – given the fact that she is a poet, songwriter, performer and storyteller, as well as a public health scientist – she takes this …
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In our latest Back to the F**kture podcast, Beyond Luxury author and innovator Carlota Rodben discusses the future of luxury and emotion with The Future Laboratory’s co-founder, Martin Raymond. There are two great quotes at the beginning of Carlota Robden’s latest book, 'Beyond Luxury: The Promise of Emotion', which very much sum up luxury’s future…
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Successful leaders are empathetic ones, according to author, leadership coach and strategic thinker Mimi Nicklin. They are also great perspective takers who understand the context of our decisions, as well as the moods and emotions that motivate us to make them. If that sounds simple – it isn’t. In fact, as Nicklin identifies in her book, Softening…
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Can you imagine living, knowing you are going to die? This show allows us to step into the shoes of Africa's longest living triple organ transplant survivor and to follow her lifelong journey to becoming “well” (and staying alive!). As she talks us through her entire childhood and youth spent wishing that she could breathe as her friends did, she s…
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This episode comes from India where our guest tell us of his decision to leave his corporate career to become a “Mentor Father” to over 38 abandoned, abused or orphaned girls. Having found the true meaning and purpose of his life he explains how he has devoted his heart, mind, soul and wealth as a full-time volunteer and a ‘Mentor Father’ for over …
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As private membership clubs try to regain their privacy and mojo, on this week’s Back to the F**kture podcast The Future Laboratory’s co-founder Martin Raymond talks with hospitality entrepreneur Peter Cole about how they could go about doing it – and at scale. The problem with most private members’ clubs is that they’ve become too public. While lu…
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"Daddy fell asleep, mummy" Our guest this week shares the moment when her husband fell "asleep" reading a bedtime story to her 6 year old daughter, and never woke up. She tells us how she moved on from being the person she "used to be" as she said goodbye to her high school love and became a single mom. Realising that "the person I was prior to thi…
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Life is f**ked – then you make it happen. And this epithet seems to embody the life of Australian author, broadcaster and entrepreneur, Sarah Wilson. Not that her life has been fu**ed –if anything, the opposite is very much the case - but that her journey through it is a constant reminder to us all that when the chips are down the only person who c…
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Can you ever overcome the loss of your children? Does time ever really heal anything at all? Are we all getting "grief all wrong" and what does this mean? Our guests today shares the story of the tragic accident that saw his teenage children, Ruby and Hart, killed by a drunk driver just four years ago. He honestly recounts his journey to share this…
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When you dream of having a baby you don't often stop to wonder what that dream really entails. For many new mothers post natal depression is an unexpected and often unknown reality of becoming a mum. Our guest in this episode shares her journey as the sadness she felt postpartum led her all the way to hospitalised care. Within a traditional communi…
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It’s November 2019, and an associate of Scott Perugini Kelly suggests that he adds a World Health Organization pandemic preparedness paper to a brief he’s currently readying for the head of the department. But Kelly isn’t at all convinced, as he tells me on the latest Back to the Fu**ture podcast with Sally Washington. At the time, he muses, the su…
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"Mummy, who will die first, me or my cousin?" Losing a child is reality that many people feel they could never survive. In this episode our guest talks us through her own journey facing the acute illness and loss of her young daughter. She recounts the conversations they had around life and death, and how terminal illness becomes a "truth serum" th…
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A mum of three joins the show to talk about the realities, opportunities and challenges associated with being the mum to teenagers who she terms as "Wonderfully Wired" - which she uses to refer to her own children, and those of others, who experience giftedness or neurodiversity in some form. She bravely unpacks how learning for children with neuro…
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When you lose someone close to you it often prompts us to reconsider "what would I do if I knew my own days were numbered?" In this episode our guest asked himself this exact question and decided that whilst he had loved his corporate life, it was time for a change and he headed on a sabbatical to train as a Field Guide on a safari camp in Africa. …
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Kicking off Season 2 with a never seen before format, this show features two family members together, openly discussing their journey with transgender identity, acceptance and confidence. As the daughter of the family, a young woman shares her journey to finding her identity as a female, having being born a male, and takes us through a candid expla…
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Driven by his passion for mental health, a young professional steps out to gain practical experience after earning his psychology degree. Amidst the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, fate leads him to an opportunity to work with refugees, where he encounters an entirely parallel community living in his city. Deeply moved by their plight, he witn…
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Design and experience strategy isn’t a top-down process for the privileged few, but a collaborative engagement along a narrative arc of surprise and transformation that changes audience and designer alike, according to The Experience Book authors Adam Scott and Dave Waddell, interviewed by The Future Laboratory’s co-founder Martin Raymond. The age …
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