The Sacred Art of Leadership

Peter Russell has spent more than fifty years at the intersection of science, consciousness, and the revolution that's happening inside the human mind. He studied theoretical physics at Cambridge - with Dr Stephen Hawkins as his supervisor, then travelled to India to study meditation under some of its greatest teachers, and came home to take up the first research post Britain had ever offered on the psychology of meditation. His books, including The Global Brain, Letting Go of Nothing, and his m

This summer, millions are meeting Homer's Odyssey through Christopher Nolan's retelling. Phil Cousineau has been living inside the real story for forty years. In this conversation, he separates the myth from the movie: what Nolan's film gets right, what it leaves out, and why a 2,800-year-old poem about the long way home might be the sharpest leadership text we have. Phil Cousineau worked with Joseph Campbell on The Hero's Journey, has consulted with Hollywood studios including Warner Bros., Pi

What if the biggest mistake founders make when raising capital is assuming investors know better than they do? In this episode of The Sacred Art of Leadership, Del and Dip sit down with Ari Helgason, co-founder of Transition, the venture capital firm backing founders building the technologies that could reshape energy, AI, industry and the future of the planet. Ari has lived on both sides of the table. He built companies before becoming an investor, and that experience gives him a blunt view o

What does leadership look like when you’ve spent twenty years thinking about art before you ever tried to build something? Tom Trevatt is a headshot and portrait photographer, a Goldsmiths PhD, a former DJ, and an accidental business leader. In this episode, Tom talks about the sleepless night that changed his life — and his mum buying him his first camera. About spending twenty years on the outside of something before finally doing it. About building a business from values up, pricing from co

Sam Clark: Leadership Forged in Crisis When Sam Clark moved to Sri Lanka in 2004 to start a travel company, he didn't expect to spend his first year running a disaster relief operation instead. The Boxing Day tsunami hit weeks after he arrived — and what followed became the unlikely training ground for everything he knows about leadership. In this conversation, Sam takes us inside the moments that actually shaped him: the motorbike rescue missions, the £150,000 charity that emerged almost by ac

Athene Parker walks into this conversation having had three hours sleep. She's been running on empty for a long while now and she tells you that in the first five minutes, without apology or performance. What follows is one of the most honest conversations we've had on this podcast. Athene is a 27-year advertising veteran, a CTI-trained coach, and the founder of the emPower Breakfast — a gathering she created for the creative industries when she realised that people were silently drowning in