Sahar Hashemi discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Sahar Hashemi OBE has enjoyed a successful career as an entrepreneur, bestselling author and business thought leader. Initially forging her success as the Co-Founder and former CEO of Coffee Republic, the UK’s first American-style coffee bar chain, Sahar has since built great authority as a business leader and earned an appointment of OBE for her services to the UK economy and charity. Now the Co-Founder of Buy Women Built and hired as a leading keynote speaker, Sahar is commended for her ability to build more creative, customer-centric and resilient workplaces in which a “can do” spirit is paramount.

1. The invisible economy of women-built brands www.buywomenbuilt.com

2. Cluelessness as a competitive advantage https://aicomo.com/advantages-of-being-clueless/

3. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl https://julias-books.com/2020/03/12/book-review-mans-search-for-meaning-by-viktor-e-frankl/

4. Why telling people to dream big is so misguided https://www.reddit.com/r/DecidingToBeBetter/comments/3fmaay/why_telling_kids_to_dream_big_is_a_big_con_our/

5. The benefit of ice cold showers every morning https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/the-health-hub/conditions/alternative-health/are-cold-showers-good-for-you/

6. Amichien bonding https://janfennellthedoglistener.com/about-jan/

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Eleanor Anstruther discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Eleanor Anstruther was educated at Westminster School but dropped out of university to travel the world where she was lost and found for twelve years. When she inherited a farm in southern England she set up a commune and began to write. Her debut, A Perfect Explanation (Salt Books) was a finalist for the Desmond Eliot Prize & Not The Booker. She now lives not quietly at all between London, Surrey and the south of France. Her latest novel, Fallout (Empress Editions) is out now at https://www.eleanoranstruther.com/fallout. Find her on Substack at The Literary Obsessive at https://eleanoranstruther.substack.com/ and at https://www.eleanoranstruther.com/.

1. Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp https://phm.org.uk/blogposts/greenham-common-peace-camp/
2. The Tommy Tiernan Show https://www.judecollins.com/2021/01/tv-reviewthe-tommy-tiernan-show-rte/
3. Cold Baths https://www.bupa.co.uk/newsroom/ourviews/cold-water-therapy
4. Menopause is the best thing that can happen to you https://www.drcoppaobgyn.com/blog/its-not-all-bad-5-positive-parts-of-menopause
5. Nick Cave's The Red Hand Files https://www.theredhandfiles.com/
6. You can talk to trees https://jane-cobbald.medium.com/how-to-talk-to-trees-839f247df239

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Mark Leonard discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Mark Leonard is Co-Founder and Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the first pan-European think-tank. His new book is Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When The Rules Fail, which is available at https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=surviving-chaos-geopolitics-when-the-rules-fail--9781509575220.

1. Xi Jinping’s “Great Changes Unseen in a Century”, an understanding that the next few years will be characterized by the need to survive chaos rather than preserving or building order.
2. Bicycling through big cities - London, New York, Paris, Berlin
3. Zaho de Sagazan - a brilliant singer-songwriter and performer who is bringing French chanson into the electronic age
4. George Soros’s philosophy - the billionaire investor and philanthropist is best known for making money but just as important is his understanding of how to live in a world that is out of balance
5. Drummond Street in North London, the home of the best South Indian restaurants in Europe
6. Neil Kinnock - the greatest political orator of my life-time who reinvented the Labour Party and is now campaigning for Britain to join the EU.

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