Welcome to the next evolution of the podcast, where the focus for the next few months will be on founder insights. I'll pass along what I get from the unseen, helping you navigate your founder's journey as you help build the next era.

This week, there's a focus on decoding the name of your idea/business and yourself, as well as remembering your why underneath it all.

It's a clean slate, so take stock of what you're tired of doing and what you'd prefer to bring in/continue to do more of.

For The Curious (Free Resources):

• 💡Learn To Think Like A Futurist: ⁠https://robinsonhewitt.com/thinklikeafuturistlist=PLfg7Yazesj6Y&si=w_qVDDo-AOobY5eT⁠
• 🦋 Start Your Founder's Journey: ⁠https://robinsonhewitt.com/the-founders-journey⁠
• 🏃‍♂️‍➡️Bring your ideas to life with Crawl, Walk, Run: ⁠https://robinsonhewitt.com/crawlwalkrun⁠

RobinsonHewitt Consulting: Transforming the traditional with the unseen, for the next era of innovation & ideas

• ⭐ Website: ⁠https://robinsonhewitt.com⁠
• ⭐ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/robinson.hewitt/⁠
• ⭐ More here: ⁠https://linktr.ee/robinsonhewitt⁠

More About Alison Mackie:

• ⭐ About: ⁠https://robinsonhewitt.com/ourfoundersjourney⁠
• ⭐ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/alison.mackie.rhc/⁠
• ⭐ Behind the scenes vlogs: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@alison_mackie⁠

Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast/content is for general informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute professional, legal, financial, or governance advice.

If only I knew what I know now. My 10 mistakes/lessons learned while navigating my own founder and personal transformation journey.

Core Themes Covered:

1. Basic Needs
2. Nobody is coming to save you
3. Adopt the mindset of a stripper
4. Skill regression
5. Therapy
6. Play chicken with the fear
7. Relationships (friends, romantic, co-founders)
8. Work & play
9. Timing & making decisions
10. Being seen

What Was Referenced:

• You're Right on Time: https://youtu.be/eE2xoE3Nd1I?si=v4yykY4-JmL6B3fF
• The Butterfly Effect & Making Decisions: https://youtu.be/TDaanHhzQ5c?si=uixGC_MXre1wYLMV
• The Art of Perception: https://youtu.be/csGCP8JkRdA
• Spider-Man: Homecoming suit scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9esCA8_EPeY
• The OA Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvHJtez2IlY

For The Curious (Free Resources):

• 💡Learn To Think Like A Futurist: https://robinsonhewitt.com/thinklikeafuturistlist=PLfg7Yazesj6Y&si=w_qVDDo-AOobY5eT
• 🦋 Start Your Founder's Journey: https://robinsonhewitt.com/the-founders-journey
• 🏃‍♂️‍➡️Bring your ideas to life with Crawl, Walk, Run: https://robinsonhewitt.com/crawlwalkrun

RobinsonHewitt Consulting: Transforming the traditional with the unseen, for the next era of innovation & ideas

• ⭐ Website: https://robinsonhewitt.com
• ⭐ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robinson.hewitt/
• ⭐ More here: https://linktr.ee/robinsonhewitt

More About Alison Mackie:

• ⭐ About: https://robinsonhewitt.com/ourfoundersjourney
• ⭐ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alison.mackie.rhc/
• ⭐ Behind the scenes vlogs: https://www.youtube.com/@alison_mackie

Disclaimer The information shared in this podcast/content is for general informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute professional, legal, financial, or governance advice.

Would've, Could've, Should've. Almost every founder has a moment where they look back and think, "What if I pursued the idea back then? What would life look like now?"

Use the next time you notice a moment of déjà vu to make a decision that opens the door to what you want to build. And remember, being as delicate as a butterfly can make all the impact in the world.

