Thriving Minds with Alberto Zandi

Akash Mehta is the cofounder and CEO of Fable & Mane, one of the most recognisable Ayurvedic haircare brands in global beauty. The self funded company launched globally with Sephora, became a number one hair oil at the retailer and helped bring traditional Indian hair rituals into mainstream beauty.
But behind the success is a much more complicated story.

Growing up, Akash struggled deeply with his skin colour. At around 12 or 13, he bought pills online hoping they would make his skin lighter. Later, after building his identity around achievement, he got into Imperial College and failed his second year.

For the first time, Akash had to question whether the life that looked impressive from the outside was actually the life he wanted.
Through failure, therapy, entrepreneurship and years of self reflection, he began unlearning the need for other people’s approval and discovering what genuinely mattered to him.

In this episode, you will learn:
Why other people’s opinions can quietly control your life
How to stop people pleasing and trust yourself
Why failure can reveal what you actually want
How to deal with overthinking, confidence and ego
Why external success does not guarantee happiness
How Fable & Mane went from a three page deck to Sephora
And how reconnecting with his younger self led Akash towards a much deeper purpose

Today, Akash dedicates a significant part of his life to wildlife conservation through the Fabled Fund, with the ambition of mobilising $100 million for conservation by 2030.

This is a conversation about identity, ambition, confidence and the difficult process of discovering who you are when you finally stop living for everyone else.

Follow Akash:
https://www.instagram.com/mehta_a/?hl=en
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/akash-mehta-425bb783
https://fableandmane.com/

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Darryl Williams, better known as BullyJuice, is a fitness creator and entrepreneur with over 16 million followers across social media. Before building one of the biggest audiences in online fitness, he was a collegiate track athlete, served in the United States Air Force and became a physical training leader responsible for helping people get back into shape and meet military fitness standards.

Most of us know we should exercise, eat better and take care of our bodies. The difficult part is actually starting, staying consistent when motivation disappears and turning healthy decisions into a lifestyle. In this episode, BullyJuice explains why discipline matters more than motivation, how to build a fitness routine you can actually sustain and why transforming your body alone will never make you feel complete.

You will learn:
• Why relying on motivation is one of the biggest reasons people quit
• How finding a deeper reason to exercise can keep you consistent for life
• How to turn exercise into a habit instead of something you constantly restart
• The best way to start training when you have no idea what to do
• How to build muscle while also losing body fat
• Why three workouts per week can still produce results
• How sleep and recovery affect your progress
• What to eat if you want to lose fat or build muscle
• Why looking fit does not necessarily mean you are healthy
• How to approach protein, creatine and other supplements
• Why discipline means doing what needs to be done even when you do not feel like doing it
• How fitness can improve your confidence, work, relationships and the rest of your life

BullyJuice also opens up about losing his biological father at seven, struggling with anger, learning discipline through sport and the military, building an audience of millions and becoming the husband and father he wanted to be. He explains why his definition of success is no longer simply about achievement, money or how your body looks, but about continually becoming a better version of yourself.

His philosophy is simple: take care of your body, strengthen your mind and feed your spirit.
Because becoming your best self requires all three.

Follow BullyJuice:
https://gymoclockfitness.com/
https://www.instagram.com/bullyjuice/
https://www.youtube.com/bullyjuice

#ThrivingMinds #AlbertoZandi #DarrylWilliams #BullyJuice #FitnessMotivation #MindBodySpirit #PersonalGrowth #FitnessJourney #SelfImprovement #HolisticHealth #WellnessJourney #FitnessEntrepreneur #MentalHealth #SpiritualGrowth
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Professor Sonia Livingstone is one of the world’s leading experts on how technology is changing our lives. A technology social psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science, she has spent decades researching social media, digital wellbeing and online safety, while advising governments and international organisations around the world.

Technology was supposed to make our lives easier. But has it also made us less in control?

In this episode, Professor Livingstone explains why the biggest technology companies are fighting for our attention, how social media can learn and exploit our vulnerabilities, why screen time alone is the wrong way to think about digital wellbeing, and how artificial intelligence could take the attention economy to an entirely new level.

She also explains why children are struggling to put their phones down, what parents are getting wrong about screen time, how our own phone habits influence our children, and why simply taking technology away may create more problems than it solves.

