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Jan 16th, 2018
Whether at home, work or play, this podcast aims to do exactly what it says on the tin - help you live life better.Back for series two, Melissa Hemsley presents a series of conversations with inspiring authors and experts on subjects from productivity to fitness, relationships and happiness. With insights and practical...
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Jan 27th, 2017
Introducing Live.Life.Better. episode one, an all new podcast from Virgin Books and Penguin Living. To hear episode two, which focuses on happiness, search and subscribe for Live.Life.Better.In the first episode of Live.Life.Better. we've a range of tips, hints and practical advice for getting fitter, healthier and g...
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Jan 20th, 2017
The Virgin Podcast may still be on its hiatus but we have something new to share with you. Live.Life.Better., which once again sees Dominic Frisby at the reigns, is your ultimate guide to self-improvement.The all new podcast, brought to you by Virgin Books in association with Penguin Living, launches with episode one...
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Sep 27th, 2016
We end our run of the best of the Virgin Podcast by revisiting Dominic's interview with Alastair Campbell - the original spin doctor, Tony Blair’s former head of strategy, and a man fascinated about what it takes to win. Campbell's most recent book, Winners and How They Succeed, collates the combined knowhow from emin...
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Sep 20th, 2016
In our latest pick from the best of the Virgin Podcast, we hear once more from Mark Dawson, bestselling author of the John Milton and Soho Noir novels, about how writers can become entrepreneurs. Mark worked as a DJ, a door-to-door ice cream seller, a factory hand and a club promoter, before finally training as a la...
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Sep 13th, 2016
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg is our guest this week as we continue to play the best episodes from the past year of the Virgin Podcast. Charles spoke to us back in May when he was in London promoting his book Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive In Life and Business. It was a tr...
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Sep 6th, 2016
In this edition of the Virgin Podcast, we revisit our conversation with Cecile Reinaud, founder of Séraphine maternity fashion line, who tells Dominic how her company began as a small shop in Kensington in 2002 and has since grown into a worldwide brand with stores in 30 countries.Séraphine has provided clothing for ...
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Aug 30th, 2016
This week on the Virgin Podcast, we return to our interview with Alec Ross - Barack Obama's former social media manager and a long-time adviser to Hillary Clinton on technology policy - as we discuss robotics, globalisation, algorithms, cloud computing and various other areas explored by Ross in his latest New York Tim...
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Aug 23rd, 2016
In this edition of our summer replays we go back to November 2015 and Dominic's conversation with Richard Reed, the founder of Innocent Drinks. Richard explains the serendipitous beginnings of the smoothie company - which he launched with a group of friends on something of a whim before eventually selling it to Coca...
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Aug 16th, 2016
This week, we revisit our conversation with Martin Lindstrom from Spring 2016 in which we discussed his extraordinary life as a business thinker, branding expert and quasi-detective. Martin spends his time observing people’s habits and behaviours and analysing what these small details reveal about societies and cult...
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Aug 9th, 2016
Paul Hannam is an academic, environmentalist, entrepreneur and author of The Wisdom of Groundhog Day. It's perhaps ironic therefore that we return to our interview with Paul from the beginning of 2016 for this episode of the best of the Virgin Podcast.Like many, Paul observed the spiritual subtexts to the 1993 Bill ...
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Aug 2nd, 2016
Adam Grant is a best-selling author and the (scarily young) professor of management and psychology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.In this fascinating conversation from March 2016, Adam talks about his latest book, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, and his ideas regarding innovati...
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Jul 26th, 2016
"Storytelling is fundamental to business," says Dan Kieran, CEO of Unbound - a bespoke publishing company born of Dan's passion to find a better way to service the needs of both writers and readers - and "being a writer is the perfect training for being an entrepreneur".We spoke to Dan Kieran at the beginning of 2016...
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Jul 19th, 2016
For this week's episode of the Virgin podcast, we revisit our interview with Brene Brown from November 2015. Brene is an "emotions researcher" at the University of Houston who rocketed to fame in 2010 with a TED talk that has since been viewed more than 25m times. In this conversation with Dominic, Brene tells us...
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Jul 12th, 2016
Over the next 12 weeks, we’ll be replaying the best episodes of the Virgin Podcast from the past year. We kick things off with James Watt, the co-founder of the Scottish brewery, Brewdog, who we spoke to in December 2015. James’ products have won numerous awards - for both taste and strength - and he himself is rec...
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Jul 5th, 2016
"My life is a fairytale," says Alyssa Smith. One of Britain's most inspiring and influential young entrepreneurs, Alyssa was recently voted one of the top 100 jewellers in the UK.nnnIn this episode of the Virgin Podcast, you'll hear about how she has successfully utilised social media to grow her business; why she is...
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Jun 28th, 2016
Tyler Winkelvoss has quite a CV. He’s studied at both Harvard and Oxford, he and his twin brother represented the US in rowing at the Beijing Olympics, he played some kind of role in the early development of Facebook and he made good as an early embracer of bitcoin.The twins’ latest venture is Gemini, a digital asset...
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Jun 21st, 2016
Determination. Iron will. Sheer bloodymindedness. Angela Duckworth calls it 'grit', and in this episode of the Virgin Podcast, the management-consultant-turned-teacher-turned-psychologist explains more about her thesis regarding passion and perseverance. Are we born with it? Can we train and focus it like a muscle? ...
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Jun 14th, 2016
Mark d'Inverno is Professor of Computer Science at Goldsmiths in London. One of his main areas of research is the theory and application of artificial intelligence.What can robots actually do? How close are we to walking side by side with sentient machines? And how will the business and arts worlds be impacted by the...
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Jun 7th, 2016
This week's interview is with the extraordinary Juliana Buhring, who holds the record as the fastest women to cycle around the world. That she took to her bike - with no background as an endurance athlete - was a result of a series of tragedies in her personal life. That she stuck with her task is a testament to a re...
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May 31st, 2016
Husband and wife team Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert are known around the world for their (often controversial) financial analysis and economic insight, from the wildly popular Keiser Report internet and TV show.In this edition of the Virgin Podcast, they share their views on the banking and housing crises, and also de...
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May 24th, 2016
In today’s interview you are going find out all about the industries of the future. My guest is Alec Ross. Alec was head of social media for Barack Obama’s successful 2008 election campaigns, when Obama first won the democrat nomination then the presidency. Hilary Clinton then hired Alec to become her head of innovatio...
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May 17th, 2016
This week's guest is Dave Birch, the director of innovation at Consult Hyperion, a company which advises corporations on payment technology, and a man therefore expertly placed to speak to the issues around a cashless society. How close are we to living in a world without physical money? How secure are these contac...
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May 10th, 2016
“In everything I write, I try to be as honest as I can and cleave to the truth as much as possible.”This week we welcome journalist, author broadcaster James Delingpole to the show. James is an extremely provocative man, and he believes that fears over climate change are unfounded.I should stress that James’ views ...
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May 2nd, 2016
The New York Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Charles Duhigg joins Dominic to discuss his new book Faster Smarter Better, the follow-up to the best-selling The Power of Habit.Charles outlines the (neuro)science behind creativity and productivity - and how simple processes like visualisation and ev...
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