Podcasts by The Curious Cult

Rebelion and curiosity go hand in hand - Greig Jansen from 2021-06-25T08:03:33

Greig is the founder of PURA Soda. In this episode, we discuss curiosity as a matter of nature or nurture, how creating the future is the best way to p...

Becoming an upcycled human being - Jasper Eales from 2021-06-14T08:56:44

Jasper is the founder of Sealand and considers himself to be an upcycled human being through a liver transplant. In this episode Nic and Jasper discuss b...

TV is a trauma response and how to be more curious - Leana de Beer from 2021-06-08T15:05:34

Leana de Beer is a social entrepreneur and the CEO of Feenix.org. In this episode we discuss hiring for diversity, taking a step back and letting other people speak first, the trauma response th...

Why you should need a license to nap - Dale Rae on sleep cycles, the curiosity muscle and quality sleep from 2021-05-27T07:29:26

Dr Rae is the Director of Sleep Science and a Senior Researcher at the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on sleep and circadian rhythms (i.e. the body’s 24h clock). She is particularly ...

Ideas are often born out of frustration - Shannon Esra on acting, thinking, living and love from 2021-05-13T07:00

Shannon Esra is an actor and deep thinker. Watch her latest show on Showmax right now!

Follow Shannon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShannonEsra...

Constraints create curiosity - Yossi Hasson on NFTs, the WHO that defines your life and more from 2021-04-26T08:58:18

Yossi Hasson is a tech entrepreneur and investor who has his mind on all things new, innovative and bleeding edge including crypto and NFTs. 

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Nik Rabinowitz - How to be a happy comedian and what to do about the ego from 2021-04-02T07:12:26

In this episode of the Curious Cult, I have a fantastic chat with Nik Rabinowitz about how he got into the world of comedy, his relationship with comparison and dealing with the ego.

Nik ...

Michael Smollan - Purpose-driven business and globalising a world view from 2021-03-19T06:04:51

In this episode of the Curious Cult, I am excited to chat with Michael Smollan about how living in Shanghai changed his life, how working in the family business has made him more hungry for curi...

Alexandria Procter - Identity, layers of curiosity, & creating things from 2021-03-05T07:11:08

In this episode of the Curious Cult, I am excited to chat with Alexandria Procter about identity, vertical and horizontal curiosity and a whole host of other topics to inspire starting something...

Mike Scott - The challenging necessity of cultivating feedback from 2021-02-18T04:59:59

In the first episode of season 3 of the Curious Cult, I am thrilled to chat with Mike Scott about why curiosity can be difficult but how it can help you evolve, why design by committee is bad bu...

Sam Beckbessinger - Creative Curiosity and Exploiting Unique Craziness from 2020-12-03T13:57:18

In this episode, I chat with one of my closest friends and best-selling author Sam Beckbessinger about working through a lack of inspiration, harnessing unique personality flavours and why consi...

Rob Hope - Freedom as Success from 2020-11-18T20:53:46

In this episode, I catch up with Rob Hope, a Cape Town-based multi-talented digital maker who goes by many labels from designer to developer to a casual surfer. With an aim is to fill his day wi...

Natalie Nagele - Shifting the Focus from Business to People from 2020-11-16T03:27:10

In this episode, I chat with Natalie Nagele, co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, a company which puts people at the forefront of businesses.

With 20 years running the company, has a wealth of ...

Kyle Redelinghuys - The Art of Starting, Scaling, and Satiating Curiosity from 2020-11-05T12:58:37

In this episode, I chat with Kyle Redelinghuys about how he manages to stay on top of four business ventures while maintaining a relationship and still has time to exercise at the end of the day...

Ory Okolloh - Intellectual Curiosity & Challenging the Status Quo from 2020-10-29T10:52:19

In this episode, I chat with Kenyan activist Ory Okolloh, who has an active sense of chasing curiosity with an appetite to see social change in the African landscape.

With the social deve...

Bob Skinstad - Focus, Commitment and The Power of Choice from 2020-10-23T14:02:23

In this episode, I catch up with former professional rugby player Bob Skinstad who played for the Springboks. In addition to his time on the pitch, Bob also has a wealth of experience in the fie...

