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I am currently going deep into how technology is impacting Healthcare. As part of that I am speaking to early-stage entrepreneurs in the initial staging of funding, but as part of my research, I came across Rami Weiss who is the CEO of a fully scaled up health tech business called Healthshare, which is building innovative products that improve access to health information and health practitioners.    The conversation feels quite timely as we covered the debate over the Australian Governments design and execution of the My Health record, which has come under scrutiny from many including myself over concerns around how well client privacy will be protected.  This for me is a real double-edged sword.  On one hand, connecting patient data frees up time for practitioners and enables them to have a more holistic view of the patient, it also potentially opens up a viable opportunity for applying machine learning to look for solutions to disease.  The downside, for example, would be my podiatrist being given automatic access to completely unrelated  areas such as my sexual infection history would be a pretty sensitive one (Disclaimer I am as clean as a whistle I think!)   Thanks again to Rami for taking time to speak to me and if anybody is listening who is working in the health tech space or believes they have a solution to a problem in health, do reach out on the socials I would love to chat more. 

One of the areas that I have thought a lot about over the years, is the financial sustainability of social ventures. I think it's fair to say that my track record on this is mixed.   The positive intention has without doubt been there.    For example, I started writing the outline for the business that became TVN in the foreword of the book by Mathew Bishop Philanthrocapitalism    I bonded with TVN's co-founder Josh Ismin whilst at a Microsoft event in Atlanta where Blake Mycoskie founder of Tom's Shoes was the keynote speaker.    In fact, the original business model for TVN had a 10% profit share baked into it, for investment in a social venture. Sadly we never managed to operationally align TVN and the social venture we identified.   That did not stop me trying again, however, this time in a seed investment in Andable which was a digital marketplace that gave 10% of the sales transaction profit to Kiva, a microloans organisation that provides credit to small businesses in the developing world.  Unfortunately, I know now more about the economics of a successful digital marketplace than I did in 2012 and sadly Andable is no longer around.   So it was with these best intentions and a little bit of scar tissue that I got to sit down with today's guest Paul Frasca,  CEO of Sustainable Salons. Paul is a serial entrepreneur who has been able to not only create an organisation that is sustainable in the re-use of waste sense of the word but has also built a social venture that is self-sustainable from a financial sense.     Paul is a super interesting character and if in years to come scientists find the DNA that is linked to being an entrepreneur he would undeniably have it!  We talk about the innovation and incubation stage of the startup and go deep into Paul's journey with Sustainable Salons before finishing with an exploration of some of the future use cases for how technology could build a brighter future.   Hope you enjoy and thanks again to Paul Frasca.

It's June 30th 2017 and Josh Ismin and myself are at the end of a two-year earn-out for the acquisition of our company TVN, the digital video marketplace we started in my basement in Tamarama 7 years ago.  All the vital signs of the company are great:  Our revenue is pushing $45million, we are operating in 9 different countries in Asia Pacific,  we have survived competition from Google and Facebook as well as a host of well funded US ad tech companies trying to squash us in every way you could imagine.  All is well that ends well.     Fast forward to the present day and I got to catch up with my old business partner Josh Ismin  over a bottle of wine.  I ask Josh for his take on the trials and tribulations of starting a company, scaling it and living to tell the tale.           Any questions message me on any of my socials, Enjoy Peter

Let's be honest, there are lots of well-documented problems in the world and luckily there are also people in the world who see those problems and are driven to take massive action. On the podcast today we have one of those people, Bronwyn Sheehan founder and CEO of the Pyjama Foundation an organisation that promotes numeracy and literacy to children in the foster care system.   I have got to know Bronwyn really well over the years as a board member of the Pyjama foundation and I continue to be blown away by her as a force of nature.  Bronwyn has been voted Queensland Australian of the year and Telstra businesswomen of the year, for the work that she has done creating a difference to the lives of some of the societies most vulnerable children.   Listening to Bronwyn for an hour will make you laugh, might also make you cry, but will show you how taking individual action can make the world more positive one step at a time.

