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This episode of The Legally Speaking Podcast shines a spotlight on Venandah Madanhi, a lawyer and social entrepreneur at the forefront of legal innovation and youth empowerment. As an Associate in Milbank LLP's London office and a key figure in the European Leveraged Finance/Capital Markets Group, Venandah offers an insightful glimpse into the complex world of leveraged finance and capital markets, demystifying its role and impact.

Beyond her legal practice, Venandah is the driving force behind Talk About, an organisation dedicated to bridging the gap between young people and professionals through impactful engagement, focusing on soft skills, personal development, and mental wellbeing. Her work has not only earned her a spot as the youngest individual on Birmingham’s inaugural Top 30 Under 30 list but also a position among the UK's top outstanding black students and graduates.

𝐒𝐨, 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧?
You can catch Rob and Venandah talking about:

• Discover Venandah's journey into law and what fuels her passion for social progress and legal diversity.
• Gain invaluable insights into the essentials of succeeding in a global law firm's training contract, directly from Venandah's experiences.
• Unpack the intricacies of leveraged finance and capital markets with Venandah's expert guidance, making this complex field accessible to all.
• Explore a day in the life at Milbank and debunk common misconceptions about working in US law firms.
• Learn about the importance of mental health discussions in the workplace and how Venandah champions social mobility and personal branding through innovative platforms.
• Be inspired by Venandah's advice for aspiring legal professionals aiming to make their mark in top law firms.

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We are joined by Darko Hajdukovic, Head of Platforms and Product at the London Stock Exchange Group, to discuss the first fund to IPO in two years - which is domiciled in Guernsey, as well as the LSE's voluntary carbon market, and the impact of the macroeconomic environment and emerging technologies on the listing process.

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Well done! You made it, baby! Another week done. Here are four new episodes of the "Cannabis Daily" podcast to get you into the weekend.

**HEY!! Are you a budtender from the Tri-State area?  

Business of Cannabis & Leafly are inviting you to join us for an evening of education, networking, food, and fun on the dopest holiday of them all, International Budtender Day!

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Here are today's stories:

• Cannabis taxes overtook alcohol and cigarettes in Colorado and Washington this year- Marijuana Moment
• Cannabis companies caught in the fallout of Hurricane Ian - MJBizDaily
• EU hemp industry boom attracts US stakeholder interest- Benzinga
• European cannabis stocks review: £22m wiped from LSE-listed cannabis stocks amid market chaos - BusinessCann

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Eίναι ένας άνθρωπος που δεν μασάει τα λόγια του, συγκρούεται όταν και όποτε χρειαστεί, και αναλαμβάνει πλήρως την ευθύνη για τις θέσεις του. Σε αυτό το επεισόδιο της σειράς podcast «Health People» φιλοξενούμε τον καθηγητή Πολιτικής της Υγείας στο Imperial College και στο LSE, Ηλία Μόσιαλο, o οποίος μίλησε στην Ευλαμπία Ρέβη για τα πάντα: από τον κορονοϊό και τα εμβόλια μέχρι το πώς αισθάνεται ένας επιστήμονας όταν μπλέκει με την πολιτική.

A little on the low side in terms of points scored so far but did this week bring the LEWKS! Hear us talk about the teams from LSE and University Oxford, dinosaurs disrupting rail networks, and our thoughts about how the Queen probably enjoyed her weekly dose of UC. Stay tuned till the end for an obvious best-dressed!

Many believe that you can judge the quality of a decision by the success of the outcome…………’

But can you really?’

What if the person making the decision was reckless or had a high propensity for risk-taking, or was a gambler?

And what if the reason there was a successful outcome was mere luck?

What we need to think about is the role the decision or decisions that were made played in the outcome.

What do we know about the biases that may have come into play when a particular decision is being made?

In this episode, we also look at outcome, champion, and experience biases because they can all have a major impact on decision-making.

If you’d like to know more, read ‘You’re about to make a terrible mistake’ by Olivier Sibony.

