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In this week’s episode Jeff is joined by Vinod Chandramouli who is the co-founder of Mycelium Ecology - an organisation on a mission to develop community projects with the purpose of conserving biodiversity within the Western Ghats of India.

Having been in the IT and cloud software spaces for close to 20 years, Mycelium is at the heart of who Vinod is having grown up around nature during his formative years.

In saying that, his step away from this long career into the area of conservation is very much a leap of faith as a once experienced operational expert turns into a first-time builder where milestones, rather KPIs, provide the best measure for something as beautiful, and yet complex, as the natural world.

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[Timestamps]

00:01:00 Birth of Mycelium Ecology

00:10:00 Conservation as the new startup frontier

00:21:38 Mission of conserving, coexisting and evolving

00:30:05 Taking a new leap of faith as a builder

00:35:28 Living a minimalist lifestyle

00:47:00 Beauty of the Western Ghats of India

00:53:42 What Mycelium Ecology will look like in 50 years’ time

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In this week’s episode I’m joined by Danny Thai, founder of Zecar, a data-driven one stop shop for all things electric cars and clean energy to help consumers make the switch. The conversation begins with how Zecar came to be before delving deeper on how Danny balances the three competing priorities of family, career and himself, in his life. To making sure he maximises his potential in order to make a change in this world to the opportunity cost of not being able to spend as much time as he can with his kids, this week’s episode encapsulates what we all think about as we try to forge a career path that does not leave behind our family and more importantly, ourself.

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[Timestamps]

00:00:00 Vehicle to achieving a means to an end

00:09:15 How Zecar came to life

00:19:34 Staying organised with so many competing priorities

00:28:50 Role of family and friends in an entrepreneur’s journey

00:41:09 How kids fit into the balancing act

00:51:55 Switching off to allow for ‘me’ time

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In episode #34 Jeff is joined by Jesse Oliveira who shares his immigration journey as a dyslexic kid growing up in South Africa. Now 28-years old, Jesse resides in Sydney where he has very much found his calling in software sales despite having studied law at the same university as Nelson Mandela. With his dyslexia causing him daily challenges, this has far from stopped Jesse from living by his values. His condition very much acts a reminder to keep pushing forward no matter what life throws at him.

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00:02:40 A salesperson with dyslexia, using it as an advantage

00:17:32 Fear of being average, kid from Africa with nothing but a dream

00:35:35 Living by your values, learning and experiencing new things

00:49:55 Handling the pressure as a salesperson, time management and value selling

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