The Ideas Lab Podcast

By: John Williams
  • Summary

  • Welcome to the Ideas Lab Podcast, where you can learn from the world’s greatest creative and entrepreneurial minds to help you turn your ideas into original businesses, books and brands – because in a crowded world, it pays to stand out. Your host is John Williams, bestselling author of 'Screw Work Let’s Play' and 'Screw Work Break Free' and founder of The Ideas Lab London. Our focus is on the rebels, creatives and innovators with a new take on their topic that has allowed them to carve out a space that is all their own - from Saskia Nelson, the world's first dating profile photographer, to the New York Times bestselling author, Dan Pink exploding myths about productivity, to therapist Jerry Hyde taking his clients on a unique experience with plant medicines in Nepal. Subscribe now to get inspired, learn something new, and get ideas for your next creative project.
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Episodes
  • Laurence Shorter on creativity, burnout, and the art of having no idea #80
    Sep 23 2020

    What is the impact on us as human beings when we never have a single spare moment, when we fill every minute with doing something productive, or even looking at our phones in order to kill time?

    That's a question that gripped Laurence Shorter after he'd written a really successful book and toured it around the world and found himself to be completely burnt out.

    And that's when Laurence started thinking about the art of having no idea.

    Laurence is a leadership consultant, an author, comedian and an artist. I've known him for somewhere around a decade when he spoke at my event, Scanners Night, for people with too many ideas and too many interests and lots of creativity. He is a scanner himself, and he has fascinating things to say about being a multifaceted human being and managing his own creative process.

    Best Wishes,

    John

     

    For full links and notes please visit: 

    https://theideaslab.org/laurenceshorter-artofhavingnoidea

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    Music provided by Argofox:
    TheDiabolicalWaffle – My Wish
    https://youtu.be/sRWEMjYR6e4

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    36 mins
  • How Charlie and Harry Thuillier turned their idea for the world’s first healthy ice cream into an international food business #79
    Sep 17 2020

    This episode of the podcast is a real adventure. It's one of my favourites. Charlie Thuillier was on a world record breaking kite buggy adventure with his brother Harry in Brazil, when he had a great idea, which was partly inspired by reading my first book, Screw Work Let's Play on a beach in Brazil.

    That idea was to create the world's first healthy ice cream. Today, Oppo ice cream is a reality. It's a product you can buy in thousands of stores all around Europe, and it's won multiple taste awards.

    Listen to the interview to find out how Charlie and his brother Harry went from sleeping on the floor of a borrowed office to creating their own successful international food brand. And you can also read more about their story and how Harry and Charlie worked together as a team within the company. In my new book, F**k Work Let's Play

     

    Best Wishes,

    John

     

    For full links and notes please visit: 

    https://theideaslab.org/charliethuillier-oppoicecream

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    Music provided by Argofox:
    TheDiabolicalWaffle – My Wish
    https://youtu.be/sRWEMjYR6e4

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    28 mins
  • How to attend the world’s first F**k Work Day
    Sep 10 2020

    A special episode on John’s new bestselling book ‘F**k Work Let’s Play: Do what you love and get paid for it’ and how to get a free ticket to the world’s first F**k Work Day.

    See fworkletsplay.com for more details on the special offer 

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    8 mins

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