This is a great journey into understanding how cognitive biases can distort our decision-making processes.

https://www.amazon.com/Youre-About-Make-Terrible-Mistake/dp/0316494984 

If you really want to improve your own decision-making, the London School of Economics (LSE) run a number of programmes and courses on the science behind decision-making under the leadership of Dr. Barbara Fasilo 

The Lock Asylum
A radio drama by Cara Jennings and Sophie Trott

This compelling and visceral new drama takes inspiration from real histories of ‘fallen women’ in 1787, as they enter The Lock Asylum, a new institution that aimed to morally reform them following treatment for syphilis with mercury. Sophie Trott stars as Ruth Plym, a real patient, who, pregnant and desperate, deals with the restrictive conditions she finds herself in. She tries to bond with Martha, Mary and Sarah, her traumatised and volatile fellow inmates - young adults, trying follow their dreams in London town, the richest city in the world. They’ve been chewed up and spat out by a society where life is cheap and options limited, if you are female and poor. Will they take up this second chance to become devout Christian servants or wives? Or will they stick two fingers up at the proto prison, and go back to a life of freedom and risk? Will anyone survive beyond the age of 25?

Credits:
Anna-Kate Golding - Martha Threadgill
Jenny Gordon - Mrs Baker
Rosie May Jones - Mary Carter
Jonathan Kemp - Reverend Scott
Sophie Trott - Ruth Plym
Reuben Williams - Mr Fisher
Charmaine Wombwell - Sarah Downes
All the other parts were played by the cast.

Studio Manager - Camilo Salazar
Historical Consultant - Professor Patrick Wallis
Director - Beckie Mills
Producers - Beckie Mills, Cara Jennings and Sophie Trott.
Produced in association with LSE department of Economic History, Morley Radio, and Positive Cynic Audio

Thanks to Esther Baker at Synergy Theatre Project, Dorian Ford, Mandy Gordon, Sean Grundy, Lizzie Knight, Ray Malone, Father Damien Mason at St Mary Brookfield, Kevin Sienna, John Styles, Simon Szreta, the participants from our workshops at Dunraven 6th form, Morley College, City Lit, Totteridge Academy, Drama Studio London, The Mollies at St Margaret’s House; the department of Economic History at LSE, and its students, and Morley Radio.

Rory Moore is our next Change Maker. Rory is an LSE student who, in the challenging times of the pandemic, founded Coronavirus Community Volunteering (CCV Global) supporting people in their local communities. The charity has now spread all around the world with help of Rory's fellow students.

I am very pleased to bring you this conversation with historian Katherine Arnold. Katherine has a masters from University College London in History and is soon to be finishing her PhD after 4 years of study at the London School of Economics. Katherine is a specialist of 19th century Germany, with a specific focus on German imperialism and the natural history of its colonies. In this episode we discuss the the huge changes Germany went through in the 19th century, the second reich and Europe's tradition of exhibiting artefacts gathered from territories overseas.

Why not have a look at Katherine's website: https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-History/People/PhD/arnold/arnoldhttps://www.lse.ac.uk/International-History/People/PhD/arnold/arnold

Or follow Katherine on Twitter at @karnold01

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Luck is on your side this week as NYU and LSE faculty member Christian Busch joins Lloyd to discuss his new book, The Serendipity Mindset.

The Director of NYU’s Global Economy Program, Christian has extensive experience with social entrepreneurship. He co-founded the Sandbox Network, a global hub for young innovators, and has advised companies like TED and Haier. And with The Serendipity Mindset, he’s exploring how the world’s best CEOs cultivate luck to gain a competitive edge.

During their conversation, Christian tells Lloyd about the differences between smart and dumb luck, how to turn rejection into an opportunity, and why saying “no” can still leave you open to serendipity. Plus, they delve into the incident that sent Christian on an intense search for meeting and tackle unconscious bias in tech.

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Episode Highlights:

03:29: The Serendipity Mindset: how to attract smart luck

09:07: How to say “no” and still be open to opportunity

14:04: How to allow serendipitous connections to happen

20:28: Reframing: how to turn rejection into an opportunity

27:03: Why staying true to your north star ultimately helps you get ahead

31:18: The event that spurred Christian’s search for meaning

35:41: How can people network healthily online?

40:17: Combating unconscious biases in tech.

44:00: What’s next for Christian

Hend El Sherbini took over her mother’s testing facility MK Lab in Egypt and rebranded it to Al Mokhtabar in 2004, with the intention of providing affordable and quality testing beyond Cairo. 