What Was Referenced:

• You're Right on Time: https://youtu.be/eE2xoE3Nd1I?si=v4yykY4-JmL6B3fF
• Nature Versus Technology: https://youtu.be/RMwqT_gH7_Y?si=SP2QQfYJRk1hH8Ug
• The Butterfly Effect Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkWQLjI2rAU

For The Curious (Free Resources):

💡Learn To Think Like A Futurist: https://robinsonhewitt.com/thinklikeafuturistlist=PLfg7Yazesj6Y&si=w_qVDDo-AOobY5eT

🦋 Start Your Founder's Journey: https://robinsonhewitt.com/the-founders-journey

🏃‍♂️‍➡️Bring your ideas to life with Crawl, Walk, Run: https://robinsonhewitt.com/crawlwalkrun

RobinsonHewitt Consulting: Transforming the traditional with the unseen, for the next era of innovation & ideas

⭐ Website: https://robinsonhewitt.com

⭐ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robinson.hewitt/

⭐ More here: https://linktr.ee/robinsonhewitt

More About Alison Mackie:

⭐ About: https://robinsonhewitt.com/ourfoundersjourney

⭐ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alison.mackie.rhc/

⭐ Behind the scenes vlogs: https://www.youtube.com/@alison_mackie

Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast/content is for general informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute professional, legal, financial, or governance advice.

We tend to think of time as objective, where a year is a year, a month is a month, a day is a day. But there are different ways we experience and understand time:

• Experienced time: how time feels to us; an hour can feel like five minutes or five hours depending on how we choose to spend it.
• Agreed time: calendars, clocks, schedules, train timetables and eventually synchronised digital time.
• Universal time: a much stranger and more contested understanding of time, particularly from a quantum perspective.

But what happens when technology can show us a different experience of time? What happens if it can pierce through the veil of our understanding of linear time and allow us to see into new dimensions or potentials to tell us our futures? Would you want to know?

What Was Referenced:

• The Art of Perception Episode: https://youtu.be/csGCP8JkRdA?si=70mZXtujba1tGcv2
• Interstellar Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LqzF5WauAw
• Timer Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x4DpyDCa_8
• Sum, David Eagleman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum:_Forty_Tales_from_the_Afterlives

For The Curious (Free Resources):

💡Learn To Think Like A Futurist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfg7Yazesj6Y&si=w_qVDDo-AOobY5eT

🦋 Start Your Founder's Journey: https://robinsonhewitt.com/the-founders-journey

RobinsonHewitt Consulting: Transforming the traditional with the unseen, for the next era of innovation & ideas

⭐ Website: https://robinsonhewitt.com

⭐ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robinson.hewitt/

⭐ More here: https://linktr.ee/robinsonhewitt

More About Alison Mackie:

⭐ About: https://robinsonhewitt.com/ourfoundersjourney

⭐ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alison.mackie.rhc/

⭐ Behind the scenes vlogs: https://www.youtube.com/@alison_mackie

Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast/content is for general informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute professional, legal, financial, or governance advice.

Artificial intelligence, data centres, robotics, and every emerging technology we create have a physical footprint and an impact on our environment. They use land, water, energy, and minerals. Yet we often talk about digital technology as though it exists outside the natural world.

Today, let's explore what changes when we recognise that technology has always been ecological. We draw on anthropology, Jane Goodall's observations, Doughnut Economics, and systems thinking, all to argue that the future of innovation won't be defined by intelligence alone, but by our ability to design technologies that exist in relationship with people, communities, and the living systems around them.

Inside the episode:

• Opening: Why technology has never been separate from nature
• Current State of Play: Why technology, society, and the environment are all part of the same conversation
• A Look Back in Time: What Jane Goodall's observations of chimpanzees reveal about technology and what it means to be human
• Futuristic Insights: What it would look like to design emerging technology as part of living systems
• Bringing This Into Today: Practical actions for individuals, founders, and organisations
• Closing: Why the technologies that endure will be the ones that know how to exist in relationship with nature and society

RobinsonHewitt Consulting: Transforming the traditional with the unseen, for the next era of innovation & ideas

⭐ Website: https://robinsonhewitt.com

⭐ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robinson.hewitt/

⭐ More here: https://linktr.ee/robinsonhewitt

Long before we had maps, algorithms, or AI, we relied on our ability to read patterns, notice subtle signs, and make sense of an uncertain world by trusting our own internal knowing. It wasn't intuition without evidence, but it was perception.

