Alain Guillot

Life, Leadership, and Money Matters

  • 342 Daniel Levin: Searching for a Missing Person in the Middle East

    About Daniel Levin From Daniel’s website: The son of a diplomat, Daniel Levin spent his early years in the Middle East and in Africa and then trained as a lawyer. Currently a board member of the Liechtenstein Foundation for State Governance, he has, for the past twenty years, worked with…

  • The Importance of Having F-You Money

    For as long as I can remember, I have always been self-employed. Notably, I used to have a dance school, an Airbnb apartment rental business, and a photography business, and now a podcast. Although I have never been rich, I have always been in a position to say F-You to…

  • 341 Seb Falk: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science

    About Seb Falk From Seb Falk’s website: Seb Falk is a historian, teacher, broadcaster, and historical consultant.  In 2016 he was named a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.​ His first book, The Light Ages, is a wide-ranging history of medieval science, told through the life of an extraordinary monk, John of Westwyk. …

  • 340 Jeremy DeSilva: How Upright Walking Made Us Human

    About Jeremy DeSilva From Jeremy DeSilva’s website: I am a paleoanthropologist, specializing in the locomotion of the first apes (hominoids) and early human ancestors (hominins). My recent work has focused on the origins and evolution of upright walking in the human lineage. I have had the opportunity to study wild…

  • Investing When You Don’t Have A Lot Of Money

    Investing is something we think of in lucrative terms; people who have the capital behind them are the ones who make it big on the stock market, or the housing market or on the block chain, and there’s not much else us little guys can do.  However, even when you’ve…

  • 6 Productivity Systems That Will Help You Get Things Done

    It’s normal to feel like you’re not being “productive enough” in life. While it’s not okay to get bogged down on those feelings, it is okay to become proactive about the situation. Unfortunately, increasing productivity isn’t as simple as flicking a switch. It takes hard work, brain re-training, and willpower,…