David Sobeski Part II, about being fearless, speaking your mind and listening

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 with kids to take that into account in the new normal

- The importance of psychological safety and  how people have a 6th sense around whether they feel safe or not

- How technical nerds could take advantage of their skills and transition into leadership roles


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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 unorthodox Swedish Stratege: no lock down, no face masks, school open.

If you listen to the episode you will find the 50% magic discount code to use and find out how one person can win a free ticket. Sign up to the Webinar here:
 
The Swedish Corona strategy explained with Dr Anders Tegnell

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 chamber of commerce, learnt Danish and got immerged in the Danish culture. 

His journey took him to Slovakia and now to Prague, Czech Republic where he is working for Honeywell. 

A true European incarnating the idea of movement between countries to share your culture and gain experiences from others. 

They discuss a number of interesting subjects like:

- The Elite School system in France and the advantages and disadvantages it might have 
- The difference between a Danish and French University
- The mistrust you feel between people on the street  in France but not necessarily in the Scandinavian countries
- the segregated French society and the importance of grades at an early age in French school system
- The notion of a second chance in life in the Scandinavian countries but not necessarily in France
- how it is to work for an American company with an American corporate culture

and much more. 

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-Adventist Church machinery and becoming a pastor.

Matthew was a Rock & Roll Pastor running his churches pretty much like a Startup and he travelled 6 continents to preach and give speeches.

Another drug experience, this time with mushrooms in Amsterdam makes Matthew doubt his fait and he leaves the church in 2017.

During his church year he was always nurturing a coaching mind and did several trainings and certifications and have now fine tuned that into becoming a business coach doing online coaching in Covid times.

You can find Matthew and his coaching business here at MagnetizeGlobal and book a free session to try him out. It's definitiely worth a try!

Matthew several time references this Ted Talk by Roland Griffith about psyilocybin and the work Roland is doing and the John Hopkins University. 

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. 

He also reflects on Zoom meetings that seems to always start on time and go on forever, the opposite to real life Corporate meetings where people often drop in when they can and the meeting ends early so people can go back to work. 

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 Management communicating to their staff
- What makes a difference between IBM and Google
- Why should a traditional company having their IT infrastructure go to the Cloud
- Should a company choose a single Cloud or multi platform cloud strategy?
- How should you approach a Cloud implementation going from premises to the Cloud?
- How was the Cloud actually born as a product?
- Cultural work differences between Europe and the US

Tune in and listen to someone who really know what he is talking about. 

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 it matter?

He talks about the tools he is using to meditate (it really helps for modern people to sit down with a guided meditation) such as:
-   Headspace  with Andy Puddicombe (
-  Waking Up app with Sam Harris (get a free month of subscription by redeeming promo code OPENMIND)
- Eckhart Tolle more as an inspiration source but also teaches meditation

He shares how this could be applied in Corporate and what change it could make and the risk if you are the only one doing it in a very competetive environment. 

Science seems to comfirm the idea that meditation is beneficial such a increased grey mass in the brain and increased length of the telomeres (caps at the end of each strand of our DNA) linked to "reduced" aging process. 

But he is of the opinion that regardless the science, it's worth it and lifechanging. 

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 two events shaped and formed him at a young age, the loss of his mother at the age of 11 and how he as a young man started to work for the Samaritans in London.

They discuss leadership, attitude and we get in an emotional sequence on why John is the fantastic accepting person he is and what is motivating him.

John shares his views on similtudes and differences between the sports world and the corporate world.

We'll hear many of John's fabolous stories and anecdotes.

If you want to get in touch with John you can find him here:

John Ireland, Coaching, Consulting, Training

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 and when he was in his twenties he was broke and doing small jobs and decided to give poker a go and he became a professional poker player with an outstanding merit lists of which to mention only a few are:

Final table (9th) WSOP Main Event 2007
(15th) EPT Grand Final Monte Carlo 2007
Final table (4th) EPT Copenhagen 2006
Won (1st) WCP III Barcelona 2006
Won (1st) Sunday Million online tournament 2006

 Philip tells us how it is to be a professional poker player and why he left the scene to let construct 150 houses in Poland. 

He'll teach us what to look for at your opponents body and body language when playing poker and why he had to put a face mask on 10 years before it was mandatory in Prague (due Corona) when he went down to the local Casino. 

He talks about his current projects trying to master the Poker game by developing a "machine" that can master the game and he tells us how he apprehend and live the Corona virus crisis and fear that is spreading in society. 

You'll also hear how Philip saved a friend from the Scientology church by using his analytical and logic thinking. 

Listen to a very smart man with an unusual career that is almost like a fairy tale! 

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 Performance, Trust, and belonging" and a the book is full of anecdotes from Mike's experience and life and it has a strong focus on soft skills, authenticity, inclusion and belonging. 

We talk about the book of course but also the inevitable Corona Virus.

Mike gives some practical tips one can do as a leader in a team event to get under the surface or below the tip of the iceberg to foster a more deeper connection between people.

We also talk about diversity and why it is such a big thing in the US and how Mike have approached this delicate subject.

If you want to know more about Mike or if you are interested in the book you can find more info here: We're all in this together book.