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Andy Puddicombe is not your typical entrepreneur—in his early twenties, he gave away everything he owned to train as a Buddhist monk. But after ten years, he decided he wanted to bring the benefits of his meditation techniques to more people. While running a meditation clinic in London, Andy met Rich Pierson, who had burned out on his job at a high-powered London ad agency. Together, they founded Headspace in 2010. Over ten years later, Headspace's guided meditation app has users in 190 countries and an annual revenue of over $100 million.
Caroline Pay has been a force within the advertising industry for 20 years. Starting her career at Mother, her path has been to shape the culture not only at Mother but at BBH and Grey, working with strong clients such as Boots, Levi's, Tesco and Coke. Swapping London for LA a few years ago, she has recently been immersed in the exponential growth of the global mindfulness app Headspace. Having attended their first meditation event in London, with her friend Rich Pierson she saw them grow from a live events company to the phenomenal global app they are today. She is now the CCO, bringing her vision and creative point of view to their mission of improving the health and happiness of the world. She is also on the board of OK Mentor, and is passionate about what she calls "unleashing the power of creativity in young women”. IG: @@headspace Host: Jamie Neale @jamienealejn Discussing rituals and habitual patterns in personal and work life. We ask questions about how to become more aware of one self and the world around us, how do we become 360 with ourselves? Host Instagram: @jamienealejn Podcast Instagram: @360_yourself Music from Electric Fruit Produced by Tom Dalby Composed by Toby Wright
Join us this week, as host Jess Phillips (CEO of The Social Standard) speaks with Caroline Pay, Chief Creative Officer of Headspace!Jess gets the back story of Caroline's journey with the first meditation app “Headspace.” We learn why Caroline joined this amazing company and why it's close to her heart. Headspace was originally an events platform but people wanted more! Caroline walks us through the transition from events to App and her inspirational story about the company's early days, founders, challenges, and what's happening in 2021, 17 million downloads later! Learn how Headspace has morphed into a lifestyle brand and the importance of creating great partnerships on the way, such as League of Legends and the NBA! Shows, apps, podcasts, Sleepcasts, and more! Experience the Headspace journey in this episode!About HeadspaceIt's hard to talk about Headspace without talking about Andy Puddicombe. So let's start there. In his early twenties, Andy cut his Sports Science degree short to become a Buddhist monk. For over 10 years, his meditation training took him across the world to Nepal, India, Burma, Thailand, Australia and Russia. Eventually, he was ordained at a Tibetan monastery in the Indian Himalayas.After completing his monastic commitment, Andy returned to the UK with the huge-yet-simple goal of teaching meditation and mindfulness to as many people as possible. To demystify the mystical, Andy set up a meditation consultancy and began working with politicians, athletes (that sports science background finally came in handy), and business leaders.That's when Andy met Rich Pierson, who needed help dealing with the stress of the advertising world. Before long, Andy and Rich were skill-swapping meditation for business advice. That's when Headspace was born.Bio:Caroline Pay is Chief Creative Officer at Headspace, where she directs the company's dynamic, award-winning creative team. She guides all creative activities and serves as a thought leader to ensure Headspace continues to grow its leadershipposition worldwide, including digital, experiential and traditional advertising, as well as all marketing campaigns and initiatives. In 2018, Pay was awarded one of Adweek's “Los Angeles Brand Stars.”Prior to joining Headspace, Pay was the Co-Chief Creative Officer at Grey London. She served on the senior management team of the 400-person advertising agency and was the creative lead on accounts including the LRS portfolio, the United Nations and London's Metropolitan Police. During her tenure, Pay was also named one of Ad Age's “Women to Watch Europe 2018” and was nominated as one of the “World's Most Creative Women” by The Drum.Before joining Grey, she was Deputy Executive Creative Director at BBH London, developing and leading a 120-person creative department with clients including Tesco, BBC and domestic violence nonprofit Refuge. She also helped shape the agency's new specialty practices, including BBH