Alain Guillot
Life, Leadership, and Money Matters
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204 Nour Hadidi; From Banking To Stand Up Comedian
in podcastNour Hadidi, is a comedian, writer, Arab, Muslim girl based in Toronto. In a family where everyone is a doctor, she always gets funny looks when she says she is a comedian. Nour Hadidi came to Canada to study finance at McGill. She graduated with a BCom and worked in…
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How to Deal With Negative Emotions From a Bad Year
When it comes to health, social life, and the economy, we can agree that 2020 has been a bad year. Covid-19 had brought unemployment, sickness, death, and social isolation like I have never seen in my lifetime. Everyone has been affected. From the North Pole to Antarctica, no country has…
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203 Matthew Beaumont; Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City
in podcastAbout Matthew Beaumont Education and Experience Matthew Beaumont studied English at LMH, Oxford, before doing an MSt and DPhil at Linacre College, Oxford. He became a Senior Lecturer in 2008 and a Professor of English Literature in 2016 at University College London.
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Correcting Past Mistakes And Living the Unlived Life
When I was 19 years old, my mother sent me to college. I didn’t realize the gift she was giving me. I threw the gift in her face and went into a life of crime. Going to college was what other people did. You finish high school, you go to…
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Could It Be Time to Take a Break from Your Career to Travel?
Think about your day to day life. So many of us commit the vast majority of our time to work. We get up in the morning and rush ready for the day. We spend a fair amount of time – sometimes longer than an hour – commuting to our workplace.…
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202 Zena Hitz; The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
in podcastAbout Zena Hitz Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John’s College. Her book, Lost In Thought, explores the meaning and the value of learning for its own sake, through images and stories of bookworms, philosophers, scientists, and other learners, both fictional and historical. She also gives lectures at colleges…