Episode 1 of the Joy of Padel Podcast.
Episode 1 of the Joy of Padel Podcast.
Bob Hunter is the founder of Oxford Pierpont, based out of Atlanta GA, serving small businesses by providing the essential services required for any business to launch in a modern, interconnected world. In this discussion, we explore his entrepreneurial journey, how he overcame adversity, battling significant health challenges, and created a very successful consulting company. We look at his philosophy, how he’s accumulated such a long client list of recognisable brand names. Along the way, we can gain some great insights and perspective.
While most of the buzz (aka hype) in tech over the first half of 2023 was focused on artificial intelligence and the explosion of large language models (ChatGPT, Bard and Co.), it's clear that social media has been evolving in noticeable ways as well. Taking a...
Mike Linton is a veteran Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, having been part of the senior teams at such big brands as Ancestry, Ebay and Best Buy. He’s currently an active Board Member, Consultant, Speaker and Host of the CMO Confidential Podcast. In this conversation, we discuss the state of branding today, the place for and importance of purpose, building community, privacy, the potential for AI to impact marketing and sales and much more based on his wide-ranging experience.
Mike Linton is a veteran Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, having been part of the senior teams at such big brands as Ancestry, Ebay and Best Buy. He’s currently an active Board Member, Consultant, Speaker and Host of the CMO Confidential Podcast. In this conversation, we discuss the state of branding today, the place for and importance of purpose, building community, privacy, the potential for AI to impact marketing and sales and much more based on his wide-ranging experience.
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Baris Serifsoy has 20+ years of experience in wealth management and investment banking and is currently partner at GreenCap. He’s also coauthor of “Leadership in Wealth, Mastering the opportunities of wealth in your family, firm and society.” We discuss the ways that leadership is different when you’re wealthy, how to establish and keep trust, how to transmit your business, values and fortune, what constitutes and keeps happiness when you’re wealthy.
Over his 40+-year career, Rob Schenck has become known as an accessible public theologian. An ordained evangelical minister, he has directed a home for recovering heroin addicts, led pastoral and missionary work around the globe, took a 2000-mile walk to Mexico to benefit some of the poorest people on earth, and spent 30 years as an influential political activist on the religious right that put him at the epicenter of some of the US’ most pivotal moments. In 2015, Rob was the subject of “The Armor of Light,” Abigail Disney’s Emmy-winning documentary film examining Evangelicals and the gun culture, putting him in the crosshairs of controversy. Rob is also the author of the widely-read book, “Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister’s Rediscovery of Faith, Hope and Love,” published by Harper. For the last several years, Rob founded and ran the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute to continue the work Bonhoeffer began in reforming the evangelical church. In this conversation, we discuss his life’s work, the film, his experiences in holding intimate conversations with US presidents, Supreme Court justices and senior politicians, as well as with God.
Oscar Trimboli is a speaker, author, listener, and an award-winning podcaster. He’s the author of “How to Listen, Discover the hidden key to better communication.” In this conversation, we discuss his journey to become a great listener, how to encode listening into machines, the link between empathy and listening and between empathy and disagreement, the self-awareness bias, listening with our eyes and much more.
Minter Dialogue with Dr Alex Belser Dr. Alex Belser serves as the Chief Clinical Officer at Cybin and an investigator in psychedelic research trials at Yale University. For the last 20 years, he has been a leader in the psychedelic clinical community, having served as...
Minter Dialogue with Minette Norman Minette Norman is an inclusive leadership consultant and speaker, who spent the first thirty years of her professional career in the software industry. In her consulting business, Minette focuses on developing transformational...

I’m Minter Dial and I serve my clients by elevating the debate and energy, telling powerful stories and connecting people and ideas. My mission to insert more meaningfulness into our lives and at work. I relish being an engaging professional speaker on leadership, transformation and branding. I’m known for being someone who walks the talk and delivers on or above expectations. I’m the author of four award-winning books, including the second edition of my award-winning book, Heartificial Empathy (April 2023, available in English and French), You Lead published by Kogan Page that won the Business Book Award 2022, and Futureproof (FT-Press/Pearson) that won the Business Book Award 2018. I’m also the producer of the award-winning WWII book and documentary film The Last Ring Home.
My last major published project was Dialogos, Fostering More Meaningful Conversations that was published weekly via Substack, over 79 weeks. I am currently working on a new book, The Avatar Trap.