Podcasts about vivid ideas

✅ Subscribe now for more episodes MPF Discussion with Christina GerakiteysIs Shame Blocking Your Success? With Christina Gerakiteys  About ChristinaChristina Gerakiteys is a global keynote speaker, innovation catalyst, and CEO of UtopiaX. Passionate about empowering leaders and change-makers, she designs transformative programs that inspire Moonshot thinking and challenge conventional mindsets. Christina is the author of Celebrating Success One Failure at a Time and founder of IdeaSparx. She has worked with organisations like Deloitte, Bupa, and Austrade, and delivered keynotes for Singularity University, SXSW, and Vivid Ideas. Christina also hosts the Inspired for Impact podcast and contributes to thought leadership in creativity and innovation. She sits on multiple advisory boards, advocates for sustainability and gender equity, and is completing a doctorate in Creativity and Innovation. Is Shame Blocking Your Success?In this episode of My Perfect Failure, I'm joined by the incredible Christina Gerakiteys—innovation thought leader, founder advisor, and author of Celebrating Success, One Failure at a Time.Christina opens up about the hidden emotional barriers that often sabotage our progress—particularly shame and perfectionism. Drawing from her personal journey and her work with startup founders and CEOs, she explains how failure, when properly reframed, can become a powerful driver for innovation, creativity, and growth. We also explore Christina's mission to redefine failure, her bold “Rooster of the Week” idea, and why she nearly didn't publish her book due to self-doubt.This conversation is a must-listen for anyone who's ever let fear or shame hold them back from stepping into their full potential. 5 Key Takeaways:1.       Shame is a silent success blocker. Acknowledge it, and it loses power.2.       Your failures hold insights your successes can't teach you.3.       Innovation requires failure—and the space to talk about it.4.       Vulnerability builds strong leadership and stronger teams.5.       Self-reflection is the gateway to real transformation.  Social Links to Christina·       Website: https://www.christinagerakiteys.global/ ·       Order Book : also “Celebrating Success, One Failure At A Time” https://www.christinagerakiteys.global/?CR=Book ·       Order Course: https://offer.christinagerakiteys.global/book ·       Connect with Christina on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinagerakiteys/  Support the showEvery setback has a valuable lesson.

Nicole Velik is a leading speaker, facilitator, and trainer in innovation and creativity. As the founder of The Ideas Bodega and the host of the podcast Creativity Unpacked, as well as CreativeMornings Sydney, she has dedicated herself to demystifying creativity and making it accessible to everyone. With a background in advertising, including stints at Saatchi & Saatchi and KBP, Nicole has trained organizations worldwide, including big names like The United Nations, Nike, and Google. Her podcast, which soared to number one on the Apple Marketing charts upon launch, features interviews with creatives, highlighting that creativity is a skill achievable by everyone. Nicole is also a sought-after speaker at events like SXSW Sydney and Vivid Ideas, and she nurtures her own creativity through music, playing percussion in a samba band, guitar, songwriting, and learning Portuguese.   Mentioned in Conversation: Unlocking Creativity: Discussing the universality of creativity and methods for helping individuals and teams recognize their creative potential. Generating New Ideas: Including the innovation techniques she's used to train Google, the United Nations and LEGO. Leading Creative Teams: Providing insights into fostering a culture that nurtures creativity, giving constructive feedback, rewarding creativity, and maintaining creative flow. Overcoming Creative Barriers: Identifying common obstacles that hinder creativity and exploring strategies to overcome them. Living a Creative Life: Delving into the importance of pursuing diverse creative outlets and the role they play in sustaining creativity and courage.   Want to learn more? To learn more about how our work and programs can support you come and say hi over at Owners Collective!   See Our Business Growth Programs Here Links Owners Collective Website  Owners Collective Instagram Pru on LinkedIn  

