EP 525: Matthew Dicks - The Building Blocks of Great Storytelling
Release Date: 12/19/2024
EP 608: Melli O'Brien - Developing Deep Resilience to Face Today's Challenges
The Mojo Sessions
Melli O’Brien wrote ‘Deep Resilience: A Four-Step Journey to Unshakable Inner Strength,’ giving us a step-by-step guide to navigating life’s challenges. The book is for those who might feel overwhelmed by life’s whirlwind pace, crave calm, and seek the strength to build confidence. In 2025, Mindful magazine named Melli one of the most powerful women in the mindfulness movement. Melli's journey has not been easy; she has experienced the loss of two family members and a divorce, and when she lost another family member while running a business, each blow took a toll on her, leading to...
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EP 607: Michele Rigby Assad - The CIA Undercover Operative Breaks Cover
The Mojo Sessions
Most of us have heard stories about the CIA, but we rarely get the chance to look behind the curtain and gain insight into their secretive operations. Michele Rigby Assad lived a lie during her career as a CIA operative in the Middle East. With extensive experience in the Arab world, she developed the ability to interpret and navigate risks while designing safe and effective operations. Michele was an undercover CIA intelligence officer for 10 years, specialising in counterterrorism and counterintelligence in war zones, giving her significant expertise in dealing with terrorists and...
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EP 606: Martha McSally - Do Things Afraid, Dare to Fly
The Mojo Sessions
Former US Senator Martha McSally was the first ever US female combat fighter pilot, and then became the first female Air Force officer to command a fighter squadron. Having survived a sexual predator in high school, rape by a military superior and the many bureaucratic barriers that were put in her way, Martha had the iron constitution to deal with these many setbacks and still push forward to success. Martha's story is summed up in her book 'Dare to Fly: Simple Lessons in Never Giving Up'. LINKS Martha's Website Book on Amazon The Mojo Sessions website The Mojo...
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EP 605: David Robson - The Profound Impact Expectation Can Have on Our Lives
The Mojo Sessions
David Robson is a British award-winning science writer specialising in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. David's work has appeared in the Guardian, the Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic. He's worked as a features editor at New Scientist and as a senior journalist at the BBC. He's written a number of books, including The Intelligence Trap, The Expectation Effect, which won the British Psychological Society Book Award and his latest release, The Laws of Connection. We discuss the profound impact our expectations can have on every area of our lives and how we often...
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EP 604: Rajeev Peshawaria - When the Mission Really Becomes the Mission
The Mojo Sessions
Rajeev Peshawaria, CEO of Stewardship Asia Singapore, is the former Chief Learning Officer: Coca-Cola and Morgan Stanley, a TEDx Speaker, and a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. His latest book, "Sustainable Sustainability", discusses why frameworks such as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) are insufficient to address today's existential challenges, both global and local, and highlights a critical missing link. Rajeev advocates for a transition to Environmental, Social, and Leadership (ESL), emphasising what he terms Steward Leadership. This conversation is crucial for company...
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EP 603: Dr David Lipman - The Healthy High Performing Corporate Athlete Playbook
The Mojo Sessions
Dr David Lipman is a medical doctor & exercise physiologist who’s transitioned into startups. David specialises in what he calls the nexus between health and performance, specifically focusing on longevity, healthspan and our use of technology. He would describe himself as a ‘specialist generalist’, and he takes pride in a macro approach while remaining firmly rooted in science, a mindset driven by his relentless curiosity to understand how complex systems work. With degrees in exercise physiology, podiatry and medicine, he has coached endurance sportsmen as a strength and...
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EP 602: Dan Cockerell - Lessons From a Lifetime of Leadership at Disney
The Mojo Sessions
Dan Cockerell started at the Walt Disney Company as a parking attendant and 26 years later was it's Vice President, leading 12,000 cast members at the largest theme park in the world, the Magic Kingdom Park. Dan had nineteen different roles with Disney, including 5 years at the Disneyland Paris Resort. Dan left Disney to start his own consulting company and now shares his leadership and management experience at Disney with companies worldwide. He is also the author of the book "How’s the Culture in Your Kingdom? Lessons from a Disney Leadership Journey". This is a masterclass in the...
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EP 601: Jay Malkoun - A Life From the Comanchero & Pentridge to the Corporate Boardroom
The Mojo Sessions
Jay Malkoun served 10 years for heroin trafficking, was the president of the feared Comancheros motorcycle gang, and in March 2019, a car bomb outside a gym in Athens detonated the Mercedes he was sitting in. It was an explosion heard around the world as global media, law enforcement agencies, and underworld cartels speculated on who had moved to assassinate the former gangster and retired leader of one of the world's most feared and powerful underworld organisations. Here, Jay tells his story. He truly is one of the most fascinating and complex figures that Australia has ever given the...
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EP 525: Matthew Dicks - The Building Blocks of Great Storytelling
The Mojo Sessions
Matthew Dicks makes stories come alive. He began competing in live storytelling events in New York City in 2011 and is a record 58-time Moth StorySLAM winner and 9-time GrandSLAM champion. Fortune 500 companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Slack, and Salesforce hire Matt to inject the power of storytelling into their sales and marketing, corporate training programs, onboarding processes, and customer service systems. Listen to Matthew, and you, too, will become captivated by the power of storytelling. Learn how to find, collect, store, and craft a great story that...
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EP 524: Nick Kush - The Mindset of an Explosive Ordnance Device Specialist
The Mojo Sessions
Imagine kneeling before a bomb. Your job, deactivate. How do you calm your nerves? Nick Kush was a Seal Team Explosive Ordnance Device Technician serving 20 years in Special Ops. With combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, Nick was the EOD for Task Unit Bruiser under the command of JOCKO Willink in Ramadi. The EODs are the guys called to deactivate an IED improvised explosive device or bomb. After retiring, Nick trained Special Ops personnel in advanced parachuting. He has well over 10,000 jumps and was the project lead for The Triple 7 Expedition, a 168-hour skydiving journey led by a team of...
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