How do you balance creative thinking whilst ensuring you have output? Can you apply the scientific method to art? What is the future of art in an ever more technological world? My guest this week Charlotte Rose Hamlyn, is a renaissance human, whose creative output across various platforms whilst pondering the scientific method would have made Leonardo smile.   Charlotte is a published author with Penguin Random House, of the children's graphic novel Opposite Land, screenwriter of various kids TV shows including Beat Bugs, which is one of my all-time Netflix favourites, Host of Channel 7's TV show Get Arty.    We jump right into the creative process that Charlotte goes through including a model for getting bad ideas out of the way called the 10 from 10.  We discuss how to use the scientific method in the creation of art. As well as wide-ranging discussions on equality in the TV industry, the future of art and as always a view on the utopian or dystopian path ahead.    I recommend checking out some of Charlotte's work at www.charlotterosehamlyn.com  where you can find insightful how-to videos on how she created the graphic novel Opposite Land,  some of her latest animated work for Netflix Motown Magic and lots of interactive content. Charlotte can also be found on Instagram @charlotterosehamlyn   This episode will give you insight into the day to day process of one of Australia's leading creatives and might also make you giggle from time to time. I am personally in awe of the fact that Charlotte manages to be at the top of the game in so many areas. As with many of the guests that I have interviewed for the show, Charlotte is clearly very gifted but as you will hear, she is also incredibly dedicated to her craft, has episodes of self-doubt but is continually brave in putting herself and her work out there. Hope you enjoy!        

This episode is all about balance.  A few months back I was joined by Yoga superstar Persia Juliet.  Persia is an incredible Yoga practitioner, teacher, writer and business women and benefits from an incredibly soothing voice!   Having grown up on both sides of the Atlantic ocean, and then having living spells in Australia and currently calling Bali home, Persia has an incredible worldview and perspective of inner balance in an increasingly wobbly world which we dive into in the show.  Persia shares the steps of her remarkable journey of  transformation from Rugby front rower to Bikram Yoga teacher within 2 years.  We discuss the role of mentors, how to pick them and the role that they have played in guiding her along the path.     You can find more about Persia and look into some of her awesome retreats at https://www.persiajuliet.com/ and Insta @misspersiajuliet   Yoga, choosing mentors, physical transformation, inner balance, Bali 

Exploring human potential through the eyes of world-class leaders in technology, business, sport and health.   On this week's show, we have my good friend, mentor and business partner Gary Gorrow.  Gary is a leading Vedic meditation teacher, surfer, and general wise soul.   He works with a host of celebrities, executives, sports teams.   I first met Gary when my life from everything from my business, to my personal life was going to shit.  In hindsight, Gary teaching me to meditate gave me not on only a daily release valve, but also gave me an awareness of the need for balance that I did not have before which has helped not only in business but as a husband and a father.   The recording follows on from a couple of days we had spent on our land in glorious Byron Bay which we are currently developing into a wellness retreat. We covered everything from Gary's journey from fashion to a spiritual guide, to the ethics and potential use cases of Gene editing and precision healthcare.     Listening to Gary is good for the soul, he helped change my life I would highly recommend it!

This episode is what it says on the tin and is for all the golfers out there in the constant search to get better.  Bobby Walia is a certified instructor, who has played professionally on the sunshine tour, he's played the best golf courses in the world as the onboard instructor of the ship called The world and is an all-around great human and teacher.     With more time on my hands these days I am a walking cliche "obsessed with golf" its hard, it's addictive and if you have never been addicted to it you will not be able to comprehend spending four and half hours chasing a ball around in various states of torture.  I hear golf repeatedly described as an allegory for life's trials and tribulations.  For someone like me who has spent a good amount of time trying to figure out how to control the mind and the impact it has on physiology, golf has an incredible appeal.  If you are a golfer or have been considering golf you will get a lot out of this, for anyone else interested in the mental side of sport I think you would also enjoy.