Live and Black Sheep Studios. In addition, Pay affected change in the advertising industry's diversity agenda with her key involvement in “The Great British Diversity Experiment,” “The 3% Conference,” “SheSays,” and “Cream,” among other platforms. Pay spent a total of four years at BBH, first as Creative Director, and later as Managing Partner and Head of Creative Development. During her time at BBH, where she first met Headspace CEO Rich Pierson, she also ran accounts for iconic brands such as Levi's, Baileys, and Google.After launching her career at KesselsKramer Amsterdam, Pay transitioned to ad agency Mother London, where she served a total of 10 years leading award-winning work for brands ranging from Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, and Boots to GREAT Britain, Amnesty International, and the creation of FRANK—the British government's drug helpline for young people, now in its 16th year. Pay also did a stint at Wieden+Kennedy to run the firm's first global campaign for Honda. For more info on Headspace® Please visit:www.headspace.comSocial: @headspaceTwitterInstagramfacebookTo set the standard in influencer marketing, please check out our website at www.sostandard.com or follow along with us on Instagram and Linkedin. And be sure to head over to The Social Standard Youtube channel for our video version. Follow The Social Standard on Socials for Up To Date Marketing Expertise and InsightsInstagram Facebook LinkedinTikTokBlog
Headspace, the meditation app that's in 190 countries, and has 70 million users, was co-founded by my friend Rich. And the story is pretty incredible. Today Rich brings to life what the tipping point was to the start of this movement. What was going on in his life before Headspace. How Rich and Andy met. And then the impact they've had on meditation globally. Rich shares some really great insights, tips and advice on meditation. He tells us what Andy taught him when they first met. And then he tells me something that I had never thought about before when it comes to meditation, which was a real ah-ha moment for me. We talk about the impact of Covid on Headspace. And then Rich talks about what's next. This was a really heartfelt, open and incredibly honest conversation that I just didn't want to end. I learned loads. And it was really great to reconnect with Rich after a good few years. I hope you enjoy this chat as much as I did. So please do have a listen, leave a review, rating and subscribe. And if you'd like to get some Headspace, you can find out more about how to https://www.headspace.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq9XB99yZ7wIVDYeRCh2nlQMuEAAYASAAEgIkAPD_BwE (here).
In the past ten years, mindfulness has become a billion-dollar industry. There are over 4,000 apps designed to help us focus, sleep, switch off or reclaim a sense of calm. But if there is one brand that has led the charge in bringing mindfulness to the masses, its Headspace.Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk, and ex ad-man Rich Pierson in conversation with Yoga Guru Ira Trivedi share a wealth of content on the importance of taking time out to notice our surroundings.
Is your head A-oki?World-renowned DJ, producer and entrepreneur Steve Aoki sits down with Headspace co-founder and CEO Rich Pierson to discuss mindfulness, meditation, creativity, and looking after your mental health.Support the show (https://websummit.com/)
We’re bringing you three interviews from the first at-home edition of the Collision tech conference. Laurie chats with Headspace Co-founder and CEO Rich Pierson about the importance of mindfulness and how to live in the present amidst global uncertainty. Match.com CEO Hesam Hosseini and Plenty of Fish CEO Malgosia Green discuss how COVID-19 has transformed the world of dating. And lastly, entrepreneur and author Molly Bloom shares her incredible life story — one that you may be familiar with from the 2017 film Molly’s Game. She gives Laurie a peak behind the curtain of running one of the highest-stakes illegal poker games in history. ———————————— Show Notes Collision Headspace Match Plenty Of Fish Molly’s Game Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, talks with Guy about why she believes that investing time into fashion and beauty is still worthwhile, even though many of us aren't going out much. Founders of the meditation app Headspace, Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson, talk about taking their business remote, and give some tips on how to approach meditation, even with an unquiet mind. These conversations are excerpts from our How I Built Resilience series, where Guy talks online with founders and entrepreneurs about how they're navigating these turbulent times.