16 years later, El Sherbini sits atop Integrated Diagnostics Holding, a merger of Al Mokhtabar and Al Borg. 

IDH is the first Egyptian company to list on the London Stock Exchange, and has since become a regional player with over 450 facilities across Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria and Jordan. El Sherbini speaks to the merits of institutionalizing her family business and highlights the role consolidation plays in enabling affordable healthcare.

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Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses.  

In this special interview series from the RSA its chief executive, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for one big idea to help build effective bridges to our new future.

Dena Freeman is an anthropologist and senior visiting fellow at the LSE. Dena is the author of Can Globalization Succeed?: A Primer for the 21st Century. 

Produced by Craig Templeton Smith.

In this time of global change, strong communities and initiatives that bring people together are more invaluable than ever before. The RSA Fellowship is a global network of problem solvers. We invite you to join our community today to stay connected, inspired and motivated in the months ahead. 

You can learn more about the Fellowship or start an application by clicking here. 

Gya and Hari, two of our 2019/20 Student Ambassadors for the Department of International Development talk about their first week at LSE and share tips with incoming students on settling in to the academic year and being Covid prepared.

Current ID Student Ambassador, Harikeerthan Raghuram interviews LSE ID alumnus and previous student ambassador, Natasha Glendening, about her year at LSE and how her masters is helping her now as Social Researcher at Department for Transport, UK. Natasha is also an incoming PhD candidate (Public Health) at University of California, Irvine.

Current ID Student Ambassador, Harikeerthan Raghuram interviews 2018/19 ID Student Ambassador, Deepjyot Kaur, about her year at LSE and how what she learnt during this time has helped her in her current role as Associate at NITI Aayog, the policy think tank of the Government of India.

During the 2020 Winter School for PhD candidates, LSE Associate Professor Jonathan Hopkin joined us to discuss his forthcoming book on anti-system politics and economic inequality in the West. Jonathan and Aidan Regan discuss whether it's cultural changes or neoliberalism that drive anti-system parties of the left and right, as well as the relationship between welfare states and party politics.

Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJMjTbbz7UQ&feature=youtu.be

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Dr David Starkey is a historian and broadcaster. Developing an interest in the past through grammar school and a scholarship to Cambridge and a lecturer in Tudor history at LSE for nearly 30 years, his trenchant opinions and unforgiving style quickly caught the eye of broadcasters and journalists. His popular television documentaries include ‘The Six Wives of Henry VIII’ and ‘Monarchy’, and his appearances on Radio 4's ‘The Moral Maze’ earned him the reputation as “the rudest man in Britain”. In this in-depth interview, he argues that the rise of historical programmes has done nothing to reverse the decline in academic standards, discusses how his uncompromising nature has taken him through his career, and reveals how a passion for tradition means he is a staunch Conservative – despite his working class roots.

'The only way to have your cake and eat it is to keep growing the cake’. 

Listen to this fascinating panel from the YF Economy and Finance network on Britain’s productivity, as part of their ‘A Decade Since the Great Recession’ series. 

Since the great recession in 2008, the UK’s productivity growth, especially labour productivity, has been weaker than in many other OECD countries. So much so that the gap between actual and pre-crisis outputs was nearly 20% lower per hour at the end of 2016 than in the previous decade. The panellists will be discussing their views on this and the interventions they think could boost performance ten years after the crash. This will include a deep dive into the drivers of productivity, potential labour and investment policies and how businesses can train and invest in their workforce.

The event was recorded on June 13th at Fabian HQ.

Guests:

John Heap, Managing Director, Institute of Productivity
Dr. Anna Valero, ESRC Innovation Fellow - Growth, LSE
Hubert Wu, Behavioural Insights Team
Marion Mayer, Economy & Finance Network Events Officer (chair)

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Like debating, and good policy chat? We thought so.

Welcome to the Young Fabians, the under-31s section of the Fabian Society, a progressive think tank and founding organisation of the Labour party. For our intro episode we're joined by Andrew Harrop, the general secretary of the Fabians, and Charlotte Norton, the current chair of the Young Fabians. They explain policy research, events, socials and, crucially, the boat party. The chat is moderated by producer Carolina Saludes (who doesn't introduce herself because we're all on a steep learning curve) and brought to you by the Young Fabians. 

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