Tashmia Ismail - Avid curiosity and combatting inequality from 2020-10-13T16:16:21

In this episode, I chat with Tashmia Ismail who has built models to combat inequality and social injustice. Born in South Africa, a remarkably fascinating but unequal country in career opportuni...

Vinny Lingham - Abundant thinking for entrepreneurs from 2020-10-07T16:05:32

In this episode, I chat with Vinny Lingham about his time spent working in a corporate career and how it acted as a stepping stone to entrepreneurship. With a hunger for knowledge and an appreci...

Mike Joubert - Moving from corporate to entrepreneurship from 2020-09-30T06:24:49

In this episode, I chat with Mike Joubert who has had a thirty-year corporate career working with brands across the world. After moving from corporate to entrepreneurship, Mike started and sold ...

Dr Adrian Saville - Starting an Asset Management Firm from 2020-09-23T06:36:51

The art of Starting Something: If you can dream it, you can do it

In his early 20s, Adrian took his skillset in investment and economics and started something. Worried about job prospec...

Curiously Quarantied with Jarette Petzer from 2020-07-28T14:37:07

Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Jarette Petzer.

Curiously Quarantined with Xola Nouse from 2020-07-28T14:33:58

Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Xola Nouse.

Curiously Quarantined with Heather Moore from 2020-07-28T14:30:22

Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Heather Moore.

Curiously Quarantined with Lebo Mokgabudi from 2020-07-28T14:26:23

Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Lebo Mokgabudi.

Unfortunately, the final part of this epis...

Curiously Quarantined with Catherine Lückhoff from 2020-07-28T14:22:43

Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Catherine Lückhoff. 

Curiously Quarantined with Joy Des Fountain from 2020-07-28T14:17:31

Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Joy Des Fountain.

Curiously Quarantined with David Perel from 2020-07-28T14:11:20

Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and David Perel.

Curiously Quarantined with Faheem Chaudhry from 2020-07-28T14:07:42

Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Faheem Chaudhry

Curiously Quarantined with Tim Harris from 2020-07-28T14:02:36

Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Tim Harris.

Curiously Quarantined with Lars Veul from 2020-07-28T14:02:21

Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Lars Veul.

Curiously Quarantined with Mike Sharman from 2020-07-28T14:02:18

Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Mike Sharman. 

Curiously Quarantined with John Sanei from 2020-07-28T14:02:15

Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show LOCKDOWN EDITION, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and John Sanei.

Curiously Quarantined with Keet Van Zyl from 2020-07-28T14:02:12

Listen to this special edition of The Curious Cult Show, recorded live in a webinar between Nic Haralambous and Keet Van Zyl.

Curiously Quarantined - Introduction Episode from 2020-07-28T14:02:07

Welcome to the Curious Cult Show's Curiously Quarantined special edition episodes. 

These were recorded over a period of 3 months during lockdown via live webinar with an audience an...

Professional trail runner and coach, Megan Mackenzie on finding your north star (Ep. 15) from 2020-07-17T10:21:34

Megan Mackenzie is a professional trail runner and has won South African Long Distance Trail Championships in 2015, African X in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, Ultra Trail Cape Town 65km and others....

David Perel, professional racing driver, CoachDave, SimGrid founder on curiosity and hard work (Ep. 14) from 2020-07-09T13:45:46

David Perel started his racing career at a very young age. He's had ups and downs, he's discovered a passion for real-life racing and found success there all the while progressing as a formidabl...

BRCK.COM Co-founder, Erik Hersman on boredom, new words for failure (Ep. 13) from 2020-07-02T10:24:37

In this fascinating conversation, I talk with Erik Hersman, the co-founder of BRCK.COM, iHub and Ushahidi about: 

Innovative ways to bring wifi to emerging markets in rugged conditio...

Rich Mulholland - on knowledge hunting vs gathering, comfort vs curiosity and starting to sell early (Ep. 12) from 2020-06-24T07:00

Rock and Roadie turned entrepreneur Richard Mulholland is the founder of presentation powerhouse Missing Link, as well as the co-founder of 21Tanks Listen