You will learn:
• Why agency may be one of the most important factors in our mental wellbeing
• How social media platforms are designed to keep us scrolling
• Why five hours on a screen does not always have the same effect
• How personalised algorithms can push vulnerable people towards increasingly extreme content
• Why children may feel they have nowhere else to go when we take their phones away
• The biggest mistakes parents make when managing technology at home
• Why children are constantly watching how their parents use their phones
• How to create a healthier relationship with technology without removing it completely
• Why AI companions could become particularly dangerous for lonely and vulnerable people
• How to use AI without allowing it to replace human judgement and real relationships
• Why governments are struggling to regulate technology quickly enough
• The simple changes we can make today to take back control of our attention

Professor Livingstone’s message is ultimately simple: technology should be a tool that helps us live the life we choose.

It should not choose that life for us.

Buy Prof Livingstone books:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B001HP4N1E/

Follow Prof Livingstone:
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sonia-livingstone-6b0b8712
https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/sonia-livingstone

#ThrivingMinds #AlbertoZandi #Livingstone #Professor #BigTech #DigitalWellbeing #TechRegulation #MediaLiteracy #LSE #SiliconValley #MentalHealth #Technology #SocialMedia #Automation #DigitalAge
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Most people believe they should have figured their life out by 30.

Simon Woodroffe says he was lost, nearly out of money and 47 when he opened YO! Sushi. He explains why boldness matters more than following the perfect plan, and why some of the greatest opportunities appear when you ignore how an industry tells you things should be done.

Simon Woodroffe is an entrepreneur, the founder of YO! Sushi and YOTEL, one of the original Dragons on BBC’s Dragons’ Den, and the author of Yo! Man. YO! Sushi grew from one unconventional Soho restaurant into an international brand, while YOTEL expanded from a small airport hotel prototype into a global hospitality business.

He explains:
Why starting YO! Sushi at 47 proves that you are never too late to build something significant
How he opened a £1 million restaurant with only a fraction of the money he needed and had queues within one week
Why being bold, different and occasionally outrageous can become your greatest competitive advantage
Why founders must eventually give up control and trust other people if they want the business to scale
Why he believes businesses should be built with an eventual sale in mind
How childhood loneliness, prison at 17, imposter syndrome and an “I’ll show them” mentality fuelled his success

The views expressed are those of the guest, and this conversation is intended for general informational purposes only.
This podcast and its associated materials should not be used as a substitute for professional financial, legal, business, health or other specialist advice.

Follow Simon: ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠LinkedIn⁠ ⁠Website⁠

Buy Simon’s book: ⁠Yo! Man⁠

#ThrivingMinds #AlbertoZandi #SimonWoodroffe #YoSushi #YOTEL #Entrepreneur #HospitalityIndustry #BusinessWisdom #ThailandLife #FounderStories #StartupAdvice #LifeAfterSuccess
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Most people blame their phone for destroying their attention. Nir Eyal says the phone is often only the outlet, that 90% of distraction begins with something happening inside us, and that the real solution is not deleting every app but learning to manage discomfort, plan our time and challenge the beliefs keeping us stuck.

Nir Eyal is a behavioural design expert, former lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, and the author of Hooked, Indistractable and Beyond Belief.

He first revealed the psychology companies use to create habit-forming products, before developing a practical system to help people reclaim their attention and follow through on what they intend to do.

He explains:
◼ Why your phone is probably not the real reason you cannot focus
◼ Why boredom, anxiety, loneliness, fatigue and uncertainty drive most distraction
◼ The four-step system for taking back control of your attention
◼ Why traditional to-do lists can make you feel busy, unsuccessful and incapable of managing your time
◼ Why emails and other work-related tasks can become distractions disguised as productivity
◼ How the beliefs and labels you repeat can change what you see, how you behave and what you believe you are capable of achieving

The views expressed are those of the guest, and this conversation is intended for general informational purposes only. This podcast and its associated materials should not be used as a substitute for professional medical, psychological, legal, financial or other specialist advice.

Follow Nir:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nireyal/
https://www.instagram.com/nireyal/
https://www.youtube.com/user/nirandfar

https://www.nirandfar.com/

Buy Nir's books:
https://amzn.to/44ZoL6q

#ThrivingMinds #AlbertoZandi #NirEyal #Distraction #PhoneAddiction #BehavioralPsychology #Focus #Productivity #Habits #DigitalWellness #MentalHealth
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