Rick Morton is an award-winning journalist and the author of One Hundred Years of Dirt, which was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the National Biography Award.  He is currently the Senior Reporter for The Saturday Paper and his recent books are On Money and My Year of Living Vulnerably. Jess Scully is an advocate for the creative economy and the role of cities in a fair future. She is the Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney: previously, Jess curated projects including Vivid Ideas and TEDxSydney, worked as a public art curator, policy advisor and magazine editor. Glimpses of Utopia is her first book. Roy Eccleston is associate editor of SA Weekend Magazine at The Advertiser.  Eccleston began his career as a cadet at The Courier Mail newspaper, and has worked for The Age in Melbourne and Canberra; and for The Australian where he was Canberra-based foreign affairs writer, Queensland bureau chief, Washington Correspondent from 2000-2005, and a staff writer on The Weekend Australian Magazine. He has covered two Olympic Games, a US presidential campaign, and wrote the last cover story for The Bulletin magazine. He has been a contributor for Time Australia and The Times of London, and edited SA Weekend from 2009-20. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to this weeks episode of Hear me RAW where I have the extraordinarily talented Jess Scully - curator, author and Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney. Jess was the founding director of Vivid Ideas and has curated creative sector events including one of my all time faves – TEDx Sydney. She has also hosted a number of my very own Collective Hub events over the past seven years.In 2019 she was elected Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney. She advocates for new models to address the housing crisis and support workforces of the future. She is also committed to opening up politics to a younger and more diverse group of people. She has recently authored her first book – Glimpses of Utopia – Real Ideas for a Fairer World which is a call to optimism. She shares ideas and case studies from the world over about humans rising up to confront our challenges with creativity, resilience and compassion. She believes that by harnessing technology and imagination, we can reshape our world to be fair and sustainable.In this episode you’ll gain great insights into:· How to write your first book· How to get a start in politics· How to have a say and get your opinion heard· Why small impact is good impact· How to be of service and find purpose· What the future of work could be· How to solve our housing crisis· And how to embrace an optimistic mindset and embrace sustainability, technology and inclusivity.

n = 60 STEMpunk was given an incredible opportunity, to run an event for the Vivid Ideas festival called Significant Figures, where we interviewed a wonderful scientist with a panel or more... Want to learn about teaching and education in Australia?

n = 60STEMpunk was given an incredible opportunity, to run an event for the Vivid Ideas festival called Significant Figures, where we interviewed a wonderful scientist with a panel or more excellent scientists, or significant figures!The panel of significant figures, Ivy Shih, Corey Tutt and Kirsten Banks, was to interview through games and questions, a mystery science guest, Associate Professor Tanya Latty from the University of Sydney,BUT...it was cancelled.     Boo!But we ran it anyway!!     Huzzah!!...and this episode is that panel show, but instead of live, we did it online. Same people, same concept, just no live audience. This worked incredibly well. So fun, so learn, and so....ewwwww!Thanks to the amazing Ivy, Corey and Kirsten, andof course Tanya Latty. You are all wonderful.STEMpunk PodcastLook: Website Twitter Facebook Instagram AEON.Net.auListen: iTunes Stitcher PlayerFM Google Podcast OzPodcastsWatch: YouTube

