Live Wide Awake - Sustainability & Conscious Leadership – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episdoe, we are speaking to serial entrepreneur and category creator Jessica Rolph. She is the co-founder and CEO of Lovevery, a child development company helping parents feel confident they are making the most of each learning stage. 

Lovevery has won awards from TIME Magazine, Fast Company, Red Dot, and Parents' Choice. In 2021, Lovevery generated more than $100 million in subscription with recurring revenue growing by more than 100% year-on-year. Lovevery closed $100M in Series C with a valuation of $800M. 

Before Lovevery, Jessica was the co-founder of Happy Family, where she helped lead to become the #1 organic baby, toddler, and kid’s food in the US, with more than 200 SKUs sold in 20,000 stores across 30 countries worldwide. Before being acquired by Danone acquired in 2013.

We talk about Jessica’s entrepreneurial journey, the importance of early life, child and brain development, leading her companies and family with humility and so much more. 

Okay, it’s time to live wide awake. 

Stay connected with Lovevery:

Website: https://lovevery.com 

Social media: https://www.instagram.com/lovevery 

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In this episode, we are speaking to Taya Stapelfeldt - a somatic leadership coach, mentor and embodiment trainer for women who want it all - a soul partner, motherhood and a purpose-drive, flourishing business. Her unique approach to somatic mastery combines many years of spiritual practice with leadership coaching, mindset, movement, breath and energy work that enables clients to transform at every level. 

She is called ‘the woman with the key’ who has ‘direct access to the truth’, where the essence of magic can be felt working with her because there is an element of the unexplainable with her results. 

Now this is a special episode, because not only is Taya the first return guest we’ve had here on the podcast, but who also, outside my mother, is the healer who has guided and supported the most profound shifts and evolution in my life. So it is an absolute honour for me to be able to share with you a little of her magic through this conversation. And boy did she share some incredible insights. 

So what do we get into - well we talk about the pull of hustle culture and how it keeps us stuck in the matrix often feeling numb and disconnected, how we can turn our trauma in power, the technology within the body we are born with, becoming the master of your own somatic tools and so much more! 

It's time to live wide awake. 

Stay connected with Taya:

Website: https://soulpilot.org/ 

Social media: https://www.instagram.com/tayatillsoulpilot/ | https://www.instagram.com/tayastapelfeldt/ 

Stay connected & support the show

Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake 

Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake

Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com

In this episode we are speaking to Alina Truhina, CEO and Managing Partner of The Radical Fund,  an early-stage VC fund investing in founders who are delivering climate resilience for Southeast Asia.

Alina is also the Co-Founder of Founders Factory Africa, the pan-African venture studio and VC Fund, where she raised over US$140million from LPs and investors. Before that she helped scale over 76 tech ventures in 9 countries across East Africa and South Asia. And spent seven years at the World Bank.

We talk about the inclusive climate transition and the unfair advantage of Silicon Valley, the importance of mitigation and adaptation ventures, what it means to be radical and the importance of relearning. 

Okay, it’s time to live wide awake. 

Stay connected with Alina:

Website: https://www.theradicalfund.com/ 

Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alinatruhina/ 

Stay connected & support the show

Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake 

Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake

Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com

In this episode, we are speaking to the incredible Dr Loretta Chen, co-founder and CEO of Smobler Studio, a leading virtual architecture firm building in The Sandbox. An acclaimed creative director, a Straits Times bestselling author and a respected professor, Loretta is hailed as “a force of nature” and “Asia’s Anna Wintour. She was also shortlisted as a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore and is an International Consultant to the investment arm of the Royal Government of Bhutan. 

We talk about being a multi-hyphenate, why creativity and conflict are more similar than they are diverse, finding grace in adversity, the metaverse and a decentralised future and so much more. 

Okay, it’s time to live wide awake. 

Stay connected with Loretta:

Website: https://www.drlorettachen.com/ 

Social media: https://www.instagram.com/drlorettachen/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-loretta-chen-56262723/ 

Stay connected & support the show

Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake 

Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com

In this episode, we are speaking to Chris Wedding founder of Entrepreneurs For Impact (climate CEO mastermind peer groups) and a professor at Duke University. Chris is a former private equity investor, award-winning professor, startup founder, investment banker, and executive coach, with over $1 billion of investment experience and 75,000 professional students taught. 

I first discovered Chris through his amazing newsletter which talks about climate, startups, productivity, leadership - and always has a skimmable summary of what’s happening and excellent resources. 

In this episode, we talk about the exciting and terrifying of climate tech, being an expert in failure, innovation, success, watering your mind, and so much more. 

Okay, it’s time to live wide awake. 

