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Wanderful the podcast is created and hosted by arts-in-business innovator David Pearl to help you bring a bit of wonder to your walking. Inspired by David’s not-profit social movement Street Wisdom that brings free guided in-person and online walking workshops to city streets in 80 countries and counting. Each episode takes an entertaining and light- hearted look at an aspect of life we all secretly struggle with or want to get better at: optimism, creativity, relationships, wealth, direction… you get the idea. We’ll start the walks by exploring the everyday challenge in the company of an entertaining and refreshingly, imperfectly human, guest. Then, following simple instructions provided by David, the walk becomes a way to get clarity, insight and learn new skills you can use every day to help you find answers to your life questions. All you need is some headphones and a phone so you can get outside and walk whilst listening, but if you are tuning in at home then walking (slowly) inside your house, also works well too. You can dig deeper into the power of wandering and getting off the beaten track in David’s book Wanderful: Human Navigation for a Complex World available at leading bookstores. Follow @streetwisdom_ @davidpearlhere for more ideas and inspiration on leading a Wanderful life https://wanderfulpodcast.com/
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Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Oli Barrett MBE – Connector, Presenter and Co- Creator
'Great Ideas Start With Laughter'
Described by WIRED magazine as "the most connected man in Britain", OIi Barrett is a serial co-founder who enjoys connecting people and ideas. He is a shareholder in several companies including Calm.com and Troubadour Theatres and co-founded the UK's largest schools enterprise competition, Tenner.
He co-founded StartUp Britain with support from the British Prime Minister and the Clean and Cool Mission, supporting cleantech scaleups to connect with global investors and markets.
He is a regular event host, including for the Great British Entrepreneur Awards and sits on the advisory boards of Tech London Advocates, One Million Mentors and Founders4Schools.
His latest audio course, Build a Better Network, has been taken by people around the world and his latest charity campaign (TOTS) encourages broadcasters and tech companies to turn on the subtitles, improving children's literacy.
Timeline
0.00
Theme
00.45
David introduces Oli Barrett
04.19
Tenner - The Schools Entrepreneurship Challenge
06.00
Where Do You Get Ideas From?
Distilling a big idea and making it something beautifully simple
08.50
Turn on the subtitles (TOTS)
11.35
The get-up-and-go mentality?
14.19
Bringing people together & the process of collaboration
17.50
The love of hosting events
- The amazing people you get to meet
- Breadth of subject
- The process of being on stage and making other people feel comfortable.
- Creating authenticity and honesty in the room.
22.00
Oli’s network - the golden rules
24.10
The joy of meandering - life is a search for people
28.15
The lessons of ‘seize the day’ - action / restoration
31.20
Getting to know other people more easily - the sense of the fellow traveller
34.30
The ‘Wanderful’ experience - seeing the funny side
The link between lightness and creativity
38.08
Post ‘Wanderful’ exercise - what did we learn?
40.37
End credits
Resources
Tenner
https://www.10xchallenge.org.uk/
Turning on The Subtitles (TOTS)
https://turnonthesubtitles.org/
David Ogilvy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ogilvy_(businessman)
Brij Kathari - TED Talk: Reading For A Billion, With Bollywood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP4xfN89Ss
Nudge Theory - Richard H Thaler & Cass R Sunstein
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/nudge-the-final-edition-9780241552100/9780241552100
Start Up Britain
https://www.greatbritishentrepreneurawards.com/startup-britain-2/
Quotes
‘Make your thinking as funny as possible’ (Oli Barrett)
“Most of the things I’ve started have come through experiencing or reading about a problem.” (Oli Barrett)
“TOTS is all about the power of same language subtitles… if you put subtitles on kids TV you double the chances of them becoming a proficient reader.” (Oli Barrett)
“That process of connecting ideas and people - you create conditions for people to inspire each other, which means that quietly and respectfully, you can step back and enable them to get on with it.” (Oli Barrett)
“If something I’ve been involved with in any gets mentioned publicly and I’m not mentioned, I take that as a huge compliment, because it gives me that sense that it really could carry on without me.” (Oli Barrett)
“I do like process of making people feel comfortable, who wouldn’t normally feel comfortable and getting something from them that almost surprises them.” (Oli Barrett)
“You can travel the world looking for joy but they’re also on your doorstep.” (David Pearl)
“Life is a search for people is a beautiful thought” (Oli Barrett)
“To solve some of the biggest problems in the world you have to join unusual forces together.” (Oli Barrett)
“If you think you’ll live forever you do give yourself time to moan, whereas if you remember its finite, you may make more use of your day.” (David Pearl)
Connect
Oli Barrett
Twitter @OliBarrett
David Pearl
Twitter @davidpearlhere
Instagram @davidpearl_here
Andrew Paine (Producer)
Twitter @ItPainesMe
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