Ben Mendelsohn sits down with director David Caesar at SFF 2017 for a special Vivid Ideas in Conversation. The actor reflects on his early Australian roles, his extraordinary international success and why he's attracted to dark films projects like and (both SFF 2017). Plus, he treats us to a spontaneous re-enactment from .UnaAnimal Kingdom Star WarsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Deputy Lord Mayor Jess Scully is a curator, cultural strategist and creative industries advocate who is passionate about connecting people with creativity and empowering them to participate in the life of their city. From 2009 to 2017 Jess was the founding director of Vivid Ideas, Australia's largest creative industries event, a 23-day event which enlivens the city with talks, workshops, exhibitions and events. Jess has curated creative sector events including Junket, TEDxSydney and Curating Participation. As a cultural strategist Jess was a founding contributor to the Sydney Culture Network, co-ordinated by UNSW Art and Design, launched in late 2017. In 2016 Jess was elected as a Councillor for the City of Sydney, where she is the co-chair of the Nightlife and Creative Sector Advisory Panel and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Panel, chair of the Curatorial Advisory Panel, and a member of the Audit Risk and Compliance Committee. In 2019, Jess was elected as Deputy Lord Mayor for the City of Sydney. She is also the Deputy Chairperson of Council’s Corporate, Finance, Properties and Tenders Committee and a member of the Central Sydney Planning Committee. Jess is an advocate for the knowledge economy, creative and cultural sector, and encouraging participation in politics, creativity and enlivening our public realm. As a public art curator, her projects included Green Square Library and Plaza. She has served as an arts policy advisor to the NSW Minister for the Arts, directed the Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards and the Creative Cities East Asia project, established 2SER’s so(hot)right(now) weekly arts radio show, and began her career as editor of creative industries publications including Yen, Empty and Hotpress. This is all the info on the City of Sydney grants: https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/community/grants-and-sponsorships?SQ_VARIATION_93791=0 Alex Greenwich MP has a good list of links for state and federal relief too: https://www.alexgreenwich.com/covid_19_financial_resources

In this episode Mark and Harriet explore how a design practice fits into a corporation - How it supports its strategic goals and how it delivers outcomes to accelerate organisational objectives and build capacity. Hosted by: Mark Bergin, Founder & CEO of DRIVENxDESIGN Guest: Harriet Wakelam, Director Design Centre at IAG