Stay connected with Chris:

Website: https://www.entrepreneursforimpact.com/ 

Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherwedding/ 

Stay connected & support the show

Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake 

Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake

Reach out: hello@stephldickson.com

In this episode, we are speaking to Marc Nicholson, founder of private members club 1880. 

Marc Nicholson has been an entrepreneur for 17 years. With a colourful past including child acting, manning a suicide hotline, coaching Cyprus’s national squash team, volunteering in an Indonesian village, venture capital, advertising, men’s grooming and even a sting in the US Naval Academy. 

In this episode, we talk about the power of conversations, the importance of human connection,  the future of humanity, being lost and big transformations, why listening is good for our health and so much more. 

Okay, it’s time to live wide awake. 

Stay connected with Marc:

Website: https://www.1880.com.sg/ 

Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-nicholson-b36449/ | https://www.instagram.com/1880singapore/ 

Stay connected & support the show

Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake 

Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake

Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com

In this episode, we are speaking to Brandy Dallas, the founder of waste-neutral sustainable fashion brand SANS FAFF, a Vogue Innovation Prize Finalist. 

Brandy worked in luxury as the former marketing manager at Tiffany’s and Marina Bay Sands for the Shoppes. Deciding if she was going to work as hard as she was it might as well be for herself, she decided to be part of the solution to bring fashion, luxury, sustainability and affordability together in a modern minimalist label. 

We talk about waste-neutral fashion, building a sustainable fashion brand from cradle to grave, the beauty and material science of bamboo and so much more. 

Okay, it’s time to live wide awake. 

Stay connected with Brandy:

Website: https://www.sansfaff.sg/ 

Social media: https://www.instagram.com/brandydallas/ | https://www.instagram.com/sansfaff/ 

Stay connected & support the show

Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake 

Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake

Reach out: hello@stephldickson.com

In this episode, we are speaking to Laura Storm, founder of Regenerators and co-author of the best-selling book Regenerative Leadership. Laura has spent her entire career working at the intersection of sustainability, organizational development, climate change policy and the intelligence of nature.

She has started and led multiple international organisations including the Copenhagen Climate Council and Sustainia. 

She was awarded the title “world changer” by GreenBiz, named one of the 30 leading women in sustainability by Sustainable Brands, is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and Sustainability Expert and serves on many boards. 

We talk about inner and outer ecosystems, regenerative leadership for a thriving world, why regeneration needs to be a business norm, the dance with ego and cultural programming and so much more. 

I hope you enjoy this smooth conversation thanks to our sound partner Audio-Technica.

Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.

Stay connected with Laura:

Website: https://laura-storm.com/ | https://www.regenerators.co/ 

Social media: https://www.instagram.com/storm_laura/ | https://www.instagram.com/regenerators.co/ 

Stay connected & support the show

Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake 

Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake

Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com

In this episode, we are speaking to Christopher Lafayette, an emergent technologist, humanitarian in virtual and augmented reality applying his talents to the metaverse, ai, medtech, education, web3 and applied sciences.

Chris is the founder of GatherVerse, which fosters conversations about what the metaverse can and should be to benefit humanity. He is also the founder of The Black Technology Mentorship Program, supporting the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. And he sits on various advisory councils and boards, bringing thousands of communities and millions of people into the metaverse, humanely.

We talk about the intersection of humanity and technology, AI ethics, intentions and manipulation, regenerative approaches, innovation tipping the scale, and so much more. 

I hope you enjoy this smooth conversation thanks to our sound partner Audio-Technica.

Okay, it’s time to live wide awake. 

Stay connected with Christopher:

Website: https://www.christopherlafayette.com/ 

Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherlafayette/ 

Stay connected & support the show

Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake 

Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake

Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com

In this episode, we are speaking to Dr Dain Heer, author, speaker, change-maker and the co-creator of Access Consciousness - a powerful personal development company that invites you to value possibilities over problems to rewire negative thought processes. 

He began his career journey as a chiropractor, and over the last twenty years, he developed his signature energy work called the Energetic Synthesis of Being, which invites a new level of awareness, communion and transformation with bodies. He also launched a sustainable resort in Italy called El Lugar. 

This conversation spoke to so many different levels and layers to me. It sparked so much joy and aliveness in me, I didn’t even realise I needed. 

We talk about addiction to heaviness, how energy doesn’t lie, collective unconsciousness, tools to find and choose the light, judgement vs gratitude, choosing to be free and so much more.  

I hope you enjoy this smooth conversation thanks to our sound partner Audio-Technica.

Okay, it’s time to live wide awake. 

Resources: 

Clearing statement | https://www.accessconsciousness.com/theclearingstatement 

Stay connected with Dain:

Website: https://drdainheer.com/  

Social media: https://www.instagram.com/dainheer/ | https://www.instagram.com/accessconsciousness/ 

Stay connected & support the show:

Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake 

Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake

Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com