The rise, the fall, and finding purpose (with John Lefebvre) - a podcast by Elena Agaragimova

In this episode of Shift - Getting out of your comfort zone! - I sit down with John Lefebvre - musician | composer | author| entrepreneur | philanthropist - to discuss his very dynamic and intense journey through career and life; his story of the many ups and downs of life and how he ultimately overcame them and now serving the society for a better future ahead.  

About John: he's been a choir boy and a lawyer, a construction labourer and house designer, a recidivist husband and a single time father. But it was another state in life that brought him notoriety – and wealth – a prisoner. At 17 in 1969, I was arrested for selling hash and LSD to cops dressed up like hippies. And forty years later, he was arrested again for co-founding and operating a business that, the year he was arrested, was tracking to transfer over $14billion dollars, mostly American, between online gamblers and internet bookies and casinos.  For the first notorious experience, he was immersed in a world-changing culture, on the cusp between respecting all authority, all elders on the one hand, and only respecting who we thought deserved it on the other, between taking things for granted and finding out for oneself.   John co-founded the DeSmog group of blogs, “Cleaning up the PR pollution that clouds climate science.” He remains a committee member of the David Suzuki Foundation and a founding director of the David Suzuki Institute.  He was the founding funder of the Dalai Lama centre for Peace And Education in Vancouver. And decided to devote the remainder of his time here on Earth to encouraging environmental awareness, consciousness generally, and to the appreciation of the boundless miracle that has befallen all of us humans but, that toward which, so few of us barely even glance while immersed in our “world” of acquisition for the main purpose of self-indulgent leisure.  

Website: https://www.johnlefebvre.com/  

About your host:  Elena Agaragimova is the co-founder of Bessern (https://www.bessern.co/) 👉 We help people in corporations 🧑‍💼 to be more resilient and equipped with the skills that matters to thrive and be at their best at work. Bloom Youth (https://www.bessern.co/bloom-youth) 👉 We help students 🧑‍🎓 to get prepared for the future of work through our Bloom Youth Bootcamps - Bloom Youth is the first MENA Future of Education platform made for students to accelerate their talents.  

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