Sarah Tucker takes a trip down under to Sydney’s winter and the annual drama that is the Vivid Festival.    Sydney becomes a living firework for three weeks during the Vivid Festival  www.vividsydney.com (https://www.vividsydney.com/) . due to celebrate its 12th anniversary in 2020.   Known for the best New Year fireworks in the world over Sydney bridge, the festival makes the most of its iconic Opera House and harbour to shower the skies and waters with light and music during the Autumn months of May and June, which is still usually brighter, warmer and dryer than the English early summer.    The opera house ‘sails’ are lit by Andrew Thomas Huang and ‘choreographed’ the wonderfully named Toogie Barcelo, where images and colours merge into others, trees become dragons, stars become street dancers all set on a large scale with the backdrop of the bridge on one side and tropical gardens on the other. The overall effect is like looking at something out of Bladerunner. Concerts boast performances as diverse as Herbie Hancock and The Cure to Underworld and Hayden James. (sydneyoperahouse.com)   Spend a week or two around the city centre and interesting suburbs of Redfern and Chippendale, made infamous by the indigenous demonstrations against marginalisation in 2018 where ‘gentrification’ of the area marginalised the indigenous people who lived there.  The demonstrations have gone but there is still ill feeling towards a government that continues to ignore the rights of the people who were there before the English arrived.  Its not banker country yet, but the students and creatives (the artists, poets, authors) have moved in, and with them brought colour and gentle renovation to the area. I took a trip with culture tours guide Greg (http://www.culturescouts.com.au), who is a colourful artist living in the area and walked round the streets, walls covered with dramatic and beautiful murals, intriguing internationally recognised art galleries and funky restaurants housed in buildings which were abattoirs, breweries and gangsters.  It has a San Francisco edge about it, with its incredible architecture and heritage buildings, a far cry from the sand and surfing Sydney.  Neighbouring Chippendale has recently undergone urban transformation, with sky scrapers with the largest walled gardens in the world, and areas which look as though they’ve been there for decades only to be told it’s a few years.  Art Deco hotels which wouldn’t look out of place in Miami, and a china town which looks as established as our own but is only a few years old, make this tour a must do for anyone wanting an alternative Sydney.   It may not have the culture and street symmetry of Melbourne, but it's Melbourne that has a chip on its shoulder about Sydney – not the other way round.    Vivid is not just about fireworks, light shows and music.  There are plenty of bright sparks in human form giving talks during the festival.  Vivid Ideas offers future facing talks, hands on workshops and industry shaping forums.  The year I was there I watched game changers Spike Lee and Ester Perel speak to hundreds challenging the assumptions on race and relationships. I listened to Dr Stefan Hajkowicz, an internationally talk about the dark net and digital future.  And another group of five women talking how science has shaped their life as marine archeologists (why the Titanic will never rise), forensic scientists in zoos (wildlife crime is the fasting growing global crime), and astro physicists showing how and why the stars above our heads at night ‘fall in love’. Fascinating and important stuff.    If you want a break from the city, head out two hour drive to wine region of Hunter Valley and stay at the Chateau Elan (http://www.chateauelan.com.au). Visit the nearby vineyards of Brokenwood (brokenwood.com.au), Tulloch (tullochwines.com) and my personal favourite Usher Tinkler wines (http://www.ushertinklerwines.com) - small but perfectly formed and with a pub buzz and playing Home Cooking by DJ Yoda while you taste the tipple.  Ask for Luke Mulligan to talk you through the wines. An epic experience.    Stay sober enough for an early morning (five am) rise to balloon flight 800 kilometres at 2800 feet above the vineyards and kangaroos (www.balloonaloft.com). Watch the mist rise and colours scorch the sky, and then head to the Peterson House restaurant for full English (vege option) with local bubbles. It is the most haunting, mesmeric experience, and the Hunter Valley morning sky shows just how nature creates the best fireworks of its own should we choose to get up early enough.  Ask for Sam to be your guide and the purple and green balloon (they have a pink one too).    If you prefer to have your fun down on the ground, visit Port Stephens and the largest moving coastal sandmass in the Southern Hemisphere. Take a camel ride at dusk (Oakfield Ranch Camel Rides.com, or quad bikes (sandduneadventures.com.au) over the dunes.  Take a glance at the ocean along the beach, where you’ll see dolphins, whales and in season, lots of Great Whites (a tourist was eaten there last Christmas).    Vivid is designed to make you smile and dance, to make you think deeper and more creatively open your eyes with its light and music but it’s the landscape and seascape which is the real cool of the vivid experience.    Sarah stayed at the Four Seasons (http://www.fourseasons.com/Sydney) hotel and Ovolo (http://www.ovolohotels.com.au/ovolowoolloomooloo/) , both a boomerang away from the Opera House and Botanical Gardens.  For details of the Vivid Festival, visit www.vividsydney.com (https://www.vividsydney.com/) . For the official visitor guide to Sydney, visit www.visitsydney.com (https://visitsydney.com/) .    #GorgeousEscapes #Sydney #RadioGorgeous   

This week: A Vivid Ideas special debate with Rachel Botsman and Mike Seymour: Can I marry my Avatar? Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au. Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at: sbi.sydney.edu.au/digital-humans-special-on-the-future-this-week If you enjoyed this episode, you can access our playlists at sbi.sydney.edu.au/the-future-this-week/

This week: A Vivid Ideas special debate with Rachel Botsman and Mike Seymour: Can I marry my Avatar? Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au. Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at: sbi.sydney.edu.au/digital-humans-special-on-the-future-this-week If you enjoyed this episode, you can access our playlists at sbi.sydney.edu.au/the-future-this-week/