In the second of our six-part Squiggly Careers – Ask the Expert series Sarah interviews Rich Pierson, co-founder of Headspace about Mindfulness. Rich and Sarah discuss the difference between mindfulness and meditation and the benefits that being more mindful can offer to all of us.They discuss practical and realistic ways to make meditation part of your everyday and why so many companies are offering headspace to their employees during Coronavirus. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
A Christmas morning car accident was the #hurdlemoment that changed Andy Puddicombe’s life forever. Looking to process sudden loss, he went to Asia to study as a Buddhist monk. After 10 years of practice, Puddicombe wanted to help others understand the benefits of meditation. That’s when he met co-founder Rich Pierson, and Headspace was born. What once started as an events company, Headspace now has more than 30 million users and 1 million paid subscribers. In episode 30, we dive into the endless benefits of meditation, how to shift our perspective on failure in life, the exciting newly developed Headspace Health programming coming in 2020, and finish things off with an easy, quick meditation perfect for beginners. SOCIAL @headspace @andypuddicombe @emilyabbate @hurdlepodcast OFFERS Athletic Greens | Head to athleticgreens.com/hurdle to get 20 free travel packs ($79 value) with your first purchase, no code necessary. WHOOP | Head to whoop.com to get a free WHOOP band plus 15 percent off any membership by entering the code "hurdle" at checkout. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hurdle/message
Andy Puddicombe is not your typical entrepreneur – in his early twenties, he gave away everything he owned to train as a Buddhist monk. But after ten years, he decided he wanted to bring the benefits of his meditation techniques to more people. While running a meditation clinic in London, Andy met Rich Pierson, who had burned out on his job at a high-powered London ad agency. Together, they founded Headspace in 2010. Nine years later, Headspace's guided meditation app has users in 190 countries and an annual revenue of over $100 million. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," how a quick fix to a broken pair of sunglasses inspired Jensen Brehm and Nikolai Paloni to create an armless set of shades: Ombraz Sunglasses.
Oxford Said Entrepreneurship Forum 2019: Keynote: Can mindfulness take place in the contemporary world? Rich Pierson, CEO and Co-Founder of Headspace in conversation with Professor Willem Kuyken, University of Oxford.
Rich Pierson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Headspace, a popular meditation app with over 37 million users in 180 countries. Headspace was recently valued at over $320 million. 15-year-old entrepreneur and meditation enthusiast Campbell Baron talks to Rich about his journey building the company, and why the early days of Headspace weren't so zen. Get 2 Months of Skillshare For Free (Paid Promotion) ⇨ https://www.skillshare.com/succeed Youtube ⇨ http://tinyurl.com/y8nl7sjn Podcast ⇨ https://anchor.fm/the-ones-who-succeed/ See you next Tuesday!
Headspace Co-Founder Andy Puddicombe talks about getting into meditation at an early age (4:30), quitting school and traveling to the Himalayas (6:35), the effects meditating 14 hours a day had on his body (13:02), amazing lessons from his teachers (18:22), what it took to officially become a monk (31:49), his degree in Circus Arts (40:27), re-acclimating to the modern world (42:46), creating Headspace (46:39) and meeting his Co-Founder Rich Pierson (50:13) why he's a "massive fan" of WHOOP (56:33) and what he's learned from using it (1:00:08), how he incorporates meditation into his family life today (1:01:25), and what we can expect from Headspace in the future (1:24:17).Support the show (http://whoop.com)
Hi #eGPlearners do you need some Headspace?Working in healthcare whether as a GP, part of the primary care team or in hospitals can be emotionally stressful. There are many ways to manage stress and lately mindfulness is seen as an effective tool to support stress management. But access can be tricky – so let us look to technology to help in the form of Headspace.Edit Headspace was founded in 2010 by Rich Pierson and Andy Puddicombe (who wrote the Headspace guide to Mindfulness and Medication). The Headspace platform offers unique content varying from guided meditations to animations and videos via the Headspace website and mobile app, teaching users the techniques of mindfulness.The app is free to download and use with extra features behind a subscription paywall. These extra functions include modules to help deal with stress, difficulties in focusing, sleep issues, chronic pain, fear of flying and more. It also has dedicated sections to help with younger people such as settling the active child at night. The variable module length is