In an age where information is infinite, answers are instant, and everyone has an opinion, the real challenge is no longer finding more knowledge. It's learning how to trust yourself enough to know what's right for you and what you're building.

In this episode, we explore the art of perception and why we've gradually outsourced it to other people and technologies, what anthropology can teach us about how humans once understood the world, and why reclaiming it may become one of the defining human advantages of the AI era.

Inside the episode:

• Opening: Why trusting yourself has become harder in a world that always has another answer.
• Current State of Play: How AI, information overload, and constant external input are changing the way we think.
• A Look Back in Time: What our primal ways of knowing reveal about perception as a deeply human skill.
• Futuristic Insights: Why the future may reward perception, judgement, and meaning-making more than information alone.
• Bringing This Into Today: Practical ways to strengthen perception, make clearer decisions, and cultivate your own inner knowing.
• Closing: Why the next era of innovation may belong to those who can tell the difference between information and insight.

Everything linked here: https://linktr.ee/robinsonhewitt

Drawing on anthropology, technology, and contemporary examples including Anna Wintour's transition at Vogue and Jacinda Ardern's time as Prime Minister of New Zealand, let's unpack why the future of leadership may depend less on having all the answers and more on our capacity to navigate ambiguity, build trust, and hold increasing complexity.

Inside the episode:

• Opening: Why the question of capacity leads directly into the future of leadership, and what my early board experience shows about the assumptions built into leadership systems.
• Current State of Play: Why leadership is experiencing an identity shift, and how both legacy institutions and new builders are pointing toward a new model.
• A Look Back in Time: What Anna Wintour, Chloe Malle, and the concept of legacy leadership show us about how we think about power, succession, and influence.
• Futuristic Insights: Exploring distributed authority, regenerative systems, and why structures alone cannot transform organisations without internal leadership evolution.
• Bringing This Into Today: What the future of leadership means for founders, leaders, and boards and the question to ask before making major decisions.
• Closing: The connection between Jacinda Ardern, Anna Wintour, and Chloe Malle, and why the future of leadership begins with the work we do on ourselves.

Everything linked here: https://linktr.ee/robinsonhewitt

Can your body hold your idea? Because in the next era of founders and leadership, the biggest limitation may not be access to knowledge, tools, or technology. It may be our capacity to actually carry what we are creating.

Today, we take a look at this from an anthropological perspective. Human beings evolved to survive within tribes, where standing out, being misunderstood, or risking rejection could have real consequences. And the same nervous systems that once protected us are now navigating a world where innovation requires us to be visible, uncertain, and different.

Across history, the people who changed the world were not simply those with the best ideas. They were the ones who developed the capacity to hold uncertainty, criticism, and complexity long enough for those ideas to become reality.

Inside the episode:

• Opening: Can you hold your idea? It might be the foundational question facing founders and leaders in the age of AI
• Current State of Play: The paradox of visibility and why our nervous systems struggle with building in public
• A Look Back in Time: Convalescence, otium, and what history reveals about recovery, reflection, and the people who changed the world
• Futuristic Insights: Why the next era of leadership will require nervous system capacity, identity flexibility, and the ability to hold more complexity
• Bringing This Into Today: What individuals, founders, and organisations can do to build the internal capacity needed for bigger ideas
• Closing: Why vision won't limit you, your capacity will. But you can learn to expand it.

What's Referenced:

• The Future of Movies: https://youtu.be/XVdFpvwDue4?si=HOaglJMd4-8zi_Ik
• How To Build Ethical AGI: https://youtu.be/tH8iGW6xMQs?si=HpPb0k1yaycaVko0
• The Darjeeling Limited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2R7O2IlndM
• The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Jar

Everything linked here: https://linktr.ee/robinsonhewitt