Speaker Christina Gerakiteys Type Live Conversation About this conversation What will it mean to live in an ExpONEntial society? Is ‘one’ a singular or a collective? Will we upload consciousness and merge with AI, or is The Singularity our uploading into a collective consciousness? Nothing is certain beyond our own values and behaviours. Yet if we look to nature we realise we each play our part in an improvisatory whole. Honey bees have an extraordinary social structure. Each bee has a defined function within the hive. A honey bee colony is a well-run organisation. And the ocean is made up of immeasurable numbers of singularly powerless droplets. Together they create a powerful mass that covers over 70% of the planet. The power of one can be dictatorial. Or it can be the collected unity of voices, steering the world to compassion and love. Will we become a society of singular units, or a collective? Do we exist as individuals or as individuations of a collective whole? More About The Speaker Christina Gerakiteys is a creativity and innovation catalyst. Her purpose is to ignite hearts and minds to what is possible, so individuals are empowered to create an incredible life. Christina’s depth of knowledge and engaging style have made her a popular presenter at major conferences including SingularityU Australia Summit, Vivid Ideas and Creative Innovation. A self-confessed lifelong learner, she is a recent graduate of the Executive Program at Singularity University (Cuperitno, Silicon Valley) and is currently undertaking doctorate studies in Creativity and Innovation. Conversation Notes - In our dynamic and complex world, there are no real answers to problems – we never know what the true solution may be. - Our lives are changing at a faster rate than ever before, which provides for both challenges and opportunities. - We are a collection of the things we read, hear and say. - As a human race, we are working in a ‘collective consciousness’ for the betterment of humanity. - The world belongs to the people who are dreamers, who have grand visions. You need to ask yourself: What’s your mass transformative purpose? What’s the change you want to see in the world? Christina's Linkedin: Christina Gerakiteys Quote “Don’t be scared to be the source. Don’t be scared to come up with new ideas, that’s where the magic lies.” Join Us Did you enjoy the conversation? If so, make sure to subscribe! To join us at Work Club Sydney or Melbourne for our speaker conversations, email us at events@workclubglobal.com. For more information on Work Club, visit workclubglobal.com

Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith  is a television presenter, live stage host, speaker and MC with an extensive knowledge of astronomy and physics. She has performed in sold-out theatres across Australia with science superstar Neil deGrasse Tyson and Apollo astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Gene Cernan. She has appeared at the World Science Festival, Vivid Ideas, Sydney Mardi Gras and the Sydney Science Festival. Lisa was a presenter on ABC Stargazing Live and appeared as a guest on BBC Stargazing Live. She has appeared in numerous documentary series including Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe and ABC television's Todd Sampson's Life on the Line. Show links: Do Farts Smell in Space? (with astronaut Captain Gene Cernan) Guest links: Follow Professor Lisa on Facebook! Follow Professor Lisa on Twitter! And/or visit her website!

Kate Hennessy is a freelance writer and editor. I first read Kate's work in about 2009, when we were both contributors to the Australian music website Mess+Noise, where she was a critic and feature writer whose work I admired greatly from afar, since she was based in Sydney. It wasn't until 2016 that we met for the first time, at the Rock & Roll Writers Festival in Brisbane, where we were both guest speakers. In the intervening years since I first saw her byline, Kate has worked as a music and arts critic for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian Australia and The Quietus, among others, as well as travel writing for a range of Australian and overseas publications. Outside of freelancing, she works in corporate writing and editing, and teaches courses on music journalism and professional business writing. It was the latter skillset that brought Kate to Brisbane in mid-May, and we met at her hotel room so I could ask her a few questions over a bottle of white wine. Our conversation touches on how she learned to make boring things interesting while working for a corporate writing agency; why she decided to become a freelancer as she approached the age of 30, and how it turned out to be a perfect fit for her; why she received hate mail from a musician after writing about his band in The Sydney Morning Herald; why the supply-and-demand in the travel writing business is worse than in music journalism, and why she thinks live music is like sex. Kate Hennessy's music and arts criticism appears in The Guardian, ABC Arts, Fairfax, Australian Book Review, Noisey, Limelight, Mess+Noise and UK magazines The Wire and The Quietus. Kate talks about arts on ABC TV and has spoken at Vivid Ideas, Darwin Writers' Festival, the Rock & Roll Writers' Festival, Bigsound and at live events for Sydney's FBi Radio. Kate is an Australian Music Prize judge, a founding member of feminist collective LISTEN and a teacher of five years at the Australian Writers’ Centre. She developed a masterclass for The Guardian called 'How To Be A Music Journalist', offered in Sydney and Melbourne, and as a festival workshop at Hobart's Dark Mofo festival. Kate's travel journalism has taken her to Africa, Papua New Guinea, Turkey, Solomon Islands, Germany, Peru, Taiwan and remote Indigenous communities in Australia. She has a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing major) from Wollongong University and won a scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed a double major in Political Science and History.  Show notes and links to what was discussed in this episode: http://penmanshippodcast.com/episode-30-kate-hennessy/ Kate Hennessy on Twitter: @smallestroom Penmanship on Twitter: @PenmanshipAU penmanshippodcast.com