useful with a minimum of 3 minutes meaning anyone can use at some point in the day. I love the animations which do draw me in, and the interface which is easy to use. The guided meditations work well and its simplicity is a key reason I do recommend this app to patients as well. With often limited timely access to mental health support, I have found this a useful tool for several patients as an adjunct to their treatment. Just simply switch on the app, select your module and time length, audio or headphones on and go. The app also continues to work if you have to multi-task with your device. I accept this may defeat the object of guided mindfulness- but a useful feature to know about. Additionally, the app is resource packed including the obstacle section in the settings which are short free modules which offer advice on overcoming obstacles when trying to use the app such as worry, posture, stiffness, pain etc. With the rise of AI assistants like Google Home, Siri, and Alexa you can also set Headspace to run from these systems like using the Headspace Skill for your Amazon Echo. As mentioned the extra modules come at a cost. Last year Headspace was offered as part of the BMA membership at a reduced rate (as mentioned in a previous eGPlearning Podblast episode).Currently, the app is on offer for £44 for a year compared to £9.99 a month or £72 a year if paid annually. Another option is to sign up at a reduced rate via Anxiety UK as part of their membership. I do like the interface and it is simple to use, however, I would like to change the voice if possible to customise it more, also I can see how social sharing of goals can be a valuable asset, much how many running apps use this method as a motivator. However, I can also appreciate this is not a feature all users would want given how physical health and mental health are viewed. Feel free to given Headspace a try either for yourself or for patients. Do not forget to subscribe to our various channels and feel free to comment below or on the various channels. #TipThursday
A Christmas morning car accident was the #hurdlemoment that changed Andy Puddicombe’s life forever. Looking to process sudden loss, he went to Asia to study as a Buddhist monk. After 10 years of practice, Puddicombe wanted to help others understand the benefits of meditation. That’s when he met co-founder Rich Pierson, and Headspace was born. What once started as an events company, Headspace now has more than 30 million users and 1 million paid subscribers. In episode 30, we dive into the endless benefits of meditation, how to shift our perspective on failure in life, the exciting newly developed Headspace Health programming coming in 2020, and finish things off with an easy, quick meditation perfect for beginners. — @headspace @andypuddicombe @hurdlepodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hurdle/message
Headspace is committed to improving the health and happiness of the world, one meditation at a time. How do you convince an impatient, distraction-seeking (Western) society to expect nothing and be comfortable with discomfort? We will hear about the journey from Rich’s personal meditation practice to building the most comprehensive guide to health and happiness, together with Andy Puddicombe. Hear insights from Headspace's research to better understand our human relationship with mindfulness, meditation, and mental health. Full video: https://youtu.be/rIMGRNuxgDw All about TNW Conference: https://tnw.to/conference
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Rich Pierson, co-founder of Headspace, the popular meditation app, to talk about how it started in London nine years ago (6:30), meeting his co-founder (8:00), quitting his job marketing deodorant (9:15), starting out with group meditation events (13:00), accidental focus groups (16:00), moving to California (16:45), going from 18 to 170 employees (19:30), layoffs and mistakes (20:00), convincing investors to put money into mindfulness (21:30), competing with 3,000 rival apps (25:00), struggling to manage people (30:00), helping nurses with “compassion fatigue’ (34:00), and signing up big companies (34:45). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We kicked off this year’s Speaker Series program with a powerful event that will set you up for success in 2016! Andy Puddicombe, founder of Headspace, joined our own Jeff Weiner for a fascinating discussion around the power of mindfulness and meditation. Headspace was founded by Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk, and Rich Pierson, a creative developer. After 10 years of meditation training around the world, culminating in full ordination at a Tibetan Monastery, Andy returned to the UK with a clear aim: To make meditation accessible, relevant, and beneficial for as many people as possible. In partnership with Rich, this aim was realized through the creation of Headspace.