As part of the 2016 Vivid Sydney Festival, Intel held #GirlsInTech as part of the Vivid Ideas presentations, with research and panel discussions about girls in STEM subjects and the challenges - both personal and systemic - that need to be overcome to improve the number of women participating in tech fields such as coding and engineering. This TER live episode presents the entire event with minimal editing. 00.00 Opening Credits & Intro 02:12 Welcome - Katie Ford - @KatherineLFord 07:57 Kate Burleigh - General Manager Intel A-NZ - @Kate_Burleigh 36:20 Research Presentation Bronwyn Moreton - @B_Moreton Dr Karsten Schulz - @kkschulz 53:40 Panel Discussion 1 Sarah Moran, Geek Girl Academy - @SarahMoran Cathie Howe, Macquarie ICT - @Cathie_H Karsten Schulz, Digital Careers - @kkschulz Felicity Furey, Machinam - @felicitybriody 1:17:17 Panel Discussion 2 Sunny South - @sunnysouth2 Abi Woldhuis - @abiwoldhuis Zeina Chalich - @ZeinaChalich Luna (school student) 1:45:24 Acknowledgements and Sign Off Special thanks to Joachim Cohen @JoachimCohen123 and @IntelANZ

Data is the currency of the digital age and has transformed all areas of physical life and social sciences. In all disciplines there has been an unparalleled growth in the quantity and variety of data made available by the pervasive nature of the internet and enabled by almost free digital storage. Moving beyond the expectations of ‘big data’ the focus is now on development of sophisticated and nuanced transformational data-driven ideas and algorithms. Have we reached a tipping point where new approaches to complex systems, personal health, social policy and understanding our earth can now be understood with sophisticated and nuanced data-driven discovery? What are the next fruitful steps for bringing together disparate data for applications that benefit individuals, business and our society? The University of Sydney’s new Centre for Translational Data Science is driving new and transformational advances in research through the application of data and machine-learning technologies. The Centre is also supporting and building substantial new human capacity through teaching data science as a translational methodology and training a new generation of scientists. In this interactive forum they discuss what we now know and what the future of data science holds. A Sydney Ideas event on 7 June 2016 http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/data_transforming_science_and_society.shtml

Vivid Ideas curator Jess Scully and musician Jake Stone join Alexandra Spring and Nancy Groves to discuss the end of new music, whether the internet has destroyed daydreaming and if public art actually benefits the community

ORIGINALLY BROADCAST JULY 18, 2013 Jonathan Harris is a storyteller has spoken at TED, co-designed the Vermont state coin and runs a storytelling site called Cowbird, among many, many other things. He was here in Sydney in May 2013 to talk at Vivid Ideas, but he took an hour to tell us all about the music that he loves. Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-12-04/

I’m not creative, but... playfully investigates the role of creativity in all career paths, well beyond the so-called creative industries. Academics Rick Benitez, Wendy Davis, Iain McCalman AO, Judy Kay, and Martin Tomitsch, representing diverse disciplines including design, history, IT and philosophy, explain their views on creativity and its role in their careers to date. A Vivid Ideas event. For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2013/im_not_creative_but.shtml